George Floyd Protests

In Farage land all groups with non white faces are the same.

Good on LBC for getting rid of him.

Will the BBC keep trotting him out? Hopefully not.

I've always thought a drawn-out and very loud "well duh," of the sorts we did as kids, would be a fresh addition to the adult workplace, particularly during senior leadership team meetings.

Amen

katie Hopkins, Rees Mogg, now Nigel gone.

A long standing LBC listener, heard him several times and he was just coming out with the same repetitive garbage.

He hasn’t being replaced as yet, the political nerd and Brexiter Iain Dale show has just been extended by an hour and he is doing his Sunday morning show, saying that apart from being a Brexiter Iain is a nice bloke, I used to see him on Charing Cross Station, going home from LBC about 10:15 sometimes.

I had an e mail from Dear Evan Hansen yesterday:


To Our Dear Evan Hansen Community,

We have spent the last several days listening to the Black members of our companies, our community, our country, and the world, as they share with us their pain, their suffering, and their heartbreak. These truths, we must admit, are not new. The systemic racism against Black people and communities is not new. A theatrical culture in which Black voices have been silenced and erased is not new. And as we mourn the unspeakable losses of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, we recognize that the brutal murder of Black people is not new.

The shameful reality is that, for all too long, the injustices and inequities endured by our fellow citizens, our peers, and our friends have gone unheard and unheeded. The shameful reality is that none of it is new.

What must be new is our commitment not merely to listen, but to act, and to act now.

As a first step, on behalf of our three Dear Evan Hansen companies, we have donated $100,000 to be split equally between two organizations, to help effect change both in our theater community and on a national level.
$50,000 towards Broadway Advocacy Coalition, to sponsor an industry-wide “Continuing the Conversation” Forum in early 2021. As we look towards reopening Broadway and returning to work, this forum will follow up on the conversation that BAC has begun this week, to ensure that this is not a trending topic or a one-time outpouring of support, but an ongoing commitment to real progress, accountability and change within the theater community.
$50,000 to Color of Change, the national racial justice organization committed to keeping corporate and political leaders accountable, building game-changing research on systems of inequality, and advancing solutions for racial justice.
And our work on examining our own practices has already begun.

Like so many companies and organizations large and small, we are looking inward, assessing the personnel, policies, and systems of our show at every level, in every department, and at every location.

We also encourage you, our Dear Evan Hansen community, to take your own action. Stand with the organizations—both national and local—that are leading this movement. We have provided some references and resources here.

Dear Evan Hansen is about community and connection. We will use our voice and our reach to apply those values in working to undo an unjust system.

Even now, while our theaters are empty, our show will not be silent.

Sincerely,

Stacey Mindich
Michael Greif
Steven Levenson
Benj Pasek
Justin Paul
The producer and creators of Dear Evan Hansen

Is that the Hollywood that ignored Weinstien's behaviour for 20 years. A more duplicitous, self-serving bunch of narcissists it would hard to find in the history of this world.

It's a related field but I saw this yesterday - David Bowie calling out MTV in ... 1983. Nineteen Eighty Three: note "narrow casting":

That's not reading, Tucci can act, that as an Antifa marksman behind the camera fully loaded

So people are being called out for not speaking out and supporting the movement but also being called out now when they do, with judgements about how authentic it is or as it was called the other day "performative empathy"? It seems that people can't win in many cases.  If people are supporting your cause, whatever it is, and are offering help and solidarity and actually doing something, just accept it and be grateful. 

Come on Andy lad, you're not taking comical Ali's post as a serious contribution?

The way that younger people have realised they have power now has been a breath of fresh air, especially as government has sidelined youth at the expense of older voters for years.

A few weeks ago - ‘young people don’t die from this virus, we have to let young, healthy people go about their lives and help to save the economy’.

Then - lockdown relaxed and younger people find out that they own the streets because this virus frees them, compared to the older cohort who have been consolidating their power through voter ‘bribes’.

Now - ‘you weren’t supposed to use your freedom to protest about things you cared about! Dammit, you’re supposed to be propping up the economy so I can maintain my comfy lifestyle!

Makes you weep......(with laughter)

The restrictions have been so much watered down by the government libertarians that they may as well not exist. Look at beaches and supermarkets, a hell of a lot of (not just young) people have got the message that the government thinks all this distancing stuff isn’t needed. Just today, all the right wing press going on about how ‘industry leaders demand that the two metre rule is changed’.

The irony is that their love of ‘freeedooom’ means that everyone can use it for their own ends, not theirs. 

This economy does not ‘need to be propped up’, not when the reward is so meagre and so weighted against the young. Weigh it up and it is in their long term interests to wrest control of it away. ‘Do what we tell you and you too can scrape a living, paying high rents and with no job security.’. That’s really going to work.

Just saw a video of one of these 'men' charging at police and walking across a whole line of huge male police officers before squaring up to a female officer who was about 3 feet shorter than he was.

What a hero...