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Dada-News - September 2010
Support Rachel Gadsden's bid to win Great Britons competition
British Airways is the official airline partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. That's why we're carrying the flag for British talent, leading up to London 2012 and beyond.
Great Britons will help talented people by giving away hundreds of flights and more in the run up to the 2012 Games.
Rachel Gadsden has entered the British Airways Great Britons competition, to win the opportunity to go to South Africa to artistically collaborate with the Bambanani Women's Group in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town.
The Bambanani Women’s Group formed in 2002 to participate in the creation of memory books and boxes aimed to help people come to terms with their diagnosis, to disclose their HIV-status to their families and children and to begin the planning for the future. The group went on to work on the Longlife Project; The Longlife Project recorded the life stories of the women who were participating in a Medésins Sans Frontières (MSF) pilot antiretroviral programme. Life size body maps were created and published in the book Longlife: Positive HIV Stories together with interviews of people working on the project.
To support Rachel's application sign up to greatbritons.ba.com and leave a comment on her page at www.greatbritons.ba.com/users/451
Minister warns budget cuts may be illegal
The Home Secretary, Teresa May, has warned the Chancellor of the Exchequer that cuts imposed in the June Emergency Budget may be in breach of the Equality Act 2010.
This is because they would have a disproportionate effect on women, pensioners, ethnic minorities and disabled people. Furthermore, she said, "If there are no processes in place to show that equality issues have been taken into account in relation to particular decisions there is a real risk of successful legal challenges."
The Treasury has said it is confident they have met their obligations under the Act. However, Yvette Cooper, the Labour Party’s work and pensions spokesman, found women would bear more than 70 per cent of the £8bn cuts and The Fawcett Society, an equality group, has filed a legal challenge to the Budget.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
Tony Benn, veteran Labour MP, has called for a broad-based revolt against the budget cuts. He writes: "The government claims the cuts are unavoidable because the welfare state has been too generous. This is nonsense. Ordinary people are being forced to pay for the bankers' profligacy.”
"The £11bn welfare cuts, rise in VAT to 20%, and 25% reductions across government departments target the most vulnerable – disabled people, single parents, those on housing benefit, black and other ethnic minority communities, students, migrant workers, LGBT people and pensioners.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/04/tony-benn-coalition-cuts-campaign
News taken from the DAA website at www.daa.org.uk
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