The small exhibition at the British Museum includes the factette that a bunch of big chocolate companies have agreed to phase out using cocoa produced from slave or bonded labour by the end of this year. Jaw-dropping, I know.
In related news, a friend of mine is looking for small donations to help him take his photoexhibition on a tour of Punjab. With a small troupe of musicians and performers, they will visit villages and country fairs trying to help local populations understand the legal situation of the hundreds of thousands of Indians living in bonded relations to their 'employers'.
You can give him money here, and the Brit-tax payers can get the government to give some too, or however Gift Aid works.
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Weird thing I saw yesterday, on the form for proxy voting:
"If you have a long term illness or disability which makes it difficult for you to vote in person. It must besupported by one of the following:
either a registered medical practitioner, a registered nurse, a registered dentist, a registered dispensing optician or optometrist, a registered chiropractor, a person registered under the Health Professions Order 2001 or a Christian Science practitioner."
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I reckon the christian science practitioner would be the easiest to blag. If only you needed one of them to give you sick notes to justify time off work.
Funny, if you take the Christian part out, this Christian Science stuff looks like His Dark Materials (deaths of the Authority and the angel who dies) or I Heart Huckabees. More closely, perhaps, it seems a bit like Buddhism, albeit partially outward-looking. They probably have a register of folk in London, so you could maybe contact one. Not sure if all members of the Church of Christ, Scientist are automatically qualified, but if so they probably indoctrinate their children like any other church, so maybe you could bribe a sick note with a few nice songs.
What about Chinese medicine? Reiki healing? Surely if you're going to have Christian science practitioner on the list, you've got to include everything else. I wonder if you could make a case for that, should you so choose...
and christian science isn't even church of england... a little research for someone with time on their hands, continue the list:
1. proxy voting form for lewisham council
2. house of lords
It's the dentist I'm curious about. What sort of dental ailment would (alone) cause long-term disability?
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I think your case would be especially strong, Jen, given that these are the guidelines for Lewisham, a highly Chinese/Somali borough, as well as having a lot of evangelicals. There's a dude called Mr Bouba who offers to cure your cancer, marital problems, HIV, bad neighbours and so on - maybe he could put the council's logo on his fliers?
We saw the National Gypsy Orchestra of Hungary on Sunday. Very good, more on that another time. But my god, what a fat bunch. The fattest was the 12 yr old violinist, albeit a very good violiinist. Out of Willy Wonka. So maybe his morbid obesity could be cured by a mouth-based contraption, signed off by the dentist... or is that stretching it a bit?
Sounds like an idea for a horror film actually!
I wouldn't be surprised if someone took Lewisham council to court on discrimination charges. What a bizarre figure to add to the list.
Maybe our local SWP will be interested in taking up the cause, given their habit of getting into bed with anyone convenient...
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