by admin | Jan 4, 2014 | international
On Friday 3 January, I attended the funeral in Bristol of Richard Hart. A Caribbean activist, researcher and writer, Richard served as attorney general in the Bishop government in Grenada in 1983, until the brutal invasion of the country by the US in October of that...
by admin | Aug 7, 2012 | international, whistle blowing
On 11 March 2011, Japan was hit with the largest earthquake in its recorded history. The earthquake and its following tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on the east coast, about 150 miles north of Tokyo. Shocked by these events, and his...
by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | international, nuj, unions
Report on the 2010 IFJ Congress – Cadiz, Spain – 25 -28 May Every three years, the International Federation of Journalists holds its annual congress. Affiliated unions elected their delegates and the NUJ elected ours at the last year’s general meeting in Southport....
by admin | May 13, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
On 16 February I blogged that the union had agreed to back a campaign of support for Mordechai Vanunu, an honorary member of the NUJ, who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israel’s secret nuclear programme to the Sunday Times in 1986. Earlier this week,...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
The recent meeting of the NEC’s policy committee has agreed to back a campaign of support for Mordechai Vanunu, an honorary member of the NUJ, who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israel’s secret nuclear programme. As I recently reported, he has been placed...
