Dear Dr Chan,
As health organisations representing health and health-promotion professionals and health care institutions from around the world, we are writing to you to highlight the urgent concerns of the health and medical professionals and health care workers in relation to the health risks from climate change.
Specifically we would like to alert you to the DOHA Declaration on Climate, Health and Wellbeing, developed during COP 18, the 2012 UNFCCC global climate change negotiations, and signed by over 80 health and medical organisations from 19 countries along with over 1000 individuals.
This Declaration expressed the desire of health and medical organisations around the world for the protection and promotion of health to be made one of the central priorities of global and...
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Dear Mr Farage,
We, the Bulgarian Community in the United Kingdom wish to address several issues regarding your stance on Bulgarian and Romanian citizens entering the United Kingdom and especially the upcoming cessation of transitional labour restrictions pertaining to nationals of the two countries.
First in the list of things the notion of 29 million Bulgarians and Romanians (also called “A2” by the UKBA) moving to the UK is exaggerated to a point where it borders with lunacy. 29 million (it’s actually 26) is the sum of all people living in the two countries including young, old, sick, disabled, employed, retired and so on. Inferring all 26 million people will pack their bags and move to the UK is beyond outrageous. The UK’s population is 60+ million. Implying all 26 million...
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Dear Ms Jensen,
In addition to the need for 3 binding targets, and the need to significantly raise the level of ambition to ensure the GHG reduction goal for 2030 places the EU on track for 2050, we wish to highlight a number of essential conditions to the GHG target for 2030.
Achieving the EU goal of 80 to 95% reductions by 2050 cannot be done without spurring long term transitions in all key sectors, not merely those covered by the ETS. This means incentivising investment and policy transitions in transport, agriculture, buildings, lighter industry and waste.
In order to be acceptable and fit for purpose, the first condition is that the GHG target ensures a genuinely economy wide approach by including more ambitious and legally binding targets for Effort Sharing sectors. The 2020...
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Dear Mr. Miliband,
Llamau works across Wales with young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and vulnerable women. Llamau worked with more than 4,100 vulnerable people in 2012/13.
Llamau works with young people to support them through the difficult transition process from homelessness or insecure housing to a situation where they are able to live independently.
Llamau challenges some of the assumptions that the proposal, announced today, to replace Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) to a new “youth allowance” is based on and is asking for particular details about the proposed scheme that need to be clarified in order to understand and assess the impact on the young people that we work with.
A proposal that is predicated on a young person having support from their family...
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Dear Dr. Moyo,
It was with great anticipation that I ordered your book Dead Aid after seeing you interviewed. During the interview, I found your perspectives refreshing, well articulated, and hope-inspiring. I was excited about the space you opened up for alternatives to the status quo.
Reading your well-researched critique of aid as a dominant way for the western world to support African countries I was once again inspired that indeed, there are other much more realistic, sustainable, and equitable possibilities. As you indicate, there are not only two options: either provide a never-ending increasing flow of aid, or turn a blind eye. Further, you demonstrated how foreign intervention via aid is in fact a major contributor to the corruption and conflicts that occur in many aid-...
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Dear Jake and Donna,
There is a growing group of voices gaining volume and strength and it’s time to listen. We’re here to tell you what no one else will. There is a poison inside your company that has driven away countless amazing employees, derailed years of financial success and threatens the core structure and business you have spent an entire lifetime building. All you have to do is look at all the amazing people who have left your organization and what they have accomplished to see all the amazing talent you have lost.
You have two senior “leaders” working for you that have undermined you, your company, and the entire snowboarding industry for close to 15 years. The damage is deepening, and unless you take action soon, the situation will go from bad to dire.
They don’t...
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My Dear Friends from Continental Airlines,
A simple question for you: what is wrong? What is it that is truly bothering you?
I have been a steady United Airlines customer since 2004 and I grew to love the airline. I also have flown Continental Airlines going back to your SkyTeam days, when I used to receive complimentary upgrades by virtue of my Northwest Airlines Platinum Status.
Like many of you, I was skeptical about the merger. I thought life was pretty good for me as a top-tier flier on United and despite the technological limitations of United's website and the poor behavior of some pilots and flight attendants, I was very content. It bothered me to see morale so low (which I blamed on duplicitous leadership at the top), but I still found genuine and caring crew members...
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Dear Seward Co-op Owners,
Just months from now is the scheduled opening of the Friendship store, which is a realization of the co-op’s long-term vision of expanding our community-owned business. In October 2015, nearly 2,000 households that are current owners of Seward Co-op will have a store less than 1½ miles from their home. We are writing to address the conversations the board of directors has been having, and the questions and comments we have been hearing regarding the Friendship store.
We started this project over two years ago when The Carrot Initiative, a non-profit formed by residents of the four neighborhoods around 38th and Chicago to attract a grocer to the community, invited Seward Co-op to consider opening at the former site of the Greater Friendship Missionary...
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Dear Society,
You, my frienemy, are a nasty, nasty b*tch. You write love and hate all within the same sentence. You build up the same people you are constantly tearing down. You fight against universities for not having organizations that embody and support success stories, yet you continuously treat us sororities, fraternities, groups, cliques, organizations, teams, crews, families, friends, that contribute to both the university’s and your success, like a punching bag. I am asking you to step away from the bruised bag for a few minutes while you read this article and consider the fact that your opinions are valid but they are also uneducated; you are simultaneously right and wrong.
My freshman year of college I joined a sorority and was an active member until transferring this...
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Dear Michigan football,
What’s better than a second chance? Free food, maybe.
Well, that’s what Michigan football has — a second chance to win me over.
Being a sports fanatic, going to Michigan was a dream come true. In fact, I think most people who attend the University from the East or West Coast are looking for that “camp-like, rah-rah” experience immersed in sports.
But, no one told us during Welcome Week in 2008 we’d see one of the worst four-year stretches in Michigan football history. No one told us we’d go through two head coaches from two completely different coaching backgrounds.
No one told us the basketball team would overtake football as the stronger and more popular program. And, if they did tell us any of this, we got drunk and forgot.
Did we still wake up...
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