The Hon Anthony Albanese MP
Prime Minister
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
24th November 2023
Dear Prime Minister
I am writing to you as a gravely concerned citizen of Australia, in relation to the Australian government’s stance on the conflict in Palestine/Israel.
As I write this it is estimated that there have been over 12,000 innocent Palestinians killed with over 5,000 of those being beautiful innocent children with their whole lives ahead of them now taken.
Prime Minister I have been heartbroken and appalled at the horrifying images coming out of Palestine. I do not know how anyone can view this disproportionate response by Israel and not feel compelled to do something, anything. With each day that passes more lives are lost and the humanitarian catastrophe in...
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To Senator Tommy Tuberville
I am writing you this letter to advocate the rights of college athletes. Since you have recently introduced bills with Senator Machin regarding NIL rules and regulations, I thought you would be the best person to contact about this issue. Currently student athletes are not considered employees (Henson, 2023). I think that all college athletes should be considered employees of the university they attend. College sports have become more about money, yet athletes are still not compensated as much as they should be. Without student athletes, many people would lose a ton of money including university, advertisers, and TV channels. Student athletes should be able to negotiate their own deals with the people who make money from using their name, image, and...
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Dear editor
We, academics at Johannesburg’s universities, express heartfelt condolences to the families of 77 fellow residents of our city who died in the fire at the Usindiso Building in the city centre. We sympathise with those who were injured and those whose possessions were destroyed in this tragic event.
We hold the City of Johannesburg, which is the owner of the building, responsible for allowing it to fall into the state of dilapidation that made a disaster more likely. We condemn all those, but especially our politicians whose mandate tasks them with upholding the Constitution, who have blamed immigrants and NGOs (specifically the Socio-Economic Rights Institute) for what occurred. Civil society organisations and all our country’s residents – no matter their national origin...
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Esta carta é redigida pelas mãos de um jovem limeirense, mas que contém o sentimento de indignação, asco e revolta de pessoas de todo o país que puderam assistir e acompanhar a repercussão de um acontecimento recente que ocorreu na câmara municipal da cidade, engajando políticos e intelectuais. Este escrito é dirigido à todes os vereadores do município, embora sabemos que nem todes são da mesma forma e corroboram com tal posicionamento. Sendo assim, a crítica é diretamente orientada para os vereadores que se recusam a reconhecer o seu papel enquanto tais, que se acostumaram ao poder, como bem exposto pelo cidadão Hamilton Fernando de Mello — que logo após foi ameaçado e silenciado. Assim, gostaria de excluir algumas pessoas da candidatura atual de minha crítica, como a vereadora Isabelly...
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Dear Rishi
LABOUR WASTED
The United Kingdom has many thousands of job vacancies in the health and care sectors, in hospitality, manufacturing, construction, horticulture and in public, community and other occupations.
We also have thousands of able-bodied people who have risked their lives to come to our shores. They are maintained for month after month in hotels and elsewhere at the tax-payer’s expense but are forbidden to work.
Why do we deny these people the opportunity to contribute to our society whilst their status is being determined?
We are looking gift horses in the mouth – it makes no sense!
Yours sincerely
Stephen Childs
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Open Letter to Dr. Maliha Khan, President and CEO, Women Deliver
Dear Dr. Maliha Khan, congratulations on your three decades of leadership in the battle for rights, including your current stewardship of the Women Deliver Organization. As a father and grandfather of girls and a rights defender, I applaud Women Deliver for its purpose of improving the lives of women and girls. I have followed your uplifting conversations at your conferences held in the United Kingdom in 2007; the United States in 2010; Malaysia in 2013; Denmark in 2016; and Canada in 2019.
Madam President, I must confess that the just concluded Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023) held in Rwanda came as a shock. Your keynote speaker was none other than General Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s iron-fisted strongman. Kagame has...
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Dear Citizens and Leaders of the World,
I write to you today not as an individual, but as a voice echoing the collective consciousness of our shared humanity. We are at a critical juncture in our history, a moment that demands our collective attention, empathy, and action. The challenges we face are global in scope and interconnected in nature. Climate change, social inequality, political polarisation, systemic corruption, and the ongoing effects of the pandemic are not isolated issues, but symptoms of a world in need of change.
Our planet, our shared home, is suffering. The evidence of climate change is undeniable, and its effects are already being felt across the globe. Rising temperatures, melting ice caps, devastating wildfires, and extreme weather events are not distant threats...
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
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From: Keely Gammon
To:
Representative Ken King, Texas House Member, District 88
Room E2.808
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
May 1, 2023
Re: School Shootings in the US
Dear Representative King,
I am writing you today regarding the highly serious and sensitive issue of school shootings. As of this moment, there does not yet exist a clearly defined and widely accepted definition for the term “school shooting”. However - that may soon change. Last week, a group of Democratic lawmakers reintroduced a 2020 bill called the School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act, which will require the Department of Education to publish an annual report that recounts each incident of a shooting that takes place on school grounds- including but not limited to such...
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