Everybody Research the Holocaust Day

Hot on the heels of the First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day comes… Everybody Research the Holocaust Day. This it seems is a response from someone who got a teense upset about people drawing pictures of Mohammad (and to be fair many of them mine included really weren’t great works of art). However as Harry’s place has a plan: “Now it seems to me that a bit of lesson in free speech is very much in order here, so if its an ‘Everybody Research the Holocaust Day’ that the members of this Facebook group want then let’s give them exactly … Continue reading

How they are related

So back to the purple brigade, and many many thanks to Woman on a Raft for supplying me with some of this information (see comments here and here). I was getting quite confused as to how all the main players were related so I put together a bit of a family tree to try to make sense of it all. All of the information is in the public domain I’m just trying to put it together – in the spirit of our new open and transparent politics. Just to try to explain that a bit the dotted lines from BlueStateDigitial … Continue reading

Reply from Greenpeace

Well that was terribly quick, Greenpeace have replied to my email already, though they don’t address my second point at all nor mention if they’ll be carrying out similar campaigns in other countries. Oh and it would have been nice if they could have spelt my name correctly. Anyway here’s the reply: “Hello Gioalla and thanks for your e-mail, it’s great to hear from you. Greenpeace is backing the Take Back Parliament campaign http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/about/broken-britain-more-broken-parliament-20100507 because Government policy and political lobbying are so fundamental to our campaigns and environmental change. The Government has huge power, and therefore huge responsibility, when it … Continue reading