Rosalind Smith honoured as trailblazer in Edmonton’s public school system
In 1996, Rosalind Smith made history as the first Black principal for the Edmonton Public School Board.
#history #education #Edmonton #Perspectives #AndrewParker #BlackHistoryMonth
https://globalnews.ca/news/11677519/rosalind-smith-edmonton-public-schools-trailblazer/
Rosalind Smith honoured as trailblazer in Edmonton’s public school system
In 1996, Rosalind Smith made history as the first Black principal for the Edmonton Public School Board.
#history #education #Edmonton #Perspectives #AndrewParker #BlackHistoryMonth
https://globalnews.ca/news/11677519/rosalind-smith-edmonton-public-schools-trailblazer/

Good Morning, all

#C4News' undercover exposé of the racism, homophobia & xenophobia among Reform's campaigners & volunteers was shocking but not surprising.

Yes, Rishi Sunak deserves some sympathy for Reform's references to him as "a fucking Paki."

But MSM's focus was wrong. More disturbing were calls for the Army to use boat people for target practice.

Ironically, #AndrewParker is likely of a generation who fixated on that WW2 trope condemning Nazis who machine-gunned sailors in the water.

“He wasn't just out on a limb here, he was dangerously out of the tree.”
Terry Pratchett; The Truth
#Discworld #C4Expose #AndrewParker #ReformUK #ClactonReformCampaigner #Racists

In 2011, he tried repeatedly to raise the alarm with #MI5. After a meeting with junior agent went nowhere, he wrote to the #mi5dg #jonathanevans #andrewparker , which resulted in a further meeting with 2 agents in a government building in #Whitehall. #whistleblowers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/21/mi5-refused-to-investigate-russian-spys-links-to-tories-says-whistleblower

Reading the #RussiaReport made him “suddenly aware that maybe the story I had was more significant than I thought” he wrote to #CressidaDick, then commissioner of the #MetPolice. #putinspuppets

MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower

Party member lodges a complaint about the security services ignoring attempt of Russian infiltration into the Conservatives

The Guardian