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Three reasons why Corbyn and Labour are 'surging'
June 7, 2017 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
It's not exactly Corbynmania, but the narrowing gap between the Tories and Labour is due in large part to Labour leader's near-flawless campaign, composure and a less-than-radical platform. (Facebook)
In a country where, two months after VE-Day, voters were willing to turf out Winston Churchill in favor of a Labour landslide, no one should have doubted the possibility that Jeremy Corbyn would, two days before the 2017 general election, be within range of overtaking prime minister Theresa May and the Conservatives.
That's astounding, because when May called the snap election in mid-April, it looked like the Tories would win by the largest margin in a generation, if not their largest margin since the 1931 Tory landslide. One ComRes/Sunday Mirror poll gave May's party a margin of 50% to just 25% for Labour.
Corbyn has, to say the least, had a difficult time since winning the Labour leadership in the summer of 2015. Despite the support of a majority of the rank-and-file membership (including many thousands of supporters that Corbyn himself recruited to the party) and the labor unions that form the backbone of Labour's organization, Corbyn failed to win loyalty from among the center-left MPs that comprise the parliamentary party. Indeed, Labour MPs launched a fresh leadership challenge in the summer of 2016 after the failure of the 'Remain' campaign in the Brexit referendum, and Corbyn's shadow cabinet has dwindled from a fairly wide cross-section of Labour to a group of Corbyn's most avowed (and hardline) supporters — shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow home secretary Diane Abbott.
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But throughout the campaign — and especially after Labour's manifesto release — Corbyn has clawed back into contention, confounding almost every prediction at the beginning of the campaign. What was supposed to be an easy victory lap for May and the Conservatives has turned into a genuine fight over the direction, not only of the Brexit negotiations that will ensue for the next two years, but of British economic policy, security policy and relations with the United States and the controversial Trump administration. One Survation poll from the weekend gave the Tories just a 1% lead; another ICM/Guardian poll taken between June 2 and 4 gave the Tories a 45% to 34% advantage. (No herding here!)
It's believable that, after two terrorist attacks in Manchester and London, and accusations on security by both sides, there's more volatility in the electorate. If Corbyn has truly succeeded in motivating younger voters (and polls show that Labour leads among the youngest voters by as lopsided a margin as the Conservatives lead among older voters), polling expectations and weights may be incorrect. Moreover, after polling in 2015 failed to predict a Conservative majority, there's reason to be wary.
At this point, it's possible that May will increase her majority (currently just 12) to 30 or 40 and it will still be viewed as a 'victory' for Labour, because expectations were so high earlier in the campaign (a 100-plus Conservative majority). Moreover, if Labour can manage its way to a hung parliament, the arithmetic for a Labour minority government is much easier, because it will be able to look to nationalist parties in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales — and to the Liberal Democrats, potentially.
But as voters prepare to go to the polls tomorrow, there's no doubt that Labour under Corbyn's leadership is surging. Here's why.
1. Labour's platform under Corbyn isn't as radical as expected
Labour's 2017 platform is more moderate than it looks — and would pick up many policies where the Blair-Brown governments left off. (Facebook)
Forget about the alarmist headlines — the promise of four new bank holidays, the pledge to re-nationalize Great Britain's railways, some utilities and the post office, Corbyn's ennui towards Brexit and the Trident anti-nuclear deterrent. When you strip Labour's 2017 platform down to its nuts and bolts, it looks a lot like the Labour platforms under the Blair years — and what 13 years of government under New Labour looked like: a lot of spending on health care and education.
Of course, no Blairite or Brownite platform would pledge to increase corporate taxes as much as this platform does, or raise taxes on those who make more than £80,000. Nor would New Labour likely pledge to roll back tuition fees all the way to zero (though Blair introduced tuition fees, New Labour capped them at £3,000 — the Conservative/Liberal Democratic coalition controversially raised the cap to £9,000). But the New Labour project has been so derided as a neoliberal and neocolonial project that too many people forget the Blair-Brown governments were also social democratic governments in many ways. That's especially under Gordon Brown as the 2007-08 financial crisis hit. Labour's 2017 platform, in crucial ways, pledges to pick back up where the Brown government left off in 2010. Introducing tuition fees in the mid-2000s, moreover, made it possible to open more spots in higher education to working-class and poor students.
For all of Corbyn's hard-left quirks, he's waged a general election campaign playing to well-trodden themes that have won elections for Labour in the past. Corbyn certainly isn't running as New Labour 2.0, but he's also not running as Tony Benn or even Michael Foot, and he's shown that he can moderate his policy emphasis to appeal to a wider audience — not just his hard-core supporters, but all of Labour and potentially beyond.
That, more than anything, explains the rise in Labour's polling numbers over the last three weeks and, especially, the rise in preference for Corbyn as prime minister over May.
Neither Corbyn nor New Labour grandees like former prime minister Tony Blair care to admit it, and Corbyn rose to the Labour leadership by denouncing Blairite policy, but the two leaders share far more in common than not. Since 2015, Corbyn has been defined by what he was against. That's served to emphasize Corbyn's presence on the fringes of the political mainstream (i.e. the anti-Semitism row, the friendliness with Hamas and Hezbollah, Hugo Chávez, certain militants from Northern Ireland, London mayor Ken Livingstone). Aside from the vague bromides during the pivotal Labour leadership election in the summer of 2015 ('Jez, we can') and from Corbyn's ineffective and listless efforts during the 2016 Brexit referendum, no one's judged Corbyn by what he's for, and as it turns out, Corbyn shines far brighter in this position.
Also, say what you want about his performance as opposition leader, but Corbyn shines brightest when he's on the campaign trail. That was true in both of his leadership campaigns in 2015 and 2016, and it's true now in the general election.
2. A tighter race was inevitable
Though the Scottish National Party and Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon expect to maintain their support, the collapse in Liberal Democrat and UKIP support means that the two main parties could together win more aggregate support than at any time since 1979. (Facebook)
There was always a floor of Labour support that would invariably return to the Labour fold. Though Conservatives hoped a month ago that they might outpoll Labour even in Wales, that now seems ridiculously fanciful. A two-to-one victory for the Tories was always wishful thinking, not a possible reality. In 1983, Margaret Thatcher's national margin of victory was 14.8%, in 1997, Tony Blair's margin was 12.5%.
That seems clear enough from the polling trends. From the most dire to the most generous surveys, the Tories are winning anywhere from 41% to 45% of the vote, which isn't far off from the level of support they enjoyed at the beginning of the campaign. The narrowing gap between Conservatives and Labour comes less from eroding Tory support than from winning back skeptical voters who are historically inclined to vote Labour. There's some evidence that Corbyn's surge comes too much from strongholds like London and Wales instead of those crucial English battlegrounds like the North East and the Midlands.
Notably, trends show that both parties will improve on their 2015 tallies because the United Kingdom's third parties — excluding the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) — are all faring so poorly. For the first time since 1979, it's possible that support for the two main parties will exceed 80%.
The Liberal Democrats, who hoped to rally 'Remain' supporters under their new leader Tim Farron, may actually win less support than the 7.9% they won two years ago. Farron spent the first half of the campaign distracted in questions about his personal religious views and LGBT rights. Many of their former supporters, certainly, will now support Labour. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has collapsed, with former leader Nigel Farage no longer around and with its raison d'être, Brexit, now accomplished. It will struggle to win even a third of the 12.7% it won two years ago. Many of those UKIP voters, especially in the south, are boosting Tory support. Other UKIP voters, those crucial 'Leave' voters from the north, may be returning to Labour (though, perhaps, not all of them).
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has anchored her campaign to calls for a second, post-Brexit independence referendum, the SNP may nevertheless struggle to repeat its bravura performance in 2015, when it took 56 of 59 constituencies in Scotland. Local Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has adroitly consolidated unionist support and has emerged as the leading opposition to the separatist SNP, and the Tories expect to pick up at least a handful of seats in Scotland tomorrow.
3. May's fumbles
Theresa May is seen to have stumbled throughout the campaign. (Facebook)
No one expected the three national party leaders in this election to have mastered campaigning at the national level, given that each of them (May, Corbyn and Farron) are each waging their first general election campaigns as leader of their respective parties.
As noted, Farron botched a promising position early on by spending the first weeks of the campaign bogged down over his personal views on LGBT rights, then betting too strongly that 'Remain' voters would vote entirely on Brexit and not on other issues. Corbyn, as noted above, has impressed on the campaign trail — so much so that it seems inevitable he will remain on as Labour leader, even if he loses seats on June 8.
It's May, however, who has stunned with her truly abysmal campaigning skills. May refused to join the other party leaders last week in the sole debate and, when Corbyn decided at the last moment to show up, she looked weak and cowardly by sending home secretary Amber Rudd instead. May has waged an incredibly cautious campaign that has carefully managed interaction with regular voters. As several wits have noted, it was a mistake for the Conservatives to anchor the campaign in a personality cult for a leader who doesn't have much of a personality. Foreign secretary Boris Johnson, who once had (and may still have) leadership ambitions of his own, would have shined in this regard.
Not May, who allowed Corbyn to outflank her on security earlier this week when he pilloried her for budget cuts in her six years as home secretary that reduced the total number of police.
Meanwhile, her claims of 'strong and stable leadership' have been derided with her u-turn over a policy that would have required some seniors to pay for their own social care — dubbed the 'dementia tax' by the press. If the initial policy seemed like bad politics (turning off the elderly voters than trend Conservative), her decision to abandon the policy made May look weak and panicky.
Now, even if May goes on to win a double-digit victory, she will not necessarily get the credit she deserves.
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HANNIBAL AND HAMILCAR: ROME VS CARTHAGE
Hannibal & Hamilcar is the updated edition of a classic Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage, an asymmetrical card –driven game for 2 players, set in the time of the epic struggle between ancient Rome and Carthage, that has won numerous awards. During the game the players move generals and new troops, gain political control of the provinces involved in the war, introduce historical events, and fight battles when two armies meet on the battlefield. Both players seek victory by dominating both fronts: military and political.
The original rules and components were updated for this edition by Mark Simonitch and Jaro Andruszkiewicz, enhancing the visual impact of the original game and making it easier and faster to play. This Revised Edition of the game includes new features, as new set of rulebooks, rewritten in a modern way, a new bigger box for the game components, and a new set of custom dice (smaller – 20mm and 16mm instead of 25mm and 20mm).
Hamilcar, set during the First Punic War, is a companion game sharing components and using similar mechanics, introducing a naval system and naval battles. Both players compete for control of the Mediterranean Sea: Rome's goal is to break through the island chain of Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia while Carthage's aim is to contain Rome on the Italian peninsula.
1 Double-sided board
1 Playbook
1 Scenario book
2 Player aid charts
1 Reference map
24 Plastic figures
220 Different cards
250+ markers and counters
6d6 Custom dice

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Under Pressure: Jody Chan
Jody Chan is a writer, drummer, organizer, and politicized healer based in Toronto. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press), all our futures (PANK), and sick, winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award. They can be found online and offline in bookstores or dog parks.
Here, Gabriella Graceffo talks with Jody Chan on the push/pull of language, Taiko drumming, chosen communities, and the mentors behind her debut collection.
Gabriella Graceffo: How long did working on sick take, from conception to publication? Is there a reason you don't capitalize your titles?
Jody Chan: The experiences I had that made it possible to write sick span from my birth until the point at which I finished drafting the manuscript itself, which took somewhere around a year and a half, between 2016 and 2017. I won Black Lawrence Press' St. Lawrence Book Award in December 2018, and the book is coming out in August 2020 — so all in all, between four and 26 years, depending on how you look at it! I don't capitalize titles because I like the ability to choose which conventions in English to adopt and which to reject; some of these conventions are arbitrary, just as the global domination of English over other languages is arbitrary. I tend to play with punctuation and sentence structure in my writing for this same reason.
GG: How do you feel about deadlines? Are they a good or bad pressure for you?
JC: Deadlines are a gift! Accountability to myself and to others — when it's wanted, and chosen — gets my ideas in motion, and helps me break out of endless self-critique.
GG: sick features a wide range of styles and forms. When you begin to write a poem, do you feel a particular form is right for it or does it take shape further into the writing process?
JC: For me, form and content generally emerge in conversation with one another, but I do often find received forms really helpful as a starting place, especially when I'm trying to write something I'm afraid of. Structure gives me safety and freedom, rules to push up against and to fall back on, an inherent rhythm to draw out the specific music of the new poem.
GG: Besides writing, what other daily rituals do you participate in or feel are important to your writing?
JC: I cook (sometimes), I read, I turn my attention to the outside world, I move my body, I love my friends. I create in community. My chosen kin — the ones who check in on me, send me food and poems, help me hold myself accountable to the person I want to be — are what make everything possible in my life, and that includes my writing.
GG: What is a favorite piece of advice from a mentor of yours? How did it help you with your writing?
JC: In January of last year, I took a poetry workshop with Erica Dawson; she also reviewed sick's manuscript and gave me generous, incisive feedback. One thing she told me (I'm paraphrasing from memory) was to honour the growth and transformation in my life that makes growth in my craft possible, and vice versa. That means not pushing myself to write what I'm not ready to, if it will hurt me in the process, or if I'm not at the point yet where I can write it well; and at the same time, learning how to take risks and trust in what I do have to offer.
GG: When and how does inspiration find you? For example, do you go outside to find it in nature, or does it suddenly come to you in the middle of the night? Do you find that it comes more in one language than another? Do you keep a journal, or do you prefer to write on anything you can find?
JC: I tend to do a lot of drafting in phone notes. Lines, words, phrases can arrive while I'm taking the subway, participating in a protest, making dinner with a friend — especially when there's a poem I'm actively working on, it tends to take over all the background space in my head — and my phone is one thing I almost always keep nearby.
GG: What are some things you learned from creating this debut book? Did you approach making it differently to that of your earlier chapbook, all our futures? Do you have some advice for writers putting together a first collection?
JC: I wrote almost the entirety of all our futures over a span of two weeks, during an artist residency on the Toronto Islands, about two years after I finished the manuscript for sick. It's kind of disorienting to have sick come out later, actually, when the poems themselves feel so much more distant from me in time and orientation.
I don't know if I'm in a position to pass on advice to other writers — I feel perpetually like a beginner, and I like it that way — but I did learn some things myself. When I first started writing the words that eventually ended up in sick, I felt like I had to lay my whole entire self out on the page. I was so terrified that a reader might find fault with me if my politics weren't laid out enough — critically enough, radically enough, insightfully enough, movingly enough — in every single poem.
I had to learn to trust that I didn't have to say everything I would ever want to say in my first collection, let alone in every poem. And I can't write myself beyond critique, in some kind of radical perfectionism. I can't edit my past self out of my poems, a self that I'm ashamed of because they weren't far enough along on their political journey. It's not possible. I keep learning (hopefully), I keep trying to stay grounded in the movements and communities I come from, and so I keep coming across new thoughts to explore, new feelings to feel.
In part, this is why the long poem appeals to me as a form, and why I wrote all our futures that way. It gave me more space in which to explore connections, contradictions, and questions clustered around a set of themes (in this case, disability, eugenics, climate change, and reproductive justice), without the pressure of needing to come to a quick and tidy conclusion — a pressure that shorter poems sometimes exert on me.
GG: If given the choice to spend 24 hours in a museum creating something, what medium would you prefer?
JC: With an audience? This is kind of a terrifying (but fun) question. The first thing that comes to mind is Taiko drumming, like a participatory piece where people are free to join for any amount of time, and to leave. Maybe this is my imagination's way of reminding me that I've been really, really missing drumming with others during the pandemic. Typically, I drum with a group called Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers twice a week; it's the place I've learned the most about what joy and freedom truly feel like in my body.
GG: If you could describe sick in three words, what would they be? Why?
JC: Longing, grief, obsession. I think these are basically the three drives of my life, so it's fitting. I've been trying to notice their energy, the information they give me about what's important to me and where I want to go, without letting them make my decisions for me.
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Secret Marketer: Big data won't do your job for you
There's no more terrifying phrase in marketing than 'big data', but once you start to understand it you realise adoption doesn't have to be complicated and it won't replace marketing expertise.
By David Coveney	 23 Nov 2016 4:29 pm
The two scariest words in the marketing lexicon are not 'you're fired'. They are in fact 'big data'. Why? Because nobody really has a clue what it means or entails.
It sounds like one of those things that is going to be good. And, like any buzzword, it has spawned its own clichés: 'data is the oil of the digital economy' and 'bits and bytes are the new Brent Crude'.
My favourite is 'data gravity' – a very stretched analogy to describe the phenomenon whereby the more data you have, the more suppliers and services are attracted to that data to make the product on which the data is created even more useful.
READ MORE: Brand strategy, data and customer experience are marketers' new priorities
Finding ways to turn the flood of data into useful information for marketers is a growing challenge. It's a two-sided challenge for me, because we are awash with data that can be useful for refining our offering in the market; and we can also take our data, wrap and pack it, and turn it into a product that others can buy.
I have set myself the challenge of understanding what big data is all about, aside from the hype, and it has been very interesting.
The first challenge is to capture and crunch the data, which means having to get new storage capabilities, computing capabilities and new analytics technologies and techniques.
Of course, our business has data 'silos', lots of legacy systems and different formats. I have found that you end up making compromises and replace what data you really want and care about with what you can easily get your hands on.
The biggest surprise for me was that much of the technology used under the heading of big data is actually open-source. This includes the database management systems designed to handle huge amounts of data, called Cassandra and Hadoop, as well as the business intelligence software designed to report, analyse and present data.
Don't believe the phrase, 'the data doesn't lie'. For that, I refer readers to the cliché that predates the big data clichés – 'garbage in, garbage out'.
The second challenge is deciding what to do with the data. Data software automates things that were previously done by people. The inclination is to use data, mathematical models and algorithms in place of a marketer's own judgment.
If models are opinions expressed in mathematics, I found that there is a separation between these models, the algorithms and the real world of people. The messy complexities of the real world of marketing don't always stack up.
The third issue is that big data is prompting our company to rethink our basic assumptions about the relationship between marketing and IT — and their respective roles.
Just like the numerous discussions that I used to have about who was responsible for running the website a decade ago, now we are having the same discussion about which corner data sits in.
READ MORE: How marketers can use data to deliver on-brand promises in a targeted way
The final challenge is that many of the current big data marketing tools are really more primitive than you realise. Think of your own interests and internet habits and compare these with the real world of inappropriate ads and offers that get delivered to you while you surf.
In reality, marketing expertise is required both at the input stage – what you put into the big data 'sausage machine' – and when choosing what to do with the output.
The good news for those of us – including me – blinded by the buzzwords, is that it is not enough to be able to set up a big data programme. You also have to know when specific decisions and actions are required. And that readers is where marketers come back into the frame.
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Facebook, Deliveroo and Tinder talk bots and data
From chatbots and AI to breaking the Google and Facebook duopoly, brands at Web Summit in Lisbon ambitiously embraced tech as the cornerstone of future global growth.
11 Nov 2016 5:30 pm
Deliveroo to double data scientists in growth push
On-demand food delivery app looks to double the data scientists working at its London HQ in a bid to drive 30% monthly growth and achieve international expansion
9 Nov 2016 2:44 pm
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Ed Pilkington: Data is good but culture is key
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Ed Pilkington, Diageo marketing and innovation director, Western Europe, on why it's more important than ever for marketers to tap into culture.
14 Oct 2016 10:23 am
Marketers up traditional media budgets amid increased competition
While there were no changes to overall marketing budgets in the second quarter, according to the IPA's quarterly Bellwether, marketers increased spend on main media advertising, suggesting they are investing in long-term brand health.
Digital TV must overcome its contradictions if it wants to attract more ad dollars
Digital TV is becoming ever more popular among consumers, yet it lags behind in advertisers' plans. Yet as the siloes between digital and TV break down, it is an area brands should find worth exploring.


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Forgotten and Stranded in Refugee City
Rows of white tents line the dirt streets. Each one says UNHCR on the side and houses a family of refugees. There are larger temporary structures for schools, hospitals, and administrative buildings. Again, these structures are not buildings. They could have been built within an hour and will be torn down even faster. Refugee camps are cities made to be temporary. Refugees are supposed to return home when it is safe. Then, they will not be fed by the scarce rations of the camp, or bargain for basic goods on a black market. When they return home, they may receive medical care from an actual doctors office or a hospital, rather than going to another tent marked for medical care. The refugee camp is supposed to be temporary. It is supposed to accommodate for the needs of people fleeing their homes for a short period of time. Dadaab is not a temporary refugee camp. It has been operating since 1991. It is a 26 year old refugee city, with third generation residents who have never even seen their home nation.
Dadaab is located in Kenya, approximately 50 miles from Somalia's border. It is the world's largest refugee camp, currently housing 249,144 registered Somali refugees. If it were a city, it would Kenya's third largest. It was built in 1991 to hold 90,000 Somali refugees fleeing civil war, but as international attempts at peace failed the camp continued to grow. Nearly 100,000 of Dadaab's residents are third generation refugees born and raised in the camp. Dadaab is one of many long-term refugee camps around the world where refugees live in limbo in supposedly temporary camps. When camps become long-term solutions, host nations like Kenya struggle to provide resources and security for refugees. With help from international organizations this pressure may be manageable, but funding and attention has shifted to the middle east, leaving camps elsewhere severely underfunded and increasingly unwanted. Due to these problems, in November 2015 Kenya declared Dadaab would be closed and evacuated by the end of the month. All refugees would return to Somalia.
The Kenyan government considers Dadaab a breeding ground for extremism. The Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab controls vast amounts of territory in Somalia and has taken credit for several terror attacks in nearby countries like Kenya. Al-Shabaab's deadliest attack was in April 2015 at Garissa University in Kenya. The Kenyan government believed that the attack was planned within Dadaab despite limited evidence to support their claim. Following the attack the government made several attempts to expel or relocate refugees before ultimately declaring the closure of both Dadaab and the Kenyan Department of Refugee Affairs in November 2016.
Fortunately, the attempt to close Dadaab failed after Kenya's High Court, the equivalent of America's Federal District Court, ruled that closing the camp was illegal and discriminatory. Contrary to statements by the Kenyan government Somalia is unsuitable for refugee repatriation. The country is still ravaged by the war, famine, poverty and disease that the refugees fled. The court ordered Kenya to reopen the Refugee Affairs department and Dadaab. Kenya intends to appeal to a higher court, but the closure attempts reveal a larger problem in Dadaab.
Kenya is an unwilling host. The government prevents refugees from seeking work permits for nearby areas, and opposes integration for refugees. Kenya claims that refugees are a threat to their economy and security. Therefore, refugees must remain in designated camps where they are dependent on aid for food and basic supplies. Unfortunately, aid is continually fluctuating. The World Food Program's funding for Dadaab dropped 30% as more funds were transferred to Syria and in 2016. Kenya received only 28% of requested funding from the UNHCR for refugee operations. Currently, Dadaab's residents receive one third of the minimum nutritional standards suggested by the UN. Disease outbreaks are common, especially during the rainy season when some parts of the camp flood, and the UN bureaucracy struggles to solve these problems. Some problems, like disease outbreaks, could be solved through improved infrastructure. However, Kenya strongly opposes the construction of any permanent infrastructure like schools, hospitals, or water centers. Though Dadaab is a long-term solution for refugees, there are only short-term facilities to accommodate residents.
Ideally, UNHCR would begin repatriation to Somalia rather than house refugees in Dadaab for the long term. However, refugees cannot return to Somalia. Al-Shabaab retains control of vast amounts of land despite efforts by the UN and African Union to reclaim cities and establish a new government. Though Al-Shabaab may recruit refugees from Dadaab, refugees returned in Somalia would be subject to violence under Al-Shabaab in many areas and may be forced into radicalization from desperation.
After Kenya attempted to close Dadaab, 51,000 refugees voluntarily returned to Somalia, despite not wanting to leave. Most used the UN repatriation program that offers $200 per family member plus other grants for basic living needs to refugees who voluntarily leave Dadaab. Refugees are afraid of being sent home without anything if Kenya successfully closes the camp later. The returned refugees faced closed borders in territories who claimed they were not prepared for refugees to return. In the case of the port town Kismayo in Somalia, returned refugees are now living in unsupplied camps around the city, unable to enter. The former refugees lack the food, shelter, healthcare, education, and legal support they received in Dadaab. They return to a place where 1 million people are already displaced and five million lack food. As a result, many repatriated refugees are now returning to Dadaab. However, the refugees who they voluntarily returned through the UNHCR are not eligible for refugee status, and cannot use UNHCR resources in Dadaab. Without the Kenyan Department of Refugee Affairs returners cannot attempt to re-register for refugee status either. Returned refugees living without documentation on the outskirts of Dadaab are subject to arrest and deportation.
Dadaab's residents live contingent on the hope that Kenya will not forcibly close the camp. Defenseless against the chaos of their own home, they are trapped in refugee city. Even if Somalia were to be peaceably stabilized in the near future, repatriated refugees are unlikely to be able to build dignified lives there without significant long-term international assistance. Second and third generation refugees in Dadaab may even opt to remain in Dadaab or Kenya rather than return to a foreign country.
If the conflict in Somalia cannot be resolved, Kenya remains a home for the residents of Dadaab. While integrating refugees in Kenya seems like a plausible solution to remove refugees from camp conditions, Kenya refuses to integrate Somali refugees into their population. Kenya also cannot independently provide integration strategies for over 200,000 refugees with limited education, cultural familiarity, and work experience. Refusing integration and relocating refugees to other camps is costly and ignores their social and cultural needs. For now, the most plausible solution for Dadaab is keeping the camp open. There are already some provisions for healthcare, legal services, education, and job training in the camp. If less aid-dependent strategies, improved infrastructure, and funding could be provided, camp conditions could be improved without moving or harming refugees. If Dadaab remains open, Kenya must accept their responsibility to refugees and allow them to build meaningful lives in refugee city.
Dadaab illustrates the danger of allowing temporary settlements to become permanent cities. The global refugee crisis is growing, but few long-term solutions are being developed. If the world hopes to solve this crisis, they must prepare refugees to rebuild their home nation after repatriation and stabilize humanitarian crisis. Dadaab represents an unsuccessful solution to an ongoing crisis. While other refugee camps around the world are innovating ways to create their own economies, food supply, and infrastructure to allow populations to live dignified lives, Dadaab has no comparable solutions. Refugees should not be stranded in a camp for 26 years, dependent on aid, wondering if their host nation with send them away from their only home. Host nations and the international community must ensure that refugees are given the opportunity to live dignified lives beyond the humanitarian crisis.
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Katarina Huss is a student at Michigan State University studying Comparative Cultures and Politics and Social Relations and Policy. View all posts by Katarina Huss
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Phillip James Brannon and Nia Vardalos in "Tiny Beautiful Things" by Vardalos at the Public Theater.
Pasadena Playhouse Announces 2018-19 Season
The season will include the Los Angeles premiere of 'Tiny Beautiful Things' by Nia Vardalos, and U.S. premiere of the West End hit 'The Woman in Black.'
PASADENA, CALIF.: The Pasadena Playhouse has announced its 2018-19 season.
"Our 2018-19 season includes a wide range of experiences including a hilarious new comedy, a classic ghost story, a great American musical, and an incredibly moving new play," said producing artistic director Danny Feldman in a statement. "It is going to be a season of great nights at the theatre."
These productions join the previously-announced Bordertown Now (May 30-June 24)—featuring Culture Clash, an L.A.-based Latino performance trio consisting of Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza—and Jungle Book (July 17-29), an adaptation of the classic Rudyard Kipling tale by Craig Francis and Rick Miller. Jungle Book will be co-produced by Kidoons/WYRD Productions and the 20K Collective, both Canadian companies.
The fall season will open with Native Gardens (Sept. 4-30) by Karen Zacarias. It is about two neighbors who clash over their gardens. Jason Alexander will direct.
Next will be the U.S. premiere* of the long-running West End production of The Woman in Black (Oct. 17-Nov. 11), adapted from Susan Hill's ghost novella by Stephen Mallatratt, about a man who believes that his family has been cursed by a woman in black. The production is created by PW Productions and directed by Robin Herford.
Following will be the first major L.A. production of Ragtime: The Musical (Feb. 6-March 3, 2019) in 20 years. Written by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty, it is a musical based on the E.L. Doctorow novel about three families' pursuit of the American dream at the turn of the 20th century. David Lee will direct.
The season will conclude with the L.A. premiere of Tiny Beautiful Things (spring 2019), based on the bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted by Nia Vardalos. It is about the anonymous online advice columnist Sugar, who provides empathy and guidance to a wide variety of people. Thomas Kail (of Hamilton) will direct.
An additional spring production will be announced at a later date.
In addition, Pasadena Playhouse will also host a free Playhouse Block Party on June 9 from noon to 10 p.m. to celebrate its centennial anniversary.
Founded in 1917, Pasadena Playhouse is the official state theatre of California and aims to enrich people's lives through theatre, community programs, and learning.
*An earlier draft erroneously stated that this is the U.S. premiere of The Woman in Black, which has in fact played elsewhere in the U.S. in other productions.
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Peace Is Still Up to the Palestinians
by Jonathan S. Tobin
It's difficult to gauge just how stalled the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, going on behind close doors right now, are. The relative paucity of leaks testifies to both sides not wishing to be blamed for what just about everybody other than Secretary of State John Kerry—the man who orchestrated the new round of negotiations—believes will be their certain failure. But that has not stopped both Israeli and Palestinian leaders from a degree of posturing about the talks that shows there is little reason for optimism even as Palestinian violence against Israelis seems to be ramping up in recent days. On the one hand, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being accused of inflaming the situation by referencing the support of Palestinian leaders for the Nazis in a speech given yesterday at Bar-Ilan University, the same venue where he formally embraced the two-state solution in 2009. On the other, leftist Israeli parliamentarians are praising Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas for what they see as conciliatory statements delivered in a meeting he held with them in Ramallah.
But the supposed contrast between the two in which Netanyahu is depicted as harming peace while Abbas is promoting it is deceiving. Far from undermining peace, Netanyahu's challenge to the Palestinians to overcome their history by finally recognizing the legitimacy of a Jewish state is exactly what is needed if Kerry's initiative is to be more than a fool's errand. As for Abbas, by praising him for leaving out of his speech any deliberate provocations, the peace camp is setting a low bar for their so-called peace partner. Even worse, by ignoring what the Palestinian Authority is saying and doing when the spotlight is not on them as well as by choosing to ignore competing statements by PA officials at the same meeting shows just how little the Palestinians are interested in genuine peace and how the peace camp is repeating the same mistakes they made during the heyday of the failed Oslo process.
Netanyahu's speech was far from the denunciation of the peace process that some of his detractors are depicting. In fact, what he did was merely to articulate the simple formula for how the two-state solution could be achieved: Palestinians must recognize that the Jews have a right to their own state. Remembering the past was not merely rehearsing old grudges but a reminder that the notion that Jewish settlements are the real obstacle to peace is absurd. After all, Palestinians have been attacking the Jewish right to live anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean for a century. As Netanyahu pointed out, it wasn't a territorial conflict in the 1920s when anti-Jewish pogroms were initiated or the 1940s when Palestinian leaders embraced Hitler because the Jews didn't have territory. But all the Palestinians need to get a state alongside Israel is to say they endorse the right to a Jewish state and to renounce the so-called "right of return" for the descendants of the 1948 refugees. Since that is still apparently too much to ask of the PA, what possible hope can there be for the peace talks?
Israeli left-wingers say they were impressed by Abbas's discretion with them during their meeting:
"The things that he didn't say I think were most important," said Merav Michaeli, a member of Israel's Labor Party. "He made sure that he doesn't say anything that makes us uncomfortable."
But if you think that sounds suspiciously like the shell game the Palestinians played with supporters of the peace process back in the 1990s, it should. Abbas played nice with Israeli critics of the Netanyahu government during his meeting and even belatedly condemned the shooting of a 9-year-old Israeli girl in a West Bank settlement during what appears to have been a terrorist incursion this past weekend. But the "upbeat tone" of his address included nothing about recognizing the legitimacy of a Jewish state or the right of return, the real obstacles to peace.
Tellingly, once Abbas had left and the cameras were off, one of the PA leader's senior aides and negotiators set the record straight about what the Palestinians are willing to do. Yasser Abed Rabbo not only dropped the happy talk and called Netanyahu an "extremist," he bluntly said the Palestinians would never recognize "historic Palestine" as the "homeland of the Jewish people."
Rabbo sat next to Abbas during the love fest with leftist Israelis while the latter refused to say what he felt about the "Jewish state" issue, something that Netanyahu's critics thought was a good sign. But Rabbo took that attempt at ambiguity and tossed it into the trash. That point was also made apparent in a pamphlet handed out by the PA that depicted it as a made-up issue despite the fact that the original United Nations partition resolution of 1947 specifically referred to the creation of a Jewish state alongside an Arab one.
The point here is not so much that Netanyahu's stance—which is not unreasonably being seen as an attempt to answer his right-wing critics who fear he is about to cave in to pressure from Kerry and President Obama—is reasonable and that of Abbas and Rabbo is not. Rather, it is that once again the Palestinians are trying to have it both ways, talking peace at one moment and making it clear their goal is continued conflict at another.
The Oslo Accords failed in large measure because the United States and Israel never took Arafat's doubletalk seriously and chose to ignore Palestinian incitement and provocation. Those Americans and Israelis who fall for the same trick again are merely setting up the region for the same result that followed the collapse of Oslo. That is a price that would be paid in the blood of Israelis and Palestinians. Secretary Kerry and President Obama would do well to heed Netanyahu's warnings and avoid falling into the same trap.
Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin is senior online editor of Commentary.
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Tiger King's Joe Exotic is officially divorced from Dillon Passage
Tiger King's Joe Exotic has finalised his divorce from ex-husband Dillon Passage almost two years after their split.
Proceedings finally came to an end for the currently imprisoned 59-year-old on Tuesday (3 January) after he and his 27-year-old partner filed for divorce in March 2021.
Passage announced that the two had split up following Exotic's imprisonment in 2018 for plotting to murder his storied rival Carol Baskin, as well as several animal abuse charges.
Their marriage started to strain due to the internet personality's imprisonment and, after missing several calls, the two eventually decided to part ways, though on good terms.
According to an email sent by Exotic, and later shared with TMZ by his attorney, the two were reportedly "not in a hurry" to split up following their decision, despite Passage having later met someone else in July.
"This has been tough on both of us and he is going to do what he thinks he needs to do and I prefer to stay married right now so things don't get complicated," the letter read.
Once filings had been made and the process was underway, Exotic said that the pair were still calling three times a day and that Passage would "continue to be my support."
Proceedings were once again halted after Exotic was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he has since been treated for and is in remission.
During that time, the former politician – who is currently serving 21 years in Fort Worth, Texas – planned to marry John Graham, whom he had met in prison.
The two eventually split up after the relationship began to falter upon Graham's release, but Exotic once again found love with his ex-boyfriend Seth Posey.
Lawyer Autumn Blackledge, who spoke on behalf of Joe Exotic, said: "Joe is thankful that Seth is back in his life. They are both taking things slowly and just enjoying the time to reconnect.
"Joe Exotic, the Tiger King, is this larger-than-life entertainer to us, and it's hard to remember that he is a real person with real challenges and needs," Blackledge continued. "At the end of the day, Joe wants what everyone wants, to love and to be loved and understood."
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