Helping Our Neighbours
Posted in 1 on Jun 4th, 2009
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From: “Rachel Bray”
To: “Sam Pearce”
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Save the whales, f*** the women and children
thanks Sam, you’ve eloquently expressed sentiments i share. I’m afraidthat some of the explanations i’ve heard psychologists give as to why‘we’ humans respond so much more readily to animals in distress thanhumans are [...]
Posted in 1 on Jun 1st, 2009
I am finding all this fuss about the whales fascinating. I was at Longbeach on Saturday, and was struck by the similarity of the plight of the pod of 55 whales that beached themselves at Kommetjie this weekend and the 1000s of people who found themselves washed up at Soetwater at the end of May [...]
Posted in Press on Jul 14th, 2008
By Helen Bamford Press Release
One of the meals delivered to the Soetwater refugee camp this week has been sent for testing at a city health facility after complaints that it looked and smelt rotten. Ward councillor Felicity Purchase confirmed that the food had gone for a “post-mortem”. She said it looked disgusting and could be [...]
Posted in Sam Pearce, Volunteers on Jul 7th, 2008
Here is a summary of events since the last update:
NB This does not presume to be a definitive version, but merely states what has been happening from Sam Pearce’s perspective.
Wed 11th June – AM Following this week’s attempts to forcibly remove refugees from the camp by sending in buses and armed police at night without [...]