Tag: politics

antifainternational:

German pilots ground over 200 flights after refusing to deport asylum seekers

Flight crews did not want to help send people back to Afghanistan, local media report

German pilots have reportedly grounded more than 200 flights after refusing to be involved in the deportations of failed asylum-seekers.

Flight crews said they did not want to participate in sending people back to Afghanistan, where violence is still rife following years of war and occupation by Western forces.

Between January and September 222 flights were cancelled, according to German government figures, with most – 140 – coming at Frankfurt airport.

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At least one similar refusal is known to have taken place in the UK when British Airways pilot refused to take off while Samim Bigzad was on board earlier this year.

Mr Bigzad, an Afghan, faced deportation to the city where the Taliban had threatened to kill him before the pilot intervened, saying: “You’re not going to take him; I’m not flying. Someone’s life is at risk.”

Direct action! “Just following orders” is never an excuse! [article]

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

muirin007:

Hey, guys.

I’m disgusted and horrified by what’s happening at the border right now. This is beyond politics–this is a gross violation of human rights and a terrifying echo of semantics and beliefs that led to millions of deaths.

The article above is an excellent resource for ways to help these families and their children, from donating to legal groups and aid organizations, translators and more. Any little bit helps. 

I don’t care where you stand on the political spectrum. This is wrong, this is immoral, and it’s absolutely evil. Children are literally being locked in cages, numbered, and forced to separate from their parents–many of whom are deported, leaving children stranded. Rhetoric used to justify this regularly dehumanizes immigrants. Sound familiar? 

There is no such thing as an illegal human being.

Please help and spread the word. We’re a human family. We can fight this.

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

star-anise:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

star-anise:

emotional-karuma:

star-anise:

I’m avoiding the thing about Trump’s family separation policy as much as possible because it literally makes me want to melt down in a rage the moment I think about it almost at all, and as a Canadian there’s an incredibly limited amount I can do when I have to keep my own precarious mental health functioning

but I just want you to know that a lot of the field of Attachment Theory in psychology began after WWII, when psychologists examined the physical and psychological health of children sent away from their parents for their own “safety”

and what we found about the psychological results of broken child-caregiver attachment has led us to conclude that it is literally MORE HUMANE to leave families intact in refugee camps in warzones, than to separate the children from their parents, even if those children are sent to the best of all possible environments.

Speaking as a fucking psychologist I just want you to know that if you want to fuck someone up FOR FUCKING LIFE, the BEST possible way to do it, is to abruptly separate them from the adults who love and care for them. For maximum fuckery do it before the age of 3, 5 is pretty damn good at fucking them up for life too, but honestly any time before adulthood is pretty effective. You will fuck them up in a way we just DON’T know how to heal yet. You don’t just leave them catastrophically more at risk for mental illness, learning disorders, addictions, abuse, and future trauma, you also put them at much higher risk of things like diabetes, heart attack, and suicide.

and then I thought about what kind of environments those kids ARE being sent into and I need to throw up now

Op do you have any links to papers or anything? Preferably not paywalled?

Honestly the field is so huge and so broad that I have too many sources rather than too few. The harder thing is pointing to a concise, targeted, tailored-to-be-relevant summary. (But if child trauma experts in the US aren’t working on producing one at this very instant, I’ll eat my hat.)

The two places I recommend starting are the Child Trauma Academy Library and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

American Psychological Association statement on border separation

American Public Health Association statement on border separation

At this point all you need to do is Google search ‘border’ and ‘child abuse’ and you’ll get buried in articles. Google Scholar is about the same

Thanks! @emotional-karuma, there you go.