Celebrities react to the European refugee crisis
Take a stand with us & @savechildrenuk: help make #RefugeesWelcome. http://t.co/F0BKjfTgtA
— One Direction (@onedirection) September 3, 2015.@stephendowning3 Refugees receive the assistance guaranteed by the 1951 Refugee Convention, which Britain signed. pic.twitter.com/8Ge0sWSNHv
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) 4. September 2015( More under the cut...Collapse )
Not a lot of tweets, I don't know how much the US media is reporting on the issue. You can find relevant tweets/photos under #MigrantMarch.
The refugees started to march at 12:00 CET from the Budapest Keleti train station to the Austrian border. They walked more than 20 km (~12.5 miles) on the highway and it could take them a week to make the remaining 150 km (~932 miles).
I stumbled on this particular article recently. It dates back to April 2015 but it's still very much relevant. I can't stop thinking about it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-paler-your-skin--the-higher-up-you-go-the-hierarchical-system-aboard-italys-migrant-boats-that-governs-who-lives-and-who-dies-10193130.html
Abdullah, the only Kurdi family member to survive the trip, says he has nothing left to live for.
"I don't want anything else from this world," he told CNN on Thursday. "Everything I was dreaming of is gone. I want to bury my children and sit beside them until I die."
“Even if you give me all the countries in the world, I don’t want them. What was precious is gone.”
i feel like i don't even know how to process life anymore...
Edited at 2015-09-04 09:24 pm (UTC)
Also: Where are the rich as fuck Arab countries on this? They should be taking in refugees too.
Edited at 2015-09-05 02:40 am (UTC)
Countries want to be part of the EU for progress and nice things? You take the tougher things as well, and you show that as an union you are willing to care for people, not just those you recognize as your own.
These are the people that are supposed to lead us.