Feel tempted? You could even attend a free media summer
school in Sweden! Sorry, but they are not for you, but for ‘migrants’, for
which read immigrants. Friday 22 June will witness the Free Media4All
Conference (a nasty example of sub-literate titling if ever there was one)
which will be hosted at London Metropolitan University. As you can see from the
programme reproduced below, it is aimed squarely at providing yet more
opportunities for immigrants to tell us why our country is their country, and
why we are all the better for their being here. Of course, the fact that many
immigrants will wish to say such a thing is only natural, but why should this
initiative be sponsored and who is behind it? What benefit accrues to the indigenous
population?
The Migrants Resource Centre turns out to be the driving
force behind the conference, and it may come as a surprise (or not) to some
readers that this organisation possesses charitable status (registered charity
number 291789) and is also registered as a limited company (number 191162). Why
has such an obviously political group been given charitable status? Also
backing the conference and Swedish summer school is the website www.thenewlondoners.co.uk which is
also devoted to propagandising the immigrant message that London is now theirs,
and another body called Migrants and Media whose web address www.migrantsandmedia.eu no longer
seems to be functioning. As to the aim of the Migrants Resource Centre, it is
best stated in its own mission statement:
‘Migrants Resource Centre has a vision of a British Society in which migrants and refugees are empowered and valued for their contribution to society.’
Interesting, is it not, that it has
specifically chosen to substitute the term ‘migrants’ for ‘immigrants’, thus
displaying its deep commitment to the ‘no borders’ movement and the concomitant
assertion that we possess no right to political self-determination in our own
country.
The conference programme reads as follows:
The MEDIVA project at London Metropolitan University invites you to an exciting and free media conference for migrants – a day of media related discussion, knowledge sharing and workshops in partnership with the Migrants Resource CentreRegister for this free media conference for migrants and learn practical skills and improve your confidence in journalism, radio, photography and engaging with the media.Programme9:30 – 10:00 Registration and refreshments
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome (Migrants Resource Centre)
10:15 – 11:00 Diversity in the Media: presentation and discussion on the MEDIVA testing of diversity indicators (London Metropolitan University)
11:00 – 13:00 Workshops running simultaneously:‘Journalism: Telling your story effectively’‘Practical skills in radio journalism’‘FOCUS ON THE EDGE: digital story telling with photography’‘How to be a media spokesperson’
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:45 Workshops running simultaneously:‘Journalism: Telling your story effectively’‘Practical skills in radio journalism’‘FOCUS ON THE EDGE: digital story telling with photography’‘How to be a media spokesperson’
15:45 – 4pm Closing remarks
Certainly, in the context of birds (i am a keen birder), 'migrants' are thus called because the move both ways.
ReplyDelete'Immigrants' do not!
Laurie -
That's true! I have no objection to our avian migrants of course. Have you seen any of these that have proven to provide a pleasant surprise?
DeleteSo many charities are political these days and they're all limited companies as well. It makes me wonder why and I'm always curious where their funding comes from, because I never know anyone that donates to them.
ReplyDeleteI bet the funding comes from, the UK government, separately DFID (that's the UK taxpayer twice directly), the EU (that's us for a third time) and the UN (I'm sure that must be our money again).
Your point regarding the multiple funding of charities from public sources under different names is a very pertinent one. How many people who buy lottery tickets will be aware that their money gets channelled into avenues such as these? We evidently require a serious reform of laws governing the granting of charitable status, for this is quite clearly a political pressure group and should not meet the definition of a charity.
DeleteAlthough I encounter a lot of chuggers during the week, I have yet to happen upon someone collecting for such a spurious cause as the one above.
Immigrant - a person who moves to another country to settle
ReplyDeleteMigrant - a person who moves to another region to settle
Most of the MSM uses the term migrant to describe immigrants quite often. Migrant also sounds a bit more innocent than immigrant, this is why they love to use it.
It does, doesn't it? It would seem that the word 'migrant' is being used with the specific intent of accustoming members of the public to the idea that national boundaries (when they are ours that is) count for nothing.
DeleteMigrants Resource Centre has a vision of a British Society in which migrants and refugees are empowered and valued for their contribution to society.’
ReplyDeleteThis sort of verbal garbage softens the brains. They go all Fuzzie Wuzzie can I say that, well I am going too and dam the thought police. They all have nice vague phrases like resource centre, and you have to have a guess at what they mean. Well I have got a resource centre in my home its called the fridge, and if somebody had told me to when I was an apprentice in the mines to go too the resource centre and get some Whitworth nuts I would have given him a quizzical look and buggered off too the stores. Vision of cause is a synonym for nightmare, a utopian nightmare to be precise, mainly the result of, to use a PC phrase, reality challenged under-educated clowns who have never heard of Hobbs Leviathan and if asked, would most likely guess that it was a very large hobnob and they will have to get a bigger cup if they want to dip it in there tea. They are just too stupid to know that you can break a Hobnob in half. Empowered is just meaningless drivel, I suppose you could say that I am empowering my car when I fill it up with petrol.
Media studies now means any dammed course you can send any idiot on to give them a feeling of there own worth and give them a piece of paper, to go on there CV that is if they know what a CV is or what it stands for. Seeing as it is for refugees as well as migrants I can see where the
‘Journalism: Telling your story effectively’
could be very useful when lieing on your asylum application form. Being the cynic I am it is quiet good but it could have been better, they missed out the phrase community cohesion, and that all important word interfacing. if they had included that then they might have got a B+ on my ( Anal detritus of the Bovine variety scale) unfortunately I can only give them a B-.
Well YM, don't be overly surprised if in the coming year or two you should see some of the individuals who have been through these workshops popping up on television telling us their stories about the 'racism' that they've encountered in Britain and the 'need' for us to 'embrace diversity'.
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