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Saturday, September 29, 2012
A frank, fair and open conversation on immigration | Progress | News ...
Tough public attitudes on immigration mean that on the doorsteps it is often the very last thing that any activist wants to talk about. But when a voter says they are concerned about immigration, often what they are really saying is they are worried about their life and some of the social pressure they are encountering.
Closing down the conversation just carries on the myth that in Britain we are never allowed to talk about immigration. That?s one of the reasons that British Future, a new thinktank, is holding fringe debates at all three party conferences on the challenges that politicians of all parties have about talking about immigration.
There is strong evidence that migration brings net benefits to Britain, but there is plenty of evidence that talking about the economic numbers doesn?t speak to anyone but economists, and as Mark Rusling has detailed in a previous article for Progress this is just one of the challenges you meet on the doorstep. Most people hear a number and just switch off. A personal story makes far more sense, as does bringing the issue back to the local community. Yes, there are stories about housing shortages, but are there also stories about local and national businesses set up by migrants bringing jobs to the area? Talk about both. What do they think of Mr Khan who is now running the garage at the bottom of the road, who escaped from persecution in Afghanistan and set up his company from scratch? Make it personal and then it matters more.
The public also wants to hear more about integration. People are proud of modern Britain, 75 per cent think the Olympics showed Britain to be a confident, multi-ethnic society. This is a country where we turned out in thousands to cheer Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Chris Hoy. A politics of solidarity demands a shared society, not a segregated one, a concern that might link concerns about social mobility or the super-rich playing by different rules to how those of different ethnic backgrounds and faith groups live together.
The British public wants to see migrants contribute positively to the UK, and they are proud of the ones that do. When it comes down to attitudes to new migrants, the public sees skill and education levels as more important than cultural background, according to the latest British Social Attitudes study.
Most people believe that professional migrants are good for Britain, whether they come from Eastern European countries like Poland, or Muslim countries like Pakistan, while strong majorities also believe that the settlement of unskilled labourers is bad for Britain. The study also finds strong support for student migration, from all parts of the world and cultural backgrounds, as long as students coming to Britain have good grades.
There is good evidence that migration brings net benefits to Britain ? but social democrats will worry about the distribution of gains too, and pay attention to who wins and who loses out. A politics of ?nobody left behind? would not take an entirely open approach to migration, but look for ways to spread both benefits and burdens fairly.? Labour should find more to say about integration too.
Labour can be deeply anxious about how to talk about immigration, but each of the major parties struggles with how to articulate an immigration approach which is both workable and can secure public consent. The Liberal Democrats got into trouble at the last election with their policy of an earned amnesty for those without legal status. The Conservatives may have been better at chiming with public sentiment, but are struggling to find policies which could meet their net migration pledge.
It is easy for oppositions to blame governments ? but Labour simply turning up the volume once out of office would not be credible. Between the polarised positions of open borders or slamming them tight shut is a hidden middle ground, on which many people could converge.
There are limits to migration. Britain can?t admit everybody who would like to come to this country, so the question becomes how to make workable choices that reflect our interests and values. Securing public consent for sensible limits depends first on securing trust in an orderly system, where the rules are managed fairly with borders controls that work. Only then might an argument about which forms of immigration, and at what pace, reflect Britain?s interests.
Many people think Labour has been running away from this issue. So the first thing any doorstep advocate needs to establish is that, however difficult it might sometimes be, a frank, fair and open conversation about immigration is very much on.
Sunder Katwala is director of British Future
British Future is holding a joint fringe with Progress in Manchester on October 1 at 12.45pm at Peter House, The Doorstep Challenge: How Labour Can Talk About Immigration.
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Source: http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2012/09/28/a-frank-fair-and-open-conversation-on-immigration/
U.S. Midwest business barometer sinks in September
Jim Bell, an executive producer at?Today, wants you to know that "it was absolutely" his "call" to fire Ann Curry, throwing himself in front of the criticism Matt Lauer was getting from Curry fans.?Even though Today's ratings have been sagging? ?and the ,?nothing too terrible has happened?the show hasn't ended, the cheeriness is still there, Kathie Lee is still drinking before noon?and now Bell has come forward to claim responsibility for the call. "It was definitely not Matt?s call," . ...
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Marine-turned-country star sings about PTSD
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
Everything you see in the music video happened to Marine-turned-country-singer Stephen Cochran: Pushing the girl away, boozing into oblivion, the gun on the blanket. It all went down last year.?
Courtesy of Stephen Cochran
Stephen Cochran, a former Marine recon scout and now a country-music singer, has penned a new song about PTSD - combat-related symptoms that almost claimed his life in 2011.
Even the actor who portrays Cochran is, himself, a former Marine and Iraq veteran who knows of post-traumatic stress, who has wrangled with identical demons. The actor was not acting.
The only on-screen tweak from reality was?the type firearm shown. In his dimmest hour, behind a locked door in his Nashville home, exhausted, alone, and telling himself: ?I?m done,? Cochran rested a loaded shotgun against his bed.
?I was just trying to get the nerve. I had it planned out,? Cochran told NBC News. ?I didn?t know what was wrong with me. I was tired of taking all these pills. I was going through a breakup. Couldn?t write anymore. Watching everything fall apart. I was ready to check out.?
Then: salvation, and a surreal rescue scene worthy of an epic ballad. His dog, Semper Fi, began scratching relentlessly at his door, bloodying her paws. Next, Cochran?s ex-fianc? unexpectedly entered the house, simply to retrieve a forgotten item, he said. She saw the anxious dog. She expected the worst. She barged into the bedroom, spotted the gun and physically restrained Cochran.?
But from anguish came inspiration. Amid an existence long blurred by PTSD ??the residue of Afghanistan firefights, Marine buddies lost in combat, and his own nearly fatal injury???one question blazed in Cochran's head. He jotted it down: ?How do you paint a picture back in focus??
?It was the only way I could describe trying to put your life back together, literally trying to do the impossible,? he said.
Around that single thought, Cochran penned an entire song, ?Pieces,?an ode to the blackness from which he was aching to escape, a tale of reconnecting the scattered fragments of his shattered world, and a message of solidarity for his military brothers and sisters. The single ? part of a CD with the same title???will be released in this country on Nov. 11. The song already has charted in Europe.
?It?s not just my story. So many of us think about (suicide) because you just get so tired, so tired of being the crazy guy. Or of hearing: ?He?s weird.? Or of hearing: ?We can?t hire you because we really don?t know what post-traumatic stress is and you might come back and kill us all.?
?I really wrote it as my own healing, for what I was going through,? added Cochran, 33, who teamed with fellow musician Trevor Rosen to complete the song. It took them only 15 minutes.
But after playing it at several veterans? benefits, Cochran heard from service members up and down the chain of command how they, too, connected with the lyrics. That feedback has turned ?Pieces? into the soundtrack of the singer?s ongoing crusade.
?We have an epidemic of suicides in the military right now.?At this point, we are physically losing both of these wars in the United States of America, not overseas.
Related: First opera about Iraq War reaches out to veteran suffering from PTSD
?If we want to stop our suicides, we need a complete overhaul in our ?warrior? terminology in this country, in the way we train our families (how to relate with homecoming veterans). That?s what I want to start with ?Pieces,? and the video. I want to get a bridge between our civilian population and the veterans. And I want to reach into the rooms of some of these guys and girls ??who are just sitting in the dark and watching TV all day like I did???and let them know: You?re not alone.?
Perhaps the most ironic thread of Cochran?s story coils back to the days of his first, true musical success. In 2007, one year after retiring from the Marines, he scored a country hit with ?Friday Night Fireside,? the culmination of a childhood dream for a guy raised in Nashville. The accompanying video was voted No. 1 by Great American Country?fans for five straight weeks.
courtesy of Stephen Cochran
After his the light-armoured vehicle crashed in Afghanistan, Stephen Cochran fractured vertebrae and suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2004. Told he would never walk again, an experimental procedure by VA surgeons restored his steps.
Two years later, Cochran became the national spokesman for research and development at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ??his thank you for a successful, experimental surgery performed by VA surgeons who repaired his broken back. In 2004, Cochran had splintered several lumbar vertebrae when the vehicle in which he was riding through southern Afghanistan slammed into gaping hole that once held an anti-tank mine. He couldn?t feel or move his legs for months, and was told by doctors that he?d never take steps again. He walked.
The former Marine reconnaissance scout, part of the U.S. force that first knocked the Taliban out of Afghanistan?s Helmand Province, next teamed up with the VA to become its national co-chair for voluntary service. In that role, Cochran toured America, urging veterans to seek help for combat stress, ?to let them know you don?t have to suffer in silence,? recalled Rosetta Fisher-Oliver, the VA?s chief of voluntary service for Tennessee and for parts of Kentucky and Georgia.
In 2011, Cochran recorded the music video ?Hope??for the VA to try and cement his get-help pleas to fellow troops. What few knew: Cochran was losing his own hope.
?We worked on that video together, and the week he was supposed to make the video, I tried to get in touch with him, just to check to see that he was going to be on time,? said Fisher-Oliver.
She was unable to reach him, however, because Cochran was by then seeking treatment ? after reaching the brink of suicide in his bedroom.
?Here?s a person who?s trying to get the message out and he?s still struggling with issues too,? she said. ?He later told me: ?I almost wasn?t here.? ?
Cochran now acknowledges that he carried ?almost dual personalities? during that time. In front of fellow veterans and fans, he sang, smiled, shook hands and signed autographs. ?But I also had to deal with this monster I have inside my head and inside my gut, all day.? At home, his family and his then-fianc?, he admitted, took the brunt of his mood swings and emotional detachment.
courtesy of Stephen Cochran
After breaking his back in Afghanistan, Cochran was greeted by a fellow Marine. He later regained the ability to walk.
?You?re screaming out: Please help me understand what I?m going through, because I have no clue! That?s why you see the high number of divorces in the military,? Cochran said. ?I told my fianc?: ?I don?t know what I?m dealing with so the best thing for you to do is just leave and you?ll thank me later.' ?
She left.
But in what could have been Cochran?s final minutes, she came back, and burst into his bedroom.
After Cochran artfully turned that horrid moment into a song, he met the man picked to portray his downward spiral in the ?Pieces? video: Daniel Dean, a Nashville songwriter and actor. He also looks a bit like Cochran. He seemed like a logical choice.
In talking with Dean, though, Cochran learned that the man was a Marine sniper who did three tours in Iraq. And they both had lived for years with the lingering anxieties that often remain for veterans who log months of combat exposure.
?He told me: 'This is my story, too,'? Cochran remembers. ?That dude lived that.?
They also agreed with the concept that ?Pieces? would be not just the first music video to delve so deeply into PTSD. It would break ranks with dozens of other standard, country-music videos about the U.S. military ? mini movies that often include battle scenes that, some critics say, glorify war.
?Stephen does country music and so do I, and there?s a lot of military songs and a lot of them are pretty much B.S.? Dean said. ?You?ve got the Toby Keith type stuff?and that?s all right for what it is. But very rarely does a song hit a military person the way this one does.
?Just because it?s real. It?s one of the things I doubt you?ll hear any of the other country stars singing about. It?s (usually) more of the patriotic angle. Most military members aren?t songwriters like Stephen and I. So, I guess that lets us be able to sing things that you can?t say or can't deal with.??
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Obama mixes debate preparation with fundraising
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama warned Democrats about becoming too complacent with six weeks left before the election. He joked that Democrats tend to believe that the "sky is falling" or that "everything is great."
"This is going to be a close race right down to the wire," he told about 90 donors gathered Friday evening at the Washington home of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat.
The president's remarks came amid public polls that show him gaining advantages in some key battleground states. It also came months after anxious Democrats worried that Obama would not be able to keep up with Republican rival Mitt Romney's fundraising.
In a day partly devoted to a fundraising blitz for himself and other Democrats, Obama also offered themes of political unity, telling another group of donors that the nation is "not as divided as the pundits make it seem."
"I don't know how many folks will vote for me this time around," Obama told an afternoon audience of donors at a hotel near the White House. "But I say the same thing to them (as in 2008): I will be your president, too."
"I'm not fighting to create Democrat or Republican jobs," he added. "I'm fighting to create American jobs."
Obama continued to seize on a leaked video in which Romney said that 47 percent of people "will vote for the president no matter what." Romney described them as people who pay no federal income tax and "believe that they are victims."
Obama spoke at the first of three fundraisers after another Friday afternoon of debate prep at Democratic National Committee headquarters. He will face off against Romney in Denver on Wednesday.
The afternoon fundraiser at the Capital Hilton drew an estimated 700 guests with tickets starting at $250.
Tickets for the event at Rockefeller's home cost $20,000 per person.
The final fundraiser, back at the Hilton, drew an estimated 200 people who paid $2,500 or more to attend. The money was set for Obama's campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties.
"If you guys have written all the checks you can," Obama told donors at the final event, "go find some friends."
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Anti-Islam filmmaker arrested | London Glossy Magazine
The man behind the anti-Islamic video that inflamed parts of the Middle East has been arrested for breaking terms of his probation, authorities in California said.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was convicted in 2010 for cheque fraud and sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Under the terms of his probation he was not allowed to use computers or the internet for five years without approval from his probation officer.
Nakoula was arrested after US probation officials determined he broke the terms of his supervised release, said the US Attorney?s spokesman in Los Angeles, Thomas Mrozek.
A US District Court hearing scheduled for Nakoula was closed to the media and the public.
Protests erupted around the Middle East over a crudely-produced 14-minute trailer posted on YouTube for Innocence Of Muslims, which depicts the Prophet Mohammed as a womaniser, religious fraud and child molester.
Although the trailer was posted to YouTube in July, the violence did not break out until September 11 and has spread since, killing dozens.
Nakoula, a Christian originally from Egypt, went into hiding after he was identified as the man behind the trailer.
The full story about Nakoula and the video still is not known.
The movie was made last year by a man who called himself Sam Bacile. After the violence erupted, a man who identified himself as Bacile called media outlets, took credit for the film and said it was meant to portray the truth about Mohammed and Islam, which he called a cancer.
The next day, the Associated Press determined there was no Bacile and linked the identity to Nakoula, a former petrol station owner with a drug conviction and a history of using aliases. Federal authorities later confirmed there was no Bacile and that Nakoula was behind the movie.
Before going into hiding, Nakoula acknowledged to the AP that he was involved with the film, but said he worked only on logistics and management.
A film permit listed Media for Christ, a Los Angeles-area charity run by other Egyptian Christians, as the production company. Most of the film was made at the charity?s headquarters.
Steve Klein, an insurance agent in Hemet and outspoken Muslim critic, has said he was a consultant and promoter for the film.
The trailer still can be found on YouTube. The Obama administration asked Google, YouTube?s parent, to take down the video but the company has refused, saying it did not violate its content standards.
Meanwhile, a number of actors and workers on the film have come forward to say they were tricked.
They say they were hired for a film called Desert Warrior and there was no mention of Islam or Mohammed in the script. Those references were dubbed in after filming was completed.
Actress Cindy Lee Garcia has sued to get the trailer taken down, saying she was duped.?
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