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Peter Tatchell
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View below Peter Tatchell’s archived online chat show, Talking With Tatchell:
14 November 2007
Do fascists have a right to free speech?
14 November 2007 What limits, if any, should there be to freedom of expression? Peter Tatchell interviews Luke Tryl, President of the Oxford Union, and Brendan O’Neill, Editor of Spiked. Weyman Bennett of Unite Against Fascism agreed to participate but he was unable to attend at the last minute. Peter Tatchell writes: Should fascists have free speech? Or ...
14 November 2007
Safe, clean water is a human right
6 November 2007 Over one billion people have no clean, safe drinking water; 5,000 children die every day from water that is dirty and contaminated. Peter Tatchell interviews Nick Edmans of the charity WaterAid. At least 2.2 million people – 1.8 million of them children – are killed each year by water-borne diseases. Every night, 10,000 parents ...
6 November 2007
Indonesia – democracy without justice
31 October 2007 Indonesia has made the transition from dictatorship to democracy, but without justice for millions of victims of President Suharto’s tyranny. Peter Tatchell interviews Indonesian human rights campaigners, Carmel Budiardjo and Adriana Siti Adhiati. President Suharto ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 30 long, dark years, from 1967 to 1998. During this period, millions ...
31 October 2007
Saudi tyrant is not welcome
20 October 2007 Gordon Brown should not be welcoming the Saudi dictator, King Abdullah, to Britain. Peter Tatchell interviews protest organiser Owen Jones of the Socialist Youth Network and Simon Hill of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. The Saudi regime is one of the most corrupt and barbaric in the world. It is guilty of detention ...
20 October 2007
Labour’s subversion of liberty
12 October 2007 The Labour government is mounting one of the biggest ever peacetime assaults on civil liberties and the right to privacy. It is undermining the rights of the individual and strengthening the power of the state; creating a snooping, surveillance society, and eroding the right to protest and the presumption of innocence unless proven ...
12 October 2007
Elect the Lords – extend democracy, end patronage
20 September 2007 The unelected House of Lords is an affront to democracy. Peter Tatchell sets out the case for reform in this interview with Peter Facey of Unlock Democracy and Baroness Scott of Needham Market. Peter Tatchell writes: Britain is a flawed democracy. Our second legislative chamber, the House of Lords, is unelected. Members of the Lords ...
20 September 2007
Iraq oil grab by the West
12 September 2007 A new law giving western companies the right to profit from Iraq’s oil wealth will deprive Iraq of funds vital for reconstruction and development. Peter Tatchell interviews, Iraqi trade unionist, Muayad Ahmad, co-founder of the Federation Of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and Ewa Jasiewicz of Hands off Iraqi Oil and ...
12 September 2007
War is a crime against children
11 September 2007 War is child abuse. Millions of children are being killed, wounded, conscripted, orphaned, jailed and sexually abused in 30 conflict zones. Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Waddington of the charity War Child, which is reaching out to the child victims of war and transforming their lives. According to the United Nations, in the last 10 ...
11 September 2007
Labour versus the unions? – Brendan Barber of the TUC
4 September 2007 Brendan Barber, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, discusses the unions’ strained relations with the Labour government over its anti-union policies, the prospects of a union rebellion and strike action, and arguments in favour of economic democracy and employee empowerment in the workplace, in this edition of Talking With Tatchell. The government has ...
4 September 2007
Britain’s asylum shame
31 August 2007 The UK’s asylum system is rigged to fail as many applicants as possible. It is unjust, chaotic and inhumane. Peter Tatchell interviews Dr Frank Arnold, clinical advisor to the Medical Justice Network; Puck de Raadt, an asylum worker with the Churches’ Commission on Racial Justice; and Maria, a former asylum detainee who fled persecution ...
31 August 2007