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Vicki Beere

@vickibeere.bsky.social

PhD Candidate | Trainer & Facilitator | Trustee & Chair | Drug policy reform | Harm Reduction and Women | Trombonist | Camper Van owner | Swimmer | Scruffy dog rescuer.

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sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · last yr.

I actually have an answer to why it was different. It was different because the Napalm Girl photograph did not actually end the war. A year before the photo was taken, a majority of Americans already believed it had been a mistake to send troops to Vietnam. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

“The Terror of War” is sometimes credited with ending the war through sheer emotional impact, swinging American public opinion toward military withdrawal and eventually bringing about the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973. The photograph was indeed powerful. (US President Richard Nixon can be heard wondering whether the photograph had been doctored in a White House audio recording. In another, he encouraged Henry Kissinger to “think big” and suggested the nuclear bomb.) But in truth, the tide of public opinion had already turned years prior. A year before the photograph was taken, 61 percent of American respondents to a June 1971 Gallup poll answered that it had been a mistake to send US troops to Vietnam; only 28 percent maintained that it had not. Six years earlier, in August 1965, only 24 percent had believed involvement to be a mistake, while 61 percent had not.In On Photography, Susan Sontag mused on whether the American public would have more vociferously opposed the Korean War if had been confronted with the photographic barrage that came with Vietnam. Sontag ultimately dismissed the possibility, concluding instead that the Vietnam War had already been “defined by a significant number of people as a savage colonialist war” and that the photographs — many of which had a military origin and “were taken with quite a different use in mind” — were published by the media in a preexisting social context and narrative. No photo could launch an antiwar movement; rather, the movement captioned the photo.
Zeteo@zeteo.com · last yr.

“Why did one photo of a burned child help end a war, while hundreds of clips showing burned Palestinian children can’t even provoke a ceasefire?” Exec. Director of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA @jehadabusalim.bsky.social on the reaction to images from the Vietnam war vs. Gaza

Vicki Beere@vickibeere.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just finished my second week of fieldwork and it's been BRILLIANT. I've enjoyed working with incredible women who use drugs to co-design and start the research. Lots of great conversations fueled by brews, craft sessions, walking, the odd rant, poems, chicken nuggets and hugs. What a pleasure.

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Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2y ago

Kemi Badenoch, "The child sexual abuse scandal is one of the worst scandals in British history" Nadine Dorries, "I can assure you, the entire time I was in cabinet, this was never discussed"

Transform Drug Policy Foundation@transformdrugs.bsky.social · 2y ago

We congratulate Scottish colleagues on the UKs first official Safer Drug Consumption Facility opening 13 Jan Transform also worked towards this for years with politicians, service providers, police and media, nationally and internationally. From presenting to the Scottish Affairs Committee 2019 1/2

Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

Zoe Gardner@zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're constantly fed a narrative of unlimited numbers of *potential* immigrants. The truth is, by a long way, most people stay put. And if they do move, they move within the borders of their country. And if they do leave, they go next door. And if policy allows it, they tend to go back again, too.

Simon van Teutem@simonvanteutem.bsky.social · 2y ago

Most international migrants don't move very far from their home countries. This chart shows the shortest distance between the borders of origin and destination countries for all international migrants. The top destination is a neighbouring country. (For @ourworldindata.org)

Prof Harry Sumnall@profhrs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Respectful language is important in the stigma reduction field, but it’s not a substitute for meaningful policy and practice change 👇

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The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me… or will they? https://buff.ly/41lPsRZ Laura Hemming looks at our language use around suicide, mental health concerns and alcohol and other drug use. #MentalHealth #Suicide #Alcohol #Drugs #Language #Consensus

Lou Calvey@loucalvey.bsky.social · 2y ago

U.K. suspends asylum decision making for Syrians. Some have been waiting years - now they wait longer, in barracks, on £8.80 a week. The country’s devastated by war, there’s no peaceful, stable government, there’s no reason to suspend claims. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

UK pauses decisions on Syrian asylum claims

Britain paused decisions on Syrian asylum claims on Monday, a government spokesperson said, after rebel forces seized the capital of Damascus over the weekend.

reuters.com