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offsite link Danny Dyer Insists ?Elitist? Critics Would Never Mock His Accent if He Was Black Sun May 11, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Danny Dyer has slammed class snobbery in showbiz, claiming critics mock his Cockney roots in ways they'd never dare if he were black.
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In a desperate bid to meet the UK's green energy targets by 2030, Ed Miliband is plotting to scrap subsidy caps and flood the country with wind turbines, risking soaring energy bills for households.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 18: The Unthinkable Sun May 11, 2025 09:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter 18 of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: Theo is told he can leave re-education camp. But is it too good to be true?
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A new analysis has uncovered a sharp fall in support for gender equality among American teenage boys?and it isn't driven by social media. Could this be the backlash to the demonisation of men an masculinity?
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Archbishop, Evangelical Leader and Head of Catholic Charities Call for Puerto Rico Pension Protection and Debt and Disaster Relief

category international | racism & migration related issues | press release author Friday June 14, 2019 23:35author by Kate Zeller - Jubilee USA Network Report this post to the editors

San Juan, Puerto Rico - Archbishop Roberto González, the Secretary General of the Puerto Rico Bible Society Reverend Heriberto Martínez and the island's Catholic Charities head, Reverend Enrique Camacho released a statement calling for support of pension agreements and debt and disaster relief for the island on Friday.

San Juan, Puerto Rico - Archbishop Roberto González, the Secretary General of the Puerto Rico Bible Society Reverend Heriberto Martínez and the island's Catholic Charities head, Reverend Enrique Camacho released a statement calling for support of pension agreements and debt and disaster relief for the island on Friday.

“This week as the oversight board met and workers voted on new pension proposals, we appreciate that the oversight board kept the promise to protect the pensions. We stand with labor leaders in urging the passage of pension plans that protect the vulnerable and protect the pensions of most of our people," stated González, Martínez and Camacho in a statement released at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista.

The press conference held at one of the oldest Cathedrals in the Hemisphere, responded to new disaster relief authorized by President Trump, proposed pension agreements, meetings this week of Puerto Rico's oversight board and the court bankruptcy process. The head of the religious development group Jubilee USA, Eric LeCompte, joined the San Juan press conference along with Catholic, United Church of Christ, Lutheran and Disciple religious leaders from the United States.

"For the first time in any debt restructuring for a US city, territory or country, we are seeing pensions being protected," noted Jubilee USA Director and United Nations debt expert, Eric LeCompte. "While we are extremely pleased by the pension proposals, we also must see Puerto Rico's debt cut by at least 80 percent."

Puerto Rico is mired in a $72 billion debt crisis and struggling to recover from 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The major Puerto Rico religious leaders assert their ability to resolve disaster and debt crises are hampered by their relationship with the United States.

“Our ability for resiliency, recovery and resolving our own challenges is tied to our political and colonial status. We call on our people and our officials to begin a new and creative dialogue to resolve our political status," asserted González, Martínez and Camacho in their statement.

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