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What is the correlation between this and medicine however, you may be asking? The answer is that climate change cannot be separated from its public health implications. People are already suffering from its effects and the future impact has been predicted to include changing food production worldwide and associated malnutrition; an increase in tropical diseases and waterborne illnesses and a generally increased worldwide burden of illness. We in the UK will also be unable to escape the effects and it will be our generation of medical students that will have to treat those affected.

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After the success of last week's initial foray onto the streets of Rusholme, when we fed vegetable stew, rice, couscous salad, mixed salad, fried plantain and banana, pear and cinnamon pudding to around 100 hungry mouths from our stall on Wilmslow Road, Food Not Bombs is back with more events around Manchester over the coming week.

Fri 12th, 1pm, Dallas Court Reporting Centre
Today we'll be serving hot soup (Spicy tomato, carrot and sweetcorn... mmm) and bread to asylum seekers standing outside the centre. Dallas Court is where asylum seekers from across Manchester are made to go to report and has been the site of many kidnappings, when people have gone in to report only to be taken away to detention centres and to be deported. Visits are a massively traumatic experience for many, we will be there to show support.

Sunday 14th - 4-7pm - Corner of Platt Lane and Wilmslow Road, Rusholme.
The big serving - a veritable banquet of freshly prepared hot vegan food for anyone whos passing. Information about our activities, local campaigns, veganism and more.

Monday 15-Friday 19. 1pm, Dallas Court Reporting Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford.
Every day next week we'll be taking food to the queues outside the centre, what we serve will vary from day to day depending on donations but the message of support stays the same.

Tuesday 16th - FUNDRAISING PEOPLES KITCHEN. 7pm, Grants Arms, Hulme.
A fundraiser to support our activities. Full meal on a donation basis. Noone will be denied food for lack of funds, but please give generously folks!

Wednesday 17th
2pm, Albert Square, Central Manchester - Providing food outside the Asylum Support and Destitution Public Hearing.
6pm - Outside the Asylum Support and Destitution Roadshow, Waterside Theatre, Whitworth Street, Central Manchester.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS AND FOOD DONATIONS!

If you would like to help, by preparing, serving or donating food (or of course cold hard cash...) please contact us on foodnotbombsmanchester@hotmail.co.uk or call/text 07982 121423.

This is a community organisation, we want as many people to get involved as possible. Everyone welcome!

(For more info, photos of events, latest news, search out our profiles on Facebook and Myspace... we're proper down wit' youth, like.)

I am an asylum seeker who has experienced arbitrary detention in the UK for immigration purposes. I am also a national of a former British colony, where internment and detention were used to control the freedom movement of whole communities. I have strong criticisms of the use of internment and detention of a particular group of people as a form of control or punishment without any regard for justice. Currently in the EU countries there are approximately 174 purpose-built detention centres. The camps are now being extended to North African countries, and plans are underway to put together a ‘rapidly deployable force of border guards which would assist countries facing an immigration emergency’.

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Inaccurate media stories often have direct consequences on how the public perceives the immigrant. Sections of the media from across the political spectrum have misrepresented asylum seekers as a homogeneous group of ‘scroungers’, a drain on state resources, a threat to British identity and even a danger to health and security. Politicians led by the tabloid agenda have taken the baton in formulating and implementing Government policy on asylum and immigration. Just recently, John Reid, the Home Secretary, told the BBC, ‘It is unfair that foreigners come to this country illegitimately and steal our benefits, steal our services like the NHS and undermine the minimum wage by working […] year on year, we are going to make it even more difficult for them to do that’ […] we are now throwing out more asylum seekers - failed asylum seekers - than ever before’.

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• My brother has bought a backpack with a solar panel on it for charging whatever is in the bag (my only concern is it won't work very well and turn him off any sort of purchase like this in the future).
• I unwittingly found out I can record DVDs to Video.
• I'm rushed off my feet this week.
• Why is it that no matter what they're eating, and my still low interest in the wonders of food, whenever someone eats on film the noises they make with their forks on the plate makes it sound appealing?
• My MSN has been broken for weeks. I can't figure it out.
• I unwittingly (again) wrote my setlists on Thursday down on the back of a poster for a showing of Loose Change, a September 11th conspiracy documentary doing the rounds (that link discredits it):