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To say the least I am incredibly concerned and disappointed about the right wing corporation's involvement with British Cycling in the SKY ride event.
How should we as a cycling community trying to create non-discriminatory, open minded sustainable travel/ cycling groups in our city, react? Do we participate? Do we oppose it?
How can we, as a cycling community encourage more women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds to cycling, whilst at the same time helping to support a corporation that unashamedly marginalises and discriminates against these groups?
I'd like other people's reactions to this as I can't quite believe it...
for some info on SKY see...
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=360
**'The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be
$20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country.' -
Rupert Murdoch on the benefits for a war on Iraq - Sydney Daily Telegraph
**In the build up to the war on Iraq, no editor of a Murdoch-owned paper
was allowed to oppose it. That's 175 editors worldwide and 40 million
papers a week.
**In 2000, The Sun, Mail and other quality papers chose the Christmas
season to campaign against refugees. They targeted a small group of
frightened women and children accommodated in a disused Dartford hospital
and then a Gravesend hotel. The 'Sun' called them 'scroungers',
headlining: ‘Refugees move from hospital… to £65-a-night luxury hotel’.
And....
YouTube - OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism -- Trailer
OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism