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Fight for your future!
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This is a campaign that I’m involved in, and am hoping to promote around MidKent College.
On Saturday, over 1,000 of us marched through London on a demonstration. A demonstration of the anger felt by the youth in this economic crisis. This was a great turnout that got us a lot of attention that will only make us grow, and it will make the government listen to the demands of the people they leave behind.
Fight for your rights!
Over 1/3 of the unemployed people in Britain are youths, so we are campaigning for decent jobs and free education for all young people. The government threw billions of £’s at the bankers, even though they created this mess–where’s our bail-out package? Why are we left without meaningful jobs? Why are the youth paying for the crisis that they did not create?
I’ll leave a link to the campaign’s website at the bottom for anyone who’d like more info. Get involved and fight for your future. I am looking to set up a group at the college and anyone will be welcome to come along and get involved.
http://www.youthfightforjobs.com/
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8384224.stm (BBC article on the march)
2009′s Movie Blunders.
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The big screen has seen its fair share of bad films in 2009. Cringe-worthy teen-flicks such as the Hannah Montana movie have unfortunately made their way into the cinema. Twilight: New Moon has been so over-hyped by teenage girls far-and-wide that it became a laughing stock—try telling any teenage girl this and you’ll be bombarded with statements such as “OMG UR JUST JEALOUS BECOZ THE GUY IN THE FILM IS LIKE SO FIT!!1 BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!!!11”. How about the countless, generic rom-coms in the form of “Bride Wars” and “He’s Just Not That Into You” (I don’t even need to see this film to make a judgement, just look at that title!)—if you’ve seen one of these films, you’ve seen them all.
Other dishonourable mentions go to; Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Confessions of a Shopaholic (somebody pass me a bucket), 17 Again, Dance Flick and many more. Why do these terrible films keep getting commissioned? Because we keep paying to see them. We have let the bar for cinema be lowered by huge proportions. As long as we keep forking out to go and see generic rom-coms and terribly tedious action thrillers, that are exactly the same as their predecessors, then bad films will continue to hit our screens. I call upon everyone to boycott bad movies. Do not pay to see films like Paul Blart: Mall Cop, or the sub-par Twilight Saga adaptations. Lets stop the triumph of mediocrity, and learn to appreciate good movies!
All that aside, 2009 hasn’t been a completely terrible year for cinema. Gems like District 9, a great social commentary on Apartheid and human prejudice in general, and Let The Right One In (UK release), which is a beautifully weird movie, have salvaged the credibility of the “silver-screen”. When cinema is good, its really good, but mainstream cinema continues to go further down hill as the years pass.
Wilkommen, welcome etc.
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I was going to translate welcome into many languages, but you get the drift.
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