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 So, this needs to be said: two weeks ago something happened that made me proud to be Belgian. THREAD! Here's the story. A friend – I will call her Caroline – got in touch after a silence of several years. We used to work together back in the day, and had become sort-of-friends. We had stayed in touch through a common friend, who, like me, lives in Brussels. Caroline herself, who lived in the US when we worked together, was now back to France. 1/ Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important. It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany).
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 @alberto_cottica wish I could, but our local corrupt rich took us out of the union :/ gonna give it a boost though @alberto_cottica I signed in with the itsme app but at the end I'm redirecting to another site requiring a login but when I accept I go back to the initiative... am I good ? |
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So, Caroline had another former colleague, a man I will call Malik. Malik is Palestinian, and lives in Gaza with his wife and two children, 4 and 3 years old. You can see where this is going. His house was bombed, twice. His immediate family was unharmed, though some of his nephews, that used to play with his children, are gone.
Malik managed to get his family into Egypt via Rafah. Thanks to Caroline's invitation, he obtained a tourist visa for the family to go to the USA.
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#Palestine