Second best is simply not good enough! I am sick and tired of abuse survivors ( and actually other disenfranchised people) being exploited , patronised and expected to be grateful! It is EVERYWHERE! it is in the “enquiries” and “commissions”, these ridiculous bodies who know bugger all about the issues…
Author: Sue Cox
Our submission to the UN regarding their examination of the UK next year
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD SUBMISSION BY NGO SURVIVORS VOICE EUROPE ON THE POSITION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND Survivors voice Europe is an International self funded organisation made up of, and supporting survivors of catholic clergy abuse The…
The Circus is in Town!
Well the vatican circus trundles on, I am told that they are already selling pope dolls in New York (made in China of course!) ready for his expected roadshow in September.(Perhaps we should buy some pins)? If anyone in that city wants any ideas about real antidotes to that particular medicine show, let us remember…
Forget me Nots!!
Wherever I go, in my “day job” I take with me Survivors Voice flyers. They just are very simple, telling people how to get to the website to get help if they have been abused by priests. I travel all over the country, I teach from one end of it…
Watch Zenek’s film here!
https://youtu.be/_rqjmMjql-4
POLAND!
I am just back from my trip to Poland after speaking at the Atheist conference in Warsaw. I am still having to pinch myself that we actually spoke in the Polish parliament building right in the middle of fiercely catholic Poland! It hadn’t been easy! The organisers headed by the…
On the doorstep!
Just back from Italy after giving a lecture to a college at Suzzara, a small town near Mantua. The students were all sixteen to nineteen years old and of course were quite charming. The teachers too were so welcoming and friendly, they said they were really happy that I had…
Unholy Alien!
My forthcoming book is titled “Unholy Alien” !!! (to be fair it has been “forthcoming” for a couple of years now! I don’t know about any of you, but when I was taught Physics at school it was taught so badly and was appalling! I didn’t learn very much science despite…
Very Reluctant Martyr!
“ Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”~ Winston Churchill Listening to the atrocities in Paris, and in fact all over the world where terror is being meted out by those who seem to think they can kill anyone who disagrees with their ideas. I am shocked…
SCREAM!
I have just been talking to someone who was aware of a colleague (counsellor) who castigated a fourteen year old client for not agreeing to press legal charges against her abuser. The “counsellor” resorted to what can only be labelled emotional blackmail, by saying “What about all the other girl’s?…
