Contact Lenses

Contact Lenses found the perfect home in Reflex Fiction (the name says it all). They publish stories between 180 and 360 words - the perfect place for a story about the lenses we see through,

 'Write what you know' people say. For this story I knew something about...

• Wearing contact lenses and glasses
• Shifts in perspective both psychological and physical
• The cost of things when you're skint
• Feeling powerless
• Getting ready to go on demonstrations to protest & marching on the streets
  

I don't know everything about these subjects and that's where this story began - with something I didn't know about something I did.  

I wrote it in May 2020 when I was ill, when much of the time all I could do was empathize with and support from afar the protests in the US.

Amnesty International  Front Page

52x52: Write for Human Rights

52 random acts of kindness that each take under 52 seconds. One action each week, over a year takes less than an hour of your life.

Amnesty International have created a template letter that can be cut and pasted into an email to your local MP asking them to support the campaign to keep the Human Rights bill and not replace it with a watered down British version.

• Or sign the Save Human Rights Act Petition  (takes 15 seconds) 

• Here's a Quick Guide to the Human Rights Act

             nti-Austerity March London June 21st 2015

 

Do Something

 

My reaction to the Conservatives getting into power was to rejoin my union Unison (after a lapse during a change of employment). I thought the unions could do with every bit of support they could get and I knew there were many people out there who didn't have the same security in their jobs that I have and would need that support too.

Other direct debits that come out every month are for the NSPCC and Amnesty International. I give Kiva loans,  am a blood donor and buy The Big Issue. I have volunteered doing a variety of projects, from working with under 5s and their parents promoting literacy to working at a homeless shelter to planting trees in the local park.

I buy Fairtrade, recycle and read.

And however much or little I do, there will be people who do more and people who do less. But at least we try to do something.

On Saturday, the 18th of October, I will be on the Britain Needs a Payrise march and rally .

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Edmund Burke/disputed