Tag: Serviceplan Hamburg

#NotComingHome: Newtown Action Alliance teams up with Serviceplan Hamburg to raise awareness about gun violence in the U.S.A.

Stuart Mitchell

On “National Gun Violence Awareness Day” in the USA, Serviceplan Hamburg is raising awareness about gun violence in a highly emotional film for the US anti-gun organization Newtown Action Alliance. The film premiered on CNN with the initiative also receiving prominent support from high profile anti-gun violence activists including; Fred Guttenberg; Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; and actress and Newton Action Alliance advisory board member Alyssa Milano.   Since 1968, more Americans have died from gun violence in their home country than in all U.S.…

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Sea-Watch Stages Powerful Campaign for Sea Rescue: “LIFEBOAT – The Experiment” gives a realistic insight into the fears of Mediterranean Refugees

Stuart Mitchell

At least 6 people still die every day fleeing across the Mediterranean. In 2018 alone, at least 2,277 people attempting to cross the sea were unable to reach dry land. As the work of civil sea rescue organisations is hampered, the proportion of deaths and missing persons in the Mediterranean has quadrupled since 2015. It is also alarming that 85 percent of Germans are not even aware of the extent of this crisis, according to a YouGov survey* commissioned by Sea-Watch Michael Schwickart of Sea-Watch explains: “When we started civil…

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