Tom Boyd, 27, volunteered at Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme for more than four years(Frances Boyd)

UK: Waitrose & Tom Boyd – A Working Example of Disability, Discrimination & the “Invalidation of the Worker”! (23.10.2025)

In a post on Facebook, she wrote: “Our hearts are broken and we need to share this..

“Our autistic son has been treated so unfairly, and we feel deeply let down.

“For over four years, he’s been doing work experience at Waitrose and Partners store in Cheadle Hulme.

“Every week, for two full mornings, he worked so hard – emptying four or more cages of stock, stacking shelves, and helping wherever he could.

“He loved it there. The shop staff were absolutely amazing with him and made him feel part of the team.

“Many of them would say things like, “You work harder than some people who are paid to work here.

“He gave over 600 hours of his time – purely because he wanted to belong, contribute, and make a difference.

“When we asked if there was any chance he could be offered just a few paid hours – not as charity, but as recognition for all the time, effort, and heart he’s given – we were shocked by how dismissive and cold the response was.

“The manager said, “We can’t just let him do his thing,” when that’s exactly what he’s been doing successfully for years.”

She continued: “After everything he’s done, there was no apology, no thanks, and no recognition for his commitment. Just silence.

Ghana: President Urges UN to Consider Reparations for Slave Trade! (22.9.2023)

“Reparations must be paid for the slave trade,” Akufo-Addo said to an eruption of applause.

“No amount of money will ever make up for the horrors, but it would make the point that evil was perpetrated, that millions of productive Africans were snatched from the embrace of our continent, and put to work in the Americas and the Caribbean without compensation for their labor,” he said.

He also called for the illicit flow of funds from Africa to be returned to the continent.

While the current picture on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals “is not very bright,” Akufo-Addo expressed the hope that “it is within our capacity to turn things around.”

A good start would be to make the needed changes to the structures of the United Nations, “then we can rebuild trust and reignite global solidarity,” he said.

A Quick Note To Margaret Cho… (21.8.2021)

I heard that Margaret Cho once played a ‘North Korean General’ – and then made a comment in one of her ‘Live Shows’ that at least she will not be thrown into a ‘Labour Camp’ for expressing her own opinion! Although Margaret Cho expressing an opinion that might be described as ‘left’ of centre – she lives in a vicious (predatory) system that allows people to be homeless in a society surrounded by ample housing, people to die of starvation whilst surrounded by ample food and people to die of medical neglect whilst surrounded by ample medical supplies and facilities. North Korea does not possess ‘Labour Camps’ – they use ‘judicial prisons’ just like virtually every other modern country. However, the United States use their prison system as a ‘free labour’ resource. This is to say that it is the ‘United States of America’ (USA) that imprisons a large percentage of its African-American population (i.e., ‘Black’ people) and uses their ‘free labour’ in a compulsory manner to manufacture virtually ALL military helmets, ammunition belts, identity (dog) tags, bullet proof vests and other military equipment, (which is then used via military action against the non-White populations of the world), as well as producing 93% of domestically produced paints, 36% of home appliances and 21% of office furniture, etc. This use of its predominantly ‘Black’ population being held within the US prison system, allows North America to compete with Mexican factories, and allows the same Black population to used in a system of modern slavery! It is the United States that does this to a significant percentage of its own population – and not North Korea! When Lincoln first freed the slaves, this legislation only freed those living within Confederate territory – and not those slaves still held within Union territory.