The way they are treating the Iraqis is disgusting I want it to be the focus of my life."He also conceded: "Giving money like this is a pretty tax-efficient way of doing things They don't leave you with very much when you are demised. in the late 19th century going back to the days of Rorke's Drift and Isandhlwana."Speaking to The Independent on Sunday, Mr Gordon, who steps down from his chairmanship of Liberty next year, said he was coming to the end of his business career: "I'm hoping that I can now switch the focus I've put on business into opera. On both occasions, the benefactor was the late Sir John Paul Getty II, who in 1985 gave the National Gallery an unprecedented £50m endowment - a sum he matched in a donation to the British Film Institute.Mr Gordon, a traditional, no-nonsense businessman known for his informal style and hatred of corporate red tape, explained the reasons for his gift in a lengthy, often eccentric statement issued through the opera house.Expressing his desire to forge closer ties between his native and adopted countries, he said: "I hope to recapture the great historic relationship between England, Wales and South Africa ... She will go with her son Jack, nine months, to protest against President Bush's policies on abortion."I'm protesting against his disgusting and cynical cuts to abortion rights. A woman more than 12 weeks pregnant could be denied an abortion. Although it's been a right for nearly four decades it is undermined. Even in the UK women still don't have an absolute legal right. Bush is just chipping away at a woman's right to choose."I want to bring up my son to respect women's bodies. I'd like to tell him later that he made a stand against this man."Bush has no regard for democracy and seems to live in a bubble. I hope he realises when he's here how much his policies are despised.". A multi-millionaire South African retail magnate has given £20m jointly to the Royal Opera House and Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre in one of the largest ever cash donations to the arts in Britain.
I don't want American soldiers from ghettos who only joined to get a decent education to die."If Britain and America are serious about rebuilding Iraq they should pay reparations. The more pressure we put on them the more they are going to think twice about going to other countries, and we are showing people in the Middle East it is not the West against the Middle East."The young motherJo Lazzarie, 23, from Kent, is not demonstrating against the war. He has protested against racism and the BNP, for pensioners' rights, and has attended anti-capitalist marches."I'm a trade unionist and an activist I've been against the war from the outset I think it's about oil and US aggression There's a growing anti-war feeling in America. There are levels of poverty and hardship not seen since the 1930s I'm not anti-American; I'm anti-Bush and anti-war. It's disgusting that so many Americans are living in poverty, but they are spending billions on the war."The way they are treating the Iraqis is disgusting. |
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