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No doubt, media make a difference and sometimes even change people's opinion. We are grateful for these wakeup calls. Ordinary people, politicians and footballers all try to help. F.C.Bayern Munchen donates 9 million to projects aimed at refugees and Bob Geldorf opens several of his flats and houses to the people who have fled to Europe.

Welcome to a new school year which hopefully will bring lots of new opportunities and challenges. I will do my best to guide you along, and I invite you to contribute to discussions and to ask lots of questions. In the first lesson I will take you through the most important parts of my blog and we will discuss where to start in the curriculum.

Migrant Workers

Watch the shocking documentary about the world championship in football in Qatar! Also, listen to interviews with different migrant workers from Nepal.

The End to the American Dream?

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According to msnbc and Amanda Sakuma, president Obama will have to wait another year before his Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also called his executive action on immigration, will be implemented. In February 26 states, with Texas in the lead, brought Obama's plans to court, and by June both the district and appeals court have decided against the Obama administration. Obama is frustrated, but still convinced that his executive action to protect millions of undocumented immigrants will prevail before he is out of office. However, since these programs are an executive action and not a law, the next man or woman living in the White House can erase the action with a stroke of a pen. If the new president is a Democrat s/he will support Obama's plan; if s/he is a Republican on the other hand, there will be no more DAPA or DACA. According to a poll made by msnbc, "63% of all Republican voters view immigrants of all stripes as a burden who generally compete for jobs, housing and health care."Watch Changing America to put your finger on the American people's pulse on the issue.

The Crisis in the Mediterranian

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The Norwegian ship Siem Pilot has now reached the Mediterranian and is ready to rescue refugees. However, according to the Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg, the ship is also going to control Schengen's borders. Thus, the personell on the ship are from the police and the army. So far this year, Italy has taken in more than 50,000 refugees, which is 10% more than at the same time last year. Read more in today's BT.

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More about FIFA

Maybe Vladimir Putin has a point when he asks with what right the FBI investigates the corruption scandal in FIFA? Read this article and make up your mind!

Sports

Some claim that sports has nothing to do with politics. Unfortunately, the world has seen several times that the opposite is true. In 1936 Hitler used the games in Berlin to promote his Nazi politics, in 1972 in Munich 11 Israeli athletes were assasinated, and in 1980 more than 60 countries boykotted the games in Moscow due to the Russian intervention in Afgahnistan. However, there is more, nearly every Olympic game has shown some political aspect; read all about it in the Guardian . 

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Football is maybe the most enjoyed and practised sport in the world today, and thus it is also influential, ie what famous football players say and do is noticed worldwide by the upcoming generation as well as leaders and politicians. Consequently, when the players say they are not preoccupied with what their governing bodies (FIFA) do, they send an important message to the world, ie do what you want as long as we can play football. Corruption ruins democracy and should nowhere be accepted! Read more about the FIFA scandal in today's Guardian or the BBC.