Month: April 2019

How to get reflective fabric?

Marianne Atlegård wants an answer to a question that can make more people appear better in traffic:

I lack reflective fabric to be able to decorate clothes. Can’t find something like that, maybe something for NTF?

Elisabeth Westman: There are reflectors on fabric, reflective bands in various widths, reflective tape, variants to iron on, reflective spray and ordinary reflective bands to sew on clothes in some sewing shops, craft detail shops, hobby shops and online. There are also reflective yarns for handwork if you want reflections on for example mittens and caps!

Snickers Workwear launches brand new collection of protective clothing

Snickers Workwear is now launching its first collection of certified protective safety clothing. Thus, the company is a more complete supplier of work and protective clothing to the professional categories that have very high demands on the final product.

 

Snickers Work wear’s complete range of protective clothing is already very wide at the launch – the clothes are adapted for rain, sun, heat and cold, winter and summer. The garments in the collection are certified for different applications where the focus has been placed on heat/flame, arc, anti-static and visibility. The number of reported electric accidents increased last year, especially in mines and industry, which shows figures from the Electrical Safety Agency, which means that the investment is right in time.

 

“Clothes should work under all kinds of weather conditions and for exposed occupational categories within eg. energy and rail, it is of utmost importance to dress right inside and out. The importance of using the right protective clothing is self-evident and can, in the event of accidents, reduce or eliminate burns and even deaths,” says Per, operational manager of the business unit protective clothing.

 

Snickers Workwear has been working hard since the acquisition of Punjab, a leading manufacturer of protective clothing with a long service life and solid quality, a year ago. An intensive work now means that Snickers Workwear can launch 65 brand new models of protective clothing based on the best of Puvab’s 30-years experience combined with Snickers Work wear’s innovative design.

 

“With the knowledge and experience, Snickers Workwear is now a complete brand. The first collection is very well thought out and modern, designed to suit the most important risk environments and to ensure a high protection value in exposed work situations. We now take a big step with our protective clothing on ergonomics and fit, the combination of the design and our reputable focus on high protection values is unique,” says Per.

 

Facts about Snickers Work wear’s protective clothing:

 

Kevlar reinforcements on exposed parts, especially on legs and pockets;

Uniform pockets for right and left hand – fit both;

Jackets with increased protection value in the most damaged areas;

Consistently very high protection values in all product areas;

Washable in 60 degrees and tumble dryer, garments and reflective tapes have continued high visibility and the same levels of protection after washing and drying;

100% inherent flame retardant reflective tape built into the fiber and remains throughout the life of the garment.

Here hundreds of Nazis march in Borlänge

Many of those involved in the Nordic Resistance Movement, NMR, is dressed in black pants and white shirts.

You see that many of them have a safety vest under their shirts. Some have rattlesnakes, reports Sweden’s radio reporter Jenny Roosqvist.

But there are also more who join the train – a first estimate is that it is about 200 people in total.

Swedish Radio has tried to interview participants, but NMR does not want their supporters to talk to journalists.

It was still a girl who said she was here to demonstrate against what she sees as treason, but then she was stopped when she was talking to me, they should not be interviewed by anyone other than their own media, reports Jenny Roosqvist, a reporter in place.

The plan is for the Nazis to head towards the Maser Hall and then down to central Borlänge.

And there are many who are watching the Nazi demonstration trains.

“It doesn’t look good,” says a person we met.

Mats Karlsson is another of those who are watching and watching.

“I do not understand how they can set up and go there and shout. I think it’s wrong,” he says.

Unpleasant and incomprehensible.

Desiré Andersson on our Facebook page.

Andreas was also a person who was watching the Nazi trains, and he says this about it:

“They are abominable, they are not welcome here!”

It was worrying and fateful. As if Isis had taken a seat on our street.

A counter-demonstration train met up with the Nazis and the police had to make a quick intervention.

P4 Dalarna talked to the police press spokesman, Stefan Dangardt, about 13:40, and he says that they have rejected some people dressed as clowns who were heading for a place where the police thought they could disrupt the order. But the police have not detained anyone and say that the situation so far follows the planning.

“It’s the green mode,” says Stefan Dangardt.

Police violence against yellow vests stains the image of Macron

After the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, the UN now denounces the “excessive use of force”. More than 2,100 protesters were injured in recent months.

Stigma in the image of Emmanuel Macron in the world. International condemnations have multiplied in recent weeks due to the repression of the French police against the yellow vests. After the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, this week it was the turn of the UN. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, asked on Wednesday the French authorities to initiate a “thorough investigation” on police abuses. Although the violent incidents committed by the yellow vests who wear reflective vests filled the front pages of the press in December, another reality seems to have become a norm in France: police violence against protesters, in most cases peaceful.

The Chilean president criticized, in fact, the “excessive use of force” against the members of this singular movement of indignation. During his speech at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Bachelet referred to the situation in France at the same time he denounced the repression against demonstrators in Sudan, Zimbabwe or Haiti. A comparison that surely was to the liking of the young French president. In fact, the spokesman reacted a few hours later, being surprised by the fact of seeing France “mentioned in the same list as Venezuela and Haiti”.

However, almost four months after the start of the protests, the balance speaks for itself: 2,100 protesters and 1,400 agents of the security forces have been injured, according to the Ministry of the Interior. According to an exhaustive compilation made by the journalist David Dufresne, and published in the digital newspaper Mediapart, there have been more than 500 cases of obvious police abuses. Among them, there are 22 protesters who have lost an eye, five who have been left without a hand, 210 who suffered head injuries …

Demonstration of the strength of the French government

“Before an extraordinary social movement, the government decided to make a show of force,” he said in a statement to Público Dufresne, an expert on police violence and author of the book. “Since May 1968, we have not seen similar levels of police violence,” explains Jeremie Gauthier, professor of sociology at the University of Strasbourg and an expert on policy issues, especially the systematic use of tear gas and bullets. gum and habitual of the GLI F4 dispersion grenades, basically composed of TNT (dynamite) and considered a “weapon of war”, according to the French internal security code.

In addition, “two-thirds of the police deployed to contain the manifestations of the yellow vests were not trained in the maintenance of order,” laments Dufresne. In the tensest weeks of December, nearly 90,000 agents were deployed. What contributed to the presence of police bodies little used in this type of tasks. Since then, “Macron has maintained a martial discourse that does not encourage riot police to remain calm,” explains the journalist.

In addition to the physical injuries, some of them irreparable, the protesters “also receive insults, force them to take off their yellow vests, prevent them from taking photographs or being attacked by street medics (volunteers who take care of wounded protesters),” adds Dufresne. Recently, boosted social networks in France the case of a marriage of elderly people in Toulouse who were beaten and plated to the ground during a protest, although not even involved in the demonstration. Or that of a deputy of France Insumisa (populists of the left), Loïc Prudhomme, who was beaten with a club during the protests on 2 March in Bordeaux.

According to Dufresne, the abuses of the security forces against the yellow vests reflect the crystallization of a “change of doctrine” in the maintenance of order in France: “After the Second World War, one of the principles of the security forces did not go to the contact of the masses. But this changed in the mid-2000s, when Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior, asked the anti-riot corps to dedicate themselves to guarantee security in the banlieues. ” These practices, common since then in the popular neighborhoods with high percentages of the population of foreign origin, “are now reproduced at the national level”, with riot officers who often go to the contact of the demonstrators.

Yellow vests hoist flag in France

The flag of Venezuela was raised in France during the 20th Saturday (March 30) of protest of the yellow vests, against the economic policies of the French president, Emmanuel Macron.

The minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, published this information in his account of the social network Twitter, in which he highlighted the solidarity issued in Paris by this movement “with the heroic resistance of the Venezuelan people to the aggression and the imperialist terror of the United States “.

France has been experiencing a wave of protests from the so-called yellow vests since mid-November 2018.

The protesters, who wear fluorescent reflective vests, protest at first for the rise in fuel prices and related taxes, but then their claims were extended to other social and political demands.

Their multiple demands range from an improvement in purchasing power to greater social and fiscal justice, through a more horizontal democracy or the demand for citizen referendums, refer to international media.

In this day of mobilization held on Saturday, March 30, the government of Emmanuel Macron increased security in places where there are often frequent disturbances between protesters and the police, closing the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe; In addition, surveillance drones were included and, once again, military personnel was used.

In addition, legal sanctions against participants who were arrested during the day were deepened, and police officers were granted greater freedom to suppress demonstrations.

At the beginning of school year: rules for the safety of your child

As the parents are the adults most responsible for the safety of children, the Sibiu policemen recommend them at the beginning of the school year to take into account the following tips:

 

Set the child a safe and secure way to school, from which he will not turn away;

 

Teach him the basic rules for road traffic: to run only on the sidewalk, and in his absence to circulate on the left side of the road; to cross the green light of the traffic light only, and in the absence of traffic light, ensure the right-left-right before crossing the pedestrian crossing; to know the meaning of light signals and road signs;

 

Explain that on their way to school, they do not have to run or descend from the pavement on the road;

 

Make it visible in traffic. Assemble reflective materials on the child’s trolley and reflective fabrics sewn on clothes;

 

When transporting children to the car, use them with the seat belt. carry it too, the power of the example is the easiest and most effective education;

 

Warn them not to respond to suggestions from strangers who offer them transportation by car or various products;

 

When riding a bicycle, wear it with protective helmets and reflective tapes; remind him to cross the road beside the bicycle on the pedestrian crossing;

 

Encourage him/her to seek help from police officers in the street when he/she does not feel safe! Cops are friends of the children!