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Handbook of Coaching Psychology
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"Being intimately involved in the emergence and the development of the Coaching Psychology profession in Ireland, and also in the development and teaching of the First Masters in Coaching Psychology to be delivered in an Irish University (University College Cork), the first edition of the Handbook of Coaching Psychology was ground-breaking and a necessary roadmap for teacher, scientist and practitioner. This second and more comprehensive edition is timely and will inform the ongoing and necessary conversation around the further development, teaching and practice of the subject area. I welcome that." - Hugh O'Donovan CPsychol., P.s.S.I, Coaching Psychologist and Author of Mindful Walking
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"The first edition of the Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners provided a momentous and valuable resource for researchers, lecturers and practitioners. As the discipline has been growing expansively since 2008 we welcome this second edition with readiness and excitement. The increase in overall chapters plus the expansion of the approaches part into six sections highlights the range of potential ways that coaching psychologists can offer innovative and evidence-based methods in their coaching practices. We are seeing a focus on new areas for coaching such as neuroscience as well as separate chapters for ontological and somatic coaching. As a positive psychology coach I welcome additional chapters on mindfulness in coaching and compassion-focussed coaching. It is indeed the significant second edition we have been waiting for." - Dr Ceri Sims. CPsychol. Programme leader for Leadership and Coaching courses and senior course lecturer on MSc Applied Positive Psychology, Buckinghamshire New University, UK; Director, Positive Minds Alliance ltd
"This is a unique publication both in terms of depth and breadth. Whether you are new to the field, or an experienced practitioner, this second edition of the Handbook of Coaching Psychology gives you thorough guidance for an evidence-based practice, and inspiring examples to take your practice as a coach and coaching psychologist to the next level. Definitely a must-read to anyone interested in a field that only grows in both academia and industry, and that can do so much to ensure the continual development of individuals and teams in our contemporary society." - Dr Gisele Dias PhD CPsychol; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
"The new edition is by far the most comprehensive and authoritative book on coaching psychology currently available. With 43 chapters written by prominent and respected experts in the field, the book provides rich insights and reports on new developments on different perspectives, approaches and applications in the field of coaching psychology. The book is indeed inspirational and an essential resource for both academic and coaching practitioners." - Aletta Odendaal, Professor in Industrial Psychology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Past-President, Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa, and Founding Member, Interest Group of Coaching and Consulting Psychology
"The Handbook of Coaching Psychology is an essential guide to the theory and practice of coaching, across settings. Its strength lies in the wide range of contemporary approaches described and their application to a number of contexts. The book is underpinned by evidence-based practice and research, thereby emphasising the psychology of coaching practice. This excellent book, edited by Stephen Palmer and Alison Whybrow, has contributions from leading practitioners and should be essential reading for coaching trainees and practitioners alike." - Professor Robert Bor, Consultant Clinical & Aviation Psychologist, Dynamic Change Consultants Ltd, London, UK
Notes on the editors and contributors
Foreword by Cary L. Cooper
International Society for Coaching Psychology
PART 1: Perspectives and research in coaching psychology
Past, present and future
Alison Whybrow and Stephen Palmer
Patricia Riddell
Self-efficacy within coaching and coaching psychology: an integrated Self-efficacy Coaching Model
Diana Aguiar Vieira and Stephen Palmer
Goals and Coaching: an integrated evidence-based model of goal-focused coaching and coaching psychology
From positive psychology to the development of positive psychology coaching
Sheila Panchal, Stephen Palmer and Suzy Green
Research and the practitioner: getting a perspective on evidence as a coaching psychologist
Annette Fillery-Travis and Sarah Corrie
Understanding evidence-based coaching through the analysis of coaching psychology research methodology
Yi-Ling Lai and Stephen Palmer
PART 2: Coaching psychology approaches
Section 1: Behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches
Behavioural coaching
Jonathan Passmore
Cognitive behavioural coaching: An integrative approach
Stephen Palmer and Kasia Szymanskia
Section 2: Humanistic approaches
Person-centred coaching psychology
Stephen Joseph and Richard Bryant-Jefferies
Motivational interviewing: a specific approach for coaching psychologists
Jonathan Passmore and Alison Whybrow
Pluralistic coaching
Zsófia Anna Utry, Stephen Palmer, John McLeod and Mick Cooper
Section 3: Existential approaches
An existential approach to coaching psychology
Ernesto Spinelli and Caroline Horner
Gestalt coaching
Julie Allan and Alison Whybrow
Mindfulness in coaching: a self-determination theory perspective
Gordon B. Spence
Compassion focused coaching
Chis Irons, Stephen Palmer and Liz Hall
Section 4: Being focused approaches
Ontological coaching
Aboodi Shabi and Alison Whybrow
Somatic coaching
Eunice Aquilina & Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Section 5: Constructive approaches
Coaching with personal construct psychology
Kieran Duignan
Narrative coaching for all (adults, children, groups and communities)
Ho Law
Solution-focused coaching
Bill O'Connell and Stephen Palmer
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and coaching
Bruce Grimley
Section 6: Systemic approaches
Transactional Analysis approaches to coaching
Sandra Wilson
Systemic constellations approach to coaching and coaching psychology practice
Jake Farr and Matt Shepheard
Psychodynamic and systems-psychodynamics coaching
Vega Zagier Roberts and Halina Brunning
PART 3: Application, context and sustainability
Section 1: Individual transitions in life and work
Personal and Life-coaching psychology
Ole Michael Spatan
Developmental coaching across life transitions
Sheila Panchal, Siobhain O'Riordan and Stephen Palmer
Adult learning approaches as an approach to coaching
David Lane, Marc Kahn and Lloyd Chapman
Peter Fennah
Stress, resilience, health and wellbeing coaching
Helen Williams, Stephen Palmer and Kristina Gyllensten
Section 2: Coaching, complexity and system level interventions
Coaching at the edge of chaos: a complexity informed approach to coaching psychology
Lesley Kuhn and Alison Whybrow
Developing coaching within organisations: moving towards a coaching culture
Alison Whybrow and Ed Nottingham
Leadership and executive coaching
Vicky Ellam-Dyson, Dasha Grajfoner, Alison Whybrow and Stephen Palmer
Sandy Gordon and Doug MacKie
PART 4: The profession and ethical practice of coaching psychology
The coaching relationship: a key role in coaching processes and outcomes
Alanna O'Broin and Stephen Palmer
Revisiting the issues of boundaries between coaching and counselling
Tatiana Bachkirova and Sarah Baker
Coaching and diversity
Helen Baron and Hannah Azizollah
Using psychometrics in coaching
Alan Bourne and Alison Whybrow
The role of technology in coaching
Alex Pascal; Brodie Riordan and Maggie Sass
Coachee mental health: practice implications for coaching psychologists
Kasia Szymanska
A cognitive-developmental approach for coach development
Tatiana Bachkirova and Elaine Cox
Coaching psychology supervision
Global activity in the education and practice of coaching psychology
Siobhain O'Riordan and Stephen Palmer
Appendix 1: Coaching and coaching psychology professional bodies
Appendix 2: Coaching- and coaching psychology-related publications
Appendix 3: University-based coaching psychology units and centres
Appendix 4: International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP)
Stephen Palmer is a leading coaching psychologist and is president of the International Society for Coaching Psychology. He is professor of practice at the Wales Institute for Work Based Learning and was the first chair of the British Psychology Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology.
Dr Alison Whybrow has been involved in the development of the coaching psychology profession since the early 2000s. A past chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology, Alison is now an honorary research fellow at the ISCP International Centre for Coaching Psychology Research. She runs her own coaching and consulting business.
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Hello everyone, I am back with a shopping post – showcasing mainly two items I purchased from Le Blanc Delices du Chanel Makeup Collection this year. Each year, Chanel rolls out a set of makeup designed specifically for their Le Blanc range. And every year the items are love.
I believe this is an Asian exclusive collection for now and it's available at all Chanel stores island-wide (Singapore).
In this post, you will find product shots, some swatches and first impressions of the items. I haven't had time to explore them on my face yet and I may not have time to do so soon because Chinese New Year is round the corner and I will be away most of this month.
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You know me, I can never say no to face powders or highlighters. Because I own Rouge and Or, I thought it would be nice to have Délice too – now I have a red, gold and a white.
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The other item I picked up is the Chanel Ombres Fleuries in Délicatesse – retails at S$96 for 4g of product, made in Italy.
As you can see, each shade has floral motifs embossed onto them – isn't it pretty? It was pretty much "love at first swatch" – the colours are superbly pigmented, think Topkapi and the more recent Harmonie Du Soir. Texture is similar to those two mentioned, silky and creamy.
Délicatesse houses four shades of varies intensity and finish.
The first shade, a fresh minty green reminds me of Riviére but a tad less complex.
I am very excited about this little collection. I think the pieces are very beautiful and wearable. And I am very impressed with the quality of Délicatesse. Swatches you see above are swatched with light/medium intensity as I am trying my best to preserve the floral motifs.
Do you think you will pick up anything from this collection? Hope this post gives you a heads up and hope you find it helpful.
It looks very similar in pictures and that's what I thought too..
But sadly, I don't have Luna to compare..
So jealous! This collections looks gorgeous!!
Check with your local Chanel people..
thanks for posting these! I can't wait to check out the quad in person 😀 the highlighter looked a bit frosty in the pan but is subtle when swatched!
Hi Joey, the swatches are beautiful!
I am not sure if this collection is out in Thailand but my guess is – it is/will be..
Best to check at the counter there!!
Any plans to do an eye look with this palette? I won't be trying mine until I return home from traveling in another week or so. Would love to get your ideas on how to wear the mint green as I think we are similar in coloring.
Sorry for the long wait, I don't have much time and energy for looks at the moment..
And thanks for your support!!


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From wiki example :
the equation is $5x^2-6xy+5y^2$.
Let $x = -0.5$ and $y =-1$
For the first iteration $y$ is going up graphically and the result of equation is minimizing
then $x$ is going right and the result of equation is minimizing, too
But how do we do this mathmatically?
My guess is:
put $x = -0.5$ an equation becomes $5(-0.5)^2-6(-0.5)y+5y^2$
after partial dererative $-6(-0.5)+10y=0$ and solve for $y$
do it in the same way for $x$ with the new $y$ from above.
Can someone tell me if I am in the right track?

A: Yes, this is right. Fix $x$, get optimal $y$. Then fix that $y$, get new optimal $x$, and so on.
Anyway, the coordinate descent method is in principle used for numerical minimization. This means that you use a numerical algorithm for 1D minimization (such as the Golden section method).
Using the method analytically is a little masochistic as you will have to solve an infinity of 1D minimization problems rather than directly tackle 2D minimization by cancellation of the gradient.

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Previously, high-risk Covid patients 12 or older had been eligible to get the drugs, which are typically administered intravenously at a clinic or hospital and have been shown to lower the risk of hospitalization and death.
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The authorization comes as fears are rising about a winter surge fueled by the new Omicron coronavirus variant, which appears to be spreading because of a mix of its contagiousness and its ability to dodge the body's immune defenses. It is not yet known how Omicron may affect young children compared to other versions of the virus or whether Lilly's antibody treatment may be less effective against it.
Hospitalizations of children with Covid soared over the summer during a surge in Delta cases. Among the states that report the data, between 0.1 percent and 1.9 percent of all confirmed cases of Covid in children have resulted in hospitalization, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Oh, oh, oh, the horror of it all.
I actually felt sick . Still, I was completely glued to the screen.
During some of the scenes, I worried that I might have to sneak out of the movie theater, running out into the fresh air to settle my stomach… have I ever been thrust into such intimacy with this kind of horror? This is not naivete people, believe me, it's something else.
When I heard all that vitriol, all those horrible slurs, even all that profanity (I am no prude, believe me) over and over and over… cutting off limbs, slicing up hearts, I could taste the blood in their mouths, smell their violence. This is Hate. This is Fear.
Why didn't I respond this way to seeing the footage of Charlottesvile last year? I was appalled, worried, sad, and angry. But I didn't feel sick to my stomach.
Maybe there are villains after all.
Movies with zombies and blood-spurting body parts don't really scare me at all. But Spike Lee's Blackkklansman … I shiver. I am nauseated. I am sick.
This is a scary movie.
I am still (a little bit less now) sick today.
A recent TED talk claimed that there *is* a conservative impulse in the human design, and it is literally that: to conserve or preserve, to crystallize and defend. Liberals are enthusiastic about the kind of self – destruction that comes from identity exploration. The conservative impulse gathers close, it seeks to protect what "is." This theoretically serves to maintain a center while liberals furiously mutate the periphery. But I seem to so firmly belong to one of these camps that a holistic appreciation is truly challenging. In trying to wrestle with this challenge, I keep revisiting the thought, "maybe when we all lived in caves…?" Or the corollary you implied : *someone* has to be soldiers…?" But I fear I'm missing the mark. I think the overall *project* to create, say, a national center of identity is a good one. It helps isolated strangers melt. It is only the hate – tools employed in this project which are shameful. Now I'll think about what American conservativism looks like if I ignore its dark side… This will take some thought.
I love this — just how far do we have to go to preserve/conserve this "center" you refer to? The beauty and horror of a "national identity." History teaches us a lot about this, and not just written history, but the larger timeline as well. I, too, have such mixed thoughts on identity politics. I believe we have to go through a stage of "this is NOT me" in order to say, "this IS me."–that perhaps identity has to be built in reverse somehow. All political activism gathers strength by creating firm boundaries between "us and them." I get this… I believe it's true for the individual's own growth toward self actualization…not a word I love, but I'm using it in the Maslowe context here to refer to a kind of transcendence of "self" after the "self" is established.
I was just thinking about Preserve and Conserve this very morning, so it was a delight to see it in writing on your comments.
Thanks so much for reading…let's continue the dialogue, it's so worthwhile.
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Robert Coleman Atkins (Columbus (Ohio), 17 oktober 1930 - New York, 17 april 2003) was een Amerikaanse cardioloog, voorvechter van de alternatieve geneeswijzen en een van de beroemdste en succesvolste voedingsexperts van de afgelopen veertig jaar. Hij is vooral bekend geworden door het naar hem genoemde Atkins-dieet.

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Atkins werd geboren in Ohio, waar hij ook opgroeide. Hij haalde zijn kandidaatsexamen in de geneeskunde aan de universiteit van Michigan en promoveerde in 1955 als arts aan de Cornell-universiteit. Na zijn opleiding in de cardiologie verhuisde Atkins naar New York, waar hij later het Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine oprichtte, een van de grootste centra in zijn soort.

Naast het behandelen van patiënten was Atkins ook een voorvechter van de natuurgeneeskunde als alternatief voor farmaceutische geneesmiddelen en chirurgie voor vele slopende ziektes. Mede door hem kregen de alternatieve geneeswijzen nationaal aandacht als een medische benadering. In 1972 lanceerde hij zijn dieet, waarmee hij in de jaren 90 wereldwijde bekendheid kreeg.

Aan het einde van de twintigste eeuw noemde het tijdschrift People Atkins een van de 25 "meest intrigerende mensen". TIME Magazine noemde hem een van de "mensen die hun steentje bijgedragen hebben" en roemde zijn pioniersgeest ten opzichte van voeding en gezondheid.

Atkins overleed in april 2003 op 72-jarige leeftijd. Hij kwam ten val op de stoep en raakte in coma. Doordat de hersenstam in de verdrukking was gekomen door de val, werd een aantal lichaamsfuncties ontregeld. Dat uitte zich in het vasthouden van vocht. Bovendien liep hij een virusinfectie op. Hierdoor woog hij bij zijn overlijden bijna 30 kg meer dan ten tijde van zijn ziekenhuisopname.

Toen bekend werd dat Atkins bij overlijden 117 kg woog, concludeerde men dat de dieetgoeroe zelf aan overgewicht leed. Zijn weduwe stond er echter op dat dit gewicht het resultaat was van de vloeistoffen die op de intensive care in hem werden gepompt, een bewering die werd gesteund door onafhankelijke artsen. Zijn gewicht zou tijdens zijn opname omgerekend 88,5 kg zijn. Met een lengte van 1,82 m had hij dus een body mass index (BMI) van 26,7, wat voor mensen ouder dan 65 redelijk normaal is.

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Atkins is bekend geworden door een dieet met gewone hoeveelheden vet maar beperkte hoeveelheden koolhydraten. Het lijkt te werken, maar de medische wetenschap is er niet zeker van wat het precies doet. Het lijkt erop dat de relatief grote hoeveelheid eiwitten de eetlust vermindert, want het is gebleken dat men door dit dieet aanzienlijk minder eet. Wat echter de gevolgen op lange termijn voor de gezondheid zijn, is nog onduidelijk.

Atkins schreef 13 boeken, waaronder Dr. Atkins' Dieetrevolutie (1972), Dr. Atkins' Nieuwe dieetrevolutie (1992) en een bewerking daarvan (2002) en Een leven lang Atkins (2003), waarin de Atkins-voedingsmethode uitgebreid wordt beschreven. De Nieuwe dieetrevolutie stond bijna zes jaar lang in de top-10 van de bestsellerslijst van The New York Times. Er zijn wereldwijd meer dan 14 miljoen exemplaren van verkocht en het boek is daarmee een van de top-50 bestsellers aller tijden. Ook Een leven lang Atkins stond na publicatie in januari 2003 wekenlang op de eerste plaats van de bestsellerlijst.

Atkins hield toezicht op een team van mensen die aan meerdere boekprojecten werkten, inclusief een nieuw boek waarin naar voren wordt gebracht hoe de Atkins-voedingsmethode van belang zou zijn bij het indammen van diabetes. Vanwege zijn overtuiging dat obesitas (overgewicht) en diabetes samen één epidemie zijn, was Atkins van plan om in de volgende jaren een groot deel van zijn tijd te besteden aan het uitdagen van de conventionele kennis over diabetespreventie en -verzorging, zoals hij dat ook voor obesitas had gedaan. Dit nieuwe boek, is op verzoek van zijn weduwe Veronica, voltooid en postuum verschenen onder de titel Atkins Diabetes Revolution.

Michel Montignac
Atkins beschouwde de Franse dieetgoeroe Michel Montignac als een meelifter op zijn succes . Montignac propageerde onder eigen naam in 1986, Atkins' voedingsmethode uit 1972.
In 1986 bracht hij zijn eerste boek uit, dat meteen een succes werd. Zijn bekendste boek, "Je mange, donc je maigris!" ("Ik eet, dus ik val af") (1987) werd in 45 landen verkocht, in 26 talen vertaald en ging 18 miljoen keer over de toonbank.

Publicaties
 Atkins Diabetes Revolution (Postuum verschenen in 2004, als co-auteur staan vermeld Mary C. Vernon, M.D., C.M.C. en Jacqueline A. Eberstein, R.N.)
 Een leven lang Atkins (2003)
 Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter (herzien in 2002)
 Dr. Atkins' Anti-verouderingsdieet (2001)
 Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution: Nature's Answer to Drugs (1998)
 Dr. Atkins' Quick and Easy New diet Cookbook (1997, samen met zijn vrouw Veronica)
 Dr. Atkins' New diet Cookbook (1994)
 Dr. Atkins' Nieuwe dieetrevolutie (1992)
 Dr. Atkins' Gezondheidsrevolutie (1988)
 Dr. Atkins' Nutrition Breakthrough (1981)
 Dr. Atkins' Super Energy Cookbook (1978)
 Dr. Atkins' Super energiedieet (1975)
 Dr. Atkins' diet Cookbook (herzien in 1994)
 Dr. Atkins' Dieetrevolutie (1972)

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The systems are designed to alert drivers when a tyre is losing air pressure. In independent testing, a Volkswagen Golf, one of the UK's best-selling cars, and a Fiat 500L family car were put through a series of trials on the road to assess how well the TPMS worked. The Golf's system failed to detect an under-inflated tyre in 14 of the 16 scenarios; the 500L's didn't even manage to alert its driver once.
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Channeled messages such as the ones in this book are very helpful because they often teach through metaphor. To understand the teaching, the Emissaries explain: "You can, for example, place all the best building materials in the world in front of an empty lot, but without a picture of how the house should come together, the woods and nails will lie dormant, and there will be no creation." In sum, we should hold a consistent image in our minds to manifest what we want, rather than constantly changing the building plans.
Sonia's human example in the book is of Edgar Mitchell, NASA astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He suffered from pancreatic cancer and healed himself in part by using actual photos of a healthy pancreas. (Did you know that placing an image of a person in a photonic chamber actually sends them light?) Mitchell reversed his cancer in four months.
We are working on many areas of life but the general spiritual message is that there is no limit to what we can create! You can create love, material and emotional desires, intimacy, good food, and more. To get to these personal matrices, we can use some simple steps from the Third Ray teachers. They include noticing, being proactive, focusing on beauty and describing your visions. Next level is becoming aware of the images you hold, changing them to what you actually want and studying the look of your desired object. To move past the ego spend at least ten minutes a day doing this, make collages and take photos of successes you already have. It takes practice but gets easier with all the fun you'll be having, every morning.


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Listen now to "Forever Backwards", Gourmet's official second single. Also available for free here.
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UCLA Professor Barreto Writes Timely Op-Ed on the Elections and Immigration for The New York Times
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UCLA Professor Matt Barreto wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled "Even for Trump, There Is Such a Thing as Too Far" that discusses election research with a focus on immigration. He writes:
"Baseless fear-mongering is not what makes America great. Standing up for an inclusive and welcoming society sends a message to immigrant and minority voters that candidates are on their side — and this can lead to greater voter turnout."
To read the rest of the informative piece, click HERE.
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Sorry To Bother You Screening Followed by Q & A with Director Boots Riley at UCLA on 11/6
On November 6, 2018, go vote and then check out a screening of Sorry To Bother You at UCLA followed by Q & A with its director, Boots Riley, and our amazing faculty, Professors H. Samy Alim, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Robin D. G. Kelley. Details can be found below.
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LA Social Science Presents "Conversations with Changemakers" Featuring Bryonn Bain and Rosie Rios
Challenges, Faculty, Knowledge, Solutions, Staff
Bryonn Bain is a UCLA professor jointly appointed in the African American Studies and World Arts and Cultures/Dance departments, as well as a prison activist, spoken word poet, hip-hop artist, actor and author. He is the founder and director of UCLA's Prison Education Program, which was launched in 2016 to create innovative courses that enable UCLA faculty and students to learn from, and alongside, participants incarcerated at the California Institute for Women (CIW) and Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall (BJN).
Rosie Rios is the administrative director of UCLA's Prison Education Program.
Part 1 of the series will first focus on the interview with Professor Bain
LD: What do you [Professor Bain] tell people you do when you first meet them?
BB: It depends on the context. On this campus, I think students identify me first and foremost as a professor, and as the director of the Prison Education Program. But before I was any of those things, I was an artist; I was an activist; I was an educator. I really am excited about the intersection of those identities, where they come together and create sparks and possibilities for transformation.
I'm inspired by people who consider themselves to be change makers. I'm inspired by people like Robin Kelley, who recruited me to come [to UCLA]. Cheryl Harris. I'm inspired by folks who see that when you bring together ways of understanding the world that aren't often put together, all these amazing possibilities exist.
I'm also the son of immigrants, from a little island in the Caribbean called Trinidad and Tobago. My father was a storyteller — he was a calypsonian — and so I have some of that in me. I'm a storyteller. It's part of my artistry as a poet; as an actor; as a theater maker. That's part of my identity.
My mother is a healer. She's been a nurse for 40 years. I think from her as a healer, and having all these aunts who are healers, I was definitely inspired to be an activist and to use whatever skills and talents and time I have on this planet — between womb and tomb — to try to impact the lives of those around me. So I think that's where my desire to try to make change happen through activism comes from. I think there's an intersection between arts activism and education that is at the heart of who I am.
LD: Tell me about your work within the different contexts, [Professor Bain].
BB: We do a lot of work in correctional facilities. We have offered courses at two correctional facilities in California, and we've taught five courses between the women's prison and the juvenile hall. At the end of this year, we will have taught seven more. In those spaces, we're here to represent students and faculty, to create opportunities for incarcerated students and students at the university to engage in higher learning and education together. So, they see me as a professor.
When I'm in a performance space I'm an actor, I'm looking at scripts, and I'm just one of the folks in the room who's trying to tell the story together. We're storytellers.
We all have these different layers, right? It's not just me, or just [Rosie Rios, Administrative Director of the Prison Education Program], or just you.
Kimberlé Crenshaw and W.E.B. Du Bois before her were onto something when they talked about a double or triple or multiple consciousnesses. It's dealing with, for example, the NYPD who didn't believe me when I told [the officer] that I was a law student; didn't believe me when I told them that the Sony VAIO laptop I had in my bag was mine — not that I stole it — or the public defender who told me that rather than believing my resume, she was more inclined to believe that I had a lengthy rap sheet. I think if we look at each other as full human beings, we're multidimensional. People are not like those old school TV sets, where you could change from one channel to the next. Our identities all flow into each other, right? And so we have to get comfortable understanding that people have these multiple parts to themselves.
Members of the UCLA Prison Education Program team. Front row: Dianna Williams, Daniel Ocampo, Lyric "Day-Day" Green-Brown, Rosie Rios, Joanna Navarro. Back row: Gabrielle Sheerer, Dominique Rocker, Bryonn Bain, Derrick Kemp.
"…I think we've become numb and desensitized to a lot of the suffering that's around us, and I think art is one way to say 'No, wake up.'"
— Professor Bain
LD: How are the arts initiatives you bring to prisons received — not only by the students — but by everyone that you've had to go through in order to make this happen? Do you present it as a healing modality? How do you justify it to them when so many institutions still don't take the arts seriously?
BB: This is one of the few countries where the arts are not taken as seriously as the rest of the world takes it. And at the same time, we wouldn't think about Los Angeles or California as being the same without Hollywood, right? So there is a certain amount of respect for the power of storytelling at some level. I think it's also important for us to understand that there are other ways for the arts to live and to feed us. Prisons are a public health crisis for many reasons, one of them being that we have more people in prisons with mental health issues than we have in mental health institutions. So prisons are being used as a way to deal with mental health and public health issues that they are not effective at dealing with. Drug addiction is a disease — it's a public health issue according to the Center for Disease Control — and we're treating it like it's a criminal justice issue by locking people up and denying access to what they need. And a lot of people still have access to many banned substances that are available in prisons. So I think we have to really expand our thinking about that. But I think the arts are a way to open people up to see things in different ways. There are many metaphors for art: art as medicine, art as healing, art as a weapon, a tool for resistance to fight oppression. There is no movement for justice that did not have the arts as a part of it.
Anne Bogart talked about art as dealing with the world of aesthetics. And so when you think about what it means to be aesthetic, you think about what "anesthetic" or "anesthesia" is, right? Malcolm X talked about how when you go to the doctor what they do is put Novocaine in your mouth right so you could suffer peacefully, that you can actually bleed all over your mouth and they'll tell you you're just fine. So an anesthetic, or "anesthesia," is actually about numbing your senses: making it so that you don't see smell, taste, or touch with the same level of intensity. It puts your senses to sleep. So aesthetics should be the opposite of that. An aesthetic should wake up the senses. I think about art as being an alarm clock, waking up the senses to things that we may have become numb to. I'm from a city where 20 million people can walk down the street — and there's lots of love in the boroughs — but there are certain parts of Manhattan that are not like the block I'm from in Brooklyn. Somebody can be dead on the street and 50 people could walk over the body before anybody even asks if you're okay. So I think we've become numb and desensitized to a lot of the suffering that's around us, and I think art is one way to say "No, wake up. Human beings who share your experiences, and your oxygen, and your water supply, and in many ways are part of the same organism, are going through and experiencing things that we need to be awakened to." I think art has the power to do that, to wake us up to realize that we actually have work to do. The social sciences are a direct connection to the arts, because it's one place you can go to actually dig into the reality of the world: to actually figure out what change has to happen based on the research that many of my colleagues here are doing.
LD: That's a good segue into my question about the arts and science. They've been separated for so long, even though we know that they're not actually separate. I know that recently you received a joint appointment to the World Arts and Cultures/Dance department. Do you know if there are a lot of professors on campus that have appointments in both a social or life science department and an arts department?
BB: I heard of one other before me who was in Chicana/o Studies and also in World Arts and Cultures/Dance. But beyond that, I don't know of any others. I know that Robin Kelley and Scot Brown are both African American Studies and History, and they also have an affiliation with the Global Jazz Studies program. Robin Kelley wrote the brilliant biography of jazz musician and legend Thelonius Monk, and Scot Brown does a lot of work around funk. So they have this connection between history, the arts and music that I think is really powerful.
Tricia Rose wrote one of the first scholarly books around hip-hop in 1994, Black Noise, and I had a chance to study with her at NYU as a grad student. I think my own experience was a little different because I identified as an artist. So while I wanted to study art to understand it, I also am a practitioner — I am a culture maker, a culture worker. It's equally important to me to study the history, the culture, and the politics of the artistic media that I engage, and to develop my own craft.
I think there's room for all kinds of art at all levels. But if we only have art that is about justice that is of a very low quality, we're not helping the movement — we're actually hurting the movement. So I try to challenge my students to explore terrain that they may have not experienced before, to think critically about the artistic practice and to think about the relationship between their art, the work they're making and the world they want to build. I do that because I had amazing teachers and mentors who did the same thing with me. If you had to pay royalty checks for everything you take from your professor's syllabus I would owe Lani Guinier a check every week. She is a brilliant, brilliant teacher who encouraged me to use collaboration in classrooms, to use creativity in the classroom, and to think critically in the classroom. So, those are things that are at the heart of how I connect to the arts and the social sciences.
"It's a different time now and there is a whole lot that has not changed and needs to change. But I think our consciousness is expanding. I think the voices of people who were formerly incarcerated and are currently incarcerated are moving toward the center of the movement where they should be." — Professor Bain
LD: It seems like more people are accepting the fact that the stories we tell, including the media and entertainment we consume and create, are impactful in how they represent our lives and shaping who we are. Obviously, whenever there are these big shifts, we see it at different levels, and we sometimes see it commoditized or hijacked. What's been your experience in observing this shift?
BB: We're in a time where there's more of a movement to do many of the things that some folks realized need[ed] to happen 20 years ago, but there was no movement in place. Without a mass social movement, it's very difficult to make change that is lasting, systemic and happens at an institutional level. So that is the biggest difference. I finished law school and I had a really unbelievable media platform: I had access to people who wanted to tell my story to 20 million people. And so because of The Village Voice and 60 Minutes, it was the strangest thing to really call out the NYPD and have, like, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley call me and offer me investment banking jobs. It was such an odd thing. I walked away from a lot of really lucrative opportunities — it just didn't make any sense with my soul, you know? But I also realized that I could use some of that attention and energy to shine a light in other spaces that needed it more. So the show that I've created ["Lyrics from Lockdown"] just came out of touring in prisons around the country, and it emerged from me having a relationship with somebody who was put on death row at 17 — a man named Nanon Williams. "Lyrics From Lockdown," the show, came from "Lyrics On Lockdown," the tour, which hit 25 states around the country and ended up as a course in several states. The one I saw was first at Columbia, then NYU, The New School and Rikers Island. So seeing this sort of growth in attention to these issues over the last decade or two decades has challenged me to think about how to find ways to make sure that we're shining the light in the right place.
I was able to actually bring some attention to Nanon's case a year after we had the first public performances of the show. A federal judge looked at his case again and decided he should be released. Now the state of Texas appealed. He's still locked up over 25 years for crime he didn't commit, but we are closer than ever to getting some movement on his case. Folks like Bryan Stevenson went before the Supreme Court and argued in a case called Sullivan v. Florida that young folks we have locked up all over the country doing life sentences without parole, their brains weren't even fully developed when they were charged for these crimes and marked for the rest of their lives. They should have the opportunity to actually have redemption. It's not even second chances: in many cases, it's first chances. Folks live in communities where the choices are not the choices folks have in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air and even Westwood, so that's a big part of seeing this movement develop.
I feel like the folks that I've been blessed to work with have been a small part of building this larger movement because there weren't editorials in The New York Times or the L.A. Times every week about mass incarceration. People weren't even calling it "mass incarceration" or "hyper incarceration" or "racialized mass incarceration." There was a network of folks — Critical Resistance through Angela Davis, a group called the Prison Moratorium Project, a group called the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights — who were talking about the prison industrial complex, connecting the dots and realizing that our communities are being devastated by the drug war, by aggressive paramilitary policing, and by the human caging that is still impacting us. But there's at least a conversation and a movement. Black Lives Matter is in part to thank for the more recent wave of that. So I think that's the biggest difference: we're having this conversation in a larger context.
It's a different time now and there is a whole lot that has not changed and needs to change. But I think our consciousness is expanding. I think the voices of people who were formerly incarcerated and are currently incarcerated are moving toward the center of the movement where they should be. Whereas 20 years ago, most of the policy that was being generated around prisons and policing was being driven by folks who had no experience in our communities, or any of these correctional facilities where our communities have been put in unprecedented numbers.
A larger movement requires a holistic approach to the problem. A larger movement is not about just folks changing policy, or changing legislation even. One of the things I learned in law school is that if you don't change the hearts and minds of people, then you've got to send the National Guard to make sure that little black girls can go to school in the South.
LD: I noticed that on the website for the Center for Justice, you say you're "reshaping narratives through education, policy, research, advocacy, arts and culture." Do you think that these are the channels through which we produce change?
BB: I think those are our essential areas. I think it's hard to make systemic change without those areas being considered. I also think, at this location, at this time and place, those are areas that you cannot leave out of the equation because we're in a city that has an impact on global culture: you have to think about the arts and culture. Because we're in a Tier One research institution, you have to think about research and education policy. You have to think about those things because of where we are in the world, this time and place. So we've been able to think about and begin forging collaborations across the campus that actually do that. Last year we offered a course called Legislative Theatre For Racial Justice, about using the arts to shape policy. We have collaborations with the folks in World Arts and Cultures/Dance, the team at the Art & Global Health Center, the Law School, and African American Studies.
We brought a Brazilian visiting scholar, artist, and theatre-maker, Alessandro Conceição, from Brazil to work with us at the juvenile hall and to develop theater scenes – Theater of the Oppressed. I was introduced to this in law school, because I had a brilliant legal professor [Lani Guinier] who knew that the law is full of theatrics. She knew that the drama's in every courtroom. But she also knew, practically speaking, that if you were to actually challenge young law students to think outside the box to say, "Okay, well, how are they creating legislation in Brazil?" and to get folks to act out the social problems they're experiencing, and to actually propose solutions — not just to talk about or write about the solutions, but to act them out and have a dialogue around them — that might be something we could really use. And when I saw that, a light bulb went on, and I said, "this is what I'm supposed to be using."
So to go to Brazil with our colleagues in World Arts and Cultures/Dance in December and actually begin a relationship between L.A. and Rio, which we hope to build over time and eventually send students and faculty back and forth — it was powerful. We had students at the juvenile hall tell their stories; do poetry; do theater. At the end of the course, in collaboration with UCLA students, they presented those scenes to legal scholars, judges, law clerks, a legislative brain trust, the UN Special Rapporteur against racism, in order to share those ideas, have a conversation, and then voted on legislative proposals that, through a training we just completed here at the [UCLA] Bunche Center, we're now going to actually take to Sacramento and City Hall and work to have their voices be heard when usually their voices are never part of the process. So there's a larger movement that made that possible. It's also an opportunity to think outside the box, and to think about how we use the arts, theater, poetry, policy, research, and education and link those so they're not siloed off in ways that there are seen to be irrelevant to each other.
October 22, 2018 /1 Comment/by Managing Editor
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UCLA California Center for Population Research Commemorates Its 20th Anniversary
Alumni, Faculty, Knowledge, News
On October 11-12, 2018, the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) commemorated its 20th anniversary. Its first session on Thursday engaged population research in Los Angeles on families and neighborhoods, schools, eviction and homelessness, and social policy. The Friday research symposium showcased an accomplished and collaborative group of CCPR alumni from around the nation. This event highlighted the exceptional research of faculty and former students within the Division of Social Sciences at UCLA. For more information about the event, check out the CCPR Research Symposium_Final Schedule.
The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) was established in 1998 and has since, been a leading research center for research and training in demography. CCPR is comprised of over 90 active faculty researchers from an array of academic disciplines, such as epidemiology, public policy, economics, sociology, and public welfare. CCPR researchers span several schools, including the College of Letters and Sciences, the Division of Social Sciences, the School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, and the School of Public Affairs, as well as academic departments within UCLA.
October 16, 2018 /12 Comments/by Managing Editor
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UCLA Professor Frasure-Yokley Discusses Her Electoral Research on MSNBC — Watch Video Here
On October 8, UCLA Professor Lorrie Frasure-Yokley and UCLA LPPI policy fellow Celina Avalos were interviewed by MSNBC reporter Katy Tur. Check out the video HERE.
Learn more about the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) HERE.
Learn more about Professor Lorrie Frasure-Yokley and her research HERE.
Learn more about Celina Avalos's work on BruinsVOTE! HERE.
October 9, 2018 /8 Comments/by Managing Editor
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UCLA Professor Menjivar Scheduled to Speak at DWC Congressional Briefing on 10/11
On October 11, Professor Cecilia Menjivar will discuss asylum protections for immigrant women fleeing violence at this congressional briefing organized by the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime (DWC). For more information, see below and visit the DWC website.
Congressional Briefing: Translating Research to Policy
Improving Justice for Women and Girls
Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 9:30am – 12:30pm
Rayburn Office Building, Room 2237, Washington DC
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What Does the L.A. Valley Girl Stereotype Say About Language and Power?
Knowledge, Students
By Tyanna Slobe
PhD student, Linguistic Anthropology, UCLA
'Mock White Girl' (MWG) is a concept that I started developing in my MA thesis in Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and began formulating into an article when I came to UCLA, where I received valuable feedback from several faculty members in UCLA's Department of Anthropology and Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC), as well as feedback from UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. I use the term to describe performances that parody a linguistic style ideologically associated with a stereotypical, upper middle-class, white girl in the U.S. I got the idea for this research one day while ordering a latte at a hipster Boulder café, after I told the barista my order and he repeated it back in an exaggerated 'girl' sounding voice. While he was clearly joking, I realized that he was mocking something related to gender, maybe age, and a particular speaking style, and I became interested in the stigma at root of his mocking performance.
This research, recently published in the journal Language In Society examines how the linguistic, embodied, and social features of MWG are taken up and (re)produced by different social actors across various cultural contexts. Performances are invoked through hyperbolic use of a bunch of linguistic and stylistic variables, including things like uptalk, vocal fry, dynamic intonation, texting language, blondeness, and objects associated with material consumerism, like Starbucks and iPhones. The persona is widely-circulated in U.S. pop culture, and the relevant linguistic variety is often associated with the '80s and '90s Valley Girl from Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, represented in cult classic films, such as Clueless and Legally Blonde. While this particular stereotype may be iconic of LA and California, the persona has transcended the Valley and is associated with cosmopolitan white femininity all over the US. She does not "live" anywhere in particular; instead she is more recognized through elite institutions and social practices, like Starbucks and shopping.
MWG is grounded in linguistic anthropological research that uses mock as a framework for understanding code switching, social meaning, and power first proposed by Jane Hill in her work on Mock Spanish.[1] Hill defines Mock Spanish as a practice where dominant groups (in this case white, monolingual English speakers) appropriate Spanish words/phrases into their talk for added humor or other social meaning, which, in effect, racializes Latinas/os and perpetuates negative stereotypes of the Spanish language and its speakers as 'not serious.' More recently, linguistic anthropologists have explored how mock-like practices are also used in ways that challenge hegemonic power relations, rather than only reinforcing them. MWG is situated in both of these bodies of work. While it's something that can be used to make fun of voices—like in my encounters with so many hipster baristas—it still draws from a linguistic style associated with a relatively privileged segment of the population: white girls and women. In MWG performances, the mocked linguistic variety is closely related to Standard American English, and its speakers live in a society where white femininity is overrepresented in media representations of girlhood, which normalizes these girls' experiences at the expense of all other forms of girlhood. For these reasons, it's important to consider the diverse cultural contexts in which MWG performances occur.
I highlight three genres of MWG performances from videos found on YouTube and Vine. The first, Savior MWG, involves middle-aged white women who use MWG as a means of positioning girls' voices as sounding unprofessional, inauthentic, and annoying. Here, MWG performances stem from middle class anxieties about girls' ability to achieve socioeconomic stability in male-dominated corporate spheres. The second genre involves the viral YouTube videos Shit White Girls Say, wherein girls of color use MWG to draw attention to and parody racist things that white girls frequently say and do. In these examples, mock is a resource used to humorously call out white racism. The last genre examines videos made by teenage boys on Vine who use MWG to cast the mocked persona as superficial, irrational, and comical in ways that position teenage girls' homosocial peer groups as vapid, and thus illegitimate sites of sociality.
Each genre of MWG involves a different moral stance relative to the white girl persona, and these stances vary depending on a performer's experiences with, and ideologies about, white girls. The ways that white girls in the U.S. are interpreted and evaluated varies significantly among different segments of the population, and MWG gives insight into this phenomenon. My article thus stresses the importance of taking an intersectional approach to studies of linguistic variation and social meaning.
Tyanna Slobe is a PhD student in Linguistic Anthropology at UCLA. Her dissertation research, funded by the National Science Foundation, compares how teenagers in public and private Chilean high schools come into linguistic practices associated with different class and political identities. She also has a major side interest in how 'teenager' emerged as a social category in the U.S. through 20th century media representations that primarily portrayed the experiences of upper middle-class, white girls, which is how this work on MWG originated.
[1] Hill, J. (2008). The everyday language of white racism. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
October 5, 2018 /81 Comments/by Managing Editor
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Rev. James Lawson Jr., a nationally known and celebrated leader of the civil rights movement, turned ninety years old on September 22.
The UCLA community has been very fortunate to have Rev. Lawson as part of our teaching faculty for the past sixteen years. His course, Nonviolence and Social Movements, is always popular with students. In 2016, the UCLA Labor Center published a book on his life and work, Nonviolence and Social Movements: The Teachings of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.
Rev. Lawson was a close friend and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, and Rev. Lawson's work in the civil rights movement is well documented. He was a leading force in the Nashville sit-in movement, in the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and in introducing the philosophy of nonviolence to a new generation of civil rights leaders. However, his role in advancing social justice movements in Los Angeles is less well known.
After moving from Tennessee to Los Angeles in the 1970s, Rev. Lawson served as pastor of the Holman United Methodist Church for twenty-five years. He was also a founder of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), which brings together clergy and lay leaders of all faiths with laborers, immigrants, and low-income families in the cause of a just economy. Through CLUE, Rev. Lawson influenced a new generation of religious leaders who actively participate in Los Angeles's social and economic justice movements.
For many years, Rev. Lawson also led an emerging group of social justice leaders, known simply as the Holman Group, which included María Elena Durazo, Gilbert Cedillo, Antonio Villaraigosa, and Karen Bass, long before any of them were elected to public office. The Holman Group introduced these and many other social justice leaders to the philosophy of nonviolence and social change. To this day, Rev. Lawson continues to convene nonviolence workshops with labor and community practitioners. He has worked with hotel workers, janitors, and home care workers to advance nonviolent, direct-action campaigns that helped transform the Los Angeles labor movement.
This year marks not only Rev. Lawson's ninetieth birthday but also the fiftieth anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, where Dr. King was assassinated after Rev. Lawson called upon him to come support the workers.
To celebrate Rev. Lawson's enduring contributions, the UCLA Labor Center and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment will launch the UCLA Lawson Legacy Project this November, when Rev. Lawson receives the UCLA Medal, the university's highest honor. The UCLA Lawson Legacy Project will establish an annual Lawson Lecture on Nonviolence beginning in 2019 and an annual scholarship to a deserving UCLA student engaged in the theory and practice of nonviolence. More details about the UCLA Legacy Project will be released at irle.ucla.edu soon.
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A more harmonised tax policy across Europe has long been a dream of pro-EU forces in Brussels and recent scandals have regenerated Brussels' desire for an easier way to pass legislation across the bloc.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said it will launch a debate with member states on allowing new EU tax laws to be approved by qualified majority rather than unanimously.
"Times have changed! Holding tight to unanimity to protect national tax regimes … is based on myth, not reality," Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Taxation and foreign affairs are the last bastions of EU law-making that still require a unanimous vote by member states.
Weighing on the Commission is the quest for ambitious tax measures, such as an EU-wide tax on US tech giants, which have failed to become European law given the slightest opposition.
The EU digital tax, backed by France and Germany, has fallen foul on the opposition of Ireland, Sweden and Denmark.
Another proposal to tax financial transactions across the EU has languished since 2011, with even a tighter group of member states unable to agree their own more limited version.
Moscovici, a former French finance minister, acknowledged the need to defy knee-jerk opposition by member states.
"We do not want to trigger 'Pavlovian' negative reactions… This debate should allow the Commission to make the case for a reasonable, cautious and, hopefully, unanimous way forward," he said.
His comments were echoed by German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who urged member countries not to "reflexively" dismiss the discussion.
"Citizens expect Europe to be able to act. That's not a loss of sovereignty, but a prerequisite for being taken seriously at home and in the world," Scholz said in Berlin.
But Ireland swiftly rejected the idea.
Dublin "does not support any change being made to how tax issues are agreed at EU level," a government statement said.
This was in reference to a clampdown on corporate tax laws EU-wide after the Luxleaks and other scandals exposed the lengths to which multinationals and the super-rich will go to escape tax.
These laws closed legal loop holes offered by countries such as Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands that provided major companies with low tax bills.
Commission with this proposal is undeminig EU. With this proposal Commission wanst to establish in equality of member states in EU what is against Lisaboa treaty. smaller EU member states will not accept it but any how this is just another nail in EUs coffin.