Year: 2020

by K.S. Jolly on Feminist Current! shared with thanks!

I think a lot of us are feeling pretty blue right now. COVID, stressful political transitions, lockdowns, having to wear a mask everywhere we go (and hardly ever leaving the house!)… I could go on.

But if there’s one bright spot in the midst of all this misery, it’s been the remarkable success of feminism worldwide — in particular, radical feminism. Don’t get me wrong: feminism still has its work cut out for it, whether in the ongoing fight for abortion rights in Argentina or the fight against spycam pornography in South Korea. But in these dismal times, some wins for the global women’s movement might cheer you up.

Radical feminism continues to grow in South Korea

Few places around the world have seen a radical feminist resurgence quite like South Korea. Earlier this year, Jen Izaakson and Tae Kyung Kim reported on the intense protests against molka, a particularly invasive form of spycam pornography. Although South Korea has made this form of voyeurism illegal, enforcement of the law has been virtually nonexistent. By 2016, when a woman was murdered by an incel in a mixed sex bathroom, South Korean women had had enough. Since 2018, over 360,000 women have participated in massive protests against molka, femicide, and other forms of male violence.

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Kurdish woman writer sentenced to more than 6 years in prison.

By ANF Published on Dec 6, 2020

The writer Gulgeş Deryaspî, arrested in an operation in Bitlis a year and a half ago, is sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison.

Gulgeş Deryaspî, a Kurdish writer and PEN member, was arrested in the political genocide operations that took place in Tatvan and Güroymak districts in Birlis in June 2019.

Deryaspî was detained for five days and was then sent to Bitlis Type E closed prison on June 30, 2019 on terrorism charges for her participation in demonstrations and rallies. She was released 9 months later.

The latest hearing in the trial against the Kurdish writer was held at the 2nd Bitlis Criminal Court on Thursday.

While the writer and her lawyer Burhan Aksoy rejected her accusations and asked for her acquittal, the court sentenced her to 6 years and 3 months in prison, accusing her of “belonging to an illegal organization” with no evidence.

Deryaspî is an international PEN member, graduated from the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature at Alparslan University in Muş.

Por ANF Publicado el 6 Dic, 2020 Antifascismo

PEN International – Wikipedia

PEN International Writers in Prison Committee is a founding member of the IFEX – International Freedom of Expression Exchange Network , a global network of 90 non-governmental organisations that monitors censorship worldwide and defends journalists, writers, internet users and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression

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A river island that was literally forgotten as rapacious nation States gobbled up the defeated Ottoman Empire

I chose to translate this text as it reads like a story. There I saw the beautiful travel diary of a Macedonian-Bulgarian anarchist from the 19th century. The travel diary does not claim objectivity. He can make us travel through his words, make us think and make us conceive a little elsewhere. This takes us out of authoritarian structures, to a freer world observed by the author of it through his contact with the environment.

Surely such a story could not serve as basic material for historians, but its strength lies elsewhere. Summons our imagination to escape the authoritarian world and its oppressive relationships. It broadens our vision of the world and helps us to see better what is being built in our struggles. I believe that the imagination is a powerful weapon when it is not in the hands of the ruling classes.

Petar Georgiev Mandzhukov (1878–1966) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and anarchist, member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization and of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee. The following is an excerpt from Mandzhukov’s memoir ‘Harbingers of Storm’ (Sofia: FAB, 2013):

Continue reading “Ada Kaleh: the Balkan island where once people lived without a state, nor a master. Eng/Esp/Fr”

Source – marcseifer.com at RIELPOLITIK shared with thanks!

– “…Tesla understood ether theory a lot better than Einstein did, but obviously, Tesla also did not truly understand the ramifications of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2. He dismissed it as mathematical poppycock. Had he lived a few more years to see the explosion of the atom bomb, Tesla would have been forced to re-evaluate what he had discarded, and had Einstein re-evaluated the full ramifications of Tesla’s ether theory, he may have been able to achieve his grand dream of unifying gravity with electromagnetism, a process explainable by a full understanding of ether theory”

Tesla vs. Einstein: The Ether & the Birth of the New Physics – By Marc Seifer

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an electrical inventor, well known as a competitor of arch rival Tom Edison. Where Edison’s inventions include the light bulb, the microphone in the telephone and the phonograph, Tesla’s inventions include fluorescent lighting, the AC hydroelectric power system and wireless communication. Tesla is therefore mostly billed as an inventor.

The fact is, Tesla was also a physicist who studied in college such courses as analytic geometry, experimental physics and higher mathematics.1 In his early 1890s lectures at Columbia University, the Chicago World’s Fair and at Royal Societies in Paris and London, building on the ideas of Isaac Newton and Lord Kelvin, Tesla demonstrated and discussed the structure of atoms as being similar to solar systems and wave-like and particle-like aspects to what later became known as the photon. Colleagues he lectured before and corresponded with included many Nobel Prize winners like Wilhelm Roentgen, J.J. Thompson, Lord Raleigh, Ernst Rutherford and Robert Millikan and other scientists such as Elmer Sperry, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, Lord Kelvin, Heinreich Hertz and Hermann von Helmholtz.

SPOOKY ACTION FASTER THAN LIGHT!

As far as I know, no standard text on the history of physics mentions Tesla even though these ideas would lead to Nobel Prizes when they were further developed by Rutherford and Bohr (with their solar-system description of the atom with electrons orbiting the nucleus) and Einstein’s discovery of the photoelectric effect, which was equivalent to Tesla’s wave and particle-like description of light.

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