Month: Mar 2020

Pakistan’s Women’s March: Shaking patriarchy . . Injuries as Cops let men Stone the Demo

Women and men carry signs as they take part in an Aurat March, or Women’s March in Lahore, Pakistan March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched through Pakistan’s capital on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day.Women and men joined the event in Islamabad, one of several rallies across the country, for what is known in Pakistan as the Aurat March, using the Urdu word for women

Women and men joined the event in Islamabad, the largest such rally in the country, for what is known in Pakistan as the Aurat March, using the Urdu word for women. The rally is pictured above

Officers blocked the Islamists as they tried to break through a cordon to attack the marchers. A Reuters witness said the Islamists threw stones, bricks, sticks and shoes at the marchers. Religious groups are pictured protesting against the event

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Religious groups are pictured protesting against the event. A Reuters witness said the Islamists threw stones, bricks, sticks and shoes at the marchers.

Several people were reportedly injured as social and religious conservatives clashed with International Women’s Day demonstrators in Islamabad on March 8. RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reported that participants in a conservative demonstration called Modesty Walk threw stones at demonstrators holding a march to mark International Women’s Day. Ismat Shahjahan, head of the Women’s Democratic Front, which organized the march, said four participants suffered head injuries, while three others were less seriously hurt.

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Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women’s rights in Pakistan.by Alia Chughtai 3 hours ago

Women sing songs as they take part in Aurat March, Urdu for Women’s March, in Islamabad, Pakistan March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir

Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan’s main urban centres to mark International Women’s Day.

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Let’s give patriarchy and capitalism the middle finger!

from FAU Berlin, shared with thanks

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Around Germany, syndicates of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) have called for protest and planned actions and events for this weekend to mark International Women’s Day.

The FAU Berlin has called for participation in multiple demonstrations in and around Berlin this weekend with the following declaration: It’s no coincidence that material injustice and cultural oppression live hand in hand in the capitalist system.

It’s also no coincidence that people affected by sexism, racism or other forms of discrimination find themselves disproportionately often in poverty and insecure working conditions. Those who live with culturally and institutionally rooted non-recognition are more easily pushed into exploitative relationships with low wages and bad working conditions.

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In the logic of capitalism, the pervasive discrimination against these exploited groups serves to justify and mystify the contradiction between the “welfare promise” and simultaneously existing injustice.

When women, people of color, trans and inter people, people without a German passport, and people in materially poor living conditions are denigrated or completely pushed out of public consciousness, this serves to stabilize a system that is fundamentally based on exploitation and domination – because these structures of discrimination ultimately prevent an overarching solidarity of workers against the capitalist regime.

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There is no capitalism that does not link material injustice with discrimination, whether on the basis of gender, origin, skin colour, religion, nationality, residence status, sexual orientation, disability, criminal prosecution, or or or.

Therefore, there can be no class struggle that does not at the same time oppose sexism, racism and any kind of discrimination!

That is why we are taking to the streets on the 8th of March! For a feminist, anti-racist class struggle!

For an anti-capitalist feminism!Walk on!

Another world is possible! FAU Berlín

Feminismo de Clase en Chile para este 8 y 9 de marzo — Diario Venceremos

El movimiento feminista no es homogéneo y existen diversas ramas del feminismo, por tanto, es un error encasillar en un solo feminismo la lucha de las mujeres y disidentes, pues, existen muchos: feminismo liberal, feminismo comunitario, anarcofeminismo, feminismo popular y feminismo de clase. Para esta nota nos centraremos en el feminismo de clase que tiene programada una serie de actividades y protestas para este 8 y 9 de marzo.

Feminismo de Clase para este 8 y 9 de marzo — Diario Venceremos

Tsar Putin Brings the Sultan Wannabe Erdogan Half Way Down the Tree —

Uprootedpalestinians’s Blog

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March 6, 2020 Arabi Souri Ten days ago the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov offered the neo-Ottoman Sultan wannabe Erdogan a very large banana that time to come down the tree which he climbed very fast and very high, he rejected it.

Five days later, the IRGC offered a smaller Iranian banana to Erdogan to come down the [……]

Tsar Putin Brings the Sultan Wannabe Erdogan Half Way Down the Tree — Uprootedpalestinians’s Blog

The criminal action of Greece, Turkey and the EU against refugees. Not in our name. English/Spanish

Greece’s horrific conditions at ‘island prisons’

There are no words to name what is happening in Greece, the political interests of the European Union and now of the governments of Turkey and Greece against war refugees. It is urgent to seek an answer to report these crimes

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We have returned from Moria without problems. On the road we have seen a car where yesterday there was the checkpoint of the fascists but they have not stopped us. On the ground there was a lot of glass, of the cars that have been smashed up yesterday and today..

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‘We Don’t Give Up and Don’t Give In.. Indigenous Women Call for Collective Action on March 8

“We don’t give up and don’t give in,” National Indigenous Congress_Indigenous Governing Council (CNI_CIG) call for March 8

Call for decentralized actions on March 8 by the CNI-CIG Women’s Group.

February 26, 2020

To the Councillors of the Indigenous Governing Council (CIG)

To all our compañeras at the National Indigenous Congress (CNI)

To all women who are fighting or want to join an anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal struggle.

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Cancer Alley Communities battle Exxon in Louisiana

Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana

The gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas is witnessing a gigantic insane  petrochemical expansion with dozens of new huge polluting plants, LNG ports, pipelines of frack oil, frack fossil gas and LPG supplying refineries and plastics installations. But at the same time community resistance  (opens in a new is finally taking off, focusing on the plague of cancer and other diseases, along with opposition to climate chaos, methane leaks, risk of stranded assets, a glut of gas from the Permian field, as well as  recession and  coronavirus fears.

By Julie Dermansky .. see videos here.. • Feb 24, 2020

Entrance to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge refinery on February 19, 2020, a week after a fire at the facility.

A large fire at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit up the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed that air monitoring inside the plant and in surrounding neighborhoods did not detect the release of harmful concentrations of chemicals, a claim echoed by first responders and state regulators.

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