Year: 2020

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By Guadi Calvo. Middle East Summary, November 19, 2020-.

On November 13, after thirty years of ceasefire, the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguía el Hamra and Río de Oro) announced through its Secretary General and President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Bahim Ghali, who considered broken the agreement signed with Morocco in 1991, after fifteen years of struggle, under the auspices of the United Nations, which provided for a referendum on self-determination, which has never been carried out.

In his message, Ghali announced that “the Sahrawi armed forces assume full control of national security and decrees a state of war”, given that the Moroccan royal army penetrated the Guerguerat “buffer” zone, in the extreme south of the Sahara. Occidental, next to the border between SADR and

Mauritania, with the excuse of restoring traffic after the blockade that Sahrawi militants established on October 21, carrying out acts of vandalism, and harassing the military observers of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), in addition to the fact that some 200 trucks would have been retained, so it must “guarantee the free movement of people and goods.”

Mohammed VI, King of Morocco declared on Monday 16, his “respect for the ceasefire” and warned that he remained determined to respond harshly, and within the framework of legitimate defense, against any threat “to the security of his country, which which includes the Saharan sectors controlled by Rabat.

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Uganda’s Security Minister Elly Tumwine has backed police action after 37 people were killed on Wednesday and Thursday following clashes with supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine.

In a media briefing Mr Tumwine said: Quote Message:

” Police have a right to shoot you and kill you if you reach a certain level of violence. Can I repeat? Police have a right to shoot you and you die for nothing.”

Protests have rocked Uganda since last year, when the government amended the constitution to abolish presidential age limits, allowing President Yoweri Museveni to stay in power indefinitely.

Bobi Wine appeared in court on Friday and has been released on bail after being charged with spreading coronavirus.

Protesters supporting opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine, seen on placard, gather around the dead body of a man who they claimed had been shot by police but which could not be immediately verified, during clashes with security forces in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Police in Uganda said three people died and 38 were injured in protests that broke out on Wednesday in Uganda’s capital after police arrested Bobi Wine, a musician and opposition politician who is seeking the presidency in next year’s election. (AP Photo)

He has been accused of failing to adhere to health measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus while campaigning for next year’s election.

In August, Wine’s driver was shot dead, and the lawmaker was beaten and tortured. Wine believes government forces are responsible.

After the beating Bobi was taken to the USA to recover. The US seems to be grooming him as a possible replacement of Museveni. The U.S. provides Uganda with more than $970 million a year in assistance, according to the U.S. State Department, with the bulk of financial support aimed at Museveni’s security apparatus..

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From itsgoingdown.org shared with thanks Nov 18, 20

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The following article, written by Afinidades Conspirativas and translated by Scott Campbell, examines the recent wave of feminist protests and actions throughout Mexico and the role of anarchism amidst these mobilizations. All footnotes and photo captions are from the original Spanish version, which can be found as a PDF here.

“You’re a big shot, drawing on my painting…I hope your action fixes everything”
José Manuel Núñez A., painter of the Madero portrait[1]

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”
Emma Goldman

“If we can’t be violent, it’s not our revolution”
Manada de lobxs [Pack of wolves]

The multiplicity of forms that anarchisms have taken in recent decades leads us to reexamine the tendencies and strategies that are re-configuring themselves or emerging from these forms, as well as their influences on other struggles.

Continue reading “Feminists and Anarchists at War with Femicide in Mexico”