For Class Feminism.. March 8, 2020: World Day of Working Women extends to more days

editorial Red and Black newspaper (Rojo y Negro) Feb 2020 http://rojoynegro.info/sites.. shared and translated, images added

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”March 8th was adopted as the International Day of Working Women in memory, along with other previous struggles in the second half of the nineteenth century, of the dozens of women killed in a textile factory in New York in March 1911 for claiming improvements in their labor rights and salary equality with men.

With the evolution of the times, for some years now, March 8 has become known as International Women’s Day, losing the words ‘Working Women’ and the concept of a worker, which may be due assuming that new social sectors are approaching feminism, thereby gaining in transversality and greater public visibility.

From liberal feminist and even social-democratic viewpoints, the the disappearance of the word ‘worker’ is may make sense. But for anarcho-feminism, the component of working women is indispensable.

We understand that feminism has to be, in the first place, a class feminism impregnated with other parameters such as postcolonial and racialized feminism, feminism of the intersectionality of migrant women, cyberfeminism, lesbian feminism, queer, ecofeminism, punkfeminism, transfeminism …”.


8M .. 2020

”The feminist movement in the Spanish State is preparing for a new 8M of 2020. After two editions marked by unprecedented massive demonstrations and strikes – labor, consumption and care, the relevance of calling it again is one of the questions that emerged a month after the call, because it falls on a Sunday and most want to advance with new actions. At the moment, only Catalonia is inclined to call a General Strike”.Image result for San Violentín

”As a previous step to the demonstrations that will be convened in all cities for and around the 8th, which when they coincide on Sunday have many possibilities of being massive, all the territories are organizing meetings, assemblies, workshops, appeals, activities … And many of these actions will be carried out on a small scale because “decentralization is one of the most powerful forces of the feminist movement,” says Dolo Pulido from Barcelona.

”In the Catalan capital, the 8M began already on February 14 with a performance called “San Violentín” to point out the myths of romantic love and on the same day the southeast of Gran Canaria held an Assembly with the same intention. One day later, on the 15th, the women took the north of the island in a feminist human chain in the style of that of Madrid and organized several workshops”.


 

”Of course, the feminist struggle is transversal and affects all women by the mere fact of being so, regardless of ethnicity, country, belief or social status, but in taking up the legacy of the Free Women anarchist movement (Mujeres Libres), women have to free ourselves of a triple slavery. On the one hand, illiteracy and inculturation, on the other the condition of being a woman and also the condition of being an exploited working woman.

While it is true that liberation from the first slavery has been achieved to a very high percentage, at least in our country and indeed in the new generation we can even see that the educational level of women is already higher than that of men, it is also true that the release from the other two kinds of slavery is still pending.

Thus, the woman, by her mere condition of being one, continues to occupy a secondary, invisible and merely a role in this capitalist and patriarchal society. And, furthermore, the working woman suffers an exploitation greater than the man.

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Evidence mounts of irregularities in UK court procedures in Assange extradition case

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The second of two articles examining Julian Assange’s upcoming extradition trial.

The first article in this series proposed that there are at least six legal reasons why the extradition request by the US against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be dismissed by the UK courts.

But there is another dimension – that of alleged prejudice by UK justices and other legal irregularities. This builds another strong case to challenge extradition.

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Portugal: Dirección para escribirle al compañero anarquista Gabriel Pombo Da Silva — Publicacion Refractario

A pesar de que no tenemos novedades, nos es grato anunciar que es posible escribirle a nuestro querido Gabriel Pombo Da Silva a la siguiente dirección: EPPJ Porto Rua Assis Vaz, 109 4200-096 Porto Portugal De momento, continuará detenido en Portugal hasta la mitad de febrero. Mantendremos informando con más actualizaciones de su caso. […]

Portugal: Dirección para escribirle al compañero anarquista Gabriel Pombo Da Silva — Publicacion Refractario

Big British students’ strike against climate change —

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By Peter Lazenby in Britain: Friday, February 14, 2020 Thousands of kids across Britain take to the streets demanding government fights climate change THOUSANDS of students at more than 80 schools across Britain walked out on strike today, demanding government action to fight climate change. Marches, rallies and other events were staged in major towns […]

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Jailed Turkish musicians critical on death fast: calls for justice as Trial begins

Hunger Striking Grup Yorum Member Gökçek Stands Trial

https://bianet.org/english/law/220065-hunger-striking-grup-yorum-member-gokcek-stands-trial-todayİbrahim Gökçek, one of the guitarists of GrupYorum music band, has appeared before the judge for the first time today. Behind bars since March 1, 2019, Gökçek has been on a hunger strike for his right to a fair trial for 240 days.

‘Death Fasting Grup Yorum Members are in Critical Condition’

HDP Foreign Affairs Commission has addressed an open letter to the international community, raising concerns over the critical condition of death fasting Grup Yorum music band members: “Hear the voices of hunger strikers and take immediate action.”

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Hişyar Özsoy, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Vice Chair, has addressed an open letter to the international community regarding the condition of hunger striking Grup Yorum music band members.

Expressing the HDP’s “full support for the rightful demands of hunger strikers”, HDP Vice Chair Responsible for Foreign Affairs has called upon “all international democratic institutions and progressive forces to hear the voices of hunger strikers, take immediate action, and encourage Turkish authorities to meet their justified demands.”

CLICK – Grup Yorum Music Band to Stand Trial

İbrahim Gökçek, the guitarist of Grup Yorum music band, has been on a hunger strike in prison for 240 days and musician Helin Bölek has been on a hunger strike for 239 days. They demand their right to a fair trial and an end to constant police raids against their cultural center.

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Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Amazon women perform “The rapist is you”.. English / Spanish

Bengali, Pakistani, and Amazon indigenous women perform ‘The rapist is you’ song

original text in Spanish below..

‘The song is addressed to the institutional pillars: “the Police, the judges, the State and the president”, which, as the lyrics say, are complicit in gender violence’.

see full lyrics in Spanish, English and German BELOW

The viral feminist anthem “The rapist is you” (“Un violador en tu camino”) born in the ongoing Chilean Uprising it is still making waves all over the world.

info from Global Voices. shared with thanks

see also A Rapist in Your Way ..videos and texts: Un Violador en tu Camino .. power perfomance sweeps Latin America and World (updated)

It has inspired women to protest sexual harassment, abuse and violent repression, ‘with complicit connivance all the way up to “the Police, the judges, the State and the President”.

Some of the demonstrations are in Bangladesh, where over a thousand people protested came out against the rape of a Dhaka University student. Many protesters performed the Bangla version of the song “The rapist is you”.

The fault wasn’t mine, not where I was, nor what I said, nor how I dressed
The fault is yours, the rapist is you

Screenshot of Rahul Talukder’s YouTube video.

Along with the Chilean revolution, the feminist choreography continues to cause a stir throughout the world, as it inspires women to resist.

This online TV channel did a music video with the Bangla song playing over performances in different countries. Clips of the performances were not broadcast in Bangladeshi mainstream media, but went viral on social media.

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#London #UK: Rally Against Capital – F*ck the Banks, F*ck the City!

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London. UK. Call by Green Anticapitalist Front for a rally on February 28. The rally is part of the Green Anticapitalist Week of Action (24/02 – 02/03).

Originally published by Green Anticapitalist Front Facebook event page.

Friday February 28, 2020 at 14:00 (02:00pm) UTC

Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, EC2R 8AH London, UK.

The future of the planet is under attack. We are living through the willful destruction of Earth’s ecosystems and the billions of people who depend on them to survive.

We know what is causing this destruction – the capitalist system we live in and the people who get disgustingly rich while knowing that they are only able to do so by destroying the future for everybody.

Currently they ignore the plight of the global south while stealing resources to pad their pockets all the same; it’s about time we said no more. No more exploitation. No more capitalism. No more climate change!

Join us on the 28th of February at 2pm at in the City of London to tell the bankers, the rich, the powerful that we won’t let them take our planet – the people will not go down without a fight and we’re taking the fight to them to show them what we can do when we organise ourselves.

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