..If the research outlined below is proven publicly and accepted as correct at least the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, will have to be withdrawn. On the other hand urgent ongoing studies and the WHO conclude that vaccines may reduce transmission. Manufacturers already have a guarantee that they CANNOT BE SUED for damages, at least in the USA .
‘Huge Price’ to pay for COVID Mass Vaccination?’
In an open letter to the WHO and in a follow-up video interview, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, says that by vaccinating everyone with a vaccine that doesn’t prevent transmission, we are destroying people’s immune systems, and setting the stage for a global health disaster.
Hace 3 años asesinaron a la compañera Marielle Franco, luchadora por los derechos humanos, de las mujeres y de les habitantes de las favelas, concejala de la ciudad de Río de Janeiro, feminista, negra, lesbiana y quien nunca se calló frente a los poderosos. El 10 de marzo de 2018 denunció a la policía por los atropellos y la violencia institucional ejercida en la favela de Acari.
Imagen: Grabado de Roberto Cervio.
Esa misma policía que mata a nuestres pibxs en las villas de acá, y en todas partes. Cuatro días después, matan a Marielle, de manera cobarde, y a Anderson Pedro Gomes, quien manejaba el auto en que se encontraban. La familia de Jair Bolsonaro está implicada en el crimen, que con una bronca infinita debemos decir que sigue impune, que el poder judicial archivó el pedido de investigar al actual presidente y la causa sigue rodeada de sospechas…
..If the research outlined below is proven publicly and accepted as correct at least the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, would have to be withdrawn. On the other hand urgent ongoing studies and the WHO conclude that vaccines may reduce transmission. Manufacturers already have a guarantee that they CANNOT BE SUED for damages, at least in the USA .
‘Huge Price’ to pay for COVID Mass Vaccination?’
In an open letter to the WHO and in a follow-up video interview, Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, says that by vaccinating everyone with a vaccine that doesn’t prevent transmission, we are destroying people’s immune systems, and setting the stage for a global health disaster.
Bossche explains that vaccines DO WORK on an individual level, but in the aggregate create enormous risks due to “immune escape”
Bossche says the COVID vaccines approved so far have been developed by “just brilliant” people and he has no criticism of them But, as he tells Dr. Phillip McMillan in an interview, “please use the right vaccine at the right place. And don’t use it in the heat of a pandemic on millions of millions of people.”
Bossche says that a mass vaccination campaign in the middle of a pandemic, with vaccines that don’t prevent transmission, is disastrous at an individual — and at a global — level:
“We are going to pay a huge price for this. And I’m becoming emotional because I’m thinking of my children, of the younger generation. I mean, it’s just impossible what we are doing. We don’t understand the pandemic.”
In the open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Bossche wrote that “we are currently turning vaccinees into asymptomatic carriers shedding infectious variants.”
Bossche hasn’t heard back from WHO, which concerns him.
01/15/21.. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned there is no guarantee that COVID-19 vaccines will prevent people from being infected with the SARS-VCoV-2 virus and transmitting it to other people. Vaccines don’t necessarily prevent transmission
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Israel: ‘Have vaccinated folks become Super-spreaders?’
‘How did Israel manage, within 2 months of intensive inoculation with the Pfizer vaccine, to double the number of deaths accumulated in the prior 10 months of the pandemic?’
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with participants in autonomous groups across Texas, including Cooperation Denton, Stop the Sweeps in Austin, Mutual Aid Houston, Houston Tenants Union, and North Texas Rural Resilience.
late thread, but I wrote a piece last week for @grist on how mutual aid orgs filled the gap left by the state in Texas last week and provided food, water and shelter for their communities. https://t.co/FLd28X1Ure
The first in a two part series, this episode discusses the devastating storms which rocked Texas and the Southwest and the context that the “big freeze” happened within: from anti-Black police violence and attacks on the homeless community, to widespread neoliberal policies that left infrastructure and housing stock dilapidated and on the verge of collapse.
Desperate to keep the Capitalist machine churning out ‘toxic growth’ the EU resorts to dropping BILLIONS in Helicopter Money. But won’t that cause hyper inflation? THAT’S THE BIG IDEA. With inflation our meagre wages will disappear, their mega debts shrink, and what we have left we might as well SPEND.. ___________________________
The Legacy of Santa Bárbara
Dear readers:
As you may have noticed, I had not published any post for three weeks. The reason is the same as always: a lot of workload – aggravated by the difficulties of the new “CoVid reality” – and therefore less free time, among other things to write on this blog. However, this time this work overload has risen an additional step, and that step has a name: NextGenerationEU.
In case you do not know, I will tell you that NextGenerationEU is a huge economic stimulus package (three-quarters of a trillion euros) that the European Union has allocated to stimulate the economic recovery of the member countries.
Most of this package is made up of the so-called Recovery and Resilience Fund (!), Which has very specific objectives, among which the fight against Climate Change (a minimum of 37% of the funds) and the digital transformation (at least 20%).
Anarcha Feminism: The Beginning Of The End Of All Forms Of Oppression, a piece by Sanya Sethi.
What Is Anarcha Feminism?
Anarcha – Feminism has been defined as,”…being against oppression, domination and authority, but focusing on gender oppression, not because it is most important, but because it affects so many of us and must be dealt with. Gender oppression includes patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, heteronormativity, transphobia, the gender binary, fatphobia, sexual violence, body image issues etc.”
It is a political philosophy and movement whose goal is not only to abolish the capitalist state, but also all forms of patriarchal domination. It focuses on placing women’s emancipation at the center of the struggle towards achieving the goals laid out by the anarchist theory. It also attempts to develop the understanding of women’s roles in creating relationships free of subordination and oppression.
Anarcha feminists do not see the goals of feminism as distinct from anarchism, but they see feminism as a form of anarchism and vice versa. For them, “…the struggle against patriarchy is an inherent part of the struggle to abolish the state and abolish capitalism, as they believe that the state itself is a patriarchal structure.”
It is described as an anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-oppressive philosophy, with the goal of creating an “equal ground” between all genders. Anarcha feminism suggests the social freedom and liberty of women without dependence upon other groups or parties.
A Brief History: The World And India
The term anarchist-feminist, later used interchangeably as anarcha-feminist / anarcho-feminist, emanates from 17th century state theory, the Marxist theory of state which upholds the concept of withering away of the state, and of course the extensive literature of the anarchist political theory. It first appeared in an August 1970 issue of the Berkele- based movement newspaper called It Ain’t Me Babe. It was first defined and created by women who saw radical feminism itself as a form of anarchy.
Radical feminists opposed the “male domineering attitude” and “male hierarchical thought patterns.” During the 1970’s, when there was a rapid growth of small leaderless consciousness raising groups in many countries across the world, a corresponding theory of radical feminism developed that opposed domination, mostly after discovering anarchism through the writings of Emma Goldman and observed the “intuitive anarchism” of the women’s liberation movement.
Early anarcha-feminist theory and debate emerged through Siren newsletter. The first issue, produced as a journal in 1971, contained “Who We Are: The Anarcho-Feminist Manifesto“. The manifesto focused on differentiating anarcha feminism from socialist feminism through a critique of the state: “We believe that a Woman’s Revolutionary Movement must not mimic, but destroy, all vestiges of the male-dominated power structure, the State itself — with its whole ancient and dismal apparatus of jails, armies, and armed robbery (taxation); with all its murder; with all of its grotesque and repressive legislation and military attempts, internal and external, to interfere with people’s private lives and freely-chosen co-operative ventures.” The manifesto laid down many things which revealed what should and should not be expected.
In India, the vestiges of anarcha feminism can be traced in the feminist movement in the 1970’s and 1980’s. During that time, the failure of the Indian state to deliver the basic needs of people lead to a widespread resistance by the workers, peasants, middle class and women. However, the Indian state responded in 1975 by declaring a state of Emergency that took away all the civil and political rights of the citizens. Consequently, the women’s movement in the 1970’s emerged along with other left and democratic forces.
In the years that followed, the women’s movement identified complex structures of domination and saw some of its greatest achievements through legal reforms.
Indian feminists began questioning the established power structures and realized that the feminist questioning of patriarchy necessarily challenges the state, caste, class, community, household, family and marriage. Opposition to the traditional concepts of family, education and gender roles is an important aspect of anarcha feminism. The institution of marriage is also widely opposed. Thus, Indian women challenging such power structures during that time indicates their touch with anarcha feminism.
Why Is It Important?
When we talk about anarcha feminism, a common question that pops up is – “Why is this relevant if anarchists and feminists already oppose sexism?” History tells us that being an anarchist doesn’t make one automatically non-sexist; similarly, being a feminist doesn’t necessarily make one opposed to other forms of dominance and violence.
This is why anarcha feminism becomes important. Anarchists must also oppose sexism, patriarchy, casteism, racism, along with authority, hierarchy and all forms of oppression.
The anarcha-feminist politics is a way of prioritizing feminism and anti-oppression in individual and collective struggles. Therefore, it is necessary for feminists to struggle for anarchy as no form of hierarchy and domination that decides power relations is acceptable. There are considerable synergies between feminist notions of social justice and social change as well as anarchist conceptions of revolutions, which deserve far more attention than they currently receive.
Conclusion
Anarcha feminism provides us with a means to address all forms of oppression and to act in solidarity with the oppressed, thereby avoiding a reductionist understanding of power based on just gender or caste. It further enables people to work in solidarity despite our differences, for though their experiences might differ, illegitimate power is a common enemy.
The present situation of India reveals that various forms of oppression are still in place and what we require is a struggle not just against patriarchy, but against all forms of oppression.
Thus, whether Indian feminists should adopt anarcha feminism as a means to achieve the same in the contemporary times, is an important question that requires due consideration.
On February 26 the Canadian Parliament passed amotion, by a vote of 226 to 0, expressing the opinion that “the People’s Republic of China has” implemented “measures intended to prevent” Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim births and that these measures are “consistent with” the United Nations Genocide Convention.
The reality is that Beijing is not preventing Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim births, and a report by a German anthropologist widely cited as evidence that it is, contradicts this claim. That report, by Adrian Zenz, a fellow at a US government-created foundation whose mission is to bring about the end of communism and the Chinese Communist Party, reveals that while Chinese family planning policyrestrictsthe number of children Chinese couples are allowed to have, it does notpreventcouples in any group, including Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, from bearing children. Moreover, limits on…
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