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Everyone pays for the rich to get richer. We pay with our labor, working to fill their pockets. We pay with skyrocketing rent as they gentrify us out of our homes. We pay with the destruction of the environment, the erasure of our communities, the stress in our day-to-day lives. We pay for things that used to be free, like water. We pay taxes so they can hire more cops to terrorize us. Everyone pays, but only they benefit.
With an increasing media spotlight + growing actions across the US + the world, we caught up with several #Seattle anarchists to learn why people are pushing for a fare strike, police off mass transit, and increased + totally free service. #NoBodyPayshttps://t.co/rpZ7LmOuBY
Capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands. By now it’s ridiculous and totally immoral .. and an opportunity for hackers who want to save the planet to STRIKE A POWERFUL BLOW. Phineas Fisher ( she, he or they) has shown how insanely rich and powerful criminals who are leading the destruction of the planet can be exposed and held responsible.
Phineas is now offering reward money, up to 100,000 USD, as a token and encouragement to raise an army of hackers fom the millions of unemployed youth. As rebellions take off around the world and western capitalism stalls, the aim is to help expose, block and sabotage the billionaires, the climate destroyers, the military and the deep State…
One of Phineas’ hacks has been the AKP party of Erdogan, the truly fascist dictator in Turkey who is intent on genocide to destroy the Rojava Revolution in N Syria. Indeed hacking to support the social revolution in Rojava is an urgent necessity (among many others, especially our comrades in Chile, Mexico, Colombia …and here at home …!)
Rojava gives us a good practical template for survival in a collapsing environment, as an example of a workable anti capitalist alternative able to flourish despite a blockade, an invasion by ISIS, etc. Able to free women, communalise society, and unite religions and races in a sectarian setting. No wonder Turkey, ISIS and Al Qaeda, the US, Russia, Syria and Iran all agree in destoying it! Check out #RiseUp4Rojava on twitter
TaxHavensintheWorldA recent study estimated the super wealthy of the world hide approximately $21 trillion abroad. About 80 percent belongs to the top 0.1 . of billionaires. SEE ALSO> Eat The Rich> How Offshore Capital now Rules The World ”Offshore” residents have effectively become a global “stateless” oligarchy, living secretive and tax-free lives with their vast fortunes supported by expansionary monetary policy.
An increasing number of states have effectively joined in an offshore federation, “replacing imperialism by a holy alliance of the imperialists”.
Phineas Fisher explained in her/his/their message that they attacked the neo fascist AKP Turkish government of Erdogan “because I support the society people are trying to build in Rojava and Bakur, and they’re being attacked by Turkey,
By Dan Feidt, Freddy Martinez, Unicorn Riot November 17, 2019
Isle of Man, UK – A blast of sunshine has hit a secretive banking network used by global ultra-wealthy figures following a massive hack by “Phineas Fisher“, a notorious self-described “hacktivist”, of Cayman National Bank and Trust, which serves nearly 1,500 accounts in the Isle of Man. Transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets has began publishing copies of the bank’s servers, a cache of documents as well as communications among bankers and others. Journalists around the world are investigating and have begun releasing stories.
Following the hack, a manifesto was uploaded to the Internet addressing the motivation for hacking financial services companies. Unicorn Riot has embedded the manifesto below which includes previously unpublished code which the author claims was used to break into “Hacking Team” an Italian surveillance company. Hacking Team was an elite corporation that specialized in developing malware until Phineas Fisher hacked them and published their code online. The malware developed by Hacking Team was often used to attack journalists and activists on behalf of repressive governments .
Maria
Meza, a migrant woman from Honduras, runs away from tear gas with her
five-year-old twin daughters Saira and Cheili at the US-Mexico border on
November 25, 2018 [File: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon]
Last December, the Trump administration enacted a scheme requiring Central American asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their legal proceedings drag on indefinitely in the United States.
The Migrant Protection Protocols policy – a
handily perverse euphemism – is the approximate equivalent of calling
the Exxon Valdez oil spill the Marine Life Protection Initiative. As
various human rights and advocacy organisations have pointed out, the
border programme has exposed tens of thousands of asylum seekers to violence; including rape, kidnapping and assault, in the unsure border regions of Mexico.
In light of the surplus of rapes and other abuses already documented
as a result of so-called “protection”, the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women – marked annually on November 25 –
is an ideal occasion to reflect on the violence facing migrant women in
an era of mass migration.
Pervasive violence
As the UN Women website observes : ” Rape
is rooted in a complex set of patriarchal beliefs, power, and control
that continue to create a social environment in which sexual violence is
pervasive and normalised.”
The feminist revolution in Rojava, N.Syria, shows how patriarchy can be defeated, even in a rural and strictly religious society. The revolution is now being destroyed by a Turkish invasion with a strongly patriarchal mentality. The Rojava kurds formed the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) in 2015 and welcomed dozens of Arab, Assyrian, yazidi, Christian..militias into a common front, spreading their revolutionary methods (eg in Manbij Council).Yazidi women victims have formed their own militia within SDF and recently the first arab women’s militia has been formed (July ’17). There are profound feminist implications in the context of previous extreme social repression.
For an idea of the extent of normalisation, just recall Patriarch-in-chief President Donald Trump‘s own previous advice about fondling women without their consent: “Grab ’em by the p****.”
Migrant women, of course, are particularly
vulnerable to “grabbing” – and much worse – especially given that crimes
against migrants are not generally reported or prosecuted. And for
Central American women transiting Mexico to the US border, sexual
assault is frequently par for the course.
Ain Issa is outside the “security zone” that Erdogan determined: 32 kilometers south of the border that divides the Turkish Kurdistan from the Syrian. Despite this, and his promise not to operate in the south of that area, yesterday the Turkish forces launched a general offensive against the city.
Aviation, artillery, mortar fire, ground attack from three axes and tanks broke the front and approached the city. His main attack was against the camp of 70,000 prisoners of the Islamic State in order to free them.
They have managed to burn it.
The Yekîneyên Parastinê Gel (Units of Popular Defense, YPG) have today sent reinforcements to the area in order to stop the Turkish mercenaries that have advanced but not enough to enter the city.
The situation is more complicated as the Russian troops, deployed in Ain Issa instead of the Americans, have refused to intervene in the fighting. In fact, the attack occurred only hours after Russia made a joint patrol with the Turkish army in Ain Issa.
In spite of Moscow’s commitment that the patrol was to avoid further fighting, it was certified that Erdogan troops used it to recognize the ground before launching the attack.
Turkish mercenaries, who have had a minimum of fifteen casualties, are just one kilometer away from Ain Issa while fighting continues.
Women departments in al-Tabqa, Deir ez-Zor, al-Raqqa, prepare to receive International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
The
women’s departments in al-Tabqa, Deir ez-Zor, and al-Raqqa launched
their activities in coordination with the Syrian Women’s Council in
preparation for the International Day for Elimination of Violence
against Women, which falls on the 25th of November of each year under
the slogan, “Occupation Is Violence. By Hevrin’s Resistance, We Will
Break the Occupation and Fascism.”
WOMAN
24 Nov 2019, Sun – 19:28
2019-11-24T19:28:00
AL-RAQQA
There were numerous events and activities; the distribution of leaflets, hanging the banners, holding the symposia and lectures on the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women and raising the women’s awareness that the freedom of society stems from women’s freedom and is linked to it.
The people of Hai al-Jesser (al-Jesser neighborhood) in Girê Spî occupied city burned a headquarter for the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation against the background of harassing the women of the neighborhood by the mercenaries.
According to the information, 3 mercenaries were killed in the result of the fire.
NEWS FROM ANHA 24 Nov 2019, Sun – 20:04 2019-11-24T20:04:00 GIRÊ SPÎ
A source from Girê Spî city stated that civilians from al-Jesser neighborhood in Girê Spî city attacked on Sunday a headquarter for the Turkish occupation mercenaries and set fire to it, as 3 mercenaries were killed.
Girê Spî resistance
The source assured that this incident came as a reaction by the people against the background of harassing the women of the neighborhood by the mercenaries, which enraged the civilians and they attacked a headquarter for the mercenaries and set fire to it.
Since its occupation by Turkey and its mercenaries, Girê Spî city has
been witnessing insecurity, as every now and then, the city witnesses
explosions, looting and kidnapping operations in addition to abusing and
raping women.
On the 25th of November 1960 the tyranny of the dictator Trujillo, a symbol of the systematized patriarchy, killed the Mirabal sisters through a conspiracy. Their resistance and their murder increased the struggle against the fascist dictatorship. Six months after they were killed, the organized force of the people brought an end to the dictatorship. The Mirabal sisters continue to be one of the biggest sources of hope for the fight of all women in the world against patriarchal violence and its organized forms of fascism and dictatorship.
Hevrîn Xalef
Hevrîn Xalef
Today, our region has become a war zone of international hegemonic forces. We as women in the region face the most heavy, organized, brutal and intensive sides of the violence in this war zone. In North and East Syria, in the occupational and genocidal war that Turkey started on the 9th of October; from the use of prohibited chemical weapons, torture, organized attacks and rapes, forced displacements and murders, women and children faced and continue to face various kinds of attacks.
![Maria Meza, a migrant woman from Honduras, runs away from tear gas with her five-year-old twin daughters Saira and Cheili at the US-Mexico border on November 25, 2018 [File: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2019/11/25/16a247b20d24445182983ac12bc41b1b_18.jpg "Smash the patriarchy to save the planet")
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