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The supplies will be sent to Ecuador’s coastal regions devastated by a massive 7.8 earthquake. Photo:teleSUR
By teleSUR English
One of the oldest Latino gangs, which now considers itself a social movement, is lending a hand to the relief effort in Ecuador.
In the neighborhood of Turubamba Bajo, the Latin Kings have been collecting donations in their local church for victims of Ecuador’s earthquake.
They have spent 12 hour-days organizing food, water, medicines and clothing to send to the country’s most devastated coastal cities.
Largely stigmatized in Ecuador as criminals, the group actually works on a variety of social intitaitves, including youth development, microfinancing projects, and community education.
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, or the Latin Kings, is the oldest and largest Latino gang in the United States. They developed an international presence in Latin American countries, such as Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Peru and Mexico.
Female oil sector employees sit in a hall on the first day of an official strike called by the Oil and Petrochemical Industries Workers Union over public sector pay reforms, in Ahmadi, Kuwait April 17, 2016. — Reuters pic – See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/money
“We’re glad to announce that the strike has succeeded in preserving the rights of the workers in the oil sector,” [trade union spokesperson] Mr Fadhel said.
The British celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver has proven that a McDonald’s burger is meant for dogs and not for human beings, mostly due to the preparation process.
The media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his global campaign for better food, has been battling one of the leading fast food chains in the world, McDonald’s, for using chemicals and fats unfit for human consumption in preparing their burgers.
McDonald’s has finally agreed to change its process of preparing these burgers, but let me ask you this, did you hear any of the mainstream media making noise over this great change Oliver has brought about? Well as usual, the media is simply protecting its selfish advertising interests, so why would they dare bite the hand that feeds…
Protected by riot police, construction company’s heavy equipment destroys a house in Xochicuautla. Photo: La Jornada
April 13, 2016
TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
TO THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
Faced with the cowardly betrayal of the Natho indigenous community of San Francisco Xochicuautla, municipality of Lerma in the State of Mexico, in order to impose the project of the highway from Toluca to Naucalpan, and the attack suffered by Community police of Ostula, municipality of Aquila, Michoacán, we, the Indigenous National Congress declare ourselves on maximum alert and call on the people, organizations and those in solidarity to be vigilant and respond to the call made by the community of Xochicuautla.
We denounce that:
On Monday April 11, at around 9 in the morning, more than 1,000 state police of the State Commission of Public Safety (CES) and the Forces of Action and Reaction (FAR), began arriving, entering the community…
France’s #NuitDebout has been compared to the #Occupy and #M15 movements. But there’s a clear difference, #NuitDebout was born out of street revolts that continue alongside the square occupations.
Meghan Murphy is at the centre of a battle going on between feminists who argue that porn and prostitution (‘sex-work’) is somehow liberating for women and those like Meghan Murphy and Rachel Moran who say women are victims of the sex industry, that ‘neo-liberal’ feminists are acting like trolls for sexists and patriarchy, and who support the ‘Nordic’ model of penalizing pimps and customers of prostitutes (johns).from feminist current, with thanks. This interview was conducted and translated into French by Francine Sporenda for the website, Révolution Féministe. It has been edited for clarity and length.
Francine Sporenda: What are your thoughts on French Parliament’s recent vote to criminalize the purchase of sex in France?
Meghan Murphy: The recent vote in French parliament to adopt the Nordic model is not only an important and historic win for France, but for all of the EU (and, more broadly, for the world), as it sets a precedent for other countries. That parliamentarians have acknowledged prostitution as a form of violence against women and as inherently coercive is enormously impactful — this is exactly the kind of feminist analysis that industry lobbyists and sexist, entitled men have worked so hard to silence (for obvious reasons).
Rachel Moran: It is high time we women stood up and asked ourselves why we are accepting an enormous global human rights violation whereby almost all of those exploited are female and almost all of those exploiting them are male. see article here: Women to force ban on Buying Sex in Ireland
The continued existence and social acceptance of prostitution relies on the ability to erase the reality of the industry — to erase the real women and girls impacted and to erase the actual idea of prostitution, in and of itself. The sex industry depends on our ability, as humans, to say, “It’s fine, it’s safe, it’s a choice, it’s harmless — just a neutral ‘job’ like any other ‘job,’” and to ignore what is happening to real women in the industry. Continue reading “Meghan Murphy on the liberal backlash against feminism”
The supplies will be sent to Ecuador’s coastal regions devastated by a massive 7.8 earthquake. Photo:teleSUR 
Protected by riot police, construction company’s heavy equipment destroys a house in Xochicuautla. Photo: La Jornada 
France’s #NuitDebout has been compared to the #Occupy and #M15 movements. But there’s a clear difference, #NuitDebout was born out of street revolts that continue alongside the square occupations.
from feminist current, with thanks. This interview was conducted and translated into French by Francine Sporenda for the website, Révolution Féministe. It has been edited for clarity and length.
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