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Global art sensation Pigcasso – a 500-kilogram pig known for painting with her nose and a paintbrush – has passed away in South Africa at the age of eight, after suffering from chronic rheumatoid arthritis, her owner said on Wednesday.
In a statement to Caters News, Joanne Lefson – a 52-year-old artist and animal rights activist – announced that her creative partner had passed away after her symptoms rapidly worsened in September 2023. By early October, Pigcasso had lost the use of her hind legs due to calcification of the lower spine.
“There is much sadness that such an inspiring figure for welfare animals has passed, but we also celebrate a life well-lived and the profound difference she made,” Lefson said.
In loving memory of Pigcasso who has sadly passed away.
Rescued from a factory farm in South Africa, Pigcasso changed the hearts and minds of so many, encouraging them to reconsider how they saw farmed animals. She will leave a lasting legacy.
In 2016, Lefson rescued Pigcasso, who was then four weeks old, from a factory farm just before she was due to be sent to the slaughterhouse. From there, the pig was relocated to a sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Franschhoek, South Africa.
As famine stalks enclave, aid workarounds criticised as a distraction from Israel’s blocking of aid through land routes. Gaza has no ports or airports due to the western supported 17 year long Israeli blockade/ Finally the US says it will “build a pier”
Five people were killed and several injured after a parachute landing a humanitarian airdrop failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp.
The government media office in Gaza confirmed the casualties after the incident occurred on Friday, lambasting the “useless” airdrops as “flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service” and calling for food to be allowed through land crossings.
“We previously warned it poses a threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip and this is what happened today when the parcels fell on the citizens’ heads,” it said in a statement.
Reporting from Rafah, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said that people are experiencing “a tragedy” in the north of Gaza.
“Not only are they confronted with the lack of food and medical supplies, but as they wait for packages of food, they are either targeted by the Israeli military or killed by a non-functional parachute,” Mahmoud said.
The deaths occurred as famine stalked the enclave, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting last month that at least half a million, or one in four people in Gaza, face famine.
It highlighted the problem of getting desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza amid Israeli restrictions.
UNRWA, the largest UN agency in Gaza, says Israeli authorities have not allowed it to deliver supplies to the north of the strip since January 23.
Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Rafah [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]
The World Food Programme, which had paused deliveries in Gaza because of security concerns, said the military forced its first convoy to the north in two weeks to turn back on Tuesday.
In response, a number of countries – including the United States, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt – have conducted airdrops, which have been criticised by aid agencies as a costly and ineffective way of delivering food and medical supplies.
On Wednesday, the WFP said that the controversial method should be considered “a last resort”. By way of contrast, it said that the week’s airdrops had only delivered six tonnes of food, while a failed 14-truck convoy would have brought 200 tonnes of food to people.
#Airdrops are only a last resort to reach Northern Gaza. Road routes are the only way to bring in the large quantities of food desperately needed to avert #famine.
For comparison:
🪂 This week's airdrops = 6 tons of food 🚛This week's failed 14-truck convoy = 200 tons of food pic.twitter.com/xkR3ZfDgmt
— WFP in the Middle East & North Africa (@WFP_MENA) March 6, 2024
On Friday, Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s communications director told Al Jazeera, “There is an easier and cheaper way to bring in much-needed supplies into the Gaza Strip … That is via the road including sending more trucks from Israel into the Gaza Strip.
Militancy is not masculine, fragility is not feminine
Despite the theme of International (Working) Women’s Day 2024 being “Invest in Women”, the socialist origins of International Working Women’s Day must not be forgotten.
In Australia, IWWD was commemorated for the first time in 1928 with a rally in Sydney, organised by the The Militant Women’s Movement of the Communist Party of Australia.
In campaigning for better wages and conditions, working women knew that the struggle to recognise their lives and labour as valuable was not going to come from asking to be invested in, but by demanding it.
As French anarchist Louise Michel said, “our place in humanity as women must not be begged but taken”.
This IWWD, we stand in solidarity with Palestinian women and their struggle for liberation. The slaughter, displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has disproportionately affected women in Gaza.
Opposition to the systemic colonial violence perpetrated by Israel must be active and direct. We must call out cynical bourgeois white feminism and it’s hypocritical ignorance towards the Palestinian struggle.
Here in Geelong and Australia, we are directly connected to the genocide by arms manufacturing and the governments support for the Israeli regime. As feminists, anarchists, and human beings with beating hearts we believe it is our duty to fight for a Free Palestine.
A revolutionary socialist movement will not be won without organised, class conscious, militant women.
Vapid slogans and breakfasts used by bosses, politicians and corporations have no place in our struggle for liberation.
The working class women of today must draw inspiration from the radical origins of International Working Women’s Day to struggle against domination, imperialism and discrimination and organise for a world that is free, equal and just.
Al Mayadeen | March 8, 2024 The mass killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “is permissible according to the halakhic principles,” the head of a Jewish religious school in occupied Yafa, Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, stated according to Israeli news website Ynet. A recording of the extremist’s answers to questions on the Gaza Strip was published […]
México NUESTROS CUERPOS Y TERRITORIOS, NO SON MERCANCÍA! El 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, es mucho más que una fecha en el calendario. Es un recordatorio de la lucha histórica y continua de nosotras las mujeres en todo el mundo por la igualdad, la justicia, el respeto y la dignidad. Este día, […]
In Exarcheia – for decades now, but with particular intensity in recent years – a war is being waged on the part of the state.
Athens, Greece: For smashing Polyamorous flower shop – by Anarchists
A neighbourhood inhabited for many years largely by proletarians, immigrants, women activists, students and youth, a neighbourhood that has always been the “centre” of all kinds of radical movements, has long been part of a coordinated and centrally planned operation of aggressive and violent mutation.
The Greek state has invested a lot in achieving a double goal: on the one hand, in handing over to capital – big and small – an important piece of the metropolitan centre for profitable investments mainly in the field of real estate, tourism and the entertainment industry that always connects this kind of “development”,
And, on the other hand, the all-out attack on the world and the structures of the movement that for decades have arisen, rooted in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia, with the aim of closing its historical accounts with the internal enemy in the heart of the city.
The state planning includes securing the necessary infrastructure (such as the Metro), the regeneration of key but also historically and politically charged points in the neighbourhood (e.g. the Polytechnic, the Museum, the Square, up to the former Strefi hill), as well as the deployment of powerful repressive forces of all species to ensure the discipline and security of this violent plan’s unfolding.
It is this planning that is creating an absolutely fertile ground for the onslaught of investments of all kinds and sizes – and the skyrocketing property values they bring – which are increasingly changing not only the image and character of the neighbourhood, but also the constitution and class structure of the world that inhabits and moves in it.
The war that State and Capital have unleashed in Exarcheia is a war with clear class characteristics. The poor are displaced, unable to meet the cost of living, and the rich – foreign and local – are taking their place.
From this violent restructuring, some – otherwise modern, liberal, alternative – businessmen have decided, even if they make an uninformed choice, to also benefit alongside the great profitability of the big investors.
The multi-faceted struggle that is already being waged by many people in Exarcheia, against the police occupation, the redevelopment, the Metro, the hotels, has in its sights – to the extent that it belongs to them – all these businesses that are aimed at the neighbourhood’s. new wealthy visitors and residents.
The economic system that currently governs the territory dominated by the Chilean State and practically all Western States, is capitalism.
Capitalism, in simple words, is based on what; Commerce and industry (means of production) are organized and controlled by their owners, that is: entrepreneurs.
For capitalism to take root and last over time as a political-economic system, it needed a patriarchal social structure. Understanding the latter as the social organization where the male authority is exercised from the family, becoming present in all practices of domination.
Therefore, it would be difficult to propose a radical emancipatory change without ending the total destruction of capitalism and patriarchy.
Patriarchal authoritarian oppressive structures have (dis)formed virtually all the relationships we have with others and with ourselves.
Another human is no longer another individual equivalent to me with whom we could help each other and develop integrally, now the relationship between humans is subject to what position they occupy within the social hierarchy.
On the other hand, the relationship with other non-human beings is dependent on the economic benefit that it could give me, transforming it into a consumer product.
And finally, the vision that patriarchy has created of ourselves is limited and circumscribed by imposed canons or patterns, whether aesthetic, gender, etc.
Obtaining the necessary tools to destroy the logic of dominance, which makes us in various ways reproduce and perpetuate the need to dominate and be dominated, is the task of all of us who are committed to seeing this reality burn…
Visualizing that patriarchal capitalism brings wealth to a few at the expense of the lives of many others could mean that the beneficiaries of this system of terror can be identified and attacked.
Against Patriarchy, in pursuit of establishing the foundations of the paths that deny anarchy.
El sistema económico que rige actualmente el territorio dominado por el Estado chileno y prácticamente todos los Estados occidentales, es el capitalismo.
El capitalismo, en palabras simples, se cimiento en qué; el comercio y la industria (medios de producción) están organizados y controlados por sus propietarios, es decir: los empresarios. Para que el capitalismo se enraizara y perdurara en el tiempo como un sistema político económico, necesitó de una estructura social patriarcal. Entendiendo a esta última, como la organización social en donde la autoridad del varón es ejercida desde la familia, llegando a estar en todas las prácticas de dominación. Por lo que, dificilmente se podría plantear un cambio radical emancipatorio sin acabar con la total destrucción del capitalismo y del patriarcado.
Las estructuras opresoras autoritarias patriarcales han (des) formado prácticamente todas las relaciones que tenemos con otrxs y con nosotrxs mismxs. Otrx humanx, ya no es otrx individuo equivalente a mí con el cual podríamos ayudarnos mutuamente y desarrollarnos integralmente, ahora la relación entre humanxs estxs sujeta a qué puesto ocupa dentro de la jerarquía social. Por otra parte la relación con otrxs seres no humanos, está supeditada en cuanto al beneficio económico que me podría entregar, transformándose en un producto de consumo. Y por último la visión que ha creado el patriarcado de nosotrxs mismxs está limitada y circunscrita a cánones o patrones impuestos tanto estéticos, de género, etc.
Conseguir las herramientas necesarias para destruir las lógicas del dominio, que nos hace que de diversas maneras reproduzcamos y perpetuemos la necesidad dominar y de ser dominadxs, es tarea de todxs quienes apostamos por ver arder esta realidad…
Visualizar, que el capitalismo patriarcal trae riquezas a unos pocos a costa de la vida de muchxs otrxs, podría traer consigo que se pueda identificar y atacar a lxs beneficiadxs de este sistema de terror.
Contra el Patriarcado, en pos de conseguir los cimientos de los caminos negadores de la anarquía.
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