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‘The spectacle is vulnerable,’ proclaimed the pamphlet Why Miss World? And so it proved to be on 20 November 1970, when activists from the nascent women’s liberation movement deployed rattles, chants, banners, flour, smoke bombs, stink bombs, ripe tomatoes and bundles of cascading leaflets to disrupt the 1970 Miss World pageant at London’s Albert Hall, in front of a global television audience of a hundred million people.
from ·Red Pepper with thanks.. illustrations added
Why Miss World? Misbehaving
A new edited volume emphasises that the personal is political and highlights the power of spectacular direct action, says Alice Robson
Misbehaving: stories of protest against the Miss World contest and the beauty industry tells the stories of those who took part in the action in their own words, but does much more than merely record the night’s events, with writers sharing what brought them to the movement and how it changed their lives. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding of 1970s struggles, and to questions that resonate beyond that historical moment.
When Biden was elected hopes soared that the 60 year blockade and terrorist persecution of Cuba would end. After all Biden was vice president under Obama when he timidly opened the door for reconciliation. Now is the moment to put on pressure with the Caravan campaign worldwide. Biden should stop bowing to racist rightwing pressure and halt Trump’s campaign of Terror
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What Cuban-Americans started 9 months ago in Miami, bike/car caravans have spread across the U.S. and Canada month by month to call for bridges of love between the people of the U.S. , Canada and Cuba. U.S. unilateral sanctions — particularly the 240 measures instituted in the last 4 years — hurt Cuban families.
At least 16 U.S. cities have joined. Two, Miami and now Tampa, in Florida. Boston and Holyoke in Massachusetts; Hartford, Conn.; New York City and Albany in NY; Washington, D.C.; Detroit; Chicago; Minneapolis; Seattle; Las Vegas; Seattle; San Francisco; Los Angeles.
Horses graze in a field next to travellers during the horse fair in Appleby in Westmorland, Cumbria
Most of the controversy over the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has raged around its effect on protests, yet very little attention is being given to how it will decimate a historic way of life for thousands of people.
Britain is more divided than at any other time in living memory. There are protests about protests, exemplified by the wave of reaction following the police action at the public vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard.
It has also been heightened by a mammoth piece of legislation engineered by Home Secretary Priti Patel, The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Predictably, there’s been a backlash, mainly because it allows the police to control the start and end times of demonstrations even if they only have one member, which some feel is an eradication of the right to protest.
But hidden deeper are less discussed powers that target the Gypsy, Roma and Travelling (GRT) community in Britain. GRT people have been in the UK since 1515 and their numbers are estimated at around 120,000 today, but some put this as high as 300,000.
shared from Squat!net with thanks! March 29th, 2021
For a year now, the pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people, and in the dystopian world where the huge increase in surveillance and control systems is legitimised by the doctrine of war on the virus, where everything is illegal except going to work, the evictions do not stop.
About the eviction of the Casa Cantoniera
Two and a half years after it opened, the Casa Cantoniera Occupata, the self-managed shelter in Oulx, was evicted. Inside the House was full of people: the pandemic has never stopped those on the move without the privilege of having a place to stay.
Occupied in December 2018, it was a place created to give solidarity to people who wanted to cross the French-Italian border at the Montgenèvre Pass. A place of struggle and self-organisation, against all borders and military and political devices that seek to control and select.
A new mural of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, dubbed Collateral Crucifixion, has been unveiled in Berlin, graphically depicting the whistleblower’s persecution by American and British governments.
WikiLeaks shared an image of the 20-meter-high Berlin mural “drawing attention” to its founder’s plight on Tuesday via Twitter, with the artwork depicting Assange being crucified as a defender of press freedoms against a hostile military-industrial complex under a hybrid US-British flag.
— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) March 22, 2021
The journalist, currently imprisoned at Belmarsh Prison in London, faces a prison term of up to 175 years if extradited to the US and convicted of offenses under the Espionage Act.
Washington’s case against Assange consists of 18 charges, including espionage and computer misuse relating to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of more than 250,000 classified documents on US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The mural’s unveiling comes amid an outpouring of international solidarity for the Australian in his legal battle against US extradition. Assange received a message of support from Pope Francis on March 28, Palm Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church.
A week earlier, three Australian MPs met with a high official in the US Embassy in Canberra to argue for Assange’s release. Andrew Wilkie, one of the MPs in the cross-party delegation who sat down with embassy charge d’affaires Michael Goldman, said that Washington’s campaign against Assange is “obviously not in the public interest and must be dropped.”
The feminists appeared shouting “TO FASCISM NEITHER HONOUR NOR GLORY!” and have received disgusting insults from the nazi supporters present By Press Published on Mar 29, 2021
Femen activists break into a Francoist tribute in Madrid
Several Femen activists have stormed this Sunday in an event organized to celebrate the anniversary of the fall of Republican Madrid at the hands of Franco’s coup troops, in Madrid’s ‘Arch of Victory’. (Followed by the mass murder of tens of thousands of supporters of the democratically elected Republic, with Hitler and Mussolinis support, and collusion of Europe)
The demo was allowed by the Madrid Government Delegation, a decision that has been marked by controversy after the expressions of hatred and anti-Semitism registered in a neo-Nazi act of tribute to the ‘blue division’ in February.
nazi hysteria at the legalised demo in Feb
Feminists came to the cry of “to fascism neither honor nor glory”, with the same phrase painted on their chests and Francoist eagles drawn on their backs.
The group, of peaceful resistance, has been received with insults such as “whores”, “foxes” or orders to return “to the brothel” by those present, who also responded by singing the hymn of the Falange fascist party, Face to the Sun.
Agents of the National Police, there to protect the fascists, acted as a shield between both groups and brought clothes to Femen activists, from whom they forced to give their identity data and who then withdrew without arrests.
The event, described by its organizers as a “national affirmation” act, was convened by the ‘ultra’ organizations Spanish Catholic Movement and Spanish Youth Action.
Other fascist revival acts held during the day were a mass in the ”Valley of the Fallen”, a prayer and an offering in the pantheon of the dictator of Mingorrubio and a ‘brotherhood meal’ in the Francoist Chinese rstaurant.
Varias activistas de Femen han irrumpido este domingo en un acto poco concurrido organizado para celebrar el aniversario de la caída del Madrid republicano a manos de las tropas golpistas de Franco, en el Arco de la Victoria de Madrid.
Las feministas han llegado al grito de «al fascismo ni honor ni gloria», con la misma frase pintada en el pecho y con águilas franquistas dibujadas en la espalda.
proud nazis salute under the pre-constitution flag
El colectivo, de resistencia pacífica, ha sido recibido con insultos como «putas», «zorras» u órdenes de que volvieran «al prostíbulo» por parte de los presentes, que también han contestado cantando el himno de la Falange Cara al Sol.
Agentes de la Policía Nacional han hecho de escudo entre ambos grupos y han llevado ropa a las activistas de Femen, a las que han tomado los datos y que se han retirado sin crear disturbios.
El evento, calificado por sus organizadores de acto de «afirmación nacional», fue convocado por las organizaciones ultras Movimiento Católico Español y Acción Juvenil Española.
Otros de los actos que se celebrarán durante la jornada será una misa en el Valle de los Caídos, una oración y una ofrenda en el panteón del dictador de Mingorrubio y una ‘comida de hermandad’ en el Chino Franquista.
the nazi march in Feb
El acto está permitido por la Delegación del Gobierno de Madrid, una decisión que ha estado marcada por la polémica tras las expresiones de odio y antisemitismo registradas en un acto neonazi de homenaje a la división azul en febrero.
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