Category: social revolution

9 things that really make you a better feminist

by   from feminist current, reblogged with thanks

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Why read Bustle, you might ask? Well, naturally, for hilarious listicles like one published yesterday, entitled, “9 things that don’t make you a better feminist than everybody else.” I’ll save you a few minutes better wasted staring at your pores or Instagramming your cat and summarize it for you: Everything you do is feminist and everyone is a feminist and also feminism is whatever you say it is #blessed.

Feel better? Oh good perfect. I’m looking forward to their next listicle, “11 things that don’t make Marx a better communist than you.” Do you own the means of production? So what. Don’t let anyone gatekeep your communism #communismisforeveryone. Born bougie but always felt more working class on the inside? No problem. Taking on a proletariat identity is a great way to subvert the class binary.

I digress. The bright side of Bustle’s listicle is that it inspired me to create one of my own. Here are nine actual things that really do make you a better feminist than everybody else:

1) Being a woman

You can be a very powerful ally to feminists even if you are male, but you’re never fully going toget the female experience. Continue reading “9 things that really make you a better feminist”

‘It Started With Alternative Music. Then I Tried To Destroy Modern Civilisation’

Carlo Sands's avatarThe (un)Australian

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The federal government’s new anti-radicalisation kit for schools, “Living Safer Together”, has already made waves for featuring the harrowing story of Karen, a young woman who “grew up in a loving family who never participated in activism of any sort”, but at university “became involved in the alternative music scene” – and worse.

Now, in an exclusive interview, Karen has opened up to The (un)Australian about how a girl who “grew up in a safe, mainstream suburban household that only ever played KIISS FM on the radio” ended up seeking to destroy modern civilisation.

“All I had ever listened to was Taylor Swift,” Karen says, “and maybe a little Beyonce, like I just tried it once or twice, not regularly or anything.”

“Then this guy in my Sociology 101 class came up to me and was like ‘you wanna hear this great Mp3 I got?’ And it was like this…

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After Gourougou and Boukhalef – destruction of migrants camps in Oujda

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beatingborders's avatarNo Borders Morocco

The Moroccan authorities continue their campaign of repression against migrant communitites in Northern Morocco, by destroying their infrastructure and deporting them in large numbers.

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The “Fac” in Oujda (a city close to the Algerian border), an occupied part of the Mohamed I university, has served as a place of shelter for migrants for several years. Although the tent town was quite hierarchically controlled, e.g. by certain business structures, it was nevertheless an important part of the migrants’ infrastructure. People coming over the border from Algeria, people who had suffered injury and received treatment in the Oujda hospital, or people needing to take a break from the toil and terror of the forest camps – they could find some days of rest in the occupied Fac.
However, last Saturday around 3am in the morning, Moroccan security forces surrounded the camp, evicted and destroyed it, arresting around 200 people. Nearly half of…

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Pope to make a Priest who Genocided Indians into a SAINT..Sept in Washington

EL PAPA FRANCISCO QUIERE CANONIZAR EL AUTOR DE UN GENOCIDIO DE INDÍGENAS

MISSING FROM THE POPE’S ‘RADICAL’ VISION OF EQUALITY—WOMEN

Pope Rock-the-Frock Francis canonizes Final Solution architect Junipero Serra    By Eric Verlo  NOT MY TRIBE –       No matter how progressive, humble or earnest he sounds, Pope Francis fronts for the Catholic Church, engine of colonialism, author of vast horrors, ongoing and unrepentant. Pope Francis is the first New World pontiff and so what? Now he’s honoring Conquistador confessor Junipero Serra who established the California mission system which worked their indigenous captives to death, fed a diet intended to starve them. The Third Reich modeled their concentration camp program after the Franciscan forced-labor “missions” which externinated the west coast native Americas.

 

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Juníper SerraJuníper Serra, who invented ‘mission’ camps of abuse, torture and mass murder of Natives… Now to be declared a SAINT by the Pope in Washington D.C.

Pope Defends ‘Missionary’ Who Brutally Converted Indigenous People To Christianity

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May 3, 2015, from Red Power Media, with thanks..

Pope Francis on Saturday praised the zeal of an 18th-century Franciscan missionary he will make a saint when he visits the United States this fall but whom Native Americans say brutally converted indigenous people to Christianity.

Francis praised Junípero Serra during a homily at a Rome seminary training future priests from North America. The pope will proclaim the Spaniard a saint during a Washington, D.C., ceremony Sept. 23.

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Life Behind The Trenches: On The Struggle For Autonomy In North Kurdistan

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Local Leaders In North Kurdistan: They Are Afraid This Model Will Spread

from   https://rojavareport.wordpress.com with thanks

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The following article – “Özyönetimin yayılmasından korkuluyor” – was written by İsmail Eskin for Özgür Gündem. It has been translated into English below.

(Amed) – Çimen Işık, the co-President of the Democratic Local Government Union, has shared her thoughts concerning the wishes and expectations of the people around the implementation and status of the self-government model that is currently being implemented [in North Kurdistan], saying that it is moving forward from a perspective of `do it yourself.`

Recalling that Kurds have made their desire for self-government obvious, Işık added that they would stand behind a decision taken by the people. Speaking on the attitude of the state, which has resisted the implementation of self-government through violence and force of arms, she added that “Turkey is caught between the nation-state model and the dictatorship of a single man and are attemtping to decide between the two. The Kurdish people however have presented the self-government model as a third way. It is the knowledge that this model will not remain among Kurds but will be implemented in the whole of Turkey that is frightening the state. As a result of this fear they are responding to this model of democratic autonomy with terror and massacres.”

No Steps Back

Işık added that self-government was opposed to both the dead end of centralized administration and the politics of patronage, saying “we will follow a common path, together with our people, during both the process of decision making around local government as well as during its implementation. We will not allow any pressure, arrests or other methods to take any steps backwards.” Saying that Kurdistan would take ownership of its land, water and build within itself a  free life, Işık drew attention to how self-government would be built through assemblies and communes. Emphasising that municipalities will an active role as part of the popular assemblies, she recalled that within such assemblies there were many democratic organizations and societies, NGOs and that they possessed the right to to contribute to different parts and at different moments in the decision-making process.

The People Are More Secure

Vekili Zuhal Tekiner, co-mayor of the Farqîn (Silvan) municipality, spoke about the security of the self-government model, pointing to the arrest of mayors and local civil leaders [in North Kurdistan] and how the safety of local life and property had been threatened in the name of ‘public security.’ Tekiner described how construction equipment belonging to the municipality had been commandeered by the police in an attempt to render the municipality without any means to offer public services. Tekiner underlined how the construction of trenches in certain neighborhoods and allowed the people there to feel safer, saying “there is no security of life in places where there are no trenches. In this situation the trenches increase security” and thereby stressing the role of self-defense in self-government.

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The following article “Hendeklerin ardındaki yaşam” was written by Ismail Eskin for Özgür Gündem. It has been translated into English below.

(Cizre) The doors of every last house remain open in the neighborhoods where for days the state had tried to enter with thousands of armed soldiers. In these spaces where the people have put forward their own will it is impossible to see the presence of the state outside of a few armored cars on the main avenues.

A Stateless Order

Behind the trenches in Cizîr (Cizre) there is a life closely tied to those who have paid a price for its sake. There is a great enthusiasm and excitement that has not forgotten the sufferings of the past. A people who pay no head to whether or not the state will continue its attacks put their determination front and center, saying “we have paid such a price…

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Obama’s Fateful Syrian Choice

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Free the 5 Love Activists! jailed for Bank of England occupation

– September 20th, 2015

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Five Activists who had occupied Liverpool’s old Bank of England building to provide shelter and feed the city’s homeless people have been jailed for almost 3 months each [see prisoner details at bottom of article].

The Love Activists moved into the unoccupied building in the middle of April to set up a support centre for Liverpool’s homeless people, incorporating places to sleep, an advice centre and a street kitchen, from where they were evicted in the early hours of 12 May and the homeless activists arrested.

The defendants were charged in relation to the occupation of the old bank building in Castle Street, Liverpool city centre, as part of a protest over lack of support for the homeless and government austerity.

John Hall, 50; John Rice, 22; Chelsea Stafford, 19; James Jones, 20, and James Allanson, 20, all pleaded guilty to trespass while a possession order was in place. Continue reading “Free the 5 Love Activists! jailed for Bank of England occupation”