One in six South Africans struggle with a mental disorder.
CAPE TOWN, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS/Street News Service)
By Jamie Elkon*    Since psychiatric care was decentralised last year in South Africa, patients have been moved from hospitals into community day hospitals that don’t have the appropriate resources to deal with mental illnesses. As a result, many of society’s most vulnerable have slipped through the cracks in the system and now walk the streets like invisible people………….  /cont.
Shaming of a repeated sexist agressor inside the Free Transport movement in Sao Paolo (see video)
Texto do panfleto: escracho pĂşblico a agressor no 11Âş ato contra o aumento
Posted on 2011/03/31 by feministascontraoaumento
PARA COPIAR-COLAR-DIFUNDIR!
Por um mundo sem catracas e sem violĂŞncia machista!
Estamos aqui hoje para falar de um assunto que tem nos afetado muito nesses meses de luta contra o aumento: a presença de um agressor de mulheres no centro das mobilizaçþes.
HĂĄ cerca de 6 meses um dos militantes do movimento passe livre de SĂŁo Paulo ameaçou de morte, perseguiu, constrangeu, agrediu verbalmente, insultou e limitou o espaço fĂsico de uma companheira de movimentos sociais autĂ´nomos.
Fazemos essa denĂşncia porque esse agressor continua frequentando os mesmos espaços polĂticos como se nĂŁo houvesse acontecido nada ou como se aquilo que aconteceu nĂŁo tivesse relevância polĂtica nenhuma. Que as agressĂľes cometidas contra as mulheres sejam vistas como algo de pouca importância infelizmente nĂŁo nos surpreende. Os movimentos sociais tĂŞm muita dificuldade de enfrentar coletivamente e publicamente as violĂŞncias machistas que acontecem em seu meio. Ă estranho ver como as bocas daqueles que defendem todo o tempo que tudo ĂŠ coletivo ou que assim deveria ser, ficam caladas nesse
Complicity, Duplicity, Monstrosity, Let me count the ways. A numerate response to the apparitions of neo-liberal confinement.
Nic Beuret
The Paper
1. The violence comes in waves of shock, panic and terror. As the waves crash, outrage emerges as the universal emotional condition: so commonplace as to become another affliction like an obsession with the weather. People are outraged about what is being cut and from whom. Others are outraged about occupations and property damage. With baton charges and things thrown from roofs. People are outraged about the complicity of the TUC, the duplicity of the Liberal Democrats and the so-called self-interest of students and public sector workers.
2. Outrage flies in all directions, creating a numb sense of brutality. There are two faces to this brutality. It is productive of both our ability to solve the twin crisis of profitability and governance and to their policing of our labouring bodies.
3. But outrage gives us no special insight: it is mere reaction. So it must be put to one side. We need to see why our struggles, actions and protests have invited the intensity of violence that they did. We must look to what the theatre of baton charges, horse charges and late night imprisonment meant.
4. The police are not merely an agent of repression. The idea of the police evolved from a set of practices……….
Inspired by the march to âTake Back the Nightâ for International Womenâs Day in Beirut, Lebanon. Dedicated to my good friend Zee whoâs always pushing me to write myself into words. March 9th 2011. Take back the night because the morning after, at 25, you still have to argue with your mother whoâs pleading that……..
Okay this is OLD news, but I hadn’t seen it. This guy Beck is so super arrogantly egoistic on top of his far right lunacy that he ends up PROMOTING REVOLUTIONARY ANARCHISMÂ on US television..amazing..