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Last Thursday, I attended a talk by journalist Maria Ressa at Harvard. She talked about the “pounding” journalists get on social media and “trends” set by fake accounts, often followed by action on the ground. It reminded me not only of the challenges journalists face in Pakistan but also what organisers of the forthcoming Aurat […]
#FakeNews and #AuratMarch – ‘Patriotic Trolling’ to ‘Astro-Turfing’: Lessons from Maria Ressa on dealing with online hate — Journeys to democracy
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Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets to break up a crowd of several thousand women who gathered in central İstanbul on Sunday evening for a march to celebrate International Women’s Day, according to Turkish media reports.
The crowd gathered at the edge of the city’s Taksim Square, planning to hold a march although the İstanbul Governor’s Office had earlier banned demonstrations and marches on İstiklal Street, where police teams set up barricades earlier in the day. It is the second year in a row that the governor’s office has refused permission for organizers to hold the annual rally in the Taksim area.
Hundreds of riot police blocked the women’s path to prevent them from advancing along the district’s main pedestrian avenue for the 18th “Feminist Night March,” held in İstanbul since 2003 to mark women’s day.
Women and men carry signs as they take part in an Aurat March, or Women’s March in Lahore, Pakistan March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched through Pakistan’s capital on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day.Women and men joined the event in Islamabad, one of several rallies across the country, for what is known in Pakistan as the Aurat March, using the Urdu word for women
Officers blocked the Islamists as they tried to break through a cordon to attack the marchers. A Reuters witness said the Islamists threw stones, bricks, sticks and shoes at the marchers. Religious groups are pictured protesting against the event
Several people were reportedly injured as social and religious conservatives clashed with International Women’s Day demonstrators in Islamabad on March 8. RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reported that participants in a conservative demonstration called Modesty Walk threw stones at demonstrators holding a march to mark International Women’s Day. Ismat Shahjahan, head of the Women’s Democratic Front, which organized the march, said four participants suffered head injuries, while three others were less seriously hurt.
Women sing songs as they take part in Aurat March, Urdu for Women’s March, in Islamabad, Pakistan March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir
Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan’s main urban centres to mark International Women’s Day.
from FAU Berlin, shared with thanks
Around Germany, syndicates of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) have called for protest and planned actions and events for this weekend to mark International Women’s Day.
The FAU Berlin has called for participation in multiple demonstrations in and around Berlin this weekend with the following declaration: It’s no coincidence that material injustice and cultural oppression live hand in hand in the capitalist system.
It’s also no coincidence that people affected by sexism, racism or other forms of discrimination find themselves disproportionately often in poverty and insecure working conditions. Those who live with culturally and institutionally rooted non-recognition are more easily pushed into exploitative relationships with low wages and bad working conditions.
In the logic of capitalism, the pervasive discrimination against these exploited groups serves to justify and mystify the contradiction between the “welfare promise” and simultaneously existing injustice.
When women, people of color, trans and inter people, people without a German passport, and people in materially poor living conditions are denigrated or completely pushed out of public consciousness, this serves to stabilize a system that is fundamentally based on exploitation and domination – because these structures of discrimination ultimately prevent an overarching solidarity of workers against the capitalist regime.
There is no capitalism that does not link material injustice with discrimination, whether on the basis of gender, origin, skin colour, religion, nationality, residence status, sexual orientation, disability, criminal prosecution, or or or.
Therefore, there can be no class struggle that does not at the same time oppose sexism, racism and any kind of discrimination!
That is why we are taking to the streets on the 8th of March! For a feminist, anti-racist class struggle!
For an anti-capitalist feminism!Walk on!
Another world is possible! FAU Berlín
El movimiento feminista no es homogéneo y existen diversas ramas del feminismo, por tanto, es un error encasillar en un solo feminismo la lucha de las mujeres y disidentes, pues, existen muchos: feminismo liberal, feminismo comunitario, anarcofeminismo, feminismo popular y feminismo de clase. Para esta nota nos centraremos en el feminismo de clase que tiene programada una serie de actividades y protestas para este 8 y 9 de marzo.
Feminismo de Clase para este 8 y 9 de marzo — Diario Venceremos
March 6, 2020 Arabi Souri Ten days ago the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov offered the neo-Ottoman Sultan wannabe Erdogan a very large banana that time to come down the tree which he climbed very fast and very high, he rejected it.
Five days later, the IRGC offered a smaller Iranian banana to Erdogan to come down the [……]
Tsar Putin Brings the Sultan Wannabe Erdogan Half Way Down the Tree — Uprootedpalestinians’s Blog
Greece’s horrific conditions at ‘island prisons’
There are no words to name what is happening in Greece, the political interests of the European Union and now of the governments of Turkey and Greece against war refugees. It is urgent to seek an answer to report these crimes
We have returned from Moria without problems. On the road we have seen a car where yesterday there was the checkpoint of the fascists but they have not stopped us. On the ground there was a lot of glass, of the cars that have been smashed up yesterday and today..
