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Police clash with women’s day marchers in Turkey (VIDEO)

UPDATED 9th March ..

Using rubber bullets and tear gas, Turkish police have dispersed a crowd of several thousand marchers who gathered outside Istanbul’s Taksim Square on International Women’s Day, local media reported, with videos from the scene.

The “Feminist Night March” in Istanbul was one of the many demonstrations held on Friday across Turkey, demanding equality and an end to the historic oppression of women.

Police has started intervention with rubber bullets & tear gas against 17th Feminist Night March on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue on International Women’s Day.
via/@medyanhaber pic.twitter.com/bmM6Riku28

— dokuz8NEWS (@dokuz8_EN) March 8, 2019

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Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets on the Streets of Southern France

shared with thanks from Winter Oak

An eye-witness report from Act 16 of the ongoing Yellow Vest uprising against neoliberalism, by Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective.

We had just positioned ourselves downwind from the teargas canisters that had been fired towards us from the ranks of riot police protecting the Sous-Préfecture, the French state’s HQ in Alès, southern France.

Then suddenly we were coming under attack from the opposite direction. A squadron of cops was lurking, unseen, on the other side of the modern pedestrianised square and had started firing tear gas from behind us.

Choking and with streaming eyes, we fled down a little side street which, ironically enough, turned out to be dedicated to the “martyrs of the resistance”.

Passers-by, women with young children, stood gawping in the direction of the clouds of chemical warfare following us down the road. Continue reading “Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets on the Streets of Southern France”

Spain: More than 1,200 call-outs for the Feminist Strike of 2019

The streets will be dyed violet again on March 8. We collect all the calls of that day, and of the previous afternoon, on this map that will be constantly updated all week.

[Mapa] Más de 1.200 convocatorias para la huelga feminista de 2019

La calles volverán a teñirse de morado el día 8 de marzo. Recogemos todas las convocatorias de ese día, y de la tarde anterior, en este mapa que estará en constante actualización toda la semana.

Carlos Benéitez @EstudiaPrecario Irene Martínez @IreIrenuka

Mass pickets, demonstrations, demands, vigils … the feminist strike reaches all corners. The 8M Commission began to warm up on March 1, calling for a week of revolt that culminates Friday with the day of strike of care, consumption, study and work.

Concentraciones, manifestaciones, reclamas, vigilias… la huelga feminista llega a todos los rincones. La Comisión 8M empezó a calentar motores el 1 de marzo, llamando a una semana de revuelta que culminará el próximo viernes con la jornada de huelga de cuidados, consumo, estudiantil y laboral.

In this map we collect all the announcements of the night of Thursday 7 and until March 8, when the streets will be dyed violet with demonstrations throughout the State. The work of our maps is extremely comprehensive so that we can offer a huge amount of information, beyond the points themselves, so we recommend you go through our guide to understand the maps of El Salto.

En este mapa iremos recogiendo todas las convocatorias del la noche del jueves 7 y hasta el 8 de marzo, cuando las calles se volverán a teñir de morado con manifestaciones en todo el Estado. El trabajo de nuestros mapas es sumamente exhaustivo para que podamos ofrecer una enorme cantidad de información, más allá de los propios puntos, por eso te recomendamos pasarte por nuestra guía para entender los mapas de El Salto.

Breve guía de uso para los mapas de El Salto

Redacción El Salto

Something is missing? You can add the call in the comments of this news so we can add it. Do not forget to send us a link with all the information.

¿Falta algo? Puedes añadir la convocatoria en los comentarios de esta noticia para que podamos añadirla. No te olvides de hacernos llegar un link con toda la información.

Sigue la huelga feminista en www.elsaltodiario.com.

International Women’s Day 2019: Thousands Of Women Go On Strike

Tomorrow, for the third year running, the International Women’s Day will be marked by strikes and street actions around the world.

In just a short few years the international women’s movement has grown in strength and confidence as women join in this global movement against the destitution, overwork and violence women face daily.

Women will strike from all the work they do: from offices and factories, from care work and unpaid domestic work, from community work to the bedroom – organising and unionising with some of the most exploited migrant workers in the service industries.

As part of tomorrow’s actions, sex workers will strike to demand the full decriminalisation, and Women’s Strike Assembly will protest against current plans to move trans women to male prisons and for prison abolition.

Eight cities across Britain and Ireland will see women and non-binary people take to the streets, alongside millions of women worldwide. Here is the summary of tomorrow’s events planned for the UK:

BIRMINGHAM
8pm: International Women’s Day event at Centrala, Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham Continue reading “International Women’s Day 2019: Thousands Of Women Go On Strike”

”Suspicious”Tourists to be Arrested at Turkish Airports. says Minister

note.. this ‘TheFreeOnline’ blog is now banned in Turkey with Dozens more pro Rojava and anti Fascist sites. Wikimedia and many other sites are closed down.

[VIDEO] Turkey’s Interior Minister says tourists to be detained at airports if suspected of ‘terror’ ties

information partly from TurkeyPurge | Mar 5, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has said during a pre-election speech on Monday that tourists in Turkey resorts towns like Antalya, Mugla and Bodrum would be detained at airports if they are suspected of “terror” ties. (which can mean almost anything or nothing as massive purges continue.

Speaking to a Sakarya crowd, Soylu said it is not acceptable for Turkey to allow those who take part in “betrayal against Turkey” abroad spend their holidays in Turkey.

At least 217,971 people have been taken into police custody on ”terror” accusations in Turkey).

Boycott Turkey .. Boycott Turkish Products .. Cancel Holidays .. DON’t support this madness!

Don’t risk going to Turkish airports!. Hundreds of prisoners , journalists and elected deputies are now dying on Hunger Strike against the Fascist Regime with 735 more Kurds arrested.

Turkey is known to every day abuse broadened terrorism laws to jail ”opposition” of all backgrounds in the recent years.

Thousands of people, including mothers with babies, are now jailed and fired from their jobs, just for being overheard criticizing the president, or retweeting on atrocities against Kurdish or Gulenist victims, or being an activist, or objecting to anti women and gay repression, or genocidal Turkish invasions in Syria, or just having a friend or partner they suspect. Hundreds of dissenters have even been kidnapped abroad and returned to Turkish jails.…

[VIDEO] Turkey’s Interior Minister says tourists to be detained at airports if suspected of ‘terror’ ties || https://t.co/AcrZRNjsOw pic.twitter.com/TSFRltlwNh

— Turkey Purge (@TurkeyPurge) March 5, 2019

British holidaymaker raped by taxi driver in notorious Turkish …Daily Mirror

How Safe ARE Tourist In Turkey? – The Globe Post

Map of Shame: Mass Graves of Fascist-Catholic Regime still not Opened

Map: All the known mass graves of the hundreds of thousands of victims of the fascist uprising and the Franco regime.

Spain has done little to give closure to the atrocities perpetrated during the dictatorship. Instead, as Alex W. Palmer explains in a recent article, Spain implemented a political agreement known as the “Pact of Forgetting.” 200,000 people were executed in the dictatorship—mostly by the fascist forces, still more died during the bombings of cities and towns in Spain, and some 370,000 were held in concentration camps.

Spain has exhumed the remains of only 9,000 victims of the long fascist-catholic regime in the last 19 years. A report urges the government to formalize an urgent plan to recover up to 25,000 more bodies in the next five years. This will depend on whether a far right coalition wins the April 2019 election.

In Paterna, some of the bones of 100 victims found in graveyard 112 are cracked, which could mean that the people executed at the site were tortured. According to the AP’s Parra, archaeologists have asked authorities to launch a criminal investigation into the victims’ violent deaths.

Info partly from Nacho del Río with thanks …… ”Under the foundations that sustain a kind of modern democracy with serious ups and downs since 1978 a past framed in oblivion has been erected. Continue reading “Map of Shame: Mass Graves of Fascist-Catholic Regime still not Opened”