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Oaxaca suma 27 feminicidios

On March 4^th, four days before International Women’s Day, two women were found dead in the community of Piedra Ancha, Jamiltepec.

Another woman was found on March 6^th in Santa Maria Atzompa and only a few hours later a young woman was murdered in Santa Maria Petapa.

The Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, placed Oaxaca in its January 2023 report as the state that ranks first in Mexico with 12 femicides.

As of March 6^th, Oaxaca has 28 femicides (between femicides and intentional homicides) so far in 2023, reported the Rosario Castellanos Women’s Studies Group (GESMujer).

In contrast, this year will be the fourth anniversary of the Gender Violence Alert Declaration against Women; that is to say that the violence not only has not decreased, it has worsened.

So far in 2023, there are 33 missing women according to the Search Unit for Missing and Unlocated Persons of the Oaxaca Attorney General’s Office.

Among them, , who disappeared on March 7^th in the capital of Oaxaca.

“It is unfortunate that, more than three years after the issuance of the Alert for Gender Violence, the government of Oaxaca continues without mechanisms with immediate and coordinated measures between the various powers and levels of government to face the seriousness of the situation of violence. against women”, the Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity stated.

For the feminist Angelica Ayala Ortiz, president of GESMujer, Oaxaca is at “a critical moment” by having this first place for femicides nationwide in a country where more than ten women are murdered every day between femicides and intentional homicides.

“Disgraceful, pitiful and outrageous first place. Unfortunately, Oaxaca has 98% to 100% impunity in cases of femicide, this sends a bad sign that the attacker is not punished”, she lamented.

This March 8^th, International Women’s Day, a green and purple tide spread through the streets of communities and cities in Oaxaca, to demand an end to femicides, disappearances of women, gender violence and to demand justice and security given the state of impunity.

“We are tired and fed up with what they want to impose on us, that they curtail our freedoms, rights and our lives, we all come together today because fear and impotence become small in the face of courage”, said a woman at the demonstration in the capital of Oaxaca.

They also accused the complicity that has existed between the last three prosecutors of the entity, Ruben Vasconcelos, Arturo Peimbert and the newcomer Bernardo Rodriguez Alamilla, which has left the victims of femicide violence in impunity.

For more information in Spanish:

En víspera del 8M, cuatro mujeres víctimas de feminicidio en Oaxaca(Cimacnoticias, 7 de marzo de 2023)

En Oaxaca, los feminicidios y las desapariciones son constantes (Aristegui Noticias, 8 de marzo de 2023)

Ola de feminicidioes en Oaxaca enciende las alertas en el sur de México(Swissinfo, 7 de marzo de 2023)

Encuentran a otra mujer sin vida en Oaxaca (Aristegui Noticias, 6 de marzo de 2023)

8M, mujeres protestan de formas diversas pero con un grito común contra la violencia machista (EDUCA, 9 de marzo de 2023)

For more information from SIPAZ:

Chiapas: El 8 de marzo las calles se llenaron de mujeres luchando por sus derechos y justicia (March 9, 2023)

Oaxaca: Over 100 Women Murdered since Start of Year (September 9, 2022)

Oaxaca: Murder, Violence and Feminist Protests in Framework of Guelaguetza (August 7, 2022)

Oaxaca: Un indignante panorama de violencia para las mujeres y niñas oaxaqueñas (June 30, 2022)

from thefreeonline on March 14, 2023 by Anarchist Communist Group

Thousands of schools set to close on Wednesday due to strike action

March 15^th will be important for stepping up industrial action. On February 1^st workers from different jobs and industries came out on strike together. This time the number of different sectors taking action has increased.

Teachers at schools, sixth forms and colleges are already on strike, as are junior doctors.133,000 civil servants are due to strike, as are London Underground workers. Amazon workers will also be striking on the day.

However, union bureaucrats are continuing to sabotage struggle. Postal workers won’t be coming out on March 15^th and neither will most rail workers. Neither will nurses and ambulance workers. The nurses’ union, the RCN , called off strikes as did UNISON representing various hospital workers.

Hundreds of NHS workers descend on capital in support of health service ..

The RCN called off strikes in Wales at the beginning of February over a ballot to accept a 6.5 pay deal, well below inflation,  plus a lump sum while in England strikes were called off without even a pay offer. In Scotland a deal for a below inflation pay offer of 7.5% was agreed for 2022, with a 6.5% offer for the current year being pushed by the RCN leadership.

Strikes Update: How Wednesday 15 March’s strikes affect you .. Up to 150,000 civil servants, working across more than 100 government departments and agencies, will be on strike. Members of the Public and Commercial Services and Prospect unions are taking…

The Unison, GMB and Unite unions stopped strikes by ambulance workers on March 5^th, and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy halted strikes of 64,000 physiotherapists and support workers.

This shows that what we in the ACG have been saying all along is proving to be true. Union bureaucrats are halting strikes whilst they negotiate below inflation deals. This has seriously affected strikes by health workers and transport workers and education workers in Scotland. The education workers union the NEU stopped strike action in Wales and called for acceptance of a below inflation 11.8% pay offer.

Border Force workers represented by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will strike on March 15. Border Force is the UK’s border control service; the strike will impact international arrivals at all UK ports, as well as those in Calais, Dunkirk, and Coquelles in France.

UK Airport Border Staff Will Strike Again On March 15th

This shows that what we in the ACG have been saying all along is proving to be true. Union bureaucrats are halting strikes whilst they negotiate below inflation deals. Even more reason to develop organisation at a grassroots level, to create strike committees and establish joint liaisons between workers in different sectors in order to take control of the struggles.

Thousands more UK civil servants to join March 15 strikeFeb 28, 2023 — Around 33000 more civil servants in Britain, including those working for the tax office, have voted to stage a strike on March 15 …

Active attacks along the entire line of contact draw the UFU forces away from Artemivsk (Bakhmut)

from thefreeonline on March 14, 2023 by Andrey Fedorov and Bogdan Stepovoi at Izvestia via Not Something Else

‘This is a such a helpful news story from Izvestia reporters, published today, which I have taken the liberty of copying here in the English translation‘they give the lie to reports of how Russia is stagnated and pinned down in Ukraine. The forces fighting in that region for Russia are not in any way stagnated, dispirited or poorly supported....Not Something Else

Russian troops are increasing the pace of their offensive in the Donbas. Marines of the Pacific Fleet are moving forward in the area of Ugledar, Izvestia correspondents report.

They visited the line of contact and saw groups of snipers clearing the way for Black Beret assault squads. Nearby Marinka and Avdiivka continue to be hit as well. 

Our troops are conducting active attacks along the line of contact to pull the enemy forces away from Artemivsk (Bakhmut), where the phase of decisive battles begins, experts explain.

>>Military Overview: Wagner Fighters Approached City Administration Building In Center Of Bakhmut14/03/23

One shot — one target

‘In the Yuzhnodonetsky and Zaporizhia directions, aircraft and artillery of the Vostok group of troops defeated enemy units in the area of Ugledar in the DPR, Poltavka, Gulyai-Pole and Shcherbakov in the Zaporizhia region. 

During the day, up to 60 militants, two pickup trucks, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers were destroyed here, the Russian Defense Ministry said’.

According to some reports, the Ukrainian forces have concentrated a group of up to 15-20 thousand people for a deblocking strike on Artemivsk (Bakhmut).

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Soon, the sniper and his assistants take up a firing position in an abandoned house. The group takes the first shots, but it is necessary to quickly relocate — the place where the sniper was lying is already illuminated and it can be covered by artillery or mortars at any time.

Continue reading “How Sniper Reserve are helping free Ugledar -‘Who Said Russia Was Stagnated in Donbass ?’ – Izvestia reporters”

After 20,000 elections were simulated, the program calculated that your vote only mattered in 41 of those elections: 0.205% of the time! To put that into perspective, imagine you live in a country where presidential elections are carried out every 4 years, always between two candidates with equal chances of winning. Let us also imagine […]

Estimating the importance of your vote with Python How often does your vote actually matter

from thefreeonline on 13th MarcH 2023 By Wolf Richter  for WOLF STREET  13 Comments

Banks as stock-pump schemes in the era of consensual hallucination.

More US Banks CRASH- Bank Runs escalate in Panic, The Fed bailed out 100’s of Billions in SVB but shareholders LOSE THEIR CASH! + LATE NEWS

First Republic Bank, headquartered in San Francisco, and Western Alliance Bank, headquartered in Phoenix, are on the forefront of the regional banks that haven’t collapsed yet. Their shares continued their plunge today as trading was halted on and off. Other bank stocks got hammered too, but not to this extent.

First Republic is intricately tied to the Free-Money party in Silicon Valley and San Francisco – “a leading private bank and wealth management company,” it calls itself. The stock had doubled from 2019 to peak consensual hallucination in November 2021. It had quadrupled from 2014 – a bank stock! Which shows how crazy this consensual hallucination was.

>U.S. regional banks First Republic and PacWest sink | Fortune

And because it was tied to this party, it is tied to the end of the party. Since the high in November, the Nasdaq Composite has plunged by 30%. The shares of many startups that had gone public via IPO or SPAC collapsed.

Cryptos plunged. Silicon Valley Bank, which was instrumental in all this, collapsed on Friday.

Many people whose wealth was tied to startups are finding themselves less wealthy. And First Republic catered to them.

Shares [FRC] collapsed 61% for the day, and were down by 86% from their high in November 2021, therefore making it into my glorious pantheon of Imploded Stocks (data via YCharts):

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Note that shares, currently at around $31, are back where they’d been in 2013, which really isn’t a biggie – why should shares of a bank quadruple every four years? A bank is a government-regulated taxpayer-backed financial utility, not a stock pump scheme.

First Republic experienced an intense run on the bank by the same folks it so energetically catered to: the wealthy.

They were yanking their cash out of their bank accounts at First Republic by the millions of dollars at a time – same thing that accelerated the fall of Silicon Valley Bank when cash-rich companies, often pushed by their venture-capital investors, yanked their millions and hundreds of millions out.

On Sunday, the Fed came out with a program to shore up teetering banks like First Republic, by providing additional loans through a new facility.

Also on Sunday, First Republic announced that it had received additional funding from JPMorgan, on top of the funding it had from the Fed, and “continued access to funding through the Federal Home Loan Bank.” It said that its “total available, unused liquidity to fund operations is now more than $70 billion.”

First Republic Bank falls nearly 70%, trading halted after collapse of SVB, Signature

First Republic Bank is not a conservatively run bank. It represents the worst excesses in the Free-Money party.

During the Financial Crisis, Bank of America ended up with it when it purchased Merrill Lynch, which had acquired it in 2007. In 2009, Bank of America sold First Republic to a group of investors that included private equity firms Colony Capital and General Atlantic.

They sold it to the public via an IPO in December 2010. And then the Free Money party began.

>Full List of Bank Shares That Halted Trading as Panic Spreads

The primary purpose was to pump up the stock price.

First Republic went after the wealth management and private banking business, particularly in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, and then spread out from there.

It provided all kinds of services, such as making loans to startup founders who were sitting on illiquid shares that were at the time highly valued – by Softbank, LOL.

If they wanted to plow several million into a fancy home or needed cash otherwise, they could pledge their illiquid shares as collateral.

But the Free-Money era is over.

Startup valuations have plunged, venture capital has dried up, Softbank’s Venture funds have taken huge losses, many startups are facing an existential crisis and will fold, and they’re laying off people to lengthen the time they can operate, and shares of many startups that went public via IPO or SPAC have collapsed.

Western Alliance Bancorp is another magnificent stock-pump mirage of the Free Money party.

Its shares more than doubled between early 2020 and peak consensual hallucination in November 2021, and they multiplied by a factor of six since 2014 – a bank stock, for crying out loud!

>Bank Runs Set To Accelerate As Fear And Panic Spreads 13th March

Its shares [WAL] plunged 47% today and since the high in November 2021 are down by 79%, thereby making it into my pantheon of Imploded Stocks.

Like Republic Bank, the chart of Western Alliance shows what kind of stock-pump scheme it was in the era of consensual hallucination (data via YCharts):

Western Alliance, like Silicon Valley Bank, is heavily focused on catering to businesses through various subsidiaries in different Western States, including Western Alliance Bank.

Its subsidiary Bridge Bank in the San Francisco Bay Area is into “startup banking – tech,” and also caters to companies in commercial real estate, biotech, etc. Yup.

Western Alliance too was hit by a magnificent run on the bank.

On March 10, when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, Western Alliance released “updated financial figures” to show that deposits “remain strong,” liquidity “remains robust,” and capital remains “strong,” with various numbers attached, upon which its shares plunged.

>Bank Runs Set To Accelerate As Fear And Panic Proliferate 13th March

This morning, Western Alliance issued an “updated” 8-K filing with the SEC, which included this statement:

“Since the statement we released last week, Western Alliance has taken additional steps to strengthen its liquidity position to ensure that we are in a position to meet all of our client funding needs, including increasing our borrowing capacity.

As of this morning, cash reserves exceed $25 billion and are growing, while deposit outflows have been moderate. Including accounts eligible for pass-through insurance, insured deposits exceed 50% of total deposits.”

Upon which its shares collapsed 47%.!!