Unas 300 personas se manifestaron la tarde de este sábado por las principales calles del este de Caracas, capital de Venezuela, para protestar contra la homofobia y la discriminación.
El grupo, conformado casi en su mayoría por jóvenes, recorrió unos tres kilómetros con banderas de la comunidad y mensajes que pedían respeto y políticas públicas que garanticen sus derechos, explicó a Efe el activista y defensor de los derechos humanos Yendri Velásquez.
“Además de dar este mensaje en contra de la homofobia, en contra de la discriminación, también fue un espacio para encontrarnos, para celebrarnos en la diversidad, para celebrar quiénes somos, a quienes amamos a pesar de la violencia, a pesar de la discriminación”, agregó.
En la manifestación, participaron organizaciones de la sociedad civil venezolana como Unión afirmativa, Uquira, Amnistía Internacional, País Narrado, País Plural o Movimiento Somos, entre otras.
Despite the intense media campaign and also in other areas that is deployed against Cuba seeking to discredit it, numerous voices were heard last weekend in twenty countries calling for the elimination of the blockade, for respect for this Island and its sovereignty. .
From Miami, encouraged by #PuentesDeAmor, demands were heard in Coral Gables urging President Biden to expedite the announcements about the policy towards Cuba that the White House recently made.
“We want this to be the first step of many so that the sanctions that weigh on the Cuban people are lifted, once and for all,” specifies the permanent call that #PuentesDeAmor has launched, both on social networks and on various cities in the United States.
And if it is about the northern empire -because its government is one thing, its people is another- with an active presence in social networks, the reports also spoke of marches in Washington DC.
Voices in favor of Cuba were also heard loud and clear in other geographies: from Santa Cruz, in Bolivia; Milan, in Italy; Mexico City, Panama City, Bahamas, United Kingdom, Spain and Canada, among others.
From the Dominican Republic, social networks reported messages of solidarity towards Cuba generated from the capital of that country and in eight more cities of that nation.
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” according to a famous business mantra often attributed to management guru Peter Drucker.
This can help explain why carbon emissions are under more scrutiny than ever as we ramp up our efforts to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.
For example, the “carbon footprint”—a way of measuring the amount of greenhouse gases (mostly carbon) emitted during a product’s creation, use and disposal—has become a household term.
Here’s the breakdown of the author’s carbon footprint. Credit: WWF, Author provided.. Ethiopia, for instance, in 2015 saw a level of CO2 emissions of 0.10 metric tons per capita. 73 times less than the author of this post, a UK resident with a relatively low footprint.
The average carbon footprint of US citizens is around 20 metric tons.. 200 times greater than these Ethiopians
Lebanon – Two Bahraini nationals Sadeq Thamer [33] and Jaafar Sultan [30], who have exhausted all their appeals, are at imminent risk of execution by Saudi regime, on the basis of his torture-tainted “confessions”. The young men have been arrested, without a warrant, on May 8, 2015, while crossing King Fahd Causeway.
They have been subjected to enforced disappearance [for 115 days], severely tortured and accused of “transporting explosive materials”. According to rights groups, 25 days after their arrest, they were supposed to be transferred to Bahrain. However, while they were on the bus, a Bahraini officer received a call and began to insult and threaten them with reprisal. Then, they were returned to the Saudi territories.
On the same day, their houses in Bahrain were violently stormed by individuals belonging to the Bahraini Criminal Investigations Directorate in civilian clothes. The policemen confiscated a…
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The Russian Armed Forces have ensured that the corridors are safe exit routes for trapped ships
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that this Saturday the first merchant ship arrived at the Ukrainian port of Mariupol since the beginning of the Russian military operation in the east of the country.
The opening is a positive sign. We don’t know yet if wheat and sunflower oil exports might be resumed through Ukrainian held Odessa. The UK is planning a military escort to force the export which could spark a general war with NATO. Russia has demanded an easing of sanctions in exchange for allowing the Ukrainian exports.
The arrival took place after the members of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the military engineering units were in charge of demining the port area.
“The Russian Armed Forces have created the conditions for the operation of two maritime humanitarian corridors, which are safe routes for ships,” the Russian Defense Ministry stated.
The commercial port in Mariupol was completely freed from the fighters of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov battalion, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
This area was liberated from the military forces of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov battalion in April, but they have not been able to withdraw due to “the threat of bombing and the high danger of mines created by kyiv, the government agency.
The Ministry made public. Last Thursday, the maps that show the route of two humanitarian corridors designed so that these boats can leave the port of Mariupól and other Ukrainian enclaves located in the Black Sea.
Six dry cargo ships remain in the area, belonging to Bulgaria, the Dominican Republic, Liberia, Panama, Turkey and Jamaica.
“Detailed information on the operation of maritime humanitarian corridors will be available daily every 15 minutes via VHF radio on 14 and 16 international channels in English and Russian.”
In addition to allowing the departure of these ships, the ships that arrive in Mariupol will carry materials for the reconstruction of the city and will carry products from this port to other Russian territories and the Black Sea.
Primer Buque mercante llega a Mariúpol desde el inicio del conflicto
Las Fuerzas Armadas Rusas han garantizado que los corredores sean vías seguras de salida para los barcos atrapados
El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia informó que este sábado arribó al puerto ucraniano de Mariúpol, el primer buque mercante, desde comienzos de la operación militar rusa en el este del país.
El arribo se concretó luego de que los integrantes de la Flota del Mar Negro de Rusia y las unidades de ingeniería militar se encargaran de desminar el espacio portuario.
“Las Fuerzas Armadas de Rusia han creado las condiciones para el funcionamiento de dos corredores humanitarios marítimos, que son vías seguras para los barcos”, declaró el Ministerio de Defensa Ruso.
El puerto comercial en Mariúpol fue liberado completamente de los combatientes del batallón neonazi ucraniano Azov, informó el Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia.
Esta área fue liberada de las fuerzas militares del batallón neonazi ucraniano Azov, en abril, pero no han podido retirarse debido a «la amenaza de bombardeos y el elevado peligro de minas creado por Kiev, la instancia gubernamental.
El Ministerio hizo públicos. el pasado jueves, los mapas que muestran el recorrido de dos corredores humanitarios diseñados a fin de que estas embarcaciones puedan salir de puerto Mariupól y de otros enclaves ucranianos situados en el mar Negro.
En la zona permanecen seis buques de carga seca, pertenecientes a Bulgaria, la República Dominicana, Liberia, Panamá, Turquía y Jamaica.
Se podrá conocer diariamente “información detallada sobre el funcionamiento de los corredores humanitarios marítimos cada 15 minutos a través de radio VHF en 14 y 16 canales internacionales en inglés y ruso”.
Además de permitir la salida de estas embarcaciones, los barcos que arriben a Mariúpol llevarán materiales para la reconstrucción de la ciudad y levaron productos desde este puerto hasta otros territorios de Rusia y el Mar Negro.
Erdogan is the real terrorist!..Nudem got 19 years jail for singing in Kurdish… Imprisoned Kurdish singer requests release due to multiple health problems
Imprisoned Kurdish singer Nudem Durak has called on Turkish authorities to release her from prison, saying she suffers from multiple illnesses and wants to sing as a free woman once again, the Bianet news website reported.
Turkish authorities have increasingly restricted the use of Kurdish in recent years. Hate crimes against Kurds for speaking their language have also increased.
Terrorist President Erdogan, always uses the “terrorist PKK” label, demanding that innocent protestors exiled to Sweden and other European countries be extradited to face trial and life imprisonment (like Nudem who got the “terrorist PKK” label and 19 years jail for singing in Kurdish). Erdogan demands the extradition to Turkey as part of an agreement to sign NATO membership permit, and to demonstrate again that his racist, macho, imperialist, fascism works. Meanwhile Turkish people suffer over 70% inflation as a direct result of Erdogan’s economic edicts favouring the corrupted Elite, like him and his family. ..see: Prominent Swedes call on gov’t not to hand over dissidents to Erdogan…
Durak suffers from osteoporosis and Graves’ disease, an immune system disorder that attacks the thyroid glands. The disease can also affect the quality of the voice. Speaking to her family on the phone, Durak said she was afraid of losing her voice and wanted to sing to the public one last time.
“I’m afraid I won’t be able to sing again. I’m frequently breathless, and if I’m released on time I can seek proper medical care. Then I’ll have a chance of keeping this sickness under control,” she said. “In prison, this isn’t possible. I don’t want to lose my voice.”
Durak also asked other singers to show their solidarity. “Artists need to support each other,” she said. “They can visit artists in prison and exert efforts to make their stories heard.”
Durak was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 19 years in prison on terrorism charges for performing songs in her native Kurdish language.
Durak told Al Jazeera before her imprisonment that “singing in Kurdish is my heritage from my ancestors. … My only crime is creating art.”
She was jailed for ‘membership in a terrorist organization’, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a standard charge applied to thousands, and ‘spreading terrorist propaganda’ after singing at an event to mark Nevruz, the Kurdish new year.
Former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters in February urged for Durak’s release.
Durak’s acoustic guitar was broken by guards during a cell inspection in 2017.
Waters sent his black Martin acoustic guitar, signed by rock legends including Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Pete Townsend, Noel Gallagher and Mark Knopfler, to Durak to highlight her plight.
“We have an absolute responsibility to support her and the hundreds of thousands of others who continue to suffer her fate with false imprisonment all over the world, not least in the United States and the United Kingdom,” he said.
The Free Nudem Durak campaign can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Kurds in Turkey are often pressured not to speak their native language. Authorities frequently claim that people speaking in Kurdish are actually chanting slogans in support of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is still classed as terrorist by the US for political expediency reasons.
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insert: Most articles on Turkey’s nazi style racist repression are still tagged with the sentence: “The PKK has been leading an armed insurgency against Turkey’s security forces since the ’80s in a campaign that has claimed the lives of some 20,000 people”.
This despite a long legalization campaign and despite abandoning separatism and changing its ideology to municipal anarchism and holding two long unilateral ceasefires.
The label “PKK terrorist” is applied indiscriminately with zero proofs like singing or speaking in Kurdish. Tens of thousands of prisoners spend years in torture conditions just awaiting trial and long absurd ‘exemplary’ sentences.
The ceasefires worked because they were planned and endorsed by the leader and philosopher Ocalan, still imprisoned in isolation without trial after all these years.
The second ceasefire was broken by Erdogan himself who launched a military blitz campaign, destroying Kurdish cities like Cizre and Nusaybin in Turkey, when Kurdish parties threatened to hold the balance of power.
All they asked for was peace and democracy: This is what Turkish President Erdogan ordered done to Kurdish cities in his own country in 2015, after unilaterally cancelling the peace process with a false flag attack.
Turkish authorities have increasingly restricted the use of Kurdish in recent years. Hate crimes against Kurds for speaking their language have also increased. All Kurdish language media suppressed, etc..
Prohibitions against the use of Kurdish in Turkey go back many years. Kurdish language, clothing, folklore, and names had been banned since 1937. It is estimated that there are up to 20 million ethnic Kurds in Turkey, although it is illegal to count them.
The words “Kurds,” “Kurdistan” and “Kurdish” were among those officially prohibited. After a military coup in 1980, speaking Kurdish was officially forbidden even in private life.
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