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The destructive scheme to expand Bristol Airport has been given the green light by inspectors. Following a public inquiry from July to October last year, inspectors yesterday (February 2) returned a long-awaited verdict in favour of the airport’s appeal against an earlier decision by North Somerset Council to deny planning permission.
The expansion raises Bristol Airport’s passenger cap from 10 million per year to 12 million, allows thousands of extra flights, including night flights, and permits expansion of the terminal building and a new multi-storey car park on Green Belt land. .
Since its announcement in 2018, the expansion plan has been resisted by local residents and campaign groups, culminating in the decision by North Somerset Council to refuse planning permission in January 2020.
Large majorities of people have objected across two public consultations on the issue and Bristol CIty Council, Bath and North East Somerset Council and the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) all objected to the plans.
After the result was announced, campaign group Bristol Airport Action Network tweeted: ‘Naturally we are all outraged by this news & will be posting an official response once the full decision has been analysed. Love to all who opposed this unwanted appeal. We will not give up!’
Meanwhile, WECA mayor Dan Norris tweeted: ‘Deeply dismayed by decision on Bristol Airport. Govt’s lack of policy on UK airport expansion resulted in inspectors ignoring voices of local people & resolution of the West of England Combined Authority’
The public inquiry, which lasted 36 days last year, saw solicitors for the airport argue their case before three government-appointed planning inspectors. Against them were an array of opponents including North Somerset Council, the local Parish Council association, and grassroots campaign groups like Bristol Airport Action Network.
Continue reading “Bristol Airport Expansion Given Go Ahead: ‘A Kick in the Teeth for Local Democracy’ and Climate”
on Thursday, February 10, 2022 by KurdisCat
The disciplinary board of the prison where the politician and former Kurdish MP Leyla Güven is detained ignored threats against her by Elazig prison guards and instead sentenced Güven to 11 days in solitary confinement for ” insulting or threatening a public official. “
Leyla was sentenced to 22 years for supporting Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurdish leader and philosospher now jailed for over 20 years in isolation without trial in an epic 200 day Hunger Strike
Journalist Sabiha Temizkan, daughter of Democratic Society of Congress (DTK) co-chair Leyla Güven, who is in Elazığ Women’s Prison, visited her mother on January 11.
Temizkan revealed that her mother had been threatened by a prison guard. “I found my mother. She told me that when she was taken out to be vaccinated, she was threatened by a male guard because she had her hands in her pockets.
The guard named “Ismail” told my mother to “get her hands out of her pockets.” When she objected, the guard threatened her.
“It was as if he would physically attack me if others didn’t stop him.”. My mother added that she would file a criminal complaint for the incident that took place in a spot where the cameras caught it. “
Leyla and her daughter, before her epic victorious hunger strike
La junta disciplinària de la presó on es troba detinguda la política i ex diputada kurda Leyla Güven va passar per alt les amenaces contra ella per part dels guàrdies de la presó d’Elazig i en canvi va condemnar Güven a 11 dies d’aïllament per “insultar o amenaçar un funcionari públic”.
La periodista Sabiha Temizkan, filla de la també copresidenta del Congrés de la Societat Democràtica (DTK), Leyla Güven, que es troba a la presó tancada per a dones d’Elazığ, va visitar la seva mare l’11 de gener.
Temizkan va revelar que sa mare havia estat amenaçada per un guàrdia a la presó. “Vaig trobar la meva mare. Em va dir que quan la van treure per vaccinar-la va ser amenaçada per un guàrdia masculí perquè tenia les mans a les butxaques.
El guàrdia anomenat “Ismail” va dir a la meva mare que “tregués les mans de les butxaques”. Quan ella s’hi va oposar, el guàrdia la va amenaçar dient: “tot bé!’
La meva mare em va dir que el guàrdia la continuava amenaçant després que altres guàrdies i el 2n director de la presó intentessin detenir-lo. La meva mare va dir que “Era com si m’ataqués físicament si els altres no l’aturaven”.
La meva mare va afegir que presentaria una denúncia penal per l’incident que va tenir lloc en un lloc on les càmeres ho van captar”.
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Even though our geographies are divided by thousands of kilometers, I’m glad you heard my voice. Even though we are from very different corners of the world, as women, we always feel. As Hypatia says, “none of us resemble each other, but the things that unite us are greater than those that separate us.” We are all sisters.
What unites us the most is our struggle for freedom, our resistance against all kinds of fascism, against the dictatorship and the patriarchal mentality.
Women who resist and fight always become symbols: Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, the Mirabal sisters, Sakine Cansiz, Leyla Qasim and many other women become symbols through their struggle. As women, we are half of the world’s population. However, we are all oppressed. When we begin to fight for our rights, we are labeled as terrorists.
All the women of the world must give fascism enough, enough to the dictatorship!
The murder of women through domestic violence, female genital mutilation, child marriages, women sentenced to death in Iranian prisons – Zenenep Celalyan is one of them – Kurdish women, who were banned from mother tongue, the Arabs who fled the war. All point to femicide. As women who are prepared to die, we can stop this femicide through the connection of our struggles. While we are determined to fight.
I am a Kurdish woman. My awareness of the injustices committed against women developed thanks to Mr. Abdullah Öcalan. It is through the importance of the struggle that Mr. Öcalan placed on the freedom and camaraderie of women, that millions of women have developed a strong willpower.
Women have experienced an awakening. And I am one of these women. I learned to be at peace with my gender, to fight against the patriarchal mentality, and I learned to be a feminist. When I heard from Mr. Öcalan that a society will only be free when women are free, for many years I have carried out a struggle for the freedom of women and I will continue to do so.
Mr. Öcalan, to whom I owe my own awakening, has been locked in an isolated cell for the past 20 years. In order to demand the removal of Mr. Öcalan’s isolation, something that millions of Kurds see as their political will, I have started a hunger strike. Mr. Öcalan is an important actor in the efforts to create peace in the Middle East and in the world. As a prisoner, going against national and international laws, you are denied all your rights and freedoms.
To request recognition of these rights, we, as Kurdish politicians of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Society Council (DTK), are calling for an end to their isolation. We say that this is a crime against human rights. However, to silence us, the fascism of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) and MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) imprisoned us.
They specifically addressed women. More than half of the imprisoned parliamentarians are women. The same goes for the mayors of cities, who were taken to prison. The mentality that does not accept the quota of women in politics has implemented a policy of 60-70% of women in prison.
Continue reading “Former MP Leyla Güven got 22 yrs jail after winning a 200 day Hunger Strike. Now punished again, with 11 days in solitary – Eng/Cat”
Canadian police deploy on February 12, 2022, to move protesters blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge demanding an end to government Covid-19 mandates, in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge on the U.S. border has been snarled for days by truckers protesting against vaccination rules. (Photo:Geoff Robins / AFP via Getty Images)
Jon Queally February 12, 2022
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Police in Windsor, Ontario mobilized Saturday morning to clear brave demonstrators opposed to the heavy repressive and illogical measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic from a bridge at the nation’s border with the United States . The massive police operation aimed to end a dayslong blockade that brought traffic to a standstill and disrupted international trade.
“We urge all demonstrators to act lawfully & peacefully,” police in Windsor, Ontario, home to the Ambassador Bridge, tweeted in announcing the deployment just after 8:00 am local time. The police said they were initiating enforcement of an injunction issued Friday by a judge in Ottawa who said complete blockage of the bridge “cannot be tolerated.”
As of 11:00 am, police had compressed protesters into a smaller area for what one reporter on the scene described as a “stand off” as law enforcement threatened to tow vehicles or arrest individuals that did not leave voluntarily from places blocking the flow of traffic.
11th February 2022
It’s not us the government intends to liberate. It’s the asset strippers, money launderers, property developers and oligarchs on whose behalf it operates., published in the Guardian 2nd February 2022
To adapt Ronald Reagan’s adage, the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’ll set you free.” Every time this government says freedom, it means freedom for someone other than you.
Seeking to distract us from his own pursuit of freedom during lockdown, this week Boris Johnson announced what he calls…
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In Britain, the working class is being attacked on all sides. From rapidly rising inflation rates and energy bills, to benefit cuts and the rise in the National Insurance tax. Locally, the Labour-run Wirral Council is implementing severe austerity measures, targeting libraries, leisure centres and park maintenance.
This problem is global, a crisis of capitalism. This is just one reason we don’t think a change in government is a viable solution. Instead, the way to turn the tide is through a mass movement of resistance. Clearly no such movement currently exists in Britain, but we saw oil workers’ strikes turn into a revolt in Kazakhstan in January, demonstrating how quickly things can change.
Such a movement could emerge around three tactics. Firstly, we could…
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