As you all probably know, many antifascist and anarchist platforms were banned from Facebook earlier this year. Enough 14 was banned as well, and decided not to use Instagram anymore. Instagram is owned by Facebook and we decided to focus on our Mastodon account and our Telegram channel. On December 19 Instagram banned CrimethInc.
In the early hours of Saturday, December 19, one day before their new terms of service took effect, Instagram shut down a page associated with CrimethInc. with no explanation or justification. The account had never been suspended before, nor received so much as a warning. Well over 40,000 people were following it. The issue was not a violation of the terms of service—rather, this is a political measure to suppress the voices of dissidents, expanding Facebook’s August 2020 decision to ban an array of pages associated with anarchist journalists and publishers.
This comes at the same time that Instagram is suppressing the voices of sex workers and their supporters, among other groups. These are not isolated incidents, but steps in a systematic crackdown intended to exclude millions of voices from public discourse in order to render the communities that these platforms serve more vulnerable to other forms of repression.
18:05, Dec 18 2020 .-. Nicole said this latest natural disaster shows the “harsh consequences” of climate inaction. “It’s past time for world leaders to step up their commitments in this climate emergency.”
At least two people have been killed and entire villages reportedly destroyed after Tropical Cyclone Yasa smashed through Fiji overnight.
One man is reported to have died when he was crushed under a wall of his house. Fijian Broadcasting Corporation reported the 46-year-old farmer, his wife and two sons were sheltering in their house near Labasa – the largest town on the island of Vanua Levu – when the building collapsed.
The man’s eldest son was also trapped under the wall and was injured.
Vasiti Soko, the director of the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), confirmed the fatalities were in the Western and Northern Divisions, The Fiji Times reported.
The category 5 cyclone made landfall in Bua on the island of Vanua Levu at 6pm Thursday (7pm Thursday NZT), a state of natural disaster was declared and a curfew put in place overnight.Post by Fiji NDMO.
This week’s photo shows the Mendoza Legislature burning with powerlessness and anger over a new victim of sexist violence and state neglect.
Florencia, a 14-year-old girl, was murdered in the city of Maipú, Mendoza. She had been missing since Saturday, December 12, and her body appeared lifeless on Thursday, December 17, with signs of having suffered extreme violence.
The young woman had defended herself with her screams and a neighbor who heard her called 911, but the police who attended her not only did not give her help, but also cut her call.
This situation reveals the little preparation that the police forces have in matters of gender violence. It also expresses the need for the State to make urgent political decisions in the face of the scourge that women and dissidents experience in this macho-patriarchal-violent culture entrenched in the prevailing capitalist system.
According to the MuMaLá observatory, a total of 241 femicides, linked femicides and trans-transvesticides had been registered as of November 31. From these numbers, the horrifying statistics of one femicide every 32 hours can be deduced. in the country.
Madrid. Spanish territory. Analysis of the appropriation of the protest by the far-right and the discourses that the left articulates about it. Anarchist claim to different conflict situations on the streets during the last months.
At dawn on November 1 at 00:00, the curfew started in the Spanish state. At the same time there were calls in the streets to challenge this restriction. The protests had an international echo, as they ended with clashes against the police, smashed shop windows, barricades and sporadic looting.
The left soon put the call to the skies, pointing to the far-right, which was largely behind the calls that night. Unfortunately, it was not easy to join the protests that night and not meet up with a bunch of Nazis, at least in Madrid. But there were many other people who took to the streets that day, many not even right-wing, and there was probably more than one youth without papers, the kind of people that Nazis like so much. [1]
The social leader and deputy of the Colombian municipality of San Sebastián (Cauca, southwest) was assassinated this Friday in the rural area of Timbío, a town also located in that department, confirmed his party, Independent Social Alliance (ASI, center-left) ).
“It is with deep sorrow that we condemn the murder of our councilor of San Sebastián (Cauca), Franco Nativel Salamanca Hoyos, a recognized social and political leader,” the ASI said in a statement.
According to party information, the murder occurred when the social leader was traveling from the city of Popayán (capital of Cauca) to San Sebastián and was approached by several armed men who forced him to get out of a public transport vehicle and shot him immediately.
ASI pointed out that with the death of Salamanca Hoyos there are 296 homicides of social leaders in the country so far this year.
“Mr. Iván Duque (President of Colombia), that this murder and the dozens of massacres that have occurred in your Government do not go unpunished, you can prevent these violent acts if you have the will (…), your indolence is concerning,” said the party in your statement.
Similarly, ASI asked the authorities for a “prompt and timely” clarification of the crime.
For her part, the mayor of Timbío, Maribel Perafán, told the local station Blu Radio that an alleged murderer of the social leader was injured and captured by the police.
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original in Spanish
Asesinan a otro líder social en suroeste de Colombia, el número 296 en el año
El líder social y diputado del municipio colombiano de San Sebastián (Cauca, suroeste) Franco Nativel Salamanca Hoyos fue asesinado este viernes en zona rural de Timbío, localidad ubicada también en ese departamento, confirmó su partido, Alianza Social Independiente (ASI, centro-izquierda).
«Con profundo dolor condenamos el asesinato de nuestro concejal de San Sebastián (Cauca), Franco Nativel Salamanca Hoyos, reconocido líder social y político», señaló la ASI en un comunicado.
Según la información del partido, el asesinato se produjo cuando el líder social viajaba desde la ciudad de Popayán (capital del Cauca) hacia San Sebastián y fue abordado por varios hombres armados que lo obligaron a bajar de un vehículo de transporte público en el que se transportaba y que le dispararon de inmediato.
ASI señaló que con la muerte de Salamanca Hoyos suman 296 los homicidios de líderes sociales en el país en lo que va del año.
«Señor Iván Duque (presidente de Colombia), que este asesinato y las decenas de masacres que han ocurrido en su Gobierno no queden en la impunidad, usted puede evitar estos hechos violentos si tuviera voluntad (…), preocupa su indolencia», expresó el partido en su comunicado.
De igual modo, ASI pidió a las autoridades una «pronta y oportuna» aclaración del crimen.
Por su parte, la alcaldesa de Timbío, Maribel Perafán, dijo a la emisora local Blu Radio que un presunto homicida del líder social quedó herido y fue capturado por la Policía.
In just a matter of months really, Ashera has become one of the defining bands of a new wave of explicitly antifascist neofolk. It is hard to call this a genre since what binds it together is largely not based in the actual sound of music, it is more in a type of negative space. If neofolk has so often been ceded to the far-right, assumed to be a romantic nationalist artform created by and for racists, the very existence of an antifascist neofolk that rejects that world had the effect of being a novelty. Ashera was one of the bands that helped move the concept from a curiosity to a new operative principle. We are now entering an era where hundreds of bands are taking on this mantle, bringing in a massively diverse wave of neofolk, black metal, and intersecting types of music all brought into…
YouTube’s official statement on its decision to do this is very revealing, not so much for what it says as for what it does not say.
At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone’s health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
At no point does it attempt to argue that these videos are inciting violence, as it did when it began deleting QAnon videos.
At no point does it claim that these videos are misleading voters, as it initially began collaborating with the US government to prevent, since all the voting is over and…
