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How agonizing Tear Gas assaults by police can disrupt your Periods

Can tear gas mess with your period By Alexandria Herr from Grist, shared with thanks

If you found yourself googling “Can tear gas mess with your period” in the last few months, it turns out you aren’t alone.

Tear Gas is on the list of banned war weapons yet it is used against innocent civilians. Though it has devastating health effects, the male dominated research industry has never investigated its effects on women’s menstrual cycle.

Several people who were exposed to the tear gas during the recent protests in response to police brutality have come forward online to say they experienced painful disruptions to their menstrual cycle. These anecdotes have prompted concern over the chemical’s impact on reproductive health.

Mallory (who did not want to include her last name due to the personal nature of her experience) was tear gassed by the police in late May as part of a crowd of protestors in Columbus, Ohio. Four days later, she says she got her period — two weeks earlier than expected, and heavier and more painful than she had experienced in a long time.

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“I was bleeding through my pants even with a tampon,” she said. “It was pretty overwhelming.”

Ultimately, Mallory says she had two periods in the length of her typical menstrual cycle — the early one, and then one at the usual time. But it wasn’t until she started seeing people connecting the dots between tear gas and menstrual irregularities online that she realized her recent exposure to tear gas might have something to do with it.

Protesters report adverse effects from tear gas exposure …

I’m a mess…I just started my period AGAIN. That’s the third time since repeatedly heavily exposure to teargas in the uprisings.Others are saying regardless of IUDs or taking T, they’re having multiple periods too. @ColumbusGov tell the people what’s happening to our bodies.

She talked to her gynecologist, who didn’t have answers as to whether there was a connection. But Mallory kept thinking about it. “It’s not normal for everyday civilians to be exposed to multiple rounds of tear gas,” she said.

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Threat to evict Ca l’Espina in Barcelona: first trial and anti-speculation resistance campaign

from Indymedia Barcelona with thanks, translations TheFreeonline

We extract from Indymedia Barcelona and email various information about the eviction process of the squad Ca l´Espina, in the Gràcia neighborhood, with the holding of the first trial. A pressure campaign has started and a call for solidarity against the real estate agency Bojous S.L. For more information, you can visit the TW account of Ca l´Espina. For July 17, a property scandal has been called in Barcelona, waiting to confirm the place.

FIRST TRIAL OF CA L’ESPINA

https://t.co/cuQfdPV04X
[Barcelona] Amenaza de desalojo de Ca L'Espina: (@Ca_lEspina) primer juicio y campaña de resistencia. pic.twitter.com/C0uO2i1uPT
— ★𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 & 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞★ (@alexpunx1977) July 10, 2020

Next Monday, July 20, we face the first trial of Ca l’Espina, a criminal case against the second floor when we already had a civil case open against the whole building. The property forces legality by imposing a meaningless criminal route through a building that has remained empty, abandoned and neglected, filing a second criminal complaint as the first was filed and redirected to a civil lawsuit.

The speculative eagerness of this great landlord will not drive us away. We have already received the first signs of solidarity and we know that we are not alone in this city riddled with speculation and greed, we resist and will resist until the end, because we will not allow a neighborhood only for the rich and tourists. They won’t kick us out!

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is okupa.png — Barcelona Squatters Resist

We call for it to resonate on balconies, walls, and the entire city, in every way you can imagine, until it becomes clear to the property owner:

BOJOUS S.L. REMOVE COMPLAINTS

CA L’ESPINA RESISTS
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Ca l’Espina, a building occupied last January at Carrer Astúries 12, in the district of Gràcia, is under threat of eviction. We are facing a lawsuit for a building that was abandoned and neglected, in which one of the floors was covered by a meter of garbage and garbage. In the face of this threat, our request is clear: that the owner, the real estate company Bojous S.L., withdraw the complaint.

We know many of you will be wondering “WHO IS BOJOUS S.L.?”

Today we publish the properties of this so-called “small owner”

-4 Buildings
-31 Residential flats…
-Miscellaneous premises

Welcome to the MONOPOLY of BOJOUS S.L.!
There are so many properties that we can’t hang all the posters on Indymedia, followed by the 9 most expensive properties.

IT DOESN’T END HERE, BOJOUS S.L. IT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE MASSIMO DUTTI OF PORTAL OF THE ANGEL, THE ANCIENT ZARA. A COMMERCIAL BUILDING ON THE STREET WITH THE MOST EXPENSIVE RENTALS IN ALL OF SPAIN.
A rental price of 285 € per m2, a total of 445,455 € monthly.
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The lies of the property owner are clear.

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Joe Strummer, Class War and the ‘Rock Against the Rich’ tour, 1988.

In 1988, Joe Strummer embarked on a tour across Britain called ‘Rock Against the Rich’.

The tour was endorsed and organised by the anarchist group, Class War. Ian Bone, former leading member of Class War, has published this on the history of the tour.

..”Remember, in the late ‘80s, rock had zero street credibility – hip hop and sound system bass ruled the streets of the inner cities. The music may have changed, but the politics of the street remained the same: Class conflict, with a varying intensity of class warfare, raged the length and breadth of Britain. Strummer recognised this, and saw in the Class War people he met, the passionate intensity that he lacked and needed. He tried to use the media’s fixation with Class War to re-launch his career with a radical edge. And to a degree it worked well for him…”

Amongst a collection of newspapers and journals that I recently obtained, I found a copy of Class War that featured Joe Strummer and the Rock Against the Rich tour.

A scan of the paper can be found here.

I also found this on YouTube which is a recording from the tour: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UqoKwtRCS9I?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent

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