A holiday in Turkey funds war crimes, against Kurds, Christians, Syriacs and Arabs.

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100’s of US demos/Portland Revolution/Columbus in River/US Flag burned

Police declared a Riot in Portland for THIRD night this week as protesters besieged federal courthouse amid storm of tear gas..

5 Jul, 2020 07:40

Riot declared in Portland for THIRD night this week as protesters besiege federal courthouse

Follow RT on Portland police used tear gas against protesters who had erected barricades and shot fireworks at the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in the city. Friday was the third riot in Portland this week.

Several hundred activists marched on Friday evening into the streets around the courthouse in downtown Portland, bearing makeshift shields and diverse materials they used to erect some barricades, police said.

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Colombia. Women rise up against rape and femicide by Military .. English/Spanish

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By Trochando Sin Fronteras Posted on Jul 4, 2020 translation TheFreeOnline

In Bogotá and other cities on June 27, 2020, women, along with social organizations and communities, mobilized rejecting sexual violence by members of the National Army.
The rape of the minor Embera in Risaralda and the Case of the NukaK Muku girls in Guaviare were the trigger for mobilizations in various cities of the country in front of battalions, military districts and prosecutors .

In Bogotá, one of the mobilizations took place from the Trasnmilenio Flags Station to the Kennedy Town. In it, it was stated that violence against women are not isolated cases; they are systematic phenomena carried out by the armed forces.

The Army is denouncd for the rapes of two girls, one of 12 years of the Embera-Chamí ethnic group by seven soldiers of the San Mateo Battalion in the department of Risaralda (center) , and another of 15 of the nomadic tribe nukak makú by two soldiers of the Joaquín París Battalion, in the Guaviare (southwest). These cases are the tip of the iceberg judging by the revelation made on Wednesday by the Army commander, Major General Eduardo Zapateiro, that there are 118 members of the institution investigated since 2016 for allegations of rape and sexual abuse.

The Network of Urban and Popular Women “Las Amapolas”( The Poppies) denounced the 102 cases that occurred since the beginning of the quarantine, also rejected the actions of the Prosecutor’s Office, who gave the charge of Abusive Carnal Access to the seven soldiers who raped the minor of the Embera ethnic group in Risaralda, assuming that the minor gave consent for the rape. The Poppies wonder “Who gives the consent for seven soldiers to rape you?”. The Prosecutor’s Office with this accusation re-victimizes the minor Embera and reduces the possible sentence that the military.

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‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’.. Douglass’ Descendants deliver Speech.. video

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” …. ‘Frederick Douglass and His Descendants’ …. “!!

The U.S. celebrates this Independence Day amid nationwide protests and calls for systemic reforms. In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” which asks all of us to consider America’s long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans.

FEATURING (alphabetically) Douglass Washington Morris II, 20 (he/him) Isidore Dharma Douglass Skinner, 15 (they/their) Zoë Douglass Skinner, 12 (she/her) Alexa Anne Watson, 19 (she/her) Haley Rose Watson, 17 (she/her).

~~July 4, 2020~~

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Theft of 300,000 Babies by the Franco regime: mothers dying without reaching the truth

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From the SOS Association of Stolen Babies of Catalonia it is estimated that there are 300,000 stolen babies. “It started as a eugenic project, improving the Spanish race and eliminating the red genes on the left (1940 -1960), but then from 1960 to 1999 it was observed that it was a business..”

The researcher Carolina Escudero analyzes the systematic plan for the theft of children from 1940 to the end of Spanish democracy and the hendija that was recently opened to try that crime. She notes that women were silenced with medication and manipulation.
By Sonia Santoro, at Periodico Alternativo

In mid-June the Spanish Supreme Court left the door open to the investigation of the cases of stolen babies in Spain from the Franco dictatorship to advanced democracy. A researcher who works with social organizations that ask for justice for her missing children explains how the systematic plan for the theft of babies was and what the current situation is.

Faced with the burden of impunity, there are families seeking justice outside of Spain

“It is necessary to do a great job of reconstructing interdisciplinary historical memory (we cannot stop with what the law says about what these families have lived through) so that contemporaries know that this cannot happen again,” she says.

see also: PARENTS OF STOLEN BABIES DENOUNCE TO UN THE COVER-UP BY CATHOLIC CHURCH

The ruling of the Spanish high court revised a 2018 judgment that acquitted the retired doctor Eduardo Vela of the crimes of illegal detention, supposition of childbirth and documentary falsification in the case denounced by Inés Madrigal, considering that they were prescribed.

The new sentence dictates that the illegal detention is not proven, but confirms the documentary falsity and the illegality of the adoption of Madrigal, the first victim to go to trial, who denounced having been taken from her biological parents in the San Ramón sanatorium in Madrid. , in 1969. Faced with this, the families are expectant but they are not super gullible either, says the doctor in Social Psychology Carolina Escudero, who has accompanied family members and has been investigating the subject for four years.

The “We in SOS are looking out for you” campaign denounces that from 1940 until democracy was well advanced, babies were systematically stolen throughout Spain. It was a network made up of professionals from medicine, nursing and priests and nuns, among others.

thousands still seek their real families
thousands still seek their real families

From the SOS Association of Stolen Babies of Catalonia it is estimated that there are 300,000. “It started as a eugenic project, improving the Spanish race and eliminating the red genes on the left (1940 -1960), but then from 1960 to 1999 it was observed that it was a business, those babies could be sold to Spanish families or foreign.

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Jornadas Ecofeministas anti extractivistas por el buen vivir… virtual 4 Y 5 juliol ..

Por Colectivo Mujeres y la Sexta Idioma Español País Internacional 3 julio 2020 Fuente: Enlace Zapatista

Mujeres de diversas latitudes del planeta, nos reunimos para dialogar, compartir saberes y entretejer luchas y esperanzas en defensa de los territorios y las aguas. 

MESA DOMINGO 12:00 A 13:00 HRS JORNADAS ECOFEMINISTAS

Partiendo de que somos mujeres que luchan, eco-feminismo y en torno a los temas de: migraciones, en el marco de la crisis climática, la soberanía alimentaria, la agroecología, los modelos energéticos alternativos; así como la afectación ecológica de los megaproyectos y el extractivismo a nivel mundial.

Este 4 y 5 de julio de 10 a 16 hrs se llevarán a cabo de manera virtual las Jornadas Ecofeministas Antiextractivistas por el Buen Vivir, a través de las plataformas Facebook y YouTube de Mujeres y la sexta.

Invitamos a las mujeres a construir juntas alternativas a los proyectos de muerte y el llamado «desarrollo» capitalista.

MUJERES Y LA SEXTA

ABAJO Y A LA IZQUIERDA CON TODO EL CORAZÓN

MANIFIESTO-DECLARACIÓN

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US buys nearly all stocks of coronavirus drug remdesivir

Yet again the US appears as a terrorist pariah State, using its superpower privilege of infinite unpayable debt to buy up the entire future production, depriving the rest of humanity of life itself. Instead of taking just one month and arranging a temporary patent free regime the US has grabbed the entire next 3 months production by the unscrupulous patent holder Gilead.

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The US government has bought a massive stock of the only drug licensed to treat COVID-19, fanning fears there will be shortages of the anti-viral remdesivir in the rest of the world.

But this does not mean that it will be easy for Americans to access the drug, as it is not yet clear what the final cost to the individuals will be.

A report released this week found pharmaceutical companies have raised prices for 245 drugs since January – many of them used to treat COVID-19. Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi reports from the US capital, Washington, DC. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe –

US secures world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir

No other country will be able to buy remdesivir, which can help recovery from Covid-19, for next three months at least

Gilead Sciences HQ

Remdesivir is patented by California-based Gilead. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe or most of the rest of the world.

Experts and campaigners are alarmed both by the US unilateral action on remdesivir and the wider implications, for instance in the event of a vaccine becoming available. The Trump administration has already shown that it is prepared to outbid and outmanoeuvre all other countries to secure the medical supplies it needs for the US.

“They’ve got access to most of the drug supply [of remdesivir], so there’s nothing for Europe,” said Dr Andrew Hill, senior visiting research fellow at Liverpool University.

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