impact on women / resistance

• Bangladesh to be secular, will revert to 1972 Constitution: Hasina govt minister after attacks on Hindus
  20 October, by siawi3

  Islam will no longer be the state religion of the Muslim majority country.Assuring action against the rioters, Hasina said: “We will soon return to the 1972 secular Constitution that founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave to Bangladesh after Independence.” “We follow the ideals of Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman. Bangladesh is a secular country. People of all religions shall live together in Bangladesh. Religion may be personal, but festival is universal. And people in Bangladesh have always celebrated such festivals together.”

• Solidarity Party of Afghanistan’s Selay Ghaffar speaks about the struggle against the Taliban
  19 October, by siawi3

  “The United States is bringing the Taliban back to power.” “We wanted them to leave, but we didn’t want them to hand over power to the Taliban again.” “Peace will never come through a puppet regime, especially as they are medieval minded, they are misogynist, they are inhumane, they are brutal murderers.” “Fundamentalism and imperialism are the two sides of the same coin.”

• Affaire Paty : Je n’en peux plus de vos « Oui, mais »
  19 octobre, par siawi3

  Je n’en peux plus de vos « oui, mais ». Arrêtez de prendre les musulmans pour des cons. Traitez-les enfin pour ce qu’ils sont : des hommes et des femmes doués de raison, nos concitoyens, que nous avons la responsabilité, en tant qu’enseignants, que politiques, qu’intellectuels, qu’humoristes, de traiter comme des égaux, et non comme une espèce fragile à protéger.

• Protest works! Turkish political prisoner is freed on bail but still faces trial with over 100 other leaders and activists of the left-wing HDP
  17 October, by siawi3

  Following a huge global campaign, led by the British-based trade union solidarity movement, Labour Start, with the support of more than thirty international organisations and over 2,500 academics, Turkish political prisoner Cihan Erdal was ordered released from prison on bail.

• USA : Sally Ride deviendra la première effigie LGBTQ+ sur la devise américaine
  17 octobre, par siawi3

  Nouvelles pièces de monnaie aux USA, les femmes à l’honneur : Les pièces mises en circulation l’année prochaine représenteront la poète, autrice et militante des droits civiques Maya Angelou, Wilma Mankiller, la première cheffe de la nation Cherokee, Adelina Otero-Warren, qui a porté le mouvement pour le suffrage au Nouveau-Mexique, Anna May Wong, la première star de cinéma hollywoodienne d’origine sino-américaine et Sally Ride, la première américaine à être allée dans l’espace.

• Global - UK - US: Tribunal to combat disinformation on the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
  17 October, by siawi3

  Now the US and its allies are to be put on ‘trial’ by a tribunal. They are accused of committing atrocities (around 4 million (2 million in Iraq from 1991-2003, plus 2 million from the ‘war on terror’), and could be as high as 6-8 million people when accounting for higher avoidable death estimates in Afghanistan). While the tribunal possesses no legal powers, it’s intention is to set the record straight and demonstrate that Assange is not the criminal here.

• Campaign for girls access to education in Afghanistan
  17 October, by siawi3

  Afghanistan is now the only country in the world that forbids girls’ education. To the leaders of Muslim countries: religion does not justify preventing girls from going to school. Make this clear to Taliban leaders by issuing public statements on the Islamic imperative for girls’ complete education.

• Italie : Manifestation géante à Rome contre l’extrême droite
  17 octobre, par siawi3

  Portant des pancartes « Fascisme, plus jamais », des dizaines de milliers de manifestants ont demandé l’interdiction du groupe néofasciste Forza Nuova (FN). Le Parti démocrate (centre-gauche), en tête des appels à l’interdiction de FN, a indiqué que sa pétition pour que le Parlement la prononce avait rassemblé 100.000 signatures.

• UK: Free Julian Assange: The Belmarsh Tribunal Comes To London
  16 October, by siawi3

  The War on Terror is put on trial in London through the Belmarsh Tribunal. Inspired by the famous Russell-Sartre people’s tribunal, the Belmarsh Tribunal places the War on Terror on trial and holds the US government accountable for its war crimes. It is named for the London prison that has held Assange in permanent confinement for the last two years, as he faces extradition to the US, whose government plotted his assassination. The intervention comes ahead of Assange’s extradition proceedings, which are set to continue in London’s High Court from 27 to 28 October 2021.}}

• Yvon Quiniou - Critique de la religion : une imposture morale, intellectuelle et politique
  16 octobre, par siawi3

  La religion, distinguée de la foi subjective, y est considérée comme une imposture qui n’apporte pas ce qu’elle prétend apporter : ni le vrai, ni le bien, ni un quelconque progrès politique.

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