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Βουλγαρία: Αποκλεισμός της βουλής και συγκρούσεις με την αστυνομία
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Where Were the Egyptian Workers in the June 2013 People’s Coup Revolution?
[…]Nevertheless, EFITU has already announced that its members are ready to work day and night for Egypt and to support its new interim government. According to its statement, EFITU members fully support the road map and workers and peasants are at the service of the new government: “They are the heroes of the strikes against the two previous governments and now they will be the heroes of hard work and production for the nation. They only want in return to feel like human beings and not second class citizens.”[…]
Αναδημοσίευση από jadaliyya, η έμφαση σε ορισμένα σημεία δική μας. Ενδιαφέρον άρθρο για την πρόσφατη ιστορία του συνδικαλισμού στην Αίγυπτο, και το ρόλο των ανεξάρτητων συνδικάτων που φαίνεται στην παράγραφο που παραθέσαμε πιο πάνω.
“We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed,” is a statement Egyptian workers make with great conviction when discussing the movement for change in their country. Accordingly, in order to continue what began in January 2011, the masses of workers were out yet again in the streets and squares of Egypt before and on 30 June, and in the ensuing days until former president Mohamed Morsi’s removal from office on 3 July. This might seem surprising, given that there were no signs or banners on 30 June indicating workers’ participation. In fact, this was based on a prior agreement among the organizers of the protest, the youth-led Tamarod Campaign. Protesters were to hold up only the Egyptian flag, in addition to homemade signs, but not organizational insignia. So you did not see workers marching under the banner of their union or profession on 30 June. Yet the workers were out in droves in every city and town in Egypt protesting as an integral part of the June 2013 people’s coup revolution. In certain industrial towns such as al-Mahalla al-Kubra, the Tenth of Ramadan and Sadat cities – they were the majority, and leading the marches.
The construction of gender identity and the reproduction of gender roles by the greek mass media
αναδημοσίευση από feminismandthelaw
– The case of HIV-infected prostitutes in Athens.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, school of law.
In conditions of severe economic crisis such as the one greek society is experiencing during the last 3 years, social tension and antagonism tend to sharpen, quite obviously revealing, how all forms of violence are being created and reproduced. Under these conditions, intensified gender-based violence, that permeates social relations of gendered subjects, would inevitably occur.
This essay deals with the role of the greek media in maintaining and intensifying this kind of violence through the constitution of gender identity and the reproduction of gender roles. I use as example the media coverage of the existence of HIV-positive prostitutes in Athens, on May 2012.
At first, I attempt a description of the historical and social context in which the news aired and I thoroughly delineate the sequence of events as presented by the greek media. Furthermore, I use the text analysis as a tool, as it is being understood in the context of post structuralist thought. I specifically present a general overview of the mass media headings of this period of time and I analyze an article from a nationwide circulation newspaper.
Moreover, I comment on the way public health was used as a tool to demonize certain behaviors and characteristics and I proceed by focusing on how the mass media represented identities as woman/ mother, woman/ wife, woman/ sex worker, woman/ immigrant on one side, and man/ straight /white/ middle class/ sex client/ family man, on the other.
By using these tools, I prove that gender and gendered subject is not a natural condition, but a result of violent cultural production. The identities of men and women (and the roles that they entail), as experienced in competitive relations, are a result of social actions, reactions and interactions. The role of the media is crucial in this process, as they express the dominant discourse, reproduce gender roles, construct gendered subjects and abjects, design human and non human zones, as well as bound and fence gender relations and bodies, thus eventually managing to control them.
Βραζιλία: Διαδηλώσεις και συγκρούσεις κατά την επίσκεψη του πάπα
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Ζάμπια: μαθητές λεηλατούν τρόφιμα και καταστρέφουν το σχολείο τους
από τον τύπο τους:
TWENTY-FIVE pupils at Serenje Boys Secondary School and a teacher have been arrested for staging a riot in the early hours of yesterday.
The pupils started rioting around 01:00 hours and looted the school’s storeroom to protest against poor food.
The teacher, only identified as a Mr Bwalya, was picked up in connection with a container of cooking oil found in his house, which is suspected to have been among the goods that pupils looted from the storeroom.
Αυστραλία: Ταραχές των αποκλεισμένων στα στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης
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Τουρκία: Η καταστολή μετά την εξέγερση
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12 χρόνια από τη δολοφονία του Κάρλο Τζουλιάνι
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Αίγυπτος: Η χούντα δολοφονεί 4 γυναίκες στην Μανσούρα
Αναδημοσίευση από Madamasr (από τον τρόπο παρουσίασης των γεγονότων φαίνεται ότι το αντι-ισλαμικό στρατόπεδο δεν μπορεί να χωνέψει ότι ο στρατός δολοφονεί συστηματικά ισλαμιστές διαδηλωτές).
Supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi clashed with unknown attackers on Friday night in the Delta City of Mansoura, killing four women from the first camp, several local media confirmed.
According to Ahmad Eltoukhy, an eyewitness who wrote on Facebook his testimony of the clashes, a peaceful march was leaving the Zareein mosque when it was attacked by “armed thugs”. According to him, a group of thugs encircled some women from the protest on a side street and fired birdshots and broken glass at them.
The clashes happened as protests demanding Morsi’s reinstatement took place around Egypt. Morsi was ousted by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on July 3 following mass protests demanding his resignation.
Γαλλία: Συγκρούσεις στο Trappes λόγω της αστυνομικής βαρβαρότητας
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Μερικές εκατοντάδες συγκρούστηκαν στο Trappes μπροστά στο αστυνομικό τμήμα με τις δυνάμεις καταστολής. Το περιστατικό που αποτέλεσε την αφορμή ήταν η σύλληψη ενός άντρα που προσπάθησε να διαμαρτυρηθεί σε αστυνομικούς που έκαναν έλεγχο (σύμφωνα με την κατάθεση της, της επιτέθηκαν) σε μια γυναίκα, η οποία φορούσε μπούρκα. Στην ίδια περιοχή είχε γίνει επίθεση από δύο άτομα σε γυναίκα που φορούσε μπούρκα στις 14 Ιουλίου. Τα νέα της σύλληψης του άντρα οδήγησαν σε διαδήλωση έξω από το αστυνομικό τμήμα και στα επακόλουθα επεισόδια, καθώς μετά από ένα σπάσιμο στάσης το κράτος έστειλε εκατοντάδες αστυνομικούς στην περιοχή.