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Και στη Νέα Ζηλανδία το κράτος ψηφίζει νόμο για την επιτήρηση του εσωτερικού εχθρού

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από τον τύπο τους:

The thousands of people who marched in protest of a new bill that would grant the New Zealand’s government sweeping spy powers, were misinformed, Prime Minister John Key has said playing down the nationwide protests.

The surveillance bill, which is expected to be passed in parliament, would allow New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) free rein to listen in on citizens’ phone conversations.

Kiwis took to the streets on Saturday in 11 cities and towns in what has been dubbed as an “uphill battle” to stop the bill from going through.

Key, however, argued on Sunday that the turnout was “quite light” and insisting that those involved in the mass demonstrations were ill-informed or had a political agenda.

“At the risk of encouraging them to have more protests, I would have actually said those numbers were quite light – it wasn’t anything like what we saw for mining or anything else,”
 he told TVNZ’s Q&A program on Sunday.

“Secondly, a lot of people that would go along would be either A, politically aligned, or B, with the greatest of respect, misinformed,” he stressed.

#SammyYatim: H αστυνομία κάνει τη δουλειά της και στο Τορόντο

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Ένας 18χρονος απειλούσε με ένα μαχαίρι μερικές δεκάδες μπάτσους που τον είχαν περικυκλώσει με περιπολικά και τον σημάδευαν με όπλα. Ε, ευτυχώς η κοινωνία γλύτωσε από έναν ακόμη τρομοκράτη. Τα μπάχαλα που αντιστοιχούν όμως που είναι;

Προλεταριακή αστυνομία: Η περίπτωση του Μεξικό και της Βενεζουέλας

Στο Μεξικό:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XiSnCt9fDc[/youtube]

Στη Βενεζουέλα:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5KMgC70diE[/youtube]

Στο κείμενο Η ιστορική παραγωγή της επανάστασης της τρέχουσας περιόδου, που δημοσιεύτηκε τον Ιούνιο του 2010 στο περιοδικό blaumachen υπήρχε η ακόλουθη εκτίμηση:

“Η αύξηση του τμήματος της τάξης που δεν έχει πρόσβαση σε επίσημη απασχόληση μόνιμα ή για πολύ μεγάλα διαστήματα και η διάχυση του φαινομένου και σε μεγαλύτερες ηλικίες θα σημάνει αύξηση της «εγκληματικότητας», με πιο πιθανή απάντηση του κράτους την γκετοποίηση-αποκλεισμό ολόκληρων περιοχών μέσα στους αστικούς πολεοδομικούς σχηματισμούς. Η τάση δημιουργίας gated communities, δηλαδή φυλασσόμενων περιοχών κατοικιών, νησίδων ασφαλείας μέσα σε μια θάλασσα περιοχών κατοικιών χωρίς επαρκείς υποδομές θα γίνει ακόμη πιο ισχυρή. Η κατοικία, για μέρος του πληθυσμού, θα υπαχθεί σταδιακά στη σφαίρα της ανεπίσημης οικονομίας, με ό,τι αυτό συνεπάγεται. Η αύξηση της βίας σε μοριακό επίπεδο και η ανάληψη της επιβολής του νόμου και της τάξης από μικρομαφίες κάθε τύπου, που θα βρίσκονται σε συνεννόηση με το κράτος ή υπό την ανοχή του, θα θέτουν ολοένα και περισσότερο την ύπαρξη του ελεύθερου εργάτη ως τέτοιου σε κρίση”.

Η πραγματικότητα δείχνει ότι η υπεράσπιση του ταξικού ανήκειν περνάει και μέσα από την ανάληψη της διατήρησης της τάξης από μέρος του προλεταριάτου, ενάντια στην έλλειψη αστυνόμευσης από το κράτος. Η αυτοδιαχείριση της καταστολής, η παραγωγή της καταστολής ως αυτοπροστασίας αποτελεί άλλη μια ένδειξη της σύγχρονης αντίφασης ανάμεσα στη διεκδίκηση της υπεράσπισης της (καπιταλιστικής) κοινωνίας και της κατάργησης αυτής της κοινωνίας, της επανάστασης, της κομμουνιστικοποίησης.

 

Μη σας κοροϊδεύουν: Η θρησκευτική δικτατορία αντικαταστάθηκε από στρατιωτική δικτατορία

αναδημοσίευση από menasolidarity (η έμφαση σε κάποια σημεία δική μας)


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Al-Sisi’s “Permission” is a Deadly Poison

My comrades, the workers of Egypt are struggling for their rights and for a better Egypt. Egypt’s workers dream of freedom and social justice, they dream of work at a time when thieves who are called businessmen close down factories to pocket billions. Egypt’s workers dream of fair wages under the rule of a governments that are only interested in promoting investment at the expense of workers and their rights, and even their lives. Egypt’s workers dream of a better life for their children. They dream of medicine when they are sick, but they do not find it. They dream of four walls in which they can take shelter.

Since before the 25th of January and you have been demanding your rights, and your strikes and demonstrations for the same unanswered demands continued after Mubarak’s overthrow. Both the Muslim Brotherhood and the military have negotiated left, right and centre, not once having in mind your demands and rights. All they have in mind is how to put out the sparks you have lit with your struggle in times of darkness, even these sparks all burned in isolation from each other.

Did not the military forcibly end your strikes in Suez, Cairo, Fayyoum, and all over Egypt ? Did not the military arrest many of you and subject you to military trials just for practising your right to organize, strike, and protest peacefully? Have they not adamantly worked to criminalize this right through legislation banning all Egyptians from organizing peaceful protests, strikes, and sit-ins?

Then came Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood, who followed in Mubarak’s footsteps with dismissals, arrests, and smashing strikes by force. It was Mursi who sent police dogs against workers at Titan Cement in Alexandria, acting through the Minister of the Interior and his men. The same police and army officers who are right now being carried shoulder-high are killers, the killers of honest, young Egyptians. They are the authorities’ weapon against us all – and always will remain so unless these institutions are cleansed.

The leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood are planning crimes against Egyptian people on a daily basis, which have caused the killing of innocent people, while the army and the police are facing these with brutal violence and murder. But let each of us remember, when do the army and police intervene? They intervene long after clashes have begun and are almost coming to an end, after blood has been spilled. Ask yourselves, why don’t they prevent these crimes committed by the Muslim Brotherhood against the Egyptian people before they start? Ask yourselves, in whose interest is this continuation of fighting and blood-letting? It is in the interest of both the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood and the military together. Just as the poor are cannon-fodder for wars between states, Egypt’s poor, workers and peasants, are fuel for internal war and conflict. Has not the doorman’s innocent son been killed in Mokattam, and in Giza as well?

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Αλγερία: Ταραχές μετά από αυτοπυρπόληση νεαρού μέσα σε αστυνομικό τμήμα

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το γνωστό pattern επαναλαμβάνεται…

Η λεωφόρος Abbas Laghrour μαρτυρά το πέρασμα των ταραχοποιών. Το βράδυ της Δευτέρας έγιναν εκεί πολλές συγκρούσεις. Το απόγευμα της Δευτέρας ένας νεαρός μικροπωλητής αυτοπυρπολήθηκε μέσα στο αστυνομικό τμήμα, μετά τη σύλληψη και την κατάσχεση των εμπορευμάτων του.  Μεταφέρθηκε στο νοσοκομείο αλλά ήταν αργά.

Πολύ σύντομα ο κόσμος ξεχύθηκε στο δρόμο γεμάτος οργή. Επιτέθηκε στο αστυνομικό τμήμα και στη συνέχεια οι συγκρούσεις διαχύθηκαν στους κεντρικούς δρόμους της Khenchela. 

 

 

The construction of gender identity and the reproduction of gender roles by the greek mass media

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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.

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