A cop sleeps inside each one of us. We must kill him.
– Graffito from Paris, May 1968.
Meanwhile everyone wants to breathe and nobody can and many say, “We will breathe later.” And most of them don’t die because they are already dead.
– Graffito from Paris, May 1968.
"We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated, suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked."
– Graffito from Paris, May 1968.
Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
Amazon and Google are both coming out opposed to people using their services for domain fronting, to circumvent censorship.
Note that Signal is actively blocked in Egypt, Oman, UAE, and Iran. So, that sucks.
Happy May Day!
"We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom."
– Graffito from Paris, May 1968
In Rojava, Northern Syria, where they and their allies won local autonomy, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have organized society in tune with their feminist ideology.
18 months ago their Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberated mixed, but Arab-majority, Manbij from ISIS. How have these ideas gone over in a more conservative, traditional area?
According to this article in The New York Times by Rod Nordland, better than expected:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/world/middleeast/syria-kurds-womens-rights-gender-equality.html
"The women’s movement in northern Syria is more like a women’s earthquake, in politics, governance, and the region's security."
This from the most establishment of establishment sources: a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
"Inside The World’s Most Radical Experiment in Women’s Rights"
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/02/inside-worlds-most-radical-experiment-womens-rights/145760/
It is the 50th Anniversary of the Tết offensive, an awful and important moment in Vietnamese and American history.
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K Le Guin
http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf https://mastodon.social/media/UUFc8jGpTVkGoA0rPvE
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There is an Opinion column in The New York Times today written by Nujin Derik who is a commander with the Kurdish women's militia (YPJ) in Afrin, Syria.
It is very good.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/turkey-erdogan-syria-kurds.html
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Screengrab of Kurdish Syrian writer Gilgo on birdsite: https://mastodon.social/media/uPClCELhKIoNmWbl61E
Earth First: **Keystone Pipeline Leaks 210,000 Gallons of Oil in South Dakota**
"TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil onto agricultural land in northeastern South Dakota, the company and state regulators said Thursday"
Tactic most feared by elites is not rioting in the streets but the General Strike. Even moderately successful one will paralyze a society.
This is from Catalan News via the birdsite.
"#BREAKING More than 70% of public workers follow strike against police violence on #3Oct, according to Catalan government"
"BREAKING: Spanish government moves to declare next Wednesday's general strike illegal. #Catalonia"
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Signal now has standalone desktop apps, finally!
A lot of people with "down" politics don't want to actually change systems and the sooner we admit that the better.
