Happy International Women’s Day to all my sisters & a special tribute to all those women, men, & children on the front lines of the struggles against war, occupation, persecution, & genocide. It’s a day to celebrate women’s particular contributions, usually as unsung leaders, to the monumental struggles for human freedom from injustice & inequality.
Happy International Women’s Day from Kashmir.
(Photo is Indian troops assaulting woman protester)
There’s a narrow range within which political women are allowed to dissent. But even within that range, deference & an obsequious posture toward males must at all times be maintained. The modern feminist says ‘screw that’ to all groveling.
A wounded little girl or a ‘crisis actor’ as Assad propagandists claim? A rescue worker or a terrorist as Assad propagandists claim? It’s not irrelevant that advocates of a US border wall claim refugee children incarcerated in detention centers put on long faces for photojournalists, only feigning misery to worm their way out of being deported. The evidence of children is so compelling that they must be turned into propagandists & manipulators by those who defend barbarism.
Assad regime forces have intensified bombing & shelling, including with the use of cluster bombs, of civilians, towns, residential areas, & markets in Idlib & Hama provinces. Hundreds have been killed or injured. This White Helmet rescue worker is attending the injured at a field hospital though fascist Vanessa Beeley would claim on behalf of the Syrian & Russian governments that he is waiting for the camera to go away to remove her internal organs for trafficking.
The only principled demands are for the immediate cessation of bombing & the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Syria.
(Photo from National Coalition of Syrian Revolution & Opposition Forces)
This information simply blows me away since for years I have written about the repugnant “pickininny art” so prevalent & pervasive up to the Civil Rights Movement. The most common theme was Black infants suspended over an alligator pit. At no time did I imagine that Black children were actually used as bait for alligators. It is entirely of a piece with the war against Black youth that prevails today.
Good article by Shahid Lone about how Indian military aggression in Kashmir reflects political weakness in crushing resistance to occupation & colonialism.
https://thewire.in/government/new-delhis-muscular-approach-to-kashmir-reflects-its-policy-paralysis?
“If you can’t understand what it feels like being Kashmiri in India, everyday it feels like a Jew living in 1933-45 Germany.”
—Nasir Hussain
This has to be seen to be believed. The criminally insane are running the US & the worst are in charge of children refugees. God help us & build the immigration rights movement.