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Editorial: Tough Talk and a Cowardly Vote on Terrorism
CONVENING OF PEOPLES
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Description: 16days-of-activism2015 When I was born no one was happy No one smiled No one said, “Welcome my baby, Welcome my sister.” Why? What is my sin? I am a human, a girl. A woman is brutally beaten on the street without reason A girl is slandered Stoned by the people A woman is forced to have illicit relations outside of her marriage. She cannot defend herself A man burns his wife’s body No one defends her Why? What is her sin? I can’t be silent. I can’t accept that.
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Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Welcome My Baby
When I was born no one was happyNo one smiledNo one said, “Welcome my baby,Welcome my sister.”Why? What is my sin?I am a human, a girl.A woman is brutally beatenon the street without reasonA girl is slanderedStoned by the peopleA woman is forced to have illicit relationsoutside of her marriage.She cannot defend herselfA man burns his wife’s bodyNo one defends herWhy? What is her sin?I can’t be silent.I can’t accept that.I want to say, “Welcome my babyWelcome my sister.” By Manizha
Labour sweeps to conclusive victory in Oldham byelection | Politics | The Guardian
Labour has comfortably won its first parliamentary byelection since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, storming ahead of Ukip by 10,835 votes in Oldham West and Royton in Greater Manchester.Jim McMahon, the 35-year-old leader of Oldham council, will swap the town hall for Westminster after persuading 17,322 people to vote for him. Turnout was 40.26% – not an embarrassment on a very rainy Thursday in December. McMahon increased Labour’s share of the vote to 62.27%, up 7.49% from the general election in May.
Source: Labour sweeps to conclusive victory in Oldham byelection | Politics | The Guardian
More than 1,000 women in secret Facebook group name men who troll women online – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
More than 1,100 women are tackling online abuse by naming and shaming “trolls” in a Twitter campaign which launched this morning.Members of a secret Facebook group are tweeting out names of more than 150 men who trolled Clementine Ford — with comments including “go to the bathroom and kill yourself” and “bitches like you are the reason why some men are prone to violence” — after a male Meriton employee was fired for calling her a “slut” online.The hashtag #EndViolenceAgainstWomen and screenshots of the abuse would also be included.Within 20 minutes of its launch this morning the hashtag was trending at number one in Australia.Sydney author and columnist Kerri Sackville is leading the charge against the men she has labelled trolls, saying she is sick of seeing women, particularly those in the media, maliciously threatened with rape and murder online.”When you abuse one woman you abuse all of us … I said to my friend there has to be something we can do,” Sackville told the ABC.
Dollar General Corporation aims to strip tribes of right to protect Native survivors
On Monday, oral arguments will begin in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a case at the intersection of issues of tribal sovereignty, sexual violence, and corporate greed at its ugliest.
As Indian Country Today Media Network reports, the case began as a civil suit filed within the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indian’s court system by the family of a young Native boy who was sexually assaulted while working at Dollar General by the store’s manager. Although both tribal and U.S. federal courts have agreed the tribe has jurisdiction to hear the case, Dollar General has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dollar General’s position is as radical as it is heartless. As Ned Blackhawk wrote last week at The New York Times, Dollar General’s arguments,
…conflict with decades of settled precedent that recognize the ability of tribes to protect their citizens from noncriminal harms within their territories. Specifically, the corporation now argues that no tribe can protect its citizens in such civil cases, unless it is expressly authorized to do so by Congress…. Dollar General stands poised to become one of the century’s fiercest challengers to tribal communities. This case has the potential to jeopardize tribal governments’ ability to develop their economies, to make binding contracts, even to protect their citizens.
Today, survivor advocacy organizations took to Twitter in support of the victim and tribal sovereignty. On Monday, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, and the Indian Law Resource Center will rally outside the Court, demanding justice for Native survivors. You can join the Thunderclap here.
Header image credit: Native News Online
Feministing Jamz video of the week: Robyn ft. Maluca – Love Is Free
Everyone’s favorite Swedish pop sensation Robyn has come together with Jamz fave Maluca for a colorful, frenetic, fab new video. Featuring pillow fights, outfit changes, and a ubiquitous bumblebee, these two appear to be having the time of their lives.
Check the video below!
(3/3) “Ever since we had our first child, I stopped watching…
(3/3) “Ever since we had our first child, I stopped watching the TV. Everyday I used to watch the news and obsess over what was happening back in Syria. But once we had children, I had to realize that I couldn’t change anything, and the worrying wasn’t helping my family. We learned recently that we will be moving to a state called Michigan. I’m a pessimist, so I’m not going to believe it until we are on the plane. But my nephew is there and he says it’s like heaven. He says it’s very green and has nice nature. When we get to Michigan, I’m not going to turn on the television again. I’m done with religion and politics forever. I only want to worry about milk and diapers.”
(Amman, Jordan)



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