Over 1,000 women working in Swedish politics have signed a document alleging sexism and harassment connected to their work.
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“Around every corner, his fumbling fingers awaited”
Ugly truths finally being outed on predators.
Lyssna: Sexual harassment against female actors
Last night, actresses took to thirteen theatres across the country to reveal their stories of sexual harassment and abuse.
One woman, speaking in Malmö City Theatre’s main stage, told the story of an actress who was only 15 years old when the film director she was working with initiated a physical relationship with her. “Around every corner on set, his fumbling fingers awaited – to touch my body, and his meandering tongue, finding its way down my throat,” she says.
Plenty of similar stories were told in succession. In Stockholm alone, roughly two hundred women spoke at Södra Teatern, to an audience including Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria and Culture Minister Alice Bah Kuhnke. Recently, Bah Kuhnke summoned a number of theatre heads to a meeting to discuss harassment at work. Now, she has promised a series of measures from the government to tackle the problem.
But it was not just actresses speaking up over the weekend. On Sunday, 1,139 women from the IT and technology sector co-signed a letter with testimonies of sexism and harassment, under the hashtag teknisktfel, or technical error.
Phelan Chatterjee
phelan.chatterjee@sr.se
Charles Manson’s prosaic and ugly life is over. But his loser cult lives on | Suzanne Moore
The majority of those alive today had never heard of Charles Manson, now they have and not because of Charlie but because of “journalists” and “editors” pimping for clicks and ad money.
A short man full of violence, rage and manipulation, his fantasy was of race war, and now his warped logic holds sway at the highest levels of US society
Charles Manson is finally dead. There is no resting in peace for such a person. At his trial, Manson told the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi that he was already dead. He had said previously that he had been dead for 2,000 years. This was part of the confused allusions he made to being Christ. The terrible murders he committed in 1969 and his courtroom testimony transfixed America. The cult leader was finally starring in his own movie, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage – a short, long-haired man full of violence, rage and manipulation.
Related: Charles Manson, cult leader and convicted murderer, dies aged 83
Border Patrol Agent Killed in Texas in What a Senator Calls an Attack
Stronger response than when 20+ were killed in church – why’s that? Senator Ted Cruz said the agent and his partner, who was seriously injured, were attacked on Sunday, though details of what happened were unclear.
Critic’s Notebook: What Christian Artifacts of the Middle East Can Show Us About Tolerance
An exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris looks at 2,000 years of Christians in the Arab World. It has a message for France — and for us all.
Trump lashes out at UCLA basketball players: ‘I should have left them in jail’
11-year old #TraitorTrump #TantrumTrump
US president attacks father of one of three UCLA players arrested for shoplifting in China, after he questioned Trump’s role in resolving the matter
Days after claiming credit for ensuring that three UCLA college basketball players were released after being arrested for shoplifting in China, Donald Trump tweeted that “I should have left them in jail!”
The US president lashed out at LaVar Ball, the father of one of the arrested players, for questioning how instrumental the president was in resolving the incident.
Missing Yazidi women and children hiding in plain sight
While the “Islamic State” (IS) has lost most of its cities in Iraq and Syria, thousands of Yazidis it kidnapped are still missing. Activists say some are being hidden within IS families. Judit Neurink reports from Irbil.
Israel to deport 40,000 African refugees without their consent
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced an unspecified international deal to expel some 40,000 African asylum seekers from the country. The Israeli Cabinet also voted to shut down a migration center.
Nasa map of Earth’s seasons over 20 years highlights climate change
The visualization shows spring coming earlier and the Arctic ice caps receding over time
Nasa has captured 20 years of changing seasons in a striking new global map of planet Earth.
The data visualization, released this week, shows Earth’s fluctuations as seen from space.
Ohio politician criticized for Facebook post ‘trivializing’ sexual assault
Bye, bye Bill – you fool!
An Ohio Supreme Court judge has been slammed for detailing his sexual past on social media. William O’Neill said he was trying to de-legitimize the “media frenzy” around sexual assault.
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