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The Department of Justice’s investigation of the Ferguson Police Department has scandalized the nation, and justly so. But the department’s institutional racism, while shocking, isn’t the report’s most striking revelation. More damning is this: in a major American city, the criminal justice system perceives a large part of that city’s population not as citizens to be protected, but as potential
Verder lezen Reageren?We join the ongoing struggles in the UK, Europe and the world to reject this system that has changed not only our education but our entire society. From the occupations in Sheffield, Warwick, Birmingham and Oxford, to the ongoing collective takeover of the University of Amsterdam– students have made clear that the current system simply cannot continue. We are not
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As the general election campaign gets underway we are already seeing politicians calling for more of the same policies. More workfare. More sanctions. Yet we know that these policies have been a total disaster. It is shameful that workfare and sanctions are supported by all the main political parties. This is why we are holding a week of action in
Verder lezen Reageren?The PKK’s thinking is strongly essentialist. Women and nature are often equated, and following this, “woman” is identified with motherhood. Women are assumed to have certain characteristics as women, such as empathy, an abhorrence of violence and a closeness to nature. These qualities need to be taught to men so that patriarchal society can be overcome. These ideas put a
Verder lezen Reageren?Capitalism not only creates the conditions for wage theft and precarious labour but – through patriarchy as a mutually reinforcing process – it also defines what can even be characterized as labour and ties human worth to wage-labour productivity. Single mothers become marginalized as “unemployed” and “uncontributing” when they are in fact, as scholar Silvia Frederici observes, reproducing labour power
Verder lezen Reageren?Kobanê is meer dan een symbolisch bastion tegen de IS. Het is ook de hoofdstad van één van de drie kantons, die bevrijd zijn door lokale Volksbeschermingseenheden. Terwijl de wereld geobsedeerd is door de strijders van IS, is hier te midden van de puinhopen van de burgeroorlog een grassroots-initiatief ontstaan voor een inclusieve, participatieve en radicale democratie. Deze bevrijde en
Verder lezen Reageren?Some lives matter more than others: the “hierarchy of death”, they call it. The millions killed, maimed and traumatised in the Democratic Republic of Congo are surely at the bottom of this macabre pile. The country was the site of the deadliest war since the fall of Adolf Hitler, and yet I doubt most people in the west are even
Verder lezen Reageren?Het strak gestructureerde wereldbeeld van het salafisme levert een tweedeling in de wereld op tussen goed en kwaad. Het biedt hiermee een houvast die zo veel perspectiefloze jongeren zoeken. Dit geldt het sterkst voor jongeren die zich als slachtoffer zien van maatschappelijke verhoudingen, zij het door slecht betaalde banen of algehele werkloosheid, en eveneens door de ervaring van uitsluiting in
Verder lezen Reageren?The 1.200 migrants arrested in the forest raids are still being arbitrarily detained and deprived of their liberty in different improvised facilities in Southern Morocco. The high number of detention places makes it almost impossible to trace the actions of the Moroccan authorities. Some of the identified detention facilities are an agricultural centre in Chichaoua, a visitor centre of the
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In december kraakte actiegroep Zij Is Hier in Amsterdam een pand om opvang te kunnen bieden aan vrouwen met afhankelijk verblijfsrecht die te maken hebben met huiselijk geweld. De kraakactie was ook bedoeld als een protest tegen de weigering van de reguliere hulpverleningsinstellingen en de gemeente Amsterdam om deze mishandelde en gedumpte vrouwen veiligheid en bescherming te geven. Het in
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