Reposting this important piece from Bound not Gagged: Woman Dies in 107-Degree Cage in Prison: SWOP Remembers Marcia Powell For Immediate ReleaseContacts: SWOP-USA 1-877-7… ext 2Liz Coplen- SWOP-Tucson Peggy Plews- Arizona Prison Watchinfo@swop-tucson.org freemarciapowell@gmail.com On Friday December 18th sex workers from around the country are gathering to remember Marcia Powell, a …
From Stella, Montreal’s sex-worker advocacy group: Stella invites you to support our actions in December to denounce violence against sex workers and to fight for our rights and the recognition of our work. The criminalization of our work robs us of the right to security. Security that is much needed: …
The following excellent article about killing cops in Oakland is from the radical queer Back Back News blog : Lovelle Mixon, Police, and the Politics of Race/Rape by Raider Nation Collective( raidernationcollective [at] gmail.com)Monday Apr 13th, 2009 3:40 PM In short, there are those who are automatically guilty and those …
Just passing on this reference for the blog Behind The Blue Wall, devoted to calling attention to the horrendously high number of women who are beaten by their police officer husbands and boyfriends. The war has a home front.
Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi by Nancy Krieger $2.00 from left-wing books dot net Saddle-stitched pamphlet 30 pages Published by Kersplebedeb in 2009 ISBN 1-894946-30-8 Now forgotten, Dr. Marie Equi was a physician for working-class women and children, a lesbian, and a dynamic and …
Sali Grace, RIP On September 24th the body of Marcella Sali Grace, a u.s. solidarity activist working in Oaxaca, was found in a deserted cabin. She had been raped, murdered and mutilated, so that her body could only be identified by her tattoos. Largely through the mobilization of community groups …
Sixteen year old Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father, who strangled her to death, we are told, because she did not want to wear hijab. She had already tried moving out of her Mississauga home, ongoing conflicts about how to dress and behave becoming too much to bear. She …
The following from my comrade Susie Day arrived in my inbox yesterday: KILLER LESBIANS MAULED BY KILLER COURT, MEDIA WOLFPACK Four more Black girls just went bad. Young, 19 to 25; from Newark or surrounding neighborhoods; “troubled” families; having babies while in their teens – you’ve heard it all before. …
A woman was beaten at Berri-Uqam metro station on Monday – the first day that police were “making the metro safe” – right in front of two metro security guards, neither of whom lifted a finger to help her. Nor did anybody from her community – you know, the people …
According to an article in last Saturday’s Journal de Montreal, a thirteen year old girl was brought to the hospital after being thrown to the ground by police and then pepper sprayed. Here is my roughshoud translation: Unconscious, wounded and covered in pepper spray, a thirteen year old was brought …