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A Message of Support to the International Womenβs Strike on March 8 2017
On the 8th of March this year, a strike will take place in around 30 countries in different parts of the world. A new formation of feminist counteroffensives against patriarchy is in the works. In a world where we donβt own our own labour, our lives or our bodies, a world in which we are isolated from one another and kept from spawning a political power out of our exploited labour, where we are violated by men wherever we meet them, and where states keep restricting the reproductive rights weβve fought for through all times. In this world where we are not allowed to exist as autonomous beings, we now fight back worldwide.
International womenβs day has always been a day of struggle, it was formed out of revolutionary socialists and belongs to us still today. Because a real feminism cannot be blind to how capitalism is dependant on our unwaged housework, our precarious work situations where we receive lower wages than men for the same work, the commercialization and objectification of our bodies for profit in industries like pornography and commerce, and the upholding of the holy nuclear family that forces us into sexual subordination and cisheteronormativity. The patriarchy lives and acts everywhere: on the streets, in our homes, at our workplaces, in our schools, in our personal relationships. But everywhere the patriarchy exists, we also exist. And we carry a collective power beyond our wildest dreams.
The initiative for the international womenβs strike originates in the ni una menos (not one less) movement in Argentina and other parts of Latin America. After a national meeting in Rosario on the 18th of october that gathered 70.000 women, occupations of 40 squares, the murder of the sixteen year old LucΓa PΓ©rez and the following strike that gathered 250.000 people in Buenos Aires the day after, connections were formed throughout Latin America against this extreme patriarchal violence.
The same month, a general strike took place in Poland to stop yet another restriction on abortion rights. 200.000 have taken to the streets of Rome against austerity and restrictions on reproductive rights, mass protests have taken place in Istanbul against a new law legalizing rape of young women. All these struggles have been woven together in the call for the international womenβs strike of March 8th. Weβre right in the middle of the formation of a new feminist power across the world.
So what d
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Yesterday (January 4, 2021), mathematicians released a letter to the International Congress of Mathematicians. The world's leading mathematicians called on the mathematical community to communicate with the state authorities of Russia to release mathematician Azat Miftakhov. The authors of the letter mentioned that the human rights organization Memorial recognizes Azat as a political prisoner and recalled that in 1982 the International Congress in Warsaw was postponed for a year due to political prisoners in Poland.
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the most significant meeting in pure and applied mathematics, and one of the oldest scientific congresses. The next congress is to take place in 2022 in St. Petersburg. The International Congress awards the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics. The signatories include several Fields Medal winner from previous years, including Peter Scholze, who received the Fields Medal at the previous congress in Brazil in 2018.
Full text of the letter (original link, another link)
Concurrently with the letter, the recent petition in support of Azat was signed by more than 2,000 mathematicians from more than 15 countries, including the world's leading mathematicians: Terrence Tao, Edward Witten, Peter Scholze, and others.
American (2, 3), French, Italian, and Brazilian mathematical societies released statements of concern on the case of Azat Miftakhov.
Azat faces six years of prison. The verdict will be announced on January 11, 2021!
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... keep reading on reddit β‘This was brought to my attention via this Unherd article. The declaration in question can be found here. I've summarized the relevant part below. Everything in square brackets is my own comments.
>We, feminist groups, trade unionists, womenβs and community-based organizations, indigenous groups, disability rights advocates, LBTQ+ and gender non-conforming people, intersex people, women human rights defenders and girlsβ and youth-led organizations (among others) [...] Urge governments at all levels, including legislative and judiciary branches as well as executive, all entities of the United Nations system [and basically everyone everywhere...] [...] to
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>14.Respect the rights of all individuals to exercise autonomy over their lives, including their sexualities, identities and bodies [...] by taking the following actions:
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>a. Eliminate all laws and policies that punish or criminalize same-sex intimacy, gender affirmation, abortion, HIV transmission non-disclosure and exposure, or that limit the exercise of bodily autonomy, including laws limiting legal capacity of adolescents, people with disabilities or other groups to provide consent to sex or sexual and reproductive health services or laws authorizing non-consensual abortion, sterilization, or contraceptive use;
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>g. End the criminalization and stigmatization of adolescentsβ sexuality, and ensure and promote a positive approach to young people's and adolescentsβ sexuality that enables, recognizes, and respects their agency to make informed and independent decisions on matters concerning their bodily autonomy, pleasure and fundamental freedoms;
If you're curious as to who supports the IWHC, here's their 2019 annual report, with a list of their donors near the end. ^(Of course the Open Society Foundation is present lmao.)
It seems that the idea the woke-brains behind this project came up with is as follows: if adolescents (10-19 by WHO's definition) are 'mature' enough to consent to and undergo gender transition then they should also be 'mature' enough to consent to sex. The two policies reinforce each other as they share the same und
... keep reading on reddit β‘
A Message of Support to the International Womenβs Strike on March 8 2017
On the 8th of March this year, a strike will take place in around 30 countries in different parts of the world. A new formation of feminist counteroffensives against patriarchy is in the works. In a world where we donβt own our own labour, our lives or our bodies, a world in which we are isolated from one another and kept from spawning a political power out of our exploited labour, where we are violated by men wherever we meet them, and where states keep restricting the reproductive rights weβve fought for through all times. In this world where we are not allowed to exist as autonomous beings, we now fight back worldwide.
International womenβs day has always been a day of struggle, it was formed out of revolutionary socialists and belongs to us still today. Because a real feminism cannot be blind to how capitalism is dependant on our unwaged housework, our precarious work situations where we receive lower wages than men for the same work, the commercialization and objectification of our bodies for profit in industries like pornography and commerce, and the upholding of the holy nuclear family that forces us into sexual subordination and cisheteronormativity. The patriarchy lives and acts everywhere: on the streets, in our homes, at our workplaces, in our schools, in our personal relationships. But everywhere the patriarchy exists, we also exist. And we carry a collective power beyond our wildest dreams.
The initiative for the international womenβs strike originates in the ni una menos (not one less) movement in Argentina and other parts of Latin America. After a national meeting in Rosario on the 18th of october that gathered 70.000 women, occupations of 40 squares, the murder of the sixteen year old LucΓa PΓ©rez and the following strike that gathered 250.000 people in Buenos Aires the day after, connections were formed throughout Latin America against this extreme patriarchal violence.
The same month, a general strike took place in Poland to stop yet another restriction on abortion rights. 200.000 have taken to the streets of Rome against austerity and restrictions on reproductive rights, mass protests have taken place in Istanbul against a new law legalizing rape of young women. All these struggles have been woven together in the call for the international womenβs strike of March 8th. Weβre right in the middle of the formation of a new feminist power across the world.
So what do
... keep reading on reddit β‘