The Ni Una Menos feminist collective has taken over the #Mexico City headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and turned it into a shelter for victims of gender-based violence.
Incredible pics by @Usagii_ko via @Andalalucha h/t @chakes_mexiconewsdaily.com/news/feminists…
The commission’s Mexico City headquarters are “now our property, we’re not going to hand it over, it’s a squat for victims,” said Yesenia Zamudio, a collective member whose daughter was murdered in 2016.
This is Yesenia earlier this year.
She said that victims of gender abuse who have nowhere to live will be welcomed at the CNDH offices.
“We’re more suitable…for these premises than the parasitic people who were here before. We’re going to provide…legal advice ..and accompany [women] to prosecutor’s offices.”
Zamudio said that women from other parts of the country who have suffered sexual abuse as well as family members of victims of femicide and other gender crimes will be welcomed.
“We want them to come with the peace of mind that they won’t have to pay for accommodation and that we’ll accompany them so that their demands and needs are met.”
After Pres. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador chided the activists for defacing images of Francisco Madero, an assassinated former president revered by many as a hero of the 1910-1920 revolution, the protesters daubed paint on portraits of more historic figures. channelnewsasia.com/news/world/mex…
One feminist activist denounced Lopez Obrador for his misplaced sense of outrage.
"How can you get outraged about this picture, but not about how my own daughter was abused?" she shouted, banging her hand against the canvas
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White & Christian are considered norm and not dangerous in the U.S. 👇🏽
"GOP Sen Anthony Kern & his prayer team of anti-abortion extremists praying in tongues (that’s not an audio issue) that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortion becomes law again."
It's easy to see the fascists and theocrats when they don't look like you. When they're white and Christian, their danger has not registered enough:
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia:Iran, that so many white women didn’t pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building at home theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…
It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is same arrogance & naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here” whether it was destruction of abortion rights:anti-divorce laws feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
Two months into its genocide in Gaza, the more Israel displays its savagery against Palestinians, the more obvious its moral and philosophical defeat.
Militarily, Israel is armed to the teeth and propped up by the U.S., the world’s most powerful country.
And Israel is losing
The unconscionable vote against ceasefire at the UN yesterday by U.S. & abstention by the UK are reminders that while some western political powers might still be propping up Israel’s crimes,around the world more & more people vehemently oppose the genocide.
Israel is losing
Israel’s crimes are repeatedly being equated w/some of worst genocidal crimes: from ethnic cleansing and genocide in Srebrenica to the cultural genocide of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
It has come at a staggeringly high Palestinian death toll—at least 20,000.
When the NYT is reporting it like this, something is changing
"People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups."
"It is not just the scale of the strikes...Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say."
Some of you will remember that at in Sept. 2012, I was arrested in NYC for spray painting over an Islamophobic and racist pro-Israel ad.
Notice the language of the ad and how it continues to echo today. 📷 Kristy Leibowitz
Anytime you see the words “civilized” and “savage” being used, understand that the purpose is dehumanization.
I refused to allow that dehumanization to exist without challenge on the walls of the subway that I and millions of New Yorkers use.
We who oppose Israel are not savages and there are more options than Israel/Jihad. And if it makes me a savage to oppose that option, if it makes me a savage to support Palestinian freedom from apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide, then I am a proud savage.