#solidarity

olladij@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

As the Supreme Court prepares to reverse Roe v. Wade under a Democratic president, house, and senate, it is clear that action at the ballot box is insufficient to protect #abortion. #Reproductiverights were not won by electoral means, and that is not how we will defend them.
Anarcha-feminist traditions of grassroots struggle and autonomous abortion infrastructure offer alternative strategies. As the anarcha-feminist Liz Highleyman put it in 1992, “the day when abortion is again made illegal may come sooner than we like to think. We must be ready to take our bodies and our lives into our own hands.”
Anarcha-feminists were on the front lines of the struggle for abortion throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. They were convinced that Roe v. Wade would not last forever and that they could not depend on the #state and the legal system to protect reproductive #freedom. Anarcha-feminists took a three-pronged approach to abortion struggle: defense of abortion clinics, construction of grassroots reproductive #health infrastructure, and an anti-state approach to building feminist dual power.

https://itsgoingdown.org/pro-choice-riot-history-anarcha-feminists/ #usa #feminism #history #anarchism #medicine #solidarity #autonomy

steelnomad@diasp.org

How much do you know about #Eritrea?

A few days ago, I could only tell you where to find it on the map. But I've started reading and learning that it is a brutal #totalitarian regime with no elections, no press freedom, indefinite compulsory #conscription, and tens of thousands imprisoned in hideously inhumane conditions.
The next few days I will be sharing links about Eritrea's terrifying and bloody past 30 years since independence. This is for #solidarity and also to inspire concern and support for #Eritrean refugees who may have escaped to your own home lands.

Read: Human Rights Watch: World Report 2022

#HumanRights #Africa #African

seebrueckeffm@venera.social

Am Sonntagnachmittag fand die #IMARA⛵️ ein überfülltes Holzboot in Seenot.
Alle 92 Personen an Bord, darunter 2 kleine Kinder und 3 Frauen, konnten gerettet werden. 🛟

Danke @r42sailrescue 💙


https://twitter.com/r42sailrescue/status/1526174368816152577

#r42 #leavenoonebehind #centralmed #blacklivesmatter #solidarity #refugeeswelcome

steelnomad@diasp.org

Statement of the Movement of Conscientious Objectors (Russia) for the International Conscientious Objection Day

Author(s) Movement of Conscientious Objectors (Russia)
Dear conscientious objectors to military service, today we mark our #CO day while #war is being waged.

As the war with #Ukraine began, the notion of refusing #military service in #Russia has become especially topical. Before the war, most #conscripts and their relatives did not associate military service as conscripts with actual #warfare. #Conscription appeared to be something akin to a sports camp with elements of military training.

Regardless of their political views, the healthy feeling of fear of participating in warfare in the territory of a foreign country forces people to file appeals for alternative civilian service and to protect their right not to serve in the #army by other means.

For some of the #objectors to military service, the chance to specify in their application that they object to Russia's war in Ukraine is important. This is a legal form of expressing one's disagreement directly to the representatives of state authorities—a matter of #moral significance.

In the course of the months of warfare, we have witnessed a totally new phenomenon: cases in which professional #soldiers refuse to participate in the special operation[*] and demand to terminate their contracts. We wish to express our special #gratitude to those soldiers and police officers who had the courage to #refuse to kill and die in a foreign land, who refused to participate in the special operation.

Today, when many people apprehend the introduction of partial of full [military] mobilisation in Russia, it is precisely the right to conscientious objection to military service that offers them support.

The Movement of Conscientious Objectors in Russia expresses its #solidarity with all those who oppose war, with everyone who stands against the act of #aggression. We wish and pray, with all our might, for Ukraine to survive the assault and retain its independence.

[* "The special operation" is Russia's ongoing attack on Ukraine; formally, it is not a war, but a "special operation", and is being referred to as such in official contexts in Russia]

Заявление Движения сознательных отказчиков к Международному дню отказчиков от военной службы — 15 мая 2022
Дорогие сознательные отказчики от военной службы! Сегодня мы встречаем наш день во время ведения военных действий.

С началом войны с Украиной идея отказа от военной службы в России стала особенно актуальной. До войны большинство призывников и их родных не связывали военную службу по призыву и военные действия. Призыв представлялся им чем-то вроде спортивного лагеря с элементами военной подготовки.

Независимо от политических взглядов, здоровое чувство страха перед участием в военных действиях на территории чужого государства заставляет людей подавать заявления на альтернативную гражданскую службу и защищать свое право не служить в армии другими способами.

Для части отказчиков от военной службы важным является возможность в своем заявлении указать, что они являются противниками войны Россия в Украине. Это легальная форма выражения своего несогласия непосредственно представителям власти, что имеет моральное значение.

За месяцы военных действий мы увидели совершенно новое явление: случаи, когда военнослужащие по контракту отказываются участвовать в спецоперации, требуют расторжения контракта. Мы выражаем особую благодарность тем военнослужащим и сотрудникам полиции, которые имели мужество отказаться убивать и умирать в чужой стране, отказались от участия в спецоперации.

Сегодня, когда многие люди опасаются возможного введения частичной или полной мобилизации в России, именно право на отказ от военной службы по убеждениям совести становится для них поддержкой.

Движение сознательных отказчиков от военной службы России выражает солидарность со всеми противниками войны, со всеми, кто противостоит агрессии. Мы из всех сил желаем и молимся, чтобы Украина выстояла и сохранила свою независимость.

Р24 февраля 2022 ДСО опубликовало Заявление в связи с началом спецоперации

#CODay #peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

steelnomad@diasp.org

Tomorrow!

CODay

May 15th, International Conscientious Objection Day: Solidarity with COs from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

War Resisters International shared the following:

Every year on 15th May, the International Conscientious Objection Day, we organise #solidarity with conscientious objectors (COs) and draw attention to their #resistance to #war. This year, with the ongoing war in #Ukraine, we have a particular focus on the resistance of conscientious objectors from #Russia, #Belarus and Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the #Russian #invasion of Ukraine, we keep getting reports of conscientious objectors refusing to fight and get involved in this war. Groups like the Movement of Conscientious Objectors (Russia) and the Ukranian Pacifist Movement have been sharing their calls for peace and repeating their refusal to take up #arms. There are many others seeking #refuge in other countries to avoid being conscripted or as deserters.

On this International Conscientious Objection Day, we will share their messages of peace and your messages of solidarity with them.

Join us on this day of solidarity with COs from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine! Post your messages of solidarity with COs from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine on social media with the hashtag #CODay.

If you have friends or family using mainstream social media, please ask them to participate using hashtag #CODay for messages of solidarity.

#peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

steelnomad@diasp.org
Where does YOUR country stand?

World survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service

War Resisters' International maintains the World survey of #conscription and conscientious objection to #military service - a database of country profiles and information on the situation for conscientious objectors (COs) and #conscripts around the world. This unique resource exists to assist #activists, #researchers, lawyers and other interested parties to find out more about both trends in conscription worldwide, and specific information on individual #states. It has been used to assist COs seeking #asylum, to give #solidarity activists #information in planning campaigns, to give campaigners against conscription examples from other states to put pressure on their own #governments, and in academic #research.

#peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

steelnomad@diasp.org
As we approach International Conscientious Objectors’ Day, I hope you will read:

South Korean NGOs: Stop the War in Ukraine! Give Peace a Chance!

On February 28, more than 390 South Korean NGOs held a press conference in front of the #Russian Embassy in South Korea calling on #Russia to stop its invasion of #Ukraine and calling for peace. Following their press conference, the NGOs representatives delivered their statement to the Russian Embassy.

#solidarity #SouthKorea #SouthKorean #Korean #SouthKorean #peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

steelnomad@diasp.org
As we approach International Conscientious Objectors’ Day, I hope you will read:

Thoughts of a Russian peace activist

Ilya Kurtsev, a 20-year-old #Russian pacifist, has been in touch with the Peace Pledge Union about protests in #Russia against the #war in #Ukraine. Ilya offers #solidarity to people in all countries who are challenging war and #militarism. We are pleased that he supports the PPU's campaigns. He told us, "Your work against British government militarism is incredibly important".

Here, Ilya has written about the anti-war movement in Russia, along with his thoughts on why it is not stronger. This is his article.

#peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

steelnomad@diasp.org

Ukraine: No to war! Resist all militarism!

The Peace Pledge Union stands in #solidarity with #peace campaigners in #Ukraine, #Russia and throughout the world who are resisting the #war in Ukraine. Renouncing all #war and condemning the #invasion of Ukraine, we stand against both #Russian #militarism and #NATO militarism.

The PPU is the British section of War Resisters' International. We are pleased to support the #Ukrainian #Pacifist Movement, the Russian Movement for #ConscientiousObjectors and other groups who resist militarism in their own countries and seek to tackle the causes of war.

#peace #antiwar #pacifism

seebrueckeffm@venera.social

🇬🇧 #PushbacksAreIllegal - Die Drohung mit einem Gerichtsverfahren reichte: Die #UK-Regierung hat ihre Pläne für #Pushbacks von #Refugee-Booten im Kanal fallen gelassen.

#Solidarity can win!

@FreefromTorture @Care4Calais @ChannelRescue


https://twitter.com/FreefromTorture/status/1518544634019991553

mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

#politics #justice #keithlamar #deathpenalty #loveistheonlyfreedom #solidarity #ohio #usa
#music #jazz #poetry #john-coltrane

"Afro Blue" (M.Santamaria) + poem by Keith LaMar #freedomfirst

  • Erin Corine reads a poem by Keith LaMar, from his book "Condemned." "Afro Blue" was composed by Mongo Santamaria in 1959. In 1959 lyrics were added by songwriter Oscar Brown. Abbey Lincoln recorded it for her 1959 album Abbey Is Blue. In 1963 John Coltrane recorded "Afro Blue" with his legendary quartet, released on his album Live at Birdland (Impulse!). ### Justice for KeithLaMar
  • more@ https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/15055019
mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

#politics #justice #keithlamar #deathpenalty #loveistheonlyfreedom #solidarity #ohio #usa

Justice for Keith LaMar

Keith LaMar is a death row prisoner who was wrongfully convicted in the State of Ohio. On November 16, 2023, the State intends to execute him, even though he has maintained his innocence for nearly three decades, all while being held in indefinite solitary confinement. In the aftermath of the 1993 Lucasville Prison Uprising, the State of Ohio was under public pressure to clean up a multi-million dollar mess, one that included the death of a prison guard and multiple prisoners. After State investigators trampled the crime scene and contaminated any and all potential evidence, they paid jailhouse informants to create a false narrative that implicated Keith, even though he wasn’t affiliated with any of the groups involved in the riot. To bolster their claim, the State withheld evidence that would have proven his innocence (including the confession of an actual perpetrator who admitted to murdering one of Keith’s alleged victims). His trial was staged in a remote Ohio community known to be highly racist. Any Black prospective jurors were promptly dismissed by the Prosecution, leaving Keith’s fate in the hands of an all-White jury, who swiftly sentenced him to death. more
- Petition to FREE Keith LaMar, Wrongfully Convicted Death-Row Prisoner
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamar

#music #jazz #poetry #deathrow #improvisation #solidarity

"Be Free" by Keith LaMar & Albert Marquès #FreedomFirst

anonymiss@despora.de

The #Belarus ‘railway rebels’, who dare stop Vladimir #Putin’s #invasion in its tracks

source: https://www.defconlevel.com/news/2022-03-22/railway-from-belarus-to-ukraine-cut-due-to-belarusian-sabotage.php

The head of the Ukrainian Railways Alexander Kamyshin has confirmed that there is no longer any railway connection between Ukraine and Belarus, "thanks to Belarusian railway workers" who decided to launch what they have called a "railway war" by sabotaging Russian equipment in various ways.

#War #Russia #Ukraine #railway #sabotage #supply #politics #solidarity #news #military

seebrueckeffm@venera.social

#FreeAliCanAlbayrakAndHüseyinSahin
#FreeAmirAndRazuli

Auch Ali Can & Hüseyin stehen heute erneut auf #Lesbos vor Gericht, weil sie 2 Menschen geholfen haben, 2020 aus der #Türkei zu fliehen. #Dayanışma #Özgürlük
#Solidarity with #Refugees is not a crime!

1/3
via @cantevict


https://twitter.com/cantevict/status/1504376946444144642

#FreeAliCanAlbayrakAndHüseyinSahin #FreeAliCanAlbayrakAndHüseyinSahin #antireport #Mytilene #Lesvos #refugees