Nieuws elders
Met Zwarte Piet zegt de witte maatschappij feitelijk: witte mensen mogen zwarte mensen collectief, vanwege hun zwartheid, tot karikatuur maken. Zwarte mensen zijn in deze visie geen gelijkwaardige mensen. Zwarte mensen zijn in deze gedachtengang wezens waar witte mensen – door ze na te doen, want dat is “leuk” – plezier aan mogen beleven, ongeacht wat zwarte mensen daar zelf
Verder lezen 1 ReactieIn this conversation activists Ramona Sno, Patricia Schor and Egbert Alejandro Martina break down the court’s reasoning and analyze what it says about the way race, racism and the role of the State are understood by the White, Dutch elite. They also speak on the limits of fighting against racism and blackface in particular in a court of law, where
Verder lezen Reageren?Let maar eens op hoe dit soort escalaties doorgaans verlopen. Er ontstaat spanning rond Gaza, in dit geval na de moord op drie Israëlische jongens. Israël begint vervolgens te dreigen met vergelding, doet huiszoekingen en pakt honderden Palestijnen op. Kleinere Palestijnse fracties beginnen een handvol raketten af te schieten richting Israël, dat de dreigementen opvoert en al een enkele luchtaanval
Verder lezen Reageren?The reason why I am against Zwarte Piet is not because it causes me pain, or negatively affects my self-esteem, I am against it because the figure of Zwarte Piet is, in fact, dehumanizing; it contests insidiously the humanity of Black folk. The court’s elaborate process to determine whether Zwarte Piet negatively affects Black folk, as well as its use
Verder lezen Reageren?Ireland’s government has ignored the vast evidence of the welfare to work industry’s failure in the UK, and instead are on a path to repeat the same mistakes. We know, for example, that a harsher system of sanctions creates destitution and hunger. We know that forced, unpaid work placements lead not to more jobs but to more misery. We know
Verder lezen 2 ReactiesApparently it’s not the poorest Franco-French workers, unemployed or not, who vote most for the National Front but those who have a job, a small technical diploma (like the CAP – two years – or the “baccalauréat professionnel” – three years) obtained in a vocational school, who live far away from the poorest suburbs but fear losing their social status.
Verder lezen Reageren?By 1998, nearly 40,000 New Yorkers were assigned to WEP, cleaning parks, streets, city office buildings, sanitation garages, and doing a wide range of clerical tasks… Getting rid of WEP does not mean stopping helping poor people enter the labor market. It means starting to do so, without exploiting welfare recipients and without displacing existing paid workers with unpaid labor.
Verder lezen Reageren?What is broadly termed ‘workfare” has been in existence in some form or other since at least the mid-80s, but in its current form – six complementary work schemes – it can be understood as a key element of the restructuring of capital, with a specific role in disciplining and punishing the “reserve army of labour”, i.e. the unemployed. The
Verder lezen Reageren?Most of the current arrestees are very young, between 19-25. They are less burdened by the paralysing fear that silenced a previous generation. The old-style repression that demobilized two generations under Hassan II and nearly another one under Mohammed VI began to fade. With the massive protests in 2011, the genie flew out of the bottle. This is a different
Verder lezen Reageren?“This case is another massive blow to this government’s flawed and tawdry attempts to make poor people on benefits work for companies, who already make massive profits, for free”. So said Public Interest Lawyers yesterday after the High Court ruled that the government’s emergency retrospective legislation, introduced in 2013 – so as to apply thousands of unlawful sanctions to claimants
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