Dear all,
below you find the link to a contribution about the New Year's Eve in Cologne that can interest you.
Bestbelow you find the link to a contribution about the New Year's Eve in Cologne that can interest you.
The New Year’s Eve of patriarchy and the urgency of a feminist politics
by PAOLA RUDAN
On the New Year’s Eve, in Cologne, dozens of women were harassed, raped and robbed by dozens of men who have found a sudden harmony and community of purposes in sexual violence, despite their origin, religious or cultural affiliation and of their legal status. But there is another equally indisputable fact, that many of those men were migrants. If it is true that patriarchy is a global social phenomenon, it is worth thinking about the different ways through which it shows itself, that have nothing to do with culture or religion – even though they are unavoidably influenced by both – but with the configuration of the relations of power between sexes on a global scale…read more.
Dear all,
here the link to the final document from the First Transnational Social Strike Meeting, which took place in Poznan from the 2nd to the 4th of October. http://www.transnational-strike.info/2015/10/26/statement-from-1st-transnational-social-strike/
I'm sure you will be interested also because mobility and migrants have been one of the main topics of the meeting and the dislocated actions that has been proposed address this question as well. Feel free to share it widely!
Translations in multiple languages will be available soon on www.transnational-strike.info.For the moment, below you find the link to the translation in Italian
http://www.connessioniprecarie.org/2015/10/27/per-assaltare-il-presente-documento-finale-del-primo-transnational-strike-meeting/
Reports of the workshops will be out in the next days as well.
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Best
Roberta - Coordinamento migranti/Precarious (dis)Connections