Gender

from RAWA, 14 October 2008: Attacks are on the rise and civilians, especially educated women, are increasingly nervous with the jihadists now just 20 minutes from the capital... more

from email, 10 April 2008: You are invited to a lovely party at the new women's social centre in Hackney, East London! 4a Corbridge Crescent, off Mare Street, Hackney E2. We are, like many autonomous spaces in the area, facing eviction very soon so we hope you will join us celebrating this space and bringing energy to our resistance and our next space. more

from Abahlali, 9 April 2008: On December 29 - 31 women from all five Zapatista Caracoles (centers of resistance) gathered in the community of La Garrucha, Chiapas to meet with women who had come from all around the world to hear their stories of struggling, organizing, and participating in the Zapatista litical leaders and members of the autonomous government, health and education promoters. more

from RAWA, 31 March 2008: As Afghanistan battles to check growing poppy production, there thrives a disturbing trend behind the scene, where daughters of poppy producers pay the price for the unpaid loans. Termed as "opium brides", the daughters of poor poppy farmers are often given to drug traffickers if their fathers are unable to pay the loan taken for growing the illicit crop because of the official action. more

from hsc, 25 March 2008: Behind Bars VIII: On Saturday 29th March, HSC will host a queer benefit night of music, DJs and VJs to raise money for the IUSW. Live bands & acts:, Juha, Spiritwo, Skitzopolis, Prolapse, Villain, Roc Roc it, Husbands, Rouge et Noir VJs, Oskur, Monogaze, Filippo DJs, Fake Face, Foll@nes, PJ, Sturamsey, Cheeky Half, Lakuti, Amila, Stay B. 10pm - 8am, with donations on the door. more

from imc-uk, 12 March 2008: We are inviting all womyn for a weekend of workshops and skill-share to learn and to openly discuss ways of taking control of our own health. We are a newly created and organised squatted social centre in which self-identified womyn and trans person can come and take part part in workshops, skill-shares and discussions. more

from email, 7 March 2008: London's new autonomous Womynspace has been open for over two weeks! We have been running a vegan cafe'/kids space and bar, as well as holding health, herbal skill-share, welding and many other workshops – all shaped and defined by the different womyn who come and share the space. more

from uppingtheanti, 26 January 2008: "Just after midnight on January 1st, was the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. From the top of a refurbished school bus we watched a mass of bodies dance to norteños below a vast sky littered with stars, and the occasional covering of fog that characterizes the mountains of the Mexican southeast... This night marked the end of the third Encuentro [Gathering] of the Zapatistas with the People of the World, and the first Encuentro of Zapatista Women and the Women of the world..." more

from ABC Berlin, by email, updated 25 February 2008: Call for antifascist demonstration and women-block at the 8 March demo in Berlin...

On the 1.12 the Berlin´s anti-fascist Andrea was arrested by plain clothes cops of LKA´s political branch. She was in a neighbourhood in south east Berlin where a neo-nazi demonstration was taking place... She will have now to spend her next 14 months behind bars and therefore she absolutely needs all our support from outside the walls.  more

from email, 16 August 2007: During the protests against the G8 in the area around Heiligendamm, sexism, sexual police violence and the threats of sexual police violence repeatedly occurred. We are looking for witnesses, on the one hand for an internal exchange and a strengthening amongst the affected persons, on the other hand so that a group of affected persons, in an anonymous form, is able to act. This is important, so that this theme will be out in the public politically, since sexual police violence is mostly not addressed, especially not in the public. more