Notices by b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)

For this bombardment against the energy system menstioned here https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/113560440297401833 by @netblocks, I want to remind of that it is both (a) something done on large scale previously so is systematic and therefore must be intentional and (b) intentionally doing so would be a war crime.

"Rule 54. Attacking, destroying, removing or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population is prohibited."
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule54

In current society regular access to electricity should be considered as indispensable, as it is involved in water purification and sewage treatment (so essential to not get cholera outbreaks and similar), food storage and preparation, healthcare systems as well as possibly most importantly and likely most intended during end of November with current temperatures around 5°C and expected around -2°C, electricity in heating, whether direct heating or circulation and fuel pumps.

U.K. continues persecuting people for allegedly being members of the political party PKK, whose militias have followed the Geneva Conventions since its unilateral declaration to do so on January 24 of 1995.
So, Acting Commander Helen Flanagan, how are those six arrests of yours at a culture centre in London today https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-counter-terrorism-police-arrest-six-over-pkk-activity-2024-11-27/ "targeted arrests of those we suspect of being involved in terrorist activity linked to the group", when the group does not do terrorism?
Having been mislabeled as such for political convenience can not make non-terrorist activities become terrorist activities.

Recall also that even the EU's police cooperation agency EUROPOL has said PKK "has not yet made any terrorist attack on the territory of the European Union", https://hawarnews.com/en/159307068017411 in 2020,
as well as that the EU's courts ruled repeatedly that PKK being "terror"-listed was https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=207801&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=3705858 unjustified and ordered annulled, while the politicians then chose to just disregarded the courts because relations with Turkey is more important than us humans and our rights.

Latest from Doctors without Borders (MSF) is on that "War and economic strain worsen health conditions in Lebanon" and how:
https://www.msf.org/war-and-economic-strain-worsen-health-conditions-lebanon

More men's marches for against violence against women were held in Afrin and Shahba regions of North and East Syria ("Rojava"), declaring e.g. that they will stand with women on the path to freedom.
https://youtu.be/SXoHNWJLZc4

A speaker noted how previously "Women's rights were denied in a society dominated by the capitalist system." but through the Women's Revolution of Rojava, "now they have their place in all fields."

Another speaker said that "With the rise of patriarchy, women's place in society disappeared, whereas before they were in charge of society as goddesses. Capitalist governments tried to limit women and reduce their role to housekeeping and childbearing. They were even deprived of the right to express their opinions and make decisions about their lives" in his speech, going on that
"Women in the revolution in North and East Syria, inspired by the philosophy of Abdullah Öcalan, rose up against slavery and fought against the capitalist system. [...] By working together with both genders, we will eliminate violence, and women around the world will be free. [...]"

And another day of men's marches for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25),
by the people in in al-Raqqa (former "capital" city of ISIL/Daesh) and al-Tabqa, in the autonomous North and East Syria (initially named "Rojava", self-liberated through the Women's Revolution) was shared in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hheVLZVZXFU from the Women's Defense Units (YPJ, all-female, antifascist, democratic confederalism, a primary in territorial defeat of ISIL/Daesh).

The men-only march included sheikhs, clan leaders, political and military leaders among all the others.
Co-chairperson of the executive council in their speech said that "we extend our thanks and appreciation to the free woman who is building a free society, free from slavery",
described how "Women have faced many arbitrary policies and gone through stages of slavery, injustice and tyranny, as women were a commodity and marginalized from all sides, especially during the days of ISIL",
then ended by declaring that "Women are the foundational pillar and cornerstone of society, as they represent half of society and raise the other half. We as men will be a helping hand for all women and hand in hand we will build society on the foundations and standards of democratic pluralistic freedom".

Marches today in Marseille, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Paris and Stockholm and other places throughout Europe, for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (which is on the upcoming Monday, Nov 25):

"Thousands protest against femicides and sexual and sexist violence in France"
https://apnews.com/article/pelicot-sexual-violence-rape-france-paris-8b726b2c584f0f1c880cb7152fac7110

Pic: "Protestors march during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024."
Thibault Camus/AP

(P.S.: AP's caption is wrong.
The international day for [...] is on the upcoming Monday, November 25.
Some people think it so important or for other reasons demo ahead of the actual day, as in this case.)

Another video of the demo today specifically in Düsseldorf for the upcoming occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Nov 25).

According to Aryen TV it was with the "Kurdistan Women's Movement-Europe" (TJK-E, https://tjk-e.com/?lang=en), the "Êzidxan [=Yazidi] Women's Freedom Movement" (Tevgera Azadiya Jinên Êzidxanê, TAJÊ) and the "Free Women's Union of [eastern, Iran-held Kurdistan]" (KJAR, https://kjar.online/en/) together with some "Rosa Feminist Group" which I assume is local.

Particular focus was reportedly on the political prisoners sentenced to be State-murdered by the Iran-theocracy for activism for feminism, freedom and refugees and out of those especially naming Zeynab Jalalian, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisheh Moradi (see https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/113514088199060145 among several other threads on those persons).

I'm not much for flags in general, but those TAJÊ, they've got an excellent flag:

"Capitalism in one minute",
the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) captioned this video:

"Texas Board of Education votes to approve Bible curriculum in elementary schools
[...] is optional for schools, but they will receive additional funding if they implement it."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-board-education-votes-approve-bible-curriculum-elementary-school-rcna181415
Step by step they drag Texas and every other places they can towards becoming like other anti-secular states, like under fellow authoritarian reactionary Taliban and Iran-theocracy.

"Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 44,056, over 104,268 injured

Israeli occupation forces committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 71 Palestinians and the injury of 176 others, according to medical reports."
More: https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/151828

Protest continues today for decent conditions for retired teachers, at the Consultative Assembly in Tehran:

Another video of the protest for decent conditions for retired teachers today in Tehran:

It's one of the mysteries of science how major protests against the Iran-regime can occur, for example as these retired teachers in Tehran today, but somehow simply by passing through the Iran desk at the major news agencies those events cease to have ever existed so therefore there is nothing to report to you.

"The Science and Research Girl", Ahoo Daryaei, has been released after two weeks in involuntary detention at a a "mental hospital" for protesting being brutalized by oppression enforcement paramilitaries at the Azad University of Science and Research in Tehran where Ahoo studies French.
The "spokesman of the judiciary of" Iran according to several sources today said that Ahoo had been "handed over to her family after her illness was identified".

The "illness" being healthy frustration by and rejection of gender-based oppression from Iran's theocracy and its henchmen, but I doubt they correctly "identified" that.

A female student at the Azad University, Science and Research Branch, in Tehran, was yesterday attacked by several of the the infamously brutal "Basij" oppression enforcement paramilitary and "security" forces on pretext of the student not covering their face, so they tore the student's clothes during their assault and after that the student went on to their university and removed the clothes that "security" and Basij had torn, down to underwear, in what is reported as a protest.

In addition to the video I attach to this toot there are more, with video showing brutal abduction in unmarked vehicle to unknown location, reportedly so brutal that people on location said there was blood from the student's head smeared on the vehicle and its tyres.
I won't forward those videos.

According to JinHA, the Women's News Agency, the female student who in apparent protest against being assaulted over clothing undressed to underwear at the Azad University, Science and Research Branch in Tehran is "Ahoe Daryaei, a student of the 7th semester of French language".

Reuters now has an article (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/woman-strips-off-clothes-iran-university-apparent-protest-reports-say-2024-11-02/) in which
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University spokesperson Amir Mahjob said on X that "at the police station,...it was found that she was under severe mental pressure and had a mental disorder".
[...]
The fate of the woman was not known but the mass-circulation daily Hamshahri said on its website: "An informed source said...the perpetrator of this act has severe mental problems and, after investigations, she will most likely be transferred to a mental hospital."
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But, you know... officials under such authoritarian sexist systems would likely just declare anyone objecting to their oppression to therefore have "mental disorder" simply for objecting to being oppressed.

"Ahoo Daryaei's defiant stand: The Woman, Life, Freedom Movement's fight against repression in Iran [...]
This was not an act of mental instability [which the regime claims, to lock Ahoo up], but an act of reclaiming her body and dignity from a regime that seeks to control every aspect of women's existence."
https://medyanews.net/ahoo-daryaeis-defiant-stand-the-woman-life-freedom-movements-fight-against-repression-in-iran/

Ahoo, smashing the patriarchy, by the power of existing.