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Justice, redress and restitution for the widows of Marikana
(Speaking Wounds: Voices of Marikana Widows Through Art and Narrative)
(Image Credit: The Journalist)
#Charlottesville: And again, Black pain and tears and suffering at the hands of white supremacy
And again, Black pain and tears and suffering at the hands of white supremacy is approved and legitimated by whites saying that “they saw it”, and “yes, it definitely was racism”. Perhaps now, people who insisted on replying to the plea that ‘Black Lives Matter’ with ‘All Lives Matter’ and ‘Blue Lives matter’ will understand […]
Gentle Justice
Gentle Justice justice awaits victims wait for some whilst Special Ones and the blindly faithful get their way and get away Gentle Justice an escape from the glare of the public Gentle Justice is what you get when you are well-known well-resourced well-connected (pockets well-lined too) (this in spite of our Constitution lauded and our […]
On Women’s Day, who sings for Brenda Sithole? And tomorrow?
August 9, 2017. It’s Women’s Day in South Africa, a national holiday that commemorates the 1956 women’s anti-pass march on the Union Buildings in Pretoria: “Now you have touched the women you have struck a rock: you have dislodged a boulder: you will be crushed.”Wathint’ abafazi, Strijdom! wathint’ abafazi,wathint’ imbokodo,uza kufa!” The women, 20,000 strong, […]
Instead of investing his money, he invested himself to support his family
Among the many people I met in Korea, both new acquaintances and old, the driver of the jumbo taxi that ferried me and my luggage between Seoul and Pyeongtaek was deeply moving. At first glance he is an ordinary middle-aged South Korean man, one of millions working to support their families. Like so many such […]
Why I no Longer Use the Term, ‘Game.’
Years ago, I was enjoying my bushmeat in an Australian restaurant in Belgium and said as much when my dinner companion gently reminded me that what I was eating was “game” and not bushmeat, and I had been invited out to “enjoy game.” Apparently, bushmeat is what you get in a small, ramshackle affair by […]
Three years on, still no justice for Ms. Dhu, her family, or Aboriginal women generally
In Australia, for Aboriginal women and their families, the wheels of justice do not turn at all, but they do try to grind the people into dust. On August 4, 2014, a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman, called Ms. Dhu, died in custody in Western Australia. She was being held for unpaid parking fines. Ms. Dhu screamed […]
This is How Angry I Am
This is How Angry I Am Tell me one more time to calm down Tell me once again that I am emotional One more time. I will clobber you in dance step With a cast-off pipe from a bombed out abortion clinic Tell me one more time to move on Tell me once again that […]
In Virginia, Lipton Tea workers prove there is power in a union
On Monday, July 24, workers at the Lipton Tea factory in Suffolk, in the so-called right-to-work Commonwealth of Virginia, voted 109 – 6 to approve their first union contract. The contract covers 240 workers in the plant. It also covers all Lipton Tea factory workers in North America, since the Suffolk plant produces all the […]
In Poland “ladies are not playing”, they are fighting for their rights
In Poland last year, the Federation for Women and Family Planning celebrated its 25th anniversary. It was created to defend the reproductive laws that existed in 1991. Its director, Krystyna Kacpura, reflects, “This is the only organization in the country whose focus is sexual and reproductive rights, of course we have many NGOs working on […]
Florida’s special hell for women, the Lowell Correctional Institution, ran out of water
Florida built a special hell for women, the Lowell Correctional Institution. In 2015, Lowell housed, or better caged, 2696 women, surpassing the Central California Women’s Facility and thus becoming the largest women’s prison in the United States. From the start, in 1956, to today, the place has been a nightmare: overcrowded, rampant with staff abuse […]