Saturday, July 29, 2017

Will they remember women this time?

We must ensure that women are included in the national reconciliation process in Iraq:





Yes, that would be ideal.

And needed.

When Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House and the Iraqi Constitution was being written, they kept women out of the process even when women took to the streets.

When Barack Obama was president, after the 2010 elections, he installed Nouri al-Maliki into a second term as prime minister and didn't bat an eye when not one minister in Nouri's cabinet was a woman -- even the Minister of Women's Affairs was a man.


Among today's violence?

XINHUA reports, "At least four Islamic State (IS) militants and one paramilitary fighter were killed on Saturday when the extremist militants attacked a paramilitary base in eastern Iraq, a provincial security source told Xinhua."  And ALSUMARIA notes a south Baghdad bombing left two people injured, and an al-Kasr bombing left 3 people dead and seven more injured?

Violence today also included Turkey bombing northern Iraq yet again.

Let's note this from David Bacon:


MAY DAY MARCH FOR "UN OTRO MUNDO"
By David Bacon
The Progressive / On The Line - 7/21/17
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2017/07/may-day-march-for-un-otro-mundo.html
http://progressive.org/magazine/on-the-line-the-changing-face-of-work-and-poverty-in-yakima/

The face of work and poverty in Yakima ranges from a closed mill of the city's past to the agricultural fields of its present.  

At the edge of town is the rusting structure of the old Boise Cascade plywood plant, where many of this small city's people worked for over a hundred years.  Little houses in the surrounding neighborhood were originally built for mill workers. Now many are the homes of laborers in the valley's fields and packing sheds.  Yakima always was and still is a farm worker town.

The closure of the plant is one reason why those homes have seen better days. Rick, who lives in a tent camp set up by homeless people on the street downtown, says he'd like things to go back to the way they used to be. "There was work for everyone," he remembers.  

Not all memories of that work are so pleasant, though.  Manuel Ortiz, age 85, came to the US in the 1950s as a bracero. After a lifetime of labor in the fields, today he collects cans to pay his rent.  In Moxee, just a few miles away, Mario Magaña and Martin Gutierrez cut weeds between the rows of tall hop vines, whose fruit will soon be fermenting in the vats of one of the Washington State's many craft breweries.  Their workday is 10 hours of bending over double, swinging a machete.

Long work days, or days of no work at all, were on the minds of hundreds of workers on May Day in this central Washington city. Farm workers marched with activists from the indigenous nation for whom the city is named.  One group of workers, carrying the red flags of the United Farm Workers, came from the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery.  A few growers and packing shed owners closed for the day, but most workers just took the day off on their own, risking their jobs.



And:


In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte
Photographs and text by David Bacon
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte




302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9”
paperback, $34.95

SPECIAL OFFER:
order the book on the UC Press website:
ucpress.edu/9780520296077
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En Mexico se puede pedir el libro en el sitio de COLEF:

https://www.colef.mx
 

Die Apfel-Pflücker aus dem Yakima-Tal
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23990
THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com

EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE:  Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7
Entrevista sobre la exhibicion con Alfonso Caraveo (Español)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.be

Cat Brooks interview on KPFA about In the Fields of the North
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=263826  - Advance the time to 33:15

"Los fotógrafos tomamos partido" - Entrevista por Melina Balcázar Moreno - Milenio.com Laberinto
http://www.milenio.com/cultura/laberinto/david_baconm-fotografia-melina_balcazar-laberinto-milenio_0_959904035.html


Attack on Immigrants - video of presentation about immigration raids and migration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_msXdhsGmc&feature=youtu.be&t=1m6s

Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center

http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx

KPFA - Upfront with Brian Edwards Tiekert
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/david-bacon-on-upfront-9-20


Books by David Bacon

The Right to Stay Home:  How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration  (Beacon Press, 2013)

http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328
Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants  (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008

http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx

Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350

The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244726

En Español:  

EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA  (Critica - Planeta de Libros)

http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html

HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1

For more articles and images, see  http://dbacon.igc.org and http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com



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    Vision of Love (Mariah Carey)



    Mariah Carey performing her number one hit "Vision Of Love" (first appears on her self-titled debut album MARIAH CAREY).







    And by 'heroism,' you mean backing every last illegal war . . .

    Some Tweets from Sarah Abdallah:



  • Sure, Tilly. Nothing says "let's be friends" quite like economically destabilizing one's country with cruel and illegal sanctions! 🙄
  • Thanks to the US and UK fully backing Saudi Arabia's genocidal campaign to bomb and besiege into oblivion. 💔
  • And by "heroism", you mean backing every last illegal war & regime change operation the US has carried out over the last 40 years, right? 🙄
  • "Praying for my fellow warmonger McCain. He is my partner in destabilizing and sanctioning states globally." There. Fixed it for you Maddy.
  • Replying to 
    Syria's Army and its allies have also reached Sukhnah, the last town held by ISIS in all of Homs Province. Big victories are on the horizon!
  • Great news! Syria's Army has entered Deir Ezzor for the first time in over 3 years. Onward to the liberation of the ISIS-besieged city! 🇸🇾✌️
  •   Retweeted
    Parties and celebrations in Latakia's Wadi Qandil. The other side of ignored by the MSM.
     
  • Syria's Homs University this week: Students can safely attend classes again thanks to the Syrian Army liberating their city from Al-Qaeda.
     
  •   Retweeted
    Le soleil se couche sur . Malgré la guerre, la Paix y règne d'une façon incroyable...
     
  • Syria's beautiful Lattakia today. One can only imagine the ruin if Hillary's Al-Qaeda buddies had overrun the city. Photos by
     
  • 1. CIA toppled Kiev's gov't 2. Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia 3. You armed Al-Qaeda in Syria 4. The US spies on the whole world 5. Be quiet
  • Congress imposes new sanctions on Russia. Russia retaliates against the economic aggression. Washington: How dare Russia fight back?!!!
  •   Retweeted
    My latest: It’s not a gas - time for Europe to stand up to US hawks on Russia
  • Do the US & UK, which sell Saudi Arabia billions of dollars in arms, have a problem with their despotic ally beheading youth for protesting?
  •   Retweeted
    The rebuilding and reconstruction processes the concerts the people and the positive vibes, Syria this summer is ALIVE. ❤
  • "I Came. I Saw. I Failed."
  • This is what freed from terror looks like: Syrians flocking to enjoy the first and biggest summer concert in 6 years at the Citadel.
     
  • Let that sink in.
  •   Retweeted
  • You were backed to the hilt by Wall Street, Saudi Arabia, the neocons, Soros, MSM and Big Pharma but you still lost. That's "What Happened".