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Project Willow » Sun Jan 22, 2017 6:50 pm wrote:

Heaven Swan » 22 Jan 2017 05:41 wrote: I'm trying to understand why women were so quick to withhold political support and ignore the suffering of abuse survivors for the past decade+.

I'd guess it's for the usual reason, rates of sexual trauma are so high, and the vast majority of victims have never gone through any sort of healing process. When a minority begin to speak out, it evokes a host of negative feelings and responses in the others who would rather not be reminded of their own pain.

Heaven Swan » 22 Jan 2017 05:41 wrote: There are strong signs that the tide may be turning and guess what? the damn liberal feminist writers and pied pipers, who, to build their careers, led women into supporting pornography and prostitution as 'empowerment' and worked tirelessly to rebrand feminism as "any choice a woman chooses" are making instantaneous about-faces and claiming to be radical feminists.

Check out this excellent article on Feminist Current:
LIBERAL FEMINISTS USHERED IVANKA TRUMP INTO THE WHITE HOUSE
http://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/01/ ... ite-house/

Also, if you feel like talking more about it-- Why were people asking you to take down your articles? I'm not clear on their rationale, if there was one.

Interesting article, not surprising though.

Here's a link to the pm I got asking me to remove an article: http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/ ... 15#p628166

Heaven Swan » 22 Jan 2017 05:41 wrote: And, I do think that 'no-platforming' would be a great thing to look at starting with its' historical use in Europe after the 2nd world war. I believe that it is still illegal for political leaders to speak and rabble rouse in public in Italy. These laws were instituted because hate-rousing speeches played such a major role in Hitler and Mussolini's rise to power. On the other hand, there's no question that no-platforming has been misused of late, and mostly deployed by liberals against radical feminists. Good topic for another thread or future discussion.

Agree!

Did you go to the DC march? What was it like?

Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest

Four more journalists have been charged with felonies after being arrested while covering the unrest around Donald Trump’s inauguration, meaning that at least six media workers are facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.

A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter were each charged with the most serious level of offense under Washington DC’s law against rioting, after being caught up in the police action against demonstrators.

The Guardian learned of their arrests after reporting on Monday that the journalists Evan Engel of Vocativ and Alex Rubinstein of RT America had also been taken into custody by police and charged with felonies while covering the same unrest on Friday morning.

Jack Keller, a producer for the web documentary series Story of America, said that he was detained for about 36 hours after being kettled by police at 12th and L streets on Friday morning and then arrested despite telling officers that he was covering the demonstrations as a journalist.

“The way we were treated was an absolute travesty,” said Keller, whose cellphone has been kept by the authorities. Keller’s editor, Annabel Park, said: “It is a maddening and frustrating situation. These are people who were there observing and documenting.”

Matt Hopard, an independent journalist who was live-streaming the Friday protests, was arrested at the same site as Keller, Engel and Rubinstein, according to metropolitan police records. He said in a message that he denied the charge against him.

Also arrested while covering the demonstrations at 12th and L streets were Shay Horse, an independent photojournalist and activist, and Aaron Cantú, a freelance journalist and activist, who has written for outlets including the Baffler, the Washington Spectator and the New Inquiry. Both deny wrongdoing.

In all, more than 200 people were arrested on Friday, after property was vandalized in the US capital in the hours around Trump’s swearing-in as president. Police said that six officers suffered minor injuries.

The National Lawyers’ Guild accused Washington DC’s metropolitan police department of having “indiscriminately targeted people for arrest en masse based on location alone” and said they unlawfully used teargas and other weapons.

“These illegal acts are clearly designed to chill the speech of protesters engaging in First Amendment activity,” Maggie Ellinger-Locke, of the guild’s DC branch, said in a statement.

None of the arrest reports for the six journalists makes any specific allegations about what any of them are supposed to have done wrong. Keller’s report, which also covers the arrests of an unknown number of unidentified other people, includes a note that a police vehicle was vandalized. “I had absolutely nothing to do with the vandalism,” said Keller.

Reports on the arrests of five of the six journalists contain identical language alleging that “numerous crimes were occurring in police presence”. They state that windows were broken, fires were lit and vehicles were damaged. “The crowd was observed enticing a riot by organizing, promoting, encouraging and participating in acts of violence in furtherance of the riot,” the police reports said.

The US attorney’s office for Washington DC, which is prosecuting those arrested, declined to comment on the journalists’ specific cases but said it was continuing to review evidence from the day with the police.

“Based on the facts and circumstances, we determined that probable cause existed to support the filing of felony rioting charges,” William Miller, a spokesman for the office, said in a statement. “As in all of our cases, we are always willing to consider additional information that people bring forward.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/four-m ... ar-AAmbHUN

White House Sources Say Trump Was 'Visibly Enraged' at the Size of the Women's March: Report
His outrage was the reason for Sean Spicer's authoritarian farce of a press conference.
By David Edwards / Raw Story January 24, 2017

President Donald Trump became “visibly enraged” over the weekend when he saw that the Women’s March dwarfed the size of his inauguration crowd, The Washington Post reported.

White House sources told the Post that Trump’s celebratory mood turned to “flashes of anger” less than 24 hours after he took office.

“Trump turned on the television to see a jarring juxtaposition — massive demonstrations around the globe protesting his day-old presidency and footage of the sparser crowd at his inauguration, with large patches of white empty space on the Mall,” the paper reported. “As his press secretary, Sean Spicer, was still unpacking boxes in his spacious new West Wing office, Trump grew increasingly and visibly enraged.”

Ignoring the advice of his advisers, Trump demanded Spicer deliver his now-infamous statement to the White House press corps, falsely insisting that no inauguration in history had been witnessed by more people.

On Monday, Spicer admitted that he had provided inaccurate numbers for Metro ridership on Inauguration Day, but he continued to insist that Trump’s inauguration was the most viewed ever.

“The default narrative is always negative, and it’s demoralizing,” Spicer complained on Monday. “And I think that it’s just unbelievably frustrating when you’re continually told it’s not big enough, it’s not good enough, you can’t win.”
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/w ... rch-report

There is no precedent in U.S. history for the show of collective outrage that answered Trump’s Inauguration. But then, there is no precedent for Trump, either: impetuous, thin-skinned and, for his trouble, entering office facing a grassroots opposition that heated up faster than a cup of ramen.

seemslikeadream » Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:19 am wrote:

White House Sources Say Trump Was 'Visibly Enraged' at the Size of the Women's March: Report
His outrage was the reason for Sean Spicer's authoritarian farce of a press conference.
By David Edwards / Raw Story January 24, 2017

President Donald Trump became “visibly enraged” over the weekend when he saw that the Women’s March dwarfed the size of his inauguration crowd, The Washington Post reported.

White House sources told the Post that ...

...

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/w ... rch-report

Dwight MacDonald wrote:When I don't know what do with my hands, I light a cigarette. When I don't know what to do with my mind, I read Time Magazine.

Celebrity liberalism and pleas to vote Democratic are where the Left goes to die.

No wonder the Women’s March was doomed to join the list of fruitless liberal marches! Because they’re Democrats, none of the speakers suggested scrapping the whole sick system of systemized poverty, industrialized prisons, war and slave labor altogether. Instead marchers got a washed-up documentary filmmaker urging them to memorize a phone number they could use to call Congress because, yeah, that’s going to do so much good, especially these days with Republicans in charge of everything.

- January 24, 2017 The Women’s March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign, by Ted Rall

Luther Blissett » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:56 pm wrote:And here's the daytime shit, not as radical as the nighttime shit but still cool.
http://uproxx.com/news/philadelphia-don ... reactions/

JackRiddler » Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:08 am wrote:

Luther Blissett » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:56 pm wrote:And here's the daytime shit, not as radical as the nighttime shit but still cool.
http://uproxx.com/news/philadelphia-don ... reactions/

The unrelated video above the story asks, "Do Donald Trump's tweets impact the world?" I had not followed, but his tweets have caused instantaneous crashes in the stock prices of Lockheed (when he criticized a fighter plane), Boeing (when he said $4B for AF1 was too much), and Toyota (attacked for announcing a factory in Mexico).