[Marxism] HRC Releases Report on Epidemic of Anti-Transgender Violence | Human Rights Campaign
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * HRC Releases Annual Report on Epidemic of Anti-Transgender Violence • By Sarah McBride • November 18, 2019 HRC Foundation released A National Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in the United States in 2019, a distressing report honoring the at least 22 transgender people and gender non-conforming people killed in 2019 and detailing the contributing factors that lead to this tragic violence. The report comes two days ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which, this year, marks the 20th annual commemoration of transgender people killed during the preceding year. “Transgender women of color are living in crisis, especially Black transgender women,” said HRC President Alphonso David. “While the details of the cases documented in this report differ, the toxic intersection of racism, sexism, transphobia and easy access to guns conspire to deny so many members of the transgender and gender non-conforming community access to housing, employment and other necessities to survive and thrive. Every one of these lives cut tragically short reinforces the urgent need for action on all fronts to end this epidemic — from lawmakers and law enforcement, to the media and our communities.” A National Epidemic:Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in the United States in 2019 explores many of the factors that can contribute to or facilitate fatal violence. In many instances, systemic discrimination at the intersection of gender identity and race lead to significant barriers to employment and housing. This pushes many transgender and gender non-conforming people into underground economies, including sex work, to survive and into circumstances where they may be more likely to encounter violence. The report also calls for the expansion of community-based resources and programs to address the epidemic. Earlier this year, HRC announced it is significantly expanding its work dedicated to justice for the transgender community. The organization will advance new initiatives working alongside community advocates to focus on economic empowerment; capacity-building programs; targeted task forces in communities hardest hit by the epidemic of anti-trans violence; and expanded public education campaigns. There are a number of actions outlined in the report that lawmakers can take to address the violence, including passing non-discrimination protections; enhancing law enforcement response and training; improving data collection and reporting; reforming laws that have the impact of criminalizing marginalized communities and undermining public health; and adopting common-sense gun violence protections. This year’s annual report found that since the start of the year, at least 22 transgender and gender non-conforming people have been killed in the U.S., all but one were Black. Since January 2013, HRC has documented more than 150 transgender and gender non-conforming people who were victims of fatal violence; at least 127 were transgender and gender non-conforming people of color. Nearly nine in every 10 victims were transgender women and 58 percent of all domestic deaths occurred in the U.S. South. These disturbing numbers likely underreport deadly violence targeting transgender and gender non-confirming people, who may not be properly identified as transgender or gender non-conforming. In addition to the 22 transgender and gender non-conforming people killed by fatal violence, the report also profiles two other cases of transgender women, Johana ‘Joa’ Medina and Layleen Polanco, whose deaths remain under investigation. Both were likely impacted by circumstances fostered by hate, indifference and dehumanization. Medina, 25, died at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, just hours after being released from ICE custody. She suffered severe health complications that went untreated while she was in detention, according to Diversidad Sin Fronteras. Her family filed a wrongful death and personal injury claim against ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. Polanco, 27, was found dead in solitary confinement at Rikers Island on June 7. Her family says authorities knew she had epilepsy and failed to provide her proper treatment despite her condition. The report comes just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation released 2018’s hate crimes data, which found an alarming 34 percent increase in violent hate-based attacks on transgender people between 2017 and 2018. Last week, HRC commemorated the annual Transgender Awareness Week, which is dedicated to illuminating both the progress and unfinished work in the fight for transgender equality. Throughout
Re: [Marxism] ‘No evidence’ that men are using trans identity for sexual violence | Scotland | The Times
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 12/19/19 7:33 PM, MM via Marxism wrote: POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * If anyone has a sub to the Times, I’d be interested to read the full article: "There is no evidence men identify as transgender to access female-only spaces to commit sexual violence, the Scottish government has said. "Draft legislation to reform and streamline the process for obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate was published yesterday. "It would remove the requirement for applicants to provide medical evidence of their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while retaining a condition that applicants must make a solemn statutory declaration that they have been living in their acquired gender and intend to do so permanently." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/no-evidence-that-men-are-using-trans-identity-for-sexual-violence-zkplwlfzs There is no evidence men identify as transgender to access female-only spaces to commit sexual violence, the Scottish government has said. Draft legislation to reform and streamline the process for obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate was published yesterday. It would remove the requirement for applicants to provide medical evidence of their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while retaining a condition that applicants must make a solemn statutory declaration that they have been living in their acquired gender and intend to do so permanently. A minimum three-month period of reflection between applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate and confirming the application would also be introduced as part of the bill. This would mean applicants must have lived in their acquired gender for a minimum of six months before a certificate is granted. The legislation would also retain the position that a false statutory declaration is a criminal offence and introduce a new offence of false application - each with a potential punishment of up to two years' imprisonment. The minimum age of potential applicants would be reduced from 18 to 16 as part of the proposals, which will attempt to build greater consensus on a hugely controversial issue that has polarised opinion and divided the SNP. Shirley-Anne Somerville, the social security secretary, acknowledged that some organisations have made women feel "uncomfortable and less safe" in their attempts to be inclusive to transgender people. However, the consultation stated: "The Scottish government has not identified any evidence supporting a link between women-only spaces being inclusive of transgender women and non-trans men falsely claiming a trans identity to access these spaces and commit sexual violence." Other sources reiterated their view that there was a lack of any evidence to support this claim. Ms Somerville said: "Women's rights and protections will be as strong under this bill as they are today, as we remain committed to protect, respect, and advance the rights of women and girls. We are not proposing to change the Equality Act or the exceptions within it that protect single sex spaces and services." For Women Scotland, a feminist group, suggested that voices opposed to the proposals had so far been ignored. A spokeswoman said the group would consider the consultation paper thoroughly before formulating a full response, adding: "It is of great concern that since the consultation announcement in June the Scottish government has not met with any women's groups, other than those it funds and who are broadly in agreement with the proposals. Alternative viewpoints and concerns on the issue of self-identification of sex have not been heard and brings into question the cabinet secretary's wish to reach consensus." Lynn Welsh, head of legal at the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland, welcomed the consultation, which will close in March, stating: "This bill offers a welcome opportunity to remove unnecessary practical barriers trans people face in securing legal recognition of their gender identity. "Nothing in the bill will threaten the continued operation of the Equality Act provisions protecting women-only services and spaces, which recognise the particular needs of women and the need for protection from sex-based violence." Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Greens co-leader, said: "The proposals will simply make life easier for trans people who want to get their
[Marxism] ‘No evidence’ that men are using trans identity for sexual violence | Scotland | The Times
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Re: [Marxism] Rich Nations Block All Progress at U.N. Climate Talks
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[Marxism] The Long, Dark History of Russia’s Murder, Inc. | by Michael Weiss | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
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Re: [Marxism] Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 12/19/19 11:43 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism By Fintan O’Toole 232 pages. Liveright Publishing. $27.95. More from Fintan O'Toole: NY Review of Books The Ham of Fate Fintan O’Toole AUGUST 15, 2019 ISSUE In his only novel, Seventy-Two Virgins, published in 2004, Boris Johnson uses a strange word. The hero, like Johnson himself at the time, is a backbench Conservative member of the House of Commons. Roger Barlow is, indeed, a somewhat unflattering self-portrait—he bicycles to Westminster, he is unfaithful to his wife, he is flippantly racist and politically opportunistic, and he is famously disheveled: In the fond imagination of one Commons secretary who crossed his path he had the air of a man who had just burst through a hedge after running through a garden having climbed down a drainpipe on being surprised in the wrong marital bed.1 Barlow, throughout the novel, is in constant fear that his political career is about to be ended by a tabloid scandal. In a moment of introspection, he reflects on this anxiety: There was something prurient about the way he wanted to read about his own destruction, just as there was something weird about the way he had been impelled down the course he had followed. Maybe he wasn’t a genuine akratic. Maybe it would be more accurate to say he had a thanatos urge. [Emphases added] The novel is a mass-market comic thriller about a terrorist plot to capture the US president while he is addressing Parliament in London. The Greek terms stand out. In part, they function as signifiers of social class within a long-established code of linguistic manners: a sprinkling of classical phrases marks one out as a product of an elite private school (in Johnson’s case, Eton) and therefore a proper toff. (Asked in June during the contest to replace Theresa May as Tory leader to name his political hero, Johnson chose Pericles of Athens.) The choice of thanatos is interesting, and the thought that he might have a death wish will ring bells for those who have followed the breathtaking recklessness of Johnson’s career. But it is akratic that intrigues. The Leave campaign that Johnson led to a stunning victory in the Brexit referendum of June 2016 owed much of its success to its carefully calibrated slogan “Take Back Control.” Akrasia, which is discussed in depth by Socrates, Plato, and especially Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics, is the contrary of control. It means literally “not being in command of oneself” and is translated variously as “weakness of will,” “incontinence,” and “loss of self-control.” To Aristotle, an akratic is a person who knows the right thing to do but can’t help doing the opposite. This is not just, as he himself seems to have intuited, Boris Johnson to a tee. It is also the reason why he embodies more than anyone else a Brexit project in which the very people who promised to take back control are utterly incapable of exercising it, even over themselves. “Oh God, oh Gawd,” asks Barlow in a question that now echoes through much of the British establishment, “why had he done it? Why had he put himself in this ludicrous position?” To grasp how Johnson’s akratic character has brought his country to a state approaching anarchy, it is necessary to return to the days immediately before February 21, 2016, when he announced to an expectant throng of journalists that he would support the Leave campaign. This was a crucial moment—polls have since shown that, in what turned out to be a very close-run referendum, Boris, as the mayor of London had branded himself,2 had a greater influence on voters than anyone else. “Character is destiny, said the Greeks, and I agree,” writes Johnson in The Churchill Factor, his 2014 book about Winston Churchill, which carries the telling subtitle “How One Man Made History.”3 While the book shows Johnson to be a true believer in the Great Man theory of history, his own moment of destiny plays it out as farce, the fate of a nation turning not on Churchillian resolution but on Johnsonian indecision. For Johnson was, in his own words, “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley.” On Saturday, February 20, he texted Prime Minister David Cameron to say he was going to advocate for Brexit. A few hours later, he texted again to say that he might change his mind and back Remain. Sometime between then and the following day, he wrote at least two different columns for the Daily Telegraph—his deadline was looming, so he wrote one passionately arguing for Leave and one arguing that the cost
[Marxism] Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (The first book sounds really interesting.) NY Times, Dec. 19, 2019 Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge By Jennifer Szalai The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism By Fintan O’Toole 232 pages. Liveright Publishing. $27.95. The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free By Rich Lowry 280 pages. Broadside Books. $26.99. “May all your teeth fall out except the one that gives you pain”: It’s an old Yiddish curse, but as Fintan O’Toole explains in his slyly brilliant new book, it could turn out to be an apt description of the “English nationalist project” known as Brexit. An unsettled sense of national identity is like having a sore tooth, and Brexit is like taking a sledgehammer to the wrong side of your face. Once the “radically invasive” procedure of extracting Britain from the European Union begins in earnest, O’Toole writes in “The Politics of Pain,” the original toothache will persist — only this time amid the wreckage of a bloody mouth. O’Toole, an Irish journalist, is aware of the political and economic upheavals that have buoyed pro-Brexit forces, but with this book he explores what the critic Raymond Williams called a “structure of feeling” — in this case, a mentality that likens the staid bureaucracy in Brussels to a monstrous occupying force. O’Toole dissects a number of myths peddled over the years by Britain’s most extreme Euroskeptics, including the specter of an overweening continent determined to outlaw prawn cocktail-flavored potato chips. Brexit and President Trump represent both sides of the Anglo-American nationalist coin — on this minimal observation, O’Toole and Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review magazine and the author of another new book about nationalism, would seem to agree. But where O’Toole warns of the dangers posed by indiscriminate eruptions of nationalist fervor, Lowry’s “The Case for Nationalism” exudes an untroubled sanguinity. Nationalism’s biggest problem, Lowry says repeatedly, has been the “smear” against it. ImageFintan O’Toole, author of “The Politics of Pain.” Fintan O’Toole, author of “The Politics of Pain.” Credit...Benson Russell “The Politics of Pain” is searching and elegantly argued. O’Toole isn’t unsympathetic to those who voted in favor of Brexit, but makes abundantly clear that he believes they were suckered into a raw deal. Being Irish, he knows “the worst agonies that zero-sum nationalism can inflict.” His tone is charmingly wry but never gleeful. He reserves his most withering indictments for elite politicians like Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson — the “Brexit ultras” who successfully deployed the language of autonomy and wounded pride to cast Brexit “simultaneously as a reconstitution of Empire and as an anti-imperial national liberation movement.” Get the Book Review Newsletter Be the first to see reviews, news and features in The New York Times Book Review. SIGN UP ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story This toggling between grandiosity and self-pity is a neat trick, and O’Toole says the absurd rhetoric has been so successful because England has never grappled properly with its experience of winning a world war while also losing an empire. The English have been unprepared to think of their country as just another among many, one that is relatively privileged but ultimately ordinary. (Seeing Brexit as primarily an English phenomenon, O’Toole takes care to focus on England, rather than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.) “In the imperial imagination, there are only two states: dominant and submissive, colonizer and colonized,” O’Toole writes, making a funny and surprisingly fitting analogy with the sadomasochism, tedious rules and fantasy of absolute powerlessness on offer in E L James’s “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “The Politics of Pain” is not a celebration of the E.U. — a deeply flawed institution, O’Toole concedes, which has settled into an “arrogant, complacent” technocracy since the end of the Cold War, when it mostly gave up trying to encourage the “reasonable expectation that life will get better for ordinary people.” But he says that Johnson and the other reactionary members of the ruling class have abdicated their own responsibility to the very people they purport to serve. “A nation state is, first and foremost, a shelter,” O’Toole writes, likening it to an umbrella “in the hard rain of neoliberal globalization.” Brexit, he says, offers a garish but empty nationalism shorn of any protections. Promising to dismantle the environmental and labor regulations they denounce as “red
[Marxism] Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Jeanine Áñez, the ‘president’ of Bolivia, walked into the Burned Palace (Palacio Quemado) with an enormous Bible in her hand. ‘The Bible has returned to the Palace’, she said as she seized power. Áñez’s Party – Movimiento Demócrata Social – won only 4% of the vote in the 2019 presidential election, and she is not in the direct line of succession. The Movement to Socialism (MAS) controlled the majority in parliament, and its speaker – first Adriana Salvatierra and then Mónica Eva Copa – stood ahead of her in the queue. Nonetheless, as MAS officials stayed home for fear of their lives, a parliamentary vote that excluded the majority party took place in which Áñez took power. The military backed her. Very soon thereafter, the United States and Brazil sanctified this Christian fundamentalist right-wing politician as the president. https://mailchi.mp/thetricontinental.org/those-who-search-for-dawn-dont-fear-the-night-nor-the-hand-that-holds-the-dagger-the-fifty-first-newsletter-2019 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Confronting the agents of capital: a Corbynista’s dilemma | People and Nature
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[Marxism] A New Brexit Settlement? - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Biosphere Collapse? - CounterPunch.org
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Five years ago: Nations of the world met in Paris to draft a climate agreement that was subsequently accepted by nearly every country in the world, stating that global temperatures must not exceed +2C pre-industrial. Global emissions must be cut! Fossil fuel usage must be cut! Today: Following Paris ’15, global banks have invested $1.9 trillion in fossil fuel projects. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/19/biosphere-collapse/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] To Court a Secretive Donor, Law Deans at George Mason Blasted Climate Scientists and Their Own Accreditor
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Chronicle of Higher Education To Court a Secretive Donor, Law Deans at George Mason Blasted Climate Scientists and Their Own Accreditor By Nell Gluckman and Jack Stripling DECEMBER 18, 2019 PREMIUM Leaders of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, which has been criticized for its ties to conservative donors, have spent years courting a wealthy Chicago philanthropist who has steered money toward organizations that promote skepticism of climate change or finance conservative and libertarian journalism on college campuses. Newly released documents show the extent to which Barre Seid, the philanthropist, sought to engage law-school deans on hot-button political topics. On several occasions he raised alarms about political activism by climate scientists at George Mason, prompting assurances from the dean that “some of our friends on the board” were “all over it (behind the scenes).” The documents, which include more than 800 pages of emails and other communications, were obtained through a public-records request filed by UnKoch My Campus, a national group that seeks to expose the Charles Koch Foundation’s influence on higher education. In 2016, George Mason announced that it had received a $10 million grant from the Koch Foundation, along with $20 million from an anonymous donor, who asked that the law school be named in honor of Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice and a conservative icon. In a news release on Thursday, Allison Pienta, a lawyer working with UnKoch My Campus, argued that the documents she had obtained “prove that Mr. Seid is the Scalia Law donor.” “Taxpayers, students, Virginia citizens, we have a right to know who is donating to a public law school and asking the law school in return to serve their interest.” Pienta, who had requested records that contained the anonymous donor’s name, suspected that Seid had been the benefactor in part because people associated with him are referred to in a number of exchanges. She concluded that he was the donor after cross-referencing those emails with others that mention Seid by name. Anne Holton, George Mason’s interim president, said in a letter to Pienta that the university could not “confirm or deny your conclusion” that Seid is the anonymous donor, “as universities have an obligation to respect a donor’s right to anonymity.” After reviewing the records, which contained numerous redactions to protect donor privacy, The Chronicle could not independently verify the identity of the donor. What the records do show, however, is a yearslong, politically tinged dialogue between Seid and two successive deans of George Mason’s law school. People who are concerned about undue donor influence often envision clear-cut quid pro quos or prescriptive gift agreements that grant wealthy people too much control over the academic enterprise. These documents imply a subtler form of influence, one in which a donor elevates concerns about a professor or a regulatory body just by passing information along to university decision makers. An Activist Donor As told through the documents, the story of Seid’s relationships with Daniel D. Polsby, former dean of the law school, and his successor, Henry N. Butler, begins at least nine years ago. By that time, Seid had already been working to transform a tiny part of the higher-education landscape. Through the Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation, he gave $825,000 to Shimer College, an institution that enrolled about 100 students and followed the Great Books curriculum. After the donation, several people with financial ties to Seid joined the college’s Board of Trustees, and a fierce battle over governance of the college followed. (In 2017, Shimer was absorbed by North Central College, which added the Shimer Great Books School as an academic program). Between 2011 and 2016, Seid had or had scheduled at least seven meetings with one or both of George Mason’s law deans. The deans found in Seid an inquisitive communicator, particularly when it came to conservative causes. In 2012, for example, he wrote to Polsby asking for “any insight” into a new program, housed at George Mason, that was established by the former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis. The question was notable given Seid’s apparent interest in the politics of climate science. Inglis had been voted out of office two years earlier during his primary, largely because he supported a tax on carbon. Now he was being embraced by George Mason. Inglis’s program, the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, was meant to “promote conservative solutions to America’s energy and
[Marxism] Rich Nations Block All Progress at U.N. Climate Talks
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[Marxism] Facebook Is a Right-Wing Company, Part One Million | The New Republic
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[Marxism] “We were never this united, and now we must succeed!”- The Self-Organized Strike of Serbia’s Postal Workers | Lefteast
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[Marxism] Israeli Jews are ‘equivalent of Seminoles deciding to take over Florida’ and Palestinians are the cowboys — Jeffrey Goldberg reemerges – Mondoweiss
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