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This dangerous, unsanitary kennel must be shut down, now. This Kennel Owner Kept 55 Animals Locked in Sickness-Inducing Squalor Sign Now    Dear friends,   At a kennel in Connecticut, a business owner kept 55 animals in horrid conditions, to the point where authorities had to intervene and rescue the animals.   Neighbors became alarmed when they heard the dogs crying out, leading officials to finally investigate. Suspiciously, though, the homeowner refused to let animal control investigators inspect the premises multiple times over the course of five months. Once they finally got inside, inspectors found significant evidence of neglect and mistreatment. Poop, urine, dirt, grime, and trash had accumulated around the premises, leaving the dogs in dangerously unsanitary conditions. Meanwhile, there wasn't even sufficient food or water for the animals. This led some of the animals to develop serious medical complications. One dog was so ill from living at the kennels, veterinarians had to euthanize it. One thing is for sure: this kennel must also be shut down immediately, and its license revoked. Sign the petition now!   Thank you, Miranda Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Her kennel license allowed her to keep up to 30 adult dogs at the home, but authorities found far more crammed into the space. Sign the petition.      Sign Now

WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #346 - Antipatriarchy, Antivalidism: ESAT, pretenses and real exploitation (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

After the December issue of AL which focused on anti-disabled struggles,
we continue to look at the oppression suffered by disabled people. At
the heart of the subject this month, the exploitation of workers in
"work support establishments and services" (ESAT). ---- A recent decree
finally gives disabled ESAT workers the right to unionization and
collective representation. This progress allows France to give
assurances to the UN, which has condemned it several times for the
flagrant violations of respect for people that this institution produces.

If this law brings some progress (new labor rights), much more will be
needed to modify existing social relations within ESATs. Indeed, the
ESAT is an institution that is both involved in the relationships
between the medico-social world and those of the world of work. This
results in disabled workers having access to certain services on their
work site (for example, training on administrative tasks).

However, the "work" part is almost completely hidden by the institution.
The most visible symptom is that workers are considered simple users.

It's difficult to describe the extent to which this simple word is a
source of alienation and frustration for many workers because it shapes
their relationship to work and implies that they are receiving a service.

Can you imagine doing a job and seeing it denied by the institution that
asks you to do it?

There is a lot of talk about suffering within bullshit jobs: how can we
describe necessary work, which is passed off as a simple pastime granted
to you?

Workers told me they had already asked for a pay increase. Remember that
their salary is well below the minimum wage and cannot exceed it!
Management refused them this increase on the grounds that it would lead
to a reduction in their Disabled Adult Allowance which supplements their
income.

The excuse is true but reveals the paternalism of the institution,
gently explaining to you that your work has no value.

Users without pay
However, it does generate significant added value. A significant portion
of ESATs specialize in industrial subcontracting for tasks deemed too
repetitive or difficult, which local companies prefer to pass on to
disabled people. This subcontracting even allows them to pass the 5%
threshold for the employment obligation for disabled workers (OTEH) in
companies. Why then would companies make an effort to employ disabled
people if they can benefit from their work for not even half a salary in
structures subsidized by the ARS?

To conclude, let us remember that for many ESAT workers, work in an
ordinary environment constitutes the Holy Grail. The work ethic of our
society makes them understand that this would be the only way to prove
their complete worth as an individual. But "the social elevator" is
sabotaged at the start because no company has any interest in these
hires. Their status, their salary and the recognition of society must be
acquired through struggle. The strategy of the State and Capital is
precisely to keep these people isolated, it is therefore important that
unions and anti-validist associations look towards the workers and their
aspirations because, like everywhere, solidarity is our weapon .

Corentin (UCL Kreiz-Brezh)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Antivalidisme-ESAT-faux-semblants-et-veritable-exploitation
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WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FDCA, il Cantiere #23: YEMEN - The escalation of the war - Anarchist Hyenas (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On the night of January 12, the United States and the United Kingdom

launched a massive offensive on Yemeni territory as a response against
Houthi attacks on Israeli merchant ships - or those headed towards that
State - transiting between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea . U.S. Air
Force Commander Alex Grinkiewicz said more than 60 military targets in
16 locations were hit. ---- Several Houthi military bases and airfields
have come under British-US fire - including a military base near the
airport in Sanaa, Yemen's capital. As CNN reported, (1) a senior US
military official said the strikes destroyed a significant portion of
the Houthis' military facilities.

The offensive was conducted by aircraft, ships and submarines; in total
more than 100 precision munitions were used, including Tomahawk cruise
missiles.

After the missile attacks against the Houthis, the price of Brent crude
oil increased by 4.1%, reaching $78 per barrel. According to Saul
Kavonich, (2) analyst at MST Marquee, a possible interruption of oil
supplies near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait could " be three times greater
than that of the oil crisis of the 1970s and more than double that of
the war in Ukraine on gas markets, with consequences for already fragile
supply chains and stock levels."

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) estimates (3)      that up
to a quarter of global maritime traffic passes along this route -
equivalent to several billion tonnes of goods every year -, while
according to the US Energy Information Administration, in that part of
About 4.5 million barrels of oil pass through the sea every day (coming
from the countries of the Persian Gulf and Asia).

The Houthi attacks, which have intensified in recent months, have pushed
the largest transporters of containerized goods by sea, including the
world leader "Maersk", to abandon this route and move to the
circumnavigation of Africa - spending ten days longer than Before.

According to Jonathan Panikoff, a former US intelligence officer and
analyst at the Atlantic Council Center, it is unlikely     (4) that the
offensive on Houthi military facilities will lead to an immediate
cessation of attacks on merchant ships.

Wars between capitalists

Since the massacre in Palestine began, the United States and its NATO
allies have regained strength in the Middle East and parts of the Red Sea.

US President Joe Biden said      (5) that the missile strikes were "
defensive " and " a direct response to the unprecedented Houthi
attacks,"      while White House spokesman Kirby said the US was not
interested " in a conflict with Yemen ".

The thirty-year war being fought in Yemen has seen the USA, Saudi Arabia
and the United Kingdom take to the field against these rebels and, more
generally, against the Yemeni population - carrying out countless
massacres and destruction.

On a global level, however, the attacks in Yemen, together with the
death of Abu Taqwa al Said in Baghdad and the repeated clashes in Syria
and Iraq between US troops and armed groups supplied by Iran, are part
of an ever-increasing clash between the allies of USA-EU-NATO and those
of the Russia-China duo.

The US strategy is to eliminate Iran's military allies throughout the
Middle East and, de facto, isolate it from this geographical context and
push it to depend solely on China and Russia. The agreements reached in
April between Iran and Saudi Arabia last year     (6)      will probably
fall through.

The Chinese leadership, for its part, invited the USA and the United
Kingdom to respect the territorial sovereignty of the states bordering
the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, while Russia, however, accused London
and Washington of having violated the UN charter following these attacks
in Yemen.

The fear of the governments of Moscow and Beijing is the loss of
political-economic-military influence in that part of the world - in
favor of the USA-NATO-EU. This translates into the following: Russia,
after almost two years of war in Ukraine, finds itself having to trade
under embargo with China and its allies (including Iran); China,
however, fears that a possible escalation between the Red Sea and the
Gulf of Aden could endanger its trade and economic-financial agreements
with al-Sisi's Egypt.

It appears clear how war and the fake opposition to it by governments
and their bourgeois allies are measures aimed at reproducing and
renewing capitalist material conditions - through the destruction
(through massacres and genocides) and the exploitation of territories
considered geographically strategic (such as the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden in
our case).

In the world of commodities there is no room for feelings of global
peace and prosperity. On the contrary. Only a part of this population
will be able to benefit from this. And when this is threatened, as
happens in our case, then the intervention will be ruthless and radical.

Those who will pay the price for this entire state of affairs will be
that human population that will put up with the media propaganda and/or,
in the worst case scenario, the bullets and missiles of this systemic
state-capitalist aberration.

Note

1)
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/11/politics/us-strikes-houthis-yemen/index.html

2)
https://www.oedigital.com/news/510735-oil-prices-rise-over-2-5-after-us-uk-strikes-in-yemen

3)
https://www.nationalgeographic.it/perche-lo-stretto-di-bab-elmandeb-e-cosi-important-per-l-economia-mondiale

4)
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/fastthinking/will-us-uk-strikes-against-the-houthis-halt-their-red-sea-aggression/

5)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/us-uk-air-strikes-yemen-houthi-rebels-red-sea-crisis

6) See the paragraph "Changing Saudi foreign policy strategy" in
"Normalizing the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Syria, the Arab League and
the counter-revolutionary process", 15 June 2023.            Normalizing
the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Syria, the Arab League and the
counter-revolutionary process | Galatea Anarchist Group (noblogs.org)

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WORLD WORLDWIDE BELARUS News Journal Update - (en) Belarus, Pramen: SUCH A MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN SOUL - TO THE DEATH OF NAVALNY (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people, including our
collective, had hope that Russian society would not forgive Putin for
such actions and would be able not only to stop the invasion, but also
to destroy Putin's regime. Yes, 2 years later such thoughts look naive,
and our hope for Russian society has completely melted away. In such an
atmosphere, Navalny's murder seems like a logical step in stabilizing
Putin's dictatorship - if the horrors of the war and the hundreds of
thousands of murdered Ukrainians were accepted by Russian society, then
they will accept a dead Navalny and continue to keep silent.

To be surprised by Navalny's murder today is to ignore the years of
Putin's rule in Russia. Murders of opponents, mass repressions and
police lawlessness.... Take the murder of Prigozhin, who was potentially
supported by so many "determined vatniks". Obviously, the successful
sabotage of support from the US and the military's advancement on
various fronts in Ukraine, has somewhat emboldened the Kremlin dictator.
Instead of defeat in Ukraine in 2023, we see that Russian industry has
been able to rebuild itself on a military footing and continues to exist
quite successfully despite Western sanctions and expert predictions of
the imminent collapse of the empire.

Will Russians do something about Putin this time? All this time, society
has not responded with explosions of rage neither to political
assassinations nor to the mass extermination of entire peoples. Maybe
the assassination of one of the most popular opposition politicians will
finally stir the minds of those who disagree with the regime but have
been doing so quietly and at home until now? Not likely. If Russians do
rise up, let's all be pleasantly surprised instead of constantly
disappointed....

If Navalny's death becomes just news, it will be another confirmation of
the stability of the Putin regime itself and its readiness to escalate
repression against the remaining opponents of the war and dictatorship
in the country itself.

https://pramen.io/en/2024/02/such-a-mysterious-russian-soul-to-the-death-of-navalny/
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