DON'T CALL IT LOVE

DON'T WALK NEAR TO YOUR MURDERER

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STOP VIOLENCE ON WOMEN

International day against violence on women

Pictures:

www.donna10.it ; noallaviolenzasulledonne.splinder.com; www.padovadonne.it

 

Gay and homeless: every country has its internal enemy

Last week we saw how the power deals with defenceless minorities :

In India, New Delhi’s beggars are arrested and condemned to one year imprisonment far from the city. The millions of foreign visitors expected next year should not see the reality but only dream at India’s progress;

In Paris, armed police forces violently displaced homeless people living in tents on the Seine river: how could Sarkozy who promised to get growth with his teeth if necessary, allow all foreign tourists and, even worse, the French people, realize that the growth is not there and thatFrance entered officially in a recession phase ?

In Moscow, heavily armed police forces hit and arrested gays demonstrating on the International day against homophobia for their rights while Orthodox Christians were demonstrating against those sinners. How could Putin, who is often seen showing his mussels, allow a handful of people attempt to undermine the Russians’ morale ? The Nazis were right in executing them !

Three sad cases of violence by those who have the power and do not accept that people may be different or poor. We are only one step from dictatorships (but in Russia we have been there for long time already). Intolerance gets globalised too.


Photos: www.daylife.com/photo/0eswd7L91TfAH ; www.rferl.org/content/Article/1076484.html

Feminism 2008 style

"We are tired to hear the name of our sister (…) covered with mud. We are tired of being continuously threatened to the point that our sister is prevented from restarting her life. And all this because she courageously denounced the facts. We wonder for how long more a woman will have to continue paying for the violence she was the victim of.”

This is what declared Sister Tiziana Merletti, the Head of the Franciscan Sisters of Poverty order concerning a rape trail of a sister by a priest.

Would this case be included among those the Pope complained about in Sidney last week ?

(Source : La Repubblica, 10 July 2008; picture : www.lastampa.it)