Laura Flanders of GritTV sits down with Eve Ensler, playwright and author of the Vagina Monologues, and Naomi Klein, journalist and author, in Zucotti Park to discuss the use of public space, the organization of the movement, the prevalence of corporate power, public perception of capitalism,the excitement of the movement, criticisms of the movement, and how people have reacted to it. This footage was broadcast live by Free Speech TV on October 5, 2011, as part of their coverage of Occupy Wall St.
(Continued2...) In this context rape and depopulation are permanent conditions, the real killers get away with murder, and there is endless, brutal revenge by the victors. The victims get all the blame, and their suffering never ends.
tigerone1970 2 months ago
(Continued1...) Bill and Hillary Clinton and their diamond buddy, Maurice Tempelsman, and De Beers. Tempelsman and DeBeers have plundered Congo for more than fifty years. And how about Royal/Dutch Shell, another backer of the Kagame regime.
Add sexual violence to the list, sure, but Eve Ensler and the Western media propaganda campaign for “an end to sexual violence in Congo” must be placed in its proper context: white supremacy and the shock doctrine of global corporate plunder.
tigerone1970 2 months ago
From the article: Who should help the victims of sexual violence in Congo? How about the German multinational corporation Bayer AG—whose subsidiary H.C. Starck was directly involved in the coltan plunder by the RPF. How about GTZ, involved in Congo (Zaire) since 1980 and the expropriation and exclusion of the pygmy’s way of life. How about Nokia. Intel. Sony. Barrick Gold Corporation. Anglo-American Corp. Banro. Moto Gold. Belgian Philippe de Moerloose and his Damavia Airlines.
tigerone1970 2 months ago
You know I am sick and tired of people making horrendous but unsourced, incomplete and SHALLOW claims about Africa, that are about nothing but naked racism, but because it is couched in 'women's issues', it is ok. Why are the soldiers out of their barracks at all? Whose interests do they serve?
Check out the article:
THREE CHEERS FOR EVE ENSLER?
Propaganda, White Collar Crime and Sexual Atrocities in Eastern Congo
by Keith Harmon Snow
tigerone1970 2 months ago