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Via @972mag

During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.

★ At the beginning was movement: anarchism does not mean absence of order, but rather searching for a social order without an orderer. The main orderer of our established ways of thinking about politics is the state...

“The majority of women are already oppressed by both the government and by men. The electoral system simply increases their oppression by introducing a third ruling group: elite women. Even if the oppression remains the same, the majority of women are still taken advantage of by the minority of women...When a few women in power dominate the majority of powerless women, unequal class differentiation is brought into existence among women. If the majority of women do not want to be controlled by men, why do they want to be controlled by women?"

Why Anarcha-Feminism? A rich reflection on “anarcha-feminism” by Chiara Bottici, followed by a recorded video of the same, as well as an earlier lecture on anarchism: https://autonomies.org/2022/03/chiara-bottici-anarchafeminism/?fbclid=IwAR3TraHYJvR-_5yQMEnbt2YpdSpWZuQ0lWHns4pNh11YO2wxGE98GtQXJj0

Hooded, dressed in black from head to toe, organised in small groups, a new generation of feminists is raising their fists in favour of the recognition of women's rights. Far from the model of the previous generation, that of the mothers of families who marched in silence, these anarchist activists who demonstrate with violence claim to be part of the "Black Bloc" movement. Mexico: The Feminist Revolution I ARTE Documentary:

Anarcha-Feminists and Women's Rights in Bolivia: https://www.radical-guide.com/anarcha-feminists-in-bolivia/