I will make no broader political comments here, simply noting that this is the reality for many black working-class people in South Africa (and that is for those lucky enough to have a job). Daily Vox (note that there are some objections to the fact that the piece was written by a white journalist from the perspective of a black domestic worker)
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Interesting proposals for reforms to sexual assault law coming out of New Zealand. Firstly, and most significantly, once it has shown that sex has occurred, the burden of proof for demonstrating consent would fall on the defendant. Secondly, evidence would be examined under an inquisitorial system - i.e. the complainant would not be subject to cross-examination. I think these sound like pretty solid ideas, but I'd be interested in comments? NZ Herald
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Unreal. This for unlicensed serving of alcohol!
"Only then did masked figures with guns storm the crowd, shouting, “Get on the fucking ground! Get down, get down!” ... Some forty Detroit police officers dressed in commando gear ordered the gallery attendees to line up on their knees, then took their car keys and confiscated their vehicles, largely on the grounds that the gallery lacked the proper permits for dancing and drinking." New Yorker
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They don't mention institutional racism and classism much, but otherwise Cracked is doing a pretty good job of reporting on the increasing militarisation of US police forces. Cracked
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How the electric car-sharing scheme in Paris works. Definitely the wave of the future, especially as self-driving cars start to come online! Guardian
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An interesting example of white, middle-class, developed world feminists attempting to characterise the issues that affect themselves specifically as "women's issues", and so side-lining the problems affecting other women. Not the only place where this comes up...
"After the 1995 Nairobi Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, Hassim writes, an anti-feminism attitude within the ANC was fuelled...This was because there was a push from some international feminists there ... to de-politicise the conference to keep it focused on pure women’s issues. The US delegation, led by Maureen Reagan, opposed a resolution against Apartheid, for instance." Daily Maverick
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Interesting proposals for reforms to sexual assault law coming out of New Zealand. Firstly, and most significantly, once it has shown that sex has occurred, the burden of proof for demonstrating consent would fall on the defendant. Secondly, evidence would be examined under an inquisitorial system - i.e. the complainant would not be subject to cross-examination. I think these sound like pretty solid ideas, but I'd be interested in comments? NZ Herald
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Unreal. This for unlicensed serving of alcohol!
"Only then did masked figures with guns storm the crowd, shouting, “Get on the fucking ground! Get down, get down!” ... Some forty Detroit police officers dressed in commando gear ordered the gallery attendees to line up on their knees, then took their car keys and confiscated their vehicles, largely on the grounds that the gallery lacked the proper permits for dancing and drinking." New Yorker
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They don't mention institutional racism and classism much, but otherwise Cracked is doing a pretty good job of reporting on the increasing militarisation of US police forces. Cracked
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How the electric car-sharing scheme in Paris works. Definitely the wave of the future, especially as self-driving cars start to come online! Guardian
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An interesting example of white, middle-class, developed world feminists attempting to characterise the issues that affect themselves specifically as "women's issues", and so side-lining the problems affecting other women. Not the only place where this comes up...
"After the 1995 Nairobi Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, Hassim writes, an anti-feminism attitude within the ANC was fuelled...This was because there was a push from some international feminists there ... to de-politicise the conference to keep it focused on pure women’s issues. The US delegation, led by Maureen Reagan, opposed a resolution against Apartheid, for instance." Daily Maverick
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The case against privatisation is not so universal as made out here - it has tended to work out rather well in telecommunications, for instance. But a clear look at the evidence should demonstrate that it also has failed in many circumstances. Should we have been able to predict these failures in advance with proper economic analysis? Guardian
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Outrageous
"A 17 year-old Virginia teenager who is under investigation for sending a consensual sext to his 15-year-old girlfriend may be forced to have an erection in front of police as evidence in the case." Think Progress
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"“When I was a prosecutor in DC in the early ’90s, the jurors in DC were mainly African-American,” he explains. “It was commonplace in the prosecutor’s office that if we had a young black defendant and it was a nonviolent drug crime, the jury was not going to send him to jail. They would acquit him.” Butler says that such juries recognize the overrepresentation of African-Americans in the criminal justice system, and decide that, as long as there is no violent threat, they will not send another black person to prison. “Those are political acts by jurors, even if they’re not explicitly political,” he says." The Nation
"“When I was a prosecutor in DC in the early ’90s, the jurors in DC were mainly African-American,” he explains. “It was commonplace in the prosecutor’s office that if we had a young black defendant and it was a nonviolent drug crime, the jury was not going to send him to jail. They would acquit him.” Butler says that such juries recognize the overrepresentation of African-Americans in the criminal justice system, and decide that, as long as there is no violent threat, they will not send another black person to prison. “Those are political acts by jurors, even if they’re not explicitly political,” he says." The Nation
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