Accent of Women

At the Socialism 2022 conference, held in September 2022, in Chicago, Dr Liat Ben-Moshe gave a talk, titled Disability, Madness, Liberation: Deinstitutionalisation and Prison Abolition. Prison abolition and massive decarceration are often portrayed as utopian ideals, but few have grappled with the fact that it has happened already. The history of the deinstitutionalization movement from psychiatri...

At the Socialism 2022 conference, held in September 2022, in Chicago, Dr Liat Ben-Moshe gave a talk, titled Disability, Madness, Liberation: Deinstitutionalisation and Prison Abolition. Prison abolition and massive decarceration are often portrayed as utopian ideals, but few have grappled with the fact that it has happened already. The history of the deinstitutionalization movement from psychiatri...

Today’s Accent of women brings you a special solidarity event organised by the Canadian Union of Public Servants, held on Wednesday 8 February. The public meeting was called, Solidarity with the Workers’ Movement and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising in Iran. The first speaker up is  Niloofar Golkar, CUPE Executive Committee member and PhD candidate in Politics at York University, focusing on th...

On today’s program, we look at economic restructuring in the Ukraine, and the impact of the war. PhD Yuliya Yurchenko is the author of 'Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketization to Armed Conflict'. She is a Senior Lecturer in in Political Economy at the University of Greenwich, UK. She gave a speech titled Debt, war, and (macro)economic restructuring: lessons from Ukraine in September...

The 1 February 2023 marks the 2nd year anniversary of the coup in Myanmar. Last week, the Junta announced an extension to the State of Emergency, which was supposed to come to an end on the 31 January. They also announced that the supposed democratic elections would be put off for another year. Joining me on today’s program to discuss the ongoing civil war in Myanmar is Debbie Stothard, founding m...

Marching under the banner, Treaty Not Voice, tens of thousands of people across Australia protested on the 26th January – Invasion Day. Rally organisers said that the 26th January is not a day to celebrate. It is an annual reminder of invasion, occupation, genocide and the ongoing impacts of colonisation that continues to destroy the land and waters of First Nations People. Today’s show features r...

Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s fascistic former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded and occupied for more than three hours the headquarters of the three branches of government in Brasilia, the country’s capital, on Sunday 8 January. The protesters demanded a military coup to depose and imprison recently inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers Party (PT). Although the situa...

On today’s show, we bring you the final part of our coverage of the Kurdish attack in Paris on 23 December. As you’ll recall, a man open fired on a Kurdish precinct, killing three people. They happened to be well known activists, and this appears to be an intentional, terrorist attack on the Kurdish people living in Paris. This attack was not isolated – not in France and not in the world – rather,...

On today’s show, we bring you Part 2 of our coverage of the Kurdish attack in Paris on 23 December. As you’ll recall, a man open fired on a Kurdish precinct, killing three people. They happened to be well known activists, and this appears to be an intentional, terrorist attack on the Kurdish people living in Paris. There is a lot unknown about the killer, William M., even though these attacks are...

The new year has started much the same way as the previous one ended – mass poverty, war, discrimination, racism and global fascism on the rise.  A significant event occurred in Paris on the 23 of December – a man open fired on a Kurdish precinct, killing three people. They happened to be well known activists, and this appears to be an intentional, terrorist attack on the Kurdish people living in...

Well this is the final show of Accent of Women for 2022, and we will conclude the year with a discussion about the extraordinary uprising in Iran in response to the murda of Mahsa Amini by the Morality Police. This is the second part of an extended interview with Frieda Afary, about the Iranian revolution. Frieda is an Iranian socialist feminist based in Los Angeles.

Well there are only two more shows of Accent of Women for 2022, and I thought it would only be fitting to conclude the year with a discussion about the extraordinary uprising in Iran in response to the Morality Police. Here is an extended interview with Frieda Afary, over the next two weeks, about the Iranian revolution. Frieda is an Iranian socialist feminist based in Los Angeles.

The Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code on December 6, 2022, containing provisions that seriously violate international human rights law and standards. Articles in the new code violate the rights of women, religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and undermine rights to freedom of speech and association. On today’s program to discuss the details...

The San Francisco Public Library hosted a conference on the future of libraries, which was held on the 18th of October. On today’s show we’ll hear from one of the keynote speakers at that conference. Today we hear from Wonda Powell, Professor Emerita of History, Los Angeles Southwest College and her talk is called From Critical Thinking to Critical Race Theory: Unearthing History

The San Francisco Public Library hosted a conference on the future of libraries, which was held on the 18th of October. On today’s show we’ll hear from one of the keynote speakers at that conference. Today we hear from Wonda Powell, Professor Emerita of History, Los Angeles Southwest College and her talk is called From Critical Thinking to Critical Race Theory: Unearthing History

The San Francisco Public Library hosted a conference on the future of libraries, which was held on the 18th of October. On today’s show we’ll hear from one of the keynote speakers at that conference. Today we hear from Frieda Afary, Ret. Librarian from the Los Angeles Public Library, Frieda is a socialist, feminist and librarian. Her talk is called, Confronting Disinformation and Book Bans by Cult...

The Santa Cruz massacre (also known as the Dili massacre) was the murder of at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators in the Santa Cruz cemetery in the capital, Dili, on 12 November 1991, during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor and is part of the East Timor genocide. On today’s program we speak to two East Timorese trade unionists, one based in East Timor, the other based in...

On 10 October, two trade unionists in the Philippines were arrested on trumped up charges. The two unionists were Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU – May First Movement Labor Center) International Officer Kara Taggaoa, and PASODA-PISTON President Larry Valbuena – transport workers union. The fabricated charge of assault, as well as a second charge of robbery for which they served their arraignment immediatel...

Sri Lanka is experiencing one of its greatest political and economic crises of its existence with massive riots sparked by an absolute collapse in the country’s economy. Some economists predict that Sri Lanka will be bankrupt by the end of next year.  The crisis has deposed at least one President with new calls for a regime change. On today’s program, Accent of Women its coverage of the background...

Sri Lanka is experiencing one of its greatest political and economic crises of its existence with massive riots sparked by an absolute collapse in the country’s economy. Some economists predict that Sri Lanka will be bankrupt by the end of next year.  The crisis has deposed at least one President with new calls for a regime change. On today’s program and continuing next week, Accent of Women seeks...

A public holiday was declared in Australia on 22 September to mark a day of mourning for the passing of the Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. And it was indeed a day of mourning for many First Nations Australians – but a day of mourning for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a day of mourning for loss of land, the attempted loss of culture, the removal of children and the continued and ongoing dispossession...

An Iranian woman was beaten to death by the morality police on Friday 15 September, for allegedly failing to wear her hijab properly. It has sparked major protests right across Iran and on social media, attracting the participation of many celebrities. The murder of this woman has shone a light on Iran’s violation of women and gender minorities’ rights and the use of the morality police to brutali...

Following a two year hiatus because of COVID-19, Martin Luther King Commemoration events have commenced once again in the United States, this time in the month of August. Traditionally held in January, Martin Luther Kind remembrance day commemorates and recognises the history of the black power movement. On today’s accent of women, we conclude the broadcast of a speech delivered by world-renowned...

Following a two year hiatus because of COVID-19, Martin Luther King Commemoration events have commenced once again in the United States, this time in the month of August. Traditionally held in January, Martin Luther Kind remembrance day commemorates and recognises the history of the black power movement. On today’s accent of women, and continuing next week, we revisit a speech delivered by world-r...

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day was held on August 25 marking 5 years since the Myanmar military began mass pre-meditated attacks against the stateless Rohingya population in Rakhine State. In the weeks following, around 700,000 fled to Bangladesh. The refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar is now the largest in the world, with almost a million people. Many want to go home, but they are demanding that Myan...