On Wednesday September 14, the United States and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding promising Israel $38 billion in military aid over the next ten years. This represents, as National Security Advisor Susan Rice declared, “the single largest pledge of military assistance to any country in U.S. history.”
The #czarnyprotest and Monday’s women strike might be a turning point in Polish politics
3 October 2016Large protests have taken place in Poland against a proposed ban on abortion in all cases. On Monday (3 October) Polish women are taking part in a nationwide strike to defend their basic reproductive rights. Mark Bergfeld, who researches Polish immigrant workers as part of his PhD, spoke to Aleksandra Wolke who is a feminist activist and on the steering committee of the Razem party in London and Mikołaj Ratajczak, a philosopher who edits the Praktyka Teoretyczna journal and is a member of the Razem party in Warsaw.
Protests against new anti-abortion law spreads
2 October 2016, byProtest is spreading against Poland’s plans for a new abortion law which would make the procedure almost impossible to obtain legally. On September 30 actions took place in many cities across Poland as well as solidarity actions in some other places.
