Last night at the opening of SONA, FW de Klerk, former President and Nobel Peace Laureate, and his wife Elita had to endure wave after wave of vitriolic attacks by Julius Malema and EFF members of Parliament.
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Last night at the opening of SONA, FW de Klerk, former President and Nobel Peace Laureate, and his wife Elita had to endure wave after wave of vitriolic attacks by Julius Malema and EFF members of Parliament
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The global refugee crisis exemplifies some of the greatest challenges facing our global institutions and liberal world order today. From human rights, to xenophobia, sexism and economic protectionism, terrorism and climate change.
National and international responses to the refugee crisis are sculpting moral and political norms around the globe.
It is critical that we care about the refugee crisis today because it exemplifies some of the greatest challenges to our social order.
As Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish political theorist wrote, "The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. ...[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down". It is now critical that we not only care, but think deeply, about our attitudes and policies towards refugees, wherever we come from.
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The global refugee crisis threatens liberal world orderSMACC Conference
From DAS SMACC, Vera Sistenich explains why it is critical that we care about the global refugee crisis.
The global refugee crisis exemplifies some of the greatest challenges facing our global institutions and liberal world order today. From human rights, to xenophobia, sexism and economic protectionism, terrorism and climate change.
National and international responses to the refugee crisis are sculpting moral and political norms around the globe.
It is critical that we care about the refugee crisis today because it exemplifies some of the greatest challenges to our social order.
As Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish political theorist wrote, "The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. ...[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down". It is now critical that we not only care, but think deeply, about our attitudes and policies towards refugees, wherever we come from.
Tune in to an engaging and informative talk by Vera Sistenich, as she challenges us to consider how the global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order.
For more like this, head to our podcast page. #CodaPodcast
Ludo Martens
Workers Party Belgium (PTB-PVDA), 2001
Contribution to the International Communist Seminar
"The world socialist revolution in the conditions of imperialist globalisation"
Brussels, 2-4 May 2001
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Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
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Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
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Up the Ratios Bylaws - a Comprehensive Process of Our Organizationuptheratios
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Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
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Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
EFF's attack on FW de Klerk at the opening of SONA
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EFF ATTACK ON FW DE KLERK AT THE OPENING OF SONA
Last night at the opening of SONA, FW de Klerk, former President and Nobel Peace Laureate,
and his wife Elita had to endure wave after wave of vitriolic attacks by Julius Malema and EFF
members of Parliament, clad in their trademark red boiler suits. They claimed that his hands
were dripping “with blood”, including the blood of those who had been slaughtered at
Boipatong. Worst of all, FW de Klerk had denied - in a TV interview the previous week - that
apartheid was “a crime against humanity.” Their demands that he should be removed from
the chamber were rejected by the Speaker, Thandi Modise. De Klerk - who will turn 84 next
month - sat impassively in the public gallery as he watched the spectacle below.
De Klerk has repeatedly acknowledged the grave injustices committed under apartheid and
has sincerely apologised on a number of occasions to those who suffered under previous
governments. These were more than empty words: he dedicated his entire presidency to the
abolition of apartheid and the negotiation of a new Constitution that would entrench the
rights of all South Africans regardless of race. He oversaw the process that culminated in the
repeal of all the remaining apartheid laws.
But was apartheid a crime against humanity?
First we have to look at the origins of the charge: In November 1966 the UN General Assembly
declared apartheid to be a crime against humanity - and in 1973 it adopted the Convention on
the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
Both the Resolution and the Convention were political initiatives of the Soviet Union - which
had itself committed atrocious crimes against humanity that involved the killing of millions of
people. In 1976, when the Convention came into force, 23 of the 31 signatories were,
according to Freedom House in New York, “not free”. Six were partly free - and only two were
free. Ironically, South Africa was classified as “partly free” - and had a better human rights
score than 27 of the signatories.
The 109 states that subsequently joined the Convention included none of the core
democracies. According to the United States delegate:
“Deplorable as it is, we cannot, from a legal point of view, accept that apartheid can
in this manner be made a crime against humanity. Crimes against humanity are so
grave in nature that they must be meticulously elaborated and strictly construed
under existing international law...”
The idea that apartheid was ‘a crime against humanity’ was, and remains, an ‘agitprop’ project
initiated by the Soviets and their ANC/SACP allies to stigmatise white South Africans by
associating them with genuine crimes against humanity - which have generally included
totalitarian repression and the slaughter of millions of people.
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By contrast, some 23 000 people died in South Africa’s political violence between 1960 and
1994 - of whom fewer than 5 000 were killed by the security forces. Most of the rest of the
deaths occurred in the conflict between the IFP and the ANC. In Kenya, the British interned
more than 320 000 people during the Mau-Mau uprising and hanged more than a thousand
Mau-Mau members. In Algeria, the French killed more than 140 000 people in a war that
claimed some 700 000 lives.
None of this is meant to whitewash the injustices that were undoubtedly committed under
apartheid. However, we need a balanced understanding of the past - not one based on a
simplistic black/white, good/evil framework - but on a framework that reflects the infinite
shades of grey that actually characterise history.
John Allen, a close associate of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, acknowledges in his book “Rabble
Rouser for Peace” that “no evidence was ever forthcoming (at the TRC) implicating De Klerk
in violence.” This was despite the fact that Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) clearly
had an agenda to incriminate De Klerk. He writes of the TRC’s “frustration” at its failure to
“pin responsibility for violations of human rights on De Klerk” and acknowledges “the
embarrassing weakness of its finding against him.”
As for Boipatong, the TRC’s amnesty committee found in November 2000 that the IFP
supporters who perpetrated the Boipatong killings in June 1992 had acted alone.
It is ironic that Julius Malema who launched the vitriolic attack on De Klerk, threatened to
commit a real crime against humanity when he said on 7 November 2016 that “We are not
calling for the slaughtering of white people - at least not now.”
In a way, an attack by Julius Malema and the EFF, is the sincerest form of compliment. We
have seen his kind before: those who wear colour-coded uniforms; who use bully boy tactics
to disrupt democratic processes; who whip up race hatred and call their leaders “Führer, or
Duce, or Commander in Chief”. The words of a WB Yeats, (whom Malema would not doubt
regard as a ‘colonialist’), came to mind while watching the EFF debacle in Parliament:
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
Issued by the FW de Klerk Foundation
14 February 2020