Designer: Xie Mulian (谢幕连) 1978. Selling the fruits of a bumper harvest in a friendly manner
During the Cultural Revolution customers have to treat shop staff with respect and submission: the workers are the bosses. Now kindness and politeness from the staff towards customers are encouraged again. This poster actually was first published in 1965. It soon became obsolete - or even counterrevolutionary. Apparently the design was judged strong enough to be reprinted after so many years, and to get a new chance under new political circumstances.
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“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should — so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.” — Charlotte Bronte [via Jane, in Jane Eyre]
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[transcript: Trauma inevitably brings loss. Even those who are lucky enough to escape physically unscathed still lose the internal psychological structures of a self securely attached to others. Those who are physically harmed lose in addition their sense of bodily integrity. And those who lose important people in their lives face a new void in their relationships with friends, family, or community. Traumatic losses rupture the ordinary sequence of generations and defy the ordinary social conventions of bereavement. The telling of the trauma story thus inevitably plunges the survivor into profound grief. Since so many of the losses are invisible or unrecognized, the customary rituals of mourning provide little consolation.
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The survivor frequently resists mourning, not only out of fear but also out of pride. She may consciously refuse to grieve as a way of denying victory to the perpetrator. In this case it is important to reframe the patient’s mourning as an act of courage rather than humiliation. To the extent that the patient is unable to grieve, she is cut off from a part of herself and robbed of an important part of her healing. Reclaiming the ability to feel the full range of emotions, including grief, must be understood as an act of resistance rather than submission to the perpetrator’s intent. Only through mourning everything that she has lost can the patient discover her indestructible inner life.
Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (1997), p. 188.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4b5yaZnlf1qb3n5go1_400.jpg)
[transcript: Trauma inevitably brings loss. Even those who are lucky enough to escape physically unscathed still lose the internal psychological structures of a self securely attached to others. Those who are physically harmed lose in addition their sense of bodily integrity. And those who lose important people in their lives face a new void in their relationships with friends, family, or community. Traumatic losses rupture the ordinary sequence of generations and defy the ordinary social conventions of bereavement. The telling of the trauma story thus inevitably plunges the survivor into profound grief. Since so many of the losses are invisible or unrecognized, the customary rituals of mourning provide little consolation.
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The survivor frequently resists mourning, not only out of fear but also out of pride. She may consciously refuse to grieve as a way of denying victory to the perpetrator. In this case it is important to reframe the patient’s mourning as an act of courage rather than humiliation. To the extent that the patient is unable to grieve, she is cut off from a part of herself and robbed of an important part of her healing. Reclaiming the ability to feel the full range of emotions, including grief, must be understood as an act of resistance rather than submission to the perpetrator’s intent. Only through mourning everything that she has lost can the patient discover her indestructible inner life.
Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (1997), p. 188.]
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The US must stop sexual violence against immigrant farmworkers.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately.
In a new 95-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar and obscene language by supervisors, employers, and others in positions of power. Most farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced such treatment or knew others who had. And most said they had not reported these or other workplace abuses, fearing reprisals. Those who had filed sexual harassment claims or reported sexual assault to the police had done so with the encouragement and assistance of survivor advocates or attorneys in the face of difficult challenges.
Farmworkers described experiences such as the following:
A woman in California reported that a supervisor at a lettuce company raped her and later told her that she “should remember it’s because of him that [she has] this job.”
A woman in New York said that a supervisor, when she picked potatoes and onions, would touch women’s breasts and buttocks. If they tried to resist, he would threaten to call immigration or fire them.
Four women who had worked together packing cauliflower in California said a supervisor would regularly expose himself and make comments like, “[That woman] needs to be fucked!” When they tried to defend one young woman whom he singled out for particular abuse, he fired all of them.
© 2011 AP Photo
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The US must stop sexual violence against immigrant farmworkers.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately.
In a new 95-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar and obscene language by supervisors, employers, and others in positions of power. Most farmworkers interviewed said they had experienced such treatment or knew others who had. And most said they had not reported these or other workplace abuses, fearing reprisals. Those who had filed sexual harassment claims or reported sexual assault to the police had done so with the encouragement and assistance of survivor advocates or attorneys in the face of difficult challenges.
Farmworkers described experiences such as the following:
- A woman in California reported that a supervisor at a lettuce company raped her and later told her that she “should remember it’s because of him that [she has] this job.”
- A woman in New York said that a supervisor, when she picked potatoes and onions, would touch women’s breasts and buttocks. If they tried to resist, he would threaten to call immigration or fire them.
- Four women who had worked together packing cauliflower in California said a supervisor would regularly expose himself and make comments like, “[That woman] needs to be fucked!” When they tried to defend one young woman whom he singled out for particular abuse, he fired all of them.
© 2011 AP Photo
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Namibia sex workers call for decriminalisation, not legalisation, of sex work
Hey, so this is important.
THE Executive Director of the largest sex workers organisation in the country, Rights Not Rescue, Nicodemus ‘Mama Africa’ Aochamub says that decriminalising prostitution is better than legalising it.
Aochamub told The Namibian that “we are thankful that Kazenambo Kazenambo is brave to stand up for us, but we [prostitutes] prefer that sex work be decriminalised than be legalised.”
According to Aochamub who has been a sex worker for the past three decades, legalising sex-work will put limitations on their work.
“With legalising, we will work under municipal laws such as registration of the sex workers with the relevant authorities, creating specific red-light districts and forcing us to do regular medical checks as well as to carry identification cards,” reasoned Aochamub.
Aouchamub said that being confined to red-light districts and being required to register will negatively impact on prostitutes’ meagre income.
Decriminalising sex work, Aochamub said, would render all legislation outlawing prostitution ineffective.
“Time has come for sex work to be regarded like any other employment, as it income generating - children are sent to school and we put bread on our tables,” said the outspoken Aochamub.
There are more than 1 000 prostitutes’ who are members of the Rights Not Rescue organisation, according to the Executive Director.
However, Aochamub partly welcomed minister Kazenambo’s call to legalise sex work, because this will enable them to report cases of rape and abuse, which they presently cannot do as they are engaged in an illegal trade.
“We appreciate minister Kazenambo’s stance to have it legalised but we don’t want limited rights, therefore we asked for the trade to be decriminalised. Currently, we cannot even report gender based violence inflicted on us by our clients, boyfriends or husbands because we can be arrested,” Aochamub told The Namibian.
The Executive Director also lashed out at the law enforcement officers for threatening sex workers with arrest or demanding sexual favours as well as for taking money from prostitutes when they report cases of abuse to them.
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Members of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, including Sylvia Rivera (seated in middle). (photo: Ellen Schumsky)
Queer Prehistory
In August 1966, there was a riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, a 24-hour San Francisco eatery popular with drag queens and other gender-benders, hustlers, runaway teens and cruising gays. The Compton’s management had begun calling police to roust this nonconformist clientele, and one night a drag queen precipitated the riot by throwing a cup of coffee into the face of a cop who was trying to drag her away.Get it right, because the Stonewall Riots were not the first acts of queer rebellion against the State.
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I love this kind of imagery. You know she’s about to find out in the worst way why centrally organized agrarian socialism is a really bad idea, but for my generation of ex-rural kids, entering macho white Socialist Until Graduation environments, where it was fashionable for those who’d never worked at all yet to shut us down with lumpenprole slurs, Chinese peasant propaganda art seemed so intriguing. Despite knowing what a lie it was, the deceptively aesthetically brilliant suggestion that these labours and factions could be reconcilled used to fascinate me.
It’s weird that so many USA people online are finally communicating across their own factions to start talking about Marx, at exactly the point in time that me and mine - the multi-generational, dues paying, structural class organizers in sectors constantly misread by broader labour networks - are just getting the confidence to start talking about how no one can reconcille these sectors. These sectors are premised on different economies, and composed almost 100% of the labourers that even some cosmopolitan minorities and white class warriors define as low class, counter-revolutionary lumpenproles, or tokenize us in exactly the ways they don’t tolerate themselves.
Point not being factional nitpicking, but the need for context and strategy over factional assumptions already. You can’t address the labour conditions in rural/regional economies, mixed economies or stigmatized occupations realistically - by doing what works for the big blocs then throwing in lip service about intersectionality or inclusion.
It takes industry knowledge, adaptive strategies, rejecting the fragmentation of workers realities by wedge politics advocates from bigger factions, adding more sector specificity to your class theory and most of all - respect for, ties to and commitment to change for people central in those economies.
eta: if she survived she probably became a capitalist or pro-democracy.
Luckily, we still live in a country that is hopeless in its planning. The continued migration and unplanned development has its advantages— one significant one being that we are still reminded of the possibilities, plant- and food-wise, of our chaotic metropolis.
…My office building is inside a sort of “pseudo-subdivision” that has none of the planning aspects of those privatized zones. Our building is beside warehouses, small homes (some of them may be informal), medium homes, a lot of people sitting around all day, chickens, and yes, ambulant vendors and their fruit. Most importantly, there is a vacant farm lot beside my building. I often peer out into it.
…So I finally went and met the farmer from next lot. His name is Max and he is a migrant from Cagayan de Oro. He lives two blocks down (and carries his water everyday to his plot, Jeebus). The lot he farms doesn’t belong to him, but the owner has allowed him to use it. Apparently, there is a sort of farming tenant arrangement that is common in the periurbs— this is completely new to me (When chatting with Max about my garden, he asked me if I had a tenant in my lot. I kind of laughed and realized he wasn’t joking).
Max has trouble keeping his corn from being stolen. Judging from the amount of people hanging out in the streets, many are jobless. Probably a lot of them are migrants. Anecdotes point to areas like this supplying much of the labor of subdivisions of Ayala Alabang, the adjoining mini-suburban-city, and the malls.
His soil is also very poor, as it was subsoil dumped on the lot. His crops aren’t doing too well— there is very little mulch as well. He does use chemicals to “start plants up”.
That’s about what I know for now. I said I would drop by with seeds, so I want to poke around a bit more at Max’s context (does he have a sort of “day job” if you may, and how things all tie in with migration, periurban landlordism, and whatnot.
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