Sent from Sissy Vovoy Too often we’re in denial about the fact that heroes – such as Maradona and Sean Connery – might also be abusers An image commemorating Diego Maradona in Naples, Italy, November 2020. Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP Fri 27 Nov 2020 13.52 GMT Imagine a man hitting his partner. The picture that comes to …
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16/3/2020 Sent by Alexia Tsoyni On 16 March 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Corrie has since become an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Writes Oren Ziv, January 2, 2020 Hava Keller, who died at the age of 90 this week, was one of the few Israelis who spoke publicly about her role in the Nakba, and was at the heart of several groundbreaking anti-occupation and feminist movements. Hava Keller, a veteran anti-occupation activist, passed away in Tel Aviv …
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Proposed by Mimika Kritsanidou An Egyptian woman died in Qanater Prison in Egypt yesterday after her health deteriorated, making her the first female fatality in an Egyptian jail. Some 900 women have being detained in Egypt since the 2013 coup, 70 are still in prison and are being subjected to serious physical and psychological violations, …
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BBC news 3 nov.2019 Yvette Lundy, a well-known member of the French Resistance and a Nazi concentration camp survivor, has died at the age of 103. Authorities said she died on Sunday in the northern French town of Epernay. Ms Lundy supplied fake papers to Jewish families, men fleeing forced labour, and escaped prisoners of …
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