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Fries with mayonnaise against the Belgian Prime Minister

This Monday December 22nd 2014 at 1pm, the Belgian feminist activist group LilithS celebrated this season of impoverished goodwill by offering flying french fries to prime minister of Belgium Charles Michel. Michel was speaking at a private conference, presenting his political and economic program to a roomful of Wallon business leaders and financiers, when he …

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Save 26 year old Rayhaneh Jabbari from being hanged in Iran

Iranian authorities have today confirmed that a woman convicted of killing a man whom she said tried to sexually abuse her will be hanged tomorrow morning at a prison west of Tehran, Amnesty International said. Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to death in 2009 after a deeply flawed investigation and trial which failed to examine all …

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Women Demand Climate Justice At The People’s Climate March

Hundreds of women and men, friends and family, feminists, activists, and allies, including long-time gender equality champion, former President of Finland, Her Excellency Tarja Halonen, marched together at Sunday’s People’s Climate March in New York City to proclaim that there can be “no climate justice without gender justice”. This sentiment acknowledges that women, particularly in …

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EL Statement: Withdrawal of spanish draft abortion law in Spain

The EL celebrates the feminist mobilizations, which has won the battle against the reactionary project of abortion law of the Spanish right government The Party of the European Left (EL) congratulates to the feminist movement and to all the organizations, and parties of the European Left, especially the PCE and Izquierda Unida, for the victory …

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Conservative Christian Crusaders March Against Women in Berlin

Several thousand conservative christian fundamentalists have marched “for life” (code word for banning abortions and banning LGBT rights) in Berlin. Thousands feminists stood up to them. Cops found an excuse to beat and detain 16 of them, and carefully protected the fundamentalists. They also tried to intimidate the media, and even hit a social media photo-journalist. However, the counter-protestors …

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