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			    <title>Lebanon | ANTIFA.CA - ANTIFA Canada - Canadian Anti-Fascist movement!</title> 
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			<title>[Lettre de Radical Beirut aux anarchistes nord-américains] “We&#039;re interested in dismantling the real physical conditions of oppression and injustice, and we want to experiment beyond the boundaries of classical politics and c</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/lettre-de-radical-beirut-aux-anarchistes-nordamericains-“were-interested-in-dismantling-the-real-physical-conditions-of-oppression-and-injustice-and-we-want-to-experiment-beyond-the-boundaries-of-classical-politics-and-classi</link>
			<description><![CDATA[LEBANON: A Letter from Radical Beirut to North American Anarchists Comrades, The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how … Continue reading (...)
		-- General, Liban, Radical Beirut]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 19:40:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>[Jura Libertaire] [Lettre de Radical Beirut aux anarchistes nord-américains] “We&#039;re interested in dismantling the real physical conditions of oppression and injustice, and we want to experiment beyond the boundaries of classi</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/jura-libertaire-lettre-de-radical-beirut-aux-anarchistes-nordamericains-“were-interested-in-dismantling-the-real-physical-conditions-of-oppression-and-injustice-and-we-want-to-experiment-beyond-the-boundaries-of-classical-pol</link>
			<description><![CDATA[LEBANON: A Letter from Radical Beirut to North American Anarchists Comrades, The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how … Continue reading (...)
		-- General, Liban, Radical Beirut]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:20:02 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>[Lettre de Radical Beirut aux anarchistes nord-américains] “We’re interested in dismantling the real physical conditions of oppression and injustice, and we want to experiment beyond the boundaries of classical politics and c</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/lettre-de-radical-beirut-aux-anarchistes-nordamericains-“we’re-interested-in-dismantling-the-real-physical-conditions-of-oppression-and-injustice-and-we-want-to-experiment-beyond-the-boundaries-of-classical-politics-and-class</link>
			<description><![CDATA[LEBANON: A Letter from Radical Beirut to North American Anarchists Comrades, The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how … Continue reading →]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:50:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Lebanon: Foreigners can not continue to be buried alive!</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/lebanon-foreigners-can-not-continue-to-be-buried-alive</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Why this is importantHundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are kept every year in Lebanon in an underground parking lot under a bridge of Beirut, used as a detention center by the General Security, the service in charge of immigration and foreigners’ issues in Lebanon.Arrested for various reasons, they wait for their repatriation to their country of origin or their release in Lebanon.Every year, many of them are believed to be forcibly deported to their country of origin in contradiction with their rights. For example, migrant domestic workers are deported without having taken their salaries or after having been abused and prevented from filing lawsuit against the perpetrators; refugees and asylum seekers are forcibly deported to their country of origin, so on and so forth.The conditions in this detention place are unacceptable and a tantamount of torture: the detainees don’t see the sunlight or breathe natural air for weeks, months or even sometimes more than a year of detention. They are not allowed to meet their lawyers and there is no judiciary supervision of their unlimited administrative detention that is illegal since not provided for by law.Sign here.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:50:02 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Things that Make us Smile</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/things-that-make-us-smile</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Beautiful. There is hope with people like you.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:30:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>CLDH visits President Michel Sleiman</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/cldh-visits-president-michel-sleiman</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A delegation of the Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) visited today General Michel Sleiman, President of Lebanon, in order to thank him for his personal stand against the deportation of Syrian refugees and expose to him the current concerns of the organization.CLDH raised with the President various issues such as:- The importance given by the organization to the set up of the national independent commission for the enforces disappearances aiming at beginning the truth process regarding the issue of the disappeared in Lebanon ;- The need to relocate the General Security underground detention center that represents inhuman detention conditions for the detainees and unacceptable work conditions for the agents ;- The case of Nehmeh El Haj, sentenced to the death penalty on the basis of « confessions » signed while he was at the hands of the Syrian intelligence services and whose detention was considered as arbitrary by the UN working group on arbitrary detention. A report of CLDH detailing the case of Mr. El Haj was handed to the President;- The case of Faysal Moqalled, sentenced to life imprisonment on the basis of unbelievable « confessions » that he reportedly signed under the torture of the Lebanese Army intelligence services at the Ministry of Defense. A detailed report about this case, showing the file’s inconsistencies as well as the violations to which Faysal Moqalled was allegedly subjected was delivered by hand to the President.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:10:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Migrant Workers Day 2013!</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/migrant-workers-day-2013</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You thought May Day events are over? Wrong!All details in poster on and on fb event.Join!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 09:40:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Call for Endorsement - Lebanon</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/call-for-endorsement-lebanon</link>
			<description><![CDATA[CSBR Solidarity Statement with Demands for Justice Against the Abuse and Degradation of Non-heteronormative bodies by the Municipality of Dekwaneh, LebanonThe following statement is a direct response to a severely abusive, racist, transphobic, homophobic, and xenophobic incident that occurred in the municipality of Dekwaneh in Lebanon two weeks ago and is a call to action against police violence and brutality in Lebanon. Please read and endorse our solidarity statement and circulate it widely to fellow Global South organizations by sending an email to solidarity.lebanon@gmail.com.There have been escalations since the drafting of this statement whereby Minister of Interior, Marwan Charbel, made an official statement saying &quot;Lebanon is against faggots, and by Lebanese law its considered a felony.&quot; He ignored, and therefore condoned, the fact that non-heteronormative bodies (trans* and other) bodies were violated in inhumane and disgusting means and condoned the racism against Syrians living in Dekwaneh. Find the statement at these links in Arabic and in English. We are hoping for heavy endorsement by organizations and associations in Lebanon and across the Global South and a strong statement of South to South Solidarity to Lebanese officials.  *FOR WIDE DISSEMINATION*Solidarity with Demands for Justice Against the Abuse and Degradation of Non-heteronormative bodies by the Municipality of Dekwaneh, Lebanon People across Lebanon have risen up against the injustice perpetrated by the Municipality of Dekwaneh last Saturday April 20th, 2012. Antoine Chakhtoora, Municipality Mayor of Dekwaneh, ordered his internal security forces to raid and close a Club frequented by people with non-heteronormative sexual orientations and gender expressions. Internal Security Forces were also ordered to conduct the arbitrary abduction in trunks of police cars and abuse and degradation of 4 persons, one of which who was ordered to strip in front of police officers at the Municipality Headquarters under the supervision of the Mayor to ‘check whether she was a man or a woman’. Pictures of the naked body were taken by municipality police officers under Chakhtoora’s directions and distributed on mainstream media. Chakhtoora said:‘We took their clothes off, in our office, the holding station, of course. We need to know. We saw something scandalous happening, we need to know, what are these? Public immorality on the streets…okay…but is this a girl or a man? No, it turns out, half girl and half man.’Antoine Chakhtoora, Mayor of the Dekwaneh, blatantly announced his decision to detain, humiliate and shame transpersons and vehemently denies the criminality of his, and the Municipality’s, actions. This incident falls in parallel with a recent policy by the Municipality of Dekwaneh to enforce a 7 pm curfew on Syrians living in Dekwaneh .These arrests and the subsequent illegal detention, humiliation and police harassment constitute a flagrant abuse of power, a deployment of police brutality, and criminal assault. We also acknowledge the rampant misogyny explicit in Chakhtoora’s actions and words and his role within a patriarchal system to monitor, survey and police gender roles on one hand, and to discipline, humiliate and punish any deviation from these gender roles on the other. We attest to the misogyny inherent in this incident, where the “cross-dressing” of men as women has been described by Chakhtoora and his associates as abhorrent, criminal and an attack on “the vigor and strength of Dekwaneh”.Reprehensible decisions from Lebanese municipalities are a growing issue of concern. Lebanese municipalities, including Dekwaneh, have taken it upon themselves to institute a police state that represses the freedom of mobility of Syrians and migrants in Lebanon, with many incidents of police brutality and hard-handed enforcement.Antoine Chakhtoora has the power, resources and security apparatus to enforce a transphobic monopoly on morality. It is not within the jurisdiction of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces to forcefully strip people of their clothes and examine their genitals, and it is even more reprehensible that the Dekwaneh municipality felt it was entitled to photograph and publicize the naked bodies and genitals of persons which we consider to be a violation of sexual autonomy, rape. This behavior constitutes criminal assault on the part of the Municipality of Dekwaneh and, directly, it’s Mayor, Chakhtoora. It has become apparent since the incident that Chakhtoora has been strategically targeting individuals with little or no political backing, such as Syrian refugees and residents, people with non-heteronormative gender expressions, and the working class, in a bid to ascertain power in the next Municipality elections.We recognize the deep connections and similarities between the experiences of our peoples in the Global South and loudly protest the normalization of transphobic decisions and behavior by Lebanese elected officials and the Internal Security Forces and the persecution of trans* and migrant bodies as a political tool. We demand that the Lebanese Courts give no leniency in the persecution of the blatant illegal abuse of power and criminal assault perpetrated by Chakhtoora and his municipality and also urge the residents of Dekwaneh to bid for the immediate dismissal of Chakhtoora from office.The signatories of this statement reject and condemn all forms of state violence and police brutality condoned by the State that systematically oppress social, political and bodily freedoms. This incident as a continuation of recent rampant and uncontested police brutality, abuse of power and criminal assault and rape perpetrated by the Lebanese State and its security forces. Lebanon’s security apparatus violated the sexual autonomy of 36 working class men in a porn cinema in Nabaa by conducting anal probes, (test for homosexuality subsequently denounced by the Lebanese Order of Physicians, the harassment of migrants in Dora by general security forces, attacks on political protestors by the security forces in front of the Egyptian Embassy in January 2010 and the attack on Chaml organization in their Civil Marriage protest as well as the vicious and unresolved attack by the SSNP (Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party) militia on political protestors, and, most recently, the trans-bodies assaulted by Municipal Chief Chakhtoora, and the attack on sex workers sensationalized in the Lebanese TV Program ‘Inta Horr’ . We call on the Lebanese state to denounce all forms of violations on social, political and bodily freedoms and end its permissibility for abuse of the rule of law.We salute all individuals (in this case the trans* and Syrian individuals) living under daily threat of physical, verbal and structural abuse and violence and commend the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) for exposing the criminality of the Municipality of Dekwaneh and their unyielding demands for justice. We call for the intersectional unity of Lebanese civil society and activist movements to organize collectively on the growing issue of police abuse, brutality and violence and the unpunished transgressions of elected officials.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 09:20:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Parade Pictures</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/parade-pictures</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Event pageCheck different albums here:PatsyMay HaddadNath HalawaniDemotixKafaFirstpostDifferent pieces of coverage here:WomensenewsAl-AkhbarLegal AgendaAlMustaqbalAssafirSaida TVAlBawabaBlogs]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:20:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>May Day Parade Speech</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/may-day-parade-speech</link>
			<description><![CDATA[            Friends and colleagues,Ladies and gentlemen,On behalf of the migrant domestic workers’ community, I would like to welcome all of you to this workers’ day celebration. This day is a celebration for all the workers in the world. All, with no exception - every nationality, every profession. Unfortunately, many could not join us here today. Not because they didn’t want to, but because a system says that someone else can forbid them from leaving the house, which means that many do not get a single day off. This system also deprives migrant domestic workers of their right to quit or change their job and to move and travel freely. This system punishes migrant domestic workers just because of their profession.And what is our profession? We help families keep their houses in order. We take care of their children, and love them as our own. And yes we do dangerous and tiresome chores. We understand that it’s part of our job, and our job is to help. And we understand that some people fear having a stranger in their house. But we don’t understand how they think this system is the solution. This system that takes away some of our basic human and labor rights and creates an unhealthy and dangerous relationship between employer and employee. This system is called the kafala system, and it is bad for everyone. It is even bad for the image of Lebanon.Friends and colleagues,Ladies and gentlemen,I have been in this country for over x years. I have met so many friends from all over the world. I can see many of them are here today. I care about my colleagues and my friends and I care about this country. That is one more reason for me, for all of us, to seek the replacement of the kafala system with another that upholds our rights and lets us do our jobs in a healthy environment.Some of you will say that this is a losing battle, or that it is not in our hands. But, there are also those of you who know right from wrong, and cannot sit silent when they see injustice. Fifteen years ago, no one was thinking about changing the kafala system, most people didn’t even know what it was. Look where we are today. Domestic workers, Lebanese and international organizations, trade unions, and activists, have come together to demand change! The road is still long, but seeing how much we have accomplished so far only gives us a sign: That our hope is growing and that justice will prevail.Thank you]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:20:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Remember This Name: Antoine Chakhtoura</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/remember-this-name-antoine-chakhtoura</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Antoine Chakhtoura, Mayor of Dekwaneh, directly supervised sexual violence against trans women, arresting them, stripping them naked in his office, &quot;checking&quot; for their sex, and taking photos of them, not to mention sharing the photos with media outlets. This is an outrageous violation of the women&#039;s bodily rights and we must hold him responsible. (Nasawiya)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcTrkZ4W2Y]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:00:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Another Program</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/another-program</link>
			<description><![CDATA[حلقة محشوّة بكل اشكال والوان العنصريةشربل خليل&#039;بمحض صدفة، شاهدت دقائق من &quot;بس مات الوطن&quot; (شربل خليل). المرأة تريد &quot;انكليزياً&quot; لتعليم ابنائها اللغة الانكليزية، فيأتي &quot;سوري&quot; يدعي انه انكليزي. يجن جنونها وتطرده، وتطلب من الشخص الذي يبدو أنه يلبي طلباتها &quot;سيرلنكياً&quot;. تقول له&quot; جبت لي السيرلنكي يللي وصيتك عليه&quot;. بالطبع، يأتي &quot;سوري&quot; آخر صبغ وجهه باللون الاسود. تجن ثانية وتطرده. تعود لتسال الشخصية التي امامها: جبت لي &quot;طرمبة المي&quot;، فيدخل &quot;سوري&quot; بكوفية على كتفيه حاملا سطل مياه فارغاً. ويشرح لها الشخص الذي يلبي طلباتها بأن السوري يمكنه ان يحل محل الطرمبة. هكذا.. تسقط أرضاً مغشياً عليها لكثرة السوريين وشدتهم على انفاسها اللبنانية.&#039;(نقلاً عن جهاد بزي)]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:40:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Lebanon’s ‘uncomfortable’ maid culture</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/lebanon’s-‘uncomfortable’-maid-culture</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Re-posted on CNN.Great work by Nathalie Naccache.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:40:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Another Municipality Joins the Syndrome: Bsalim</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:20:01 CEST</pubDate>
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			<title>Soldier Tortures in Private Female Domestic Worker</title>
			<link>http://www.antifa.ca/antifa-news/soldier-tortures-in-private-female-domestic-worker</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Lebanese Center for Human RightsPress ReleaseSoldier Tortures in Private Female Domestic WorkerA member of the Lebanese military has tortured a female domestic worker whom he suspected of stealing his service weapon and jewelry from his home.The soldier initially identified several suspects, but then fifteen days after the theft he is alleged to have taken a female domestic worker – who had denied any contact with the missing items – to a house in the countryside accompanied by other individuals, and proceeded to hang the young girl upside down by her feet in the bathroom using handcuffs. He is also alleged to have subjected her to electric shocks during most of the night, as well as burns using a red hot knife, in order to force her to incriminate herself and admit guilt in the theft.Despite her complaints, and with traces of torture on her body, the domestic worker was sentenced to one year in prison for theft, and her appeal in court was dismissed.Worse yet, at the end of the young woman&#039;s trial in early 2013, her employer refused to pay for her plane ticket to return to her home country. The CLDH (Lebanese Center for Human Rights) financed her repatriation, a full ten months after she had served her sentence.The CLDH requests that an investigation be launched in this matter, and that this member of the military be held accountable in a manner commensurate with the perpetrated acts. The Judiciary is requested to take all allegations of torture consistently and seriously, short of which egregious acts of this nature will continue.Beirut, April 8, 2013Press contact: Wadih Al-Asmar, Secretary General of CLDH: 70 950780]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:40:02 CEST</pubDate>
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