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Women’s Land Shelled by the Turks
This Women-Only Village Was Built to Be a Feminist Utopia. Now It’s Under Threat. – ELLE.com
Excerpt:
In the Kurdish region of northeast Syria, a female-only ecological commune has sprung up as a place for women displaced by the Syrian revolution and the rise of the Islamic State. The cooperative is called Jinwar—Kurdish for “Women’s Land”—and it’s home to more than 30 women, many of whom were widowed in the fight against ISIS, and their children. In Jinwar, there is no central power figure; instead, there is a democratically-elected town council, and every month a different council member acts as the town’s leader. Men are allowed to visit only during specific hours, and they’re not allowed to stay overnight. Women of different religions and ethnicities live together in mud brick homes they built themselves, eat food they grow themselves, and teach each other English. There is a bakery and a store, where the women can sell handicrafts they make to people from other villages…..
Having survived the rule of violent jihadists, the residents of Jinwar are attempting to build their own female utopia. It’s a wild feminist experiment in democratic communal living that’s happening in one of the most socially conservative regions in the world, and for nearly two years it seemed like it might actually work. But with Turkey’s ongoing military offensive against the Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey considers terrorists, the village has been under constant threat, and on Monday it was temporarily evacuated following heavy shelling.
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We Hate the News Because We Love The Haters Online
Cynical voices online cut trust in journalism – Futurity
Excerpt:
In a new study, researchers found that real-life and online social interactions can strongly influence a person’s trust in newspaper, TV, and online journalism—but when it comes to online interactions, cynical views are the most influential.
The study surveyed 350 students at a group of residential living-learning centers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, in which students with similar academic disciplines live in the same dorms and take classes together, thus forming strong social connections.
Over the course of a semester, the researchers found that the strongest social influences on a student’s trust in news media come from face-to-face interactions with politically like-minded people. But social media interactions with online contacts were different. Online contacts who distrusted the news media, and not those who had high levels of trust in traditional news media, strongly influenced students’ views.
“With face-to-face interaction we can choose our conversation partners, but we receive their views without artificial filters and might be swayed by either positive or negative views. But on social media, we can selectively pay attention to some of the stories shared with us and ignore others. People have a known negativity bias, and that makes it more likely that we will notice more the cynical and disparaging posts,” says study author Katherine Ognyanova, an assistant professor of communication at Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s School of Communication and Information.
The Party and the Military are One in the New China of Chairman Xi
The Party and the Military are One in the New China of Chairman Xi
China to uphold, improve Party’s absolute leadership over armed forces: document – China Mail
Excerpt:
China will work to uphold and improve the Party’s absolute leadership over the armed forces and ensure that they will faithfully fulfill their missions in the new era, according to a decision of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
The decision on some major issues concerning how to uphold and improve the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advance the modernization of China’s system and capacity for governance was adopted at the fourth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee on Oct. 31.
It stressed the following:
— upholding the CPC Central Committee’s supreme leadership and command over the armed forces;
— improving the system of the institutions for Party building in the armed forces;
— implementing the Party’s absolute leadership over the armed forces in all fields and throughout the process of enhancing military capabilities.
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