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Dramatic shifts in international power on women's day

a woman | 08.03.2008 08:32

International Women’s day has marked a series of actions which have dramatically shifted international power across the planet. The revolution began in a phenomenal series of mass mobilised action which has transformed the face of global power, military and economics over the course of a weekend.

This unprecedented shift has been the result of a mass mobilisation of women from all walks of life around the globe. This underground development of women’s communities has gone unnoticed by police and government officials who believed that by closing women’s resource centres and removing services women had lost their only remaining opportunities for solidarity.

Reports suggest that undetected organisations have been in place for months, preparing women to withdraw free labour and care provision on which the global economic and power structures rely. This organised withdrawal of these services on International women’s day coincided with organised military coups worldwide.

Women have seized control of International military power. Rape, sexual violence, and the destruction of the environment has been a long term weapon of war but a major transformation is now underway. Operation Phoenix began at 2am GMT Saturday morning with unprecedented support from working class communities, military families and victims of war united.

Military personal will be re-trained in permaculture and non-violent communication and deployed to support global and community environmental projects. All forms of industrial agriculture and animal farming have been blocked and labourers and workers in these industries have the opportunity to retrain and join the replacement permaculture system. Animals formerly captivated for use in the meat and animal farming industries will be carefully integrated into this environmentally holistic society or released into the wild.

It also appears that Operation Phoenix has infiltrated major drugs companies, and in the last hour leading pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Glaxo Smith Kline, H.Lundbeck and Janssen Pharmaceuticals have announced their collapse, with further reports of closures coming in.

Free and broad reaching holistic health services have been revealed to replace these pharmaceutical industries which will offer a broad range of healing and emotional support to all people regardless of social status and are based on real choice for those seeking care.

A series of targeted explosions across around the globe have eliminated all stock exchanges and international finance records. There have been minor reports of fatalities with 47 of the leading hedge fund managers reported assassinated. With the financial global super power removed the notion of ‘developing countries’ has been eradicated and the battle for obtaining the earth’s resources at the cost of human and natural life is over.

With the fall of capitalist power structure operation phoenix have announced that all people will be cared for and their needs met. A spokes woman for phoenix said “There are more than enough resources on this planet to support and care for everyone’s needs, the rich/poor divide no-longer exists. Those who are willing to cooperate and work together, offering what skills and level of contribution they can will never be without food shelter or care, there is no room for hierarchy on this planet, we will work with and learn from the earth, by doing this we will all be free. Capitalism has no place in the future of this planet.”

With all this work happening the sound of men, women and children celebrating in the streets and fields can be heard across the planet, There’s a real feeling of hope in the air, an excitement as collectively we welcome tomorrow and the beginning of a new world which places the values of equality, freedom, creativity and nurture above the old ways of control, profit and power.

a woman

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fine

08.03.2008 10:59

thats all very well
but where did you put my blue pants

a man


That's great

08.03.2008 13:06

but does your husband know where you are?

MonkeyBot 5000


Brilliant!

08.03.2008 13:32

So does this mean that global power is now in the hands of Maggie Thatcher and Condoleeza Rice, then? I can't wait to see the utopia that'll unfold from this.

A melancholy cynic.


I'm

08.03.2008 13:50

wearing your blue pants

a woman


Over 80 per cent of homeless people are men

08.03.2008 16:32

It should be noted that over 80 per cent of Britains rough sleepers and homeless shelter residents are men.

Homeless activist


they ain't women!

08.03.2008 17:54

Maggie is a man and Condy is a white male supremacist. Main difference between the two Mags is more clever than a shithouse rat, the other one is thick as shit.

mimi


not news

08.03.2008 21:58

this aint news, is it. just some rehashing of the thought that if women controlled the world then it would be perfect. fuck patriachy and matriachy.

???


?

08.03.2008 22:20

Nice to see the far left/anarchism here is, as ever, dominated by male voices........

And no, melancholy cynic - global power will be in the hands of Emma Goldman.

another woman


Re: ?

09.03.2008 02:38

Also nice to see that self-righteousness/blaming everything on someone else/ lack of historical awareness and thinly veiled bigoted sexism are, as ever, dominated by women.

some bloke


ONWARDS! UPWARDS! WELCOME TRO THE FUTURE!

09.03.2008 03:32

Yes, regarding optimistic reportage... all true and all good!Fascinating to read the miserabilist comments...how offensive and obnoxious they were!!!with attitudes like that we would all be condemned to live in a world where bitter,power hungry alpha eunuchs continue to command and destroy with impunity.Luckily most of us are actually warmhearted intelligent constuctive people and are ready to stand together and embrace the skills and knowledge of all those who truly want to build community.By virtue of biology women have much to offer practically philosophically and politically in theworld.If we continue to regurgitate sectarian and defensive nonsense we will be playing into the hands of the devisive tyranny(wearing a male or female visage) that relys upon us playing to our weaknesses and not our strengths.
it is not men, but an extremely inbalanced male system that is destabilising the entire world.We all need to allow ourselves a 50/50 participation across the board in our societies if we want to get anywhere(it is a waste of energy to lambast female figureheads such as Rice, Thatcher, Bachelet etc as they are in fact a product of a system that demands and rewards extreme masculine characteristics from women who seek office/influence.
All in all, lets not knock it till we've tried it1And lets try it!Indeed we shall!
Un Pueblo Unido Jamas Seran Vencido..
And a people divided...well...you have your choice!

barrachsurfa


@ barrachsurfa

09.03.2008 13:03

"By virtue of biology women have much to offer..."

"a system that demands and rewards extreme masculine characteristics..."

The cognitive dissonance is astounding. You are lambasting others for being divisive, but your comment is full of divisive rhetoric. You are clearly implying that the negative characteristics of the current power structure are inherently "male" and that women, by nature of simply being women, can solve our problems.

some bloke


?

09.03.2008 23:20

This text was posted in the context of International Womens Day for fucks sake, which one would have hoped would generate support here. Instead, it has been self indulgently and defensively interpreted as an attack upon all men and, it seems, the men in this thread in particular. And has in turn generated a thread which is, on the whole, an anti-feminist macho tyrade. How exactly does that separate you from the right?

'Some Bloke', you refer to 'thinly veiled sexist bigotry'. At no point in the original text is there anything 'anti male' per se or any traits being 'inherently male'. However, It is an inescapable fact that currently male hands hold the monopoly on global power (G8). Women receive 10 percent of income worldwide and domestic violence is the most common cause of female deaths. You don't need a stream of statistics, we all know it - capitalism and patriarchy are intrinsically linked. This does not necessarily point to inherent male traits but definately to a world in which men are generally brought up to believe that, in relation to women, power (domestic, political, intellectual) is their unquestioned right. Men and women need to work together to subvert this.

You displayed your less thinly veiled misogyny by saying that a 'lack of historical awareness' is typical of women? It's also pretty shocking that the only two strong women you can think of are Condaleeza rice and Margaret Thatcher? Angela Davis was in London yesterday!

Yet another woman


homelessness

23.03.2008 20:35

"It should be noted that over 80 per cent of Britains rough sleepers and homeless shelter residents are men." What exactly is the point that you're making here?

That it's even more dangerous for homeless women to sleep on the streets or in mixed hostels than it is for men? That women who sleep rough are often raped and sexually assaulted? As are those who don't have a secure place of their own to live? That the majority of homeless women and children are homeless because of domestic violence (over 80% of which is committed by men)? That the vasy majority of homeless people in the UK are 'hidden' homeless because they're not on the streets - instead they're relying on friends, sleeping on floors and sofas, or squatting, or staying in really insecure situations?

Perhaps you could start thinking creatively about ways of challenging the current political situation - and getting rid of homelessness for everyone - rather than wasting your online privilege slagging off someone else's contribution?


another homeless activist (who happens to be female, and homeless)


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