CZECHIA RULED OUT FORCED STERILIZATION OF TRANS PEOPLE

In other news, Slovak parliament discussed and, thankfully, rejected a piece of legislature that would make legal gender transition literally impossible. Not because the parties in power care about the issue, but because, in their heart of hearts, they actually don't; most of the MPs simply didn't vote at all, and of the rest, more were against than for. But still. Goes to show the kind of country we live in that for a moment, I was worried that this shit actually has a chance to succeed. (Then again, could've known better considering this whole circus was led by fucking Anna Záborská, who is an evil archconservative harridan, but who luckily never, ever gets her way.)

In memoir of the victims of Chilean’s coup of 11/09/73, orchestrated by the US government: La Cueca Sola.

“And I constantly ask where do they have you? And no-one answers me And you don’t come home And you don’t come home, soul of mine long is the absence and all throrough the land I beg for conscience

Without you, my dear Life is a grief.”

By Gala Torres, Chilean songwrited. This song is a “cueca”, typically danced by a couple, and is danced by women alone, without a partner, to symbolize the absence of a husband, daughter, son, brother or any other family member that was detained, tortured and never returned during the chilean dictatorship of Pinochet, orchestrated and implanted with the help of the US government during 1973.

Hi! Just wanna raise some awareness here because South America is on fucking fire and I need to see more people talking about this.

Source: RSOE EDIS x

Im just going to talk about the ones i'm closest to, but if you know about these fires, feel free to add in the reblogs!

Chile

In Chile there's (up to Feb 5) 160 wild fires, of which 40 are still trying to be controlled by authorities. The president, Gabriel Boric, has declared State of Emergency in the whole country, and theres a Red Alert Code in most part of the country.

Isla de Chiloé, Southern Chile (900 km away from Santiago de Chile)

This is a (recently controlled) fire that lasted a week, but many neighborhoods were burnt to the ground.

The whole South is in red alert for constant sudden fires that spread quickly due to the lack of rain and the elevated temperatues in the zone. Just today, two fires had to be controlled in the main land next to this island, and more are being reported in the Los Lagos region. This is added to the "controlled" intentional fires that farmers make to clean their fields of old crops along the Central-South parts of the country, mostly surrunding the main route, Ruta 5, that connects the whole country, thus making it hard to see and breathe because of the smoke. (flashnews, most of them get out of control quickly.)

Valparaiso/Viña del Mar, Central Chile (100 km away from Santiago de Chile)

A fire that started on Friday 2nd and grew exponentially because of the wind and the dry, hot climate. More than 100 people are dead, with 70 unrecognized bodies and other 400 that have dissapeared. At least 30000 people that have lost everything to the fire.

I could go on about this one, so more info here and here

Argentina

Parque Los Alerces (Esquel), Chubut

The fire strarted on the 25th January, and the climate has made it hard to contain. 3000 hectares of native forest have been burnt to teh ground. It is now growing in the direction of the nearest city, Esquel. Theres been evacuations between yesterday and today (4 and 5th Febuary)

Parque Nahuel Huapi (Bariloche), Río Negro

The reason why im writing this. The city woke up today covered in smoke after a wildfire developed yesterday during the night. The reason? A fireplace that was not turned off in a place where people cannot disembark and can only be reached via boats.

As of now, there's not much information about the fire but hopefully the firefighters will be able to contain it before it reaches Tronador Mountain, where an ancient glaciar is.

...which leads me to the other point i wanted to talk about.

Firefighters

They volunteer to do this job.

In Argentina and Chile, firefighting is not rewarded with a salary, and most of the times they dont even have full firehouses to stay in. These people are at their houses, ready to jump into action and run to the station the second the alarm goes off.

They are neighbors, people that risk their lives and run into danger willingly, just because they want to help the community.

I felt the need to give a shout-out to these people and say:

Don't be a fucking dick, don't start fires in the woods unless it's an approved place, and if you do, TURN IT OFF.

Pour abundant water on it, and do not stop when you don't see any more flames.

Keep pouring water until the ashes don't burn/feel like room temperature in your hand if you put it 10 cm away from it, and even then, pour some more just to be sure.

No heat and no smoke mean a safely extinguished fire.

Save lives and forests.

Here is Chile the fires are not just bc some bullshit human didn't take care of their fire as op says (like the 3 wild fires we had thanks to illegitimate state soldiers aka invaders of palestine come on "vacation" and camp in prohibited areas and make fire camps and cigarettes and shit).

Fire here, specially in cities, have a relation with housing, capitalism, and exile the working class of their territories. Is well known that the right wing owns the real state companies and are the ones that make fire to destroy building and houses that ppl don't want to sell them or can't be sold unless there is no property in the plots of land for different reasons. The right wing has never wanted that the state take care of ppl nor they want socialism nor anything that barely resembles it, so besides the extreme poverty on the rise, the housing problem, the poorly state of public space in some areas where the trash catch fire, the fact that the right and transnationals steal our water and cause droughts that kill nature and dries everything as well steal indigenous land and destroy native forest and protected areas as well kill natives and activist in favour of the Timber and forestry companies to put more pine trees to cut and have more money at cost of lifes and the destruction and killing of land that dries and cause more wild fires, global warming thanks to say right wings, transnationals, and capitalism, and that firefighters are not part of the state, basically depends on rich ppl and charity (and ironically are usually right and far right ppl) ... Well, plus ALL this, also there is the fact that the right wing is continously working to destroy the seudo democracy we have and the current government (that is centrist but the right loves to call "communist") so they can put as president a far right Pinochet and nazi supporter (actual descendent of nazis and dictatorship supporters and killers). The government has said that they are investigating the origins of the fires, and the say that has shown clear signs that is human making and with full intention. Sadly, I doubt they will tell that right is the one doing it bc the working class will not belive them bc here most ppl are fascists and the president nor anyone wants to suddenly having a strong want to kill themselves with 6 bullets in the back of the head or die in a car crash accident or a fly accident (which are some of the favourites political assassinations here by the right). President Boric has declared two days of national mourning for all the destruction that we currently live.

Chile and South America wild fires are a political crime.

I saw a men reporting that the fuckers are SELLING the food and other basic need products sent as FREE HUMANITARIAN AID.