The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday June 19th, 2022 – Juneteenth
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas. Originating in Galveston, the holiday has since been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts of the United States, often broadly celebrating African-American culture. The day was first recognized as a federal holiday in June 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.
Predictable Monstrosities: Priti Patel Approves Assange’s Extradition by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The only shock about the UK Home Secretary’s decision regarding Julian Assange was that it did not come sooner. In April, Chief Magistrate Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring expressed the view that he was“duty-bound” to send the case to Priti Patel to decide on whether to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States to face 18 charges, 17 grafted from the US Espionage Act of 1917.
Patel, for her part, was never exercised by the more sordid details of the case.Her approach to matters of justice is one of premature adjudication: the guilty are everywhere, and only multiply. When it came to WikiLeaks, such fine points of law and fact as a shaky indictment based on fabricated evidence, meditations on assassination, and a genuine, diagnosed risk of self-harm, werepiffling distractions. The US Department of Justice would not be denied.
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The Seeds Of Death #poem by Jan Sand
“The seeds of death are intimate to the birth of life
To strike away the false and clumsy, shear
To oblivion the inexact.
Their pact with the unexpected shreds failure to conform
To necessity to strip the rags of rot
From existent purpose that permits
All living things the opportunity
To join in pervasive unity.”
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The Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Greater Awareness Building Needed by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 19 June of each year to be the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict in order to raise awareness of the need to put an end to conflict-related sexual violence and to honor the victims and the survivers of sexual violence around the world. The date was chosen to commemorate the adoption on 19 June 2008 of Security Council Resolution 1820 in which the Council condemned sexual violence as a tactic of war and as an impediment to peacebuilding.
For the U.N. “conflict-related sexual violence” refers to rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced abortion, and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men, girls and boys, linked to a conflict. The term also encompasses trackficking in persons when committed in situations of conflict for purposes of sexual violence or exploitation.
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Screws & Chips #34 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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