#anti belgium

[victusinveritas]

A 1900s colonial poster satirizing different kinds of European colonialism in Africa.

[oldtvandcomics]

HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

[weirdlookindog]

Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) - 'The harvest is ripe´, 1916

[useless-catalanfacts]

The rap singer Valtònyc (wearing dark green in the first photo) has returned from exile. It's the first time he steps in his homeland Mallorca in almost 6 years.

He was sentenced to 3.5 years of prison because when he was 18 years old he wrote a song where he criticized the Spanish monarchy and uploaded it to YouTube. He wasn't famous and his most listened song on YouTube had 8,000 views, but in Spain it's a crime to say "injuries against the crown", and the laws are often applied more harshly against national minorities (Valtònyc is from the Catalan Countries). His song was found and he had to go to trial over it, and was sentenced guilty of the crimes of injuries against the monarchy, praising terrorism, and threats.

Valtònyc refused to accept the so-called "justice" of the Spanish judicial system, so he decided to escape. He managed to sneak to France unnoticed by the police, and went to Belgium, where there was already a community of Catalan people on exile for their political involvement in the Catalan independence process. He has lived on exile in Belgium these last 5 years and a half.

Had he come back to any Spanish territory, Valtònyc (same as the other exiles) would have immediately been jailed. In fact, Spain issued an international order of extradition, demanding Belgium arrest him and send him to Spain to be imprisoned. But the Belgian courts found that these kind of cases should be allowed under freedom of speech and, instead of sending Valtònyc to Spain, Belgium got rid of their own law that punished "injuries against the crown" as a crime. With no Belgian law to punish him, he was allowed to stay in Belgium. This is a similar process that had happened with other Catalan exiles, who Spain has demanded be extradited multiple times but Belgian law has protected for human rights and freedom of speech reasons.

By the way, the song that got him sentenced to prison had been a commission from the Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias (leader of Podemos, the left Spanish party) for his TV show La Tuerka. Valtònyc has explained that Iglesias never called him, never showed any solidarity nor interest in his case. Iglesias was vice-president of Spain during Valtònyc's exile.

The crimes expired six months ago, meaning he can no longer be imprisoned for it. However, the Spanish courts did not notify him of it (as they should have done), so his lawyer and him just found out.

After saying goodbye to other Catalan people on exile in Belgium, who are not allowed to come back yet (in the photos, shared by Valtònyc on his Twitter, he is saying goodbye to the politicians Lluís Puig and Carles Puigdemont), he has come back home.

He was welcomed by 200 people in his hometown. He has thanked all the people who helped him and showed solidarity. He also reminded that Pablo Hasél (a rap singer from Catalonia) is still in prison for the lyrics of his songs and the contents of his Tweets, sentenced guilty of injuries against the crown and praising terrorism. You can read more about Pablo Hasél's arrest in this post, and an explanation of the tweets and lyrics that got him sentenced in this post.

As we celebrate Valtònyc's return, we cannot forget that Spain has repeatedly ranked number 1 in the whole world for country that sent the most musicians to jail for the content of their music, in 2018 and 2020. By the way all the 14 rap singers condemned to prison for their lyrics were Catalan (Pablo Hasél and the 12 members of the band La Insurgencia from Catalonia, and Valtònyc from the Balearic islands), not one of any other culture group or from any other area. Curious, 100% of the sentenced, when the population of the Catalan Countries is less than 29% of the population of Spain. Wonder why!

[starlightshadowsworld]

Transport workers union in Belgium refuse to unload and offload military equipment being sent to Israel.

Dock workers in Barcelona refuse to allow ships sending weapons to Israel to operate in their ports.

They are both calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

This is why the higher ups hate unions because this is what we can accomplish when we work together.

And it's not just the workers.

Protesters in Oakland gathered to stop a boat shipping weapons to Israel.

As well as in Tacoma.

They were able to reduce the amount of weapons getting to the ships and delay them for hours.

Speak up and speak loud.

Because we have the power here, if we didn't they wouldn't try to silence us.

[olive-nothere]

Pointing out that this is George’s third win in his career and that George got his second win this season before Lando got a second win overall

[sissa-arrows]

A 26 years old Palestinian man was found hanged to a tree in Belgium, Stadspark in Anvers, his hands and feet were tied and the security camera conveniently didn’t work, but they are saying “this look like it might not be murder and no third party was involved”.

A lot of the few articles available on this racist murder insist on how it’s probably suicide and how “there’s a rise of antisemitism”. A Palestinian man in found lynched, people say that zionists might be involved, but the articles just talk about how it could be a suicide and about the rise of antisemitism… because apparently it’s wrong to assume that zionists whether jewish or not are able to kill Palestinians in cold blood despite the fact that it’s exactly what they are doing in Palestine.

Source in English

[iiz42awesome]

Max p5 is really good considering the penalties and the cars around! A great recovery (even if I do wish he'd overtaken Leclerc for 4th at least at the end haha)

A friendly reminder that Lando still has not once! properly overtaken Max on track and made it stick for the rest of the race 🤭 wdc contender who?

[icedsodapop]

Was watching this really cool video about how fashion still upholds colonialism when the creator talked about how a Palestinian man was lynched in Brussels:

[lewishamiltonstuff]

💀

[i-am-aprl]

This is and always was a war about revenge against the Palestinian people and those who support them in their struggle against occupation and colonization. It is a war against truth, as it has been since 1948, when they tried to convince the world it was a land without a people.

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

Hope you don't mind me asking, but what do you think about this explanation of that Belgian law? 

https://www.tumblr.com/mxjackparker/750633319077707777/for-anyone-who-cares-about-the-truth-rather-than

lmao this is so funny because how is that better? a woman denying sex is not a „workplace issue“ and the government intervening when a woman doesnt want to have sex is literally so dystopian? its funny this person thinks that makes anything better when its just confirming how treating sex as a regular job and trying to regulate it accordingly is horrifying and woman hating

a woman has the right to refuse sex anytime and under any circumstances and without having to explain herself. this law and intervening process is anti feminist

[nando161mando]

▶️Activists organized a pro-Palestine protest in Brussels, Belgium to raise awareness about the Palestinian cause.

#FreePalestine #Belgium

[jackoshadows]

Belgian MP goes off on the Israeli ambassador and it is glorious.

[cobraonthecob]

wdym guanyu (in a paint can on wheels) gets a 3 place penalty for impeding max (in a rocketship) in q1. what the fuck are the stewards on. let max be in the back of the grid and actually learn to race for once. let him feel how yuki felt last year in singapore

[olive-nothere]

When I’m at the “bottling the start of something” competition and Lando Norris shows up