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Etta Federn was bornon April 28th 1883 in Vienna, the youngest daughter of an assimilated Jewish family. She was the daughter of the suffragette Ernestine Federn and the doctor Salomon Federn and the sister of Paul, who became an analyst, Karl, who became a lawyer and writer, and Walter who became a journalist.

She had an education on an equal footing with her brothers. She studied literary history, German and Greek literature. After graduation she began to study German and philosophy. In addition, she received a broad education in foreign languages.

She broke with her family and moved to Berlin, where she completed her studies with a thesis on Faust. She earned her living there first as a teacher and then as a translator from English, French, Danish, Russian and Yiddish. She translated Alexandra Kollontai, Hans Christian Anderson and Shakespeare.

She worked as a literary critic for the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt. She published many biographies including those of Dante and Goethe. At the same time she began to write essays, biographies, autobiographical, stories, a play and poems. She married twice, both marriages ending in separation.

She made contact with the anarchist movement in Berlin and began to participate in the activities of the German anarcho-syndicalist union the FAUD (Free Workers' Union of Germany - Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschlands), contributing articles to its press on a regular basis. She began to make many friends within this movement.

The anarchist movement in Berlin attracted in Etta’s own words many “self-motivated Jewish women who offered their intellectual, emotional and political support to the ideas of social revolution, free education, the importance of cultural work, women’s emancipation and the importance of solidarity and responsible behaviour”.

She met Emma Goldman, Mollie Steimer, and Sonia Flechin, among others. In particular, she maintained a close friendship with Rudolf Rocker and Milly Witkop for life. She took an active part in the women’s organisation founded by the FAUD, the Syndikalistischen Frauenbund -Syndicalist Women’s Organisation (SFB).

She received death threats from the Nazis as a result of her biography of the liberal politician Walter Rathenau, murdered by right wing officers, which was published in 1927. In addition the forces of reaction put pressure on the newspapers and publishing houses she usually wrote for, so that her sources of income began to dry up.

She left Germany for Barcelona in 1932, at the age of 49 with her two sons. In 1933 her books were amongst those destroyed during the Nazi public book burnings and she was placed on the Nazi blacklist.

In Barcelona she received continuing support from the anarchist circles still in Berlin, and in turn she was able to welcome those fleeing to Berlin later. She was able to adapt quickly to Barcelona, writing articles for the Spanish press within weeks and starting to learn Catalan. However, she remained financially straitened, and had to rely on small but regular transfers of money from her close relatives in the USA.

During the Spanish revolution she joined Mujeres Libres (Free Women), the anarchist women’s movement, in July 1936. She taught literature, language and education at the cultural centre set up by Mujeres Libres, the House of the Woman Worker, was based on the teachings of the Spanish libertarian educationalist, Francisco Ferrer.

Later , in 1937, she founded, in collaboration with Mujeres Libres, four libertarian schools in the Catalan city of Blanes. These schools, of which she was the director, trained teachers as well as teaching children. They were co-educational, with an orientation towards atheism and antimilitarism, and designed to have an anxiety free, stimulating and caring atmosphere for children.

In May 1937 she returned to Barcelona and had her book Mujeres de las Revoluciones , which included biographical sketches of twelve famous women, published by Mujeres Libres.

In 1938, because of the massive bombing raids on Barcelona she left for Paris with her two sons.

Between 1940-1945 she moved to Lyons. She was by now completely exhausted physically and sometimes seriously ill. Despite this, she engaged in resistance work through translations, propaganda work and organisation.

Her oldest son Hans died in 1944 in the fighting at Vercors. Paradoxically it was because of this that she became entitled to French nationality and a small monthly pension, although she remained in poverty until her death in Paris ion May 9th, 1951.

She features as a literary personality in a novel of the Swedish anarchist writer Stig Dagerman (who had married the German anarchist Annemarie Goetze) Skuggen av Mart (Stockholm 1947) and in Utan Vaiaktig stad (Stockholm 1948) the novel of another Swedish writer, Arne Fosberg.

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Part of what I see with 50501/Hands Off protests is that they have a theme of "defending the Constitution" from Trump. This is really a somewhat conservative position and doesn't have much historical rigor to it.

Prof. Aziz Rana of Boston College Law School is having a moment on Jacobin Radio right now. His basic thesis is that the Constitutional order is so deeply antidemocratic that the left argued with itself and the liberals over whether to focus efforts on challenging it in the early 20th Century. In the broad sweep of history since then, Americans have come to view the Constitution as a sacred text, but in fact, that order is part of what gives the Republicans and the far right their advantages despite losing the popular vote.

The shorter interview: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S250424 (April 24, 2025)
The 4-part long interview: https://thedigradio.com/archive/ (see the Aziz Rana episodes starting in April 2025) - Part 4 isn't up yet.

So why should we venerate the Constitution, when it holds us back from real, direct democracy? I think part of what our liberal friends and family hold onto is a trust in the Constitution and the framers. They weren't geniuses, they were landowners worried about kings taking their property. Use these interviews, or Prof. Rana's book, to handle those arguments.

In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far the minimum wage is from economic security for workers and their families.

And their planes made with scrap parts are still flying around.

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• The agency said that before DeepSeek’s chatbot was removed from app stores in South Korea, the company was transferring user data to firms in China and the U.S. without consent.
• The findings were released in relation to an ongoing investigation into DeepSeek, and the company has been sent corrective recommendations.

South Korea’s data protection authority has concluded that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek collected personal information from local users and transferred it overseas without their permission.

The authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission [PIPC], released its written findings on Thursday in connection with a privacy and security review of DeepSeek.

It follows DeepSeek’s removal of its chatbot application from South Korean app stores in February at the recommendation of PIPC.

[...]

During DeepSeek’s presence in South Korea, it transferred user data to several firms in China and the U.S. without obtaining the necessary consent from users or disclosing the practice, the PIPC said.

The agency highlighted a particular case in which DeepSeek transferred information from user-written AI prompts, as well as device, network, and app information, to a Chinese cloud service platform named Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co.

[...]

When the data protection authority announced the removal of DeepSeek from local app stores, it signaled that the app would become available again once the company implemented the necessary updates to comply with local data protection policy.

That investigation followed reports that some South Korean government agencies had banned employees from using DeepSeek on work devices. Other global government departments, including in Taiwan, Australia, and the U.S., have reportedly instituted similar bans.

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Santo Domingo (AFP) – Still in pain from giving birth, a Haitian mother carrying her newborn was helped onto a migration services bus in the Dominican Republic, joining a family member who was arrested when he visited her in hospital.

Both were detained in a series of raids on Dominican health facilities, launched just over a week ago in the country's latest drive to eject undocumented migrants.

Since early 2024, more than 350,000 Haitians have been deported from the comparatively wealthy and stable Dominican Republic, shuttled across the 340-kilometer (211-mile) border with poverty and gang-violence riddled Haiti.

Dominican President Luis Abinader has championed a MAGA-style hard line on migration since first coming to power in 2020, with mass expulsions of Haitians and the construction of a wall that so far stretches across more than half the border.

Now, his administration has turned its attention to public hospitals, flushing out migrants who may have gone under the radar if it wasn't for the fact that they needed medical attention.

Arresting and deporting new mothers, "I don't like that.... women must be respected," Haitian Erony Auguste, 42, told AFP from the migration bus next to his sister-in-law who had recently given birth.

He claimed he was detained at the hospital despite having residency papers.

For William Charpentier, coordinator of the National Bureau for Migration and Refugees, a Dominican-based rights group, "mixing health with the issue of border control... is really a violation of human rights. It seems a very cruel measure."

Migrants seek the group's help daily, he told AFP, adding they are afraid to seek medical and maternal care for fear of being arrested and expelled from the country so many Haitians see as their only hope for a better life.

The measure "puts people, mainly women, at risk," said Charpentier.

Martin Ortiz Garcia of the Dominican National Health Service (SNS), confirmed the number of Haitians seeking hospital treatment has dropped.

Since 2010, the Dominican Republic does not grant birthright citizenship to children born in the country to undocumented migrants. A 2013 court ruling backdated the restriction to people born as far back as 1929.

Last year, Abinader's government deported over 276,200 Haitians and is on track to exceed that number with more than 86,400 deportations in the first quarter of 2025 alone.

"Of course, everyone is afraid. Sometimes even people with papers are arrested, even Dominicans are arrested if they leave home without papers," merchant Marie Casale, 63, told AFP in the capital Santo Domingo.

The Dominican Migration Service reported that on Day 1 of the hospital crackdown, 48 pregnant women, 39 new mothers, and 48 children were arrested and taken to a detention center for deportation.

At the center, 34-year-old Dominican national Santo Heredia waited, desperate for news of his wife, who is five months pregnant and was detained after a prenatal appointment.

His wife, said Heredia, was born in the Dominican Republic to Haitian parents, but has not been able to legalize her status in the country as they did not have enough money to file the paperwork.

The couple has another daughter, 4.

"She is alone, she has no money on her, she has no means of communicating with anyone," he told AFP. "This has me really tormented, honestly."

Last year, 36 out of every 100 births in Dominican hospitals were to Haitian women, according to Ortiz Garcia of the SNS.

Public hospitals require patients to provide identification, proof of employment and residence, and payment for services rendered.

But Ortiz Garcia insisted care is not denied to the undocumented.

"Illegals are treated in emergencies. If they need admission, they are admitted, and then after their medical event, they go through the migration protocol," he told AFP.

Many migrants from Haiti, a Creole- and French-speaking nation of some 11 million people of mainly African descent, are fleeing violent gangs that control about 85 percent of Port-au-Prince, the capital of the poorest country in the Americas.

Many in the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic have turned on those of their neighbors who cross the border, accusing them of usurping Dominican jobs and resources.

A nationalist group calling itself "Ancient Dominican Order," has been campaigning against the "Haitianization" of the country and has urged the authorities to be "vigilant at all maternity wards."

On Sunday, two migration trucks with Haitians being deported were jeered at as they drove past a group of nationalist protesters shouting "Go back to your country" and "Out! Out!"

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a close ally of Trump, finds herself at odds with his administration after it denied her state's request for federal disaster aid following a series of deadly storms last month.

Trump has floated the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency and pushing states to potentially fend for themselves in the wake of natural disasters. He’s already denied disaster aid requests from Washington and North Carolina — states led by Democratic governors — and he suggested withholding aid from Democrat-led California unless it institutes a restrictive voter law.

But the denial of disaster aid to Arkansas, a state he won with 64% of the vote in last year’s presidential election, appears to offer fresh evidence that he intends to follow through on his efforts to gut FEMA — even if it potentially harms some of his fiercest supporters.

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