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Journal comic. Inktober day 4.

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down one of the world’s oldest bans on consensual gay sex, a groundbreaking victory for gay rights that buried one of the most glaring vestiges of India’s colonial past.

After weeks of deliberation by the court and decades of struggle by gay Indians, Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the law was “irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary.”

News of the decision instantly shot around India. On the steps of an iconic courthouse in Bangalore, people danced, kissed and hugged tightly, eyes closed. In Mumbai, India’s pulsating commercial capital, human rights activists showered themselves in a blizzard of confetti.

The justices eagerly went further than simply decriminalizing gay sex. From now on, they ruled, gays are to be accorded all the protections of the Indian Constitution.

“This ruling is hugely significant,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director for Human Rights Watch. With restrictions on gay rights toppling in country after country, the ruling in India, the world’s second-most-populous nation, may encourage still more nations to act, she said.

Still, however historic the ruling of the court, considered a liberal counterweight to the conservative politics sweeping India, gay people here know that their landscape remains treacherous. Changing a law is one thing — changing deeply held mind-sets another. And few suggested that other major victories, like same-sex marriage, were on the near horizon.

Homosexuality is decriminalized in India!! 🌈🌸

India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation.

Red moon, green mind.

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Please remember that Lush is a fair trade company. This means that all they pay ALL of their workers a livable amount, and don’t take advantage of workers and harvesters in third world countries like many brands do. They test none of their products on animals as well.

constant checks on their resources - They will drop any company that they are partnered with if they learn that they are gathering ingredients in an inhumane way, harming the environment, or puts their people at risk

charity work - if you’ve ever heard of Charity Pot, it’s called such because 100% of the cost (not proceeds) go to charity. It’s not what’s left over after they’ve paid the workers or bought the ingredients, it’s every single cent. 

kitchens instead of factories - They dont have a big warehouse of stock. They don’t have processing plants. What they have are buildings with industrial kitchen equipment, where all products are made by hand. 

fighting animal testing - a lot of companies say that they dont do animal testing, but they don’t do anything to prevent animal testing and may use ingredients sourced from animal testing. Lush leads protests, creates bills, and spreads information, as well as only work with those who don’t use animal testing, in order to fight the system

helping their sources- If they find out that something is wrong with one of their companies, they’ll do what they can to fix it. That means, if something is broken, they will fix it, even though it’s just someone that they’re partnered with. 

After it was founded in 1918, the brave RAF got straight to work, indiscriminately bombing and machine gunning civilian protesters from the air in India

The fight against fascism in WW2 was a relatively brief period in the RAF’s 100 year history, and they even managed a few war crimes during that. The RAF’s day job, the thing they’ve spent the best part of the last 100 years doing with no end in sight, is dropping bombs on the middle east in the service of British imperialism.

“The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means within 45 minutes a full-sized village can be practically wiped out, and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured, by four or five machines which offer them no real target, no opportunity for glory as warriors, no effective means of escape”.

Planes used to fight rioters in India

Lahore and Amritsar Are Placed Under Martial Law as Revolt Grows

SIMLA, India, April 17. - Airplanes were used to-day in coping with the disorders that have broken out in the Pubjab. A mob attacked a passenger train in this district and wrecked the railroad station at Gujranwala. Air-planes were sent from Lahore and the mob was bombed and subjected to machine-gun fire from the air.

Considerable unrest still exists in Delhi and Lahore. The Commissioner for the district has appealed to the leading men to use their influence for the reopening of the shops. Otherwise, he announced, the authorities would take action.

Martial law has been declared in the districts of Lahore and Amritsar. It is stated that the Governor General is “satisfied that a state of open rebellion against authority exists n those districts.” The trials of those violating regulations under martial law will be held by a commission which will be similar to those prescribed by the Defence of India act.

This article was written in the New-York Tribune on April 18, 1919 (cited here, along with a lot of other reports). That bombing is connected to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, when British soldiers sealed a square during a large gathering, then shot thousands of rounds into a crowd of of Indian people, killing and injuring about 1500-2000 people over the course of about ten minutes and stopping firing only when they ran out of ammo.

The RAF, meanwhile, was also used in other brutal acts of colonial suppression such as destroying the Dervish state and then crushing the Iraqi and Kurdish rebellions in 1920. ~National hero~ Winston Churchill ordered the use of bombing in those cases, as well as advocating for the use of chemical weapons in India.

Helena Fitzgerald, The Fierce Triumph of Loneliness (via arabellesicardi)

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