Melbourne – Thousands Of Australians Rally Demanding Safe Streets For Women After Arab-Israeli Student Murder

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    Aiia Maasarwe's father Saeed Maasarwe is seen at the vigil for his daughter on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne, Australia, January 18, 2019.   AAP Image/Stefan Postles/via REUTERSMelbourne – Several thousand people marched through major Australia cities on Sunday calling for safety for women after an Israeli exchange student was murdered in Melbourne.

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    The marches, part of the Women’s March rallies held around the world in support of women’s rights, gathered some 3,000 people in Sydney, who in their chants demanded safe streets for women in Australian cities.

    Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was killed when walking home after a night out with friends in Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, earlier this week. A 20-year-old man was charged with her murder.

    Maasarwe’s death recharged outrage over violence against women after 22-year-old Eurydice Dixon was killed in Melbourne while walking home after performing at a comedy show in June.

    Thousands of people gathered at vigils for Maasarwe on Friday and continued to lay flowers at the site of her death. A special tram carrying only flowers late on Friday followed the route of Maasarwe’s final journey.

    In Sydney on Sunday marchers held signs paying tribute to Maasarwe and other victims of violence. Television news showed women carrying signs: “For Aiia and for those who suffer silently” and “I wanna walk through the park in the dark”.

    “I don’t want my daughter to grow up in a world where she’s unsafe or she can’t pursue the opportunities she wants and I march for my son because I don’t want him to grow up in a world where toxic masculinity is acceptable,” said Samantha Nolan-Smith, one of several hundred protesters in the Australian capital Canberra, reported Australian Broadcasting Corp.

    In reaction to Maasarwe’s death, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government would announce another “action plan” to stem violence against women ahead of an election expected by May, on top of A$350 million ($252 million) that has already been committed.


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    FactsofLife
    FactsofLife
    5 years ago

    This story of harassment is more of the Leftist lies about those who support Trump
    The letter the student wrote to WKRC includes links to videos that back up his story.
    A video posted to Facebook shows the beginning of the incident. The students are off by themselves doing school cheers when Phillips and his fellow Native American activists walk over to them, beating drums and chanting, and enter the students’ space.
    This video shows the beginning of the confrontation by Phillips where he tests several students before selecting one boy wearing a MAGA hat to target for abuse. Phillips is moving freely about and steps up to the student as he bangs his drum in the boy’s face and loudly chants at him in a language the boy does not understand. Phillips does not attempt to speak to the boy. Phillips doesn’t ask him to move nor does he explain what he is doing.
    Another video shows the during and after. At about 1:38 a Native American man tells one of the students, “white people go back to Europe. This is not your land.” The incident with Phillips does not even last three minutes. Toward the end, the boy who was targeted by Phillips turns to a fellow student to hush him after he heard him

    5 years ago

    To #1 - What does your asinine posting have to do with the poor girl, who was brutally murdered?