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The commission concluded its report with a recommendation to Congress to include women in the registration for the Selective Service. Too bad for them, because we know that our liberation will not be realized through war crimes.
As 18- to 25-year-olds, we are within the age range to have to register with Selective Service. As we face a global public health crisis, environmental disasters and increasing state violence, the recommendation for expanding the draft at this time should be seen as a declaration of war on all future generations….
We are a generation that understands that no matter how hard the military tries to co-opt feminism and progressive ideals, war will never be a part of a framework for imagining equity because the first casualty of war is always human dignity. As draft-age people, the only military draft system reform we support is the complete abolition of compulsory military service.
["Expanding the Military Draft Is Not Feminism. Abolishing Draft Registration Is." By Danaka Katovich and the CODEPINK Youth Peace Collective, Truthout, 23 August 2021]
Expanding Selective Service registration to women is not feminism…. Expanding the draft would merely expand a burden that has been unjustly placed on men for decades. The Selective Service takes away personal choice…, rewards militarism, punishes pacifism, [and] reproduces inequality.
["A Feminist Take on the Selective Service", Women's Action for New Directions (WAND), August 2021]
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service has recommended that draft registration be extended to young women as well as young men. That recommendation has been endorsed by President Joe Biden, and both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have endorsed legislation to require women born in 2005 and after to register for the draft when they turn 18, staring in 2023.
We want to hear from women who plan not to register with the Selective Service System when you turn 18. We can publish your resistance statement, with your name or anonymously, or link to your videos or posts on social media. You can reach us at resisters@hasbrouck.org. Your statements will help encourage and empower others. Here are more anti-draft organizations and actions you can take.
"Congress should end draft registration for all, not try to expand it to young women as well as young men," a group of activists who oppose the draft said in a joint statement on Tuesday. It added, "Even more women than men would resist if the government tried to draft them."
["Women Should Have to Register for Military Draft, Too, Commission Tells Congress", by Sarah Mervosh and John Ismay, New York Times, 24 March 2020]
Nine groups of anti-war activists panned the blue ribbon commission's recommendation that everyone of draft age sign up with the Selective Service. "Making contingency plans for a draft that would include women would be an exercise in self-delusion by the Selective Service System and military planners," the groups write in a statement. "Even more women than men would resist if the government tried to draft them."
["Commission Issues Verdict: Women, Like Men, Should Have To Sign Up For Draft", by David Welna, NPR News, 25 March 2020]
"Women's equality will not be achieved by including women in a draft system that forces civilians to participate in activities that are against their will and harm others in large numbers, such as war. The draft is not a women's rights issue, as it does nothing to advance the cause of equality and functionally limits freedom of choice for Americans of all genders.
"While we demand equal pay for women in all areas of our economy, it is irresponsible for the fight for women's rights to seek equal moral injury, equal PTSD, equal brain injury, equal suicide rates, equal lost limbs, or equal violent tendencies that military veterans suffer from. When it comes to the military, women's equality is better served by ending draft registration for everyone.
"A draft is often viewed as democratic because it spreads the burden of recruitment across social classes; it is even seen by some as reducing the possibility of reckless war-making because it spurs anti-war activism. Compulsion, however, is an undemocratic process, and history does not support the claim that drafts prevent or end wars. The answer to a "volunteer military" disproportionately recruiting from economically disadvantaged communities is not to impose a universal draft but to work against the military's targeting of underserved communities and provide more economic opportunities beyond military enrollment. No one should have to join the military to get access to a college education or skills training needed to get decent jobs.
"Our nation must move away from endless war and its dangerous reliance on militarism. Let's not expand draft registration but abolish it."
[Statement from CODEPINK submitted to the National Commisison on Military, National, and Public Service, 24 September 2019]
[Unidentified woman at a protest against President Carter's proposal to require both women and men to register for the draft, Washington DC, 23 March 1980. Photo by Leif Skoogfors, Getty Images.]
Will women be drafted? Will women be required to register for the draft?
Congress is currently considering legislation to expand the authority of the President of the U.S. to order men to register with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft to also include women, and is expected to make a decision in 2021.
President Biden has officially endorsed this proposal, and has included former members of the NCMNPS who made this recommendation in his transition team and Cabinet. House Speaker Pelosi voted in favor of the same proposal when it was last considered in 2016. Unless opposition and the likelihood of resistance becomes much more visible to Congress very soon, this legislation is likely to be incorporated into the Fiscal Year 2022 annual "National Defense Authorization Act" which will be enacted in 2021 and take effect in 2022.
Depending on the effective date of the law and the terms of the proclamation by President Biden which will put it into effect by ordering women to register, women born in 2005 and after will probably be required to register for the draft as they turn 18, starting sometime in 2023.
According to a joint letter sent to Congressional leaders in March 2021 by opponents of draft registration:
The choice is not between male-only draft registration (which is likely to be found unconstitutional) and expanding registration to women. The real choice is whether to expand registration to women or to end it entirely. This is a choice about militarism, not a choice about gender equality.
Expanding draft registration to women would bring about a semblance of equality in war (although women in the military would likely still be subject to disproportionate sexual harassment and abuse). Ending draft registration would bring about real equality in peace and freedom.
In 2016, Congress had an extended debate on whether to expand the current draft registration ("Selective Service") requirement to women. Congress decided to delay its decision by appointing a National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) to study the issue, but the issue will be taken up again by Congress again in 2021 now that the NCMNPS has recommended that draft registration be expanded to women.
A bill to enact the NCMNPS recommendations into law has already been introduced in Congress as H.R. 3000, the "Inspire to Serve Act of 2021". As recommended by the NCMNPS, this bill would give the President the same authority to order women to register for the draft that the President now has to order men to register. If the President then ordered women and men to register on the same basis that men are now required by law and Presidential proclamation to register, women and men would be required to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday, and report each change of address until their 26th birthday.
There's no requirement for Congress to enact the NCMNPS recommendations into law, and Congress already has before it an alternate proposal to end draft registration entirely. But a case challenging the Constitutionality of requiring men but not women to regiswter for the draft was working its way through the courts, and could have led to a court ruling that would have embarassed Congress. In June 2021 the Supreme Court decided not to hear that case, taking some of the pressure off Congress to make a choice either to expand draft registratio to women or end it entirely. But momemtum toward expanding draft registration to women built up while the court case was pending. Amendments to the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) were proposed that would have either ended draft registration or extended it to women, but at a "markup" session in the House Armed Service Committee (HASC) on 1 July 2020, the amendment to expand registration was withdrawn and action was deferred until next year. (7 minute video clip of this portion of the HASC meeting.) Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo, CA), Chair of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the HASC, said that, "You have my commitment that we will have a hearing on this issue within the next year". Both Rep. Speier and Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the Chair of the full HASC, have supported expanding draft registration to young women as well as young men. Rep. Speier has long been a supporter of Selective Service registration (as a California state Senator, before she was elected to Congress, Rep. Speier sponsored one of several unsuccessful proposals to require Selective Service registration as a condition for a California drivers license) and a cheerleader for expanding Selective Service registration to women.
The debate in Congress on this issue in 2016 prompted this statement from a coalition of antiwar organizations:
The argument that extending the [Selective Service] registration requirement to women is a way to help reduce gender-based discrimination is specious. It does not represent a move forward for women; it represents a move backward, imposing on young women a burden that young men have had to bear unjustly for many decades — a burden that no young person should have to bear at all. Even more disturbing, this argument fails to acknowledge or address the pervasive climate of sexism and sexual violence that is the reality of military life for many women who serve.
If the argument for requiring registration of women as well as men, often framed erroneously as an argument for "equal rights," prevails, our society's already swift move toward normalizing military violence for youth and young adults in general, will gain a particular focus on women's participation in military violence. We believe that those responsible for military recruitment understand this very well, and that the push to extend the registration requirement to women is made — at least in part — because it will become a facilitating factor for recruiting more people to fight our current endless wars. At the very least, it serves as one more avenue by which militarism continues to invade civil society.
(More feminist statements against the draft and draft registration)
In June 2016, the U.S. Senate approved a "National Defense Authorization Act" (NDAA) including a provision that would require young women to register for the draft on the same terms as young men, starting on January 1, 2018 with women born on or after January 1, 2000. A similar provision was removed from the version of the bill approved earlier by the House, and after the November 2016 a House-Senate conference committee of the lame-duck Congress decided to remove this provision from the final compromise version of the bill. Meanwhile, a separate bill was introduced, H.R. 4523, which would have ended draft registration, abolished the Selective Service System, and restored the eligibility of nonregistrants for Federal student aid and all other Federal programs. An improved version of this bill was reintroduced in 2019 as H.R. 5492. That bill expired at the end of 2020, without being borught to a vote. But a similar bill (with a new bill number in the new session of Congress) is likely to be reintroduced in 2021.
Records released in response to a FOIA request show that the Obama Administration debated what to do but decided to take no official position on this issue until after the 2016 elections. According to a White House briefing memo, draft registration was seen as valuable to the military mainly as a "lead generation" tool for military recruiting:
Recruiting Advantages and Other Considerations
The SSS provides a hedge against a catastrophe that the country does not anticipate. In addition, the SSS serves as a means to sustain the legacy of public service by reminding the Nation's youth that public service is a valued part of American citizenship. National registration information has important application for military recruiting, the naturalization process, student loan processing, and Federal employment.
Due to agreements with the SSS, DOD receives a recruiting advantage from the SSS which provides names, address, and telephone numbers of new SSS registrants to DOD to be used as recruiting leads. In addition, SSS inserts a lead generation card developed by the DOD in the SSS registration packet that generates approximately 75,000-80,000 male leads annually. As DOD expands the number of females recruited, the leads generated by the SSS could be a significant boost to military recruiters. In addition, DOD currently pays third-party vendors to generate female leads. This would no longer be required [if women were required to register with the SSS], thus achieving a small cost savings to DOD.
At the end of 2016, after the election of President Trump but while President Obama was still in office, Congress punted the issue into the Trump Adminstration by voting to create a National Commission on Military, National and Public Service to study and make recommendations to Congress and the President regarding the future of the draft, draft registration, and compulsory "service", specifically including the question of whether women should be required to register for a draft or should be included in a compulsory service system.
Slides from a briefing by the Director of the Selective System at one of the Commisisson's first meetings, disclosed in response to my Freedom Of Information Act request, show that the Selective Service System is already making contingency plans (see Slide 6) for registering women for a possible military draft. Note that the budget estimate does not include any enforcement costs:
Why was a National Commission studying this issue? In 1981 the Supreme Court upheld requiring men but not women to register for the draft. The court based its decision on "deference" to the military policy which, at that time, excluded women from combat assignments. Once that policy was changed, it became likely that the Supreme Court would eventually rule that the current male-only Selective Service registration requirement is unconstitutional.
Several lawsuits again challenging males-only draft registration were filed as soon as the Pentagon announced that it would begin considering women for some combat positions.
In the first of the lawsuits challenging male-only draft registration to be decided, National Coalition For Men v. Selective Service System, a U.S. District Court judge in Houston ruled on 22 February 2019 that the current draft registration requirement for men is unconstitutional. (More on this decision and what it does and doesn't mean.) This District Court decision was overturned by 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on 12 August 2002, but the Court of Appeals did not reach the question of whether the requirement for men but not women to register for the draft is Constitutional. Instead, the Court of Appeals held that only the Supreme Court could decide this issue. The plaintiffs in this case, represented by the ACLU, asked the Supreme Court to review this decision. (As an organization, the National Coalition For Men takes no position for or against the draft or draft registration per se, as long as men and women are treated alike. But their counsel in this case in the lower courts, Marc Angelucci, personally opposed the draft and draft registration for anyone, men or women.)
In June 2021, the Supreme Court decided not to hear this case. It might take many more years before the Supreme Court is asked to rule on another such case. But eventually, if Congress does nothing to change the law, the Suprme Court is likely to prohibit enforcement of the male-only Selective Service registration requirement. This will force Congress to choose whether to extend draft registration to women, or to let a court decision ending registration stand.
Under current law, the courts can't order women to register. Nor can the President or the Pentagon, without action by Congress to change the law. So unless Congress extends the registration requirement to women, registration of men will have to end if courts find that it is illegally discriminatory. On the other hand, the current males-only draft registration could be ended by Presidential proclamation, by Congress, or by the Federal courts if they find that it is unconstitutional. A third option is that the President, as Commander-In-Chief, could rescind the orders opening all combat assignments to women, thus restoring the situation in which male-only draft registration was found by the Supreme Court to bear a Constitutional relationship to providing male-only combat military forces.
The draft and draft registration, for both women and men, are bipartisan issues. Bills to extend draft registration to women were introduced in Congress in 2016 by both Democrats and Republicans, and questions about whether women should be required to register were asked in both Democratic and Republican Presidential primary debates. The Selective Service Repeal Act of 2021, now pending in Congress, was introduced with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate.
Most members of Congress and Presidential candidates would prefer to avoid the issue of the draft, however.
Joe Biden didn't announce his position on Selective Service until late in his Presidential campaign, in September 2020. In response to a questionnaire from the Military Officers Assocation of America, Biden said that, "I would… ensure that women are also eligible to register for the Selective Service System so that men and women are treated equally in the event of future conflicts." Of course this confuses "eligibility" for voluntary enlistment with obligation to submit to involuntary induction into the military.
The first of President Biden's Cabinet members to be confirmed and take office is Avril Haines, one of the members of the NCMNPS who recommended expanding draft registration to women (and who worked as a consultant to Palantir while serving on the NCMNPS). Two other former members of the NCMNPS, including Debra Wada, who chaired the NCMNPS subcommittee on Selective Service, served on Biden's transition team.
Previously, Hillary Clinton waited until after the Presidential primaries in 2016 to announce that she supports extending draft registration to women. Bernie Sanders was one of only two Senators absent from the vote on this issue in the Senate in June 2016. Questioned about Selective Service in 2016, many of the Republican Presidential candidates, like Biden in 2020, falsely conflated voluntary enlistment with involuntary conscription.
Regardless of whether Congress or the President think that young women "should" be ready and willing to be drafted, the only realistic choice for Congress is not to extend draft registration to women, but to end it for all.
"Selective Service System registration is ageist, in that it only targets youth; sexist, in that it only targets those identified male at birth; undemocratic, as it takes away the right to religious freedom; and immoral, since it takes away the choice to follow one's conscience." (Kate Connell, letter to the editor, Los Angeles Times, 5 March 2019)
Congress could enact a law extending draft registration to women. But draft registration isn't self-implementing. Extending registration to women would require getting women to comply with the law, and enforcing the law if they don't do so voluntarily.
Is there any reason to think that young women would be more willing to sign up to be drafted than young men have been? I doubt it.
"Draft registration for men failed: criminal enforcement had to be abandoned decades ago in the face of pervasive noncompliance. Even the former Director of the Selective Service System testified to the NCMNPS that the current Selective Service System database is 'less than useless' as the basis for a draft. Trying to draft women or get them to register to be drafted would be even more of a fiasco."
[Joint statement by anti-draft organizations in response to the report of the NCMNPS, March 2020]
Since enforcement of the criminal penalties for nonregistration was abandoned in the late 1980s, the Selective Service System has depended on state laws in many states (although not California or some others) that require Selective Service registration as a condition for issuance of drviers licenses. The problems this will cause for any attempt to expand draft registration to women were raised by Edward Allard, former Director of Operations for the Selective Service System and a member of the National Commisison on Military, National, and Public Service, during a closed-door NCMNPS meeting in 2019:
Mr. Allard said he completely disagreed with Mr. Benton [Director of the Selective Service System during the Trump Administration] about state drivers' license legislation. He said only a handful of states have laws that are gender neutral and it will be a challenging process to change those laws if registration is required of all Americans [regardless of gender]. Many of those laws, he noted, have been in place for a long time and any changes to them could yield entirely different results.
In other words, hawkish (but also sexist) state legislators who were happy to link drivers licenses for young men to draft registration may not be so willing to amend those laws to make the same linkage for women. Given the dependence of such limited compliance as the SSS now obtains on these state laws, this means that Congress doesn't actually have the power to expand draft registration to women without state collaboration. If Congress votes to expand registration to women, states will be able to effectively opt out for their residents by refusing to expand their state drivers licrense linkage laws to women, or by repealing them entirely. Congressional action on women and draft registraiton will trigger dozens of divisive state legislative debates that will inevitably go on for years.
There's a long history of anti-draft activism by women, including advocacy of resistance to draft registration by women as well as men. See this sampler of excerpts from feminist statements against requiring women or men to register for a draft or or to be drafted.
As Dorothy Day, founder of the anarchist-pacifist Catholic Worker movement, wrote during World War II when Congress briefly considering requiring women to register for a draft of nurses (prompting a national mobilization against requiring women to register or be drafted):
I will not register for conscription, if conscription comes for women…. Instead, I publish my statement here, my declaration of purpose, and if it encourages other women not to register, I shall be glad at such increase in our numbers.
I shall not register because I believe modern war to be murder, incompatible with a religion of love. I shall not register because registration is the first step towards conscription, and the only way to do away with war is to do away with conscription.
"Nothing would sooner free the world from the scourge of war, the most deadly plague with which humanity is at present threatened," wrote E.I. Watkins some years ago, "than the resolute refusal of a sufficient number to serve in the army. Even a small minority would prepare the way for the future refusal of large masses. All who are not willing to be conscripts from whatever motive, should unite in proclaiming this refusal."…
"But why object to registering? Why not register and then refuse if your number is called?"
By little and by little we must resist. Why take the first step if we do not intend to go on? Why count on exemption… and so lose the opportunity to testify to the truth that we feel so strongly?
When President Jimmy Carter announced his proposal to reinstate draft registration in his State of the Union address on 23 January 1980, and followed up with a proposal to Congress for authority to order both women and men to register, some of the strongest initial grassroots opposition came from women.
[9 February 1980 — In response to President Carter's proposal to require both young women and young men to register for the draft, more than 2,000 people demonstrated against registration and the draft in front of the Army Recruiting Center in Times Square, New York City. Photo © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com]
The National Resistance Committee (NRC) was founded at a meeting at the Women's Building in San Francisco on 1 March 1980. Many women remained active in the resistance, including in the NRC, even after the bill approved by Congress was narrowed to require only men to register, though the press tended to focus on male draft resisters. Feminist leaders were among those who testiifed to Congress against requiring men or women to register for the draft:
[We] adamantly oppose[] draft registration for men and women. It… will only contribute to a national war climate….
Those few of us who warned against deeper U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the Gulf of Tonkin scare in the 1960s know that the best time to stop a war is before it begins. Any realistic discussion of draft registration must be based on the recognition that registration is a prelude to the draft, and the draft is a prelude to war….
Feeding our sons and daughters into the draft registration machinery can only have detrimental, divisive effects on our country. The terrible events in Iran and Afghanistan are not sufficient justification for the shift… into a new cold war campaign that would sacrifice American lives to back up our dependence on foreign oil and the shamelessly profiteering American oil monopoly. We should not be talking about sending teenagers to die in the Persian Gulf…
Women have always led anti-war movements, and we are speaking out know against efforts to make another war thinkable and acceptable. As feminists, we reject the male establishment's war reflex as the solution to international problems…. Women know that when military spending goes up, the programs we care about most get lost…. Women… will again bear the brunt of wrong government policies….
The issue of whether women should be registered along with men has been used as another diversion from the real debate. The President's statement that women must register for the draft to show that they deserve equal rights is as specious as his whole registration ploy. Women are not looking for special privileges on the basis of gender…. Women have made sacrifices, fought and died in every war our country has been engaged in. It is insulting to suggest that we must prove our patriotism or our dedication to equal rights by blindly accepting this ill-advised draft registration proposal. We insist on our right to debate and reject the premise that registration is necessary or desirable. Women, as well as men, have an equal right to refuse to be drafted, just as women have an equal right to volunteer for the armed services, if that is what they choose to do.
It is ironic but typical that the President wants to force young women into a system in which they meet the same kind of discrimination they encounter as civilians…
We do not endorse draft registration of women as the road to equality in the military, just as we do not endorse draft registration of men as the solution to male unemployment. The question we should all be asking is not whether women should be registered, but whether anyone should be registered. [Our] answer is an emphatic no.
[Former U.S. Rep. Bella Abzug, testimony to the Subcommittee on Independent Agencies of the Senate Appropriations Committee, 11 March 1980.]
For some radical feminist women draft resisters' perspectives on why they were involved in the anti-draft movement in the 1980s, even when only men were required to register for the draft, see these articles by Liz Davidson, Ann Wrixon, Marian Henriquez Neudel, and Donna Warnock.
As illustrated in the poster above by Yolanda V. Fundora, the draft was one of the major issues raised by 2,000+ participants in the Women's Pentagon Actions in November 1980 and November 1981, well after draft registration had been limited to men. According to their Unity Statement:
We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid. At the same time our cities are in ruins, bankrupt; they suffer the devastation of war. Hospitals are closed, our schools are deprived of books and teachers. Our young Black and Latino youth are without decent work. They will be forced, drafted to become the cannon fodder for the very power that oppresses them… We do not want to be drafted into the army. We do not want our young brothers to be drafted. We want them equal with us.
A report on the anti-draft movement by the New York Times in August 1982 noted that, "Some feminist organizations are attracted to the issue. After many women's groups opposed President Carter's unsuccessful proposal for registration of women, they have tended to line up against the peacetime draft of men, too." (The same article reported that, "Some antidraft activists … say … that if thousands fail to respond, the Government will not be able to track them down. 'For every one of those who openly say, 'I'm not going to register,' there are probably 50 to 100 who are doing it privately,' said Fred Moore of the National Resistance Committee in San Francisco.")
[Lesbian Anti-Draft Action contingent in the West Coast mobilization against the draft and draft registration, Market Street, San Francisco, 22 March 1980. Photo by Chris Booth for Resistance News. The next banner, partially visible, is from the Oakland Feminist Women's Health Center.]
Women have been among those health care workers most concerned about Selective Service preparations for for a draft of doctors, nurses, and many other medical professionals, which would include women but could be based on professional licensing lists rather than on self-registration of potential draftees.
The split between liberal advocates for gender equality and radical feminists who oppose war and the draft as sexist, even when only men have been drafted, is not new. When men fight, women die. (For similar arguments about LGBTQ "equality" and inclusion in the military, see this article about draft registration resistance by Kenneth Hale-Wehmann and the articles collected by Against Equality and their anthology Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars, also included as a section in their larger collection, Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion.)
Hillary Clinton's endorsement of the proposal to expand draft registration to women in 2016 renewed a debate that also occurred when draft registration was reinstated in 1980:
When President Jimmy Carter revealed his proposal to register women and men for the draft,… organizations took positions varying from WILPF's total opposition to registration to Phyllis Schlafly's opposition to drafting women. The National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus changed their positions from January 25 to February 8 [1980] from total opposition to the draft to opposition coupled with the idea that if there were to be a draft, it had to include women. The debate was on between feminists who believed in equality within male power structures and feminists who believed in changing male structures of power, in this case, in opposing war and militarization altogether.
["Women Leaders in the Peace/Antiwar Movements", by Carolyn M. Stephenson, Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution, University of Hawai'i, in Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook, SAGE Publications, 2010.]
Both sides consider themselves feminists. But is feminism a liberal ideology of equality, or a radical ideology of liberation?
We are opposed to reinstatement of compulsory registration. As the first step toward reinstatement of the draft, registration is a return to the sexist and racist Selective Service System which gave us discrimination against the poor, minorities, and women while it lowered the quality of our military forces. Our long standing position against violence combined with our determination to end discrimination makes us unable to support registration….
NOW is against the registration of young people precisely because it is a response which stimulates the environment of preparation for war. Too many of us still remember the senseless killing and destruction in Vietnam — which we also protested — and believe that violence is the "ultimate solution" taught most typically to males in our society. We reject that solution, and believe that too many are willing to wage war with others' lives. National defense and self defense is one thing; aggression for economic self-interest is quite another. To fight a war for oil is to deny that the inherent rights of all human beings must take precedence over the economic self-interest of a very few. We are committed to working for the day when our nation and our world priorities will be people-a day when our domestic problems are not solved by military aggression.
[Statement by Eleanor Smeal, President, National Organization for Women, 1980]
It's often been mis-reported that in 1980 NOW supported requiring women to register fotr the draft. In 2020, the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service even used an out-of-context quote from 1980 NOW President Eleanor Smeal in its final report to imply this. But NOW's position in 1980 on the drafting and registration of women was actually more nuanced, and closer to that of radical and antiwar feminists, then NOW's position is today. In 1980, NOW opposed requiring anyone to register (because war and toxically maculine violence — whether perpetrated by women or men — are not feminist or good for women or men) but argued
that if the Equal Rights Amendment were to be tratified, and if there then was a draft, it should treat women the same as men.
Despite the massive mobilizations against Reaganism and the Reagan Revolution and the 1990-1991 Gulf War that coincided with the campaign against draft registration from 1980-1991, the secondary-source literature on 1980s activist history is grossly incomplete. But for more on 1980s antiwar feminist theory, see the other articles on this site and the book, Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence, Pam McAllister, ed., New Society Publishers, 1982. On the role of feminists in antiwar activism, see Barbara Epstein, Political Protest & Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s. On the debate between liberal "egalitarian feminists" and radical antiwar feminists, see Ilene Rose Feinman, Citizenship Rites: Feminist Soldiers & Feminist Antimilitarists, N.Y.U. Press, 2000.
In July 2016, reversing its 1980 position that "NOW is against the registraiton of young people… becuase… it stimulates an environment of preparation for war", precisely the National Organization for Women issued a statement calling the expansion of draft registration to women a step toward equality, and co-signed a letter to the House-Senate conference committee, along with the ACLU and other organizations, in support of extending the current Selective Service registration requirement to women in the name of "equality" rather than feminism. "The undersigned organizations urge you to retain the Senate language (Section 591) requiring women to register for the draft." A coalition of organizations including the War Resisters League responded:
The argument that extending the registration requirement to women is a way to help reduce gender-based discrimination is specious. It does not represent a move forward for women; it represents a move backward, imposing on young women a burden that young men have had to bear unjustly for many decades — a burden that no young person should have to bear at all. Even more disturbing, this argument fails to acknowledge or address the pervasive climate of sexism and sexual violence that is the reality of military life for many women who serve. If the argument for requiring registration of women as well as men, often framed erroneously as an argument for "equal rights," prevails, our society's already swift move toward normalizing military violence for youth and young adults in general, will gain a particular focus on women's participation in military violence. We believe that … the push to extend the registration requirement to women is made — at least in part — because it will become a facilitating factor for recruiting more people to fight our current endless wars.
Women share many of men's reason not to register for a military draft, and have other reasons of their own. Today, people of all ages and genders question why the U.S. is supporting the fundamentalist (and supremely sexist) monarchy in Saudi Arabia, or its dictatorial allies in Yemen, among others. There are both feminist and sexist arguments against subjecting women to the draft and draft registration.
[Teenagers Against the Draft, Boston, MA, 21 March 1981. Photo © Ellen Shub. All rights reserved.]
From a feminist perspective, "I wouldn't mind the privilege of being among the first women to burn their draft cards", Karen Lindsey said at an anti-draft rally in Boston in 1979 or 1980, before Congress decide to enact a draft registration requirement for men but not women:
To the liberals' challenge, "If they draft men, why not draft women?" there's really only one answer - it's not okay to draft men. And no, it's not okay to draft women, and no, we don't owe … the government … collusion in as patriarchal and misogynist an institution as the draft…. Whatever else it is, war is a patriarchal institution, and every war is a war against women. (Speech reprinted as "Women and the Draft" in Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence, New Society Publishers, 1982.)
One feminist group adopted the following statement in January 1980:
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom strenuously opposes the conscription of men or women for war or preparation for war and we oppose registration as the first step toward conscription…. Sisterhood is international — it does not stop at international borders. If we embrace militarism and conscription as part of equality we will be declaring our sisters as enemies. That is something we as women and as feminists WILL NEVER do…. Sisterhood is powerful. Say NO to registration; say NO to the draft!
As an example of the anti-feminist case against requiring women to register for the draft, consider this statement from the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the the Southern Baptist Convention: "A military draft of women … isn't just a military proposal; it's about an entire worldview built on the bankrupt ideology of egalitarianism…. Policy-makers are asking men to comply before a culture of emasculation by surrendering their innate gifting and their innate calling." The Presbyterian Church in America opposes allowing women in combat or subjecting women to military conscription on similarly sexist scriptural grounds. A Mormon law professor describes herself as a feminist, but argues, "I am advocating opposition to the extension of the military draft to women…. I'm asking Congress, are we building into this law a conscientious objector exception for women who devoutly believe that their God-given mission in life is to be in their happy home creating a family and then building a safe place for their children to grow in a loving and secure environment?"
Anti-feminist pro-military opposition to President Jimmy Carter's proposal in 1980 to include women in draft registration as led by Phyllis Schlafly and the organization she founded, the Eagle Forum, which were also leading opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment. One of their arguments against the ERA was that if the ERA were approved, it would require that any future draft apply equally to men and women. One of Schlafly's last published columns before her death in 2016 was in opposition to extending draft registration to women. In August 2019, the Eagle Forum filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting continued registration of men for the draft, opposing requiring women to register, and asking the Court of Appeals to overturn the District Court decision in National Coalition For Men v. Selective Service System.
Extending draft registration to women will provoke at least as much resistance as did draft registration for men in 1980. It will force the government, once again, to choose whether to turn the country into a police state to round up all those who fail to register on demand, or to try (probably unsuccessfully) to terrorize them into compliance through show trials and incarceration of a few of the people seen as "leaders" of the resistance.
Draft registration of men has been a fiasco for the government since its resumption in 1980. But the government has never been able to find a face-saving way to end registration and shut down the Selective Service System without admitting that its scare tactics failed, or dealing with the implications of young people's insistence on making their own choices about which wars they are willing to fight.
The likelihood that the ruling that males-only draft registration is unconstitutional will be upheld on appeal provides the perfect opportunity for Congress to end draft registration entirely. My Representative in Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has claimed in the past to oppose the draft and to think ending draft registration was "worthy of attention". But in 2016, after months of avoiding avoiding taking a public position on the draft, Rep. Pelosi voted against defunding the Selective Service System and in favor of extending it to women as well as men. (Pelosi's opponent in the 2020 Democratic Party primary, Shahid Buttar, said that if elected, he would "absolutely" support legislation to end draft registration and contingency planning for military conscription.)
Are you a young woman who is thinking about whether you would register for the draft, if draft registration is extended to women? Would you register? Would you speak out publicly about not registering? Is there anything we can do to support you? Have you written things about registration and the draft that you would like us to publish — anonymously, pseudonymously, or in your real name — or link to? Are there resources already published about this that you would like us to link to? Groups of women who are working on this together? Individual or collective "I Won't Go" or "We Won't Go" statements? Are you working together with other young women who don't want to register, and/or other supporters? What can men, older people, and other organizations do to help you and other young women? Please suggest links, things you are doing that you want others to know about, or things you would like men and older people to do to help.
More about women, the draft, and draft registration:
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Women, the draft, and draft registration ("Selective Service")
Feminists against the draft and draft registration
Women: Do Not Register for the Draft. (by Rivera Sun, 2016)
A Feminist Perspective on the Anti-Draft Movement (by Ann Wrixon, 1986)
Feminism and the Draft (by Marian Henriquez Neudel, Resistance News #13, July 1983)
Sexual Politics and the Draft (by Donna Warnock, WIN magazine, 15 October 1980)
Wimmin and Draft Resistance (by Liz Davidson, Resistance News #21, June 1986)
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Q: Oracle Stored Procedures with ADO NOT .net and VC++ I am migrating a VC++/SQL server app to using Oracle. The database access is implemented using ADO classes, and I can't find a way to go through the cursor that is returned by Oracle.
The sproc is something like:
create or replace PROCEDURE GetSettings
(
  cv_1 OUT SYS_REFCURSOR
)
AS
BEGIN
   OPEN  cv_1 FOR
      SELECT KEY ,
             VALUE
        FROM Settings;
END;

The code is something like:
      _CommandPtr pCommand;
      _ParameterPtr pParam1;

      HRESULT hr = pCommand.CreateInstance (__uuidof (Command));

      if (FAILED (hr))
           return;

      pCommand->ActiveConnection = m_pConn;
      pCommand->CommandText = "GetSettings";
      pCommand->CommandType = adCmdStoredProc;
      _RecordsetPtr pRecordset;
      hr = pRecordset.CreateInstance (__uuidof (Recordset));
      if (FAILED (hr))
           return;

      pRecordset = pCommand->Execute(NULL,NULL,adCmdStoredProc);

(in fact it is using the ADO classes from http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1075/A-set-of-ADO-classes-version-2-20#TheSample02 )
The returned pRecordset is in a closed state and you cannot do anything with it. I imagine I should pass some parameter for the cursor, but how do you create/use/access the returned cursor using these ADO functions? There is no cursor parameter type that I can see
I am completely stuck and would greatly appreciate some help
Thanks

A: Finally found out how to do it, you need specify special parameters in the connection string to tell it to return result set:
Provider=ORAOLEDB.ORACLE;User ID=xxx;Password=xxx;Data Source=tns_name;OLEDB.Net=True;PLSQLRSet=True;

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Chambers v. Ebbert
United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
ROSCOE CHAMBERS, Plaintiff
WARDEN DAVID J. EBBERT, et al., Defendants
Alan N. Bloch, United States District Judge.
AND NOW, this 5th day of September, 2019, in consideration of Defendants' Motion to Remove Plaintiffs In Forma Pauperis Status (Doc. No. 52) and brief in support thereof (Doc. No. 53), filed in the above-captioned matter on December 21, 2018, and in further consideration of Plaintiff s response thereto (Doc. No. 73), filed on July 2, 2019, and Defendants' reply (Doc. No. 74), filed on July 15, 2019, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that said motion is GRANTED.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs in forma pauperis status, conferred on June 25, 2018, is hereby REVOKED and that Plaintiff must pay the entire filing fee of $400.00 by SEPTEMBER 25, 2019. Failure to do so will result in the case being dismissed with prejudice for failure to prosecute without further warning.
Plaintiff Roscoe Chambers is serving a sentence of imprisonment of 360 months imposed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. See United States v. Chambers, No. 3:12-cr-00071 (S.D. Iowa May 17, 2013), aff'd per curiam, 554 Fed.Appx. 539 (8th Cir. 2014), cert-denied, 135 S.Ct. 1018 (2015). At the time he filed the instant civil action with this court in the above- captioned matter on May 11, 2018, [1]he was serving this sentence at USP Lewisburg, in Union County, Pennsylvania. He has since been reassigned to AUSP Thomson in Thomson, Illinois. He sought to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP"), and his request was granted by Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr. on June 25, 2018. After the filing of several motions by the parties, Defendants sought to revoke Plaintiffs IFP status on December 21, 2018, contending that he had three prior "strikes" under the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) ("PLRA"), and that Plaintiff had failed to establish that he was under imminent danger of serious physical injury.
The parties do not dispute the fact that Plaintiff had three prior "strikes" under the PLRA -i.e., actions brought by him while incarcerated that were dismissed on the grounds that they were frivolous, malicious, or failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Indeed, the record reflects that courts, as of the time he filed his complaint, had dismissed at least three matters Plaintiff had previously filed as frivolous or for failure to state a claim. See Chambers v. Conard et al., No. 4:13-cv-186 (S.D. Iowa May 16, 2013); Chambers v. Conard et al., 547 Fed.Appx. 807 (2013); Chambers v. Sarcone, No. 4:17-cv-0432, 2017 WL 8792712 (S.D. Iowa Dec. 12, 2017). Subsequently, Plaintiff has had an additional action dismissed as frivolous that he had filed in the Northern District of Illinois. See Chambers v. Schmidts, No. 18-C-50242 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 14, 2018). There is no question, then, that the PLRA's three-strike provision applies. The issue is whether the "imminent danger" exception to the PLRA applies as well.
Under the PLRA, a prisoner litigant may proceed IFP, even if he or she has amassed three or more strikes under the Act, if the prisoner can make a showing that he or she is under imminent danger of serious physical injury. Plaintiff contends that he was under imminent danger of serious physical injury because of threats and false reports being made regarding him by personnel at USP Lewisburg. While Plaintiff now adds claims regarding the poisoning of his food and later unrelated threats, these alleged dangers significantly postdate the filing of the complaint in this case and therefore do not establish that danger was imminent at the time the complaint was filed. See Abdul-Akbar v. McKelvie, 239 F.3d 307, 312 (3d Cir. 2001).[2]
A prisoner litigant claiming to be in imminent danger of serious physical harm "must make specific and credible allegations to that effect." Ball v. Famiglio, 726 F.3d 448, 470 (3d Cir. 2013), abrogated on other grounds by Parker v. Montgomery Cty. Corr. Facility/Business Office Mgr., 870 F.3d 144, 150 n.9 (3d Cir. 2017) (internal quotations omitted). "Imminent dangers are those dangers which are about to occur at any moment or are impending." See Abdul-Akbar, 239 F.3d at 315. The danger alleged here simply does not meet these standards. In seeking IFP status, Plaintiff alleged that he previously had received a few vague threats of a sexual nature, that he had been subject to false reports, which he claims affected his good time credit, and that he had been denied contact with his family. (Doc. No. 8). The allegations regarding the threats are not only vague, they do not establish any impending danger but rather refer to discrete prior acts. The false reports and family contact allegations do not allege or involve any risk of serious physical harm. Plaintiff also averred that he feared for his life and safety and that the staff would kill him if they found out that he filed his action (Doc. No. 2), but this claim is very broad and vague, and Plaintiff does not try to substantiate his allegations in any way. Such vague and conclusory claims are insufficient to meet the imminent danger standard. See Ball, 726 F.3d at 468.
Accordingly, Plaintiff has not established that he is under imminent danger of serious physical injury, and therefore, he is not entitled to proceed IFP and must pay the applicable filing fee to pursue this action. If Plaintiff does not pay this fee, his case will be dismissed with prejudice for failure to prosecute.
[1] The action was brought pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), and seeks monetary and injunctive relief.
[2] The Court also notes that Plaintiff is no longer designated to or confined at USP Lewisburg. Accordingly, any ongoing claims of actions being taken against him by personnel at that ...

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Rosberg and Hamilton refuse to take blame for 1st lap crash
By TALES AZZONIMay 15, 2016 GMT
Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton of Britain, left, and Nico Rosberg of Germany enter the first curve during the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Barcelona Catalunya racetrack in Montmelo, just outside Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg refused to take blame for the stunning first lap crash that left both cars out of the race at Formula One's Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
The teammates retired after crashing into each other just after the start in Barcelona, allowing Red Bull and Ferrari to make up ground in both the drivers' and constructors' championships.
Rosberg said he was surprised by Hamilton's attempt to pass him, while the three-time world champion said that as a driver he had to go for the gap.
Mercedes' head of motorsports Toto Wolff said it was the "work of the whole team that finished in the gravel trap."
Hamilton started from pole position but was quickly overtaken by Rosberg at the end of the front stretch. When the British driver tried to recover his position after getting a good run off Turn 3, Rosberg moved to the inside to block the pass and the two cars collided.
"At that point it was my race to win," Rosberg said. "Lewis was closing in so I decided to make a clear move to the right hand side as soon as possible to close the door and show him that wasn't an option. I was very surprised that Lewis went for the inside anyway. The next thing I knew, we were in the gravel trap."
Rosberg said he was slower than Hamilton because the engine mode switch was in the wrong position, leaving him momentarily down on power.
"I'm gutted, not just for myself but for the whole team," he said. "It's the worst feeling as a driver."
Hamilton, who in 2014 was taken out of the Belgian GP after being hit by Rosberg, had a different view of Sunday's accident.
"I was catching Nico really quickly and went for the gap on the right. I had part of my car alongside but then had to take to the grass," he said. "The gap was there and, if you're a racing driver, you go for that gap. We saw what happened after that."
He said he was "hurt and disappointed" for the team.
"When I came to a stop in the gravel trap, all I could think about was how gutted I was for the team, that's where I feel the pain," Hamilton said. "But we will move on together and come back stronger."
After hearing from the drivers and the team, race officials said Rosberg "had the right to make the maneuver that he did" and that Hamilton's "attempt to overtake was reasonable."
"The convergence of events led neither driver to be wholly or predominantly at fault," officials said in a statement.
Former driver Nick Lauda, Mercedes' non-executive chairman, said Hamilton was more at fault for the "completely unnecessary" incident.
"Lewis was too aggressive," he said. "Why should Nico give him room? He's in the lead. I blame Lewis more than I blame Nico."
After hearing about Lauda's comments, Rosberg said "he is an expert."
Wolff avoided putting the blame on any of the drivers.
"After all the hard work we've put in over the past two weeks it's deeply disappointing to come away with no points, but in my opinion this was a racing incident, with the drivers racing for position," Wolff said. "Both Lewis and Nico are upset."
With both cars out of the points, Hamilton dropped to third place in the drivers' standings, behind Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari, while Rosberg's lead was cut to 39 points.
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This year the Cowboy Dinner Show celebrates the contribution that Valentine Carmichael Haynes (Val) made to the history of the working BC cowboys. Rob Dinwoodie and his band will once again bring stories to life through songs that are dedicated to these men and women of the open range. The show is in its twelfth year at the ranch and folks have come to appreciate the experience of the Cowboy Dinner Show. Joining Rob is well known historian, author and cowboy poet, Ken Mather, will thread the history through his cowboy poetry and vast knowledge of this historical era.
Drama has been an important part of telling different stories of the cowboy and this year will not disappoint. Characters like Judge Haynes of Osoyoos crossing, Newman Squires, trail boss for the Gang ranch and of course Val Haynes, son of the Judge will join the troupe on stage to tell this incredible story.
The stage show will begin after a delicious and hearty meal of west, served up by Cattlemens Club restaurant. Ride the authentic BX Express stagecoach and learn how to rope like a cowboy as cowboy Rob provides an opportunity not just to hear about the cowboy, but to be one for the night.
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In September 2009, EEGF sold its controlling stake in NaturBravo to a group of European private investors achieving a 3.1 times cash-on-cash return and 46% IRR, including the sale of one of NaturBravo's facilities earlier in the investment period.
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White House: President Trump Not Firing Dr. Fauci
"This media chatter is ridiculous—President Trump is not firing Dr. Fauci," Hogan Gidley, deputy assistant to the president, said in a statement. "Dr. Fauci has been and remains a trusted advisor to President Trump." Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has drawn increasing ire for his push for locking down America amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to millions of people losing their jobs.
Criticism ramped up when in early April he called the situation "inconvenient" during one of his many television appearances. Trump on Sunday stoked theories he's planning to dismiss the doctor when he shared a tweet that included the hashtag "Fire Dr. Fauci." The tweet, sent by a former congressional candidate, noted that Fauci in late February was telling Americans they did not need to change anything they were doing and that the risk of contracting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus , commonly known as novel coronavirus, was low. Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks while President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President Mike Pence, listen during a briefing on the CCP virus pandemic, in the press briefing room of the White House in Washington on March 24, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Gidley said the tweet "clearly exposed media attempts to maliciously push a falsehood about his China decision in an attempt to rewrite history." "It was Democrats and the media who ignored Coronavirus choosing to focus on impeachment instead, and when they finally did comment on the virus it […]
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Virgin Australia's Accelerate program is designed for small businesses looking to make the most out of their loyalty to Virgin – just like Qantas' Aquire.
SMEs account for 97% of all Australian businesses, and the Accelerate program offers a few more tangible benefits than Qantas' Aquire – including a shortcut to Virgin Australia Gold status, along with flight discounts and travel credits.
To be eligible to participate in Accelerate, you must be an Australian company registered with ASIC and holding an active Australian Business Number (ABN).
All employees travelling on tickets purchased through the Accelerate Program continue to earn Velocity points and Status Credits.
Consider this: Just one Economy return Sydney to Los Angeles flight will see you close to hitting the $2,000 qualifying threshold for Pilot Gold, and if you to treat yourself to Premium Economy, you'd be there in one hit!
Handily there are also no requirements in regards to holding an ABN, such as how often you trade under it. Simply holding an ABN is sufficient to apply.
Earning 80 status credits can be achieved in as little as one return Business Class flight between Sydney and Melbourne, or alternatively 2 return Flexi Fare or 4 return Saver Fare flights.
The discounted fares must be for travel on flights with a 'VA' flight number operated by either Virgin Australia, Delta Air Lines or Etihad Airways.
Flights operated by other Virgin Australia partner airlines, including Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand, are excluded from these discounts, even if they carry a 'VA' flight number.
Subject to your business spending the minimum amount of $20,000 on eligible flights, Virgin Australia will pay a Travel Credit to your business travel account in the form of a travel voucher. Eligible flights contributing to the $20,000 minimum requirement are those with a 'VA' flight number operated by Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand, Delta Air LInes and Etihad Airways.
Access to all 11 Virgin Australia domestic lounges, and Air New Zealand lounges prior to a Trans-Tasman and domestic New Zealand flights when travelling on Virgin Australia or Air New Zealand (excluding flights between New Zealand and Pacific Islands, Bali and Papua New Guinea).
How does Accelerate compare to Qantas's SME offering?
Qantas's offering to the SME market is its Aquire Program. While the Accelerate Program employs a 'discount to fares' model, the Aquire program employs an 'additional points earning' model and sits alongside the Qantas frequent flyer program.
The first point above poses a potential problem for sole traders, given that by definition, their business includes only one employee and therefore one Aquire flyer.
And no, you can't assign your significant other as an Aquire flyer on your next holiday, as eligible flyers cannot include family members or travel companions, and eligible travel must be business related. This contrasts with Accelerate, where no such restriction exists.
The Virgin Australia Accelerate program offers a competitive offering to SMEs and sole traders, delivering benefits that reward 'road warrior' employees in a cost effective way for the business, while at the same time, reducing the businesses overall travel expenditure costs.
The Pilot Gold status is easily accessible for any entity with an ABN and who is spending $2,000 on airfare with Virgin, so remember to take advantage of this when makes most sense – time it for when you'll have subsequent travel to make use of the Gold status and hit the 80 status credits in three months and you'll get to keep it for another 12.
The article is a bit confusing about who can apply. In the first instance it says that only COMPANIES can apply and that sole traders are left out, but at the end of the article it says that anyone with an ABN can apply including sole traders. I have looked on their website and it is not clear there either.
It's not super clear – but my understanding of this is that sole traders could be eligible if they have registered a company name with ASIC. Now, I have never tried to do this myself, so I am assuming it's possible to still register a name with ASIC and operate under a sole trader ABN, if not, then I guess you couldn't access Accelerate as a sole trader.


After months of uncertainty, the Brazilian property market appears to have returned to positivity with promising figures for launches, confidence and property investment released in July. These together with price rises in certain cities such as Fortaleza seem to indicate that the market is back on track.
The first set of positive figures came from the monthly joint study carried out by the Brazilian Association of Real Estate Developers (ABRAINC) and the Foundation Institute of Economic Research (FIPE). Their July report found that new-build launches on the Brazilian property market numbered 2,300 units, a 92.5 per cent rise on the same month last year. Launches between January and July this year totalled 33,900, 13.8 per cent more than the seven-month period last year.
ABRAINC and FIPE also release a monthly index for real estate and the July Index showed rises in several key factors for the Brazilian property market. These include levels of confidence in the market generally and the attractiveness of property investment in Brazil.
Confidence, measured in main sectors of the Brazilian economy such as industry, construction and services, has risen steadily since January. The latest figure (June) of 0.9 is considerably higher than the beginning of the year when it was a mere 0.0.
The Construction Confidence Index, released by the Gergulio Vargas Foundation, rose by 2.7 points in July. The month's total of 70.7 points is the highest since August 2015, indicating to many analysts that the property market cycle has bottomed out.
In the attractiveness of property investment sector, this too is improving. Calculated by comparing rental yields and interest rates, June's figure stood at 3.5 per cent, 1.1 points higher than January.
The Brazilian property market has produced excellent gains for real estate funds so far this year. According to the Sao Paulo journal Folha de S. Paulo, by mid-September property funds had seen returns of 25 per cent since January. These funds tend to concentrate on commercial property, but analysts believe that these returns show that the market generally is back on track.
The property portal Properati-Hiperdades reported that July was a month of "good news for Brazilian property". The main reason for their bullishness came in the announcement of new rules for funding from the state-funded bank, Caixa Econômica Federal.
The loan-to-value (LTV) on mortgages for Brazilian properties has increased. The LTV for resale properties has risen from 60 to 70 per cent, and from 70 to 80 per cent for new builds, property development and purchase of land in Brazil. Other Brazilian banks are expected to follow suit and experts believe the move will lead to an increase in activity on the Brazilian property market.
Properati-Hiperdades have recently introduced a monthly price index for properties in 28 Brazilian cities. While they don't offer a national figure, their research does provide insight into house prices in the largest cities.
In the latest index (June), half the cities registered falls in property prices. These were most pronounced in Natal, Northeast Brazil where prices dropped by 3.5% in the month and Rio de Janeiro with a decrease of 2.1 per cent. In the positive zone were cities like Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil, with a 1.2 per cent rise in property generally and a 1.6 per cent increase for apartments.


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Spotify Who? Musician's Earnings Go From $300 to $60,000 in Web3
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By Akayla Gardner
A savvy cadre of recording artists has been using the new, blockchain-based digital frontier sometimes known as web3 to do what they've always dreamed of: Making money by making music.
Pop Star Katy Perry sold an NFT collection of behind-the-scenes photos, moving art and a physical concert prop. Photographer: Amir Hamja/Bloomberg
The revenue they're earning from selling their songs and music as nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, is significantly larger than the pennies they pull in from streaming services such as Spotify. At the same time, they are providing a tangible use case for elements of web3, the preferred nomenclature of venture capitalists who invest in online services built using blockchain technology, where control isn't concentrated in a single business entity.
"I had one person buy my song for the amount it would have taken a million streams to get," says Iman Europe, a singer-songwriter who has made 22.2 Ether (now worth almost $60,000), selling five singles and a music video as NFTs since November. That compares with the roughly $300 a month she was earning from streaming, despite having garnered some 4 million listens across platforms. Nearly 40% of her NFT revenue was made on secondary sales, where she received a 10% cut of each resale.
Musicians like Europe took in $83 million in primary sales through NFTs last year, according to Water & Music, an organization that researches digital music innovation. Independent artists accounted for 70% of that revenue, the group found. It's a trend that is attracting the attention of larger investors, including 12-time Grammy Award winner John Legend. With a group of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, he announced earlier this month that he'll be launching a platform for artists to monetize their work using the technology.
Popularity with independent artists can partly be explained by the fact that the world of NFTs is much more accessible than landing a lucrative, corporate record deal. To release an NFT, artists attach their media — such as a song or video — to a verifiable digital token and then auction it off on an online marketplace such as Nifty Gateway or OpenSea. These operate on blockchain technology, which offers an online record of the transaction history.
Buyers get ownership of the digital asset as well as the cultural cache of having something released to a finite number of people, in some cases only to one person. At times the music is only available as an NFT; it's a bit like owning the only copy of a CD by your favorite artist.
Alec D'Alelio, a 25-year-old living in Brooklyn, bought his first NFT of a song in February 2021. It was produced by an artist named Supa Bwe, who D'Alelio says is an influential artist in the Chicago music scene close to where he went to college at Northwestern University.
"It was still really, really early at that point for music NFTs, very few people were doing it," D'Alelio said. "I wanted to show that people will buy this stuff, people care, people want to support."
D'Alelio, who also produces music for fun, has since bought over a dozen NFTs of songs and albums from various artists. He estimates his total collection is worth 4.75 ETH, or about $12,000. He bought each piece for somewhere between 0.1 to 1 Ether.
Christian Kaczmarczyk, a principal at venture-capital firm Third Prime, owns more than 20 NFTs of songs from various artists. A few of the names in his inventory, such as rapper Jon Waltz, are artists he has listened to since college. Other musicians, he discovered directly on NFT platforms. He estimates his collection is worth about $150,000.
"There are some artists that I plan to never want to sell just because I'm a big supporter of their careers," Kaczmarczyk, 27, said. But, he added, "It's nice to be able to have this option that if it does become worth something, I could potentially sell it for a value."
The opportunity to flip purchases for a higher price is one of the clearest financial incentives for buyers. Daniel Fowler, a music industry strategist based in London, said there is a concern about whales, entities or individuals with large sums of cryptocurrencies, buying up music NFTs. "You get into a world where people are essentially squatting on culture, in the same way that people would try and hoover up property and literally extract rent from that," he said.
One study found the top 10% of NFT traders perform 85% of all transactions, and trade 97% of all assets at least once. Fowler, who used to work at a blockchain startup, said a key driver in the increase of NFT activity was "people having spare crypto and wanting to do other stuff with it that might be more interesting than just buying Bitcoin."
Other complications abound. Collectors may be given bragging rights for "owning" the music or art in their NFTs, but not necessarily the copyright. It's not always clear whether NFT collectors can alter or repurpose the music they pay for. Artists and the platforms they use say the answer is a resounding no. (Unless, they are selling open-source beats or instrumentals.)
"The convergence of copyright law with NFTs is still a great unknown," said Kevin Greene, a law professor at Southwestern Law School who specializes in intellectual property and entertainment law. "A case is going to come at some point where some of these issues are clarified, but right now it's a Wild West and even copyright lawyers are struggling."
There is also the issue that other NFT projects have come to face: mainstream players entering the arena. Headliners from Katy Perry to BTS are starting to cash in. While independent artists are pulling in the majority of revenue, the gap between them and major-label artists is closing, according to Cherie Hu, founder of Water & Music.
But independent artists have something bigger acts don't: Licensing agreements often prevent A-list artists from listing singles or albums as NFTs. Instead, stars tend to release visual art. Perry, for instance, sold a collection of behind-the-scenes photos, moving art and a physical concert prop. Unsigned artists are able to avoid many of the legal hurdles to releasing music as NFTs. Also, because they often work with a few collaborators or alone entirely, they capture a greater portion of profits.
The business model attracted Allan Kyariga, a rapper living in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and known in the music world as Allan Kingdom. He says he stopped pursuing a full-time music career after being offered industry deals that "didn't make sense" to take.
He started releasing NFTs when a fan recommended he sell a music video using the technology in November. After selling ten, his earnings total 15.8 Ether, or $40,000 — an amount, he says, is double the advance of a distribution deal advance for an artist of his level. One of the 28-year-old's singles resold for as much as seven times the original price, which started at 0.1 Ether on a marketplace called Sound.xyz.
There is no guarantee that independent artists' success with NFTs will continue. Last year was a bumper year for NFTs. With buy-in from celebrities, politicians and even socialites such as Paris Hilton, the market for these digital collectibles surpassed $17 billion. Yet with many cryptocurrencies down this year — most NFTs rely on the native token of Ethereum — some wonder if the model for musicians is sustainable.
"If this thing doesn't get more popular anytime soon or doesn't give incentives for people to get involved, then this will go away," Kaczmarczyk, the music NFT collector, said.
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On the beat: Welcome to PCSOs
I WOULD like to express my thanks to Harrow's Deputy Borough Commander, Detective Superintendent Neil Wilson for writing last week's blog whilst I was on holiday with my family in North Wales.
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Neil told me how honoured he was to be so warmly welcomed at the consecration of the new Greek Orthodox Church on Kenton Road.
We look forward to working closely with Harrow's Greek Orthodox community in the months and years ahead.
Five new PCSOs, fresh out of training school from Hendon, joined the borough this week.
I am pleased to welcome PCSOs Lewis Austin, Dani Dod, Grace Fassenfield, Thomas Golden and Iain Mann who have been posted to Queensbury, Headstone South, Harrow on the Hill, Harrow Weald and Roxeth Safer Neighbourhoods Team, respectively.
They come from a variety of backgrounds and bring a wealth of life experiences to the police service.
PCSO Dani Dod, who is joining Headstone South SNT, was a groom prior to joining the MPS and aspires to become a police constable and eventually work with the Met Police's Mounted Branch.
Officers from Harrow Weald Safer Neighbourhoods Teams recovered a large assortment of power tools and gardening equipment, believed to be stolen, from an address in Harrow Weald recently.
We would very much like to hear from you if you live in the Harrow area, and have recently had tools stolen which you can supply serial numbers for. Please contact PC Craig Debenham by email at Craig.K.Debenham@met.police.uk.
I cannot stress the importance of property marking all expensive items such as power tools and garden equipment, so that if we do come across a large assortment of stolen items, we can identify the rightful owners as soon as possible.
I would also like to remind you to secure all sheds, garages and out-buildings with good quality locks to act as a deterrent to any would-be burglars.
If you know of anyone in your area who is involved in criminal activity, please call us on 101 or if you wish to remain anonymous call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Last week, in the early hours of Wednesday, officers from Harrow's Crime Squad executed a warrant at an address in West Harrow and recovered a quantity of cannabis and drugs paraphernalia.
A dog was also seized under the Dangerous Dogs Act.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply cannabis. He has been bailed to a date later this year whilst enquiries are ongoing.
A timely reminder to anyone thinking about buying online in the run up to Christmas.
A 27-year-old man from Rayners Lane had his feather severely ruffled after agreeing to buy an exotic bird from a free classified advertising site.
He paid for the bird by making an electronic transfer and awaited delivery.
Unfortunately for the victim, the bird never landed through his letter box and the suspect now cannot be traced. Online fraud is rife, please take every precaution to avoid being scammed or duped. For more detailed advice go to www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/
To mark Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, PCSO Suzanne Keys has been encouraging people to invest in timer switches to reduce the chances of their homes being burgled.
With the dark evenings upon us, having lights timed to come on as darkness falls makes your home look occupied, therefore reducing the chance of being burgled.
A house with lights on is a welcoming sight, not for a burglar though. For a more comprehensive guide to securing your home, visit the crime prevention pages on our website.
I met with PC Kay Phillips last week who is leaving Harrow borough to join colleagues in the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Bureau at New Scotland Yard.
The ANPR Bureau is a pan-London resource and supports colleagues across the MPS.
During her time at Harrow, Kay has worked in a number of roles, her last being a member of the Stanmore Park Safer Neighbourhoods team.
Kay is an extremely professional and dedicated officer who will be a great loss to the borough. I am very sorry to see her go, but wish her all the very best for the future.
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ESPOSITO: "I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE AND TO GET THE CHANCE TO WEAR THESE COLOURS"
The 17-year-old spoke to Inter TV while training with the First Team in Lugano: "I want to give my best, the Coach asks a lot of us"
LUGANO - After making his debut at the Stadio Meazza and being a key player for the Elite Academy with 31 goals in 38 appearances, Sebastiano Esposito has also earned a call-up for the summer pre-season camp under Antonio Conte.
While training in Lugano, the 17-year-old forward spoke to Inter TV and didn't hide his sense of satisfaction after signing a new contract. "I'm really happy to be able to wear these colours and to continue on this adventure with Inter. It's fantastic to be here in pre-season, I now want to work with humility and keep my feet on the ground."
"It's important that you always give your best, 110 per cent in every drill. The Coach asks a lot from us and expects a lot but we're happy to work hard. I'm used to it and it's important that you can make sacrifices for the good of the team. My next personal goal? I dream of making my Sere A debut, I know that I'll have to work hard and the road is still long but I hope that it can come true."
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Lia Weaver has always followed the strict rules of the village: Don't talk to outsiders. Don't go into the Frost at night. Don't ask too many questions. Rules keep her orphaned family alive in this harsh and unforgiving world. Her parents didn't follow the rules, and they're dead.
But when her sister finds a handsome fugitive from the advanced society of "Farthers" beyond the Frost bleeding to death in the forest, Lia does the unthinkable.
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Kia Motors begins to rope in dealers partners through road shows
South Korean car major Kia Motors which announced setting up a plant in Andhra Pradesh is hosting a series of roadshows around India to meet prospective dealer partners throughout August and September. The Korean car manufacturer is due to commence local retail sales during the second half of 2019.
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The Kia dealer road show will enable prospective dealer partners the opportunity to meet executives from Kia Motors India and learn more about the cars due on sale in India from 2019. Dealers attending each event in the road show calendar will also learn about Kia's business strategy and the company's plans for establishing its new Indian dealer network.
The Kia dealer road show will visit four of India's largest cities: Delhi (JW Marriott Aerocity, 8-9 August), Mumbai (ITC Maratha, 16-17 August), Bangalore (Hotel Taj West End, 23-24 August) and Kolkata (Taj Bengal, 1 September). Most importantly, Kia Motors India has officially launched its website www.kia.com on July 26th, 2017. For partnering with Kia Motors India, dealers can register for the roadshow at www.kiaroadshowindia.com.
Yong S. Kim, Head of Sales & Marketing, Kia Motors India, commented: "India ranks very high in our list of priorities and Kia Motors India is looking for dealers who want to be leaders – passionate and talented businesses who want to grow and succeed in partnership with the brand. India is a unique market, and it's important to Kia that we learn from those who have a deep understanding of local buyers and their needs. Like other regions where Kia already has a presence, we will offer Indian customers the highest levels of satisfaction. Our dealer partners hold the key to achieving this aim."
"There is no clearer sign of our commitment to the Indian market than the establishment of our new manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh. This new facility will be able to produce up to 300,000 new cars each year, with a range of vehicles built exclusively for the Indian market. Worldwide demand for Kia cars is growing, and combined with the start of sales in India, the new facility marks our latest step in becoming a leading global car manufacturer."
In April, Kia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, India to build a new manufacturing facility in Anantapur District. Kia's first production facility in the country represents a US$1.1 billion investment in India, and construction is due to commence during Q4 2017. When series production commences in the second half of 2019, Kia plans to produce a strategic compact sedan and compact SUV especially for the Indian market.
The site occupies 23 million square feet (2.16 km2 / 536 acres) and will incorporate facilities for stamping, welding, painting and assembly. It will also be home to numerous supplier companies' facilities.
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