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Re: Luthori

Postby Horrell » Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:58 am

The Women's March on Fort William
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October 4916
Today 5,000 protesters have finished their march on the nations capital today trying to aid in the struggle for woman and lgbt rights. The protest were organized by lawyer and women's rights activist Hellen Jackson, who used the protest as an opportunity to announce the creation of the Party Representing the Luthori Woman's and LGBT Rights Coalition or simply The Feminist Party in order to formalize the fight for equal rights in Luthori.

During the latter part of the protest, speakers talked about the need for a real movement advocating for the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Specifically targeting the restrictions on women in the workplace, the banning of abortion, the criminalization of gay marriage and the ban on women and homosexuals in the workplace. Shortly after the newly registered Feminist Party delivered a petition to the diet recommending certain policy proposals, however it is unlikely to gain popular support.

Hellen Jackson has stated that the Feminist Party will not stay dormant until the next election, focusing on working with private charities and nonprofits to give members of the LGBTQ+ community and women sponsorships and education as well as further develop their issue profile to try to appeal to voters in large. Jackson also asserts that the Feminist Party has a uniquely good opportunity, being a socially progressive party that is not competing over the communistic vote.
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Re: Luthori

Postby jellybean » Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:20 pm

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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:34 pm

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                    First Hulstrian refugees arrive in Luthori

                    October 4917

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                    ▲ The chartered cruise carrying the refugees arrives at the docks in Ackerley

ACKERLEY, SHIPLEYRIDING — The first of no doubt many more refugees from Hulstria and Gao-Soto arrived yesterday, fleeing the Kunihito supremacist regime in their homeland. Although Luthorian law bans the entry of refugees, a bill sponsored by Deputy Prime Minister Ernie Attridge establishing an exception for displaced persons from Hulstria and Gao-Soto passed the Diet in March despite Conservative opposition. Instrumental in galvanising public support for the bill was the Orange Order, and a campaign by them emphasising the shared history and friendship between Mikuni-Hulstria and Luthori. Mr Attridge and key figures from the Orange Order were at the docks in Ackerley to welcome the refugees.

Travel to Luthori was sponsored by the Luthoro-Hulstrian Association, representing the sizeable Hulstrian community in Luthori, and co-ordinated with the government. The differences between the Hulstrian community in Luthori and the new arrivals, however, are considerable: despite sharing the same country of origin, much of the Hulstrian community is descended from those who arrived in Luthori during the pre-Septembrist 'Greater Hulstria' era, and to a large extent retains that culture. While arrivals since then have generally assimilated into either the existing community or wider Luthorian culture, it remains to be seen just how such a large influx at once will change that.

But a quixotic mix of Septembrist modernisers and those of various stripes hoping for a greater connection with their ancestral homeland are hoping to change their community's character. "It's all very blue-blooded; and no pointing to Geraniengaus and pretending it's the same thing when it's not. We're stuck in an era when 'September' meant nothing and to append 'Revolution' made it sound Metzist," says one.

There will no doubt be many culture shocks, and it is not at all unfathomable that the new arrivals may end up forming their own community regardless of whether the established community stays as it is or embraces Septembrism. After all, how would refugees fleeing a Kunihito supremacist regime respond to that? In a way, it would appear that Septembrism is just as obsolete, just as looking to a country that is no longer there, as notions of a Greater Hulstria.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:06 pm

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                    Luthori to close embassy in Mikuni-Hulstria

                    July 4918

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                    ▲ The Foreign Secretary taking questions from the press after the announcement

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Luthori will be shuttering its embassy in Mikuni-Hulstria, Foreign Secretary Ernie Attridge announced to the Diet today. This, Mr Attridge said, was motivated by the Mikuno-Hulstrian government's recent decision to revoke all nations' diplomatic immunity, and consequent concerns for the safety of Luthorian diplomats. The Foreign Secretary was keen to stress that this did not mean Luthori would be severing relations with Mikuni-Hulstria.

Most Luthorian embassy staff left the country from Kien International Airport shortly after the minister's announcement, leaving only necessary staff ahead of the embassy's full closure and their own departure next week.

Despite the government's stated reasons and denials made by the Foreign Office, accusations have been levelled that the real reason was the recent antagonism between the two countries. This hostility culminated with allegations of mistreatment and poor conditions aboard the chartered ship and the internment of the refugees in camps upon arrival in Luthori, to which Mr Attridge responded with a Diet broadside and a short, official statement labelling the Mikuno-Hulstrian government 'liars'. The Luthoro-Hulstrian Association also denied the allegations, saying that the refugees had been accommodated in Luthorian hotels paid for by the association and prominent members of the Hulstrian community in Luthori.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:20 pm

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Luthorian Broadcasting Corporation launches
January 4919

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — The Luthorian Broadcasting Corporation began broadcasting today at 6 am on television and radio, after having officially launched at midnight. Planning and preparations for the broadcaster began months ago; it was officially established by the Luthorian Broadcasting Corporation Act, which passed the diet in April of last year and came into force at the same time the LBC began operations. Although it currently operates only one television channel and one radio station, the organisation has announced plans for further television channels and radio stations to be launched later this year.

A television licence fee of £36 has been established to fund the broadcaster, which hopes to expand its news division and start producing original entertainment. From now, households will have to pay this fee every year if they wish to receive television broadcasts of any type.


Tech secretary proposes cryptocurrency ban to Diet
January 4919

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Technology Secretary Harry Dowsett of the Luthorian Workers' Party has proposed a ban on cryptocurrency, the 'Cryptocurrency Act 4919', to the Imperial Diet, citing the "inevitable and indestructible connection of cryptocurrency to criminal activity", as well as excessive consumption of electricity from users 'mining' cryptocurrencies. The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Krypteia, Rob Abberley, responded by calling Mr Dowsett a "f**king ignorant lunatic". An online petition started by users of a popular Luthorian tech forum calling for the sacking of the tech secretary has gathered 50,000 signatures since his announcement this morning.

Much to the relief of crypto buffs throughout the country, it appears that the proposal will not pass the diet, with all political parties other than the Luthorian Workers' Party either voting against the bill or abstaining.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:05 pm

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                    Miners' union to affiliate to Luthorian Workers' Party

                    August 4921

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Since the setback faced by the Luthorian Workers' Party (LWP) at the 4917 general election, and even before, the party has been putting hard work into making new electoral inroads as well as solidify their existing bases of support as part of a long-term electoral strategy, having decided that the party cannot simply hope for an electoral surge to give them success. But that hard work, more than any number of the prestigious electoral strategists the LWP has hired from abroad, appears to have finally paid off.

This morning, at a joint conference with top party figures, the Luthorian Federation of Miners' Associations (LFMA) announced it would be officially affiliating with the Luthorian Workers' Party. The trade union, which has a membership of almost two million across its constituent miners' associations, is primarily concentrated in the coal-rich hills of Erneshire and the Middenriding; in the other main coal mining region, the Barrows of the Northriding, where the Luthorian Workers' Party has recently been making inroads, centuries of strike-breaking activity have left unionisation there almost non-existent.

Until now the Luthorian Federation of Miners' Associations has remained aloof from national politics, with the traditional leftist parties maintaining environmentalist stances antithetical to a coal mining workers' union, instead focusing on running affiliated candidates in local elections and working to directly advance the interests of the communities it represents by building parallel power structures. These well-paid, highly-skilled miners, well-read and autodidacts with a strong intellectual tradition, face accusations - ones they do not take kindly to - from more radical unions of acting as 'labour aristocrats' with a narrow focus on their own interests. Their communities are regimented, disciplined, and masculine, the place of women within them almost reactionary.

This goes beyond just those represented by the union, of course: this is also the case in the Northriding, where the LFMA is hoping to expand, with support from their new allies in the Luthorian Workers' Party. Not that the former is the case in the Northriding. For all the similarities in community cohesion, "well-paid" is anything but the mining work found in the Barrows, where the mines are operated by companies headquartered in Winworth that have for centuries suppressed attempts to organise.

As long as companies have cracked down on efforts to unionise, the LFMA has attempted to organise there, and much blood has been spilled over it. "But until recent years there was no party willing to speak out and actually take political action against the coal barons for the Barrow miners," says the federation's president Willard Rowse, while asking questions from the press after his joint announcement with LWP leader Ernie Attridge. The accuracy of the statement itself is up for debate, but the message is clear: only the Luthorian Workers' Party has workers' interests in mind.

When Mr Attridge visited the Barrows in 4914 to campaign and register voters, his national profile and political status (as well as notably stubborn nature) shielded him from any attempted intimidation from the coal companies, and Mr Rowse is no doubt hoping that having a powerful political ally will finally be able to ensure the Federation of Miners' Associations can organise in the region - but it is unlikely that the Winworth coal companies will give up the fight so easily.
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Re: Luthori

Postby JDog1 » Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:46 pm

THE NATIONAL CONFESSION PARTY FORMS MEDIA COMPANY.

On March 20th, 4922 Rosalie Gardener announced in a official statement that the Path to Paradise’s Gate shall be forming a new media company.

If we are to spread the message of the Path to all people throughout the world. We must first give ourselves the ability to speak loud enough so that everyone may hear us. That’s why I am delighted to announce that the Path shall be forming a new media organization. “Faith Media”. Faith Media shall show the world that the Path to Paradise is clear to those who have Faith.


On March 22, more details about Faith Media were released to the public. Faith Media shall be a registered media firm with the ability to publish multiple forms of evangelical media. The company shall be split into multiple studios specializing in literature , films/TV, advertisement, public relations, and internet media respectively. Faith Media shall fall under the general management of the National Confession Party.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Horrell » Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:38 pm

AS FEMINIST WIN MORE SEATS OPLERS FACE CHALLENGE RUMOR

As the Feminist Party wins large in the Imperial Diet and Prime Minister Oplers face incoming cabinet negotiations she may face pressure from inside her party as a new group of radical feminist makes gains. MID Jammie Maddison, the creator of the Liberation Caucus, has released a press statement saying "The Liberation Caucus is not in favor of milquetoast leadership." This pared with the fact that Jammie Maddison and the other freshmen members of the Liberation Caucus criticized Oplers moderation in there campaign. Two names for the Leadership challenge have been floated by pundits, MID Maddison herself and Fiance Minister Peter Lionsworth, who has been known as a more radical member of the LGBT and Feminist Movements and has had meeting with (and later joined) the Liberation Caucus, time will tell to see if this challenge solidifies and gives Oplers a run for her money.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:22 pm

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                    Workers' conference: the highlights

                    March 4923 [post-dated]

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Over the last two days, members of the Luthorian Workers' Party met in Fort William to mark the tenth anniversary of their party's decision to enter national politics, to discuss their party's future and its policy, and to hear party grandees speak. The conference began with a roll call of constituency associations and affiliated organisations, followed by several policy seminars leading up to the headline event: leader Ernie Attridge's presentation and articulation of the vision the party has developed, and the main policy proposals to accompany this.

"Our socialism is a socialism of aspiration, of the good life; of not only higher exports and old-age pensions, but more open-air cafes, brighter and gayer streets at night, later closing hours for public houses, more local repertory theatres, better and more hospitable hoteliers and restaurateurs, brighter and cleaner eating houses, more riverside cafes, more pleasure gardens, more murals and pictures in public places, better designs for furniture and pottery and women’s clothes, statues in the centre of new housing estates, better-designed new street lamps and telephone kiosks and so on ad infinitum. One where workers have a Continental at the front of the house and good schools for their children."

"It is a socialism of using forms of common ownership which diffuse power to give both employees and consumers more control over their lives. One which is which is decentralized, pluralist, flexible and above all workable, based in the experiences of workers and their families. It is a socialism by and for the coal miners in the hills, the porters in the fish markets, the bricklayers on construction sites, workers everywhere."

Mr Attridge then offered policies on how to achieve this, including: grants to co-operatives of producers and consumers; "directly empowering communities" by the devolution of power past the duchy level to the parishes; and more generous government funding for quality of life and beautification projects, citing the real impact these can have on communities and lives.

At a foreign policy seminar, Shadow Foreign Secretary Henry Walsham offered a vision of a Luthori looking out across the Artanian Sea to North Seleya. "The future of Luthori's external policy is with nations like Likatonia and Baltusia, which have consistently demonstrated internal stability and with which we share a common language. Our challenge will be to convince them to take an active role on the international stage - after centuries of isolation, which to an extent we have shown also - and that Luthori can be a reliable friend." Perhaps more controversially, he suggested that Luthori should look to Hobrazia as a friend. "Instead of knee-jerk reactions to a proposed dam, which numerous independent studies have shown would have no adverse effects on our nation, we should be recognising that Hobrazia can be a close partner in the coming years and that the dam can in fact benefit both our nations."

At this conference the Luthorian Workers' Party sought to project an image of itself as unified and strong going into the election later this year, ready for government and having ideas and plans to bring into it that would benefit ordinary people and empower Luthori. It did just that.
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