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Berta Cáceres’s Name Was On Honduran Military Hitlist

June 22, 2016 Nina Lakhani, www.theguardian.com , , , ,
By Nina Lakhani for The Guardian - Berta Cáceres, the murdered environmental campaigner, appeared on a hitlist distributed to US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military months before her death, a former soldier has claimed. Lists featuring the names and photographs of dozens of social and environmental activists were given to two elite units, with orders to eliminate each target, according to First Sergeant Rodrigo Cruz, 20. Cruz’s unit commander, a 24-year-old lieutenant, deserted rather than comply with the order. Cruz – who asked to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of reprisal – followed suit...

The Artists And Activists Who’ve Aimed At The Roots Of Injustice

June 15, 2016 Alexis Clements, www.hyperallergic.com ,
By Alexis Clements for Hyperallergic - A few years ago I was covering a panel discussion for Hyperallergic featuring members of Gran Fury, an ACT UP affinity group focused primarily on producing what group members themselves called “propaganda” against a government hellbent on isolating, vilifying, and smugly looking on as tens of thousands of their citizens died of AIDS. There were a number of young people in the audience at the event and more than once the hand of one of these audience members rose to ask how they could do something similar — how they could employ similar tactics and ideas in political struggles happening today.

Will Outrage Over Recent Murders Help Honduran Environmental Activists

June 15, 2016 Victoria Molina, www.ensia.com , , ,
By Victoria Molina for Ensia - June 13, 2016 — When Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres was gunned down in her home last spring the international community and even activists in the notoriously violent country were shocked. Her death followed threats related to her support for indigenous people fighting the construction of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam along the Gualcarque River. A few days after her death Nelson García, another leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (known as COPINH), which Cáceres founded in 1993 to advocate for the native Lenca peoples’ rights, was also murdered.

Lessons From Life Of Organizer Fred Ross For Committed Activists

June 11, 2016 Bill Fletcher, Jr., www.inthesetimes.com ,
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. for In These Times - The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the opposite end, they can tend towards tell-all pieces, in some cases aiming to tear down the subject. What makes America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century, Gabriel Thompson’s new biography of the legendary community organizer, unusual is that it presents a very balanced account of the life and work of one of the foremost progressive organizers of the 20th century...

Black Lives Matter Organizer Convicted Of ‘Attempted Lynching’

June 6, 2016 Sameer Rao, www.colorlines.com , ,
By Sameer Rao for Color Lines - We couldn't make up that headline. Black Lives Matter Pasadena founder Jasmine Richards was found guilty of a felony on Wednesday (June 1). As Mic reports that Richards was charged under a California law that—until last summer when legislators amended it to omit the racially-charged word—defined lynching as "the taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody of any peace officer." The charges stem from an August 2015 incident when Richards led a march highlighting Pasadena police officers' 2012 killing of Kendrec McDade.

Trial Of Heather Doyle: Md. County Drops Hammer On Anti-LNG Activist

June 2, 2016 Mark Hand, www.counterpunch.org ,
By Mark Hand for Counter Punch - Anne Meador: Cove Point LNG isn’t just a huge profit-generator for one corporation. It will have enormous ramifications for the gas industry in the Marcellus Shale. Even though the gas reserves in the Marcellus have been overestimated, probably purposefully, the gas fracked in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is like a cork ready to pop. Frackers need to get their product to markets where they can get the best price, and that means international markets.

Trial Concludes With Cove Point Activist’s Emotional Testimony

May 27, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us ,
By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Heather Doyle gave a tearful account in Calvert County Circuit Court on Thursday about how a Sheriff’s deputy assaulted her, a story which State’s attorneys assert is untrue. This was the third day of her trial on the charge of making a false statement to police stemming from a demonstration against Dominion Cove Point in February 2015. By the end of the day, closing statements were delivered, and the verdict lay in the hands of the jury.

Officers Deny Allegations Of Assaulting Cove Point Activist

May 26, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - A year ago, defendant Heather Doyle and fellow protester Carling Sothoron had the tables turned on them when they filed an official complaint with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office. They claimed that they had been endangered and Doyle assaulted on February 3, 2015 when they conducted a publicity stunt to draw attention to Dominion Cove Point, a fracked gas export terminal. Unfortunately for the young women, not only did an internal investigation conclude that no deputies were at fault, the County filed charges against them for making a false statement to an officer.

Mothers In Resistance – ¡Berta Cáceres Vive!

May 7, 2016 Lydia Simas, www.grassrootsinternational.org , ,
By Lydia Simas for Grassroots International - Berta Cáceres – indigenous, environmental, and human rights defender and fierce feminist who was assassinated in Honduras on March 3rd, 2016 – was, among so many other things, a mother in resistance. She inherited this from her mother, who was an inspiration to her, and she passed this down to her own daughters and son. Berta’s mother, Austra Bertha Flores Lopez, worked as a midwife and served as mayor of their town and then governor of their state.

Woman Stands Up To More Than 300 Nazis

May 4, 2016 Sara Malm, www.dailymail.co.uk , ,
By Sara Malm For Daily Mail - This is the moment one brave woman stepped out in front of the leaders of a 300-strong Nazi march - and raised her fist in defiance. The photograph was taken in Borlange, Dalarna, in central Sweden, where the militant Nazi organisation Nordiska motståndsrörelsen (Nordic Resistance Movement) was holding a rally on International Workers' Day this weekend.

Berta Cáceres Murder: 4 Men Arrested Over Honduran Activist’s Death

May 3, 2016 Nina Lakhani, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Nina Lakhani for The Guardian - Cáceres, who last year won the Goldman environmental prize for her work opposing the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque River, had previously reported both men to authorities for making threats against her life. Rodriguez had allegedly threatened Cáceres just days before her death as she led a protest by her group the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Copinh) to the river which is considered sacred by the indigenous Lenca people. Cáceres reported the incident to the authorities, and accused Desa of using local thugs to intimidate her.

McKibben Responds To Right Wing Plan To Target Climate Activists

May 3, 2016 Bill McKibben, www.alternet.org , ,
By Bill McKibben for 350.org - According to The Hill, America Rising is pouring an “unprecedented” amount of resources into a campaign usually reserved for only the most high-profile Democratic targets. America Rising and associated groups are using their immense research and tracking infrastructure intended to take down Hillary Clinton to now target Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer, and others in the climate movement. This is not the first time right-wing operatives allied with the fossil fuel industry have directly targeted McKibben, 350.org, and other climate justice activists.

Remembering Muhammad Salah

May 2, 2016 Michael E. Deutsch, www.electronicintifada.net ,
By Michael E. Deutsch for The Electronic Intifada - My friend and client Muhammad Salah died on Sunday aged 62, after suffering from cancer for several years. I had the great privilege and honor, along with Erica Thompson, of defending him in federal court in Chicago against charges of terrorism and racketeering. Muhammad’s trial in 2007 exposed the systematic use of torture by Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, and the cynical willingness of the US government to use such torture evidence as part of their phony war on terrorism.

How Chicago Activists Organized To Get An Adult Trauma Center

April 15, 2016 Claire Bushey, www.chicagobusiness.com , ,
By Claire Bushey for Crain - From 61st and Cottage Grove, above still-leafless trees, you can see the complex where University of Chicago Medicine will house its future trauma center. It didn't exist when Damian Turner was shot at the corner almost six years ago. The random victim of someone else's vendetta, the 18-year-old was hit shortly after midnight on Aug. 15, 2010, just three blocks south of U of C's medical campus. He struggled to his sister's apartment, his back bleeding, and collapsed in front of his young nieces and nephews. A neighbor called 911.

Activists Will Argue Obstructed London Arms Fair ‘To Prevent Crimes’

April 14, 2016 Damien Gayle, www.theguardian.com , ,
By Damien Gayle for The Guardian - Peace campaigners who have appeared in court charged with obstructing access to a London arms fair will argue that their actions were necessary to prevent crimes being committed using the weapons on sale. Five men and three women appeared before Stratford magistrates court accused of obstructing the highway outside the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in east London last September. Their protests stalled lorries and military vehicles attempting to gain access to the biennial event, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, in the ExCeL centre in London’s Docklands.
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