Activists

Lessons From Life Of Organizer Fred Ross For Committed Activists

June 11, 2016 Bill Fletcher, Jr., www.inthesetimes.com Strategize! Activists, History

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 Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Activists, Black Lives Matter (BLM)

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 Resist! Activists, LNG

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 Resist! Activists, Cove Point

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 Resist! Activists, Cove Point, Police

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 Resist! Activists, Mothers, Women

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 Resist! Activists, Nazis, Sweden

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 Resist! Activists, Latin America, Murder

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 Resist! Activists, Bill McKibben, Climate Change

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 Resist! Activists, Palestine

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 Resist! Activists, Chicago, Trauma

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 Resist! Activists, Protests, United Kingdom (UK)

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.

Gustavo Castro Leaves Honduras, Returns To Mexico

April 2, 2016 Staff, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Resist! Activists, Honduras, Mexico, Violence

By Staff of Other Worlds - After being prevented from leaving Honduras for 24 days, the coordinator of Otros Mundos A.C./Friends of the Earth Mexico was notified that the ‘migratory alert’ impeding his travel has been lifted. Today, Thursday March 31, 2016, the First Courthouse of Letters of Intibucá, Honduras, acting on instructions from the judge Victorina Flores Orellana, decided to lift the measure prohibiting Gustavo Castro Soto from leaving the country, which has been in place since March 7.

NYC’s New Generation Of Militant Activists

March 28, 2016 Vienna Rye, www.medium.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Activists, Black Lives Matter (BLM), NYC, Racism

By Vienna Rye for Medium - Over the past year and a half, New York City has seen the growth of an organized, militant grassroots movement, lead by young activists of color and completely ignored by the mainstream media. Gaining steam a few months after the Ferguson Uprising in 2014, tens of thousands of New Yorkers began taking to the streets to demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner. Now, seventeen months later, a coordinated network has formed, shutting down the streets on a weekly basis in every single borough.

Activists In Central America Fear For Their Lives In Wake Of Assassinations

March 23, 2016 Jeff Abbott, www.truth-out.org Resist! Activists, Assassination, Latin America

By Jeff Abbott for Truthout - Early in the morning of March 3, gunmen entered the house of environmental activist Berta Cáceres in La Esperanza, Honduras, and assassinated the high-profile indigenous Lenca leader. The assassination comes after an escalation of a conflict over the construction of the Agua Zarca hydro project on the sacred Gualcarque River in the community of Agua Blanca. This assassination has sent shock waves across the region and put activists in similar struggles on edge.

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