Activists

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.

‘Berta Lives!’ Indigenous Groups March For Justice In Honduras

March 18, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Activists, Honduras, Land Rights, Murder

By Staff of Tele Sur - Activists from across Honduras have mobilized for two days of action to demand that the murders of Berta Caceres and Nelson Garcia do not go unpunished. Under the banner “Berta lives, the struggle continues!” Indigenous groups and supporters from across Honduras will march on the capital city Tegucigalpa on Thursday and Friday to demand justice for murdered environmental leader Berta Caceres and an end to repressive mining and dam projects that threaten Indigenous rights across the country.

Rainforest Activists Win Against One Of Pepsi’s Closest Business Partners

March 12, 2016 Reynard Loki, www.alternet.org Resist! Activists, Corporations, Environment

By Reynard Loki for AlterNet - The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has divested from a major snack food company due to its failure to implement ethical palm oil policies. Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), which is valued at around $880 billion, divested from First Pacific Group Ltd (HK: 0142), the parent company of Indonesia-based Indofood, which has controlling interests in one of the biggest plantation companies in Indonesia tied to conflict palm oil.

Berta Cáceres Murder: Honduras Blocks Sole Witness From Leaving Country

March 10, 2016 David Agren, www.theguardian.com Educate! Activists, Enviornment, Honduras, Murder

By David Agren for The Guardian - Officials in Honduras have refused to allow the only witness to the murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres to leave the country and return to his native Mexico. Gustavo Castro Soto, coordinator of Friends of the Earth Mexico and director of the NGO Otros Mundos, was shot twice during the attack on Cáceres on Thursday morning, and only survived by playing dead. Officials are treating him as a protected witness, according to the Associated Press, but activists say that the Honduran attorney general’s office has issued a 30-day immigration alert against him, preventing him from leaving the country.

Single Payer Advocate Quentin Young Dies At 92

March 9, 2016 Russell Mokhiber, www.singlepayeraction.org Educate! Activists, Health Care, Heroism, Medicare for all

By Russell Mokhiber for Single Payer Action. Berkeley, CA - Dr. Quentin Young, past president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and from 1992-2014 the organization’s national coordinator, died on March 7 in Berkeley, California where he had been under the watchful eyes and care of his daughters and other family members. He was 92. In addition to his work with PNHP, Dr. Young co-founded and chaired for many years the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. “Dr. Young was known for his sharp, clear-eyed analysis of social and economic problems, particularly in health care, his deep commitment to social justice and racial equality, his quick wit, his insuppressible optimism, personal courage, and his ability to inspire those around him to join him in the battle for a more equitable and caring world,” said Robert Zarr, president of PNHP.

New Wave Of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself As Law-Enforcers

March 2, 2016 Jeremy Brecher, www.wagingnonviolence.org Create! Activists, Climate Change

By Jeremy Brecher for Waging Nonviolence - One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse. That’s about 40 million adults. The fate of the earth may depend on them — and others around the world — doing so. Such actions are about to take a quantum leap both in numbers and in global coordination. From May 4-15, 350.org, Greenpeace and many other organizations — notably grassroots movement organizations from every continent — will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels.

Pam Palmater: Honour The Treaties, Keep The Promises

February 13, 2016 Christopher Majka, www.rabble.ca Educate! Activists, Canada, Indigenous Peoples

By Christopher Majka for Rabble - Pam Palmater projects like crisp, clean air. Warm, intelligent, articulate, funny, passionate, committed, and razor-sharp she refreshingly blows away dusty stereotypes and archaic prejudices. She seems equally at home as a passionate advocate of Indigenous concerns and values, and a contemporary Canadian activist with a clear vision of the common purpose of native and non-native societies in building a more just, wise, and egalitarian society. She has the ability to cross divides, speaking with a clarity and purpose that everyone can understand, no matter what their origin.

Love & Fight On The Front Lines, Military Buys, …

February 11, 2016 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report Activists, Military

By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy - This week – I'll tell you what I'm not covering and then I think it's about time I uncovered those moments and times on the front lines --- that suck --- when the powers that be unleash their flailing pawns to break us and stop us. As we recognize the need to recognize our own and each other's health and wellness, hear the tale of two activists who are neither broken nor stopping. And lastly but most of the budget – our military. But first, I am a hypocrite.

Cape Cod Activist Found Guilty; Act Of Conscience Or Crime?

February 8, 2016 Karen Vale, www.capecodbaywatch.org Resist! Activists, Arrest, Energy, Massachusetts, Protests

By Karen Vale for Cape Cod Bay Watch. Plymouth, MA - Seventy-three year old Paul Rifkin of Mashpee, Mass. was on trial February 2 at Plymouth District Court. The charge was trespassing at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on Mother’s Day in 2015 during a rally with 40 other protestors. Two people were arrested, and it was Rifkin’s third arrest at Pilgrim. Rifkin refused to plead guilty or accept a deal with the prosecution because his actions last May, he stated, “deserved commendation, not condemnation.” He chose to have a jury trial with the possibility of jail time. A jury of six was selected and Rifkin represented himself.

West Papuans Testify

January 26, 2016 Jason MacLeod, www.transcend.org Resist! Activists, Massacres, West Papua

By Jason MacLeod for TRANSCEND Media Service - We have come to testify. There is much that we want the world to know. We want you to travel with us to the remote places of Papua—Wamena, Paniai, the Jayawijaya Highlands, the Star Mountains, Mindiptana, Timika, Arso, Mamberamo, Biak, Merauke, Asmat and many other places. We want you to hear stories of suffering from the mouths of ordinary people. Our memories are clear and sharp. ‘In this river our father was murdered’ ‘On that mountain slope there used to be villages. They were destroyed by the military’...

Activist Who Held Vigil Outside White House For Decades, Dies

January 26, 2016 Caitlin Gibson, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! Activists, Anti-Nuclear, Anti-War, Vigil

By Caitlin Gibson for The Washington Post - Concepcion Picciotto, the protester who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than three decades, a demonstration widely considered to be the longest-running act of political protest in U.S. history, died Jan. 25 at a housing facility operated by N Street Village, a nonprofit that supports homeless women in Washington. She was believed to be 80. She had recently suffered a fall, but the immediate cause of death was not known, said Schroeder Stribling, the shelter’s executive director.

Anti-Drone Activist Reports To Jail For Six-Month Sentence

January 21, 2016 Patrick O'Neill, www.ncronline.org Resist! Activists, Arrest, Drones, New York (NY)

By Patrick O'Neill for NCR - Wondering if she will ever see her mother again, Catholic anti-drone activist and grandmother Mary Anne Grady Flores made a final stop Tuesday, Jan. 19, to say goodbye to her mother, Teresa Grady, before leaving Ithaca, N.Y., to report to jail to begin serving a six-month jail sentence in East Syracuse, N.Y. In a case that has dragged on for almost three years, Grady Flores, 59, chauffeured by two of her four children, headed off into a threatening winter snowstorm hoping to get to the Town of DeWitt Court by Tuesday afternoon, where she was remanded to custody at the Jamesville Correctional Facility.

Detroit Activists Provide Flint Residents Water In Contamination Crisis

January 20, 2016 Cassius Methyl, www.eraofwisdom.org Create! Activists, Flint, Michigan, Water

By Cassius Methyl for Era of Wisdom - Activist group New Era Detroit took thousands of bottles of water to Flint, Michigan on Sunday, successfully providing residents with clean drinking water in the face of an unprecedented water contamination disaster. Flint residents have been afflicted with the choices of drinking highly toxic water, not drinking water, or seeking water elsewhere as the people who created the problem have yet to offer an effective solution. Toxic lead was found in residents’ blood a month ago.

Israeli Human Rights Defender Ezra Nawi Arrested

January 19, 2016 Anonymous Israel Activists, www.icahdusa.org Resist! Activists, Ezra Nawi, Israel, Palestine, Police State

By Anonymous Israel Activists for ICAHD-USA - We would like to alert you to an ominous development in Israel. Having denied Palestinians under Occupation their rights to any form of political protest, the Israeli government is now in the process of doing the same to Israeli citizens who support the Palestinian cause. Last week the Israeli police arrested Ezra Nawi, our friend and prominent dissident, who has been indispensable in the struggle for the survival of Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills.

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