Human Rights

Protection Of Human Rights From Climate Change

December 10, 2015 Staff, www.greenpeace.org Resist! Climate Change, Human Rights

By Staff of Greenpeace International - Climate change is a human rights issue. Already today many people around the world have their rights to life, water, food, health, housing and other rights impacted by climate impacts. It is in our hands to stop making this situation worse. Governments must speed up this change here in Paris to phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050 through a just transition towards 100% renewable energy, as well as the protection and restoration of forests and other ecosystems.

Renewed Pardon Hopes For Jailed Saudi Blogger Badawi

November 30, 2015 Staff, www.middleeasteye.net Educate! Amnesty, Human Rights

By Staff of MEE - The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi expressed renewed hope on Saturday that her husband might soon be pardoned after a senior Swiss official said such a move was in the pipeline. Ensaf Haidar has been outspoken over the plight of her husband since he was detained in 2012 on cyber-crime charges and later sentenced for insulting Islam and calling for the end of the influence of religion on Saudi public life. Yves Rossier, the secretary of state at the Swiss foreign ministry, said in the newspaper La Liberte on Saturday: "A procedure for a pardon is now under way before the head of state, that is King Salman."

Berkeley City Hall Occupation Update

November 22, 2015 Mike Zint, www.occupysf.net Resist! Affordable Housing, Homeless, Homelessness, Human Rights

By Mike Zint for Occupy SF. Berkeley, CA - November 20, Day 5: It has been a busy day. The occupation is growing. We have had a lot of food support. Tents are still needed. Blankets are still needed. We have had channel 2, channel 7, the Dailycal, and KGO come by. We thank them for paying attention. And finally, many old friends are showing up. People I have not seen protesting for awhile. My hope is on 12/1, all our old Occupy friends reunite here to hang out, and stand in solidarity with the occupiers. 1 day, 1 Bay Area convergence here at city hall. Spread the word on our “peasant uprising.”

Homeless Camp In DC Cleared Out

November 22, 2015 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Washington DC

By Anne Meador of DC Media Group. Washington, DC - Just as a cold front blew into town, a tent encampment was razed on Friday in a multi-agency effort to clear out the homeless from many areas around the District. Many people without other shelter have long occupied the space among the chaotic roadways and overpasses between Rock Creek Parkway, the Whitehurst Freeway, and K Street. A few days ago, the occupants were given notice to vacate the area, but few have anywhere to go. Many of the tents were disassembled without protest, while some camp residents vowed to defend their makeshift homes. A few advocates for the homeless arrived to witness the camp’s destruction, but they did not interfere.

Water Resistance Trial Underway In Detroit

November 19, 2015 Bill Quigley, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Detroit, Detroit water, Detroit water shut off, Human Rights

By Bill Quigley for Popular Resistance. A jury trial is underway in Detroit for human rights activists arrested for blocking trucks which were going to cutoff water to low-income families. On July 18, 2014, dozens of people successfully blocked the trucks of the Homrich Inc., a private wrecking company that the City of Detroit contracts with to carry out water shutoffs. The trucks were leaving to cutoff water for Detroiters who were more than $150 past due on payments. After an eight hour blockade nine people were arrested. Those on trial said civil disobedience was their only option to address the grave public health crisis of mass water shutoffs, since the City of Detroit was under emergency management, which effectively strips all elected officials of decision-making power. One of the people on trial is Bill Wylie-Kellermann, pastor of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Detroit. He told The Detroit News “It was, at the time, the last vestige of democracy in the city.” Defendant Marian Kramer of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and Highland Park Human Right Coalition highlighted what she sees as the irony of the City criminally charging and prosecuting defendants for nonviolent defense of Detroiters’ right to water.

Fracking Goes On Trial For Human Rights Violations

November 16, 2015 Kathleen Dean Moore, www.truth-out.org Resist! Fracking, Human Rights

By Kathleen Dean Moore for Truthout - As convoys of heavy trucks carry fracking equipment into new oil fields in neighborhoods and wildlands around the world, an alliance of human rights organizations is making plans to put the entire practice of hydraulic fracturing on trial. The court is the Permanent People's Tribunal, a descendant of the Vietnam War-era International War Crimes Tribunal. The Peoples' Tribunal is a branch of no government on Earth. It has no power of enforcement. It has no army, no prison, no sheriff. So what's the point? The point is that it matters to tell the truth in a public place.

Harry Belafonte: Activism, Unrest & Making People Squirm

November 1, 2015 Cambria Roth, www.crosscut.com Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Human Rights, Racism

By Cambria Roth for Crosscut - The people who turn away from radical thought are people who don’t like to be uncomfortable. And radical thought at its best is supposed to make people feel uncomfortable. We talk about the uprisings in communities like in St. Louis and Baltimore, and it is what protests are supposed to do. The fact that some niceties are inconvenienced and people can’t get to work on time because there are protests in the streets, well, hello, that is what we do. That is what we are supposed to do. That is what Dr. King did. I pointed out in a strategy session we had in Baltimore, when the state teargassed, machines of oppression showed up, and then applied a curfew. Everyone kind of bemoaned that fact. I said, “Those of you who are caught up in protest, this is a golden opportunity. If the state says you go to bed by 10 o’clock, then you should make sure that by 11, the streets of our cities are filled with human protest and bodies!” The fact that some might have a restless night with the noise downstairs or find it inconvenient because people blocked traffic, well that’s the point — to snap you out of your indifference! So those who are turned off by radical thinking, or radical behavior, well, as a matter of fact, in many ways, you are our target.

Activist Facing 1000 Lashes & 10 Years In Prison Wins Human Rights Prize

October 30, 2015 Staff, www.europarl.europa.eu Resist! Human Rights, Political Prisoner, Saudi Arabia

By Staff of European Parliament News - “The conference of Presidents decided that the Sakharov Prize will go to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi,” said Schulz announcing the 2015 laureate in plenary. “This man, who is an extremely good man and an exemplary good man, has had imposed on him one of the most gruesome penalties that exist in this country which can only be described as brutal torture." The EP President added: “I call on King of Saudi Arabia to stop the execution of this sentence, to release Mr Badawi, to allow him to back to his wife and to allow him to travel here for the December session to receive this prize."

Jewish Extremist Attacks Human Rights Rabbi

October 25, 2015 Daniel Marans, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Human Rights, Israel, Palestine

By Daniel Marans for the Huffington Post - A masked assailant attacked the leader of a Jewish human rights organization during a Palestinian olive harvest near a Jewish West Bank settlement on Friday in an incident caught on camera. The victim told local media he believed the attacker was a Jewish extremist. The video shows a masked man throwing a rock and jabbing a knife at Rabbi Arik Ascherman, president of the Jerusalem-based group Rabbis for Human Rights. Ascherman was part of a group of Israeli and international activists that was helping a local Palestinian community with its annual olive harvest under the supervision of the Israeli army,according to reports by Israeli news outlets. They were there to protect Palestinian farmers from violence by Jewish settlers, theft of olives and destruction of olive groves, which they say Israeli security forces routinely fail to prevent.

Corporate Rigged Trade Makes Protecting Human Rights More Difficult

October 21, 2015 Preeti Katur, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Human Rights

By Preeti Katur for Tele Sur TV - Human rights mechanisms fail to ensure reparations for abhorrent human rights violations, while trade dispute panels protect the right to profit. One of the great achievements of the often thankless work of a human rights lawyer is when – after years of working with brave survivors of awful violations – a court or human rights tribunal makes a positive decision in a case. The human rights tribunal finds that your client’s fundamental integrity was harmed in some way, and that this harm requires redress. This legal and moral victory cannot be underestimated, and a finding of a violation can have enormous rehabilitative benefits for the survivor of human rights abuses. But, redress does not always come.

Children Traumatized By World Bank

October 11, 2015 Jocelyn Zuckerman and Michael W. Hudson, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Human Rights, Land grabs, Palm Oil, World Bank

By Jocelyn Zuckerman and Michael W. Hudson for the Huffington Post. Sungai Beruang, Indonesia -- Revan Pragustiawan loved his home by the river. The little boy’s ancestors built the place in a rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, using local bark and leaves in the traditional style of the Batin Sembilan tribe. Over the years, his dad had improved the house with wood and a metal roof. Revan felt safe there, sleeping on a plastic mat huddled up with his family, and spending his days playing with his sister and helping with chores. By the summer of 2011, he was 5 years old, big enough to help his mother fetch drinking water from the river and look forward to helping with a new garden his dad and some neighbors were planning to sow along the riverbank. Everything changed for Revan on the morning of August 10, 2011.

#Enough: Afghan’s Five Days Toward Peace

October 3, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Afghanistan, Human Rights, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Kabul, Afghanistan - In light of the 14th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan and the recent US bombing of a Doctors Without Borders charity hospital in the northern city of Kunduz that has killed at least 19 people and injured dozens of others, the Afghan Peace Volunteers are releasing a video each day for five days to show people in the US that they are human and we should not be bombing them. On their website, Our Journey to Smile, the Afghan Peace Volunteers write: After 14 long years of assuming that the war in Afghanistan is necessary, each day for the *next five short days, we offer you five tiny video snippets which invite you to see Afghans differently. To the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul, acquiring new insights is essential, if we are all to survive the growing, multidirectional violence, from the Taliban on the ground or from U.S./NATO airstrikes.

Peoples’ Tribunal Shows Fracking’s Threat to Human Rights

October 3, 2015 Damien Short, Anna Grear, Tom Kerns and Simona L. Perry, www.truth-out.org Resist! Fracking, Human Rights

By Damien Short, Anna Grear, Tom Kerns and Simona L. Perry for Truthout - "The needs of public conscience can become a recognized source of law […] and a tribunal that emanates directly from the popular consciousness reflects an idea that will make headway: institutionalized powers and the people, from whom the former claim legitimacy in actual fact tend to diverge and only a truly popular initiative can try to bridge the gap between people and power."—Lelio Basso. Communities and individuals all over the world have been, and are being, affected by fracking operations. Frequently, such affected communities and individuals face powerful corporations and governments unresponsive to the voices of those claiming that their lives and communities have been blighted by fracking.

People’s ‘Walk-In’ Defends Public Education In Milwaukee

September 28, 2015 Workers World, www.workers.org Resist! Education, Human Rights, Milwaukee, Public Education

Educators, staff members, students and community members “walked-in” at 105 Milwaukee Public Schools on Sept. 18. This action was organized by the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association and Schools and Communities United, with support from dozens of labor-community organizations. Participants held rallies, informational picket lines and other events before the start of the school day and before they “walked-in” to their respective schools. Thousands across the city demanded an end to Wall Street attacks on public education. In a powerful solidarity action, similar groups organized simultaneous walk-ins at 14 public schools in LaCrosse, Wis., near the Minnesota state line. Over the past few years the right-wing-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has rammed through the greatest austerity cutbacks in the history of the state in public education — both K-12 and higher education.

Ten Ten: Million Man March

September 20, 2015 Million Man March, www.justiceorelse.com Resist! Economic Justice, Human Rights, Racial Justice, Racism

By Million Man March. Washington, DC - On October 10, 2015 in Washington, D.C., at the National Mall, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will convene the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March under the theme: Justice or Else! We want justice! We want equal justice under the law. We want justice applied equally regardless to creed or class or color. Justice is the birthright of every human being. Justice is a prerequisite to life. We cannot live without justice and where there is no justice there is no peace. Justice is one of the eternal principals that the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth has decreed that every creature should have the freedom to be what God created it to be. Freedom, Justice and Equality are not conferred on us by the Constitution, but the Creator confers Freedom, Justice and Equality on every human being.

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