Human Rights

Colorado Fight Against Censorship Of US History Escalates

October 1, 2014 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Education, History, Human Rights, Racism

A passionate coalition of teachers and students in Jefferson County, Colorado are continuing their fight against censorship this week, employing some of the very tactics the conservative school board wants to eliminate from history textbooks. Seventy-two of 102 teachers at Golden and Jefferson high schools called in absent on Monday, forcing both schools to close for the day; teacher "sick-outs" also closed two high schools on September 19. Meanwhile, several dozen students from Carmody Middle School walked out of classes on Tuesday morning, marking the first time younger students have joined an ongoing protest by teachers and high schoolers against proposed changes to the district's history curriculum.

What Lena Dunham Taught Us About Unpaid Labor

October 1, 2014 Shen Trotter and Isabelle Nastasia, www.youngist.org Organize! Human Rights, Labor, Solidarity, Youth

Could a movement of part-time and temporary laborers, who are frequently mothers, caretakers, and homemakers, be a part of the revival of a movement demanding living wages for housework? What if interns and freelancers supported the growing movement in the US prison system by establishing connections with those struggling behind the walls? We often speak of all our oppressions as connected; taking the first steps towards creating and strengthening these bonds can lay the social groundwork that will support a popular or revolutionary mass movement. As this work is done, we should also look to the organizing that is happening as we speak.

‘Unreasonable’ Women For The Planet, Peace, And Justice

October 1, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Wars and Militarism

Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of Code Pink, sits down with Dennis Trainor, Jr. of Acronym TV on the eve of the largest Climate march in history to discuss the climate justice. “”If you care about the planet, you care about people, workers, immigrants, and you care about whether we are destroying the planet whether by polluting or by polluting through war, says Benjamin, who went on to describe the founding of Code Pink as a climate Justice group. “We started as a group of women who came together around the environment. We were called Unreasonable Women for the planet.” Benjamin and Code Pink have regularly disrupted Senate hearings on ISIS/ ISIL of late, but being part of the People’s Climate March is not something she would miss: “It is all interconnected,” she told me “and I don’t think we have the ability anymore to divide ourselves into these (separate) silos.”

Nebraskans Raise Their Voices in Fight Against Keystone XL Pipeline

September 30, 2014 Mitch Smith, www.nytimes.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Keystone XL, Music

From the edge of a rye field teeming with grasshoppers, Willie Nelson and Neil Young sang on Saturday in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL project, warning through lyrics that a “company wants to build a tar sand pipeline where it don’t belong.” The site of the concert — a patch of farmland where 26 acres of corn were harvested early to create a makeshift parking lot — was as unlikely as the coalition of Nebraskans who have united against Keystone XL and made this state the legal and emotional center of the pipeline opposition. “I’ve told them, ‘You’ll have to haul me out from in front of that bulldozer, because I’m going to protect this farm,’ ” said Art Tanderup, who with his wife, Helen, hosted the concert. Their land in the rolling hills of northeast Nebraska would be directly along the pipeline route.

How Copyright Law Is Hurting Culture

September 30, 2014 Mike Masnick, www.techdirt.com Educate! Copyright, Human Rights, Media, Music

As you may have heard, there's a new movie opening today about a transformative year in Jimi Hendrix's life, called Jimi: All Is By My Side. The story sounds pretty interesting, but there's one big element that's missing: Jimi Hendrix's original music. As we noted two years ago, the Jimi Hendrix Estate denied any and all attempts to license his music unless they could have some control over the production (which the producers felt was out of order), meaning that the movie is, in fact, lacking any original Hendrix music. Instead, the only thing you'll see Hendrix performing if you watch the movie, is cover songs of other bands, which the movie's producers were able to license. I'm just going to repeat what I said two years ago, because it still applies: This is, in many ways, ridiculous.

Judge Refuses To Stop Detroit Water Shutoffs

September 30, 2014 Matt Helms, www.freep.com Resist! Detroit, Human Rights, Law, Water

Detroit's bankruptcy judge today said he lacked the authority to issue a restraining order to stop water shutoffs over delinquent bills, saying that there is no constitutional right to water and a moratorium would be a financial hit to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. "Chapter 9 strictly limits the courts' power in a bankruptcy case," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes said as he read a ruling from the bench this morning. While Rhodes' ruling made it clear he understood the scope of the problem of water shutoffs in a city with deep poverty, he said the plaintiffs in the case — advocates including Moratorium Now, the Peoples Water Board and the National Action Network — did not make the case that a six-month moratorium was necessary or within his powers.

Inventor Of World Wide Web Warns Of Threat To Internet

September 29, 2014 AFP, www.news.yahoo.com Educate! Human Rights, Internet, Net Neutrality, Surveillance

The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web. Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist who invented the web 25 years ago, called for a bill of rights that would guarantee the independence of the internet and ensure users' privacy. "If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life," Berners-Lee said at the London "Web We Want" festival on the future of the internet.

How Ecuador Threw Off The 1%

September 29, 2014 Important Cool, www.importantcool.com Educate! Capitalism, Ecuador, Human Rights, Julian Assange, Socialism

From being on the margins of the world, Ecuador was instantly at its centre when Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought asylum at its London Embassy in June, 2012. When on 16 August, 2012, he announced the decision to grant asylum, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño argued that “the extradition of Señor Assange to a country outside the European Union was feasible.” How had it come to pass that Ecuador, a nation of just 15 million people, could publicly denounce the human rights credibility of the U.S., the so-called leader of the free world? How could a nation with less personnel in its armed forces than the U.S. 7th Fleet possibly be poking the giant in the eye? The story of Ecuador and its capital, Quito, is a miraculous one that should inspire all those who want to believe that another world is possible. To tell it, we have to go right back to the beginning.

Languishing In Jail With No Charges Or Lawyer

September 27, 2014 Campbell Robertson, www.nytimes.com Educate! Human Rights, Mass Incarceration

Sheila Burks has not seen her nephew Octavious much over the past few years. Sitting in her house far out in the Mississippi countryside, she ticked off his stints in the Scott County jail: There was the 18-month stay that ended in 2011; the year that ended in June 2013; and a stretch that began with an arrest last November and is still going. It is hard to figure out what all this jail time has actually been about. While the arrests that led to these jail stays have been on serious felony charges, Octavious Burks, 37, a poultry plant worker, has not been convicted of or even faced trial on any of the charges. For nearly all of his time in jail, including his current 10-month stay, Mr. Burks has not even had access to a lawyer.

Alternative Nobel Prizes Recognize Snowden, McKibben And More

September 25, 2014 Staff, www.rightlivelihood.org Educate! Climate Change, Edward Snowden, Environment, Human Rights, Journalism, Surveillance

Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, said: "This year’s Right Livelihood Laureates are stemming the tide of the most dangerous global trends. With this year’s Awards, we want to send a message of urgent warning that these trends – illegal mass surveillance of ordinary citizens, the violation of human and civil rights, violent manifestations of religious fundamentalism, and the decline of the planet’s life-supporting systems – are very much upon us already. If they are allowed to continue, and reinforce each other, they have the power to undermine the basis of civilised societies."

Thousands Of Gazans Fleeing To Europe

September 18, 2014 Jack Khoury, www.haaretz.com Educate! Europe, Human Rights, Immigration, Israel, Palestine

Thousands of Palestinians have left the Gaza Strip for Europe using tunnels, traffickers and boats, testimonies obtained by Haaretz show. Gazans have been fleeing the Strip since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, but their escape was hardly covered in the media since they have been leaving clandestinely, with the help of paid smugglers. The sinking of two ships carrying Palestinians from Gaza — one off the coast of Malta last week, and the other off the coast of Egypt — and the drowning of hundreds of passengers have focused attention on the trend. The Palestinian Embassy in Greece reported yesterday that the ship that sank off the coast of Malta was carrying more than 450 passengers, most of them Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and that it was rammed intentionally by another ship run by rival smugglers.

Jeremy Hammond Announced As Second Courage Beneficiary

September 17, 2014 Free Jeremy, www.freejeremy.net Organize! Free Speech, Human Rights, Political Prisoner, Surveillance

Jeremy was sentenced to ten years in prison for being the alleged media source for documents from the private US intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (Stratfor), which included revelations that they had been spying on human rights defenders, for example Bhopal activists and members of PETA, at the behest of corporations and governments. WikiLeaks published these documents in partnership with 29 media organisations worldwide as the Global Intelligence Files, which are still being used for news stories around the world. Despite hundreds of pleas, including a letter submitted by WikiLeaks from itself and its media partners – “newspapers, TV networks, and magazines with a combined audience of 500 million” – asking for leniency for Jeremy, the maximum possible sentence was given.

Al-Azhar Students Sentenced To 5 Years

September 16, 2014 Jihad Abaza, www.dailynewsegypt.com Resist! Education, Egypt, Human Rights

The Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced nine Azhar University students to five years in prison and a fine of EGP 50,000 on Sunday, state-owned Al-Ahram reported. The students were arrested in May during clashes with security forces in the Al-Azhar University dormitories. The defendants are charged with “inciting riots, crowding, resisting authorities, damaging public properties, and joining an armed group that aims to disrupt public peace and order”. The detainment of 49 Al-Azhar students in Abu Zaabal Prison began an open-ended hunger strike on 5 September to demand their freedom, according to the Al-Azhar Students Against the Coup (SAC) group. “More than a year has passed and we have been moving along the corridors of prisons, torturous police stations, and in the cells of prison,” the hunger-striking students said in a statement they released from the Abu Zaabal detentions.

First Nation’s Victory: Exemption For Gas Rescinded

September 16, 2014 Dene Moore, www.globalnews.ca Resist! Canada, Energy, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mining

VANCOUVER – In January of this year, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers made a presentation to high-ranking officials in British Columbia’s Environment Ministry, outlining changes they wanted to environmental review rules for natural gas projects. Those changes became law on April 14, but they didn’t stay that way for long. An outcry from First Nations organizations forced an about-face from Environment Minister Mary Polak, who rescinded the revisions two days after they were passed by order-in-council. “Industry prefers shorter regulatory timelines and less regulatory burden to reduce costs,” said internal documents obtained by The Canadian Press through a Freedom of Information request.

‘Stop$30Billion’ Coalition Unveils New Billboard

September 16, 2014 Annie Robbins, www.mondoweiss.net Resist! Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Solidarity

It’s been a busy time for Palestine solidarity folks in Albuquerque. Five and half years ago after Israel’s 08-09 massacre in Gaza, the Coalition to Stop$30Billion to Israel, a grassroots group of ordinary citizens, launched a campaign erecting 10 billboards in their city that inspired campaigns in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Washington DC, Boston, Arizona, and Seattle, just to name just a few. They’re at it again. Last Monday September 8th the coalition put up their first digital billboard in response to the recent carnage in Gaza. The same day an Op-Ed, Judaism, nationalism or an insurance plan? by Iris Keltz, a founding member of Jewish Voice for Peace-ABQ, appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. Keltz’s op-ed made quite a splash by challenging what being pro-Israel really means.

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