Human Rights

Crowdfunding for Malcolm X Festival 2014

March 18, 2014 Zola Dadawele, www.gofundme.com Resist! Community, Human Rights, Malcom X, Restorative Justice

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement-Atlanta Chapter,Community Aid and Development and the Atlanta community will be celebrating the 25th annual Malcolm x festival. In an effort to make this commemorative year bigger and better we are asking for donations to assist with making the festival and parade a success for the community. Community Aid and Development corp (CAD) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit and donations are tax deductible. CAD is a Human Health and Welfare service agency with a presence in the Atlanta metropoltian are since 1989.

Obama’s Drones Made Simple

March 17, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Drones, Human Rights

Under what conditions can we justify the use of violence in our personal lives? I’m certainly no legal expert, but say a person breaks into your house looking to do you harm. Before you know what has happened, they have killed your brother. Sequences of nerve cells fire off shooting adrenaline and cortisol into your bloodstream. Somehow your mind remembers, and your body approximates, some middle school karate kata and you render the intruder defenseless. Scrubbing the blood drippings from your carpet, you call the police, and some form of justice is administered. We would all agree that is self-defense, yes? A justified (in the moral and legal sense term) use of force. Now imagine it is years later that it is you breaking into someone’s house. It is not the home of the person who broke into your house, but it is in the same zip code.

Free Reza Shahabi, Solidarity With Tehran Bus Drivers Syndicate

March 17, 2014 IWW International Solidarity Commission, www.iww.org Resist! Human Rights, Iran, Political Prisoner, Worker Rights and Jobs

"Reza’s work on behalf of the bus drivers of Tehran, demanding pay increases to end the hunger, poverty, and misery of his fellow workers, remains as the sole reason for his continued confinement and abuse. Reza has battled the prison authorities for his very life ever since he was unjustly arrested and imprisoned under trumped up charges of “crimes against the State” in June of 2010. Due to torture and neglect in prison, Reza suffers from critical injuries to his spinal cord and needs serious and effective medical treatment. The supposed treatment for which he was briefly released in 2013 and February of 2014 was ineffective or non-existent."

Detention Center Hunger Strike Enters Second Week

March 15, 2014 Jeff Abbott, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Human Rights, Immigration

"As many as a dozen men detained at the for-profit Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., are entering their second week of a hunger strike to protest record deportations and the abysmal conditions inside the center[…]The hunger strike began on Friday, when hundreds of the detainees at the Tacoma facility refused meals and issued a set of demands that included fair pay, better food and an end to deportation. On Monday, the detainees released an updated list of demands that included an end to deportations, particularly of parents; bonds to fight cases from home; and the quicker resolution of cases. Detainees said they were inspired to launch the strike after activists from the #Not1More campaign blocked deportation buses leaving the facility on February 24. Actions against ICE detention centers have swept the country over the last six months as an increasing number of migrant justice groups have shifted to using direct action to demand an end to the record high deportations."

I Always Find Hope In Struggle

March 11, 2014 Staff, www.democracynow.org Educate! Democracy, Education, Government, Human Rights

For more than four decades, the world-renowned author, activist and scholar Angela Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, Davis’ work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across several generations. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list more than 40 years ago. Davis, a professor emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz, and the subject of the recent documentary, "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners," joins us to discuss prison abolition, mass incarceration, the so-called war on drugs, International Women’s Day, and why President Obama’s second term should see a greater wave of activism than in his first.

Kent State Truth Tribunal Seeks US Govt Accountability for Killing of 4 Unarmed Students

March 10, 2014 Staff, www.sparrowmedia.net Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights, Police abuse

The Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT) is seeking US government accountability for the killing of four unarmed students and the injury of nine others by US military personnel on May 4, 1970 at a Kent State University anti-Vietnam war rally. The Kent State killings gained national attention in 1970 leading to mass protests and student strikes across the United States. Witnesses and historians have asserted a pronounced role by the FBI before and during the shootings, and command responsibility that pointed to Ohio governor James Rhodes’ collusion. In response to the surge of activism following Kent State, on May 5, 1970 President Nixon said: “This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy. It is my hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident will strengthen the determination of all the nation’s campuses, administrators, faculty and students alike to stand firmly for the right which exists in this country of peaceful dissent and just as strong against the resort to violence as a means of such expression.”

750 Detainees On Hunger Strike Over US Immigration Policy

March 10, 2014 Amel Ahmed, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Human Rights, Immigration

"The detainees, who have been refusing to eat since Friday, are demanding better food, safer working conditions and for President Barack Obama to sign an executive order ending deportations, according to Maru Mora Villalpando, founder of Latino Advocacy. The hunger strikers, Villalpando said, are part of a growing, nationwide campaign against the U.S. immigration policy. Villalpando put the number of hunger strikers at 1,200, more than twice what ICE reported to Al Jazeera. The strike is expected to last through Tuesday, Villalpando said. The center, which is run by the private correctional services company GEO Group, currently houses 1,300 people being investigated for possible deportation."

Pressure Mounts For Inquiry Into Missing And Murdered Aboriginal Women

March 10, 2014 Crystal Greene, www.cbc.ca Resist! Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Racism

"The slaying of Loretta Saunders has galvanized communities across the country to take even more action around the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Saunders, 26, an Inuk student studying at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, was working on her thesis about missing and murdered indigenous women when she disappeared. Her body was later found alongside a New Brunswick Highway. A man and a woman are facing first-degree murder charges in her death. Just days before Saunders disappeared on Feb. 13, Mohawk activist Shawn Brant issued an ultimatum for an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. And on Feb. 14, the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association delivered 20,000 signatures to the House of Commons, also calling for action."

Battle Over Maryland’s Anti-Boycott Israel Bill Heats Up

March 10, 2014 Alex Kane, www.mondoweiss.net Organize! BDS, Human Rights, Palestine

"Maryland state politicians are likely unaware that Palestinian children in Hebron have to cross checkpoints to get to school. But that’s the reality that supporters of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement brought into recent legislative hearings in an effort to fight back against anti-boycott legislation[…]Proponents and opponents of the bill testified at both hearings on March 5th and March 6th. Israel advocates, like members of the Baltimore Jewish Council (BJC), said the BDS movement was discriminatory and anti-Semitic and that public funds should not be spent on groups that support the movement. Opponents of the legislation, including members of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Christian Peacemaker Team, shot back by pointing to Israeli human rights abuses and why the bill would chill speech and infringe on academic freedom in the state. Tarek Abuata, a coordinator for the Christian Peacemaker Team, told legislators of how, as a ten-year old, he was home-schooled in Palestine because the Israeli military closed down schools. Legislators interjected, and told Abuata and other opponents to stick to the bill at hand."

Immigration Activist Disrupts Obama

March 7, 2014 Von Diaz, www.colorlines.com Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Immigration

"On a routine visit to Central Connecticut State University on Wednesday, President Obama was again confronted by a passionate immigration reform activist calling for an end to deportations. John Molina, a 46-year-old Colombian immigrant, interrupted a speech Obama was giving about his recent minimum wage increase. Much like 24-year-old Ju Hong—who called out the president in November during a speech in San Francisco—Molina stood on a chair and yelled, “Mr. Obama, stop the deportations!” Originally, Molina went to the event to join a demonstration outside of the university, and hadn’t planned on going in. But once he arrived he decided it was his only chance to tell the president how he really felt. Unlike with Hong, however, the president did not respond, nor did he intervene when Molina was asked to leave. "

Feds Drop Most Charges Against Former Anon Spokesman

March 7, 2014 Joe Mullin, arstechnica.com Educate! FBI, Government, Human Rights, Surveillance

Federal prosecutors filed papers today indicating that they want to drop all but one of the 12 charges in their original indictment, including all the counts related to hyperlinking. Brown no longer faces 10 charges of "aggravated identity theft," but he is left to deal with a charge of possessing stolen credit card numbers. The government's backing down comes a day after Brown's defense lawyers filed a motion to dismiss all the charges against him. Brown's lawyers say that all he did was post a hyperlink, which can't amount to the "transfer" of stolen information. The charges against him violate First Amendment free speech protections, the motion argues. The information that Brown's link pointed to all stemmed from an Anonymous hack against Strategic Forcasting, Inc., also known as Stratfor. In addition to information related to thousands of credit cards, e-mail addresses of hundreds of thousands of Stratfor subscribers were stolen.

An Open Letter To The Middle Class (spoiler alert: F*ck You)

March 5, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Resistance Report

We cling, no worse, we teach our children to invest in the false American Dream that if we only work a little harder, or go into more educational debt that we would be able to grasp the brass ring and wear proudly the label of American Middle class. That label would be made in Bangladesh, mind you, by a child working six days a week 16 hours a day and making 30 bucks a month but you would be proud to wear that middle class label just the same, and in doing so do you- we, I- not only endorse the conditions of poverty that, because of its very existence, defines the middle class, we insure that poverty will continue. We need new language, a new system based on equity and fairness and not on exploitation and oppression and until then I say fuck the middle class.

You Call This A Middle Class? “I’m Trying Not to Lose My House”

March 5, 2014 Edward McClelland, www.Alternet.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing, Human Rights

“I wasn’t rich, but I felt like I had a life,” she said — as good a definition of middle class as any. That November, the company announced it was moving its office to Cleveland. All the employees were invited to go along. All declined, including Brown, who had lived in Chicago her entire adult life, since arriving to attend college. Having been laid off, Brown was eligible for unemployment benefits — which she figured would last until she found a new job. The last time she’d looked, in 1999, she’d found work right away. Despite sending out “hundreds of résumés each week,” Brown couldn’t land a full-time job. At age 46, with every month of unemployment making her less attractive to employers, she was wondering whether she ever would. She exhausted her 401K, and only a sympathetic landlord, who cut the rent to $800 a month, allowed Brown to hang on to her one-bedroom apartment. Brown’s benefits were cut off in July 2013, as a result of the federal government sequester. Two months later, she took a job as a telephone survey interviewer, for $8.50 an hour — 25 cents above the Illinois minimum wage.

The Joy and Resolve of a Movement Built on Creative Resistance

March 5, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Arts, Climate Change, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, TPP

In 2011, when occupy encampments exploded across the United States putting the issue of the unfair economy and corruption of Wall Street on the political agenda, there was also an explosion of activist art. Beginning with the iconic image of the ballerina on top of the Wall Street Bull, art has been central to occupy and was an important reason for its powerful impact. The explosion of arts activism involves a wide variety of artistic forms: puppets, balloons, music, meme’s, posters, banners, plays, street theater, poetry, animation and light displays among others. Art has added vitality and energy to advocacy; and it reaches people at deeper emotional levels and in their hearts conveying what cannot be said with mere facts.

Drones: Spring Days of Action In April And May

March 2, 2014 Staff, www.knowdrones.com Organize! Drones, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

An international call for Spring Days of Action – 2014, a coordinated campaign in April and May to: End Drone Killing, Drone Surveillance and Global Militarization -- The campaign will focus on drone bases, drone research facilities and test sites and drone manufacturers. The campaign will provide information on: 1. The suffering of tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza who are under drone attack, documenting the killing, the wounding and the devastating impact of constant drone surveillance on community life. 2. How attack and surveillance drones have become a key element in a massive wave of surveillance, clandestine military attacks and militarization generated by the United States to protect a global system of manufacture and oil and mineral exploitation that is creating unemployment and poverty, accelerating the waste of nonrenewable resources and contributing to environmental destruction and global warming. In addition . . .

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