Human Rights

Leonard Peltier Tribunal On Indigenous Rights Begins Today

October 2, 2013 Brenda Norrell, www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Native Indians

The Leonard Peltier Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Peoples Rights begins today in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Lakotas will begin the testimony this morning at the Radisson Conference Center, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The Tribunal, available on Earthcycles livestream, begins with testimony by William Means, Lakota and founder of the International Indian Treaty Council. "Black Hills, from Creation to Annexation to Reclamation," begins the Tribunal. Means is scheduled to speak with Charlotte Black Elk, Oglala Lakota activist and scholar, and Leonard Crow Dog, Lakota spiritual leader. Speakers this morning on the Wounded Knee Massacre include Edgar Bear Runner. "Wounded Knee 1973" speakers include Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Madonna Thunder Hawk and Larry Leventhal. The US versus Leonard Peltier, and Peltier's incarceration, trials and appeals, will be discussed during the three day Tribunal before a panel of human rights judges on Oneida Indian land here in Green Bay, Oct. 2 --4.

ObamaCare: The False Debate Between Republicans and Democrats

October 2, 2013 Scott Tucker, www.truthdig.com Educate! Government, Health Care, Human Rights

The right-wing assault on Obamacare is a distraction, but the “progressive” (or rather party line) defense of the Affordable Care Act is also a dead end. While the tea party and MoveOn descend to mud wrestling, Dr. Don McCanne of Physicians for a National Health Program is not just staking out the moral high ground in the debate on health care. He is also making the practical case for the kind of health care we, the people, both deserve and can afford. McCanne quotes passages from the daily news, political debates, and medical journals, and adds his running commentary. These columns are collectively titled Quote of the Day, and can be found archived at the website of PNHP. His columns are also available by email subscription. McCanne’s daily comments on health care range over both present policies and the possibilities of comprehensive reform.

Ecuador’s Campaign: “The Dirty Hand Of Chevron”

October 2, 2013 Sally Burch, www.truthout.org Resist! Environment, Human Rights, Oil and Gas

Ecuador’s president has launched a call for people around the world to boycott Chevron products, in rejection of the company’s evasion of responsibility for oil contamination in the Amazon basin. In recent months, Chevron has targeted Ecuador with a barrage of defamatory publicity questioning the country’s legal system, in an attempt to elude the sentence under which it is ordered to pay out almost $19 billion to clean up the area and provide health care and clean drinking water for the affected population. Ecuador’s campaign titled, "The dirty hand of Chevron," was presented by President Rafael Correa on September 17, in a visit to a contaminated pit near the Aguarico 4 oil well, operated decades ago by Texaco. The company, which merged with Chevron in 2001, left behind almost one thousand of these pits over three decades of oil exploitation in the Amazon rainforest (1964-1992), covering an area of more than a million acres, where an estimated 18 billion gallons of water, contaminated with oil, has continued to seep from unprotected pits or to overspill during heavy rains.

Breaking: Herman Wallace Released From Prison After Being Held In Solitary For 40+ Years

October 1, 2013 Staff, www.democracynow.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Rights, Racism

"“Tonight, Herman Wallace has left the walls of Louisiana prisons and will be able to receive the medical care that his advanced liver cancer requires. It took the order of a federal judge to address the clear constitutional violations present in Mr. Wallace’s 1974 trial and grant him relief. The state of Louisiana has had many opportunities to address this injustice and has repeatedly and utterly failed to do so. “Mr. Wallace has been granted a new trial, but his illness is terminal and advanced. However, the unfathomable punishment of more than four decades which Mr. Wallace spent in solitary confinement conditions will be the subject of litigation which will continue even after Mr. Wallace passes away."

A Landmark Protest On The U.S.-Mexico Border

October 1, 2013 Ted Hesson, www.abcnews.go.com Resist! Democracy, Human Rights, Immigration, Worker Rights and Jobs

" A protest expected at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday will set an unprecedented standard in the modern immigration debate. Thirty activists will attempt to cross into Laredo, Texas under the banner of the Dream 30, an effort meant to bring attention the 1.7 million-plus people deported during President Barack Obama’s first term in office. The crossers are mostly Mexican immigrants who have either been deported or chosen to leave the country and return to Mexico. Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at University of California, Irvine, said the action is historic. “There's certainly never been a border crossing of DREAM activists of this size,” he wrote via email. “It reflects a steady growth and diversification of the challenges that the DREAM activists are mounting to U.S. immigration policy.”

What Do We Need To Build A Movement?

September 30, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Strategize! Democracy, Education, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights, Occupy

We must develop a revolutionary theory that is not reliant on the industrial or agrarian muscle of workers. Most manufacturing jobs have disappeared, and, of those that remain, few are unionized. Our family farms have been destroyed by agro-businesses. Monsanto and its Faustian counterparts on Wall Street rule. They are steadily poisoning our lives and rendering us powerless. The corporate leviathan, which is global, is freed from the constraints of a single nation-state or government. Corporations are beyond regulation or control. Politicians are too anemic, or more often too corrupt, to stand in the way of the accelerating corporate destruction. This makes our struggle different from revolutionary struggles in industrial societies in the past. Our revolt will look more like what erupted in the less industrialized Slavic republics, Russia, Spain and China and uprisings led by a disenfranchised rural and urban working class and peasantry in the liberation movements that swept through Africa and Latin America. The dispossessed working poor, along with unemployed college graduates and students, unemployed journalists, artists, lawyers and teachers, will form our movement. This is why the fight for a higher minimum wage is crucial to uniting service workers with the alienated college-educated sons and daughters of the old middle class. Bakunin, unlike Marx, considered déclassé intellectuals essential for successful revolt.

Show Love For Lynne Stewart, All Political Prisoners: Act Now!

September 30, 2013 Larry Pinkney, www.lynnestewart.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Rights

It is not enough to merely observe that the imprisoned ‘people’s lawyer’ Lynne Stewart, has for four decades vigorously and unceasingly defended the voiceless, the downtrodden, and the targeted in this nation. The story of Lynne Stewart is one of growth, resilience, great love for ordinary struggling people, and sacrifice. Like the late great freedom fighter John Brown, Lynne Stewart transcended her color privilege and reached the liberating plateau of actualizing her, and indeed all of our, own humanity. In so doing, she incurred the formidable wrath of this war mongering, hypocritical, and massively unjust U.S. political / judicial system as carried out by its callous, sanctimonious blood sucking minions / systemic gatekeepers.

Forever Young: Staughton Lynd

September 29, 2013 Andy Piascik, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights

He talks of how deeply he misses dear friend Howard Zinn, who died several years ago. He talks of driving through Mississippi late at night, hopelessly lost, just days after civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner had been abducted and murdered. He talks of his remarkable life’s work with great humility and not at all wistfully, but in search of lessons it might hold, especially for the young. A teacher extraordinaire, he is guided by the principle that a teacher is also a student and all students teachers. Lynd has seen more than his share of colleagues come and go. Some flamed out after a brief period of frantic busyness; others moved on to different lives and nice-paying gigs. Still going strong, Lynd offers long-term commitment (“long distance running,” as he calls it) and accompaniment – professionals living alongside workers and the unrepresented and contributing much-needed skills to the struggle for freedom - as alternatives.

Release The Compassionate Rebel Inside You

September 29, 2013 Burt Berlowe, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Human Rights

There is an identifying term that covers the millions of resistance actions that have been taking place throughout our history. It is called the compassionate rebel revolution. A compassionate rebel persona lives in everyone. It combines our ability to care about an issue with our capacity to act against the status quo for the change we believe in. It enables ordinary people to find creative, non-violent solutions to the problems that concern them, and, in the process to contribute towards making the world around them a better place to live for future generations. It projects them into everyday heroes whose acts of caring and courage continue to transform our politics, our culture and our way of life. Everyone who has ever participated in a resistance movement fits the description of a compassionate rebel. But so do the millions of people who do individual acts of conscience, goodwill and positive rebellion everyday in their families, their communities and in society at-large.

Judge Lifts Order To Keep NYC Sandy Hotel Program

September 28, 2013 Margaret Chan, www.bigstory.ap.org Educate! Housing, Human Rights

"About 300 people made homeless by Superstorm Sandy could be forced to leave the York City hotels they've been staying in after a judge lifted an injunction Friday that preserved the program. The displaced residents who began sleeping in city-funded hotel rooms after the late-October storm will have to find new housing by next Friday. Federal funding for the program ends Monday, however the city has paid for the hotels through Friday, said Heather Janik, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Homeless Services."

Protesters Are Dodging Sudan’s Internet Shutdown With A Phone-Powered Crowdmap

September 28, 2013 Amanda Sperber, www.motherboard.vice.com Organize! Africa, Democracy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights

"Since Wednesday afternoon, Sudan's internet has been sporadically shut off amid a fifth day of protests against President Omar al Bashir’s regime. Despite the attempt to cut off communications and limit organization and reporting on the ground, a group of tech-savvy people based in Khartoum have developed a map for recording key data about the protests that's powered by cell networks. Called the Abena crowd map, the map is the product of Mohammed Hashim Saleh and Abeer Khairy, engineers both, and Ahmed Hassan, the co-founder of Khartoum Geeks. In the short amount of time the internet was on yesterday, they deployed the map, which follows events on the ground in Sudan with direct reports."

Immigration “Reform” Won’t Stop Parent-Child Separation

September 28, 2013 Erika L. Sánchez, www.truth-out.org Educate! Human Rights, Immigration

"While our government continues to brush immigration reform to the side this fall, millions of families wait to learn their fate. And even if the watered-down immigration reform - officially titled the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act - does pass this year, children all over the United States will live in fear of being separated from their parents. Although the Obama administration stopped the deportation of some young undocumented immigrants, there is no sign that it will halt deportations altogether. The Obama administration has deported a record number of undocumented immigrants. In 2012, deportations totaled 409,849. Additionally, the bill that recently passed in the Senate doesn't guarantee a way for undocumented immigrants to bring their family members who have been removed back to the US. Although current law does allow some unauthorized immigrants to avoid deportation by showing that a separation would result in "extreme hardship" to their US citizen or legal-resident families, and the Senate bill would allow judges to waive an immigrant's removal in light of the "hardship," the granting of such exceptions would be subject to the discretion of the courts."

Thousands Protest In Bahrain Over Opposition Leader Arrest

September 28, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Bahrain, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Middle East

"Large crowds of Bahrainis have protested west of the country’s capital, Manama, over the arrest of a prominent opposition figure, just hours after another rally ended with clashes with police. The former deputy speaker of parliament, Khalil Marzooq, was arrested Sept. 17 on charges of "inciting and advocating terrorism." The activist’s detention came after he spoke at a rally, saying, “We support peaceful movements, and we transparently state… that we are not part of the violent groups or their actions"

Stop Watching Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance

September 28, 2013 Staff, StopWatching.Us Resist! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, NSA

"On Sat., Oct. 26, thousands of people from across the political spectrum will unite in Washington, D.C., to say: Enough is enough. Stop watching us. StopWatching.Us — a diverse coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and businesses, including the ACLU, Access, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, the Free Press Action Fund, FreedomWorks, Mozilla, the National Libertarian Party, reddit, Restore the Fourth, Thoughtworks, and RootsAction.org — is organizing the biggest protest of the NSA’s surveillance programs to date. Will you join us?"

Pope Francis: Not So Much A Reformer As A Revolutionary

September 28, 2013 Paul Vallely, www.independent.co.uk Create! Human Rights, Poverty

Radical change has become the new norm in Rome under the first six months of the pontificate of Pope Francis. The first Pope from the Americas has brought with him – “from the ends of the earth”, as he put it – a fundamentally new perspective. Now conservatives in the Vatican are braced for what could be, next week, a bigger change than anything so far. A new council of eight cardinal advisers – mavericks to a man – will meet for the first time on Tuesday to offer guidance from outside the dysfunctional and self-serving Vatican bureaucracy known as the Roman Curia. The new Pope from Argentina has tasked them with the massive job of reforming the Curia. The new body has been described by the leading ecclesiastical historian Professor Alberto Melloni, of the University of Modena, as the “most important step in the history of the church for the past 10 centuries”.

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