Human Rights

Hunger Strike Meditation Team Statement On Historic Protest By California Prisoners

"This hunger strike is historic on many levels: the number of prisoners who went without food; the international media attention; and the impressive mobilization of groups on the outside who published in-depth analyses, organized demonstrations, worked with the media, and promoted the prisoners’ demands and their Agreement to End Hostilities. Coupled with the lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights and other attorneys, this peaceful protest was a tremendously courageous effort that has the potential of securing real change in California’s practices related to solitary confinement."

Pacific Island Leaders Adopt Game-Changing Climate Policy

September 7, 2013 Staff, www.ecowatch.com Create! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Human Rights

Leaders from some of the world’s most vulnerable climate countries have today adopted the Majuro Declaration calling for a “new wave of climate leadership” and marking the region’s efforts to accelerate action. Issued at this year’s Pacific Islands Forum, which took place on the Marshall Islands, the declaration calls on countries to list specific, concrete pledges to reduce emissions and aims to accelerate the global response to the climate crisis. The Pacific islands represent many of the countries most at risk by climate change, and they used the latest summit highlight the threats it places on security, livelihoods and the well-being of their populations, as well as those of other vulnerable nations across the globe. Also signed by Australia and New Zealand, the declaration highlights the region’s own commitment to tackling climate change.

Strongman Of Egypt: How General Al-Sisi Took The Revolution’s Thunder

September 6, 2013 Manar Ammar, www.occupy.com Educate! Egypt, Human Rights

"But in popular terms, not since Gamal Abdel Nasser, the regional and international symbol of anti-colonialism in the 1950s and 60s, have Egyptians been so attached to a leader as they are now with al-Sisi. Even after more than 500 people died in the attack and evacuation of two large sit-ins of Morsi backers, many Egyptians support the military’s choice of using force — even if unequal and lethal — to disperse the protests and stabilize the streets. Liberal media aired footage of armed protesters shooting at the police, dispelling the belief that the sit-ins and protesters were all peaceful. They also aired national love songs in support of the military, with some channels showing a side bar that read, “Egypt fights terrorists."

We Love The Kids, But Only In Syria

September 5, 2013 Kymone Freeman, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Democracy, Human Rights, Poverty, Syria, Wars and Militarism

Contrary to popular beliefs, preemptive strikes were not invented by the Bush Administration. Rather, it was initially introduced by the man that Presidential Candidate Barack Obama said that he admired so much during the Democratic Primary against Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan. Reagan “convinced” the Western World that the Island of Grenada under the leadership of Maurice Bishop poised an eminent threat to the security of the United States. In actuality, Bishop was only leading his small tropical island country in an experiment in socialism. This proved to be a deadly undertaking as it garnered the full wrath of the world’s greatest military power who would not tolerate another anti-capitalist economy in the Caribbean.

CA Lawmakers Promise Hearings in Response to Prisoner Hunger Strike

September 5, 2013 Staff, www.prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Government, Human Rights

“The issues raised by the hunger strike are real – concerns about the use and conditions of solitary confinement in California’s prisons – are real and can no longer be ignored,” Senator Hancock and Assemblymember Ammiano said in a joint statement. Assemblymember Ammiano said further, “The Courts have made clear that the hunger strikers have legitimate issues of policy and practice that must be reviewed. The Legislature has a critical role in considering and acting on their concerns. We cannot sit by and watch our state pour money into a system that the US. Supreme Court has declared does not provide constitutionally acceptable conditions of confinement and that statistics show has failed to increase public safety.”

West Papuans Arrested At Prayer Session For Freedom Flotilla

September 1, 2013 Marni Cordell, www.theguardian.com Organize! Human Rights, West Papua

West Papuans Apolos Sewa, 53, Amandus Mirino, 56, Samuel Klasjok, 60, and Yohanes Goram, 53, were detained and interrogated for 24 hours in the Sorong police station before being released at 10pm on Thursday night. "On Wednesday we had a mass prayer session to welcome the Freedom Flotilla from Australia," Goram told Guardian Australia on the phone from Sorong in West Papua's west. "The police arrived and arrested us at about 6pm." Goram said the group had been questioned about their activities and asked whether they wanted independence from Indonesia. "We said, 'yes, we do.' We told them, 'We will struggle for independence from Indonesia because we are different from you, and because of the history between our people.

Tear Down The Walls Gathering

August 24, 2013 Staff, www.afgj.org Organize! Human Rights, Immigration, Poverty, Racism

You are invited to join the Alliance for Global Justice this fall to strategize and network together to build a more unified movement for transformational change in the US. We are challenging activist groups to work together, and build wokshops and People's Power Assemblies which are designed to transcend our individual issues areas, and encourage collaboration amongst activists. There are so many Walls to Tear Down... Walls of Homophobia, Racism, Militarized Border Walls, Wall Street, Walls to Citizenship, Housing, Education, Walls of Inequality and the Walls between us, which weaken our collective movement.

Dreamers Stop Deportation Bus In Phoenix

August 24, 2013 Staff, www.unitedwedream Resist! Human Rights, Immigration

Late last night, leaders from United We Dream and the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, an affiliate of United We Dream, engaged in unprecedented civil disobedience and escalated action to stop a bus in the middle of deportation proceedings at the Phoenix Removal and Detention Facility, the ICE post in downtown Phoenix. Six heroic DREAMers sat in front of the bus for more than two hours, before the bus finally retreated back into the ICE complex. Last night’s action shone a spotlight on ongoing detentions and deportations and the urgent need for the Obama administration to stop separating our families and for Congress to deliver real immigration reform.

Video: Israeli Abuses of Palestinians By Illegal Settlers

August 19, 2013 Staff, www.youtube.com Educate! Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Video

This video is a shameful display of the way Israel and the illegal settlers in the occupied territories behave. Every person of Jewish faith should be rising up and protesting the behavior of extremists in Israel who undermine the civil rights heritage of so many Jews. The mistreatment of Palestinians, and the ongoing theft of their land is a crime for which some day, I hope, the Israelis will pay a price. The Jaber family of al-Baqa'a is being harrased and attacked by the Zionist settlers of Kiryat Arba. This incident was filmed by Hudaina and Atta Jaber's daughter through the house window on July 12th, 2013. Her father, who arrived at the scene as the settlers were rampaging around the house, had fainted and was given water by the ITF soldiers who would not apprehend the settlers a moment earlier.

Martin Luther King: “My Dream is Not Obama”

August 19, 2013 Ajamu Baraka, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Human Rights, MLK, Racism, Wars and Militarism

On August 28, the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, an event is being organized at the Lincoln Memorial by the King Center, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the National Council of Negro Women to commemorate that extraordinary and consequential demonstration. To highlight the occasion, these organizations apparently extended an invitation to the President of the United States to deliver the keynote address on the very same spot where Martin Luther King delivered his legendary “I have a dream” speech. The fact that Barack Obama will be standing in the shadow of Dr. King, his presence conveying the impression that he somehow represents the values and self-sacrificing lives of Dr. King, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, Rosa Parks and many of the thousands gathered that afternoon on the national mall, should be taken as an insult by everyone who has struggled and continues to struggle for human rights, peace and social justice.

Preparing For The Onslaught From Keystone XL ‘Man Camps’

August 19, 2013 Censored News, www.bsnorrell.blogspot.ca Educate! Energy, Environment, Human Rights

“This gathering helps us prepare for the onslaught of violence against women and families that energy development brings against our people. These so-called man camps increase alcohol and drug related crimes and violent crimes, including sexual assault and human trafficking. We want to be sure that the people are aware of violence against women in this context, and begin to prepare for what our relatives in the North are already going through,” says Janet A. Routzen, Esq., who recently began serving the WBCWS as the Executive Director in May 2013

Moral Monday Marches On With Dr. King In Mind

August 18, 2013 Sue Sturgis, www.southernstudies.org Organize! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights

On Aug. 28 -- the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom demanding civil rights for African Americans -- 13 Moral Monday gatherings will take place in each of North Carolina's 13 Congressional districts. These are being billed as the "Taking the Dream Home" rallies. And if some North Carolinians get their way, also speaking at the Washington march will be Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the N.C. NAACP, the leading force behind the Moral Monday movement. People who've been involved in Moral Mondays have launched a petition at Change.org calling for Barber and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the sole surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, to address the 50th anniversary event.

The People v. Barrett Brown: Another US Journalist On Trial

August 16, 2013 Frederick Reese, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Rights

Questions on what the government knows, why the government needs to know these things and what the government would do to bring secrets revealers to justice are redefining the relationship the people have with its government and the expectations of privacy and freedom of association an American citizen can assume. Such a question is slowly being answered in Texas, where journalist and activist Barrett Lancaster Brown sits in federal custody, charged with 17 counts, including identity theft, credit card fraud and threats to a federal agent. Brown, the alleged “face” of Anonymous, the international hacktivist collective that seeks to be a “voice for the truth,” (usually at the federal government’s expense), is facing 105 years imprisonment if found guilty. This case has taken a turn for the strange: not so much for the case matter, but for the way the federal government has prosecuted it.

Movie: The 99% Occupy Everywhere

August 16, 2013 http://world2be.com, www.world2be.com Educate! Environment, Finance and the Economy, Government, Human Rights, Video, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

This award winning film documents how private money in politics has undermined democracy and transferred income from 99% of Americans to multinational corporations and the wealthy. Through personal stories of a diverse cross section of Americans, the film highlights how the 99% sparked Occupy Wall Street into a global movement. The film, narrated by Lou Reed, sheds light on the breadth and depth of the Movement documenting diverse Occupiers including a 22 years old business graduate, a Marine veteran, a web designer, a 92 years old grandmother and a police Captain as the Movement addresses critical issues of our time including income inequality, jobs, debt, the environment, gun safely, access to affordable health care and education as well as the lack of accountability of banks that committed the massive fraud that led to the economic crisis.

Zapatista Freedom School Day 3: “Our Weapons are Our Words, Our Thinking, Our Hearts”

August 15, 2013 andrea, interoccupy.net Resist! Democracy, Human Rights, Zapatistas

"On their third day of classes in the Freedom School, Zapatistas “confessed” that they are armed – their weapons are their words, their thoughts and their hearts[...]One of the most powerful ideological attacks comes from the government media and corporate media. “They say there is no poverty, which we all know is not true, because there are children and families living in dumps. They broadcast TV shows that have nothing to do with us, useless TV shows, like TV Novellas and sports shows,” the Zapatista teachers said. They counter these attacks with talks, popular assemblies, and through their community radio."

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