Human Rights

For Marriage Equality, It Took A Movement

June 29, 2013 Randy Shaw, www.beyondchron.org Organize! Human Rights

The Supreme Court's striking down DOMA and Prop 8 sent a powerful message about the ongoing power of grassroots movements to bring social change. These rulings could not have come a decade ago. Then, even campaigns for domestic partnerships and civil unions were politically controversial. But the broader activist struggle for marriage equality brought the courts along, just as the African-American civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s brought legal rulings to support that struggle. The marriage equality movement has come a very long way. Despite ongoing disputes over tactics and strategies, particularly over the best way to defeat Prop 8, the drive for marriage equality became a full-fledged movement following Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom’s action of marrying gays. Mainstream gay leaders either embraced the cause or lost credibility.

Obama Protested by More than One Thousand in Africa

June 29, 2013 Organize! Corporatism, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

President Barack Obama was greeted by more than one thousand protesters in South Africa. The South African government fired warning shots toward the crowd to disperse them. USA Today reported "Police fired rubber bullets and a stun grenade into a crowd of hundreds of protesters waiting for President Obama to arrive at the University of Johannesburg on Saturday." Trade unionists, students and other protesters felt betrayed by Obama, criticized the theft of Africa's resources, drones, keeping Guantanamo opened, expanding wars and enabling the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel as well as continued militarization of Africa by the United States and opposed Obama receiving an honorary doctorate.

Veterans Arrested At White House Guantanamo Protest

June 27, 2013 Gerry Condon, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

A dynamic protest outside the While House against the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba came to a climax Wednesday when Vietnam veteran Diane Wilson climbed over the White House fence. Suddenly, there she was standing on the White House lawn like an apparition in her orange prison jumpsuit. Wilson was quickly surrounded by heavily armed Secret Service agents and a menacing police dog. She was arrested, charged with unlawful entry and turned over to police in Washington, DC, where she was being held in jail as of Wednesday night.

Photo Essay: Protesters Demand Closure of Guantanamo Prison, One Jumps Fence

June 26, 2013 Ellen Davidson and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

On June 26, 2013, hundreds of protesters gathered at the White House to demand that President Obama keep his campaign promise and close Guantanamo Prison immediately. As a last resort effort, over a hundred prisoners are on hunger strike, some for as long as 147 days. Currently, 40 of the hunger strikers are being force-fed daily. This violates their human right to autonomy. And over the past weekend, it was reported that the prison staff have increased their abusive treatment of the prisoners in order to get them to break their fast. This includes placing them in freezing cold rooms and using metal-tipped feeding tubes.

Hunger Striker Diane Wilson: “Form of Torture,” Action Tomorrow

June 25, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.youtube.com Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Solidarity

Diane Wilson, co-founder of Code Pink has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 57 days in solidarity with Guantanamo Bay Prisoners. “Obama can release them today,” Wilson says in this interview with Acronym TV host Dennis Trainor, Jr. Wilson claims not to have a plan on when or how to have a hunger strike- a water and salt only fast that has seen her lose over 40 pounds since she began on May 1st. Diane has spent may of her days on the hunger strike in front of the White House, where she will be again on Wednesday, June 26th when 86 activists representing the 86 prisoners who have been cleared for release from Gitmo plan to engage in acts of civil disobedience.

Veterans to Obama: Release Guantanamo Prisoners Now!

June 25, 2013 Staff, www.CloseGitmo.net Organize! Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

Hunger striking members of Veterans For Peace will be joined by multiple organizations and scores of protesters outside the White House on Wednesday, June 26, to press their demand for the closure of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “Just think about it: 86 prisoners are cleared for release by the government -- the Department of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security over a year ago, and they're still being held. Many of them have been held for over 11 years! This is a violation of our moral and religious principles, international law, and national law. It is also a violation of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the things that are supposed to define America. “I just can't sit and enjoy my life when my country is doing such terrible things to these people. It's up to us to force our government to get them out of there.”

The Eternal Rebel: Ronnie Kasrils

June 25, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Strategize! Corporatism, Democracy, Human Rights

"And, you know, when I read that I was amazed at the similarity in South Africa when in 1976 young people, 12-year-olds, teenagers in the schools, rose against the apartheid police state, with all of the fear factor, including that of the myth of white supremacy, and were prepared to take it on in the streets and were prepared to die, and those who weren’t shot down were prepared to look for the organizational form to fight back and instead of stones to seek guns and bullets. The ANC was the organization that they turned to because it had always been the rebel organization. It had never died, it was always there and always strove to resist. So, fear, as we’ve seen, can keep people in check for many, many years. Decades. And there comes a time when the system breaks, when the weakest link snaps, and people suddenly lose fear and find courage and stand up. And that’s what we’re seeing.”

Anti-War Activists Targeted as ‘Domestic Terrorists’

June 25, 2013 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Educate! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights, Infiltration, Wars and Militarism

Anti-war activists who were infiltrated and spied on by the military for years have now been placed on the domestic terrorist list, they announced Monday. The shocking revelation comes as the activists prepare to sue the U.S. military for unlawful spying. The discovery is the latest development in a stunning saga that exposes vast post-9/11 spying networks in which military, police, and federal agencies appear to be in cahoots. Documents declassified in 2009 reveal that military informant John Towery, going by the name 'John Jacob,' spent over two years infiltrating and spying on Olympia, Washington anti-war and social justice groups, including Port Militarization Resistance, Students for a Democratic Society, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On?

June 25, 2013 John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com Educate! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Glenn Greenwald, Government, Human Rights, NSA

I suspect that many Washington journalists, especially the types who go on Sunday talk shows, feel the way Marshall does, but perhaps don’t have his level of self-awareness. It’s not just a matter of defending the Obama Administration, although there’s probably a bit of that. It’s something deeper, which has to do with attitudes toward authority. Proud of their craft and good at what they do, successful journalists like to think of themselves as fiercely independent. But, at the same time, they are part of the media and political establishment that stands accused of ignoring, or failing to pick up on, an intelligence outrage that’s been going on for years. It’s not surprising that some of them share Marshall’s view of Snowden as “some young guy I’ve never heard of before who espouses a political philosophy I don’t agree with and is now seeking refuge abroad for breaking the law.”

No Papers No Fear! Undocubus National Tour

June 24, 2013 Organize! Human Rights, Immigration

A group of activists from Phoenix, Arizona, organized a bus trip for undocumented voluntaries as part of a wider campaign called No Papers, No Fear, trying to bring the drama of undocumented people's life to the public attention and trying to empower the Latino community. Last year they toured parts of the Midwest and the Southwest Coast on the way to Charleston, North Carolina, where after 20 cities on ten states, the first chapter of the trip ended. The bus is now headed to California, touring the West Coast.

Paraguayan Indigenous Community Reoccupies Territory After Two Decades

June 23, 2013 David Dougherty, www.therealnews.com Create! Food and Agriculture, Government, Human Rights

ving precariously on the side of a highway in Paraguay's remote Chaco region for more than 20 years, ever since a German cattle rancher and the Paraguayan state illegally kicked them off of their ancestral lands. A 2006 Inter-American Human Rights Court ruling held the Paraguayan state responsible for returning roughly 14,000 hectares to the community Sawhoyamaxa, a small fraction of their original territories. After pursuing every legal means possible and even blocking the highway in protest to no avail, the community decided in March 2013 to take matters into their own hands and reoccupy their lands.

Autonomy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

June 23, 2013 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Create! Brazil, Corporatism, Democracy, Egypt, Finance and the Economy, Government, Human Rights, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

As the ongoing uprising in Turkey and the mass protests in Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil confirm, the wave of struggles that kicked off with the Arab revolutions of 2011 is still in full swing. However, it is also clear that, two years hence, the “dangerous dreams” of the Arab revolutionaries, Europe’s indignados and America’s occupiers largely remain unfulfilled. In Europe, the austerity mantra is still being uncritically praised and dutifully imposed by governments of the left and the right. In Egypt, Islamist forces have successfully managed to hijack the revolution by taking state power and suppressing its epochal promise of radical emancipation. In the United States, meanwhile, the bodies that once assembled on Wall Street seem to have dissipated back into their previous state of social atomization. In the present conjuncture, an old but important question arises — both for the movements that kicked off in 2011 and for the ones currently underway in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere: what is to be done?

Global Protest Grows as Citizens Lose Faith in Politics and the State

June 23, 2013 Peter Beaumont, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Brazil, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights, Solidarity

If the recent scenes have seemed familiar, it is because they shared common features: viral, loosely organised with fractured messages and mostly taking place in urban public locations. Unlike the protest movement of 1968 or even the end of Soviet influence in eastern Europe in 1989, these are movements with few discernible leaders and often conflicting ideologies. Their points of reference are not even necessarily ideological but take inspiration from other protests, including those of the Arab spring and the Occupy movement. The result has seen a wave of social movements – sometimes short-lived – fromWall Street to Tel Aviv and from Istanbul to Rio de Janeiro, often engaging younger, better educated and wealthier members of society.

Support Health Professionals’ Right to Treat Protesters in Turkey

June 21, 2013 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Health Care, Human Rights, Police abuse, Türkiye

Police raided the makeshift infirmaries, confiscated all safety and health supplies and arrested three physicians. In response, doctors went on strike and marched through the streets in solidarity with their colleagues. They call on the international community to demand that the Turkish Government respect their right to medical neutrality, to treat all who need care no matter who they are or why they are injured and to respect their oath to protect the privacy and best interests of their patients. The World Medical Association released a letter of support. Physicians in the US also send their support and call on others to join them.

More Than One Million Protest in Brazil, Rousseff Calls Emergency Cabinet Meeting

June 21, 2013 arco Sibaja and Stan Lehman, www.ap.org Resist! Brazil, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights

More than a million Brazilians poured into the streets of at least 80 cities Thursday in this week's largest anti-government demonstrations yet, protests that saw violent clashes break out in several cities as people demanding improved public services and an end to corruption faced tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Despite the crackdown, protesters said they would not back down. In Brasilia, police struggled to keep hundreds of protesters from invading the Foreign Ministry, outside of which protesters lit a small fire. Other government buildings were attacked around the capital's central esplanade. There, too, police resorted to tear gas and rubber bullets in attempts to scatter the crowds. President Dilma Rousseff called an emergency meeting with top advisers for Friday morning. "This is the start of a structural change in Brazil," said Aline Campos, a 29 year old publicist in Brasilia. "People now want to make sure their money is well spent, that it's not wasted through corruption."

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