Human Rights

Green Shadow Cabinet Joins Critical Struggle to Defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership

June 17, 2013 Staff, www.greenshadowcabinet.us Organize! Corporatism, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Human Rights, Solidarity, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal personhood to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be able to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws cost them profits, and to extract damages from our governments - and from us as taxpayers - if they enforce those laws.

On 30th Anniversary, Campaign for Justice in Bhopal N.A. Calls for Solidarity

June 17, 2013 Reena Shadaan, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Environment, Health Care, Human Rights

It will soon be three decades since the people of Bhopal were exposed to 40 tons of methyl isocyanate and other undisclosed chemical gases due to the negligence of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), which is now owned by the Dow Chemical Company. When Dow purchased UCC, they inherited UCCs legal liabilities; however, Dow denies all responsibility for the disaster. This is despite their accepting UCCs outstanding liabilities in the U.S. This is a clear example of corporate double standards. The disaster, which has claimed over 25,000 lives to date, currently affects over 500,000.

Slovenia, Next Hot Spot for Uprising?

June 16, 2013 Staff, www.euronews.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Human Rights

Slovenia, once the economic poster child of the new EU countries, now finds itself in economic and political chaos. The government says Slovenia can save itself. But, there is little investment, and many companies have gone bankrupt. People took to the streets, leading to the resignation of the government. The country’s elite stands accused of cronyism. State owned banks have made disastrous loans, leading to 7 billion euros of bad debt, hence a shortage of capital for the country’s new entrepreneurs. The European Union has given Slovenia two more years to put its finances in order.

Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Arrives in UK to Discuss Julian Assange

June 16, 2013 Andrew Osborn, www.reuters.com Organize! Human Rights, Julian Assange, Solidarity, Surveillance

Assange said he was concerned by reports that Britain had told airlines to stop Snowden from flying to London. "The British government refused entry to this country of Edward Snowden. Why? Presumably because it doesn't want to end up with another Julian Assange," Assange said. "The British government should be offering Mr Snowden asylum, not excluding him. I'm sure if you ask the population of the UK what they want, they want to protect Mr Snowden." Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino is due to meet British Foreign Secretary William Hague in London on Monday to discuss Assange's case.

Turkey: Police Escalate Attacks, Including on Infirmaries and Doctors

June 16, 2013 Margaret Flowers, MD, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Health Care, Human Rights, Türkiye

We saw last night that police were raiding hotels and taking any safety and health supplies they could find. Police removed masks, water bottles and helmets. They continue to raid the hotels, where people are taking refuge, today and remove supplies. There is a call out for more medical supplies including bandages and families are urged to place clean towels and clothing outside of their doors. An infirmary was raided today. The patients are reported to be ok, but the infirmary is no longer able to function. Four doctors were arrested for providing care to the injured people.

Turkey: Largest Public Union Calls General Strike

June 15, 2013 Reuters, www.reuters.com Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

One of Turkey's main public sector labor unions said it would call a general strike for Monday after riot police stormed an Istanbul park, firing tear gas and percussion bombs to evict hundreds of anti-government demonstrators on Saturday. "We had already taken a decision to go on strike if there was an intervention on the park. So tomorrow we will declare a strike for Monday," said Mustafa Turgut, spokesman of the Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK), which has some 240,000 members in 11 unions. A second union grouping, the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (DISK), was holding an emergency meeting on whether to also call a strike, a DISK official told Reuters.

Message from Turkey: Istanbul is Living a Hell

June 15, 2013 MH, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Health Care, Human Rights, Türkiye

As for the event I mentioned the other day, Kizilay, the Turkish Red Crescent, did indeed refuse to transport hurt people, and a very reliable source (doctor) narrated me the event. The doctors in a small private hospital had to pay a private company to transport a seriously injured person who in the end survived. It's a scandal. We are living in a police state. The police arrested 49 lawyers invading the Palace of Justice the other day. Now they are trying to arrest every single doctor and nurse who aids the injured protestors. The government and the governor of Istanbul still talk of "marginal groups". The mask of democracy and the rule of law have fallen in this country. Pray for us and spread the news."

Strike Student Debt, Not Just Interest Rates

June 15, 2013 Staff, www.strikedebt.org Create! Education, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights

Congress is talking about how to fix student debt without actually talking about student debt or the cost of higher education. To date, the negotiations have been focused on where to set the interest rate charged to students. It currently stands at 3.4% but is set to double on July first to 6.8%. This is like arguing about how to save a person drowning in a lake by quibbling over how deep the water should be: 100 feet, or 200 feet? While we are of course deeply in favor of building a movement around the debt crisis, we think that any such movement must target the root of the problem, rather than pruning the foliage. In a truly democratic society, nobody would have to go into debt to earn a diploma. Education should be empowering, but debt-financed education serves only to ossify inequalities. Higher education should be available to all, regardless of ability to pay. Public two- and four-year colleges should be free, funded as a public good, and all current student debt should be erased.

Everywhere Taksim! Everywhere Resistance!

June 15, 2013 Taksim Solidarity, www.enough14.org Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye

On the 18th day of our resistance, on Saturday June 15th, we will continue our occupation for the park and all the living creatures within it, our trees, our life spaces, our private lives, our freedoms, and our future. We will pursue this struggle until our demands are met. This resistance will be the reflection of the collective will of Taksim Solidarity and a symbol of our comprehensive struggle. From this day forward, we will continue to fight against all kinds of injustice and suffering in our country with the dynamism and strength generated by our struggle which has spread across the country and perhaps the world. We are stronger, more organized and more hopeful than we were 18 days ago.

99 Pickets and Others Protest Big Box Store

June 15, 2013 99 Pickets Lines, www.interoccupy.net Organize! Corporatism, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

99 Pickets Statement: We stand in solidarity with the workers of Bangladesh and are outraged over the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building, which has killed more than 1,100 garment workers. This follows the fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory last year where more than 100 Bangladeshi workers lost their lives. Fortunately, there is a meaningful, verifiable way to improve the atrocious conditions in Bangaldesh garment factories: the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. To get involved with future 99 Pickets Bangladesh solidarity action and other worker rights struggles, text “@pickets” to 23559.

BREAKING: Turkey Threatens Doctors and First Responders, Violates Medical Neutrality

June 15, 2013 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Health Care, Human Rights, Türkiye

However, the response by Prime Minister Erdogan has been severe and violent. He threatens the protesters daily. Riot police have repeatedly stormed the park and attacked protesters. They’ve used water cannons, pepper spray and shot tear gas canisters into crowds. The protesters have stayed strong against these assaults, doing what they can to protect themselves with helmets and gas masks made from plastic bottles, but so far more than 5,000 protesters have been injured, some critically, and 4 protesters are dead. Medic tents were set up in Gezi Park, but these were not sufficient to handle the severely wounded protesters. Makeshift hospitals have been set up in hotel lobbies and during some of the most chaotic moments, protesters formed human chains to keep the streets open so that ambulances carrying the wounded could pass through.

1963: When Violent Response to a Moral Nonviolent Movement Created Groundswell of Support

June 14, 2013 Lee A. Daniels, www.newpittsburghcourieronline.com Educate! Human Rights, Racism

Evers’ murder, when it occurred and in hindsight, bore witness to the fact that the Black freedom struggle had risen in explosive fashion to the top of the nation’s agenda. It occurred just weeks after the violent response of city officials in Birmingham, Ala., to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-led demonstrations there—the police beatings of nonviolent marchers; firemen turning their high-pressure hoses on defenseless men, women and children; police dogs shredding the clothing of stoic demonstrators—had stirred outrage and a groundswell of support for the Movement around the globe and, even more importantly, among a critical minority of White northerners.

Tarak Kauff: Why I am on Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Guantanamo Prisoners

June 14, 2013 Tarak Kauff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

To keep things in perspective, my own hunger strike is a small sacrifice compared to what the prisoners are going through. I am not kept in solitary confinement; I do not have burly U.S. military guards bursting into my cell, slamming my face against the floor, breaking my nose, my teeth and bones. I do not have my head shoved into a toilet bowl as I am told to drink. I am not strapped down for two hours while a tube is painfully pushed through my nasal passage so I can be force fed. I am not deprived of seeing my loved ones, my children. I am not treated as a sub-human object to be brutalized and shown no human kindness. The Guantánamo Bay prison is a blight on America's soul. Having lived in the United States for all of my 71 years — am I not part of that soul? Are not the torture and hellish conditions perpetrated at Guantanamo Bay prison an abomination, a black mark on every U.S. American's soul? I ask this question of myself and all of us.

Elliott Adams: Why I Fast with the Guantanamo Prisoners

June 14, 2013 Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

We can end this terrible travesty of our values, but it will take a broad-spectrum critical mass that includes Christians, Muslims and Jews, Democrats and Republicans, leftists and conservatives. This is an affront to what all of us believe in. I beg you to join the effort to get the prisoners out of Guantanamo and shut that place down. Fast if it feels right for you, call your congressman, sign the petitions, they are all good. But I need you, the prisoners need you, indeed our nation needs you to educate yourself about this travesty so you can be a spokesperson for the simple decency, for the basic humanity that you believe in. You may reach out based on your religious beliefs, or based on the law, or based on labor principles, or based on what you believe the American values are. You can talk to one person or a hundred, you can twitter, or facebook, or organize actions, but please reach out to everyone and anyone everywhere and anywhere.

Video: Hunger Strike Song

June 14, 2013 the Peace Poets, www.youtube.com Resist! Human Rights, Torture, Video

166 men remain trapped at Guantánamo. The vast majority have never been, and will never be, charged with any crime. Of these, 86 have been cleared for release. Almost all of the men are on hunger strike since Feb 6, 2013. This three and a half minute video was produce by the Peace Poets and Witness Against Torture.

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