Human Rights

Social Media and Smartphones Overcome Media Blackout in Turkey

June 10, 2013 Steve Dorsey, www.themedialine.or Resist! Human Rights, Media, Türkiye

The Turkish television channels have shown almost none of the protests in their country. At one of the most intense moments, when police forces clashed with protesters here, cars were overturned and buildings torched, one Turkish TV news channel continued to show a documentary on penguins. Those protests now appear to be among the most significant events in modern Turkish history. In between the boisterous chants calling for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's resignation, the protestors at this city's Gezi Park glance at their Smartphones to quickly browse Twitter for reliable, uncensored news. The social media stream has become an important means of communication within the Turkish uprising.

New Yorker’s Declare “I Stand with Edward Snowden”

June 10, 2013 Admin, www.sparrowmedia.net Resist! Human Rights, Media, Solidarity, Surveillance

At 12:00pm EST activists, journalists and concerned New Yorkers will assemble at New York’s Union Square for a rally in solidarity with National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower, Edward Snowden. Snowden, a contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton and the source behind The Guardian‘s near-weeklong stretch of blockbuster scoops highlightingPRISM and similar pervasive surveillance programs under the authority of the NSA, has become a household name overnight. Similarly, this revelation has created a groundswell of concern for Snowden’s welfare, who is currently seeking refuge in Hong Kong and may in the near future require political asylum from a criminal investigation opened yesterday, 6/9/2013, by the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations Steps Forward

June 9, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras www.guardian.co.uk Resist! Government, Human Rights, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

The Guardian has revealed the identity of the NSA whistleblower at his request: "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong." Edward Snowden is one of America's most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning. He added: "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them." He has "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."

Occupy Gezi-Florida Rallies in Tampa

June 8, 2013 Occupy Gezi-Florida, www.facebook.com Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye

About 50 demonstrators gathered in Curtis Hixon Park Saturday afternoon to stand in solidarity with Turkish protesters in Gezi Park in Istanbul. Turkish citizens have faced tear gas, rubber bullets and beatings at the hands of police as they prevented a construction project from destroying Gezi Park. In downtown Tampa, the group called themselves "Occupy Gezi-Florida" and spoke against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's use of force to prevent protest.

Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Guantanamo Detainees

June 8, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

Below is a short link to a 3 minute video with Elliott Adams. Elliott is on a hunger strike in solidarity with the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He is down to about 148 lbs after fasting for 22 days. He along with S. Brian Wilson and Diane Wilson also hunger strikers on the same concern are trying to wake us up to the fact that our government is holding innocent men who are cleared for release and no threat to anyone but aren't being released because of bizarre politics and our acceptance of this injustice. It is wrong, We are better than this.

Acronym TV: Turkish Protests, Part of Global Revolution

June 7, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.youtube.com Resist! Human Rights

In this Acronym TV report, I speak with Selin, a 19 year-old female resident of Isthanbul, who recounts the physical and physiological abuse she endured after she was arrested during the Occupy Gezi protest last week. Occupy Wall street organizer, Justin Wedes, at her side in Isthanbul sums up the five immediate demands that have emerged from the Gezi occupation while Jenna Pope, photojournalist and OWS activist also reports from Gezi park that the protesters are well aware that the whole world is watching and drawing strength from their efforts. “Everything is connected,” Pope says, “people all over the world are fighting against these governments who are only interested in making the very rich even richer.”

NSA Taps Into Facebook, Google and Others

June 7, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Human Rights

The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says. The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims "collection directly from the servers" of major US service providers.

Thousands of Women March in Guatemala

June 7, 2013 Martina Molina, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Human Rights

Two weeks ago, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court overturned the historic guilty verdict of the nation’s former military dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, who had been convicted of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during his short reign from 1982 to 1983. The Constitutional Court’s decision annulled Montt’s 80-year prison sentence and ordered that the final weeks of the case be retried. At 86 years old, Ríos Montt was the first former head of state in Latin America to be sentenced for genocide by his own country. In response, human rights organizations across Latin America organized actions protesting the sentence annulment, supporting the victims of genocide and condemning legal impunity.

Protests in Turkey: Photo Update

June 7, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye

Protests continue in Turkey. The Prime Minister returned. He condemns the protests as bordering on illegal. According to some activists, they are upset that Erdogan is seeking a fourth term. There have been many clashes with police. Three people are confirmed dead, one person has brain damage and many are in critical condition. Here are live updates from Russia Today. And here is a photo montage of recent events. Protesters do yoga. They created a library and are planting a garden.

NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions

June 7, 2013 Glenn Greenwald, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Human Rights

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries. The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

Occupy Wall Street Activists in US Rally in Solidarity with Turkish Protesters

June 6, 2013 Staff, www.abna.ir Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

Hundreds of people, including activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement, staged a demonstration in New York City to voice their support for anti-government rallies in the Turkish city of Istanbul. The protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park - the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Lower Manhattan - on Saturday, and marched nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) to the Turkish consulate. Some of the demonstrators carried signs reading "Istanbul is not alone," while others waved the Turkish national flag. The goal to direct public attention to Istanbul's Gezi Park protests, and the violent crackdown on the protests by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish Police Arrest Dozens for Tweeting About Protests

June 5, 2013 Kristen Gwynne, www.alternet.org Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye

At least 25 people have been arrested in Turkey for tweeting about protests that started last week. The activists arrested Wednesday in Izmir are accused of 'instigating public hatred and animosity' for tweeting logistics about how to engage in demonstrations. Police tracked down the tweeters through their IP addresses, and raided 38 residences to find them. Twitter has played a large role in organizing and spreading international awareness of the protests and police reactions, prompting Prime Minister Erdogan to condemn it as a “scourge." “There is now a menace which is called Twitter," he said Sunday,"The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."

In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity

June 5, 2013 Lynn Petrovich, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

It is past time for Americans to stop sitting idly by, watching so-called ‘reality’ shows when what is really happening, from drone strikes, to cluster bombs, to torture, to endless war, to Guantanamo – where prisoners who are already cleared of any crime are on hunger strikes and yet are strapped to tables and violently force-fed – is so horrid, it is – ironically – unspeakable. The fact that American foreign “policy” is dominated by huge powerful corporations using trillions of taxpayer-funded dollars to buy kill machines and a propaganda-addicted (and predominantly poor) military to “democratize” (slaughter) those in other nations is, in a word: sociopathic. Without a truly independent, transparent, accountable and informative communications system (not owned and controlled by a handful of profit-first corporations like our “free and open” press), we are doomed to continue the insanity.

New Documentary: “Guilty of Giving”

June 5, 2013 Music for Occupy, www.popularresistance.org Create! Human Rights

Music For Occupy produced this Occumentary "Guilty Of Giving" - A Guide To Legitimate Fundraising and Activism, to show the world... There Are Still MANY people that are in dire need of relief from Hurricane Sandy, and the Tornados in Oklahoma . Occupy Sandy and Respond & Rebuild are STILL on the ground providing that relief, well after nearly all government agencies all but forgot about them, and many organizations have left. Undocumented human beings are still HUMAN BEINGS, and it is our humane responsibility to take care of those that need our help, when there is nobody else around. When you tell people you are going to use money which they donated for a specific cause, show them that you were honest with them. Transparency is the only way.

Turkish Protests Spread to 67 Cities

June 5, 2013 Shaghayegh Tajvidi, www.therealnews.com Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye

For days the air in Istanbul has been replaced with tear gas, as state police continue to unleash chemical warfare from high and low. Today the uprisings witnessed a new development, when Turkey's Confederation of Public Workers Unions, KESK, consisting of 11 unions and approximately 240,000 members, declared their decision to stage a massive two-day strike. The action, which was originally planned for a later date in response to labor law modifications, was rescheduled to June 4 now, in response to the government's excessive use of police brutality and its increasingly undemocratic practices. Istanbul's state of unrest began May 27 when bulldozers began to uproot trees in Taksim Gezi Park, situated in a historic downtown neighborhood in the heart of the city.

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