Human Rights

Turkish Trade Unions Join Protests Against Erdogan

June 5, 2013 Daren Butler and Humeyra Pamuk, www.reuters.com Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

Turkish trade unionists banging drums and trailing banners marched into an Istanbul square on Wednesday, joining unprecedented protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan over what they see as his authoritarian rule. Members of more than a dozen unions chanting "Tayyip resign" marched down a major avenue towards Taksim Square. Youths skirmished with police in cities across the country in a fifth night of troubles. The United States has held up Erdogan's Turkey as an example of an Islamic democracy that could be imitated throughout the Middle East. But domestic opponents argue that, for all the economic advances under Erdogan and early democratic reform, events have recently taken a more authoritarian turn.

Firsthand Account from Istanbul, June 1st

June 3, 2013 unknown, www.pastebin.com Resist! Human Rights, Türkiye

Last night, the attempted massacre in Dolmabahçe has been written in the dark pages of Turkish History. You know the road with the trees. On one side, there is the palace wall and on the other side there is the military wall. There, where there are high walls on both sides and no way of escape they sprayed 50 thousand unarmed civilians with agent-orange, or whatever it is called.

International Solidarity for Turkey’s Uprising

June 3, 2013 Allison Kilkenny, www.thenation.com Resist! Human Rights, Solidarity, Türkiye

A relatively small protest at Turkey's Gezi Park to prevent the ripping out of trees to make way for the building of a shopping mall has erupted into an uprising in which over 1,900 people have been arrested and reports of 1,700 more injured. Protesters say the harsh treatment by police, such as shooting tear gas and water cannons at protesters, is just one more symptom of Prime Minister Erdogan's authoritarian rule.

Two Thousand Rally for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade

June 2, 2013 Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Government, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

Nearly two thousand supporters of US Army PFC Bradley Manning rallied and marched on Fort Meade, Maryland, this afternoon for the young whistle-blower. Under a sweltering sun, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, former political prisoner-turned-human rights advocate Sarah Shourd, LGBT activist and US Army LT Dan Choi, and retired US Army Col. Ann Wright addressed supporters at the Llewellyn Gate, nearest the military courtroom. The demonstration, which lasted several hours, comes two days before Manning’s trial is set to begin at Ft. Meade, on June 3, and three years after his arrest. The government is charging Manning with indirectly “aiding the enemy” for releasing hundreds of thousands of war logs, diplomatic cables, and military videos to the transparency website WikiLeaks.

National Rallies Demand End to Deportation Now

June 2, 2013 Oscar Leon, www.therealnews.com Resist! Human Rights

Without many certainties about the final immigration reform bill that the president would eventually sign into law, while deportations planes leave the country every day in record numbers, human rights organizations, churches, and Latino families are feeling doubts and insecurity about their living situation, motivating them to speak out and demonstrate on the streets around U.S. in an effort to influence the debate on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, May 29 in Chicago, Latino rights advocates and activists joined environmental groups and chained themselves outside a fundraiser party to support Democrats running for the House on the next elections, hosted by Barack Obama--or "deporter in chief", as they call him.

Crowd-Fund a Court Stenographer for Bradley Manning’s Trial

June 1, 2013 Press Freedom Foundation Organize! Government, Human Rights, Media

The trial of Bradley Manning will have an enormous impact on press freedom and the rights of future whistle-blowers. Help us crowd-fund enough donations so we can hire a court stenographer to take transcripts of the trial. The government refuses to make its transcripts available to the public.

More Than 2,000 Blockupy European Central Bank

June 1, 2013 Al Jazeera, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

Thousands of demonstrators from the anti-capitalist Blockupy movement have cut off access to the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt to protest against policymakers' handling of Europe's debt crisis. The crowd, estimated by police at roughly 2,500 protesters, was met by armed police wearing helmets and riot gear and accompanied by Alsatian dogs. Trucks with water cannons stood by and a helicopter hovered overhead. At least 20 protesters held up inflatable mattresses with the slogan "War Starts Here" written on them. The Deutsche Bank is their next target to protest what they see as land grabs in Asia, as well as [speculation] in food prices.

A Realistic Radical Remaking of the Economy

June 1, 2013 Lyle Jeremy Rubin, www.dissentmagazine.org Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Government, Housing, Human Rights, Transportation, Worker Rights and Jobs

We are in a “prehistory” of a radical remaking of the economy—not corporate capitalist, state socialist, or welfare-statist. The historian Howard Brick, in Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought, criticized the post-capitalist imaginings of the past century for failing to make clear how and when the segue to the next stage would take place. The merit of economic democracy thinking is that it is pragmatic and realistic. The present system while failing most Americans and in collapse is resilient but there are growing patterns of resistance. How and, when will resistance get us out of the economic corruption of corporate capitalism? Economic democracy is developing a comprehensive alternative that is as theoretically rigorous and practical, with a blueprint for an economic democracy political program.

Chomsky on Anarchism, Propaganda, Libertarianism, Free College Education and Student Action

May 31, 2013 Michael S. Wilson, www.modernsuccess.org Educate! Corporatism, Human Rights, Media, Worker Rights and Jobs

Anarchism is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It seeks structures of hierarchy and domination in human life over the whole range, extending from, say, patriarchal families to, say, imperial systems, and it asks whether those systems are justified. It assumes that the burden of proof for anyone in a position of power and authority lies on them. Their authority is not self-justifying. They have to give a reason for it, a justification. And if they can’t justify that authority and power and control, which is the usual case, then the authority ought to be dismantled and replaced by something more free and just.

Idle No More and Defenders of the Land Call for Sovereignty Summer

May 31, 2013 Idle No More, Resist! Environment, Human Rights

We are calling on non-Indigenous people to join Indigenous communities in coordinated non-violent direct actions in the summer. Alternatives will only come to life if we escalate our actions, taking bold non-violent direct action that challenges the illegitimate power of corporations who dictate government policy. Indigenous communities have the right to determine the development on their traditional and treaty territories. In defending their right to say "No" to unwanted development, First Nations like Barriere Lake, KI, Grassy Narrows and many others are advancing alternatives that help us re-imagine our relationship to the environment. Across the country, people are increasingly supporting First Nations who are trying to protect lands, waters and air for everyone, and to win recognition of marine protections, of sustainable forestry, of local, just economies, and of the principle that we must respect the environment.

Fast Food Workers Striking in Seattle

May 30, 2013 Josh Eidelson, www.thenation.com Resist! Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

Seattle becomes the sevenths city where low-wage fast food workers are walking out for better working conditions. Like recent fast food strikers in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Detroit, the Seattle strikers are holding a one-day walkout to demand a raise to $15 per hour and the right to form a union without intimidation. Like those cities’ strikes, Seattle’s is supported by a coalition of labor and community groups; in each case, the Service Employees International Union has been involved in supporting the organizing efforts. The Seattle campaign, Good Jobs Seattle, is backed by groups including Working Washington, the Washington Community Action Network, and OneAmerica.

How the Ford Motor Company Won a Battle and Lost Ground

May 30, 2013 Staff, www.smithsonianmag.com Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

In 1937, Walter Reuther and his United Autoworkers Union had brought General Motors and Chrysler to their knees by staging massive sit-down strikes in pursuit of higher pay, shorter hours and other improvements in workers’ lives. But when Reuther and the UAW set their sights on the Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford made it clear that he’d never give in to the union. Like that, what would become infamous as the Battle of the Overpass was on. Forty of Bennett’s men charged the union organizers. Kilpatrick called out a warning, but the security men pounced, beating the union leaders while reporters and clergy looked on. Kilpatrick and the other photographers began snapping away.

Middlebury Students Stage Israeli Checkpoint

May 27, 2013 Jay Saper, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Human Rights

The objective of the checkpoint was to urge the college to honor the call by Palestinian civil society for those who are invested in corporations that profit from the occupation to stop their complicity in the oppression of the Palestinian people and fulfill their “moral responsibility to fight injustice” by divesting from Israeli apartheid. At a midnight breakfast event during finals week, students were greeted in the dark with barricades blocking the entrance to the dining hall and flashlights from full uniformed soldiers asking for identification cards.

Think IRS Was Bad? Try Spying on Occupy Activists

May 22, 2013 Matthew Rothschild, www.progressive.org Educate! Human Rights

With all the hullabaloo over the IRS’s special scrutiny of Tea Party groups, a far worse case of political meddling and governmental overreach has been going on: The spying on leftwing activists in the Occupy movement. Thousands of documents obtained by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy show how Homeland Security and local law enforcement were obsessed with the Occupy movement and other activists. They treated Occupy activists as potential terrorists. They infiltrated Occupy meetings. They tracked Occupy activists online. They kept an eye on the Rev. Jesse Jackson when he visited an Occupy protest in Phoenix.

Undercover: Officer Connected to “NATO 5” Case Still Spying

May 21, 2013 Steve Horn and Chris Geovanis, www.truthout.org Educate! Human Rights

"Danny" sent emails to individual members of CAM's listserv - but almost never to the larger listserv - strategically for the next year, seeking information about upcoming demonstrations and meetings. The off-list queries continued to raise red flags with CAM members he contacted, some of whom had never met him and did not know who he was. When we asked "Danny" at the 2013 May Day rally to confirm his name and identity as a CPD officer, he insisted he was "Danny Edwards" and claimed to be a friend of a local activist. That's not how the activist described "Danny" to CAM volunteers at a street medic training before the NATO protests last spring.

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