Protest

Weekend Of Action For Chelsea Manning!

May 7, 2014 Carrie Hathorn, www.chelseamanning.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Protest

WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is gearing up for a historic appeals process and we need you to take action to support her this weekend! As our government cracks down on freedom of information, overclassified millions of documents each year and pursues rampant whistleblower prosecutions using the outdated Espionage Act of 1917, it’s become increasingly clear that a mass movement is needed to reclaim the democratic principles on which the U.S. was founded. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning did a brave and selfless thing when she showed the public the truth about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Show support for Chelsea this weekend, May 10-11th, by joining our transgender teach-in and protest in Washington D.C.!

Protesters Take Over Albuquerque City Council Meeting

May 6, 2014 Chris McKee, www.krqe.com Resist! police brutality, Protest

Angry protesters took over an Albuquerque City Council meeting Monday night, calling for immediate change at APD, the ousting of both Albuquerque’s Police Chief and Mayor and more. The meeting got out of control quickly about an hour after it started. Things got so chaotic and unruly that Chief Gorden Eden left and city councilors canceled the meeting. The scene was unlike anything many people have seen in recent memory inside the council chambers. One person even tried to serve APD Chief Gorden Eden with a warrant for his arrest. “This is no longer your meeting, this is the people’s meeting. This is democracy in action!” said protester David Correia to the city council. “We have no control of this meeting! So if this is your meeting, go ahead,” said Albuquerque City Council President Ken Sanchez. The meeting started like any other, but quickly deteriorated just after 6 p.m. during public comment. That’s when protesters took complete control, pushing many councilors to abandon their seats and leaving citizens to sit in their seats.

Cecily McMillan Verdict Proves Dissent Is Dangerous

May 6, 2014 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Educate! NDAA, Protest, Surveillance

The conviction of Occupy Wall Street protestor Cecily McMillan for assault on a police officer shows that the judiciary is corrupt and dissent will not be tolerated. We can no longer call ourselves a democratic society, and as Chris Hedges says, we are living in the “post-constitutional era.” Since 9/11, the justification given for incremental loss of our freedoms has been “keeping us safe from terrorism.” But in truth, governments always seek to accrue more power to control their populaces in service to elite economic interests. It is an imperative which pre-dated 9/11, but one that afterwards spiraled out of control. A heightened state of fear, a subliminal awareness of being expendable in the neo-liberal economy and the distraction of consumer culture have kept the majority of Americans in paralysis. In the meantime, institutions which protected our rights have been systematically undermined. This, unfortunately, is the regime we now live under: The Authoritarian State Dissent will not be tolerated. Cecily McMillan was prosecuted for assaulting a police officer when she herself was assaulted. Prosecuting her for felony assault with severe penalties serves only one purpose: to deter further protest and scare the rest of us into submission.

Protestors Rally Against Prison System

May 6, 2014 Kyle Hughes, www.troyrecord.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Protest, Solitary Confinement

Opponents of prison “mass incarceration” and solitary confinement held a protest Monday led by Cornel West, a philosophy professor and media celebrity whose resume includes acting in the “Matrix” movies “When it comes to the Jim Crow Jr., the ‘New Jim Crow’ system, we say it is a crime against humanity,” West said in a fiery speech outside the state Capitol. “That’s what it is. Solitary confinement is torture, it is a crime against humanity to lock folks up when 60 percent of them are there for soft drugs.” He was referring to the 2010 book, “The New Jim Crow,” that argued U.S. society is disproportionately locking up blacks and labeling them as criminals to perpetuate a racial caste system. The book said about a third of young black men in the U.S. are in prison or on parole or probation, with incarceration rates higher than other industrialized nations. “Everybody knows 12 percent of those on the chocolate side, 12 percent of those on the vanilla side of flying high in the friendly skies every week taking drugs, but 65 percent of the convicteds (on drug offenses) are chocolate,” he said. “That just lets us know that the legacy of white supremacy is still operating in America. “But it’s not just that, it’s also a class issue. Everybody knows that it not just our precious white vanilla brothers and sisters, but if middle-class young folk of any color were going to jail at the same level of intensity as our precious poor brothers and sisters disproportionately chocolate, there’d be a town-hall meeting every week. It’d be on ABC, NBC, MSNBC — maybe even Fox News would have to carry it.”

The Post-Constitutional Era

May 6, 2014 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Corporatism, NDAA, Protest

The U.S. Supreme Court decision to refuse to hear our case concerning Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which permits the military to seize U.S. citizens and hold them indefinitely in military detention centers without due process, means that this provision will continue to be law. It means the nation has entered a post-constitutional era. It means that extraordinary rendition of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil by our government is legal. It means that the courts, like the legislative and executive branches of government, exclusively serve corporate power—one of the core definitions of fascism. It means that the internal mechanisms of state are so corrupted and subservient to corporate power that there is no hope of reform or protection for citizens under our most basic constitutional rights. It means that the consent of the governed—a poll by OpenCongress.com showed that this provision had a 98 percent disapproval rating—is a cruel joke. And it means that if we do not rapidly build militant mass movements to overthrow corporate tyranny, including breaking the back of the two-party duopoly that is the mask of corporate power, we will lose our liberty. “In declining to hear the case Hedges v. Obama and declining to review the NDAA, the Supreme Court has turned its back on precedent dating back to the Civil War era that holds that the military cannot police the streets of America,” said attorney Carl Mayer, who along with Bruce Afran devoted countless unpaid hours to the suit. “This is a major blow to civil liberties. It gives the green light to the military to detain people without trial or counsel in military installations, including secret installations abroad. There is little left of judicial review of presidential action during wartime.”

Women Rally For More Than 200 Kidnapped Girls

May 5, 2014 Jina Moore, www.buzzfeed.com Resist! Protest, Women's Rights

Five hundred women marched in Abuja yesterday, more than two weeks after female students were kidnapped from their boarding school. More rallies are planned through Monday. At midnight on April 15, 234 girls were kidnapped from their dorm room in Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, by Islamic militant group Boko Haram. Most have been missing ever since. The separatist terrorism group’s name means “Western education is forbidden.” Fewer than 50 girls managed to escape their kidnappers, one of whom told the New Yorker the girls at first weren’t far from their homes. But now they are believed to be deep in the forest, on the border with Cameroon, and the Nigerian military is struggling to locate them. President Goodluck Jonathan has not addressed the kidnapping directly, and Nigerians are growing frustrated. “There are lots of stories, and we don’t know whom to believe,” one woman told the BBC. She was hoping to hear Jonathan speak out yesterday. He did not. Yesterday 500 people gathered in Abuja, the capital, to march to the National Assembly and deliver written demands for action to senior leaders.

Global Call to Action to Close Guantanamo

May 5, 2014 Witnesstorture, www.witnesstorture.tumblr.com Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Protest, Torture

Not Another Broken Promise! Not Another Day in Guantanamo! On May 23rd of last year, President Obama again promised to close the detention facility at Guantánamo. His pledge came in response to the mass hunger strike by men protesting their indefinite detention and to the renewed, global condemnation of the prison. One year later, far too little has changed: few detained men have left the prison and hunger strikes and forced feeding continue. Join us in Washington DC, New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii, Germany, London, Sydney and in many more communities around the world to urge President Obama and Congress to end indefinite detention and close the detention facility at Guantánamo.

Protests Mark May Day Around The World

May 1, 2014 AFP, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Earth Day to May Day, Protest

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets around the world to mark International Labour Day, including in Turkey, Hong Kong, Moscow and Jakarta. In Istanbul, police dispersed on Thursday hundreds of protesters who tried to defy a ban on demonstrations on the city's Taksim Square on the anniversary of clashes that prompted a nationwide protest movement. The square has been the scene of protests that have dogged the government for months. After giving a final warning, hundreds of riot police backed up by water-cannon moved in on protesters in the Besiktas district as they tried to breach the barricades leading up to the symbolic square, an AFP reporter said on Thursday. Rallies also took place across Asia, including in Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei and Seoul, where the annual protest was expected to take a sombre tone in the wake of the South Korean ferry disaster. Russian workers, meanwhile, were to parade on Red Square for the first time since 1991 - the latest Soviet tradition to be revived as a wave of patriotism sweeps the country.

Low-Wage Workers Shame Greedy Restaurant Chains in Massive Protest

April 30, 2014 Mara Kardas-Nelson, www.alternet.org Resist! Corporatism, Minimum Wage, Organizing, Protest

Hundreds of low-income workers from around the country demanding better wages, benefits and an end to corporate greed blocked traffic in Washington on Monday morning to start of a day of protests, marches and lobbying Congress for economic justice. The protesters marched along main thoroughfare Pennsylvania Avenue as they headed towards the Capitol, blocking traffic for several minutes at a time at busy locations along the Mall. The activists were in Washington, D.C., for the Rising Voices for A New Economy conference, organized by National People’s Action and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Their coalition included groups like Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), which is using the day to launch a new shaming campaign against the corporate restaurant industry and its national lobbying group, The National Restaurant Association. NRA members are also in Washington for their annual convention and congressional lobbying day. “It’s a shame that people get paid $2.13 an hour—that’s 213 pennies more than a slave was making an hour, and I come from a slave state,” said Darrin Browder,

Groups Protest National Organic Meeting In San Antonio

April 30, 2014 Alexis Baden-Meyer, www.organicconsumers.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Protest

Today, representatives of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and March Against Monsanto San Antonio (MAMSA) staged a protest at the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The groups disrupted the meeting in order to protest the USDA National Organic Program's (NOP) changes to the process for removing non-organic ingredients and materials from the NOP’s National List of substances allowed and prohibited in products certified as organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The change, made without due process or input from the public, erodes organic standards and will result in the list of synthetic and non-organic ingredients and materials allowed in organic to grow increasingly, and irreversibly longer, the groups said.

Neil Young On Climate Change, Cowboy Indian Alliance

April 29, 2014 Emerson Urry, www.environews.tv Resist! Arts, Environment, Keystone XL, Protest

It’s a world issue. We’re engaged everywhere that there’s oil, everywhere that there is CO2 abuse. If we don’t change this, we’re not going to have a good place for our children or for our grandchildren or for their grandchildren to live. All of the scientific studies including studies from the United Nations special council that they put together have said this. They all agree with this. The science is with this universally. There is very little disagreement on this issue. We can’t go ahead and keep doing these destructive things to Mother Earth and allow the climate change to happen, which will destroy our way of life. Actually, carbon abuse is un-American. It destroys American business. It lowers the bottom line. Coca Cola just complained that they lost 20 percent of their bottom line because of climate change, and that’s an issue. That was on the front page of “the New York Times.” Coca Cola and 18 other major companies who are blaming climate change for their loss of revenue.

New Book On Pete Seeger’s Experience Of The McCarthy Era

April 29, 2014 Edward Renehan, www.prlog.org Educate! Arts, Protest

When Pete Seeger died at age 94 this past January, widespread media coverage included discussion of his trials and tribulations during the McCarthy era when he, like so many other entertainers and artists, was persecuted, subjected to gross indignities, and ultimately prosecuted for Contempt of Congress during the myriad anti-Communist witch hunts of that time. Pete Seeger vs. The Un-Americans: A Tale of the Blacklist, reveals never before known aspects of Seeger's experience during those dark days, including the backstory to his prosecution for Contempt (orchestrated by, of all people, Robert Kennedy). The tale is one of great personal honor and commitment to principle. As Bob Dylan has commented in a most under-stated way: "Pete [was] blacklisted during the McCarthy era and had a hard time, but he never stopped." Eleanor Roosevelt wrote admiringly: "Pete Seeger, the folksinger … lives not far from me near Beacon, NY, and is loved by many people, young and old, who have enjoyed his music. … He has refused to take the Fifth Amendment because he felt that could be construed as an admission of guilt, and chose instead to invoke the freedoms of the First Amendment. His case is now in the higher courts."

Filipinos Reject Expansion Of US Empire In Asia Pacific

April 29, 2014 Bayan USA, www.bayanusa.org Resist! Asia, Protest, TPP

We, Asian and Pacific Islanders and peace-loving people in the US, denounce the US government’s strategic plan to increase economic, political, and military intervention in the Asia-Pacific region, as part of the so-called “US Pivot to Asia”. The said pivot aims to expand and consolidate long-running US hegemony over the region, as well as quell peoples struggles for social and national liberation across the Asia-Pacific region that have historically frustrated the interests of US empire. We call for protests in April 2014, when US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines to further consolidate key allies in the region in line with its strategic economic and geopolitical agenda. We stand with the peoples of the Asia-Pacific region who for decades have been struggling for self-determination and for genuine sovereignty amidst decades of US-led neoliberal economic policies in the region.

Rutgers Students Protest Condoleezza Rice Speech

April 29, 2014 Kelly Heyboer, www.nj.com Resist! Protest, Student Activism, War Criminal

Rutgers University students are staging a sit-in at the Old Queens administration building in New Brunswick to protest the selection of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker. About 50 students marched into the building this afternoon and refused to leave, according to student accounts posted on Twitter and other social media sites. Photos and videos of the protest show students lining the Old Queens staircase outside the doors leading to President Robert Barchi's outer office on the second floor. Some students are holding signs protesting the choice of Rice to speak at commencement, including signs reading "No honors for war criminals," "War criminals out" and "RU 4 Humanity?" A Rutgers spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the protests or reports that campus police are barring people from entering Old Queens, which houses university administrative offices.

Venezuela: Wealthy Stir Violence, While Poor Build a New Society

April 29, 2014 Dario Azzellini, www.venezuelanalysis.com Educate! CIA, Protest, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

Before Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuela in 1999, the barrios of Caracas, built provisionally on the hills surrounding the capital, did not even appear on the city map. Officially they did not exist, so neither the city nor the state maintained their infrastructure. The poor inhabitants of these neighborhoods obtained water and electricity by tapping pipes and cables themselves. They lacked access to services such as garbage collection, health care and education altogether. Today residents of the same barrios are organizing their communities through directly democratic assemblies known as communal councils—of which Venezuela has more than 40,000. Working families have come together to found community spaces and cooperative companies, coordinate social programs and renovate neighborhood houses, grounding their actions in principles of solidarity and collectivity. And their organizing has found government support, especially with the Law of Communal Councils, passed by Chávez in 2006, which has led to the formation of communes that can develop social projects on a larger scale and over the long term.

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