Protest

Spring Campaign To STOP Fast Track — April 22nd To May 7th

April 18, 2014 Flush the TPP, www.flushthetpp.org Resist! Protest, TPP

Spring is here, and with it comes a new campaign to hold the U.S. government accountable for its support of corporate colonialism. We’re joining allies across the U.S. and across the world to change the narrative around President Obama’s upcoming trip to Asia, during which he’ll work to finalize the TPP. Our action has helped to hold off Fast Track for now, but Obama’s visit proves that the Administration and “free trade” proponents won’t stop pushing their corporate agenda – and we can’t stop pushing against it. Help keep up the momentum for trade that puts people and the planet before profit! Check out the details of the call to action below, and join in any way that works for you. If you’ve got a local rally or event planned, be sure to let us know atstopfasttrack@flushthetpp.org.

Cowboy And Indian Alliance Plan Anti-Keystone XL Protest In DC

April 17, 2014 Reno Berkeley, www.allvoices.com Resist! co, Keystone XL, Protest

In American history, cowboys and Indians have always been enemies, fighting against one another for control of the land. Today, their descendants have teamed up to fight an enemy that seeks to destroy them both – the Keystone XL pipeline. On April 22, members of the Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group of farmers, ranchers and tribal communities who live along the route of the proposed pipeline, will ride and march on Washington, setting up a camp for five days outside of the White House. On the Bold Nebraska site, the Reject and Protect event describes what will occur during the demonstration: “Four days after the Cowboy Indian Alliance tipis first go up on the Mall, we’ll gather at 11 a.m. on Saturday the 26 at an encampment to make our closing argument against the pipeline. As we gather, everyone there will be asked to make their thumbprint mark on a tipi. Then we’ll hear from the farmers, ranchers, tribal leaders and refinery community members who will be directly impacted by Keystone XL and the tar sands – and who have pledged to lead the resistance should it be approved.”

Good Friday Anti-Drone Vigil To Be Held At Beale Air Force Base

April 15, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Drones, Peace, Protest

On April 18 at 3 p.m., Internationally recognized peace activist Kathy Kelly will join anti-drone demonstrators at the Schneider (Main) Gate of Beale Air Force Base at a Good Friday prayer service followed by nonviolent action. Organizers say that they are gathering at Beale, "in the shadow of killer drones, modern day equivalents of the cross, to pray, to act, and to build a community of peace." There have been frequent anti-drone demonstrations at Beale, home of the Global Hawk Drone, a surveillance drone that assists in finding targets for armed Predator and Reaper drones. The prayer service will include songs, prayer, Holy Communion, and reflections by Kathy Kelly. The following clergy will lead the service: The Reverend Dr. Gerald O. (Jerry) Pedersen, former U.S. Marine, present as part of the Honor Guard on the U.S.S. Missouri during the surrender of the Japanese at the end of World War II, retired Lutheran pastor, Sacramento, author of Unfinished Journey: From War to Peace, From Violence to Wholeness, member Veterans for Peace.

National Day Of Action Against Guantanamo May 23rd

April 15, 2014 Witness Against Torture, www.witnesstorture.org Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Protest

On May 23rd of last year, President Obama again promised to close the prison camp at Guantanamo. 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. Since Obama’s speech, only 12 men have been released. 154 remain, nearly all of whom have never been charged with a crime. 76 were cleared for release by the US government years ago. 56 men are from Yemen, the largest national group at Guantanamo, but they remain subject to an effective moratorium on their release based on their nationality. No one from Yemen has been freed since the May speech. Up to 40 prisoners continue to hunger strike, and many are being subjected to forced feeding — a practice condemnedby international human rights organizations, medical associations, and members of the US Congress. New lawsuits in US courts lay bare the extreme cruelty of the forced feeding at Guantanamo.

Why No Sustained Protests (Yet)?

April 14, 2014 Richard D. Wolff, www.truth-out.org Strategize! Austerity, Protest, Socialism

The post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition - unionists, socialists and communists - keeps influencing Americans' lives. Today, its effects help explain why popular actions have been so muted against US economic changes since the 1970s and especially against the bailouts and austerity since the crash of 2008. Those effects also suggest what could reignite sustained protests and demands for change. First to be destroyed after 1945 were the communists. Coordinated attacks came from business, conservatives, government and media. Most academics and liberals (including many who had supported the New Deal coalition) were complicit in that destruction. Once again we witnessed that old repressive tool: rebranding domestic social movements as mere agents of an evil foreign puppet-master. More important, demonizing the communists served to tar other social criticism that included the capitalist economic system with much the same brush.

How We Can Fight Back Against The Supreme Court

April 10, 2014 Cenk Uyger, www.readersupportednews.org Organize! Money As Speech, Protest, Supreme Court

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson When asked if his payments to politicians had worked, Charles Keating replied, "I want to say in the most forceful way I can: I certainly hope so." When asked outside of Independence Hall if we have a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Well, here we are, aren't we? Right at the point where we are about to find out whether we can keep it or not. The Supreme Court has decided that a small amount of people will get to control our entire political system. Which politician or political party can resist hundreds of millions of dollars put in at once? Maybe one person can resist, maybe one party can resist for a small period of time, but eventually they will succumb.

5th Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk

April 10, 2014 Tar Sands Healing Walk, www.us3.campaign-archive1.com Organize! Protest, Tar Sands

We are pleased to announce the dates for this years Healing Walk. This years gathering will be a three days with spiritual and educational events taking place on the Fort McMurray First Nation Reservation just south east of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Healing Walk through the heart of the tar sands will take place on Saturday June 28th. Last year's walk was a great success and we are hoping to make this year even better. We would love to hear your feedback from last years event and would appreciate if you could take the time to answer a few questions in the following survey: We will be sending out updates as we move forward in the planning process. We encourage you to check our our facebook page, twitter and website regularly to stay up to date on the schedule, locations, volunteer opportunities and important notices for this years Healing Walk.

LA Students Line Street With Desks To Protest School Budget

April 10, 2014 AP, www.scpr.org Resist! Education, Protest

School desks placed by parents, district graduates and activists block a street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in a demonstration against student dropout rates Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in downtown Los Angeles. Protest organizers say the 375 desks are there to represent the 375 students who drop out of the district every week during the school year. Los Angeles students protesting neglect of poorer schools took to the streets, and brought their desks with them. Some 375 empty desks blocked a downtown street, blocking traffic for several hours Tuesday outside the Los Angeles Unified School District offices. Organizers say the number represents the count of students who drop out of district schools each week. Protesters want a student voice on the school board, and more funding for English language learners, foster children and low income students. District officials declined comment on the protest.

‘No Enbridge’ Protesters Drown Out Mayor At Basketball Game

April 10, 2014 Mychaylo Prystupa, www.vancouverobserver.com Resist! Enbridge, Indigenous Rights, Pipeline, Protest

In an increasingly explosive political climate in the Kitimat area over a controversial vote on the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Mayor of Kitimat was flash mobbed by a group of mostly First Nations people, donning "No Enbridge" shirts at a Haisla girls basketball championship on Sunday. "No Enbridge! No Enbridge! No Enbridge!" yelled the packed gymnasium crowd, nearly all wearing black protest shirts. "When you're in politics for 36 years, I guess I kind of expected it," Mayor Joanne Monaghan told the Vancouver Observer Wednesday. "You don't mix church and state, and don't mix recreation and politics," she added. The Mayor was invited to the Haisla Village of Kitimaat, which neighbours her municipal district, to hand out a $2,000 prize for the victorious girls team - something she's done annually for years.

Brooklyn Teachers Push Back Against High Stakes Testing

April 8, 2014 Peter Rothberg, www.thenation.com Resist! Education, Protest

There’s a growing nationwide movement opposing these tests as the result of a corporate-driven agenda that has distorted real learning, widened the achievement gap, increased financial strain on schools and parents, unfairly stigmatized teachers and introduced unnecessary stress into the lives of young people. There’s a litany of grievances cited by critics and the opposition comes from both the left and the right. In many places, activists have encouraged parents to opt out of the tests, which is legally allowed in all states. The most dramatic example of a successful opt out movement took place in January 2013, when teachers led a test boycott at Seattle’s Garfield High School. Teachers refused to administer and students refused to take the state test, which organizers argued wasn’t aligned to curriculum and provided statistically unreliable results. After a months-long standoff with the district, which saw teachers threatened with suspension, the district relented and allowed the high school to forgo the test.

More Than Six Thousand Students Refuse Tests

April 8, 2014 George N. Schmidt, www.substancenews.net Resist! Education, Protest

More than 6,000 students in the public schools of Long Island have opted out of the New York State testing program that began on April 1, 2014. The exams, called the ELA tests, are part of New York's launch of the Common Core. The Common Core has become so controversial now that the actual testing programs are in place in most states that several states are trying to "rebrand" it, with Florida and Arizona giving the testing associated with Common Core new names. The New York tests this year require four ours of "reading" and four hours of "math." The number is at least 6,000. The Long Island students opted out of the "reading" portion of the tests, according to Newsday. "Forty-one school districts in Nassau and Suffolk [counties], in response to a Newsday request sent to 124 districts Islandwide, said about 5,575 students refused to take the test," Newsday reported. "An additional district lumped together 224 refusals and absences. Other districts did not respond."

Elections, Pipelines, and Protests

April 8, 2014 Yves Engler & Jenny Uechi, www.therealnews.com Resist! Canada, Enbridge, Pipeline, Protest

PERIES: Jenny, why don't you go first? Let us know what's going on in Canada, in Vancouver in particular, and with The Vancouver Observer more specifically. UECHI: Sure. So this week The Vancouver Observer broke a story about how the premier of this province, Christy Clark, was found to--we found documents that say that she was listed as a partner in a lobbying firm which had among its clients Enbridge, the big pipeline company that's trying to build the Northern Gateway Pipeline right now. It's a big, controversial project that would bring Albertan oil from the tar sands through to B.C.'s coast. Now, the premier has said that she was in the company [incompr.] by the time that she joined the company, Enbridge was no longer listed as a client and that she personally has not done any lobbying. But, still, people are wondering why this was never made public.

Giant Portrait Shows Drone Operators People Aren’t “Bug Splats”

April 8, 2014 Ashley Feinberg, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Creative Resistance, Drones, Protest

From CreativeResistance.org and #NotABugSplat: where a drone operator’s sitting, one blurry blob of pixels looks almost exactly like the next blurry blob of pixels, which is how the term “bug splat” worked its way into modern military slang as a way of referring to a kill. Now, though, a giant art installation in Pakistan wants to show drone operators that its people are anything but anonymous white blobs—and that that “bug splat” belongs to an actual human being. The giant portrait was installed by an artist collective in the region of Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa in Pakistan, an area where drone attacks occur on a fairly regular basis. The next time a drone operator looks down, he or she will be seeing the face of an innocent child instead of clusterings of white, shapeless blobs. And even if the installation gets pulled, the portrait was apparently designed to be big enough to register on satellite imagery, ensuring it at least has some staying power on online mapping systems.

Occupy Taiwan Sunflower Movements Moves To Next Stage

April 8, 2014 Sunflower Movement, www.facebook.com Resist! Protest, Taiwan

As the occupation of the legislature enters its 21st day, we give our deepest gratitude to the citizens of Taiwan for their participation and support. It is they who have given this movement a strong, justifiable cause from the beginning. Today, we would like to announce an important decision. The occupation of the legislature has completed its task at this phase, and has achieved substantial progress. It has made Taiwanese citizens realize that it is our choice not to let the rules and authority of the past generation to confine us, and that the constitutional principle that “sovereignty shall reside in the whole body of citizens” is a living experience that belongs to every Taiwanese citizen of our generation. We understand that each person holds a different expectation and aspiration toward this movement; however, as we look back on the achievements we’ve made so far, we’ve decided that the time has come to convert the energy gathered by a students’ movement into a citizens’ movement. This is the right moment for the youth in the legislature to walk to all corners of Taiwan.

Occupy Activists Protest Clearcutting

April 7, 2014 Dan Bacher, www.indybay.org Resist! Environment, Protest

Shasta County’s 11-year-old Ci Yin Oliveira, who traveled to Sacramento with ten other youth, questioned the Board of Forestry directly at their monthly meeting. “Every time they clearcut it takes away a piece of my future," said Oliveira. "The animals, too, what about their future?” During the battle to save the pristine salmon and steelhead habitat of Headwaters Forest in 1998, I received a phone call one morning from an environmental activist who told me that country legend Merle Haggard and actor Woody Harrelson would be appearing at the State Capitol for a noon time rally. I drove from Elk Grove to the Capitol to check the event out. I arrived about a half hour early, so I went to a small circle of a dozen activists standing around and talking on the capitol lawn. I scanned the area around the capitol on the lookout for Haggard, Harrelson and the folks from the Environmental Protection Center of Garberville, the event’s organizers.

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