Repression

The Brazen Detention Of Marzieh Hashemi, America’s Newest Political Prisoner

January 23, 2019 Stanley L. Cohen, Counterpunch.org Educate! Journalism, Political Prisoner, Repression

Any discussion of the detention of journalist Marzieh Hashemi must begin in the historical context that all presidents have used the Department of Justice for constitutionally prohibited personal ends. The calculated seizure and political intimidation of Mrs. Hashemi and her family in the United States is but the most recent flagrant instance. Whether it’s the deportation of political enemies during the Palmer Raids of the early 1900’s, or the COINTELPRO attacks a half a century later upon dissidents of color through assassination, mock show trials and indefinite detention of political prisoners...

Twitter Calls On US To #FreeMarziehHashemi As Lawyers Attempt To Unseal Case

January 23, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com Educate! FBI, Journalism, Repression

American journalist Marzieh Hashemi was arrested on Sunday by the FBI as a witness in a criminal case with no further information provided. On Friday, a motion was introduced to at a DC court to unseal proceedings in her case in an apparent effort to shed some light on what has become an international incident shrouded in mystery. Records reveal that Hashemi was also in court on Tuesday. Her son was also asked to make an appearance, but it is not clear for what purpose. Since President Donald Trump came into office after railing against “fake news” during the campaign, the media in the United States has been on the defensive, portraying journalists as the guardians of democracy.

Detained American Iranian TV Anchor Marzieh Hashemi To Appear In Court

January 22, 2019 By Alison Weir, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Courts, FBI, Iran, Journalism, Repression

Hashemi was held 48 hours before being allowed to contact her family. She has complained of ill-treatment. Authorities forcibly removed her headscarf and took her away in handcuffs. Iran’s state-run English-language channel is reporting that its American anchorwoman detained in the U.S. will appear in court in Washington. Press TV said Marzieh Hashemi’s court appearance is Friday. It did not elaborate. The newscaster’s son has said his mother was arrested Sunday in St. Louis by the FBI on a material witness warrant. The FBI has declined to comment. Her detention comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. after President Donald Trump withdrew America from the nuclear deal.

Paying It Forward: North Carolina J20 Ex-Defendants Pass On Anti-Repression Funds

January 21, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Organize! North Carolina, Repression, Resist J20, Solidarity

Two years ago, roughly twenty anarchists, anti-fascists, and anti-capitalists from the North Carolina region were among the 200+ people arrested for disrupting the Presidential Inauguration spectacle, also known as J20). Some of us went to trial. Some of us stuck it out until the final dismissal. None of us accepted their bullshit pleas. Despite the prosecution’s divide and conquer tactics, we stuck together. And we beat them! Along the way we learned valuable lessons, gained stronger relationships, and, thanks to our amazing regional support network, a few thousand dollars in defense funds.

Four Women Found Guilty After Leaving Food And Water In Desert For Migrants

January 21, 2019 Staff, Apnews.com Resist! Border, Repression, Solidarity

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has found four women guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a permit as they sought to place food and water in the Arizona desert for migrants. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco’s ruling Friday marked the first conviction against humanitarian aid volunteers in a decade. The four found guilty of misdemeanors in the recent case were volunteers for No More Deaths, which said in a statement the group had been providing life-saving aid to migrants. The volunteers include Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick.

How A NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans To Wage War On Independent Media

January 19, 2019 Whitney Webb, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Censorship, Independent media, Repression

Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence online dissent within the United States and beyond. While a few, relatively uneventful months in the online news sphere have come and gone since Fly made this ominous warning, it appears that the neoconservatives and other standard bearers of the military-industrial complex and the U.S. oligarchy are now poised to let loose their latest digital offensive...

Prominent Iranian Jailed By FBI: Demand Her Freedom

January 18, 2019 Mick Kelly, Fightbacknews.org Educate! FBI, Iran, Journalism, Repression

Minneapolis, MN – A well-known Iranian journalist, Marzieh Hashemi, has been jailed by the FBI. Hashemi is an anchor on Iran’s English language Press TV and has interviewed many progressive U.S. activists. According to credible reports, Hashemi was taken into custody at the Saint Louis, Missouri area’s Louis Lambert International Airport on January 13. The FBI has since moved her to a detention facility near Washington DC. There is no indication that Hashemi has been charged with anything.

French Worker Sentenced To Six Months’ Jail Over Facebook Call For Demonstrations

January 17, 2019 Will Morrow, Wsws.org Resist! Class Struggle, France, Protests, Repression, Surveillance, Workers

On Tuesday, January 8, 28-year-old protester Hedi Martin was sentenced to six months’ jail without parole at a correctional tribunal in the southern town of Narbonne. His sole “crime” was to have published a Facebook post on January 2 that called for a “yellow vest” blockade of the petrol refinery at Port-la-Nouvelle. Police arrested him in the early hours of January 3, shortly after he published the post. The statements of the state prosecutor and judge at Martin’s hearing made clear that the jailing is aimed at intimidating calls for protests.

Read The Scientific American Article The Government Deemed Too Dangerous To Publish

January 17, 2019 By Robert Hovden, Muckrock.com Educate! Journalism, Nuclear Weapons, Repression

The sordid history of the once-banned article by Hans Bethe, deemed so sensitive that the entire print run was burned, has been re-earthed through FOIA In April 1950, the US federal government raided the offices of Scientific American Magazine to destroy every printed issue. “Three thousand copies already run off were burned, type was melted down, and every galley proof and script impounded.” Three years later, Fahrenheit 451was published without knowledge of this incident.

Angela Davis Is Latest Black Target Of Israel Lobby

January 9, 2019 Ali Abunimah, Electronicintifada.net Educate! Israel, Palestine, Repression

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has canceled its annual gala at which iconic Black scholar and activist Angela Davis was to receive a prestigious human rights award. Randall Woodfin, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, expressed his “dismay” at the decision, which he said came “after protests from our local Jewish community and some of its allies.” “The reactive decision of the BCRI did not create an opportunity for necessary consensus dialogue,” Woodfin added. Davis is the latest prominent Black intellectual and outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights to be targeted by the Israel lobby.

Gilets Jaunes Activist Eric Drouet Arrested In France

January 4, 2019 Staff, Defendevropa.com Resist! France, Protests, Repression, Yellow Vest

Yellow Jackets activist Eric Drouet, who emerged as one of the leaders of the French anti-government movement, was arrested in Paris on Wednesday evening. Drouet, by profession a truck driver, was accused of the “organisation of an event without prior notification” for an event that took place in the French capital that night, French prosecutors said…Drouet was apprehended near the Champs-Elysées, where a few dozen activists gathered at his request. On 22 December, Éric Drouet was also arrested during the “Act VI” demonstrations of the Yellow Vests in Paris and was then placed in custody for “carrying a prohibited weapon”, in this case a baton, and “being part of a group seeking to commit violence or cause damage”.

On First Day Of New Year, US Attacks Migrants With Tear Gas

January 2, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Border, Caravan, Immigration, Repression, Undocumented

Another migrant caravan will leave Honduras while stranded Central American migrants in Tijuana face violence from U.S. officers. Reports of stranded migrants in the Mexico-United States border being fired with tear gas shells by United States border patrol surfaced Tuesday as another migrant "caravan," estimated at 15,000 people, is reportedly getting ready to leave Honduras on Jan. 15. "They say they are even bigger and stronger than the last caravan," said Irma Garrido, a member of the Reactiva Tijuana Foundation migrant advocacy group. The new caravan will probably be joined by more people from El Salvador and Guatemala. According to Garrido, they will not immediately attempt to reach the Mexico-U.S. border...

Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted

January 1, 2019 Joe Lauria, Consortiumnews.com Educate! Julian Assange, Repression, Wikileaks

Donald Trump’s lawyer said on Monday that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange should not be prosecuted and he compared WikiLeaks publications to the Pentagon Papers. Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, said Monday that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange had done “nothing wrong” and should not go to jail for disseminating stolen information just as major media does.

Facebook’s Leaked Content Moderation Documents Reveal Serious Problems

December 29, 2018 Gaurav Shukla, Gadgets.ndtv.com Educate! Censorship, Digital, Facebook, Internet, Repression, Social Media

Facebook's thousands of content moderators worldwide rely on a bunch of unorganised PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets to decide what content to allow on the social network, revealed a report. These guidelines, which are used to monitor billions of posts every day, are apparently filled with numerous gaps, biases, and outright errors. The unnamed Facebook employee, who leaked these documents, reportedly feared that the social network was using too much power with too little oversight and making too many mistakes.

They Rescued Pigs And Turkeys From Factory Farms — And Now Face Decades In Prison

December 27, 2018 By Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Pedro Armando Aparicio, and David Zlutnick, Theintercept.com Resist! Activists, Animals, Factory Farming, Repression

IN THE FALL of 2017, Glenn Greenwald reported on a nationwide FBI manhunt for two pigs named Lily and Lizzie. The pigs had been removed from a factory farm in Utah by animal rights activists from a group called Direct Action Everywhere. From the perspective of the activists, the pigs were rescued. From the perspective of Smithfield Farms, the Chinese-owned multinational corporation that owns the factory farm, they were stolen. Direct Action Everywhere, also known as DxE, engages in a practice called “open rescue.” Open rescue involves entering, without authorization, the facilities of animal-based industries, such as farms, slaughterhouses, and puppy mills...

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