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Newsletter: Making Protest Personal; Take It To Their Homes

June 18, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Protests at homes of public officials and corporate CEOs is a common tactic used widely because it can be very effective. The response of Barrasso shows it is working and should continue. As Saul Alinsky, author or Rules for Radicals, pointed out “any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.” Such protests have to be nonviolent and conducted in a way that does not inconvenience neighbors but educates them about why the protest is occurring. These tactics seek to personalize the issue, to make it less abstract than a federal agency. The campaign should keep their focus on the people responsible, not let up, continue to escalate and make the person isolated and unpopular. The goal is to maintain constant, escalating pressure so the official pays a heavy personal price for their actions.

Newsletter: Creating “Positive Peace”

June 12, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org , , , , , , ,
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. This weekend the Bilderberg Group is holding its secretive annual retreat in Dresden, Germany. The invitation-only gathering of elites from North America and Northern Europe includes heads of finance and industry, heads of state and intelligence officials. Who knows what schemes they'll cook up? They don't keep minutes or allow the press in and attendees can't quote what was said. It can't be good for the people or the planet. The Global Peace Index was just released for 2016 and it shows that the decade-long trend of increasing violence is continuing. Of note, the inequality between countries is growing; the most violent countries deteriorated by a greater degree than in the past. Countries that are the most peaceful also have the greatest resilience.

North Carolina Cuts Use Of Prison Torture In Half

June 6, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com , ,
By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - RALEIGH, North Carolina — Half as many prisoners in North Carolina face solitary confinement, thanks to dedicated efforts to cut back on the controversial practice often equated with torture. “Last spring, roughly 5,330 of the state’s 38,000 prisoners – 1 in 7 – were segregated from other inmates on any given day,” wrote Taylor Knopf on May 26 in the News & Observer. “By this month, that number had been reduced to 2,540.”

CIA ‘Accidentally’ Destroyed Torture Report?

May 27, 2016 Carey Wedler, www.theantimedia.org , , ,
By Carey Wedler for ANTIMEDIA - The world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, took Twitter by storm when he created an account last year. Since, he has criticized everyone from the FBI to Google, so his latest post on the CIA should come as no surprise. Commenting on revelations the CIA “inadvertently” destroyed a copy of the 6,700-page torture report, Snowden questioned the agency’s official story.

CIA Watchdog ‘Inadvertently’ Destroys Its Only Copy Of Torture Report

May 17, 2016 Staff, www.rt.com ,
By Staff of RT - The CIA’s internal watchdog “inadvertently” deleted its only copy of the Senate report on torture techniques employed by the agency in the wake of 9/11 – and did so while the Justice Department was insisting in court that copies were being stored. Other copies still exist, including at the CIA itself, but news of the deletion is significant, as it occurred at the CIA inspector general’s office, which is in charge of overseeing policies and conduct at the agency to ensure that it is not breaking the law or acting out of bounds.

Judge: Lawsuit Against Torture Architects Allowed To Proceed

April 23, 2016 Eric M. Johnson, www.reuters.com , ,
By Eric M. Johnson for Reuters - SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the former military psychologists who developed the CIA's interrogation program during George W. Bush's presidency, handing a major victory to a group of men who said they were tortured in secret prisons abroad. U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush's decision to allow the case to proceed was a step forward in the campaign to hold individuals accountable for a program that the American Civil Liberties Union said resulted in the torture of at least 119 men from 2002 until it was ended in 2008.

Saudi Arabia Supports Right To Torture And Kill LGBT People

April 13, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com , , ,
By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - GENEVA — At the most recent session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Saudi Arabia objected to a resolution that condemns the use of torture by law enforcement and reaffirms the human rights of LGBT people. The resolution, passed during the council’s 31st session, which closed on March 24, condemns the use of torture “and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” and urges nations to prevent torture by police or during pre-trial detention.

With Obama In Cuba, Pro-Torture Pundits Suddenly Concerned

March 23, 2016 Adam Johnson, www.fair.org , , ,
By Adam Johnson for FAIR - US President Barack Obama landed in Havana Sunday to great fanfare, both in Cuba and stateside. His visit marks a significant shift of the United States’ approach towards the socialist state, and the possibility of cooperation after decades of hostility. US media generally struck a hopeful tone, with a surprisingly nuanced mix of positive and critical stories about Cuba. Some Cold War hold-outs in the media just weren’t having it, though, taking the occasion to feign outrage that Obama could visit a country with such a terrible human rights record.

Guantanamo Chief Under Investigation Ignores Hearing

March 2, 2016 Center for Constitutional Rights, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By the Center for Constitutional Rights. NEW YORK, PARIS - Retired U.S. General Geoffrey Miller, the former Guantánamo prison chief, was a no-show in a French court Tuesday. Miller had been summoned to answer questions stemming from accusations that he oversaw the torture of three French nationals at Guantánamo prison. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, who submitted expert reports and other submissions in the proceedings, issued the following statement. Miller’s absence speaks volumes about the Obama administration’s continued unwillingness to confront America’s torture legacy. The administration not only refuses to investigate U.S. officials like Miller for torture, it apparently remains unwilling to cooperate with international torture investigations like the one in France.

Take Action For Palestinian Journalist Illegally Detained

February 25, 2016 Block the Boat Tampa, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Block the Boat Tampa. Tampa, FL - We successfully organized a demonstration outside of a local G4S facility in Tampa in solidarity with Palestinian prisoner and hunger striker Mohammad Al-Qeeq. Our protest was picked up by Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner's Solidarity Network. Recently Al-Qeeq, a Palestinian journalist, has been on hunger strike in protest over his detention without charges, torture, and threats against his family, for now over 90 days and his health is quickly deterioriating. Consider calling the Israel-Palestine bureau at the US State Department at 202.647.3930 or the White House at 202.456.1111 and urge them to pressure Israel to release Mohammad Al-Qiq from administrative detention immediately and allow him to seek medical treatment in a Palestinian hospital.

French Judge Summons Former Guantanamo Chief In Torture Probe

February 20, 2016 Staff, www.france24.com , , ,
By Staff of FRANCE 24 - A French judge has summoned retired US General Geoffrey Miller, the former Guantanamo Bay prison chief, to appear in court on March 1 over allegations of torture, a lawyer for one of the plaintiffs told FRANCE 24 on Thursday. William Bourdon, a lawyer for former Gitmo detainee Mourad Benchellali, said General Miller was due in court at 10am on March 1 to answer accusations that he oversaw Benchellali’s “illegal detention and torture”.

Let’s End Torture In U.S. Prisons

February 4, 2016 John Kiriakou, www.otherwords.org , , ,
By John Kiriakou for Other Worlds - A prisoner is kept in a small cell — usually 6 feet by 10 — alone, for 23 hours a day. For one hour a day, he or she may be taken into a small cage outside, with the opportunity to walk in circles before being taken back in. Even the outdoor cage can usually be opened and closed remotely. The idea is to keep the prisoner from having any human interaction. Those who’ve been through it call it a “living death.” The United Nations calls it torture. The practice is widespread in the United States. And until recently, it was applied even to juveniles in the federal prison.

US Seeks To Keep Gitmo Force Feeding Tapes Secret

January 26, 2016 Cora Currier, www.theintercept.com , , ,
By Cora Currier for The Intercept - The government has refused to meet the deadline for the release of videotapes that show a detainee at Guantánamo being force-fed while on hunger strike. A federal judge had given the government until Friday, January 22, to release around 11 hours of footage in which a Syrian detainee, Abu Wa’el Dhiab, is forcibly removed from his cell, restrained, and force-fed. Dhiab’s lawyers have called the footage “extremely disturbing.”

18 US Trained Military Arrested In Guatemala

January 16, 2016 Linda Cooper and James Hodge, www.ncronline.org , , , , ,
By Linda Cooper and James Hodge for NCR - In a daring and historic move just one week before a new president takes office, Guatemalan authorities arrested 18 former high-ranking military men Jan. 6 for massacres and forced disappearances during the bloodiest years of the dirty war that particularly targeted indigenous populations. Most of the arrests resulted from an investigation that exhumed the remains of 558 people -- 90 of them children -- buried in clandestine mass graves on a military base in Cobán, formerly known as Military Zone 21. DNA testing identified victims who were killed or disappeared by the military in the 1980s.

Chicago Police Torture Victims Receive $5.5 Million In Reparations

January 6, 2016 Staff, www.rawstory.com , ,
By Staff of Reuters - Nearly 60 people tortured by Chicago police decades ago have begun receiving $5.5 million in reparations from the city, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Tuesday. The news comes as the city faces renewed criticism for police treatment of minority suspects. Last May, aldermen in the nation’s third-largest city approved the payments to 57 people tortured by city police in the 1970s and 1980s and agreed to make other reparations such as a memorial to torture victims.
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