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65,000 Protest TPP In Mexico, See Repeat Of NAFTA Mistakes

February 3, 2014 Karen Hansen-Kuhn, , www.iatp.org Resist! Mexico, NAFTA, TPP, Video

More than 65,000 people rallied at Mexico’s Monument to the Revolution and marched to the historic Zocalo Square to demand a new economy that puts equality, justice and human rights first. Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). One of the earliest lessons from the NAFTA experience was that people and environments in all three countries were affected. The stories from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. were remarkably similar: environmental destruction, threats to union and community organizing, and, in all sectors, a marked increase in corporate concentration as companies gained new abilities to move different aspects of production across borders in search of lower costs and higher profits.

Video: Afghans Stone US Drone

February 2, 2014 Staff, , www.rt.com Resist! Afghanistan, Drones, Video, Wars and Militarism

Footage of what appears to be a group of cheering Afghans stoning a wreck of a Predator drone appeared on the internet. The video was posted on Wednesday on a Facebook news page called ‘Afghanistan 24/7’. It shows a group of several dozen people standing next to what appears a crash site of an MQ-1 Predator drone. Such aircraft are used extensively by the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan for surveillance and to deliver airstrikes against Taliban militants. The man taking the footage is heard laughing and cheering in delight, as some of the people present throw rocks at the damaged aircraft from a safe distance.

Video: Obama Out Orwelled Orwell – Lee Camp Interview

January 29, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Barack Obama, Climate Change, Inequality, Lee Camp, Orwell, Orwellian, Video, Wars and Militarism

Watching Barack Obama’s 5th State of the Union address it and he may as well have been delivering the state of the Union for the Superstate Oceania, the fictional empire mired in perpetual war from George Orwell’s 1984. No, Obama did not come directly out and tell us that war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength so much as he embodied those ideas in a nuanced, measured performance that inspired the political pundits like Chris Matthews to wax poetic like a Theatre critic praising and aging stage actor who was able to find the old magic one last time. Lee Camp and I discuss the (actual) state of the union, Obama’s “all of the above” energy policy as it relates to jobs, corporate profits and the climate crisis, and how blindly “supporting for the troops” is unhealthy for children and all other living things.

Sawant Responds To The State Of The Union Address

January 29, 2014 Kshama Sawant, www.youtube.com Educate! Climate Change, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Immigration, Inequality, Occupy, Pipelines, Poverty, Video, Worker Rights and Jobs

Obama talked about the deepening inequality. But that is a testament of his own presidency. A presidency that has betrayed the hopes of tens of millions of people who voted for him out of a genuine desire for fundamental change away from corporate politics and war mongering. Poverty is at record-high numbers - 95% of the gains in productivity during the so-called recovery have gone to the top 1%. The president’s focus on income inequality was an admission of the failure of his policies. An admission forced by rallies, demonstrations, and strikes by fast food and low wage workers demanding a minimum wage of $15. It has been forced by the outrage over the widening gulf between the super-rich and those of us working to create this wealth in society. While the criminals on Wall Street are bailed out, courageous whistleblowers like Edward Snowden are hunted down and the unconstitutional acts he exposed are allowed to continue.

Haitian Peasant Movement Creates Food Security, Protests Monsanto

January 29, 2014 Mina Remy, www.grassrootsonline.org Create! Food and Agriculture, Haiti, Occupy, Video

Haiti’s peasant movements are reforesting the countryside, building irrigation systems, feeding communities – just to name a few activites that are improving lives for rural communities across the nation. In the video below, members of Haiti’s Group of Four (G4) and the Dessalines Brigade describe how Haiti’s peasant movement connects with the struggle for food sovereignty in the United States, and globally. The video includes Grassroots International partners from Haiti and Brazil speaking at an Occupy the Food Prize rally on October 17, 2013 in Des Moines. Haiti’s social movements, and its peasant movements in particular, have stepped up to the challenge of re-envisioning Haiti and putting that vision into practice. For Haiti’s peasant movements, agriculture – and the peasants who make it possible – is central to Haiti’s just development. Late last year, a union of the country’s four largest peasant movements known as the G4 (all supported by Grassroots International) shared the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize with the Dessalines Brigade for their accompaniment of peasant farmers and zealous advocacy of peasant rights.

Settlers Attack Palestinian Youths While Israeli Soldiers Watch

January 29, 2014 Ma’an News Agency and Youth Against Settlements, www.bayareaintifada.wordpress.com Educate! Israel, Palestine, Video

A group of Israeli settlers on Sunday attacked two Palestinian children in Hebron’s Shuhada Street in front of Israeli soldiers, who did nothing to stop the attack, a local group said. A local group known as Youth Against Settlements told Ma’an that 13-year-old Ahmad Hisham al-Azzah and Yazan Zeidan Sharabati were assaulted by a group of settlers in the southern West Bank city while the two were walking to their homes in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood. The group later published a video showing the settlers attacking the Palestinian minors while soldiers looked on. The soldiers then detained Yazan Sharabati and his father, Zeidan, accusing them of attacking Israeli soldiers. The settlers, meanwhile, are not stopped by the Israeli soldiers.

Video: Legalize Democracy – Full Documentary

January 27, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Activism, ALEC, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Democracy, Finance and Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Video

Legalize Democracy is a documentary film by Dennis Trainor, Jr. (American Autumn: an Occudoc) about the movement to amend — why it is needed, and how you can get involved, placing the response to corporate coup of our government in the context of the growing Democracy movement emerging right here and right now. Combining interviews with Move To Amend’s national leadership team, with archival footage, and dynamic animated time lines that tell the stories of the Supreme Court cases that shaped the doctrine of “corporate personhood”, the rights guaranteed by amendments fought for by people’s movements, and the intersection of law and culture that codified and created discrimination based on race.

Video: Resistance Report Week In Review #18 – January 25, 2014

January 25, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Citizens United, Inequality, MLK, TPP, Video

The Resistance Report Week in Review collects all of the Resistance Report segments from the previous week and rolls them into one big show. Watch the video below, or jump to the individual segments linked below. - Responding to the Oxfam report that concluded that the world's 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population, self appointed spokesperson for the global elite, and celebrity Judge on the reality show The Shark Tank Kevin O’Leary, applauded the news, stating that is “fantastic news (…) the motivation everybody needs (…) it inspires everyone to want to be like the 1%” and scoffing at the idea of “re-distribution of wealth” stated, “ I celebrate Capitalism.”

Video: Open Letter To 85 Richest People On The Planet

January 24, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Corporate Speech, Corporatism, Economic Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Inequality, Video

Responding to the Oxfam report that concluded that the world's 85 richest people own the same amount as the bottom half of the entire global population, self appointed spokesperson for the global elite, and celebrity Judge on the reality show The Shark Tank Kevin O’Leary,applauded the news, stating that is “fantastic news (…) the motivation everybody needs (…) it inspires everyone to want to be like the 1%” and scoffing at the idea of “re-distribution of wealth” stated, “ I celebrate Capitalism.” His remarks inspire this open letter to the 85 Richest People In The World.

Tar Sands Megaloads Protested in Missoula, MT

January 24, 2014 Staff, www.wildidahorisingtide.org Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Montana, Tar Sands, Video

Montana Indian Peoples Action, along with Blue Skies Campaign, Northern Rockies Rising Tide, Spokane Rising Tide, and Wild Idaho Rising Tide, protested, prayed, and round-danced against a “megaload,” a colossal piece of tar sands processing equipment that Omega Morgan hauled on Reserve Street through Missoula, Montana, on Wednesday morning, January 22 [1-4]. Bringing together residents of Missoula and other communities in Montana, Idaho, and Washington affected by tar sands transportation projects, the approximately 50 protesters stood in solidarity with the Nez Perce and Shoshone-Bannock tribes in Idaho, the Confederated Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes in Oregon, and especially the First Nations people in Canada, who oppose tar sands mining and its pollution and devastation of their ancestral homelands in present-day Alberta.

NH Rebellion, Statewide March For Money Out Of Politics

January 23, 2014 John Light, www.billmoyers.com Resist! Democracy, Elections, Video

Activist Lawrence Lessig is leading a group of demonstrators bundled up against the cold, asking Americans to challenge candidates in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election with one big question: “How will you end the system of corruption in DC?” Lessig’s initial goal is to reach only a few thousand people in New Hampshire, because the state’s early presidential primary gives its citizens an early and powerful influence on the candidates. As he told the Nashua (NH) Telegraph, “The only way we’re ever going to get fundamental reform is if we can inspire presidential candidates to make this a central – maybe the central issue – that they want to talk about.” What’s more, as he asked in a recent tweet, “Can the public have a seat at the table without paying the campaign-contribution tax?” One answer would be to demand public financing of campaigns that eliminates the undue influence of deep-pocketed corporate players and the super wealthy whose donations are often made in secret.

New Film “The Internet’s Own Boy” About Aaron Swartz

January 23, 2014 Amy Goodman, www.truth-out.org Educate! Aaron Swartz, Amy Goodman, Video

One year ago this month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer Aaron Swartz took his own life. Swartz died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based on the belief that the articles should be freely available online. At the time he committed suicide, Swartz was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters called excessively harsh. Today we spend the hour looking at the new documentary, "The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz." We play excerpts of the film and speak with Swartz’s father Robert, his brother Noah, his lawyer Elliot Peters, and filmmaker Brian Knappenberger.

Portland Students Take Over School Board Meeting

January 21, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Education, Student Activism, Video, Youth

Below are two articles and a video showing the takeover of a Portland, Oregon School Board meeting by students, teachers and community members. The protest was organized by the Portland Student Union. Revolts against school closings and budget cuts have been occurring in many cities most notably Chicago and Philadelphia. The cutbacks in education are tied to the broader issues of austerity and corporatization of schools. This is a national phenomena that is leading to a national education revolt. Indeed, you can see the international nature of the issue as many students are wearing the red square from the student protests in Montreal last year. School Board walked out of its own session early on January 13 when students mic-checked the meeting out of frustration that the district has not listened to nor prioritized their concerns of students as they negotiate with the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) in what has become an increasingly heated contract battle. The students made ten specific demands.

Criticizing Neil Young Shows Tar Sands Knows It Has A Problem

January 18, 2014 Tim Gray, www.thestar.com/ Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Tar Sands, Video

Attacks by the oil industry on Neil Young, as he supports the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in their defence of their treaty rights in the tar sands, are not surprising. Oil companies are making lots of money and want to make more of it. They aim to keep their costs as low as possible and addressing environmental and social concerns might cut into their profits. What is more surprising and shortsighted is the cheerleading for these views by some in our governments. Behind the abysmal environmental and climate impacts of the tar sands can be found countless treaty violations, swaths of First Nations land that is no longer accessible for most of the year thanks to tar sands development, and devastating local pollution to the air, water and ecosystems. First Nations are on the front lines of tar sands development and are justifiably fighting for their rights. They are doing Canadians and the world a huge service as they stand up to protect their traditional land and livelihoods. The questions we need to ask our decision-makers are: Why tar sands at all costs? Why are First Nations rights being trampled, climate and environmental protection steamrolled, and forward-looking economic policy ignored?

Disgusting: Anti-Immigrant Group Tries To Misuse MLK Message

January 18, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Immigrant Rights, MLK, Racism, Video

An anti-immigration group is trying to use the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to push their racially divisive message. The group, Californians for Population Stabilization, has put an advertisement on the air focused on trying to divide unemployed African Americans from the immigrant community. Their campaign plays on the high unemployment in African Americans, which has existed well beyond the surge in immigration and the economic collapse, in order to create divisions among people who should be united for a fair economy and respect for human dignity. Dr. King's approach would be quite the opposite. He preached on the basis of love and solidarity with the poor, he recognized the unfairness of the capitalist system and the wealth-divide it creates. He would have urged African Americans and Latinos to unite for fair immigration laws and living wages for all -- laws that respected their human rights and dignity. King would have urged a transformation of the economy to a full employment economy that treated all with respect.

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