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Icon Nelson Mandela Dies, 1918-2013: First Black President Of South Africa

December 5, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Apartheid, Mandela, Racism, South Africa, Video

The anti-apartheid leader in South African who spent 27 years in prison and then was released to become the South Aftrica's first black president died today at 95 years old. We remember him in his own words and images. Three videos: the young Mandela at 22 describing his plans to free South Africans, video of his exit from prison and his inauguration speech as president. This is followed by quotations from Mandela on a range of issues, e.g. poverty, racism apartheid, love, freedom, optimism, forgiveness, liberation and more. Finally a series of photos highlighting key moments in his life.

Video: @FreeCooperUnion Protests Tuition With 1,500 Ping Pong Balls

December 5, 2013 Patrick Hogan, www.bedfordandbowery.com Resist! Education, Student Activism, Video

The ping-pong-pocalypse was the latest protest action by Free Cooper Union, a student group protesting the formerly-free university’s plan to begin charging tuition in 2014. The video of the ball drop (raw footage above, edited video below) marks the one-year anniversary of the group’s first major protest, when 11 students started a week-long lockdown of Foundation Hall across the street. The use of ping pong balls has a dual significance, according to student spokesperson Casey Gollan. The students were inspired by a group of Syrian rebels who used similar techniques to frustrate supporters of President Bashar al-Assad, although Gollan is quick to note they do not mean to imply a direct equivalency between the situation in Syria and East Village universities. The other inspiration goes more directly to one of Free Cooper Union’s complaints, specifically about the replacement of Linda Lemiesz, the former dean of student affairs, with Stephen Baker, dean of athletics. According to Gollan, one of Baker’s first actions was to send an e-mail to students informing them the school had purchased six championship ping pong tables and was forming a ping pong club.

40th Anniversary Of The Murder Of Fred Hampton

December 4, 2013 Mike Gray, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Movies, Police abuse, Racism, Video

Mike Gray one of the people who made the film below, The Murder of Fred Hampton, was someone I worked closely with for many years on ending the war on drugs. He was a writer, documentary filmmaker and activist, sadly he died this year, but his work lives on. We discussed Fred Hampton and his murder multiple times. He explained what made Hampton so powerful, so scary to power structure. It was the sense you got when you were near him, Mike said, you felt he was not compromised, he stood and said 'this is my space and the truth will be heard. I will stand up to the power structure without fear.' KZ The Murder of Fred Hampton began as a film portrait of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party, but half way through the shoot, Hampton was murdered by Chicago policeman. In an infamous moment in Chicago history and politics, over a dozen policeman burst into Hampton's apartment while its occupants were sleeping, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark and brutalizing the other occupants.

Video: Obama Must Move To Close Guantanamo Now

December 3, 2013 Michael Ratner, www.therealnews.com Educate! Guantanamo Bay, Video

I wanted to bring it up today, one, to remind people that Guantanamo is still open, and also because we have at least three events in the last week or so that are interesting with Guantanamo but not necessarily significant unless we actually get that place closed. I mean, obviously, Obama came into office, signed an order, said he would close it. Five years later, he hasn't closed it yet. But we have had a couple of pieces of movement on some other issues. The first was this week Congress actually had a vote, or the Senate had a vote on loosening the restrictions that have been imposed on the president with regard to sending people to the United States or to other countries from Guantanamo.

Every War On Drugs Myth Destroyed By A Retired Police Captain

December 2, 2013 Rollie Williams, www.upworthy.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drug Policy, Video

Below is an interview with Peter Christ Peter is a co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) that has gone viral. He appears on WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, NY and takes on all aspects of our disastrous War on Drugs. Captain Christ is currently vice-chair of LEAP. LEAP is in a fundraising campaign. Their goal is to raise $35,000, they have five days to go and $14,000 more to raise. They are raising money to make a documentary film of LEAP when they accompanied Javier Sicilia's Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity from the Mexican border, through 27 U.S. cities, to Washington D.C. You can be part of the crowd-sourced fundraising here. Retired police Capt. Peter Christ is about to make more sense about the War on Drugs than anyone you've ever heard in the past. His basic premise is that we need to legalize drugs, but if you're skeptical, just give him a few minutes to convince you.

Thousands Protest Forced Urbanization of Israel’s Bedouin

December 2, 2013 Lia Tarachansky, www.therealnews.com Resist! Arabs, Israel, Palestine, Video

On Saturday, November 30, thousands gathered in the Negev in southern Israel to protest the government's forced urbanization plan of the desert's Bedouin indigenous people. The plan, called Prawer-Begin after its authors, passed first reading of three by the Israeli parliament in June and sparked a mass mobilization involving two days of rage in July and August and an online campaign leading up to Saturday's protests. This third day of rage saw hundreds throughout the country travel to join thousands of Bedouins in the Negev in an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity. Simultaneously, protests were organized in various cities and around the world. The biggest of the protests was in the Negev Desert and was met with enormous police force, water cannons, and policemen on horses, Dozens were arrested and wounded.

Video: Amber Lyon On Peace, Love and Pepper Spray

December 2, 2013 AbMartin, amberlyonlive.com Educate! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, Media, Occupy, Police abuse, Video

Abby Martin Interviews Amber Lyon on the US protest movement, the security state and corporate media; and her next project the healing of psychedelic drugs. Amber Lyon is a three-time Emmy Award- winning author, journalist, filmmaker, and photographer obsessed with hackers, human and animal rights, and revolutions. She is the founder of the investigative news site Muckraker.com. Lyon has a passion for exposing human rights violations against protesters during revolutions. For her documentary, ‘iRevolution’, Lyon examines social media’s critical role in galvanizing the revolutions and exposing human rights abuse in Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain. ‘iRevolution’ won a 2012 New York Festivals International Television and Film Gold World Medal Award and Lyon was nominated as a Livingston Award Finalist for the documentary. Lyon continues to investigate ongoing cases of excessive use of police force against journalists and protesters in the United States. Lyon was crushed underneath a crowd in Chicago, directly shot at with less lethal weapons in Anaheim, and forced to inhale pepper spray more times than she can count, all while using submersion journalism to photo-document protesters in the U.S. for an upcoming photo book set to be distributed in major retailers nationwide in the fall of 2013.

Film: Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? Conversation With Chomsky

December 1, 2013 David Lewis, www.sfgate.com Educate! Chomsky, Video

The refreshingly audacious "Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?" is not so much a documentary as a rambling interview, almost all done in animation. It's like a cartoon version of "My Dinner With Andre," only the chatty participants are the no-nonsense intellectual Noam Chomsky and the film's playful director, Michel Gondry, who directed the equally inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." On paper, Chomsky and Gondry seem like an eternal mismatch, but these two very smart people share an odd but genuine chemistry, as the director quizzes the philosopher-cognitive scientist on almost every topic under the sun, with the notable exception of politics (odd, perhaps, considering Chomsky's well-documented criticism of the U.S. government). One of the best scenes is when Gondry asks Chomsky, out of the blue, what makes him happy.

December 1, Rosa Parks Human Rights Day

November 30, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Civil Rights, Racism, Video

Annual Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Event- Ceremony and Reenactment 11-30-13 Providence RI- TOMORROW at 12:30PM, the Rosa Parks Coalition and and Peoples Assembly remember the day in 1955 that Rosa Parks started the next phase of the freedom movement that eventually ended segregation in the south. This is part of the build up to International Human Rights Day on Dec 10th. December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery: December 1 marks the 55th anniversary of a notable event that occurred in 1955 when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her quiet defiance resonated down the corridors of time...

Protest Arts: Puppets To The People!

November 30, 2013 Puppeteers, www.localflux.net Resist! Arts, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Occupy, Video

We are the People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, a collective of artists, musicians, and performers who have come together to use the potent and exhilarating vehicle of radical puppetry, by the People and for the People, to raise social and political awareness, build community, and offer a means of engagement in a more participatory democracy! So, we’re asking YOU to participate! By making sure we continue to have access to the space and resources we need, to do the work we do (and hell, you can even join us in it!). We build large-scale puppetry, toy theater, cantastorias, and perform throughout New York City’s public spaces, streets, subways, and parks. And we amplify the voices that need amplifying. We collaborate everywhere possible, wherever a group’s mission stems from a shared thirst for social justice. We’ve created visuals and performances with and for organizations such as the Black Institute, the Robin Hood Tax, the Coalition of Immakolee Workers, the Lakota Grandmothers, 350.org, Move to Amend, among others… We aim to carry on the extraordinary lineage set by radical puppeteers throughout history, from Bread & Puppet Theater, to Great Small Works, to the Puppetistas of the Anti-Globalization movement.

Documentary Gezi Park Chat With Filmmaker And Protesters

November 30, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Arts, Movies, Türkiye, Video

Tonight at 5pm eastern is 12am in Turkey. Come in & CHAT w/protestors & filmmaker @GeziDoc http://www.livestream.com/activistworldnewsnow … The Gezi Park protests which began on May 28th, 2013 was one of the biggest uprisings against neoliberalism and a conservative Turkish government that was encroaching on secularism. The protest began when plans were announced to develop the park, one of the last remaining green spaces in Istanbul. Sparked by an aggressive police action against the revolt, subsequently protests and strikes spread across Turkey raising a wide range of concerns, at the core of which were issues of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the government's encroachment on Turkey's secularism. Below are two movies on the Gezi Park revolt in Turkey.

Second Natural Gas Pipeline Explodes; That’s Two in Two Weeks

November 29, 2013 Paul Ausick, www.247wallst.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Oil and Gas, Video

A 30-inch natural gas pipeline owned by Energy Transfer Partners LP exploded in rural Missouri shortly before midnight on Thursday, the second gas pipeline explosion in as many weeks. The first occurred on November 14th near a small Texas town south of Dallas. That 10-inch pipeline is owned by Chevron Corp. and Atlas Pipeline Partners LP. There were no injuries reported at either incident site. The blast in Texas was caused when an excavation crew hit the Chevron pipeline. The entire town of Milford, Texas, was evacuated, and Chevron shut down the gas flow to the pipeline. It still took about 36 hours for the fire to burn itself out. Last night’s explosion in Missouri happened about 75 miles east of Kansas City and set fire to barns, farm outbuildings, equipment, and hay bales according to a report from the AP. Panhandle Energy, the Energy Transfer subsidiary that operates the pipeline, rerouted the natural gas flow so that service was not interrupted. The Panhandle Eastern system includes some 6,500 miles of pipeline with a delivery capacity of 2.8 billion cubic feet per day from points in western Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle to Chicago, Dayton, and Cincinnati.

Obama, Pelosi And Reid Greeted By Anti-TPP Protesters In LA

November 28, 2013 Lauren Steiner, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Internet Freedom, TPP, Video

On November 25th, Barack Obama came to Beverly Hills for a high dollar fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees at the Beverly Park homes of former basketball star Magic Johnson and billionaire media mogul Haim Saban. Tickets started at $2500 a person for the reception and $16,200 a person for the dinner. 250 protesters were there to greet Obama and tell him to flush the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Below is how the day and night went in pictures. The TPP is a global trade agreement being secretly negotiated by the US Trade Representative with 600 transnational corporations and industry trade groups, will affect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. If passed, it will undermine state, local and federal laws, including those governing food safety, environmental protection, internet freedom, worker rights, democratic sovereignty, healthcare and drug prices, and banking and finance regulation.

VIDEO: Going Postal!

November 27, 2013 Carl Gibson and Asher Platts, www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Resist! Austerity, Post Office, Video

If you had a great job that paid really well, but your health insurance benefits from that job had to be paid in full for 75 years into the future, it wouldn’t matter how much you got paid because you would always be broke and in debt. The same thing is happening to the United States Postal Service. The USPS is NOT in trouble. Despite the doom and gloom trumpeted by the corporate media, the post office actually posted $700 million in operation profits in the last four years. The USPS is certainly in a crisis, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the post office’s facilities, online commerce or employee salaries. It should come as a surprise to nobody that the USPS’s dire financial situation is a direct result of the callousness and shortsightedness of Congress.

Activist Videos Border Patrol In Over 300 Searches

November 27, 2013 Tracy Oppenheimer, www.libertycrier.com Resist! Police abuse, Privacy, Surveillance, Video

“This is not increasing our security, in fact, it’s making us less secure. It’s just feeding an empire building, it’s feeding agency budgets, and job security for various law enforcement agencies,” says the University of Arizona’s Terry Bressi of in-country immigration checkpoints. Bressi sat down with ReasonTV’s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss these checkpoints and their implications for civil liberties. Bressi estimates that he has been stopped by border patrol between 300-350 times. After his first encounter, he started carrying cameras and audio recording equipment, and has since been videotaping his checkpoint interactions. He says this holds officers accountable for their actions, and he hopes that by posting these videos online, citizens will become more aware of their rights. “A federal agent who is standing in the middle of a public highway, wearing a public uniform, collecting a public paycheck while seizing the public absent reasonable suspicion has no expectation of privacy,” says Bressi in regards to filming border patrol agents.

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