Violence

This Halloween Costume Is Not OK

October 30, 2015 CODEPINK and ANSWER, www.popularresistance.org Petitions and Online Actions Israel, Palestine, Violence, Wars and Militarism

By CODEPINK and ANSWER. United States - While violence escalates in the West Bank, and Palestinians are being killed and injured by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), American companies like Amazon have put on the market this costume sold by Dress Up America and Wholesale Halloween Costumes. Tell Amazon that occupation and violence isn’t a costume: Drop the Israeli soldier costume now! Since October 1, renewed violence has left 11 Israelis dead, while Israeli forces have killed at least 63 Palestinians and injured thousands of others. Many of those killed and injured have been children. The Israeli soldiers, long a symbol of fear, violence and repression against Palestinians, should not be used for entertainment purposes!

Project Highlights Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women

September 30, 2015 Lucia Edwardson, www.metronews.ca Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Women, Violence

By Lucia Edwardson in Metro News - In 2014 there were an estimated 225 missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada, according the RCMP statistics. Jamie Black, an aboriginal artist from Winnipeg, wanted to showcase the issue in an artistic way, so five years ago she created the REDress project. Each dress is “symbolic of the violence faced by indigenous women but is also a symbol of the power of a community coming together to fight this violence,” said Black. Linda Nothing, who is helping to organize the Calgary chapter of the project that will be held Oct. 4 across the country, said they will be accepting red dress donations to create their installment, but are also asking Calgarians to show support on their own. “We encourage people to hang up a red dress outside their home, business or office, to wear a red dress on that day and also to study what is happening, why is that happening,” she said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Ordered Attack On Refugees

September 20, 2015 Benjamin Novak, www.newslanc.com Educate! Human Rights, Hungary, Refugees, Violence

By Benjamin Novak for the Budapest Beacon. BUDAPEST BEACON: “I accuse Viktor Orbán of orchestrating a premeditated attack on refugees. I accuse him of deliberately lying with the intent to manipulate so that violence would break out. I accuse him of preparing this for months so that he could prove that we are indeed being invaded by a wave of violent refugees!” – Ferenc Gyúrcsány, former Hungarian prime minister At a press conference held this afternoon, former Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of “not only inciting violence, but organizing it.” The opposition politician stated that he could prove that Hungarian police provoked Wednesday’s clash with asylum seekers. According to eyewitness accounts, it was the Hungarian police who attacked the refugees first.

History of Violent Displacement Created National Parks

August 28, 2015 Julian Brave NoiseCat, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Corporatism, Displacement, Indigenous People, Land Rights, National Park, Violence

By Julian Brave NoiseCat in The Huffington Post - Tuesday marked the 99th anniversary of the National Park Service, perhaps the most-loved division of the federal government. For many Americans, excursions to the national parks conjure up memories of family road trips, camp songs and hikes set in some of the country's most beautiful locales. Ken Burns called the parks, "America’s best idea." Cue Woody Guthrie: "This Land Is Your Land." But what's often left unmentioned is that for the parks to become the protected lands of public imagination, their prior inhabitants -- such as indigenous peoples and the rural poor -- had to be evicted.

Protesters Demand Prosecution Of ‘Beat Up Squad’

August 27, 2015 Jonathan Bix, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Police Brutrality, Racism, Violence

By Jonathan Bix of Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition. Poughkeepsie, NY – On Thursday, the Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition and Samuel Harrell’s family and friends gathered in Hulme Park to call for justice for Mr. Harrell, a Black prisoner diagnosed with bipolar disorder who was killed by corrections officers at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. Fifty people gathered around enlarged photos of Mr. Harrell with his family, as his widow and sister spoke of their love for Samuel, their grief at his murder, and their commitment to fight until justice is won. The group marched down Market St., with several people wearing paper “bloody” hands and wearing signs with the names of the District Attorney (DA) and corrections officers known to have killed Samuel Harrell.

Murder Of Mexican Journalist Threatens Press Freedom

August 9, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Freedom of Press, Media, Violence

By Ashoka Jegroo in Waging Nonviolence. Mexico City, Mexico - One man has been arrested in connection with the July 31 murder of Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa, social activist Nadia Vera, their two roommates and their housekeeper. They were all beaten, tortured and shot in the head in their apartment in Mexico City. Two other suspects are still yet to be found. Espinosa’s death adds one more to the dozens of journalists killed in Mexico over the last few years. Depending on who is doing the counting, between 88 and 127 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. Espinosa worked for the magazines Proceso, Agencia Cuartoscuro and AVC Noticiasin the Mexican state of Veracruz, though his murder occurred outside the state.

Mural: Shooting ‘War Thug’ Presidents In The Balls

August 7, 2015 Sam Husseini, www.husseini.posthaven.com Resist! Violence, War Criminal, Wars and Militarism

By Sam Husseini in Posthaven. Washington, DC - A new political mural has gone up in Washington, D.C. Well, sort of new. The mural has been there for a few years, but it's been transformed just recently. Some might say, made more whole, reborn. It's a mural on the side of a restaurant formerly known as the Calvert Cafe. It features U.S. presidents from Eisenhower to Obama with Mama Ayesha, who founded the restaurant that is now named for her: Mama Ayesha's, just near the Duke Ellington Bridge in Adams Morgan. It was originally labored over by Karlisima Rodas.

Mexico Finds 60 Secret Graves But Not The Missing 43 Students

July 28, 2015 Maria Verza, www.AP.org Educate! Ayotzinapa, Criminal Justice, Massacre, Mexico, Violence

By Maria Verza in Associated Press - The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico's attorney general's office says. None of the remains has been connected to the youths who disappeared after a clash with police in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26, and authorities do not believe any will be. Prosecutors say the students were turned over to a drug gang that killed them and incinerated their bodies in a case that has put attention on the huge number of people who have gone missing in Guerrero and other Mexican states where drug violence is widespread.

UN HRC Slams Canada’s Record On Women

July 24, 2015 CBC News, www.cbc.ca Educate! Canada, Human Rights, Indigenous Women, United Nations, Violence

By CBC News - The UN human rights committee is accusing the Canadian government of failing to act on missing and murdered aboriginal women, violence against women generally, and numerous other matters, ranging from refugees to Bill C-51, the new anti-terror law. The UN's first report card on Canada in 10 years was released Thursday, and measures whether the country has met its human rights obligations. At least 26 human rights organizations, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Amnesty International Canada and Human Rights Watch, submitted their own separate reports to the 18-member independent committee on the various issues. Overall, the report took exception to Canada's failure to set up a way to implement some of the committee's recommendations. "It should take all necessary measures to establish mechanisms and appropriate procedures to give full effect to the committee's views so as to guarantee an effective remedy when there has been a violation of the covenant," the report said.

Chicago Activists Fight For Survival

July 23, 2015 Maya Dukmasova, www.truth-out.org Resist! Inequality, Poverty, Public Health, University, Violence

By Maya Dukmasova in Truthout - On the first Wednesday in June, nine Chicago activists were arrested for occupying an administration building at the University of Chicago during an annual alumni reunion. They demanded to meet with Rob Zimmer, the president of the university, to discuss the lack of a Level 1 trauma center on the South Side, as hundreds of big donors were poised to arrive on campus. Two and a half hours later, firefighters cut a hole through the wall and the nine were detained by university police. In the previous month, nine other demonstrators for a South Side trauma center had been arrested during a march on Michigan Avenue. Currently, all four of Chicago's adult trauma centers are located on the North and West sides of the city, leaving almost a fifth of city residents and large swaths of the South Side without a trauma center within a 5-mile radius.

Arrests On Anniversary Of Eric Garner’s Murder

July 19, 2015 Scott Heins, www.gothamist.com Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Eric Garner, police brutality, Violence

By Scott Heins in The Gothamist. New York City, NY - Hundreds gathered in both Staten Island and Manhattan Friday to observe the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner's death at the hands of the NYPD. Amid a sea of homemade signs and protest chants that echoed throughout the afternoon and evening, Garner's last words were by far the most prominent—an impassioned, outraged refrain: "I Can't Breathe." As the day wore on, the somber rallies and vigils became defiant protest marches remembering Garner's death and condemning a Staten Island jury's decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo , the NYPD officer who used an ultimately fatal chokehold while trying to arrest him on suspicion of selling loose cigarettes outside a deli.

Protesters Demand Answers In Sandra Bland’s Death

July 18, 2015 Renee Lewis, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, police brutality, Racism, Violence

By Renee Lewis in Al Jazeera. Hempstead, TX - More than 100 people staged a protest Friday outside the county jail in Hempstead, Texas, where a black woman was found dead one week ago after being arrested following an altercation with police. Officials have called the death a suicide. But protestors led by Quanell X — leader of the Houston New Black Panther Party — disputed that, shouting "No justice, no peace!" and "We demand answers!" Twenty-eight-year-old Sandra Bland was arrested during a July 10 traffic stop in the Texas town of Prairie Ville after allegedly kicking the officer who pulled her over. A witness said the policeman dragged Bland from her car and then roughly detained her. In a video showing the arrest, Bland can be heard saying the officer had slammed her head into the ground.

Hidden Structure Of Violence: Who Benefits From Global Violence

June 30, 2015 Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree, www.monthlyreview.org Educate! Book Review, Violence, Wars and Militarism

By Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Rountree in Monthly Review - The Hidden Structure of Violence marshals vast amounts of evidence to examine the costs of direct violence, including military preparedness and the social reverberations of war, alongside the costs of structural violence, expressed as poverty and chronic illness. It also documents the relatively small number of people and corporations responsible for facilitating the violent status quo, whether by setting the range of permissible discussion or benefiting directly as financiers and manufacturers. The result is a stunning indictment of our violent world and a powerful critique of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily basis, whether at the highest levels of the state or in the deepest recesses of the mind.

Not Just Apologies But Repentance

June 26, 2015 Nassrine Azimi, www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp Create! Colonialism, History, Imperialism, Memory, Violence, Wars and Militarism

By Nassrine Azimi in Hiroshima Peace Media - In the Nuclear Age apologies for historical wrongs are not some diplomatic niceties, to quickly offer and get over with. Rather, they should prod us to understand why we still live in such a violent world, spend so much money on arms or need 16,000 nuclear warheads -- 2000 of them on trigger-hair alert - for our security. Why here, as in so many other nations, we have politicians who want us to believe that more warfare is the only way forward. And why, despite our great strides and achievements, we are unable to trust the powers of repentance and to solve our problems in a just, civilized manner. The stakes, of not understanding, have never been so high.

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