#activists

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/fortyways/

“40 Ways to #Fight #Fascists: Street-Legal #Tactics for #Community #Activists
SPENCERSUNSHINE

..."Inside are 40 completely legal tactics—many of which are accessible to people from different backgrounds, skill sets, and identities—that can be used to counter and contain White Nationalist, fascist, and violent Far Right organizing in your community.
...
The complete text of the guide is below, as well as various versions and promotional materials.

40 Ways: Print-formatted Zine

40 Ways: Read Online as PDF

Spanish-language version:

40 Maneras de Luchar contra los Fascistas: Tácticas Legales Callejeras para Activistas Comunitarios
Accessible versions for blind and vision-impaired readers:

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Two-Page 40 Ways Flyer

Small 40 Ways poster for hanging" https://spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/fortyways/

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/solutionary-activism-climate-change

The Solutionary Life: Forging a Better World and a Happier Self
ZOE WEIL
Oct 05, 2023

..."It’s no wonder #activists can feel angry, not to mention exhausted and sometimes burnt out. But angry activism is a trap. While our anger may be the very emotion that spurs us to action, the expression of that anger can backfire. Frequently, it turns potentially sympathetic people against our cause, harming our efforts and calcifying our bitterness.

But solutionary activism does the reverse. It asks us to take time to do the research and deep thinking required to develop #solutions that address the problem at a root and/or systemic level and not stop with the hit of rage-generated endorphins by yelling on social media or writing an angry email. Because it demands that we seek out the perspectives of others who may have different views, those others are humanized, and our ideas for change become more nuanced as we seek solutions that do the most good and the least harm for everyone. It asks us to model the message we want to convey in order to be the role models others will want to emulate, and in modeling that message we are better versions of ourselves, which leads to more integrity and perhaps even greater inner peace. And when solutionary activism results in systemic change – as it often does – it lifts our own spirits as we witness its positive results.

Imagine if instead of spewing our anger, we used it as fuel to investigate, write, and post the wisest and most compelling, creative, and accurate social media and blog posts. Imagine if we transformed our anger into well-thought-out practical suggestions for legislation and shared our ideas in productive emails and meetings with legislators. Imagine if we took our activism to the next level and applied our skills, talents, and training to create more just, humane, and sustainable policies; to develop new designs and technologies to replace destructive ones; and to build transformative innovations within our spheres of knowledge and influence. That’s #solutionary activism, and it results not only in meaningful answers to the problems we face but often to a happier life as well."...

aljazeera@squeet.me

Activist detained after protesting at pro-police rally in Paris | AJ #shorts

An activist was detained after waving the flag of a French NGO, the Human Rights League, in the middle of a pro-police rally in Paris. The demonstrators stam...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #France #Humanrights #activists #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #feminism #feminist #hijabban #latestnews #newsheadlines #police #rights #secularism
Activist detained after protesting at pro-police rally in Paris | AJ #shorts

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

Ukraine On Fire
#Ukraine #IWF #Bandera #Eu #Russia #NGO #CIA #Congo #Lumumba #Indonesia #Sukarno #Guatemala Árbenz #Cuba #Castro #Iran #Mosaddegh #NED #Chile #Allende #Activists #Journalists ... #Nayyem #Facebook #Maidan ... #Chornovol
#Staged-Murder #coup-d’état
#Snipers killed many
59:04 #Klitschko urged the protestors to continue
59:21 59:51 #Negotiations between the government and the opposition with the help of #Fabius,#Steinmeier, #Sikorski led to a truth.
1:00:35 The right sector will not let down the arms, will not lift a blockade from a single government building and was not interested in negotiations.
failed assassination of #Yanukovych
the Procedure of the impeachment wasn't followed.
A new Government took over.
The US government immediately acknowledged the new government as legitimate.
#Crimea didn't like to follow a regime of #Neo-Nazis
#NATO
#USA
#Odessa
#Georgia
#Money for the corrupted...

digit@iviv.hu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_wWS1GMls

Bill Ryan interviews Jane Burgermeister ( Feb 2010 ) : a Project Avalon video

sound familiar? #2010
#swineflu #vaccine #lockstep #mercury #terror #terrorism #moredangerousthanthevirus #internationalcorporatecrimesyndicate #shadowgovernment #fluvaccinescandal #weshouldhavelearned #wedidlearn #weforgot #notadequatelytested #gainoffunction #birdflu #makemorevirulent #militarystylemanagementofthepandemic #PandemicEmergency #Untested #ThereAreWorseThingsThanDeath
#publicinterest #hugeawakening #askquestions #SayNo #AwakenAgain #GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath
#JaneBurgermeister #BillRyan #Activist #Activists #Activism
#projectcamelot #projectavalon
#DownloadWhileYouCan ;D #TheIgnoranceThatDiesIsNotYou

Some few snippets from the first quarter I've attempted to transcribe accurately:

Jane: "there are many government documents which indicate, the only way to get a lot of people infected with the virus is by vaccinating them. And if people refuse the vaccines, then this virus is just not going to happen and spread, however much they hype it. If people refuse to take the vaccines, then it's not going to become a major problem."

...

Jane: "...whether pharmaceutical companies influenced the world health organisation to make these declarations that they could then sell these gigantic quantities of vaccine at huge profit."

Bill: "so we have a kind of flu-gate here?"

Jane: "we have a flu-gate.
And this report is due to be finished in June. And Paul Flynn indicated to me might even look at the Baxter Institute as part of his report."

Bill "Tell people about the baxter institute, if they're seeing this for the first time."

Jane: "Well, in February of last year, about 1 year ago, Baxter contaminated 72 kilos of vaccine material with the live bird flu virus in their facilities in Moderna in Austria. And this nearly triggered a global bird flu pandemic. And there are many reasons to think this was deliberate. The main one is that bio-safety level 3 regulations have to be used when anybody handles the bird flu virus, and this makes an accidental contamination almost impossible. I filled charges, and police started investigating, but they dropped the charges at end of September, just before the mass vaccination campaign, and just before Baxter sought approval for its swine flu vaccine. And I asked to see the files, to see the basis in which the state prosecutor dropped the charges. I was refused access to the files. So I emailed Paull Flynn asked him whether he would look into this matter, by virtue of his power as a member of this case body, he could probably force the state prosecutor to hand over these files or even question executives to get to bottom of this incident. I think a proper inquiry will most likely show that it was a deliberate attempt by a pharmaceutical company to trigger the very pandemic that they then profit from by being able to sell these pandemic vaccinations in gigantic quantities."

...

Bill: "... or is there a possibility of a whitewash here?"

Jane: "Well I think if Paul Flynn simply documents the facts, the facts about how toxic the vaccine is, that it was only given to people in special emergency, the regulations were in place that allowed these untested vaccines to be administered, if he documents the facts that we could have been forced to have taken this vaccine under the international health regulations, that there's a military style management of the pandemic, that it was planned, and indeed in France came within a few days of martial law in December, nurses and doctors were requisitioned and forced to give this vaccine to people in vaccine centers. And if he documents all of this, as well as Baxter incident, that will be enough to create an explosive report which will then be sent to 47 parliaments in Europe, to Switzerland, to Ukraine, to Russia, to the countries of the block of the European Union. They will then have to consider this report, and I think if they investigate and look into it, it could well come to a series of arrests and scandals in each country. The media, as we know, in the meantime, is totally controlled of course, by the pharmaceutical/banking group, the shadow government. People like James Murdoch the son of Rupert Murdoch, who is, I think, in control of the news corporation's European arm, sits on the board of Glaxo-Smith Klein, which produces pandemic vaccine. Thomas Glocer the CEO of Reuters, who sits on the board of Merc

So the media will not be telling us

about all these dramatic developments, whatever. But behind the media screen we could see tremendous numbers of arrests, and renewal and changes in our government, on an unprecedented scale. Because the facts alone are so shocking."

....

"so long as this #PandemicEmergencyLevel6 is in place, it can issue drugs, that are untested, to people, so we can be getting all kinds of drugs now, that haven't been adequately tested. It can take control of the health services, the military and the police in countries, and create this sort of ... um... cement the shadow governments infrastructure. So, apart from all of this, this shadow group is also involved in the climate-gate scandal and the financial crisis, is trying to instigate wars, famines, sending these vaccines to the developing world. So, we can't just say it's all over. It isn't."

"We need to go a little further."

We knew back then. What happened?

#Assange's head on a spike in front of the palace shut you all up?

Head up, stout chest, glowing strong, stand firm. We can still mend this. #WeCanStillMendThis

faab64@diasp.org

#Mexico is now the deadliest place in the world for #environmental and land defense #activists, according to the nongovernmental organization Global Witness. Fifty-four activists were killed in the country in 2021, including Indigenous community members.

Can we use it as themproof of the failure of #capitalism?

Or that kind of logic is reserved for non capitalist nations?
#Politics
https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-colombia-caribbean-brazil-f7f713ef5ee6303506df635d7045418b

steelnomad@diasp.org
Where does YOUR country stand?

World survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service

War Resisters' International maintains the World survey of #conscription and conscientious objection to #military service - a database of country profiles and information on the situation for conscientious objectors (COs) and #conscripts around the world. This unique resource exists to assist #activists, #researchers, lawyers and other interested parties to find out more about both trends in conscription worldwide, and specific information on individual #states. It has been used to assist COs seeking #asylum, to give #solidarity activists #information in planning campaigns, to give campaigners against conscription examples from other states to put pressure on their own #governments, and in academic #research.

#peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection

steelnomad@diasp.org

Peace Pledge Union statement on Ukraine and Russia

UK Tanks

The #PeacePledgeUnion (PPU) has today issued the following statement with regards to the prospect of #war over #Ukraine. The #PPU is #Britain's leading #pacifist organisation and the #British section of War Resisters' International.

The Peace Pledge Union shares the concern felt around the world about the possibility of war between #Russia and Ukraine. Sending more #troops and more #weapons to the area is only making the situation worse.

We oppose the actions of #politicians and #military leaders on both the #Russian side and the #NATO/Ukrainian side who are stirring up military #tension and using each other’s #aggression to justify their own. We stand with people in all countries who are resisting the drive to war.

We utterly reject any suggestion that to oppose NATO’s #militarism means supporting #VladimirPutin and Russian #forces. We oppose militarism on all sides.

We condemn the action of the Russian #government in building up troops on the #Ukrainian border. We do not accept their claim that this is not aggressive because the troops are in Russian territory. We similarly condemn the aggressive actions of NATO members, including the #US and #UK governments, in building up troops on Russia’s other borders. This follows NATO’s expansion eastwards since the 1990s, which has broken promises made at the end of the #ColdWar.

Each side uses the other’s aggression to justify their own. Each side claims that their actions are purely defensive. This situation has occurred countless times before in many parts of the world. It illustrates the futility of seeking to solve #conflict through #violence. Militarism anywhere fuels militarism everywhere.

As the British section of War Resisters’ International, the Peace Pledge Union stands in #solidarity with #pacifists and other #anti-militarists around the world. We are confident that the people of #Ukraine, Russia, the US, the UK and all the other countries involved have more in common with each other than with the #militaristic politicians, generals and arms companies who would wage war in their name.

As an organisation based in the UK, we note that UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss repeatedly states that UK troops and their NATO allies are promoting “freedom”. Yet the lack of #democracy and civil #liberties in Russia is mirrored in countries that the UK government counts among its military allies. NATO members include the #authoritarian regime of #Turkey. While Truss claims that UK troops in #Estonia are defending #freedom, other UK troops are training the #Saudi forces bombing #civilians in #Yemen. The Ukrainian government has recently imprisoned members of our sibling organisation, the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, for campaigning against militarism; these actions mirror the Putin regime’s repression of peaceful #activists in Russia.

There is no military solution to the #crisis over Ukraine. We urge both sides to withdraw troops from each other’s borders and to stop pouring further troops and weapons into an already highly volatile situation. We encourage them to focus on tackling the real dangers that threaten us all, including Covid, poverty and the climate emergency. We support people in all countries who challenge militaristic polices and we welcome the actions of individuals in the armed forces in any country who refuse to obey orders to fight or to prepare for war.

#peace #propeace #antiwar #ConscientiousObjection #HumanRights

steelnomad@diasp.org

December 1st - A Day to Write To Prisoners!

Prisoners for Peace Day

December 1st is Prisoners for Peace Day. On this day (and every day) we encourage you to show #solidarity with the #activists and #ConscientiousObjectors imprisoned due to their #peace work and their refusal to take #arms and perform #military service.

This year we want to highlight and denounce how countries like #Singapore, the Republic of #Korea, #Eritrea and #Tajikistan continues to prosecute and imprison conscientious objectors.

Find a list of #prisoners for peace here, download the list here or below.

As we get closer to this day, what can you do?
We have been told repeatedly by people who have been sent messages of solidarity while in #prison, either via #letters or solidarity actions, that the moral support of like-minded people has been invaluable. Your solidarity is crucial to remind the #imprisoned refusers and peace activists that they are not alone and that we are aware of the significance of their #resistance. On this day,

  • Join many others from across the world and write to those imprisoned for their peace work and conscientious objection.
  • Encourage your friends, peace group, student, faith or community group to organise a card-writing session (online, or if the Covid-19 regulations allow, physical).
  • Help us spread the word on social media. Use the hashtag #PfPday21 and post your messages of solidarity with prisoners for peace on social media, and invite others to write to those in #jail.

If you have details of other prisoners for peace not yet listed, please write to info@wri-irg.org.

#antiwar #propeace #pacifist #pacifism #HumanRights