#HomelandSecurity has devolved into a nearly rogue agency — accused of #spying on #journalists and #activists https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/homeland-security-rogue/
#activists
#Activists around the world protest Disney+’s unethical streaming platform for International Day Against DRM • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/158985 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines
December 1st - A Day to Write To Prisoners!
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.
Generation Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGupWkEJinQ
https://time.com/6114499/generation-now-climate-activists-video/
#ElizabethWathuti at COP26: "Please open your hearts"
'Today’s #young #people are coming of age just as the #stable #climate that has allowed #previous #generations to #thrive on our #planet begins to visibly #break #down—and just before our last chance to stop it falls out of reach. #Leaders keep #praising young people for standing up and #protesting. But #saving the #world needs #decisions from the leaders. Decisions that #prioritize the #lives of the #people and the planet.'
#GenerationNow #COP26 #youth #activists #protests #strike #climatechange #movement #gnd #future #environment #gretathunberg #janegoodall #fridaysforfuture #climate #justice #hope
COP26: 'Moment of truth' as world meets for climate summit
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59105878
'The heads of state will be joined by some of the world's leading climate #activists, including #SirDavidAttenborough and #GretaThunberg.'
#cop26 #glasgow #moment-of-truth #science #environment #climatechange #climate #summit #planet #world #un #wmo
John Lennon ~ Give Peace a Chance
October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_0GqPvr4U
Watch the film BED PEACE 1969
'In 1969, John and I were so naïve to think that doing the #Bed-In would help change the world. Well, it might have. But at the time, we didn't know. It was good that we filmed it, though. The film is powerful now. What we said then could have been said now. In fact, there are things that we said then in the film, which may give some #encouragement and #inspiration to the #activists of today. Good luck to us all. Let's remember WAR IS OVER If We Want It. It's up to us, and nobody else.'
Love, Yoko Ono Lennon
#musicvideo #givepeaceachance #johnlennon #yokoono #lennon #plasticonoband #film #bedpeace #1969
Mark your calendars - free online webinar event:
CAS Conference | Environmental Armenia: The Climate Crisis, Conflict, and Activism
Featuring our own @mariam _who is presenting: “Weaponizing the Environment: The Silencing of the Nagorno-Karabakh’s Impact on the Landscape and its Human and Non-Human Inhabitants”
As a global community, we are facing an undeniable #climate crisis that “unequivocally” has been caused by human activity. This #conference seeks to begin an interdisciplinary #discussion inviting environmental #scientists, geographers, policy experts, and #activists to examine challenges posed by climate change and recurrent conflict, as well as present possible solutions through policy advocacy and local #activism.
Oct 6, 2021 12:00 PM
Oct 7, 2021 12:00 PM
Oct 8, 2021 11:00 AM
Time shows in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
#Armenia #conflict #war #webinar #environment #environmental #NagornoKarabakh
Murders of environment and land defenders hit record high
The Guardian
Figures from Global Witness for 2020 show violent resource grab continued unabated despite pandemic.
Murders of environment and land defenders hit a record high last year as the violent resource grab in the global south continued unabated despite the pandemic.
New figures released by Global Witness show that 227 people were killed in 2020 while trying to protect forests, rivers and other ecosystems that their livelihoods depended on. (...)
The annual tally of the dead has risen for the past two years and is now twice the level of 2013. This is still thought to be an underestimate because the calculation depends on transparency, press freedom and civil rights, which vary considerably from country to country. (...)
The watchdog group has outlined proposals for governments and companies to reduce the risks of violence in resource extraction. In future, they put hope on a new bill being drafted by the EU commission that would require companies to conduct mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence on their supply chains. The United Nations is also working on a binding treaty on business and human rights, but there is still a long way to go before such measures reduce the impunity that allows the killings to take place.
Deforestation in Colombia, the country that had the largest number of people killed while trying to protect forests, rivers and ecosystems in 2020. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images.
Tags: #ecology #ecosystems #environment #deforestation #brazil #colombia #africa #philipines #activists #pollution #nicaragua #natural_resources #resource_grab
Militarism and the police: how our streets became battlefields
When faced with #conflict, human beings respond in various ways and often choose #solutions that avoid #violence. We are very good at #negotiating, #communicating, #cooperating, as well as, of course, submitting to those more #powerful than us. Violence in our societies is pervasive; it is experienced every day by victims of #crime, domestic and more. But the systemic way #armies and #militarized #police units plan and prepare for the use of overwhelming violence is specific and unique.
A key example of militarized #policing is the #suppression of #protest and #dissent. Social movements come into conflict with the #authorities via lobbying, #protests or direct actions. Authorities respond to these #conflicts in various ways, sometimes reaching for militarized options. This violence is planned, trained for, repeatedly rehearsed and often delivered in a calculated way that aims to disorientate, overwhelm or eliminate the perceived enemy or threat.
Through the lens of #militarism, conflict stops being something that drives #change and #transformation; it becomes a #threat to be neutralized and the individuals and groups driving conflict become enemies akin to a foreign invading #army. Violence of this nature relies on its perpetrators’ #obedience to orders, the #dehumanization of its victims, and a heightened perception of threat.
The experiences of the democracy movement in #HongKong serve as one particularly extreme example. While in Hong Kong these tactics have been deployed by an #authoritarian #government, we have seen similar examples of police violence leveled against #activists across the world — in Chile, France, Germany, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, South Korea and the US, to name but a few.
This weekend: End the Damn Wars March on Washington DC
Start: Saturday, September 11, 2021 • 12:00 PM
End: Saturday, September 11, 2021 • 7:00 PM
John Marshall Park• C Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
#activists #awareness #USA #military #surveillance #security #September11 #accountability #wars #MassSurveillance #war #antiwar #propeace #peace #pacifist #pacifism
Call for actions in solidarity with Ukrainian pacifist Ruslan Kotsaba
#Ukrainian conscientious objector and journalist #RuslanKotsaba will be on trial again on September 20th. Support #Kotsaba with your actions ahead of his trial!
Kotsaba, president of the #Ukrainian #Pacifist Movement, is accused of treason and obstructing #military operations for his expressions calling for #peace in a video he posted in 2015. In the video, Kotsaba was calling to boycott military mobilisation for the #conflict in Eastern #Ukraine.
Kotsaba had already spent 524 days under #arrest for his expressions opposing the #war and was duly acquitted in 2016. His retrial is a clearly politically motivated #persecution which must end immediately. Furthermore he was attacked by neo-Nazis several times and seriously wounded. For background and more information on Ruslan’s case, see here.
War Resisters’ International ( #WRI ), European Bureau for Conscientious Objection ( #EBCO ) and Connection e.V. are calling for #international actions ahead of Kotsaba’s next hearing, scheduled to take place on September 20th.
What can you do?
- Write to the #Prosecutor General of Ukraine demanding an end to his #prosecution. You can use our template letter which can be reached here.
- Organize a #vigil in front of an Ukrainian #embassy or #consulate in your country. You can find the list of Ukrainian embassies here.
- Ask #politicians in your country to support Ruslan Kotsaba by sending a letter to the Ukrainian authorities and/or the Prosecutor General.Please contact us about your activities via actionruslankotsaba@Connection-eV.org.
WRI, EBCO and Connection e.V. are standing in #solidarity with Ruslan Kotsaba. We urge the Ukrainian #government to end his prosecution and to ensure that all #pacifists, in Ukraine, including the #activists of Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, are able to freely express their opinions and continue their non-violent activity. We also urge the Ukrainian government to safeguard the right to #ConscientiousObjection to military service, according to the European and international standards.
#ConscientiousObjector #antiwar #propeace #pacifist #pacifism #HumanRights
So proud of all the rebels in the #NordicRebellion and the #AugustRiseUp and everywhere where brave climate #activists are taking to the streets to say fuck no to #climatecrisis and death by endless growth #capitalism <3 You are all my heroes.
The #XR #Finland autumn rebellion starts 29th September. See you on the streets then. You should totally join us. Only in numbers there is strength (unless you're a millionaire, media mogul or career politician).
Let Cuba Live ~ An Open Letter to President Biden
In an #open #letter to #POTUS, 400 #intellectuals, #scientists, #artists and #activists, called on the #US #government to end the #embargo on #Cuba. Signatories include: #danielellsberg #jeremycorbyn #noamchomsky #yanisvaroufakis #rafaelcorrea #luladesilva #oliverstone #cornelwest #jillstein #davidharvey #vijayprashad ...
#Governments spying on human rights #activists, #journalists and #lawyers
Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones.
TIME Magazine admits the 2020 election was stolen from the people, while attempting to justify it.
https://phillipschneider.com/time-magazine-expose-admits-conspiracy-to-steal-election-activists-told-to-stand-down/
#TIME #Election #Activists
It is easy to dismiss activists that clam to be subject to persecution and harassment as paranoid. But this interview with Citizen Lab’s Researcher John Scott-Railton exposes what is happening behind the curtain.
Risky Business feature podcast: Inside BellTrox’s hacker-for-hire operation
#CitizenLab #Belltrox #Hacker #Activists #EnvironmentAlactivists #RiskyBiz
-> FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists
FBI representatives have contacted several ‘water protectors’, raising alarm that an indigenous-led movement is being construed as domestic terrorism
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/830881477575528448
#daktoaaccess #fbi #standingrock #activists #usa #theguardian
