#solidarity
The New International Economic Order, 1974-2024
https://act.progressive.international/nieo/
https://nitter.it/ProgIntl/status/1592870507547742210
‘We cannot afford to fail today. Renewing the #NIEO is not only a matter of #social-justice. In the age of escalating #climate-crisis, it is a necessity for #survival. We convene this process in that spirit of #urgency, #creativity, and #solidarity. The #world is between orders. Our task is to build the one that comes next – in the name of #peace, #sovereignty, and #prosperous #coexistence.’
#newinternationaleconomicorder #1974-2024 #progressive #international #global #economics #polycrisis #hunger #heat #inflation #un #declaration
Skandal! #Italien verbietet das vollst. Ausschiffen der Menschen von #Humanity1 & #GeoBarents, fordert, dass die Schiffe den Hafen wieder verlassen. Schutzsuchende dürfen nicht zurückgewiesen werden!
#Riseabove & #Oceanviking warten.
¡Todo el apoyo! #Solidarity with #CivilFleet
https://twitter.com/maydayterraneo/status/1589519621899816961
Statement by Israeli refuser Sliman abu ruken
Recently I refused enlistment to the Israeli military after the first semester in a military academic course, since I realized that I can’t serve the military system and stay true to my moral compass - a moral compass driven by an understanding that our identity as humans is stronger than any other identity, and that a brutal, discriminatory treatment of other people, just because they are different than us, is unacceptable.
The fact that the army imprisoned me for being loyal to my sense of morality has strengthened the insight that I cannot serve in it. I’ve experienced the military’s apathy towards the soldier (or the would-be soldier), the system’s apathy towards the individual who cannot and does not want to serve it.
In prison, I’ve gotten the tiniest taste of the Israeli military’s punishment for the Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, a severe life sentence they received simply for existing as different humans. The means of punishment include a complete denial of freedom of movement, freedom of speech and any possibility of deciding how my day will go. On top of that, I’ve experienced a total indifference towards my basic mental needs during my imprisonment.
My time in prison made me appreciate my family and friends, things I took for granted, but which are taken away daily from millions of people who are forcibly separated from their loved ones, who need several different documents to visit friends and receive medical care, whose way of life is constantly disrupted by Israeli policy determined without their choice, arbitrary policies which can sometimes deliberately seek to undermine their daily lives in order to force them into isolated enclaves and further the illegal settlements. These are millions of humans whose existence and needs Israeli society chooses to ignore, using a system that simultaneously denies their basic legitimate rights and works to dehumanize them.
The refusal and the process of learning about the reality and the crimes committed around me, crimes which Israeli society works to hide and whitewash, made me understand that I am morally obligated to learn more and to take action; at the very least, to not ignore the reality and serve the system responsible for these wrongs. This is the obligation of every person with a moral compass, every person who believes that no group has the right to oppress and humiliate another.
Thank you to my family, to the Mesarvot network, without which I wouldn’t have been able to survive this period, and to all the people surrounding me who’ve supported and empowered me.
In solidarity,
Sliman
Human Chain Forms Around Parliament For Julian Assange ~ Live from London
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ALzBrWoNZAU
People have come from #around-the-world to form a #HumanChain around the #British #Parliament, and ask for the #release of the #Australian #journalist #JulianAssange. Organised by #DontExtraditeAssange.
#julianassange #humanchain #uk #parliament #live #london #activism #kristinnhrafnsson #craigmurray #stellaassange #jeremycorbyn #cathyvogan #freeassange #humanrights #justice #truth #freespeech #freepress #wikileaks #journalism #weareallassange #solidarity
Statement by Israeli conscientious objector Nave Shabtay
I held a gun in my hands before I was 10 years old.
You could say I was raised in the Israeli army, or at least in the spirit of the Israeli Army. My father, who was a #military officer during most of my childhood, took my sister and me to his military base on weekends. There I held a gun, entered tanks, and collected gun bullets lying on the ground. As a child, that was cool! I also grew up without a grandfather. From very early on, on every national Memorial Day, I would skip the school ceremony to attend the grave of my grandfather who was killed in the 1973 war (The Yom Kippur War). I was nurtured on the #glory of the #army and on war-related bereavement.
But as the years went by, I became more aware, and I started to attend demonstrations against the #occupation with my mother. When I was at high school we started visiting Sheikh Jarrah, where I met families that stood to lose all they had, and to end up in the streets with their children as a result of the #Jerusalem municipality campaign, jointly with the settlers to empty Jerusalem of #Palestinians. Among other things, I saw a fence that settlers had build through a private Palestinian backyard, and the #police who were securing it, prevening all from entering, until we ourselves yanked it from the ground. In Sheikh Jarrah, the police stopped and interrogated me for the sole reason that I had a Palestinian flag. Almost weekly, police violently seize flags from the protestors.
Although I was raised in a #militaristic family, where the army was a sacred cow, and although I was told in school that soldiers are heroes, I never wanted to enlist in the army. My unwillingness to enlist, was transformed over the years to the act of active refusal of the draft and the more I realized what soldiers really do. I realized that there is an entire system, military, economic and ideological, whose task is to preserve the occupation and the #oppression of the Palestinians.
This year, during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, tens of masked #settlers went to Masafer Yatta, threw stones at the Palestinian residents, at their children and at their houses. Windshields were smashed, and many people injured, including a three-year-old child who was injured in his head. This event was not unique. It was just one more day in the violent reality that the population in Masafer Yatta endure, where attacks by settlers are a daily occurrence.
And where is the #army in this story? The same one I was expected to enlist in? Where are the heroic #soldiers that we hear of? In almost every #violent incident perpetrated by settlers the army, under the best of circumstances, does nothing. More frequently, however, it enables, supports and even provides weapons and backup to the settlers. This is the occupation – this #violence is not a bug, it is a feature. The state, the army, and the settlers have the same purpose – in Masaffer Yatta and throughout the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories: the creation of territorial continuity in Israeli control that cuts the West Bank into pieces. These aims – territorial control and the removal of the Palestinians – has led to the biggest population transfer since 1967, taking place as we speak in Masafer Yatta. The army and the settlers are equal partners in this project.
The occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians are closely linked to Israeli #capitalism. For the Israeli elites, the occupation is #profitable. Israeli Weapon companies make millions from selling #weapons to regimes such as Yemen and the United Arabs Emirates. Weapons that are sold after they were tried on Gaza and the West Bank – and are promoted by the misery, the poverty, and the death that it had created. As well, the occupation is profitable – as a device to abuse Palestinian workers. Israeli #corporations and wealthy people employ Palestinians both, in the occupied territories and inside Israel, and #abuse them with long working hours and low salaries, taking advantage of the fact that the Palestinians have no way to secure their rights. In that way the rich profit directly from the oppression of the Palestinians people.
The #narrative of the country perpetuated through the educational system provides a narrow #colonialist view on history and on the reality in the state of #Israel. It tells us that the country was built by heroic pioneers, without ever discussing what and who was here before. It tells us about villages and cities that were built, but not how Palestinian lands were bought and their inhabitants banished. It creates a false unity of Jewish interests with the Jewish rich, rather than with the Palestinians. It tries to make us think that the occupation benefits us, the Jewish workers, in order to eliminate any possibility of true solidarity with the Palestinians or bringing an end to the #occupation – all of which stands to hurt in their pocket.
We live in a country that call itself self enlightened and liberal, "the only democracy in the middle east", but at the same time, runs a murderous #apartheid regime and commits war crimes regularly and systematically. Israel implements policies of house demolitions, journalists’ killings, of breaking into homes, mass arrests, the arrest of children, collective punishments; illegal #settlements, a siege on #Gaza and much more on a daily basis. This country exploits our personal loss and pain over the people we loved and who died because of this cruel reality, to further its #propaganda.
As humans we must resist this reality. As humans we must refuse to demolish homes, arrest children, and refuse the destructive reality that Palestinians live in. As humans we must make amends for the wrongs of the past of the occupation and the Nakba.
As workers we must show #solidarity and #cooperation with Palestinian workers, and fight against the rich that profit from our #expolitation.
As potential army inductees, this is our opportunity not only to serve the country and the army. It is our opportunity to support the fight for #justice, #peace, and #equality. Whether through psychological disqualification, by appealing to the army’s conscientious objection’s committee or through serving jail sentences, we refuse to serve in the occupation army. We must fight for a better future. It will not be easy. Our opponents are strong. However, where there is #oppression, there is also #brotherhood and #solidarity, and that no one can take from us.
In solidarity,
Nave
#Israel #Palestine #ConscientiousObjector #ConscientiousObjection #OccupationObjector
Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Address UN General Assembly
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FVy68Hnh6tc
#primeminister #manassehsogavare #sogavare #solomonislands #solomon #77th #unitednations #unga #positive #speech #pacific #islands #unity #friendship #solidarity #justice #peace #climatechange #universal #humanrights #cuba #australia #nz #china #crossroads
Surround Parliament ~ Form a Human Chain
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=593N5tnt6nM
https://dontextraditeassange.com/human-chain/
“I encourage you all to write to your member of #parliament and invite them to the #8thOctober gathering in #London to #join #hands in #solidarity, and calling for #Julian's #freedom.” #StellaAssange #quote
#julianassange #wikileaks #surroundparliament #humanchain #courage #freeassange #dropthecharges #protectyourrights #dontextraditeassange #weareallassange #journalismisnotacrime
The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about those programs, based on different #values. The free software movement campaigns for #freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for freedom and #justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we do not agree with open source, and do not use that term.
When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free speech,” not “free beer.”
These freedoms are vitally important. They are essential, not just for the individual users' sake, but for society as a whole because they promote social #solidarity—that is, #sharing and #cooperation. They become even more important as our culture and life activities are increasingly digitized. In a world of #digital sounds, images, and words, free software becomes increasingly essential for freedom in general.
--- Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software, by Richard Stallman - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
