Tag Archives: Civil Liberties
▶ Nigel Parry: Daniel Ellsberg announces the launch of exposefacts.org
“ExposeFacts aims to shed light on concealed activities that are relevant to human rights, corporate malfeasance, the environment, civil liberties and war.” by NIGEL PARRY nigelparry.net JUNE 4, 2014 Launched by the Institute for Public Accuracy in June 2014, ExposeFacts.org represents a new approach for encouraging whistleblowers to disclose information that citizens need to make truly […]
Evergreene Digest: Local Vets for Peace Chapter is Banned From Duluth’s Memorial Day Parade
The episode reminded me of why I lost interest in attending Memorial Day and Armistice Day (now re-labelled Veteran’s Day) events and parades a long time ago. “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”– Dwight D. Eisenhower The […]
Bill Moyer: The 8 Stages Of Successful Social-Political Movements
The Movement Action Plan by Bill Moyer PopularResistance.org Originally posted December 26, 2013 The Movement Action Plan by Bill Moyer Long-time political activist and social change agent Bill Moyer, who developed the Movement Action Plan Model of how successful progressive movements evolve makes his last public presentation in this video six weeks before he […]
Chris Hedges: The Rhetoric of Violence
America’s vigilante violence, rather than a protection from tyranny, is an expression of the fear by white people, especially white men, of the black underclass. This underclass has been enslaved, lynched, imprisoned and impoverished for centuries. The white vigilantes do not acknowledge the reality of this oppression, but at the same time they are deeply […]
Cartoon: The mysterious disappearance
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Evergreene Digest: Continuing MLK’s Work on the 46th Anniversary of His Assassination
The best way to honor his memory is to continue the struggle for human dignity, workers’ rights, living wages, and social justice. Part 1: Why He Was In Memphis Part 2: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence ~ Rev. Martin Luther King Photo added by Rise Up Times Part 1: Why He Was In […]
Chris Hedges: Fighting the Militarized State
“We have already seen journalists such as [you] and Laura Poitras detained and denied access to a lawyer and due process. This law will make legal any such detentions. It will permit the military, on American soil, to throw journalists and activists in a military prison without trial or due process.” — Carl Mayer Alexa O’Brien speaks […]
Vice: How the FBI goes after activists
The FBI affidavit paints a far more sinister picture, with testimony from “Karen” alleging that members of the FRSO—teachers and trade unionists with long-standing ties to their communities; people whose homes she visited and whose newborn children she cradled in her arms—were actively plotting to take over government buildings in an armed revolution, all while […]
Werner de Gruijter, Truthout: The Zombification of the West
On the need for inner tranquility in order to avoid authoritarianism By Werner de Gruijter, Truthout | Opinion 15 March 2014 (Photo: Anne Roberts / Flickr) The preamble of the US Constitution contains this prodigious message: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for […]
Evergreene Digest: Maduro! Please Remind Obama! MLK Condemned US Atrocities Covert Violence on Three Continents
Tell Americans and the world that the corporate media that works to destroy the beautiful Chavista peaceful revolution for a government of all Venezuelans and not just mostly for the rich, is the same media Martin Luther King condemned for lying and promoting US “atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents, since 1945, meant […]
▶ David Swanson: The Campaign to End All War
Video: The Campaign To End All War By Dennis Trainor, Jr. January 14th, 2014 www.acronymtv.wordpress.com PopularResistance.org In this interview with David Swanson, we discuss a campaign, still in its planning stages, to eliminate “the institution of war as an acceptable enterprise for the human species.” Visiting the website WorldBeyondWar.org, one is prompted to sign a simple two sentence pledge […]
New York Times Editorial: Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they […]
Evergreene Digest: 5 Reasons You Need To Care About The Texas Abortion Law (And 1 Reason You Don’t)
Because doctors shouldn’t have to pay to play. Because even conservatives feel marginalized. Because the leadership that made this happen won’t stop at here—they’re coming for your birth control, too. Because this is a real problem, for real women, right now. Because the ultimate cost will be paid in women’s health. And the one reason […]
Chris Hedges: The Revolutionaries in Our Midst
Jeremy Hammond in a March 2012 booking photo from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Chicago. AP/Cook County Sheriff\’s Office By Chris Hedges Posted on Nov 10, 2013 truthdig.com NEW YORK—Jeremy Hammond sat in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center last week in a small room reserved for visits from attorneys. He was wearing an oversized prison […]
[Video] Democracy Now! Corporations Enlist Ex-U.S. Spies to Surveil Nonprofits
A new report reveals how corporations use ex-U.S. intelligence agents to spy on environmental, anti-war, consumer safety and other kinds of nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. Democracy Now! Posted on Nov 25, 2013 by Truthdig.com According to the report by Essential Information, a project of the Center for Corporate Policy, the enterprises ordering the spying […]
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Juan Cole: 4 Darknesses, Internet Trolls
The mantra of these dirty tricks units is the “4 D’s”: deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. By Juan Cole Informed Comment ZCommunications February 26, 2014 thewrap.com Researchers on online behavior have shown that internet trolls (people who use insincere techniques to disrupt conversations) really are psychopaths, marked by narcisssism, sadism, Machiavellianism. Professors Eric Buckels, Paul Trapnell, and Delroy Paulhus administered surveys […]