Blackout on Twitter/ Remembering Zinn

Once again time to stand against censorship and data mining. Do not use Twitter today!

Also, today marks the passing of the People's historian Howard Zinn. I think the two go together, he would be sure to stand against censorship ! Go to The Zinn Project for ideas on how to teach history with truth.

SOPA : Go Dark January 18th

In the interest of freedom of speech and protesting censorship go dark on January 18th. That's right , no Twitter, Facebook, no nothing! No internet.

Make a statement.

Join others as we look to a brighter future for ALL of us.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/minecraft-going-dark-january-18-in-sopa-protest-6348603

www.rawstory.com/.../reddit-to-go-dark-on-jan-18-in-protest-of-pira...

 www.reddit.com/.../raspberry_pi_website_to_go_dark_on_jan_18_to...

 matadornetwork.com/.../how-to-go-dark-on-jan-18-to-fight-sopa/

And many more.

We the People....

 

Who are the police protecting?

This is a world wide change!

Who are 'We the people'?

SOLIDARITY!

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Occupy Wall Street! Donate !

Don't believe mainstream media that there is no main purpose!    30 million unemployed! 1% holds 95% of the wealth, homelessness, living wage , Simply stated "Stop the wars on the People

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution      Donations are needed of all types. There are many ways to help. Go to this page for things needed and ways to help. NO CHECKS only money orders!
I am here because they are helping me!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlf-erPtzM]

Occupy somewhere near you!

Daniel Ellsberg: The Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning

America's Best Political Newsletter.

via Daniel Ellsberg: The Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning.

Do you remember Ellsberg? You might recall he was called ¨The Most Dangerous Man in America¨ , he too was a leaker.

Nixon had nothing compared to Bush and Obama in regards to deceit, deception, malevolent, abhorrent behavior.

It´s Not Just Others that are Protesting

Food prices and unemployment are rising. This coupled with the assault on the common man, those in the lower and middle class, by the Wisconsin government  and Maine´s government have begun a people´s protest.
....But unions are right to be worried. Declining membership, being squeezed out of the private sector, and anti-union attitudes have all contributed to the labor movement's deterioration since the McCarthyist 50s, but particularly since the Reagan era. A blow like Wisconsin could never have been struck without the last 40 years of the slow debilitation of the unions after the incredible build-up of the workers' movement in the first half of the 20th century.

The corporations have been fighting a century long war of attrition, while we organizers have been either too-focused on the day-to-day, too-focused on the distant Revolution, or too willing to believe the myth of our own weakness.

The economy is but one indication that the current system hangs by but a thread. The environment is another. It's time we realized our own potential, our own power, and took advantage of the perpetual crisis to make a lasting change through overcoming--or at least balancing out--the over-concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few and redistributing them among the many.

Look around you. All is not right, all is not equal. Stop the wars! stop the war on workers!

Even children understand equal and fair. It is only when we ¨grow up¨ that we tend to rationalize why things are not fair. Why our brothers and neighbors have less or more. They don´t work hard enough, they are not smart enough. Or they are rich because they worked hard or perhaps are ¨self-made¨.  Nothing happens by it self, the CEOS of any business are nothing without the worker, the labor. The amusement park does not run without the ticket taker, computers are not made by fairies, on and on. Even Henry Ford knew if he did not pay his workers a fair wage they would not be able to buy the same cars they were making.

¨.....Although the Model T had made Henry Ford rich and famous, he continued to advocate for the masses. In 1914, Ford instituted a $5 a day pay rate for his workers, which was nearly double what workers were paid in other auto factories. Ford believed that by raising the workers' pay, the workers would be happier (and faster) on the job, their wives could stay home to care for the family, and the workers were more likely to stay with the Ford Motor Company (leading to less down-time for training new workers). Ford also created a sociological department in the factory that would examine workers' lives and try to make it better. Since he believed he knew what was best for his workers, Henry was very much against unions.¨

Solidarity!

From 2009.... did you see this?

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Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists
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Monday August 31, 2009

By Julian Assange (WikiLeaks)

A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.

The August 28 subpoena, issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a "libel tourism" action taken by non-US property developers, demands detailed information about the operators of "tcijournal@gmail.com". The account is the main email address of the TCI Journal, the most influential journal covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. The Islands are a tourist mecca and tax haven in the Caribbean sea, and until August 14 were an independent British protectorate.

Exposures in the Journal culminated in a dramatic UK governance takeover of the Islands on August 14.

A trail of evidence dug up by the TCI Journal, a UK commission of inquiry, and others, showed that foreign property developers were giving millions in secret loans and payments to senior Islander politicians, including an alleged $500,000 cash payment to the Island's now former Premier, Michael Misick.

The Commission of Inquiry Final Report was released on the 18th of July this year in significatly redacted form. A full version was released by WikiLeaks. A High Court case ensued which initially enjoined all media in the Islands from reporting the redacted findings, however within a few days this restriction was overturned.

The Gmail subpeona applicant, property developer Dr. Cem Kinay, along with his two companies, Turks Ltd, and Star Platinum Island, were mentioned several times during public oral hearings of the Commission of Inquiry and featured significantly in the redacted portions of the Commission's Final Report.

In particular there are allegations of bribery of public officials (e.g of the Premier with an irregular payment of $500,000), in the acquisition of public land valued by the government appraiser at approximately $60 - $100 million dollars U.S., for a price of $3.2 million dollars.

On August 14, the UK announced that it had taken direct rule over the Islands and suspended its parliament.

According to the notifying letter from Google to the Journal, Google intends to hand over the requested records in just over two weeks, without any defense, and states that the Journal may file a counter-motion with the Santa-Clara court itself.

Subpoenas for records are rubber-stamped by US courts, meaning that anyone in a position to start law suits in California can obtain private information about Gmail users who are not in a position to respond in kind, including cash-strapped corruption busting journalists from the Caribbean.

Google has elected to keep extensive, non-anoymized records on its users, but not defend these records from disclosure. This combination, together with inequitable access to justice in Californian courts, is toxic.
See also

* Turks and Caicos former PM to fight British rule
* WikiLeaks victorious over corruption report gag order
* Big Trouble in Little Paradise: the Turks and Caicos Islands takeover
* Transparency after the Turks and Caicos Islands scandal
* http://tcijournal.com/ - the Turks & Caicos Islands Journal

Source documents

* Gmail subpoena for the identities of journalists running the corruption busting TCI Journal, 28 Aug 2009‎
* Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry into grand corruption, Final Report, unredacted, 18 Jul 2009
* Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry into grand corruption, Final Report, redacted, 18 Jul 2009
* Supreme court of Turks and Caicos Islands judgement setting aside a media suppression order based on WikiLeaks distribution, 23 July 2009
* Media suppression order and supporting documents over Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry corruption report, 20 Jul 2009
* Media suppression order over Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry corruption report, 20 Jul 2009
* Media suppression order, summons, over Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry corruption report, 19 Jul 2009
* Media suppression order over Turks and Caicos Islands Commission of Inquiry corruption report, 18 Jul 2009

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GA Prison Strike Update on Tuesday\'s Democracy Now Show

GA Prison Strike Update on Tuesday\'s Democracy Now Show.

The largest prison protest in history and a virtual blackout in media.  Solidarity with these men. No slave labor.

When the strike began, prisoner leaders issued the following call: “No more slavery.  Injustice in one place is injustice to all. Inform your family to support our cause.  Lock down for liberty!”

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/65925 - Listen to Elaine Brown on Hard Knocks Radio, (About 6 minutes into the audio).

Press Release

BIGGEST PRISONER STRIKE IN U.S. HISTORY—DAY TWO

Thousands of Georgia Prisoners Continue Peaceful Protest

Georgia Department of Corrections Responds with Violence

December 10, 2010…Atlanta, Georgia

Contacts: Elaine Brown, 404-542-1211, sistaelaine@gmail.com;Valerie Porter, 229-931-5348, lashan123@att.net.

Yesterday morning, December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights.  The December 9 Strike was the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United States.

Thousands of men, from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons, among others, went on strike to press the Georgia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to stop treating them like animals and slaves and institute programs that address their basic human rights.  They have set forth the following demands:

·         A LIVING WAGE FOR WORK

·         EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

·         DECENT HEALTH CARE

·         AN END TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS

·         DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS

·         NUTRITIONAL MEALS

·         VOCATIONAL AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

·         ACCESS TO FAMILIES

·         JUST PAROLE DECISIONS

Despite that the prisoners’ protest was non-violent, the DOC violently attempted to force the men back to work—claiming it was “lawful” to order prisoners to work without pay, in defiance of the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery.  In Augusta State Prison, six or seven inmates were brutally ripped from their cells by CERT Team guards and beaten, resulting in broken ribs for several men, one man beaten beyond recognition.  At Telfair, the Tactical Squad trashed all the property in inmate cells.  At Macon State, the Tactical Squad menaced the men all day, removing some to the “hole,” and the warden ordered the heat turned off, and today, the hot water.  Still, men at Macon, Smith, Augusta, Hays and Telfair State Prisons say they are committed to continuing the strike, one inmate stating, “We’re going to ride it until the wheel falls off.  We want our human rights.”

When the strike began, prisoner leaders issued the following call: “No more slavery. Injustice in one place is injustice to all.  Inform your family to support our cause.  Lock down for liberty"

Thanks to:

http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/day-3-of-historic-prison-strike-in-georgia-blacked-out-by-media-guards-committing-violence/

Where I first saw this.