Posts tagged oppression
The inner workings of a [kinda sorta] aspiring singer/songwriter
Reporters worldwide are grappling with government censorship and limits to reporting. Some are even accused and convicted of activities against governments that are landing them in jail.
In the past week alone, the following reports have been made:
An Egyptian blogger has been convicted of insulting the president.
In China, most mentions of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre were censored from the Internet.
Turkish protesters accused media of ignoring unrest; reports of anti-press attacks amid Turkey protests raise questions of censorship.
Congo Republic suspended four independent newspapers
Burundi enacted media law that reporters say curbs press freedoms.
Guinea media set strike after government shuts opposition radio.
The Palestinian Authority arrested the general manager of a Bethlehem radio station.
Ethiopia arrested a reporter after he covered the story of evictions in dam region.
Toronto Star reporter was arrested and ticketed after taking photos of injured public transit employee.
Imprisonment of journalists worldwide reached a record high in 2012, driven in part by the use of charges of terrorism and anti-state offenses against reporters and editors, reported the Committee to Protect Journalists in its annual census of imprisoned journalists.
CPJ video summary of the 2012 report on media imprisonment:
Photo: Activists wearing masks of jailed Nobel laureate, writer, professor and activist Liu Xiaobo hold candles during a night vigil at Liberty Square in Taipei June 4, 2013, on the 24th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. REUTERS/Steven Chen
Nice job by Margarita putting this all together.
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TRIGGER WARNING (violence, gore)
agent orange?
The government (AKP) wanted to build a shopping mall but Istanbul already has got 93 shopping malls so we’re sick of it. And they wanted to build it in taksim gezi parki. That park is really important to us it’s like Central Park in NY. They wanted to destroy our park and build a new AVM. Then out people go there to defend our park and block the government. But the police started to throw agent orange, pepper spray and hard water (firemans trucks) Lots of people died and they’re still standing there and waiting 5pm because if our war continues for 48 hours our government is going to fall. We’re walking on Atatürk’s road and we don’t want Erdogan to controle us because that’s what he’s doing. So let thw world know what the fuck is he doing to his own people and he is doing just because the defenders dont like him and dont obey him. As you can see if people dont obey him he use illegal things to torture us and he blocked the media too so when other countries are making news about us suffering in our turkish channels there’s nothing just regular things like soccer or magazine news. They blocked the phones and internet in defending places so people are stuck there without electricity and no food there are no gas masks so lots of people are poisoning and police attacks people with armed combat car and they shout like run over people so ERDOGAN= HITLER HELP US (Reblog)
Spread the word, signal boost, reblog. These people seriously need all the help they can get to let the world know what’s going on, and we’re in a position to do that.
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Historically, our heritage of healthy skepticism has been an ally of sound government. It makes ambitious federal programs much less likely to pass, decreases support for foreign-policy adventurism, and makes the public less likely to endorse restrictions on civil liberties. When we trust too much is when we get into trouble.
this poster is seriously gorgeous
and people need to credit the artist: Ernersto Yerena, 2011
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20 Plays
Her0 Squad
The Oppressed
The Oppressed
been fed lies,
by a body built and designed to disguise
a cold compromise
on our values and ideals
now ill defy
my previous mention of undependable minds
as hard as we try
the established is in the way, oh come on!
i say we should take a stand
on the injustice thats at hand
lets make a statement, list our demands
cuz we deserve to have our own way
the land of the free
is a misnomer when its not applied equally
intolerance
is the crutch we just cant shake
so why do you try
to take hold of a life
thats not yours to define
so leave us to be
its the way we choose, i hope youll leave
i say we should take a stand
on the injustice thats at hand
lets make a statement, list our demands
cuz we deserve to have our own way
If anything capitalism promotes addiction, more so than it does sobriety
I just look at the black community with crack and the liquor stores abundant, filled with cigarettes and other toxins and in the 80’s with the crack epidemic.
It’s ethnic cleansing.
We’re never going to advance by being slaves to substances.
If you’re drugged, suppressed and out of your mind how are you going to stand up and fight back?
Do things that raise your consciousness and maybe there are drugs that do that beneficially but suppression helps one side more than the other.
Drugs aren’t disappearing and in an ideal society you can do things in moderation but submitting yourself to something that will eventually destroy is something that a war should be waged on.
Fuck the War on Drugs because it’s not about the wellbeing of anyone involved, it’s about domination and maintaining the status quo.
Most of the drugs being done is taking place in the suburbs but the war on drugs is enforced in the black and brown neighborhoods.
We’re the ones being punished the most for this problem.
^^^ I don’t get how people don’t see this.
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Beekeeper Researches Monsanto’s Effects on Bees; State Destroys Research
(This is a really long post, so I’m editing it to make it shorter)
Beekeeper Researches Monsanto’s Effects on Bees; State Destroys Research
“The State Department of Agriculture came in and inspected our hives 4 times, 3 times when we were not home, and without due process. I have never received or found a Search Warrant. I own four businesses. I am here all the time. Yet they took our bees and hives when we were not home. What did they do, sit up on the hill and watch until we left? We had not yet had our day in court to prove that our hives did not have foulbrood!”
~Terrence IngramHere’s the gist of this story … a beekeeper has his bees stolen from him by the Illinois Department of Agriculture without a warrant claiming his bee hives were infected with “foulbrood” a bee disease. He was able to go to court regarding this incident 3 weeks after all of his bees were taken. One of the bee hives that was taken was the main hive that Terrence Ingram used for his research of the impacts of Monsanto pesticides on bees. Love the part in the video where Mr. Ingram talks about the supervisor from the Illinois Department of Agriculture “going ballistic” any time someone says they won’t use chemicals to manage their bee hives. Lovely.
Bottom line – this man’s property was stolen and the evidence that his bees were infected was stolen and perhaps destroyed. The state has violated this man’s constitutional rights in numerous ways and they have yet to give him access to his bees to prove they were incorrect. They did this without a warrant and it’s completely unacceptable. The relationship between the Agriculture Department and Monsanto is too comfy … but it’s undeniable that there is a dwindling population of bees all of a sudden and for some reason … we can’t seem to figure out why.
You can start reading part 1 of this story HERE:
Monsanto is scum
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I can’t wait for all these people to be branded forever as bigots! Time will pass, and they will attempt to soften or reframe their position.
Fuck them.
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Exist.
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Explain that.
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Anyone that doesn’t see the parallels between ancient Rome and the US
is either blind, stupid, or both.
Think of the National Security Complex as the King George of the present moment.
Tom Engelhardt
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2011/05/30/welcome-to-post-legal-america/
The state and it’s secrets
will be it’s undoing.
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2011/05/30/welcome-to-post-legal-america/
No, America isn’t Egypt or Yemen or Iran. But while the scale of the suppression is different, the premise is the same: When a citizen and a police officer have a confrontation, the police officer’s narrative has always given deference by prosecutors, judges and juries — in the same way governments in more oppressive parts of the world have the power to project their own version of events as truth. Citizens in America and across the globe now have the ability to preserve and present a more objective narrative. This is a positive thing — for democracy, for good government and for a fairer criminal justice system. U.S. courts and legislatures need to make it abundantly, unambiguously clear that not only do citizens have the right to record on-duty police officers, but that cops and prosecutors who violate that right will be held accountable.
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