Former Pirate Bay spokesman will run in European Parliament elections next year: bit.ly/13CMhRW #PirateParty
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) May 18, 2013
Former Pirate Bay spokesman will run in European Parliament elections next year: bit.ly/13CMhRW #PirateParty
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) May 18, 2013
Me on Carson Daly. Talking about Anonymous and Occupy like an uber caffeinated New Yorker, on network TV
I think everyone should watch this and then go say congratulations to Ms. Crabapple. I’m not saying you have to, I’m just saying I think you should.
No Nukes Groundswell Hits California, Solartopia Rising
San Onofre sits in an earthquake/tsunami zone halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. At least 8 million people live within a 50 mile radius, many millions more within 100 miles. The reactors are a stone’s throw from both a major interstate and the high tide line …
http://ecowatch.com/2013/no-nukes-groundswell-hits-california/
Releasing the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will require US Government officials to do something it is not used to doing, and something it does not like to do — admit it was wrong. It is wrong to hold these men for more than a decade, wrong to torture them, and wrong to deny their release.
This is why I believe more than 80 prisoners at Guantanamo, who have not been charged with any crimes, who have not had a trial, and who have been cleared for release are still there, wasting away in solitary cells.
If the US Government does not act to release these prisoners, they will be forced with the reality that they are losing public confidence. It is up to each of us to tell government officials that they are wrong in continuing this inhumane injustice.
Please read the following letter by SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL.
Here’s an excerpt:
ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago.
I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity.
I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
I could have been home years ago — no one seriously thinks I am a threat — but still I am here. Years ago the military said I was a “guard” for Osama bin Laden, but this was nonsense, like something out of the American movies I used to watch. They don’t even seem to believe it anymore. But they don’t seem to care how long I sit here, either.
When I was at home in Yemen, in 2000, a childhood friend told me that in Afghanistan I could do better than the $50 a month I earned in a factory, and support my family. I’d never really traveled, and knew nothing about Afghanistan, but I gave it a try.
I was wrong to trust him. There was no work. I wanted to leave, but had no money to fly home. After the American invasion in 2001, I fled to Pakistan like everyone else. The Pakistanis arrested me when I asked to see someone from the Yemeni Embassy. I was then sent to Kandahar, and put on the first plane to Gitmo.Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0
Samir has been cleared for release. He’s being painfully force-fed by tubes being jammed into his nose, into his stomach. He’s being stripped of all dignity, all due process, and any shred of humanity.
We are doing this. If we don’t speak up, the deaths of these men, who have not been charged with any crimes, will be on our hands.
We are imprisoning the wrong men for all the wrong reasons. anonyops.org/post/506621896… … #GTMO17 by @anonyops
— Gabriella Coleman (@BiellaColeman) May 17, 2013
UK Lulzsek Hacktivist Faces 15 Months in Prison, Jeremy Hammond Faces 42 Years
Cross Posted from The Sparrow Project
Three English co-defendants who plead guilty to being members…
New Buycott App Makes Voting with Your Dollar Easier Than Ever
Have you ever wondered whether the money you spend ends up funding causes you oppose? Thanks to the new Buycott app, you can organize your consumer spending to support causes you care about, and oppose those that you don’t—all by using your smart phone.For example, if you belong to the Demand GMO Labeling campaign on Buycott, when you scan the items in your grocery cart, it will tell you whether those products were made by one of the 36 corporations that donated more than $150,000 to oppose the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.
http://ecowatch.com/2013/buycott-app-makes-voting-dollar-easier-than-ever/
Biotech giant Monsanto faced a surprising setback after federal authorities refused to approve a new generation of genetically-engineered crops that could survive an unprecedented use of herbicides.
Utah Tar Sands Action Camp July 21-28
Cross Posted from Seeds for Peace
This summer, people from across the country will come together…
Here’s the video of “It’s not a fax machine connect to a waffle iron,” the talk I gave at the Re:publica conference in Berlin this week: “Lawmakers treat the Internet like it’s Telephone 2.0, the Second Coming of Video on Demand, or the World’s Number One Porn Distribution Service, but it’s really the nervous system of the 21st Century. Unless we stop the trend toward depraved indifference in Internet law, making – and freedom – will die.”