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Showing posts with label freedom of assembly. Show all posts
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07 April 2014
Westboro Baptist Church Picketers Run Off By 2000 Protestors In Oklahoma (Video) 6APR14
ON this, the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, the people of Moore, Oklahoma really showed the westboro baptist church.....showed them they share the same intolerance, ignorance, prejudice and the same level of hypocrisy. This reminded me of the video from last month of pro Russian protesters attacking Ukrainian counter-protesters in Donetsk, Ukraine, stabbing one man to death. It reminded me of the rabid, howling mobs who viciously attacked the Freedom Riders across the South. It reminded me of the mobs, insane with hate, who attacked black students integrating our public schools across the nation, from Little Rock to South Boston, LA to Chicago, large and small school district in every part of our country. I think if the people of Moore take the time to think about it, they will feel ashamed this happened in their city, I'll bet they wish they had reacted to the westboro baptist church as the people of Santa Monica did, and as the attendee's of a Lorde concert in Kansas City, MO did, peacefully. And if the people of Moore really think about it they will realize they have a lot to learn from a little girl named Jayden who has raised over $26,000.00 for Planting Peace with her Pink Lemonade Stand For Peace across the street from the westboro baptist church compound.
Leslie Salzillo
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Leslie Salzillo
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This truly was a delight to write. It was a 'no contest' showdown, when thousands of folks in Moore, Oklahoma, came out in the cold and rain, to counter-protest the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). The vile WBC group was scheduled to picket a school, where children had died in last year's horrific tornadoes. Their allotted time was 2:00 - 2:30 on Sunday, April 6. The police were there to enforce free speech, but were hardly a deterrent when the large crowd began crossing the road towards the hate group. Within two minutes, the WBC picketers realized the danger, stuffed themselves, and their signs, into their vehicles - and left the scene rather quickly. Smart move on their part. No arrests were made.
See KOCO News VideoYouTube Video of Oklahoma Protest Against WBC (by AJVegas):
Good for the folks of Oklahoma. This isn't a first. Communities around the country continue to trump the WBC's odious agenda. Last year the residents of Santa Monica, California, formed a human chain to border a pro-LGBT high school. The WBC had no choice but to slither away on that day as well. Video of Santa Monica Protest Against WBC (by Ben Ross):
And who could forget the little 5-year old named Jayden, who countered WBC's hate with her 'Pink Lemonade Stand For Peace'. She sold lemonade, with her dad, on the front lawn of the rainbow-painted Equality House, which happens to be situated directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church compound. So far Jayden has raised over $26,000 for Planting Peace. Thanks WBC! Image of Jayden's Protest Against WBC (by Megan Rogers):I've written more diaries/stories than I'd like to admit about this group. Facing bolder resistance - and now with their hate-filled leader, Fred Phelps, dead and gone, perhaps Westboro Baptist Church will realize they are not really a church, they are not really Baptists, and they are definitely not wanted around - anywhere. Special thanks: Anomaly/Freak Out Nation
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Headline Photo: KOCO News
02 February 2011
EGYPTIAN GOVT DETAINS AHMED MAHER, LEADER OF APRIL 6 YOUTH OPPOSITION GROUP 2FEB11
FROM the Danger Room at Wired.com 
An Egyptian Facebook activist and leader of the group known as the April 6 Youth has been arrested in Cairo, friends told Wired.com Wednesday in e-mails. But those accounts were contradicted by the activist himself. (See update, below.)
Ahmed Maher, 30, gained prominence in 2008 as one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth, a solidarity group launched to support protests. Organizing mostly online, especially on Facebook, it is a carefully decentralized network of activists, who have used the tools of social media to broadcast grievances with the Mubarak regime, mobilize support, evade the government’s ubiquitous security forces, and, now, help to bring the Mubarak regime to its knees.
Wired magazine published an article about the group in 2008. Its nascent, tech-fired rebellion helped ignite the revolution and the government backlash that has captured the world’s attention.
Maher and a friend launched a Facebook group to promote a protest planned for April 6, 2008. It became an internet phenomenon, quickly attracting more than 70,000 members. That protest died still-born, but Maher has continued to organize and has played a prominent role in the uprising of the past week aimed at toppling the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarark.
Word of Maher’s arrest came from two separate sources shortly after protesters began to clash with pro-government groups after Mubarak pledged step down in September. That signaled a major escalation of violence after days of largely peaceful protests. The arrest could not immediately be confirmed.
Sherif Mansour, a senior program officer at Freedom House in Washington, D.C., has been in close contact with Maher and his group for years, and is currently trying to get through to some of Maher’s peers to glean details.
Early Wednesday morning, Wired.com also received its first correspondence in five days from an April 6 group member. “I am so sorry for the delay[ed response] because there’s no internet connection in Egypt since last Friday,” wrote 28-year-old Waleed Rashed in a short message sent on Facebook. “I am OK and my friends also. We will be in the street till Mubarak go. No another way. Just pray to us and we will be in touch.” It remains unclear at this point how Rashed was able to get online.
Update 6:33 pm: Wired.com reached Maher on his mobile phone late on Wednesday night local time. He said that he had not been arrested. When asked whether he had been detained and roughed up by the police — a common practice under the Mubarak regime — Maher was unable to reply.
Photo by Joerg Klaus
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An Egyptian Facebook activist and leader of the group known as the April 6 Youth has been arrested in Cairo, friends told Wired.com Wednesday in e-mails. But those accounts were contradicted by the activist himself. (See update, below.) Ahmed Maher, 30, gained prominence in 2008 as one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth, a solidarity group launched to support protests. Organizing mostly online, especially on Facebook, it is a carefully decentralized network of activists, who have used the tools of social media to broadcast grievances with the Mubarak regime, mobilize support, evade the government’s ubiquitous security forces, and, now, help to bring the Mubarak regime to its knees.
Wired magazine published an article about the group in 2008. Its nascent, tech-fired rebellion helped ignite the revolution and the government backlash that has captured the world’s attention.
Maher and a friend launched a Facebook group to promote a protest planned for April 6, 2008. It became an internet phenomenon, quickly attracting more than 70,000 members. That protest died still-born, but Maher has continued to organize and has played a prominent role in the uprising of the past week aimed at toppling the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarark.
Word of Maher’s arrest came from two separate sources shortly after protesters began to clash with pro-government groups after Mubarak pledged step down in September. That signaled a major escalation of violence after days of largely peaceful protests. The arrest could not immediately be confirmed.
Sherif Mansour, a senior program officer at Freedom House in Washington, D.C., has been in close contact with Maher and his group for years, and is currently trying to get through to some of Maher’s peers to glean details.
Early Wednesday morning, Wired.com also received its first correspondence in five days from an April 6 group member. “I am so sorry for the delay[ed response] because there’s no internet connection in Egypt since last Friday,” wrote 28-year-old Waleed Rashed in a short message sent on Facebook. “I am OK and my friends also. We will be in the street till Mubarak go. No another way. Just pray to us and we will be in touch.” It remains unclear at this point how Rashed was able to get online.
Update 6:33 pm: Wired.com reached Maher on his mobile phone late on Wednesday night local time. He said that he had not been arrested. When asked whether he had been detained and roughed up by the police — a common practice under the Mubarak regime — Maher was unable to reply.
Photo by Joerg Klaus
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03 November 2010
Why Obama's Indonesia trip matters to Filep from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 3NOV10
PRESIDENT Obama will travel to Indonesia this month, and Amnesty International is calling on House members to support Rep. Patrick Kennedy's resolution calling on the Indonesian govt. to release all prisoners of conscience, and for Pres. Obama to press Indonesia on their human rights record. Please participate by clicking the links below
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| Indonesia's shameful human rights record: Censorship. Torture. Unlawful detention. Help urge just 6 more Representatives to voice their support for political prisoners in Indonesia before President Obama's trip! | |
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| Dear Craig, President Obama's trip to Indonesia, which has been delayed twice before, has been re-scheduled for early this month - a critical time for action in Indonesia. Government censorship in Indonesia is at a boiling point - books, films and other media are being banned. A gruesome video has recently surfaced showing Indonesian military forces burning, beating and torturing a number of Papuans, one of the country's marginalized groups. Filep Karma, who was arrested 6 years ago for simply raising the Papuan flag, remains in jail. The President's re-scheduled trip to Indonesia truly couldn't come at a more crucial time, but his trip won't mean as much if our members of Congress don't back him up! Ask your Representative to condemn Indonesia's imprisonment of peaceful political activists. |  | ||||
| In late July, your tireless activism helped secure much-needed medical attention for Filep Karma before he was returned back to prison shortly after. Filep asked us to pass along his thanks to all Amnesty activists who made his surgery possible. House Resolution 1355 was created for people like Filep - those who are jailed because they dared to exercise their political beliefs publicly, yet peacefully. And because so many of you have already picked up the phone and sent emails and letters to champion this cause, we've already gained a tremendous amount of support in Congress. But we need just 6 more members to voice their support from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in order for the resolution to move forward! Please send your message of support now. Filep and other prisoners of conscience in Indonesia don't deserve to spend another day behind prison bars. Your message can help. In Solidarity, Michael O'Reilly Senior Campaign Director, Individuals at Risk Amnesty International USA P.S. You can continue to write letters of hope for Filep Karma by signing up to Write for Rights - Amnesty International's largest and most powerful letter-writing event! | |||||
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