#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/25/jello-biafra-obama-occupy The former Dead Kennedy talks to us about the state of modern punk – and modern American politics Hello Jello. How's it going? I'm all right, thank you. I hope you're ready for my lovely conversational grammar, or lack thereof … I'm sure we'll be fine. So you have a new band, the Guantanamo School Of Medicine – your first permanent group since Dead Kennedys. What happened? I never thought I would wait so long between bands. It happened at a Stooges show in San Francisco for Iggy's 60th birthday party in 2007. It occurred to me while I was watching the Stooges that, holy shit, I turn 50 next year! I should put so…http://www.twitpic.com/clwvzg
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The Good Wife: 'The Most Honest Portrayal of Labor Unions I Have Ever Seen on Television' http://blog.aflcio.org/Blog/Other-News/The-Good-Wife-The-Most-Honest-Portrayal-of-Labor-Unions-I-Have-Ever-Seen-on-Television Ed Sills of the Texas AFL-CIO sends us this: My wife and I are big fans of “The Good Wife,” which, besides the inspired-by-real-events plotline—a wife “stands by” a cheating politician who has a statewide profile—is as fine a legal procedural as I have seen on television. The show combines a “case-of-the-week” approach with the ongoing soap-opera-style plot, and it pops. [This week's] episode, “A More Perfect Union,” was extraordinary even by the show’s high standard. It delves into what happens when workers come together to try to form a union. The featured case involves a g…http://www.twitpic.com/clxi9m
#occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Interview with Ghazi Beji: atheism as a crime! http://atunisiangirl.blogspot.com/2013/04/interview-avec-ghazi-beji-latheisme.html TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR In Tunisia, two years after the popular uprising that led to the departure of the dictator ZABA, trials opinion multiply … Most of these cases are brought under the broad heading of damage to religious or moral damage to the sacred. One example is the trial of Al Ghazi Beji and Jabeur Majeri. Indeed, ” Monday, June 25, 2012, the Court of Appeal upheld the judgment Monastir the trial court that sentenced Mehdia Al Jabeur Mejri young surfer, to imprisonment for seven years and a half. The same judgment was given by default against Ghazi Beji that, he was forced to leave the country seeking political asylum abroad, following the indictment of two young surfers to have caused serious material damage by the publication of photographs and writings on their Facebook pages. “* I had the opportunity to interview Ghazi Beji via Facebook and here is the exchange that took place between us: 1) if you start by introducing yourself to International Opinion readers? Ghazi Beji, 28, holds a bachelor's degree in food and biotechnology. I am originally from the Tunisian city of Mahdia. I am the author of the book The Illusion of Islam. 2) With your friend Jabeur Mejri you end sentenced in March 2012 to 7 ½ years in prison, sentence upheld in June following the Court of Appeal reached Monastir to religious morality, defamation, and disturbing the public order. Can you return to this mishap? After the revolution, I wrote a book called the illusion of Islam and my friend Jabeur Mejri wrote a book in English called Dark Land, or have criticized the fascist religious Tunisia and the exclusion of others in the name of Islam. We were sentenced to 7 years and a half in prison and a fine of 1,200 dinars. Jabeur was arrested on 5 March 2012. As for me, I managed to run away and leave my country on 8 March 2012. I had an amazing career: Libya, Algeria – Turkey then I went to Turkey to Greece to swim. Thereafter, I had from Macedonia and Serbia and Romania and finallyI had the subsidiary protection. Unfortunately, I have been targeted and attacked by Islamic extremists while I continued to move me from one country to another: Hungary-Austria-Switzerland-France. 3) How do you see this verdict and the trial in general? This is an attack on my freedom of expression because the religious do not believe in democracy. Their goal in life is to destroy the lives of human beings. They can not digest the fact that someone is happy, they want everyone to livein the shit (lol) 4) You've managed to run away and leave Tunisia. However, we heard that you had to face many difficulties and problems. Can you talk about that? I met several constraints in Libya with jihadi groups in Algeria I spent 15 days in fear of the dictator regime in Greece I had to resist against the extreme right who was chasing strangers in the streets of Athens and racist hyper police, with its rotten laws. In Macedonia, I was in prison and I have had problems with thieves police. In Serbia, I have not had much luck and I was brutally tortured in prisons in the north you south. In Romania, I discovered that racism n has not been eradicated and I found myself in a refugee camp with the terrorists who attacked me. Now I'm moving in different countries of the Western Europe but still undocumented. 5) What is your current situation? Have you managed to rebuild your life? I managed to partially adjust my status but the biggest remains. 6) Your friend Jabeur Majeri languishing in a cell in Tunisia. Can you tell us about the situation and the conditions of his detention? Jabeur is imprisoned in the Mahdia. His situation is very delicate. Indeed, he is tortured by prison guards and other prisoners who accuse him of being an unbeliever. The conditions of his detention are terrible: he caught scabies and can no longer walk. In addition, he is forced to do the prayers in the prison infirmary. 7) Have you found support of Tunisian civil society? How civil society could it help you and how it could act to save Jabeur? I found the support of the Tunisian civil society in France. However, I was ignored by the Tunisian League of Human Rights. Tunisians-the-Tunisian people condemned me. I was vilified and I got several smear campaigns and threats on social networks. 
How do you see the situation in Tunisia now? Do you believe that the freedoms and human rights are in danger right now? I think this phase is an essential and crucial phase in the history of our country. Tunisians must pass through this phase to understand the meaning of democracy, citizenship, the separation between the state and I religion.Mais remain convinced that we will get out either through a civil war or another. 9) have announced the publication of a book. Can you talk about that? I have not yet published my new book, but it will be soon. I will tell all my journey from Tunisia to France I arrived, with a critical eye towards Europe and what they call human Rights which are lies and illusions. 10) I'll leave the last word. In the end I want to say to the people of Tunisia that the fault is not that of Ennahda. I think the majority of Tunisians are hard religious who are struggling to accept difference and digest democracy. The majority is made up of people who are against freedom of expression, and the difference against the gender. I also want to remind the people who shouted loudly thirst for freedom and dignity is the same who voted for the Islamists and fired from my job three times when I was still in Tunisia and my censored before, but I have no hatred towards my countrymen because they will always be my people, my people … * Excerpt from the press kit of the support committee Ghazi Beji and Jabeur Al Majeri. At a conference organized around the theme “Tunisia: the dangers threatening the freedom of expression after the revolution,” the Tunisian section of Amnesty announced its full support to Al Jabeur Majeri and Ghazi Beji. A campaign to collect signatures has already been launched and you can follow the latest developments on Twitter via the hashtag # FreeJabeur.http://www.twitpic.com/cl2ico
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Wall Street settles lawsuit with city over books destruction for 2K http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/occupy-wall-street-settles-lawsuit-city-books-destruction-232k-article-1.1312565 Occupy Wall Street’s “People’s Library” settled a federal lawsuit with the city over the destruction of 2,800 books during the police raid on Zuccotti Park in November 2011. That's one hefty library fine. Occupy Wall Street’s “People’s Library” settled a federal lawsuit Tuesday with the city over the destruction of 2,800 books during the police raid on Zuccotti Park in November 2011. The city agreed to pay 2,000 — ,000 to cover the costs of the books and 5,000 to civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, who brought the lawsuit last year. The city also agreed to shell out another …http://www.twitpic.com/cih0ul
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty US Uncut on Facebook: The judge is refusing the sign the settlement deal, lol…And here is what Sen. Warren said “If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to jail…But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night… I think that’s fundamentally wrong.” http://www.progressivepress.net/hsbc-settlement-case-raises-legal-hackles/ HSBC Settlement Case Raises Legal Hackles In December, U.S. Federal Authorities stirred controversy for having reached a financial settlement deal with British bank HSBC, allowing the bank to avoid criminal prosecution for taking part in money launde…http://www.twitpic.com/cbdxgy
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214 How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it The deal was announced quietly, just before the holidays, almost like the government was hoping people were too busy hanging stockings by the fireplace to notice. Flooring politicians, lawyers and investigators all over the world, the U.S. Justice Department granted a total walk to executives of the British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering case ever. Yes, they issued a fine – .9 billion, or about five weeks' profit – but they didn't extract so much as one dollar or one day in jail from any individual, despite a decade …http://www.twitpic.com/c7dz0a
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty The New Abolitionists: Global warming is the great moral crisis of our time http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/151670-new-abolitionists-global-warming-is-the-great/ Why the climate-justice movement must embrace its radicalism to fight it I want to say a word for radicalism — for the role of the radical in building a movement to confront climate change, the most urgent crisis human beings have ever faced. I want to start with two scenes, and two speakers, who embody the imperatives, and the limitations, of the moment in which we find ourselves. July 26, 2011. Inside a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, a 30-year-old climate activist named Tim DeChristopher is sentenced to two years in prison and a ,000 fine for disrupting a Bureau of Land M…http://www.twitpic.com/c3i55y
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot The magazine launches cafèambllet to post a Verkami “Mr. Artur Mas: Where is my money?” http://www.acampadadebarcelona.org/2013/01/24/cafeambllet-verkami-senyor-artur-mas-on-son-els-meus-diners/ TRANSLATED FROM CATALAN SPANISH BY GOOGLE CHROME TRANSLATOR “Mr. Artur Mas: Where is my money?” is the title of the book and taken will Verkami campaign to raise funds for its publication. The magazine cafèambllet was ordered a few months ago, to pay € 10,000 a complaint related to his research on corruption in the Catalan Public Health. This campaign will also serve to raise funds to pay it. The public reaction has been amazing. campaign was launched yesterday to collect € 10,000 and only one day, have collected more than 14,000! Continue reading for more information about the campaign and how to contribute. cafèambllet paper magazine is the most read free of the surrounding region. It seems that not much liked his research and received as a “prize” a complaint and subsequent conviction. You can view the related press release by following this link to the blog of the magazine . The campaign launched by cafèambllet funding has reached the amount of € 14,000 collected only word of mouth and through social networks. Silence of the biggest public and private media is more than evident. This campaign has three objectives : 1. Prove that one of the main problems of the Catalan health is corruption and opacity. 2. Provide keys for citizens to start their own investigations regarding the use of public money 3. To edit the book and pay a fine of € 10,000 that threatens the continuity of the magazine. The campaign is still open and if you want, you can make your collaboration (from € 15). For a contribution of € 15 will give away copies of the book “Mr. Artur Mas: Where is my money”. Link to Verkami campaign . For more information about the journal cafèambllet visit their website ( cafeambllet.com ) and their profiles on Twitter ( @ _cafeambllet ) and Facebook ( cafèambllet Magazine ). Then the letter that we had received in this campaign: Mr Artur Mas: Where is my money? Cafèambllet launched a campaign of 'micro-finance' to edit a book on the Catalan public health scandals. Cafèambllet magazine was ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 euros following a report made by Josep Maria Way, Artur Mas adviser on health issues. According to Mr. Via, one of the videos released by the magazine violated her right to honor. Now, the editors of the magazine (Martha Sibina Albano and Dante Fachin) have launched a campaign of “micro-financing” to allow the publication of a book with 3 objectives: 1. Prove that one of the main problems of the Catalan health is corruption and opacity. 2. Provide keys for citizens to start their own investigations regarding the use of public money 3. To edit the book and pay a fine of € 10,000 that threatens the continuity of the magazine. Sentencing has been a great media coverage, leaving even starring in The Washington Post and the 3 reported that Reporters Without Borders has about press freedom in Spain in 2012. Despite the enormous corruption scandals in the Catalan health, cafèambllet is the moment, the only condemned. Hopefully this information will be of interest and help us deal with this situation. Thank you, Martha and Albano Links: The project on the plain of 'micro-finance' Verkami on the Reporters Without Borders condemns Press on sentence summary of research on health manifesto promoted by fellow journalists videos of cafèambllet For more information: Web cafèambllet (provisional) Twitter: @ _cafeambllet Facebook: facebook.com / revistacafeambllet Email: noupaper@gmail.comhttp://www.twitpic.com/bxzueq
#job #union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Upper Big Branch Superintendent Sentenced http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/Upper-Big-Branch-Superintendent-Sentenced A mine superintendent at the former Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch (W.Va.) mine, where 29 coal miners were killed in 2010, will serve 21 months in prison for his role in disabling a methane monitor that automatically shuts down a coal cutting machine when dangerous levels of the explosive gas are detected. As part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Gary May also will pay a ,000 fine…http://www.twitpic.com/bw3js1
#job #union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Linus Torvalds originally shared this post: I haven't bothered to mention the whole sad Aaron Swartz saga, because it's been covered elsewhere. But having the involved US attorney then basically lie about it all in a very public statement is something that I find particularly offensive. Compare these two statements – one from July 2011, one from yesterday, and tell me Carmen Ortiz isn't lying.. Yesterday (as reported by the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere): “At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law.” And July 2011 (as posted by justice.gov itself): http://www.justice.gov/ “SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to million” Maybe that official and very public PR thing wasn't “telling Mr. Swartz’s attorneys”, right? Because in private, Ms Ortiz was probably talking about how she wanted to pay Aaron for his services, and just hug him. Right? Anybody? Ms Ortiz, just admit you were an ass-hat, and apologize. Instead of this kind of crap. Weasel-wording and misleading about your actions is not making your office look any better. Here are the sources, so that people can compare them for themselves. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/01/17/us-attorney-statement-on-the-prosecution-of-aaron-swartz/ http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR.html (Post edited: it's 2013 now, so “July 2011″ isn't “last July”. Oops.) Collapse this posthttp://www.twitpic.com/bw4ehn