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August 27, 2016
Nationwide Prison Strike Called for Sept 9
Prisoners across the United States are calling for a nationwide prisoner work stoppage against prison slavery on September 9th, 2016.
Their goal is to begin an action to shut down prisons, which are totally dependent on inmate labor, across the country. According to , US prisoners are paid from 0 to 45 cents an hour for contract work for highly profitable corporations such as Whole Foods, Walmart, McDonald’s, Victoria’s Secret, BP and AT&T.
September 9th is the 45th anniversary of the 1971 uprising in which prisoners took over and shut down Attica, New York’s most notorious state prison.
Non-violent protests, work stoppages, hunger strikes and other refusals to participate in prison routines have greatly increased in recent years. The 2010 Georgia prison strike, the massive rolling California hunger strikes, the Free Alabama Movement’s 2014 work stoppage, have drawn the most attention. There have also been large hunger strikes at Ohio State Penitentiary, Menard Correctional in Illinois, Red Onion in Virginia and elsewhere. The growing resistance movement includes inmates at immigrant detention centers, women’s prisons and juvenile facilities.
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), created by the International Workers of the World (IWW), functions as a liaison to support prisoners in organizing and forging links between prisons and with fellow workers on the outside. IWOC, the only union representing prisoners, currently has 800 members.
As reported in the Nation, barriers to organizing prisoners are high. Most prisons deny inmates access to email, which makes communications between prisons difficult. Even within prisons, wardens block most prisoners’ union meetings. In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled prisoners have no First Amendment right to assemble if a warden feels a gathering threatens prison security.
In early 2015, the Free Alabama Movement published Let the Crops Rot in the Fields, laying out a new strategy –specifically tackling economic incentive – for ending mass incarceration. By refusing to work, prisoners directly attack the corporate profit motive underpinning mass incarceration. The IWOC has been sending copies of “Let the Crops Rot in the Fields” to prisoners all over the US.
According to the Nation article, the IWW were also instrumental in launching union drives at fast food restaurants in the early 2000s and the campaign for a $15 minimum wage.
For more information on IWOC and to help support the Sept 9 strike visit the IWOC Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/incarceratedworkers/
August 26, 2016
Top 10 Reasons to Join a CSA — You must support to be supported! — Seek Peace Times
What is a CSA? CSA stands for community supported agriculture. CSAs or “farm shares” are all over the country, and gaining popularity as people get smart about the shenanigans going on with our food supply. We joined our CSA eight years ago. At the time, I was so excited because it was very hard to become a member at our farm. A friend moved, and we bought out her share. Fast forward, there now are at least four other organic or transitional farms that I know of in our small area. I love when that law of supply and demand kicks in for common good. Quality food for all!
via Top 10 Reasons to Join a CSA — You must support to be supported! — Seek Peace Times
French High Court Suspends Burkini Ban
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According to the BBC , France’s highest administrative court has suspended a ban on full-body “burkini” swimsuits that was imposed in a Villeneuve-Loubet on the Mediterranean coast.
The court found the ban “seriously and clearly illegally breached fundamental freedoms.”
The ruling could likely set a precedent for up to 30 other towns with similar bans.
Read more here
Twitter Restores WikiLeaks Account After Account Blackout
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Seemingly in response to public outcry.
They got caught out. Info here later on what happened at that free speech hating company. There is lots on the twitter feed now. Many new items. Wiki Leaks is adding the Hillary e-mail dump that Judicial Watch just got to their searchable database.
(8-11)Does Twitter Have A Selective Censorship Problem?
In case they try it again here are the tweets about the attack on the embassy:
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Colorado’s Legal Pot Sales are So Successful, They are Now Providing Solutions to Homelessness
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Using legal cannabis to end the wealth transfer from poor to rich and to create real community prosperity.
By Claire Bernish, The Free Thought Project (Thanks to The Mind Unleashed)
Aurora, Colorado plans to derive a powerful solution from their lack of prohibition — it will donate millions from legal cannabis sales to area nonprofits whose programs help the homeless.
As Mic noted, Colorado tax revenue from cannabis last June, eclipsed that of alcohol sales for the first time — coming in just shy of $70 million. Now, Aurora will be able to allot $1.5 million of that to help solve its homeless issue.
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August 25, 2016
BREAKING: TWITTER HAS BANNED WIKILEAKS’ ACCOUNT!!!
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All twitter posts about attempted break-in at Ecuadorean embassy have been deleted.
This week on WikiLeaks’ twitter postsa blow-by-blow account was given about a mystery attack (ninja style crawling up a wall) on the embassy where Julian Assange has been granted refuge.
All of the posts have been evaporated by (evidently evil) Twitter masters!
Internet Archive only has screenshots from before the assignation attempt.
More here later if we can recover the information.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Biased Report on Eastern Ukraine, Accomplices to War Crimes
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Time to take a closer look at where Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch get much of their funding (CIA, George Soros and right wing foundations). See Co-opting Intellectual Aggressors: The Progressive Face of the CIA
By Roger Annis
Global Research, August 24, 2016
The New Cold War: Ukraine and Beyond 19 August 2016
When a true photo is used for a Human Rights lie
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued a report on July 21, 2016 on the human rights situation in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. The report can only be described as covering up the ongoing war crimes being perpetrated by the governing regime in Kyiv, Ukraine since it launched its ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ (civil war) in April 2014. The war was launched in order to crush resistance in Donbass to the illegal coup d’etat and seizure of power in Kyiv in February 2014 by the movement calling itself ‘Maidan’.
Coincidentally, artillery and other attacks by Maidan Ukraine against the rebel Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics in Donbass intensified during the past two months, the very time frame in which the…
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Invisible No Longer: Chicago’s Homeless
Street Life: Faces Uncovered
By Neal Karski, George Min, Tyler Dubiak and Scott Hilburn (2016)
Film Review
Street Life is a portrait of the Chicago’s homeless population. It begins by demolishing the myth that homelessness is a lifestyle choice. In addition to a wealth of statistics, the documentary includes interviews with homeless Chicagoans, social service workers, homeless advocates and random passersby. I found it intriguing that none of the women interviewed blamed the homeless for their predicament – while more than half the men did.
On any given night 750,000 Americans are homeless, and yearly 25-35 million spend some nights on the streets or in shelters. Worldwide 100 million people have no housing at all while one billion have grossly inadequate housing. Last year, over a million American children were homeless at some point.
In examining the causes of chronic homelessness, filmmakers identified the following breakdown (in Chicago):
48% suffer from chronic drug or alcohol addiction
32% are mentally ill
25% are victims of domestic violence
15% are unemployed veterans
4% have HIV or AIDS
Because the homeless make huge demands on the public health system, it costs taxpayers far less to pay for their housing than to leave them on the street. After starting a Permanent Supportive Housing program two years ago, Illinois lawmakers reduced emergency room visits by 40%, nursing home days by 975%, inpatient days by 83% and psychiatric services by 66%.
August 24, 2016
Turkey and Iran Reach Agreement on Conditions for Syria Peace – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildrim
In a stunning diplomatic surprise, Turkey and Iran have announced a preliminary agreement on fundamental principles for a settlement of the Syrian conflict. The dramatic turn in the diplomacy of the Syria War was revealed in Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s regular weekly speech to the ruling AKP Party in the parliament and confirmed by a senior Iranian foreign ministry official Tuesday.
Both Yildirim’s speech and the Iranian corroboration were reported Tuesday by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Al-Hayat, Arabic-language newspapers published in London, but the potentially pivotal development has been unreported thus far in Western news media.
Read More (source): Turkey and Iran Reach Agreement on Conditions for Syria Peace – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
Clinton Contributors Linked To Turkish Coup Plot, Hard Evidence Piling-Up
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Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.
[It is really difficult to get a handle on this breaking story, since everything is in Turkish, and Goog Trans does a terrible job translating Turkish to English. Despite that impediment, I have waded into to the story, nonetheless. It seems that the “air force imam,” and a partner was accused of transporting “Orphans” to the US each year as cover for the plotters and their American handlers. One of them was able to make a call in a restroom, before removing and hiding the memory card from that phone in a stack of towels. The next guy in found the card. It appears that they are obtaining hard evidence of US sponsorship of “Orphan’s putsch night.”]
Turkey hunts alleged coup plotter who was Clinton donor
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The State Department says it is reviewing nearly 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI’s…
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