Jul 2011 – Page 2

Bidder 70. Tim gets 2 Years for Climate Defense

Tim DeChristopher, 29, the courageous activist who posed as an oil industry bidder to monkeywrench an oil and gas lease sale in Utah, was sentenced this afternoon to two years in prison. “Mr. DeChristopher had many other lawful ways to express his disapproval with the oil and gas leasing process,” said U.S. District Court Judge Dee Benson at the hearing.

But of course Tim’s disapproval, and that of millions of others, has not been heard by tone deaf policymakers content to wish away the reality of our role in climate change instead of acting.

Tim faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and he was also was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. He was not given the ability to take a few days to prepare himself for prison and was taken into custody immediately.

“Civil disobedience can’t be the order of the day,” the judge said, adding that it would lead to “chaos.” Well, I predict that the judge’s prognostication will be wrong. We’ll see when the next civil disobedience over our failed energy policy happens, and that may be in August at the Tar Sands sit in Washington D.C. Over 1,400 people have registered to get arrested to show their contempt for the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700 mile long fuse to the world’s biggest carbon bomb–Canada’s tar sands

Following the sentencing, around 100 protestors blocked a street outside the courthouse, leading to the arrest of 26 people.

Known as ‘Bidder 70’ to his supporters, DeChristopher was compared to Gandhi and Rosa Parks by his lawyer.

Tim read a powerful statement at the sentencing hearing, which you can read here

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The World Health Organization states that 2.4 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution

The health effects caused by air pollution may include difficulty in breathing, wheezing, coughing and aggravation of existing respiratory and cardiac conditions. These effects can result in increased medication use, increased doctor or emergency room visits, more hospital admissions and premature death. The human health effects of poor air quality are far reaching, but principally affect the body’s respiratory system and the cardiovascular system. Individual reactions to air pollutants depend on the type of pollutant a person is exposed to, the degree of exposure, the individual’s health status and genetics.

A new economic study of the health impacts and associated costs of air pollution in the Los Angeles Basin and San Joaquin Valley of Southern California shows that more than 3800 people die prematurely (approximately 14 years earlier than normal) each year because air pollution levels violate federal standards. The number of annual premature deaths is considerably higher than the fatalities related to auto collisions in the same area, which average fewer than 2,000 per year.^[19]

Diesel exhaust (DE) is a major contributor

Diesel exhaust (DE) is a major contributor to combustion derived particulate matter air pollution. In several human experimental studies, using a well validated exposure chamber setup, DE has been linked to acute vascular dysfunction and increased thrombus formation.^[20]^[21] This serves as a plausible mechanistic link between the previously described association between particulate matter air pollution and increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

BP made profits of $5.3bn (£3.2bn) in the three months to 30 June as higher oil prices offset lower production.

In the first quarter of 2011, BP made a profit of $5.5bn.

BP has sold $25bn worth of assets – partly to pay for the clean-up operation in the Gulf.

The oil firm’s chief executive, Bob Dudley has been criticised by some greedy immoral investors for failing to increase production.

In May BP abandoned a proposed deal with Russian’s Rosneft to exploit oil reserves in the Arctic.

“Other companies have clearly re-defined their strategies over the last 12 to 24 months,” said Dougie Youngson a criminal oil analyst at Arbuthnot.

Exxonmobil continues to build it’s shale gas business in the US, wantonly destroying the biosphere and Shell is focussed on mega gas projects. What is BP doing?”

Rich fat investors have also suggested that the share price has not recovered sufficiently from the Gulf spill.

The murdering oil companies pay NOTHING to the families of the 2.4 million dead from air pollution each year, caused largely by burning oil.

As long as profits continue they pay and care NOTHING for runaway Climate Change, already destroying the habitat of millions of people and animals, and set to devastate the whole planet.

In a few years, as climate chaos takes hold, executives and investors from these oil companies will be spurned and pilloried, and jailed as mass killers and climate criminals.

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When will the CEO’s and Corporate investors be arraigned for Crimes Against Humanity?

BP profits story HERE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14287697

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Libertad Silvia, Costa, Billy. Anarchists sabotage IBM nanotech.

3 yrs jail.. 3 a por resistir la NanoTech

Este viernes 22 de julio fueron condenadxs lxs tres compañerxs bajo los cargos de “actos preparatorios para cometer un atentado incendiario” y “comercio ilegal de explosivos”. Según el Tribunal, son culpables de “incendio voluntario” contra un centro de invetsigación de IBM en Rushlikon, en al ribera de un lago en Zurich; y también fueron consideradxs culpables de “dismulación de explosivos”, lo que explicaría las condenas tan duras

El cargo por “transporte ilegal de explosivos” se derrumbó ya que hay no evidencias sólidas que afirmen el contrabando desde Italia. Sin embargo lxs compañerxs fueron sentenciadxs a condenas más largras que las solicitas por el fiscal.

Billy fue condenado a cumplir 3 años y 6 meses, más 22 días de una condena anterior. Costa, acusado como el principal organizador del atentado fallido, condenado a 3 años y 8 meses. Silvia fue condenada a 3 años y 4 meses.

A lxs tres compañerxs se les descontará el tiempo que pasaron en prisión preventiva, es decir les restaran 1 año y 3 meses a la condena dictada.

Los tres están acusados de un intento de ataque en el centro de investigación en nanotecnología de IBM en Rüschlikon, que por entonces aún se encontraba en construcción. Deben responder a las acusaciones de actos intencionales de preparación para un incendio, ocultación y transporte de materiales explosivos no autorizados.

Luego de permanecer mas de un año en prisión, con transferencias, restricciones y censura postal, el aparato represivo estatal tratará de dar un nuevo golpe a lxs tres compañerxs, acusadxs de: actos preparatorios de un incendio intencional contra un centro de investigación de nanotecnología IBM en construcción, ocultación y transporte de material explosivo y trafico no autorizado de explosivos.

Esta maniobra represiva no sólo apunta a golpear a lxs compañerxs investigadxs, sino que también será dirigida a todxs aquellxs que rechazan el actual estado de cosas, que sienten la urgente necesidad de atacar y subvertir el orden existente, considerando la acción directa como un paso fundamental en el camino de la lucha por la libertad en contra de la sociedad actual.Un guión que ya se vivió hace varios años, cuando llegan a Marco Camenisch, pensando en intimidar su oposición a la energía nuclear. Un golpe vacío, ya que Marco, a pesar de su encarcelamiento, nunca se inclinó y sigue luchando, animado por el espíritu revolucionario y rebelde!

Hoy, con este ataque, piensan que pueden aplastar la lucha contra las nuevas tecnologías (biotecnología, nanotecnología), una lucha que en Suiza no era aún muy activa, pero que después de la detención de lxs tres compañerxs se está radicalizando y ramificando con luchas de crítica social.En nuestra opinión, el deseo de subvertir lo existente, es el indicio que anima a la solidaridad con Billy, Costa y Silvia, por esto llamamos a la movilización para asistir al proceso, reiterando que cualquier ataque a unx compañerx es un ataque hacia todxs aquellxs que luchan fervientemente por la libertad contra Estado y capitalismo!

Presencia en el salón y fuera, para estar al lado de Billy, Costa y Silva. Para no dejar que la solidaridad se convierta en una palabra estéril, sino más bien para garantizar ánimo en nuestros ojos y en nuestros actos.

Esos ojos que brillan ante la idea de libertad y se llenan de sangre y rabia al pensar en todxs lxs compañerxs que el Estado arrancó de la lucha y aquellos actos que nos hacen tener aún a nuestro lado a lxs compañerxs rehenes del enemigo.

¡LIBERTAD PARA BILLY, COSTA Y SILVIA!
¡LIBERTAD PARA MARCO CAMENISCH!

LEER MÄS

http://libertadalos14a.blogspot.com/2011/07/ya-han-caido-condenas-sobre-lxs.html

Madrid 15M:’Es el sistema..abajo el capitalismo!

La indignación ciudadana recupera Madrid acusando a los bancos

Los miles de «indignados» que participaron en la marcha popular con el lema «No es una crisis, es el sistema» ocuparon la Gran Vía madrileña en su camino hacia la Puerta del Sol y llenaron de manos rojas pintadas las fachadas de algunas de las sucursales bancarias que encontraron en su recorrido. Fue una forma de expresar su rechazo a unas entidades a las que acusan de crear la crisis que los gobernantes tratan de que pague la ciudadanía del Estado español.

GARA |La marcha, a la que acudieron personas de todas las edades, incluidos bebés, completó su recorrido en un ambiente festivo. Los manifestantes, a su paso

por el Banco de España, situado en la plaza de Cibeles, corearon gritos de «culpable», frase a la que sucedieron otras como «Esta crisis no la pagamos», «Es una estafa, no es una crisis» y «La voz del pueblo no es i

Miles de personas convocadas por el movimiento 15-M iniciaron poco antes de las siete de la tarde, desde la Plaza de Carlos V, su marcha por la capital. Cánticos como «De norte a sur, de este a oeste, la lucha sigue, cueste lo que cueste» se sumaron a los ya tradicionales y característicos de este movimiento tales como «El pueblo unido jamás será vencido».

Con esta marcha los «indignados» cerraban un fin de semana en el que seis marchas procedentes de distintos puntos del Estado confluyeron el sábado en la Puerta del Sol de Madrid, donde a lo largo de esa tarde-noche y durante la jornada de ayer llevaron a cabo distintas asambleas y otras actividades reivindicativas.

Femicide: this body is mine, don’t touch..rape..kill

Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996. One day, 17-year-old Rosemary said good-bye to her mother Betty, walked out of their small house on the outskirts of Guatemala City and was never seen alive again.

Rosemary and Betty lived together in the poor neighborhood of Barcenas, under the constant shadow of violence. Across Guatemala, nearly 5,000 women have been killed in the past decade, attacked for the simple fact of being women. The women of Barcenas know well this fear—they live at the epicenter of this crisis.

In Guatemala, generations of women have faced murderous violence, but at its core is war. Now, the same dynamic is emerging in Iraq.

The Latin American women’s movement has given this crisis a name: femicide. It is defined by various forms of gender-based violence against women, including murder, and characterized by impunity for perpetrators and a lack of justice processes for victims. It occurs in conditions of social upheaval, armed conflict, violence between powerful rival gangs and militias, rapid economic transformation and the demise of traditional forms of state law enforcement.

For Guatemalan women, particularly those who are young, poor or Indigenous, the war against them continues — and Rosemary is one of its victims.

Young women in Rosemary’s community of Barcenas have few options other than backbreaking work in themaquilas (sweatshops) for meager pay. After long shifts, they walk home at night, looking over their shoulders for the attack they know could come at any moment…..

In Iraq, the U.S. invasion in 2003 also triggered a surge in violence against women. The overthrow of the Ba’ath regime ended decades of nominally secular rule, in which women consolidated certain human rights gains. The U.S. occupation brought to power Islamists whose vision of the world hinged on a fundamentalist policing of social roles for women.

Grassroots Responses

In Guatemala, a grassroots organization called the Women Workers’ Committee has created an oasis of safety for women and girls. They organize workshops and community watch groups to help

191443_este_cuerpo_es_mio — this body is mine..dont touch..don't rape..dont KILL

women know their rights to life, health and decent work and to enhance their safety. They provide crucial counseling for traumatized women and girls and legal services for families of murdered women. Guatemalan women have learned a bitter lesson. The crucible of war allowed violence against women to become entrenched in communities. Femicide has become the “new normal,” something women must think about every day.

read much more HERE http://www.peacewomen.org/news_article.php?id=3830&type=news

Guatemala’s long history of slaughter by US and local ‘white’ fascist rulers

“School of the Americas Watch is where I first came across the involvement of the Zetas with the cartels. Then I saw a website by Mothers of the murdered young women of Juarez accusing the Zetas of being involved in the torture killings of their daughters. The saddest part of all is that Guatemalan Kaibiles, notorious death squads trained by US Special Forces and known for disemboweling pregnant Mayan women in Guatemala and Chiapas at Acteal, also have been working for the cartels as many of them mutinied as well for more money. “Both Zetas and Kaibiles have been hired as mercenaries in Iraq. Kaibiles were even hired as UN Peacekeepers in the Congo! So called Peacekeepers have been killing and raping in Haiti, the Congo and Bosnia.” There is more information:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=77215

Christian Jihad: Right-Wing Terror Attacks

Christian Jihad:

2563604651_fc2f6a29c1 — the church that best illuminates..is on fire!

By Frank SchaefferJuly 23, 2011

The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a 32-year-old man, whom they identified as a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections, over the bombing of a government center and a shooting attack on a nearby island that together left at least 91 people dead.

In my new book “Sex, Mom and God” I predicted just such an action. I predicted that right wing Christians will unleash terror here in America too. I predict that they will copy Islamic extremists, and may eventually even make common cause with them.

According to the Guardian newspaper, the killer wrote:

“Today’s Protestant church is a joke,” he wrote in an online post in 2009. “Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like minimalist shopping centres. I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic.”

It seems Anders Behring Breivik longed for a “pure” and ultra conservative religion. He was a man of religious conviction, no liberals with their jeans need apply! Liberals beware.

Norway is just a first taste of what will happen here on a larger scale.

There is a history to the far right, religious right extremism on the rise today, extremism so extreme that in its congressional manifestation it is risking the good faith and credit of the US in the debt calling fiasco. The Tea Party activists also want purity of doctrine.

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