Sep 2015 – Page 2

Pope to make a Priest who Genocided Indians into a SAINT..Sept in Washington

EL PAPA FRANCISCO QUIERE CANONIZAR EL AUTOR DE UN GENOCIDIO DE INDÍGENAS

MISSING FROM THE POPE’S ‘RADICAL’ VISION OF EQUALITY—WOMEN

Pope Rock-the-Frock Francis canonizes Final Solution architect Junipero Serra By Eric Verlo NOT MY TRIBE – No matter how progressive, humble or earnest he sounds, Pope Francis fronts for the Catholic Church, engine of colonialism, author of vast horrors, ongoing and unrepentant. Pope Francis is the first New World pontiff and so what? Now he’s honoring Conquistador confessor Junipero Serra who established the California mission system which worked their indigenous captives to death, fed a diet intended to starve them. The Third Reich modeled their concentration camp program after the Franciscan forced-labor “missions” which externinated the west coast native Americas.

The Free

Juníper Serra, who invented ‘mission’ camps of abuse, torture and mass murder of Natives… Now to be declared a SAINT by the Pope in Washington D.C.

Pope Defends ‘Missionary’ Who Brutally Converted Indigenous People To Christianity

beatification of Fray Juníper Serra. A nun claimed to have been cured by his ghost.

May 3, 2015, from Red Power Media, with thanks..

Pope Francis on Saturday praised the zeal of an 18th-century Franciscan missionary he will make a saint when he visits the United States this fall but whom Native Americans say brutally converted indigenous people to Christianity.

Francis praised Junípero Serra during a homily at a Rome seminary training future priests from North America. The pope will proclaim the Spaniard a saint during a Washington, D.C., ceremony Sept. 23.

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Indonesia: Beloved Elephant tortured and killed by Ivory Poachers,

from EcoWatch
The brutal killing of a beloved elephant in Indonesia has sparked online anger, similar to the global outrage from the killing of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion.

According to AFP, it’s suspected that Yongki, a 35-year-old Sumatran elephant who helped patrol Indonesian jungles, died of poisoning at the hands of poachers. His maimed and bloodied body was found nearby a camp at the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park where he had lived. Continue reading “Indonesia: Beloved Elephant tortured and killed by Ivory Poachers,”

Life Behind The Trenches: On The Struggle For Autonomy In North Kurdistan

supporting-autonomy-in-Nth-Kurdistan-..Cizre

Local Leaders In North Kurdistan: They Are Afraid This Model Will Spread

from https://rojavareport.wordpress.com with thanks

The following article – “Özyönetimin yayılmasından korkuluyor” – was written by İsmail Eskin for Özgür Gündem. It has been translated into English below.

(Amed) – Çimen Işık, the co-President of the Democratic Local Government Union, has shared her thoughts concerning the wishes and expectations of the people around the implementation and status of the self-government model that is currently being implemented [in North Kurdistan], saying that it is moving forward from a perspective of `do it yourself.`

Recalling that Kurds have made their desire for self-government obvious, Işık added that they would stand behind a decision taken by the people. Speaking on the attitude of the state, which has resisted the implementation of self-government through violence and force of arms, she added that “Turkey is caught between the nation-state model and the dictatorship of a single man and are attemtping to decide between the two. The Kurdish people however have presented the self-government model as a third way. It is the knowledge that this model will not remain among Kurds but will be implemented in the whole of Turkey that is frightening the state. As a result of this fear they are responding to this model of democratic autonomy with terror and massacres.”

No Steps Back

Işık added that self-government was opposed to both the dead end of centralized administration and the politics of patronage, saying “we will follow a common path, together with our people, during both the process of decision making around local government as well as during its implementation. We will not allow any pressure, arrests or other methods to take any steps backwards.” Saying that Kurdistan would take ownership of its land, water and build within itself a free life, Işık drew attention to how self-government would be built through assemblies and communes. Emphasising that municipalities will an active role as part of the popular assemblies, she recalled that within such assemblies there were many democratic organizations and societies, NGOs and that they possessed the right to to contribute to different parts and at different moments in the decision-making process.

The People Are More Secure

Vekili Zuhal Tekiner, co-mayor of the Farqîn (Silvan) municipality, spoke about the security of the self-government model, pointing to the arrest of mayors and local civil leaders [in North Kurdistan] and how the safety of local life and property had been threatened in the name of ‘public security.’ Tekiner described how construction equipment belonging to the municipality had been commandeered by the police in an attempt to render the municipality without any means to offer public services. Tekiner underlined how the construction of trenches in certain neighborhoods and allowed the people there to feel safer, saying “there is no security of life in places where there are no trenches. In this situation the trenches increase security” and thereby stressing the role of self-defense in self-government.

The Rojava Report

The following article “Hendeklerin ardındaki yaşam” was written by Ismail Eskin for Özgür Gündem. It has been translated into English below.

(Cizre) The doors of every last house remain open in the neighborhoods where for days the state had tried to enter with thousands of armed soldiers. In these spaces where the people have put forward their own will it is impossible to see the presence of the state outside of a few armored cars on the main avenues.

A Stateless Order

Behind the trenches in Cizîr (Cizre) there is a life closely tied to those who have paid a price for its sake. There is a great enthusiasm and excitement that has not forgotten the sufferings of the past. A people who pay no head to whether or not the state will continue its attacks put their determination front and center, saying “we have paid such a price…

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Free the 5 Love Activists! jailed for Bank of England occupation

– September 20th, 2015

Five Activists who had occupied Liverpool’s old Bank of England building to provide shelter and feed the city’s homeless people have been jailed for almost 3 months each [see prisoner details at bottom of article].

The Love Activists moved into the unoccupied building in the middle of April to set up a support centre for Liverpool’s homeless people, incorporating places to sleep, an advice centre and a street kitchen, from where they were evicted in the early hours of 12 May and the homeless activists arrested.

The defendants were charged in relation to the occupation of the old bank building in Castle Street, Liverpool city centre, as part of a protest over lack of support for the homeless and government austerity.

John Hall, 50; John Rice, 22; Chelsea Stafford, 19; James Jones, 20, and James Allanson, 20, all pleaded guilty to trespass while a possession order was in place. Continue reading “Free the 5 Love Activists! jailed for Bank of England occupation”

First Police Force gets Drones with Tasers

Soon that Drone Overhead May Be Pointing a Taser at You By Marjorie Cohn

**this illustration is an artists impression**

North Dakota has just become the first state to legalize police use of drones equipped with “less than lethal” weapons, including rubber bullets, Tasers, tear gas, pepper spray and sound cannons. Now, police will be able to remotely fire on people in North Dakota from drones, much as the CIA fires on people in other countries.

Although drones in North Dakota will be limited to “less than lethal” weapons, some of these devices can cause injury or even death, according to Christof Heyns, United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. He reported that rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas have resulted in injury and death. Continue reading “First Police Force gets Drones with Tasers”

Activists Lock Down and Blockade Coal Train in Montana

from Northern Rockies Rising Tide and Blue Skies Campaign

On Thursday, September 17th, members of Northern Rockies Rising Tide and Blue Skies Campaign staged a peaceful blockade in order to prevent a coal train from entering the Missoula rail yard in an act of peaceful protest against Montana coal export projects that threaten the health of rail line communities and the global climate. This nonviolent action is part of a wider nationwide movement called Flood the System, which is mobilizing people across the US this fall to call for real climate solutions in the lead-up to December’s UN climate change negotiations in Paris.

Two community members, Lee Van de Water and Shannon Curry, locked their arms together and refused to move for the mile long coal train. With other participants, Lee and Shannon were able to hold space on the tracks for an hour, preventing it from moving towards its west coast destination. After refusing to leave and going limp, both were cited and released for trespassing.

“We refuse to let such a beautiful place be completely destroyed,” stated blockader Shannon Curry. Continue reading “Activists Lock Down and Blockade Coal Train in Montana”