Jun 2024 – Page 5

27 junio abrimos Acceso Abierto del documental Sangre Derramada

Masacres y vulneraciones de Derechos Humanos cometidos por el gobierno de Dina Boluarte en Peru.

de thefreeonline 21/6/24 Sangre Derramada por alertamazonica↗ by Guarapito

El documental Yawar Hich’ay / Sangre Derramada es una produccion del colectivo Alerta Amazonica, que documenta los escenarios de las masacres y vulneraciones de Derechos Humanos cometidos por el gobierno de Dina Boluarte en Peru.

El encarcelamiento del presidente Pedro Castillo y la toma del poder ilegítimamente de Dina Boluarte, en diciembre de 2022, desencadenaron una ola de protestas que fueron reprimidas con armas letales por la policía y ejército.

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Las poblaciones de Andahuaylas, Ayacucho y Juliaca fueron escenario de las masacres más mortales.

El documental da voz a las víctimas y los pueblos del Sur rural del Perú, movilizados en un grito por la justicia y contra la impunidad.

Iniciado el trayecto de recorrido por diferentes festivales internacionales, el colectivo Alerta Amazónica ha decidido abrir el acceso del documental para facilitar su visualización y difusión.

El documental se estrenará on line el Jueves 27 de junio a las 15h (Perú) , 22h (Barcelona) en los siguientes enlaces:

http://alertamazonica.wordpress.com

Pagina de Entrada – lamosca.tv

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Iniciamos gira de presentaciones del documental Yawar Hichay / Sangre Derramada

Publicado eljunio 21, 2024poralertamazonica

Durante los meses de abril, mayo y junio se han realizado diferentes presentaciones públicas del documental Yawar Hich’ay. Esta obra visibiliza testimonios de las masacres ocurridas en Perú tras el encarcelamineot del presidente electo Pedro Castillo y la toma del poder de Dina Boluarte. Entre dicimebre de 2022 y febrero de 2023 ocurrieron más de 60 muertes por la represión policial y militar en este país.

La Gira de presentaciones del documental está abierta y se anima a organizaciones y colectivos a coordinar más proyecciones en sus distintos lugares.

Estreno del documental en la Mostra de Cine Llatinoamericà CineBaix

Estreno en Puno, Perú del documental Yawar Hich’ay

Presentación en el Espai Fontana, Barcelona, el 16 de mayo de 2024

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Zelensky bans another Ukrainian opposition party as Conscript Rebellion spreads

Kiev has outlawed yet another political force amid questions about the legitimacy of Zelensky as Conscripts resist and flee

from thefreeonline 0n 21/6/24 by South Front + “Home Russia“..–(The Free is now on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at the Peace in Ukraine conference, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 15, 2024

A Ukrainian court has banned the Nash Krai (Our Land) political party and ordered the seizure of its assets at the request of the Ministry of Justice.

The move is the latest in a crackdown on the opposition under Vladimir Zelensky’s administration. The party gained some 1,694 seats in regional administrations during local elections in 2020.

Following the escalation with Russia in February 2022, Zelensky banned major political competition, including Opposition Platform – For Life (OPZZh), the second biggest party in terms of seats in the Verkhovna Rada. .

Concerns grow over press freedom in Ukraine – NewYorkTimes

He also cracked down on the media, shutting down multiple television channels associated with his political opponents and consolidating nine of the largest TV networks into a single 24-hour state-run broadcast dubbed ‘Telemarathon’.

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The scandalous bill on mobilization in Ukraine at the request of Western sponsors was adopted, and is already beginning to blow up Ukrainian society from the inside.

https://southfront.press/mobilization-in-ukraine-lawlessness-according-to-the-law

Why was this bill needed? The reason is simple – the monstrous losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are estimated at up to half a million people.

And these are only aloud losses, how many of them are actually unknown to anyone. Urgent replenishment is required in the ranks of the AFU, but Ukrainians categorically do not want to die for the gang of Zelensky and his Western owners, and the existing practice of “catching” new victims on the streets did not give the required result. In this way, it was possible to drag into the trenches only 8, maximum 15% of the required amount.

Ukrainian servicemen wait for combat work inside a dugout at a position in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine on Thursday. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Therefore, now, from the moment the law comes into force, all persons liable for military service are given 60 days to update the data in the Territorial Manning Centers (former military registration and enlistment offices) during a personal visit, or via the Internet.

What I’ve learned from Noam Chomsky-‘he paid the price for his support of the Palestinians’

As news of Noam Chomsky’s failing health makes the rounds, I share some learnings from my interactions with a trailblazing public intellectual whose moral compass has impacted the world

from thefreeonline on 21/6/24 by Beena Sarwar at Sapan News – The Free is now on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline

***Noam Chomsky in Pakistan, 2001. Screenshot from VPRO news report by Beena Sarwar.***

I once asked Noam Chomsky how he manages to remember so many facts and figures and hold audience attention.

He replied that he didn’t convey any new information, that his talks are based on materials already in the public domain, and that he simply joins the dots – providing context – and repeats the information consistently and in different ways.

His response was typical of his humility as well as his courtesy towards a much younger person to whom he owed nothing.

News of Chomsky’s ill health prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’ Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in Brazil following a stroke

Chomsky teaches us that it is not necessary to be loud and sensationalist in order to be heard. This, together with the clear and courageous moral compass he has provided over decades, is a most valuable lesson.

The best way we can pay tribute to Noam Chomsky is by following his example: Stand firm, keep calm, keep speaking out, put information in context, and keep doing our work.

Noam Chomsky was already a legend when I first met him over two decades ago in December 2001 when he visited Pakistan for the inaugural Eqbal Ahmad Memorial lecture series.

Dr Eqbal Ahmad had been an anti-Vietnam War activist in the USA in the 1960s. He later taught at Hampshire College and was among Chomsky’s circle of friends, which included other intellectual giants and legendary figures like Howard Zinn and Edward Said.

52,961 views Premiered on 7 Dec 2020 #NOAMCHOMSKY
A Conversation with NOAM CHOMSKY “Bullet dodged or merely delayed: Reflections on the future of democracy, nuclear threat and the looming environmental catastrophe in a post-Trumpian world,»

He had returned to Pakistan after the death of Gen. Ziaul Haq in 1988 and was prominent in the peace and anti-nuclear weapons movements in the region. He passed away in May 1999, on the first anniversary of India’s nuclear test, that Pakistan had followed.

Confronting empire

In November 2001, Chomsky did a lecture series in India. Another fellow-traveller, the well-known physics professor and activist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, piggy-backed on that to invite Chomsky to Pakistan for the Eqbal Ahmad Memorial lecture series. These events were organised months earlier, and Pervez was initially worried about whether there would be an audience.

Then the 11 September 2001 attacks in the USA took place. Chomsky cut through America’s outrage to point out that these attacks were historic not for their scale but because of where they took place, mainland America, which had not been attacked before.

Also, this was not the first, but “the second 9/11”. The earlier, “far more serious” 9/11 was the one in 1973, the violent coup against the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

Many in America were uncomfortable with his thoughts but in progressive circles here and around the world, his popularity soared.

I had just returned to Pakistan from London after doing an MA in TV Documentary and wanted to document Chomsky’s visit to Pakistan for an international audience. Pervez agreed to let me record the series, and my Dutch friend Babette Niemel, then at VPRO Television in Holland, fought to get it approved for their ‘Seven Days’ video diary series.

Needing some B-roll, casual footage for the documentary, I had asked the organisers if I could follow Chomsky. They agreed to let me tag along to his room at the Avari Hotel in Lahore with cameraperson Mariam Pasha to escort him to the talk.

Noam Chomsky and his wife Carol had arrived in Pakistan to a celebrity welcome that discomfited them. Now, Chomsky politely conveyed that we were welcome to film his public events but that he and Carol were uncomfortable being followed by the camera.

Noam Chomsky: My Visit to Gaza, the World’s Largest Open Air Prison… – Truthout– November 9, 2012– «A defenseless civilian population, trapped, was subjected to relentless attack by one of the world’s most advanced military systems, reliant on U.S. arms and protected by U.S. diplomacy».

We put our equipment away until he entered the venue where he was speaking. He walked through the packed hall to a standing ovation. A few days later, he addressed a larger audience at another packed venue, an indoor stadium in Islamabad.

Everything in Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing Propaganda- Caitlin Johnstone

The coming years will decide whether humanity remains trapped in its ancient animal conditioning, or transcends into a conscious species.

from thefreeonline on 21/6/24 By Caitlin Johnstone, comics by The Oatmeal via Der Friedensstifter (The Free now on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)

It’s not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy..

By this I don’t mean to say that people don’t work hard enough or don’t stay busy enough; humans sleep less than any other primate on earth, and if anything the world would probably be better off if our species chilled out a bit.

When I say people are lazy, I mean we are lazy thinkers. And we are lazy thinkers for reasons that aren’t really our fault.

The human brain is wired to select for cognitive ease, which means we tend to favor pathways of thought which require less mental strain in order to conserve energy — probably because our evolutionary ancestors needed all their mental energy for important stuff like finding food and avoiding saber-toothed tigers.

comics by The Oatmeal

If that wasn’t bad enough, our minds are also wired to preserve our existing worldview, so that the perspectives we form from our lazy preference for cognitive ease are held in place, and evidence which contradicts them will often be rejected. This is why facts don’t tend to change people’s minds.

This lazy tendency to select for cognitive ease and defend the worldviews we construct as a result of that tendency is what gives rise to confirmation bias, because believing things which confirm our preexisting ideas about the world is easier than believing things which would blow our worldview apart.