The police called Sean’s death UNEXPLAINED.
What a coincidence that the key whistleblower in the disgusting hacking scandal sweeping the Murdoch empire and the British far right (including best friend Cameron) should die so conveniently. Every overfed arrogant slug in politics will be celebrating Sean’s death this morning. Especially the American new fascists and the wonderful human beings of Fox News…..
”At a time when the reputation of News of the World journalists is at rock bottom, it needs to be said that the paper’s former show business correspondent Sean Hoare, who died on Monday, was a lovely man.
In the saga of the phone-hacking scandal, he distinguished himself by being the first former NoW journalist to come out on the record, telling The New York Times last year that his former friend and editor, Andy Coulson, had actively encouraged him to hack into voice mail.
That took courage. But he had a particularly powerful motive for speaking. He knew how destructive The News of the World could be, not just for the targets of its exposés, but also for the ordinary journalists who worked there, who got caught up in its remorseless drive for headlines.
Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: “I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle.”
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SOS Hospital de Bellvitge
SOS Hospital de Bellvitge [KIKO MAKARRO]
L@s trabajador@s del Hospital de Bellvitge llevamos 3 meses luchando en Defensa de la Sanidad Pública, y contra los descabellados recortes que el Gobierno de CIU está imponiendo en todo el sector. Durante 16 semanas los miércoles el personal del Hospital hemos salido en manifestación y hemos cortado la Gran Vía.
En Bellvitge se han c
errado 300 camas, han cerrado quirófanos, han dejado de hacer alrededor de 700 contratos para cubrir vacaciones, jubilaciones etc.
La dinámica del Hospital se está deteriorando desde la Dirección a marchas forzadas no respetando protocolos de infecciones intrahospitalarias ni los protocolos de confort (pacientes que están en sus últimas horas). Nos tememos una puesta en marcha de un plan de desprestigio del Hospital, para en breve (en cuanto aprueben la Ley Omnibus) tener argumento para que desde la Gestión Privada vengan a “rescatar el Hospital”.
Nos tememos que las camas que se han cerrado no se vuelvan a abrir (a las compañeras de limpieza de la empresa Clece les han hecho un ERE).
La pasada semana en el corte de Gran Vía los mossos amenazaron de que si éramos tan poca gente (300 personas) empezarían a abrir expedientes.
Necesitamos mantener las concentraciones todo el verano, puesto que los ataques se mantienen, la ofensiva por parte de la Dirección del centro y de CIU no se toman vacaciones. Además necesitamos seguir porque hay intereses varios de dejar morir las concentraciones y que cualquier día no se pueda cortar la Gran Vía por parte de l@s trabajador@s. Eso causaría un efecto muy desmoralizador.
Por todo ello hacemos un llamamiento URGENTE a tod@s l@s usuari@s de la Sanidad Pública a unirse a las concentraciones de los miércoles en el Hospital de Bellvitge, a las 13h en la puerta.
Salud y lucha!!
Publicado por TINTA NEGRA, anARTchist blog
Marie Mason: new prison art/ photos.
Check out new photos and prison art from Marie on her supporters website HERE
http://supportmariemason.org/2011/07/14/new-on-the-website/
About Marie Mason
22yrs jail for bid to save the planet.
Marie Mason is a loving mother of two and a long-time activist in the environmental and labor movements.
In March 2008, she was arrested by federal authorities for charges related to two acts of property destruction that occurred in 1999 and 2000; no one was injured in either of them.
She accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced on February 5, 2009 to just under 22 years. She is now serving the longest sentence of any “Green Scare” prisoner.
The “Green Scare” is the name given to the recent arrests of animal rights and environmental activists who 
have been charged with acts of economic sabotage.
Federal authorities have sought outrageous sentences (often Life in prison) and have publicly and legally labeled the activists as “terrorists” – despite the fact that no one has been killed or injured in any of the acts.
Help save The Río Platáno peoples
Paradise in Peril from Skyship Films on Vimeo.
The Río Platáno Biosphere Reserve, Honduras – home to the highest level of tropical biodiversity in Central America, homeland of the Pech and Miskito Indians, and keeper of hundreds of unexplored archeological sites – is in danger. Non-indians are invading the Reserve from all sides, poaching endangered wildlife and fish, slashing and burning ancient forests to sow pastures, and forcing indigenous inhabitants off their ancestral lands. Paradise in Peril follows an expedition organized to document the destruction of this UNESCO World Heritage Site and collect testimony from the native peoples who rely on the Río Platáno for survival.
Show your support for the RPBR: facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-R%C3%ADo-Plátano-Biosphere-Reserve/138035182942758
According to Edgardo Benitez of the Green Alliance and the Platform in Defence of the Patuca River, the Tawahkas are under a particular amount of pressure . “This community of Tawahkas is at risk of extinction [if] the dam project at the Patuca River proceeds”.
Watch Paradise in Peril on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26209577
Show some support for the film on facebook: Friends of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Send a letter to Honduras: Don’t Dam the Patuca River!
http://intercontinentalcry.org/2011/paradise-in-peril-the-vanishing-rio-platano-biosphere-reserve/
USA:1000’s on prison hunger strikes
Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across California’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.
Many are protesting in solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s first super-maximum security prison, over what prisoners say are cruel and unusual conditions in “Secure Housing Units.” We play an audio statement from one of the Pelican Bay prisoners and speak to three guests:
Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of “All of Us or None” and executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and one of the mediators between the prisoners on hunger strike and the California Department of Corrections;
Molly Porzig, a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and a spokesperson for Critical Resistance; and Desiree Lozoya, the niece of an inmate participating in the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, who visited him last weekend. [includes rush transcript]
watch program here
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/15/protests_grow_in_solidarity_with_california
15M Marchas se acercan a Madrid.
La Marcha Popular Indignada es una caminata de más de 15 rutas y sub-rutas procedentes de toda la península que confluirá el día 23 de julio en Madrid. Los indignados recogen el testimonio de la gente de los pueblos y ciudades por donde pasan para llevarlo a la capital. Así se hace una asamblea-coloquio con la gente de la zona..
Nos queda mucho camino por hacer !!!
Las marchas indignadas llegarán a Madrid a lo largo del día 23 en 5 (o 6) columnas y serán recibidas por los barrios:
Quienes vienen del Norte, en el parque del Norte (detrás del Hospital La Paz).- Quienes vienen del Noreste, en el Parque de San Blas.
- Quienes vienen del Este, en Vallecas.
- Quienes vienen del Sur, en Parquesur.
- Quienes vienen del Noroeste, en el Parque del Oeste.
Las asambleas de barrio se están organizando para recibir a las personas que vienen andando y atenderles durante todo el día. Por la tarde, estas columnas partirán de cada barrio a la hora necesaria para llegar todas a la vez a la Puerta del Sol a las 21h. Se está preparando una bienvenida en Sol de la que se encargan las comisiones de Acampada Sol.
Desde Madrid hemos propuesto distintos lugares que se pueden habilitar para dormir y son las personas que vienen en marcha quienes están decidiendo dónde hacerlo.
Domingo 24 de julio
- 18.30 Gran manifestación. El recorrido y lema está pendiente de consensuar con todas las marchas.
- Encuentro con todas las rutas: puesta en común de las aventuras vividas.
Lunes 25 de julio y 26 de Julio: I FORO SOCIAL DEL 15M
Se está organizando un programa de actividades de debate e intercambio de ideas. El objetivo es consensuar entre todas las personas que vienen a Madrid estos días los objetivos y acciones de las acampadas y el movimiento 15M para el próximo otoño en un foro social que permita profundizar y abrir las nuevas vías de trabajo cara al futuro del movimiento.
‘Murdoch sells Mass Murder’
from. .Murdoch Has Blood on His Hands
by David Swanson / July 15th, 2011
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:“Article 20
“1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law.”
The Fox News Channel is endless propaganda for war, and various other deadly policies. As Robin Beste points out,
Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers and TV channels have supported all the US-UK wars over the past 30 years, from Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands war in 1982, through George Bush Senior and the first Gulf War in 1990-91, Bill Clinton’s war in Yugoslavia in 1999 and his undeclared war on Iraq in 1998, George W. Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Tony Blair on his coat tails, and up to the present, with Barack Obama continuing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and now adding Libya to his tally of seven wars.
In this video, Murdoch confesses to having used his media outlets to support the Iraq War and to having tried to shape public opinion in favor of the war. That is the very definition of propaganda for war…….
……Bribery is dirty stuff. So is sneaking a peak at the private messages of murder victims. But there’s something even dirtier: murder, murder on the largest scale, murder coldly calculated and played out from behind a desk, in other words: war.
Murdoch is a major crime boss being threatened with parking tickets. I hope he’s brought down, but wish it were for the right reasons.
read more http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/murdoch-has-blood-on-his-hands/
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