Marie Mason: still jailed to boost Criminal Corporations

Marie’s lawyer sues FBI for refusal to release FOIA records

Attorney Claims USA Chills Rights of Environmentalists
By RYAN ABBOTT

WASHINGTON (CN) – An attorney whose client is serving 22 years for destroying private property claims the FBI denied her FOIA request, to cover up the government’s “Green Scare” program, meant to chill the speech rights of environmental activists.

New York City attorney Susan Tipograph sued the Department of Justice in Federal Court, seeking records on her client, imprisoned activist Marie Mason.

“The draconian sentencing of Marie Mason to nearly 22 years in federal prison has undoubtedly chilled the free speech practices of other animal rights and environmental activists,” Tipograph says in the complaint. Continue reading “Marie Mason: still jailed to boost Criminal Corporations”

Bradley told the Truth.. ‘Let him go. Let him go now!’

Bradley Manning: Wales DEMANDS he comes home

Posted on February 23, 2013 by admin

Ask any Welsh man or woman about whistleblower Bradley Manning and most will simply say, they want him back.

Back home to Wales, where he spent his childhood; back to a country that – like he – is small in size but grand in its visions; renowned more for its poetry and bards than the wars or arrogance of the country where Manning now finds himself prosecuted merely for telling the truth.

Today…today is the 1000th day of Manning’s incarceration without trial. And on this most inauspicious day we offer an asymmetric take on his prosecution, to examine how it can be subverted – via its ‘Welsh dimension’.

And should you be poetic too you may hear a cry, carried high by the eagles of Myrddin from the misty eyries of Yr Wyddfa, to the song-filled valley of Afon Mawdach and on to the druidic Preseli hills: ‘Gadewch iddo fynd. Gadewch iddo fynd nawr!’*

*Trans: ‘Let him go. Let him go now!’

Bradley Manning pleads guilty to 10 charges (itv.com)
Top News: Bradley Manning pleads guilty: live tweets from hearing at Fort Meade (guardian.co.uk)

Libertad Ya. Freedom for Noelia on Hunger Strike

Exigimos, como mínimo, que Noelia SALGA DE LA CÁRCEL DE BRIEVA CUANTO ANTES.
We demand that Noelia be freed immediately from Brieva Prison

La Huelga de Hambre de Noelia continúa y su lucha persiste por mucho que intenten lo contrario.
Her Hunger Strike continues (20 Jan) despite their fierce attempts to stop her.

Noelia Cotelo Riveiro, la compañera presa que denunciaba recientemente abusos sexuales y malos tratos a manos de los carcleros de la prisión de Brieva, inició, 1 de noviembre, una huelga de hambre en protesta por lo que le ha sucedido.

Entre la noche del 23 y 24 de Octubre se despertó cuando uno de los carceleros la estaba sobando mientras dormía. Al día siguiente mientras hablaba con su madre y le contaba lo ocurrido, los carceleros se acercaron para que colgara, finalmente le arrancaron el teléfono de las manos y le rompieron la muñeca, desde entonces hasta la mañana siguiente le tuvieron esposada a la cama de su celda. La mañana del 25 consiguió que le llevaran al hospital para poder ser atendida.

Noelia Cotelo Riveiro, our imprisoned comrade whorecently denounced sexual abuse and mistreatment at the hands of the prison warders in Brieva prison began last November 1 a hunger strike to protest what has happened.
Between the evening of October 24 23 and she woke up when one of the jailers was rubbing her in her sleep. The next day while talking to her mother and she told her what had happened, the guards came to make her hang up and finally tore the phone from her hands and broke her wrist, from then until the next morning she was left handcuffed to the bed of her cell. The morning of 25th she managed to make them bring her to the hospital to be treated…. Continue reading “Libertad Ya. Freedom for Noelia on Hunger Strike”

KILL the DICTATOR: Stuart Christie, thoughts of an Anarchist

Stuart Christie: Thoughts of a Veteran Anarchist

Perhaps the biggest challenge anarchists face is combating the masses of disinformation out there about anarchism, to educate the 99% and explain ourselves, and what anarchism means rather than what government and other propaganda tells us that it means. That’s part of the reason we set up Forest of Dean Anarchists. So here is the first in what we hope to be a series of asking prominent anarchists what it’s all about!

Stuart Christie, since 1962 has been an active anarchist, through writing, publishing and action. The Glaswegian author of Granny Made Me An Anarchist, General Franco Made Me A Terrorist and Edward Heath Made Me Angry (his entertaining and inspiring three-part autobiography), and The Christie File: Enemy Of The State, first achieved notoriety in 1964 when at the age of 18 he hitch-hiked to Madrid to assassinate Franco, and was caught and imprisoned. Continue reading “KILL the DICTATOR: Stuart Christie, thoughts of an Anarchist”

Aaron Swartz Laid to Rest with an Action Plan For Us

66 comments By Nicole Belle In New York on Saturday, a public memorial was held for Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last week. Among the remembrances of Aaron’s genius, his commitment to progressive causes, his idealistic beliefs of making this a better world, there was also an action plan laid out by his partner, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman:

“Aaron was targeted by the FBI,” said ThoughtWorks chairman Roy Singham, Swartz’s employer before his death. “After PACER, they targeted him. He was strip-searched. Let’s not pretend this wasn’t political,” he argued before being interrupted by applause.

Swartz’s partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman framed her call to action in terms of Swartz’s beliefs: “Aaron believed there was no shame in failure. There is deep, deep shame in caring more about believing you’re changing the world than actually changing the world.”Stinebrickner-Kauffman, also an activist, named five targets for action:

Hold the Massachusetts US Attorney’s office accountable for its actions in prosecuting Aaron;
Press MIT to ensure that it would “never be complicit in an event like this again”;
“All academic research for all time should be made free and open and available to anybody in the world”;
Pass and strengthen “Aaron’s Law,” an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that would narrow prosecutorial discretion for computer crimes;
Advocate for fundamental reform of the criminal justice system.

“His last two years were not easy. His death Continue reading “Aaron Swartz Laid to Rest with an Action Plan For Us”

Send Birthday Cards To Anarchist Hacker Jeremy Hammond

Tues, Jan 08 2013 by: Infoshop Anarchist hacker Jeremy Hammond is turning 28! A genuinely conscious web developer, Jeremy Hammond is accused of using his computer savvy to attack conservative groups and State operators. He is being charged with providing Wikileaks the documents for their latest Stratfor release. Please send him a birthday card this month! Unfortunately, We found out it was his birthday too late to include it in our January Birthday Poster. So please include him in your card writing nights.