E così ci siamo, nel paese del controllo totale, vengono dati 3 mesi di prigione ad un tizio che ha fatto delle battute di merda su una bimba rapita. Sulla sua pagina Facebook.
Era già successo con quei 2 ragazzini che incitavano al riot l’anno scorso.
Però nei paesi capitalisti c’è libertà d’espressione.
Davvero? E per quanto si potrà liberamente definirsi rivoluzionari?
Human rights critics of Russia and Ecuador parade their own hypocrisy
One of the most vivid examples of this warped dynamic is the extremely disparate reaction from the American commentariat when journalists are imprisoned by Bad Foreign Governments as opposed to their own. For seven years, the US imprisoned an al-Jazeera cameraman, Sami al-Haj, at Guantánamo with no charges and spent most of that time interrogating him not about al-Qaida, but about al-Jazeera. With very few exceptions, American media figures failed even to mention, let alone condemn, the due process-free imprisonment of this journalist by their own government. The same silence characterized their reaction to theimprisonment of other Muslim journalists over the last decade by the US government.
By very stark contrast, when Iran imprisoned the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on espionage charges before releasing her five months after her arrest, countless American journalists and self-styled human rights advocates in the media were so very proud of their bold denunciation of the distant Iranian regime, turning the Saberi case into a cause celebre. Exactly the same thing happened with the 2009 conviction and imprisonment by North Korea of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling: American journalists so courageously condemned the tyranny of North Korea.
An awesome new piece in Bristol (UK) by Pixel Pancho from Italy. This was also painted at the See No Evil festival last week. For more info check out www.pixelpancho.com or www.seenoevilbristol.co.uk.
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EDL thugs beat up pensioner: now march against the fascists in Luton
This is the face of Andrew Smith, aged 69, who was attacked by EDL thugs on Saturday 28 April.
He was one of two pensioners who were hospitalised when a gang of thugs attacked socialists and antiracist campaigners in Lewisham, south east London.
The EDL thugs began with shouts and racist heckling before laying in more violently.
Campaigners welcome Co-operative Group move to end trade links with companies that source goods from illegal settlements
Palestine human rights campaigners today welcomed news that the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group, will “no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements”.
Police in Brighton beating anti-fascist protesters demonstrating against the EDL march. Their defence is that people were “punching horses.” Can you see anyone punching horses? I can’t.
classe: well I can tell you no one touched those scary mofo. ACAB
Left-wing activists try to break down a police fence guarding the Argentine -British Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires March 2, 2012. Argentine Industry Minister Debora Giorgi call on firms to stop importing UK goods in protest at Britain’s position on the Falkland Islands is counter-productive and Britain has raised the issue with Buenos Aires. The minister Giorgi urged company executives to stop importing British goods further straining ties as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war approaches.
Credits: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters
An official removes a mask placed on a statue of Britain’s Queen Anne at the ‘Occupy’ camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London February 27, 2012.
Credits: REUTERS/Toby Melville
Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them. So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron
Freedom is fine until it infringes on your own power.
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Freedom is fine in other countries, apparently,
Wouldn’t call it a promising sign when “morals” and “water cannon” employed in same discussion
Consumer society relies on your ability to participate in it. So what we recognise as a consumer now was born out of shorter hours, higher wages and the availability of credit. If you’re dealing with a lot of people who don’t have the last two, that contract doesn’t work. They seem to be targeting the stores selling goods they would normally consume. So perhaps they’re rebelling against the system that denies its bounty to them because they can’t afford it.
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We are not involved in the looting and unlike the knee-jerk right or even the sympathetic-but-condemnatory commentators from the left, we will not condemn or condone those we don’t know for taking back some of the wealth they have been denied all their lives.
But as revolutionaries, we cannot condone attacks on working people, on the innocent. Burning out shops with homes above them, people’s transport to work, muggings and the like are an attack on our own and should be resisted as strongly as any other measure from government “austerity” politics, to price-gouging landlords, to bosses intent on stealing our labour.
Tonight and for as long as it takes, people should band together to defend themselves when such violence threatens homes and communities.
