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Washington DC, Saturday January 11, 2020. Around 120 peace and justice activists mobilized by Amnesty International, Code Pink, The Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights And Dissent and other groups rallied in Lafayette Park in front of the White House to protest the 18th Anniversary of the continuing barbaric, sadistic, cynical and completely unnecessary incarceration without charge or trial of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Our Disappointer In Chief President Barack Obama failed year after year to honor his promises to close this shameful facility, free the remaining inmates who were long ago cleared for release and transfer the rest of the men to incarceration in the United States where, hopefully, they can get more humane treatment and the due process under the laws they are entitled to. Our current Republican President Donald J. Trump promised not only to keep the Guantanamo prison complex open but to load it up with "bad dudes", Thankfully, the latter threat turned out to be just another one of his countless broken campaign promises. Still, it is extremely unlikely that anybody currently in Gitmo will be leaving until we Remove or Defeat 45. After the rally with speeches and some rousing live music we marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel where our sad yearly gathering dispersed.
Countdown: Against 38,000 Tons and Environmental Catastrophe: Climate and Environmental Activists Confront Royal Dutch Shell Arctic Oil Drilling Rig Polar Pioneer in Seattle, Terminal 5, Port of Seattle, Seattle, Friday, June 5, 2015.
An activist offers a bunch of flowers to a federal officer in Portland.
Thousands of activists rally outside the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon on the night of July 25, 2020. The activists were protesting the presence of federal officers in the city, and continuing the Black Lives Matter protests that started after the murder of George Floyd.
Portland has been roiled by nightly protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump said he sent federal agents to Oregon’s largest city to halt the unrest but state and local officials say they are making the situation worse.
The clashes in Portland have further inflamed the nation’s political tensions and triggered a crisis over the limits of federal power as Trump moves to send U.S. officers to other Democratic-led cities he says are violent.
Ralph “Feather” Featherstone, a Washington, D.C. black liberation activist, is shown in New York City August 19, 1967 after U.S. federal judge set a $25,000 bond for SNCC chair H. Rap Brown on charges of arson and inciting to riot.
Featherstone was later killed the night of March 9-10, 1970 by a bomb blast along with William H. “Che” Payne while driving south on U.S. Route 1 about a half mile from the courthouse in Bel Air, Md. where Brown (later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) was to stand trial on charges stemming from a 1967 speech in Cambridge, Md.
Featherstone was traveling in a direction away from the courthouse at the time of the explosion.
Friends say the pair were on their way to meet Brown and speculated that the blast was intended to kill Brown as well.
Brown went underground after the blast and skipped his trial. He was arrested a year-and-a-half later on separate charges. The original Cambridge charges of arson and inciting to riot were ultimately dropped.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel reached a conclusion after a 4-day investigation that Featherstone and Payne were killed by their own bomb which they intended to use to bomb the Bel Air courthouse. They also pointed to a bomb that exploded at the Cambridge, Md. courthouse March 10, 1970—the day after the pair were killed.
Black activists disputed the hasty conclusion and pointed to a number of discrepancies including the fact that the car was driving away from the courthouse when it exploded.
No further official investigation was ever undertaken and the two men are regarded as martyrs within the black liberation movement.
Featherstone was a native of Washington, D.C. who was born May 26, 1939.
He graduated from the Washington Teachers College (later merged into the University of the District of Columbia) after which he taught speech therapy in five District elementary schools.
He quit teaching and joined the civil rights movement, heading south in 1964 to take part in “Mississippi Freedom Summer” and becoming one of many rights workers in setting up “Freedom Schools” and conducting voter registration in Mississippi.
When he first came to Mississippi, he joined other rights workers in searching empty houses, ravines and wells for the remains of three civil rights workers who were missing and presumed dead. The three, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were later found to have been kidnapped, tortured, murdered and buried in an earthen dam by Ku Klux Klan members that included an FBI informant.
In August 1964, Featherstone established a Freedom School in Macomb, a small town in the southwest part of the state.
The Freedom School held classes for adults and children all day during the summer and at night during the school year both to bolster the poor education system in the state and to prepare black people for the literacy tests they faced when seeking to register to vote.
The school was set up just after white supremacists blew up the headquarters of a coalition of civil rights groups in the town and taught black history, literature, critical thinking, black pride, other languages and civil rights strategy and tactics.
Featherstone told the Washington Post that students get a tough dose of civil rights talk, but not blind hatred. “When students start talking this trash about hating all white people, I say, ‘Hold on a minute. White people have been with us a long time, and many have been willing to give their lives for our cause.’ Then I just point to a teacher as an example.”
He later worked in Selma before returning to Mississippi. In June 1966, he was attending a memorial service for the three slain civil rights workers when the service was attacked by white supremacists.
Featherstone, then a field secretary for SNCC, called the FBI office in Jackson and told them “We are armed and returning fire. You can do what you want about it.”
While in Mississippi, Featherstone helped initiate and manage a black cooperative catfish cannery that produced fertilizer and canned fish for consumption.
In 1967 he was elected SNCC’s program secretary at the same time that H. Rap Brown (later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) was elected chair.
Featherstone also served on SNCC’s overseas trip committee, which selected SNCC representatives for international gatherings. During that period he traveled to Cuba and Japan as part of SNCC’s outreach.
In 1968 he returned to the District of Columbia and conceived, helped set-up and run the Drum and Spear Bookstore then located on 14th Street NW. The group of activists who set up the store was composed of many former SNCC activists, including his future wife Charlotte Orange.
The shop was located in the midst of the ruins of the corridor burned out after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King.
The Chicago Daily Defender wrote:
“The shop was well planned and appointed and carried a good stock. A rehabilitation job made it even more attractive and a mecca for seekers of black literature and ideas.”
“The tall young manager [Featherstone] was remembered for his flashing smile and cool demeanor. He seemed happy, though he was caught up intensely in the swirling tides of change engulfing the world of the ghetto and beyond.”
In February 1968 Orange and Featherstone married. Three weeks later he was dead.
The rushed FBI report, Hoover and Mandel were roundly condemned in the black community for their rush to judgment.
Even conservative black organizations and individuals denounced the finding.
Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, released a statement that read, “Late Monday evening, March 10, two young black men were killed by an explosive device in Bel Air, Maryland, continuing the trend of genocide—official and unofficial—against those who raise their voices in dissent.”
Floyd McKissick, the chair of the Congress of Racial Equality, wrote, “I have not yet found one black person who believes that these two black men were killed by their own bomb.”
“This was an easy decision for Hoover and Mandel to reach. It was a simple solution to a complicated racist act….Whites know that other whites put the bomb in the station wagon being driven by Featherstone.”
Featherstone’s funeral was conducted at Stewart Funeral Home on Benning Road NE he was laid out in African robes in an open coffin, the walls adorned with photographs from the civil rights movement—demonstrations, helmeted police and individual activists and people.
Hundreds of black people attended the service where whites were barred. Among the luminaries who came were John Lewis, Julian Bond, James Foreman, Marion Barry, Cleveland Sellers, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Dorothy Lander, Courtland Cox, Charles Cobb, Rev. James Bevel, Rev. Walter Fauntleroy, Douglas Moore and Harlan Randolph.
Others came who were personally touched by Featherstone. Lille Jones, a 71-year-old Neshoba County, Miss. Resident said the streets had been paved because, “Ralph Featherstone told me to go to Washington and tell them that’s what we wanted.”
Despite Orange-Featherstone’s wishes that donations be sent to the Center for Black Education in Washington, D.C,, large wreaths, including one in the black liberation colors of red, green and black, stood on either side of the coffin.
Featherstone’s remains were later cremated and interred in Lagos, Nigeria according to his wishes where 10,000 people attended the ceremony.
Payne’s service was held in Covington, Ky. where he was given a similar send off. Payne had worked with Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) in Lowndes County, Alabama.
The work in Lowndes County involved a voter registration drive where the majority black county had only one registered black voter out of 12,000 black people.
The Lowndes County Freedom Democratic Party was set up in 1965 using a black panther as its symbol and went on to register thousands in the county despite white supremacist violence, ultimately electing the sheriff, a commissioner and a town mayor by 1971.
Payne was a resident of Atlanta at the time of his death.
After laying her husband to rest, Orange-Featherstone gave an interview where she expressed her doubts about the FBI report on the two killed by the bomb.
She said no coroner’s inquest was held, there was no police report at the time of death and the death certificate listed the cause as unknown.
While the FBI said the blast occurred when a bomb went off on the floor of the front passenger seat, Featherstone’s body was intact except for a cut on one leg, a small cut on the lip, his right arm was damaged and there was a massive bruise on the back of his head.
By contrast Payne’s body was completely destroyed and she contended it would be impossible for Featherstone to have died at the same time as the blast.
Orange-Featherstone graduated from Cass Technical High School in Detroit, earned her bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, her master’s from Yeshiva University and her doctorate in elementary education from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
She was a professor of special education at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Va., a historically black college, from 1980 until her retirement in the mid 2000s due to a degenerative weakening of the lower extremities.
She relocated to Los Angeles, Ca. where she hoped to get treatment. She remained active in a number of causes through the years, but focused on education.
She died there in California in October 2009 and her remains were interred alongside her husband’s in Nigeria.
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Extinction Rebellion protesters Izzy and Marielle sitting on the pavement on Victoria Bridge in Leeds during a planned five day protest. I enjoyed a brief moment with these young ladies who have made the effort to show their concern about our planet.
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the photos with the model is taken seperately and printed on paper. then the strings are stitched up to the paper and affixed to the hands.
On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
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REGARDING THE "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" PLACARD
The placard near the bottom of the photo declares "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free." There has been a recent and I think dangerously misleading comment by the UK's Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, that this "should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world."
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However my own understanding, which is shared by all the activists I have ever spoken with, is that this refers to one of the two alternative future states following any successful internationally backed and recognised peace negotiation, either a two-state solution along the 1967 green line along with possible minor modifications, or a single democratic state (from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea) incorporating Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, where each and every adult would have an equal say in forming the government.
There is of course a third alternative, which is the one which Netenyahu and the current Israeli regime appear to be embarked on, which is the creation of a greater Israel stretching from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan. I referred above to Netenyahu's map showing such a greater Israel at the UN General Assembly.
According to the United Nations, there are already 250 subsidised Israeli settlements, occupied by 633,000 Israeli settlers, established in contravention of international law across much of the best land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. There are also 650 Israeli military checkpoints restricting the right of travel for Palestinians between the main towns in the West Bank, and currently all travel through any of these checkpoints for Palestinians is being denied.
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Hanging out at the entrance to the park were a few activists handing out brochures to people.
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“I was quite an activist in my day. I was present at the criminal justice bill protests, the poll tax demos and the Newbury bypass protest. I was with Swampy, the well-known green campaigner. He was a good mate of mine. The mistake the authorities made with Swampy was that they underestimated him. They thought that because he was a bit of a hippie that he wasn’t intelligent. But he was smart, he knew how to lead and bring people together. Spending months living up in camps built high up in the trees at Newbury was something special. I remember it being really cold but everyone was so passionate. As a young man, it made a big impression on me; holding the authority to account. We were trying to protect nature, to protect what was being destroyed in beautiful places. There is a part of me that misses that life, but I leave it to others now.”
Just stop Oil activists arrested after glueing themselves to the road in whitehall met police arrest 25 of climate campaigners for blocking the road in central London
The Boston event began at 9AM in Roxbury at the Madison Park Technical & Vocational High School, from where students and supporters marched down Columbus Ave through Boston's South End to Park Square, ending on Boston Common for a massive rally. While police estimated that 50,000 people marched, that doesn't include the many thousands who lined the march route, held signs, and cheered on the marchers, or the many people who attended the rally on Boston Common but did not march. Organizers estimated that more than 100,000 people marched and rallied on Boston Common, which is easy to believe seeing photos of the event.
Actress and activist Diane Lane during her arrest at the seventh Fire Drill Friday. Inspired by Greta Thunberg and the youth climate strikes as well as Reverend Barber’s Moral Mondays and Randall Robinson’s often daily anti-apartheid protests, Jane Fonda has moved to Washington, D.C. to be closer to the epicenter of the fight for our climate. Every Friday through January 2020, she leads weekly demonstrations on Capitol Hill to demand that action by our political leaders be taken to address the climate emergency we are in. Speakers for the seventh Fire Drill Friday included: Jane Fonda; Alice Brown Otter, 16-year-old activist and member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Counsil of Canadians and best-selling author; Piper Perabo, Actress and activist; Mary Grant, Public Water for All Campaign Director at Food and Water Watch; Sweet Honey In The Rock musical performance; Diane Lane, Actress and activist; Manny Jacinto, Actor and activist; Amber Valletta, Supermodel, actress and activist; Garett Reppenhagen, Executive Director for Veterans For Peace; and Jessica Loya, National Policy Director for GreenLatinos.
Reginald Booker testifies against freeway construction on behalf of the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis April 20, 1968 at the District (now Wilson) building.
Booker was a community organizer, antiwar activist, civil rights activist and chair of the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC).
The ECTC led a series of demonstrations and civil disobedience actions to halt the construction of freeways in the District of Columbia and instead provide funding to build the Washington Metro system.
Booker is credited with the slogan “No white man’s roads through black men’s homes.” Whether he coined it or not, he certainly brought it to the forefront.
Booker was an ardent black nationalist, but he believed in entering coalitions with whites. His co-chair of the ECTC was Sammy Abbott, the fiery white radical who later became mayor of Takoma Park.
Booker was one of the foremost leaders who kept the city more livable and walkable during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is one of those leaders responsible ensuring that the Washington Metro system was built instead of a network of freeways crisscrossing the city dividing neighborhoods.
He died July 19, 2015 without fanfare.
For a detailed account of Booker’s activism, victories and defeats, see washingtonareaspark.com/2020/01/28/the-d-c-black-liberati...
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Keya Chatterjee, Executive Director of US Climate Action Network, talks to activists in Franklin Square as the People's Climate Movement gathered in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2015, in one of hundreds of climate rallies across the United States marking the one year anniversary of the historic climate week action in New York and calling for real legally binding obligations in Paris at the United Nation's Congress of the Parties meeting in December 2015. Photo by Robert Meyers/Greenpeace
This panel with Derek Jensen, Charles Derber and Stephanie McMillan was titled "Capitalism and Sociopathology". In which it was pointed out that though 95% of the population believe that the solution to climate change is more capitalism that simply isn't going to cut it because capitalism is the catastrophe that is leading us to ruin through competitive individualism and violence towards nature, war and class violence. Basically same thing Naomi Klein was telling us at Bioneers. This conference was surprisingly sparsely attended compared to Bioneers even though it cost very little and took place in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts.
Also on the program was Chris Hedges who gave a little history of the social justice and labor movements in the USA. He pointed out that on the eve of WWI labor had finally cornered American capitalism, but the propaganda of the war diverted people emotionally. After the war the propaganda machine led to the cult of the self (through advertising) which allowed corporate values to be imposed upon us. A psychosis of permanent war through manipulation of fear can destroy all the mechanisms for democracy, he told us. Then he quoted Howard Zinn's book about how all the populace movements in history came through platforms that were not formalized. In other words not legitimate organizations. Hedges told us that the question is how to make the power elite afraid of us. He also explained how FDR created the New Deal in order to save capitalism by acting as a safety valve for class discontent. And that Clinton created the rise of faux liberalism. And with corporate control of media there is now no ability for us to shine a light into the mechanisms of power which means we must go back to radicalized resistance.
Which is probably why this conference is not nearly as well attended as Bioneers. It fully admitted that the situation was just too dire for normal channels.
There was also a moving panel about toxic masculinity. The members of the panel spoke of the price they paid to become men and how they found their way out. Stan Goff gave an intriguing definition of female boundaries being permeable while men are called upon to defend male imposed boundaries and reject women because the threat of permeable boundaries would undermine men's power.
There was also an illuminating panel of women talking about confronting misogyny and an update by a British feminist professor on how neo-liberalism i.e. the cult of the individual took away the commonly held interest of the welfare of all women and made feminism about an individual thing with pro-porn academics claiming porn as a legitimate choice for women who choose it, forgetting that most women don't have the luxury of choice in the sex trade and related industries that exploit them.
I had also come to hear Vandana Shiva who spoke on her usual topics and reminding us that industrial agriculture was the most destructive to the environment. And not to overlook that 70% of our food comes from small farms world wide.
The final speaker was Alice Walker who acknowledge our despair by asking what do we do when we know that nothing will work. She then read from her poem Democratic Womanism and offered other anecdotes of female strength.
Also worth hearing was poet Dominique Christina who recited her moving poems about her mother and then her son having to learn at a tender age how black people are hunted down and beaten in this country.
The "No one is Illegal" organization held a vigil in Hamilton this evening in support of a move to increase the number of Syrian refugees being admitted to Canada. Local activist Ken Stone (carrying the envelope) who enjoys some notoriety and who is not, apparently, top of the popularity poll with CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), joins the vigil.
A sculpture made from melted down, seized guns was unveiled yesterday to honour influential peace activist Dr Erinma Bell MBE DL.
Erinma co-founded the Community Alliance for Renewal, Inner South Manchester Area (CARISMA) to offer life chances for young people by giving them positive alternatives to street and gun crime. She was awarded an MBE for voluntary services to the community in 2008 and she has been made a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester in 2011. She is the subject of the opening chapter of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s book ‘Britain’s Everyday Heroes’, and recognised as one of the most influential people in Greater Manchester. Erinma is Executive Director of Chrysalis Manchester, a Rotary Peace Fellow and sits on the North West Regional Committee of Crimestoppers, UK.
The bust, made to immortalise the woman who fought to rid Moss Side streets of gun crime,was unveiled by Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd at Manchester Cathedral on International Women’s Day to mark her contribution to Greater Manchester’s communities. It has been produced by Guns to Goods, an arts based initiative converting illegal firearms into sculpture to celebrate inspirational stories and champions of peace. It has been sculpted by Manchester-based artist Karen Lyons.
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said: “It is totally appropriate to unveil this sculpture on International Women’s Day. Erinma is an inspiration to local people, showing what can be achieved when communities take a stand and work together with police and other agencies to make our neighbourhoods safer and stronger.
“I’ve seen the devastation gun crime leaves in its wake – it has no place on our streets. Today we celebrate how far we have come in taking firearms off our streets and how, thanks to the people of Moss Side and South Manchester, and people like Erinma, we are building a safer future for our children.
“This is an achievement we should remember, not just today, but every day.”
Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said: “The number of firearm-related incidents remains incredibly low in comparison to its peak in 2007/2008, and the public should be reassured that we are working hard every day to deter and dismantle this selfish and reckless criminal behaviour. We can’t do it alone however, which is why inspiring individuals such as Erinma are so crucial to supporting our communities, reducing gun crime and saving lives.
“The sculpture is symbolic, showing items that were once used in such a destructive way transformed into a representation of those who have fought to safeguard our future, one free from gun crime and violence.
“We will continue to work to make the streets safer. Community vigilance is pivotal in our work and we urge people to come forward and work with police and people like Erinma to help us tackle something that has no place in our towns and cities.”
Karen said: “I wanted to use my sculpture to honour the great work that women do. Erinma is an important example of the diverse and distinct voices of women in the city. We wanted to unveil the sculpture on International Women’s Day 2016 as the theme is ‘Women’s Voices – Changing Manchester’, and is a celebration of the enormous roles that women play. This seems like an incredibly fitting tribute to that theme.”
Guns to Goods received support from Arts Council England to produce the piece, which will be on display at Manchester Cathedral until May. It will then be exhibited at the Peoples’ History Museum and the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus later in the year.
The unveiling saw the artist talk about her motives and inspiration, Erinma Bell share her thoughts about her current and future work, Tony Lloyd recognise Erinma’s contribution and Chief Constable Ian Hopkins discuss the importance of celebrating activism within Greater Manchester’s communities.
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Occupy London activists enter Panton House.
Occupy London activists targeted Panton House near Piccadilly Circus, headquarters of mining company Xstrata, in protest at "fat cat pay". After meeting at 3pm shortly after the main pensions protest by the Unions had finished, about 300 activists moved the short distance to Panton House. Several activists, despite a rapid police response, reached the roof of the building. Police quickly removed the majority of the protestors from the building, kettling activists in the streets outside the building. Over 20 activists were arrested.
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An activist with a LCD screen and DVD player strapped to his torso, a sign mounted on cardboard, and a variety of pamphlets just below his chin. Pretty good marketing job overall.
Hundreds of young activists joined an inspiring Youth Climate Strike in Santa Rosa, to demand action on climate change.
This North Bay strike was organized by young climate activists Lucy London and Kelley Tillman, along with their peers at the Novato High Earth Club. They gave speeches, sang together, made posters, marched on City Hall and created a beautiful mosaic to honor mother earth.
Over a million students around the world skipped school this Friday to protest government inaction on climate change, with thousands of rallies in 125 countries, making it the largest youth climate action in history.
Their peaceful demonstration in Santa Rosa was very moving: these young people are sweet, smart, articulate, dedicated and they share an amazing creative energy and love for the earth. I want to be like them when I grow up!
Our Green Change team supported their youth action by providing a sound system, a large earth globe, and shooting videos and photos of their uprising. Thanks to our crew members Sarah Acker and Marilyn Price for their invaluable support of this important cause. :)
In coming weeks, I will create a special video story featuring Lucy, Kelley and their friends for Climate Heroes, our new series on the new leaders of the green revolution.
Even though this was a youth-led event, they welcomed the help of adult allies like us. It was a pleasure to join forces with these young leaders to fight for climate action together, across generations!
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A couple hundred activists and supporters converged in front of the White House Sunday, January 11, 2015, the 13th anniversary of the opening of the prison camp at Guantanamo, in a protest sponsored by; Amnesty International USA, the Blue Lantern Project, CCR, CloseGitmo.net, CodePink, Council on American-Islamic relations, NRCAT National Religious Coalition Against Torture, Witness Against Torture, World Can’t Wait and others.
Many activists were dressed in the orange jumpsuits and black hoods that the men at Guantanamo wear at Guantanamo and while being tortured. Some held signs saying: FORCED FEEDING, INDEFINITE DETENTION, while others carried a bouquet of carnations.
One group read the first letter from Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo in 2003. Shaker remains in prison even though he’s been cleared for release in 2007.
The PEACE POETS from the Bronx recited one of their poems with those dressed in orange jumpsuits and black hoods stood behind and in front; “We Want Justice!” “We are Powerful” “We are Together” then recited a poem called, “There is a Man under That Hood.”
Jeremy Varon from Witness Against Torture said, “The dream of closing Guantanamo may indeed become a reality. That hope is not based on some executive order or Presidential promise, or speech or vague confession that America drifted from it’s values.” “There’s nothing in the legal twisted machinery of Guantanamo that is responsible for these releases. No judge can compel the military to let men go, Congress has passed to no law saying, Set them Free, rather, every release has been in essence a political act meaning that at last the President is doing what we have long implored. Asserting his political will and exercising true leadership do what is right no matter how long over due.”
Debra Sweet emphasized that the opening of Guantanamo was not a mistake on the part of the Bush regime, but rather meant to send a message to the rest of the world - that while already illegitimately occupying Afghanistan, preparing to invade Iraq, and staging torture centers around the world, they could take anyone they wanted to, lock them up, and never release them.
After all the speakers were done the activists left the White House and marched over to the the Justice Dept. where 3 of the activists in orange jumpsuits and black hoods handed out the carnations to the crowd for them to offer it to the Dept. of Justice. Then the crowd made its way over to DC court central cell block where prisoners were below the ground of where the next set of speakers were standing. One of the Peace Poets led the crowd in a call & response, “We have the courage to see through the lies, ‘cause our hearts listen when the people cry.”
Ray McGovern, Andy Worthington (the British investigative journalist) and Debra Sweet of World Can’t Wait were all participants.