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A shirtless man in a Guy Fawkes mask tasks a selfie in front of a riot van after a protest was declared an unlawful assembly after a rally for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in San Diego, California, on May 27, 2016. In total, 35 people were arrested after the event.
Last month the cult blatantly stole a Clearwater Anon's ridiculous scientology "volunteer ministers" jacket during our protest, which had been donated a few months before by an ex-sci who had seen our earlier protests in Clearwater and realized what the cult was telling her about Anonymous didn't jive with what she saw on the protest signs. She went home, did her homework on the internet, found out the truth about the cult and soon blew from (aka- left) staff. The jacket was a gift of thanks from this ex to Clearwater Anons.
This month Anons showed up in our own "Vulture Ministers" T-shirts to mock their "Volunteer Ministers", which also had "Anonymous Volunteer Protester" logos on the back. Special thanks to London, UK Anons for the shirts. That's the cult's Fort Harrison building in the background, the first one they bought in Clearwater back in the 70's.
I've got news for you cultists, especially Peter "Peetie" Mansell, the cult's OSA (Office of Special Affairs, their laughably named investigative arm) chief dufus in Clearwater . You pulled it in and we still run this.
July 2010 was the 30th consecutive month of peaceful global protests against the scientology cult's criminality and human rights abuses. With our brutal Florida summers now in full swing and the heat being put on scientology from multiple fronts this summer Clearwater, Florida went with Operation: The Heat is On. Recently in the Tampa Bay area the St. Petersburg times continued it's investigative expose on scientology with front page coverage detailing coerced abortions among other things. Expect more on that front shortly. Also in Tampa Bay new weekly interviews with ex-scientologists are being aired on Hillsborough Community College's Hawk Radio 1520 AM. In Australia Senator Nick Xenophon secures inquiry in to a public benefit test for charities and religion, which if adopted will specifically challenge the cult's charitable status there. In Italy the authorities raided the cult's Org in Turin for nine hours. Investigators are said to have found secret archives with files on magistrates, policemen, journalists, and relatives of former followers. And of course there's several pending lawsuits by former members against the cult for human trafficking, forced abortions, etc.
But no where is the heat being put on the scientology cult as much as Australia.
June 28-29 2010 Australian public benefit test
Australian Senate link: www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/public_ben...
Xenu TV coverage: www.xenutv.com/blog/?p=4902
June 29th ABC coverage www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/29/2939759.htm?sectio...
July 1st A Current Affair coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAf4W26-cKU&feature=player_em...
Complete Day 1 Video & Transcripts: forums.whyweprotest.net/318-senator-xenophon-scientology/...
Complete Day 2 video: forums.whyweprotest.net/318-senator-xenophon-scientology/...
July 8 2010 Today Tonight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctngHrqRmrA
Additionally, two long time, high level cultists blew in the last couple weeks:
Marsha Pearlman Sorensen
Karen De La Carriere/Jentzsch, the former wife of apparently missing (read: RPF'ed) cult president Herber Jentzsch.
All faces of those unmasked are blurred to protect them from the cult's "Fair Game" policy of harassing it's critics. These are brave people of all ages and walks of life, standing shoulder to shoulder with ex-Scientologists to bring the truth TO YOU.
But don't take my word for it, educate yourself about what TIME Magazine called "The Cult of Greed and Power":
Description: Students walk a picket line in front of Bentson-Bunker protesting the Vietnam War during Hubert Humphrey’s visit to N.D.S.U.
Date: 1967
ID: AHu56.1
University Photographs Finding Aid: library.ndsu.edu/repository/handle/10365/451 Ordering Information: library.ndsu.edu/archives/collections-institute/photograp...
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These students, protesting high tuition fees, were using the scramble crossing to walk across this intersection diagonally with their banner. Now that's some smart protesting!
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In Bahrain, witnesses say riot police have tried to disperse protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The clashes took place as officers attempted to stop people gathering for a major rally in the capital, Manama.
It follows demonstrations on Sunday, with protesters calling for reform in the island kingdom.
Bahrain has Sunni muslim rulers but the population is 70 per cent Shia, who claim they are regularly discriminated against.
Photos via Al Jazeera's Sara Hassan.
Protest in Lake Worth, Florida, November 2008, against the ban of gay marriage. The swastika was apparently an ironic statement equating the supporters of the amendment with Nazism, rather than an indication the protestor himself was a Nazi. Still, Godwin's Law probably applies.
A protester stands near the Government Center holding a Black Lives Matter sign.
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This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
This group was protesting the treatment by China of practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline. They maintain that members of Falun Gong are routinely imprisoned and, in many cases, their organs have been harvested for transplant. They were gathering signatures in front of the Fredericton, New Brunswick city hall in hopes that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would deliver those signatures to Chinese officials when he makes his upcoming visit to the PRC.
The April 6 movement is an inclusive, non-ideological movement and Facebook group that has been working to free Egypt from authoritarian rule since 2008. On January 15, 2011, inspired by the revolution in Tunisia, the movement called for Egyptians to celebrate Police Day (January 25) by revolting. (The police were once revered but had turned into the hated arm of authoritarian rule.) Most "experts" said the revolution in Tunisia could not be replicated in Egypt. On January 25, the revolution began.
Articles from 2008-9 on the April 6 movement:
www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_facebook...
www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25bloggers-t.html?_r=1
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/17/ST...
www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2008/0730/p04s04-wome...
Analysis of the rise of the Egyptian blogosphere:
www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=692
Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_6_Youth_Movement
The original call to celebrate issued on January 15:
"[We will celebrate Police Day]...by our own Aprilian way and we shall make it a true Celebration that won’t be forgotten. So today the people of Tunisia have revolted and on the 25th of January the Egyptian people will revolute for their dignity."
April 6 Youth Movement
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38588398289#!/topic.php?ui...
Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 6, 2013
About 100 protesters gathered on Lake Street in Minneapolis to protest United States military actions and the use of drone strikes.
2013-04-06 This is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Scott Huber Napervile's original Protester being ordered to move without reasonable explanation or alternative location.
Naperville Anti-homelessness legislation
Protester Harassment
If I do not stand up for this man, who will? If this is not the time to to stand up for those whose rights are challenged, when is? If this is not the place for protest, where is?
Protesters dressed as handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” rally against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence shortly before the arrival of the Vice President at Denver Marriott Tech Center in Colorado, USA-Oct26 2017.
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Qalandia checkpoint divides Ramallah from Jerusalem. It is a point of regular humiliation for Palestinians.
On Friday 13th May, a protest started gathering at the Checkpoint and the Israeli Army tried to disperse it with tear gas.
People didn't leave, though, and skirmishes carried on throughout the day.
At least five Palestinians were seriously injured.
Armenian policemen watching over a protest © PanARMENIAN Photo/ Davit Hakobyan
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"The Hardest Hit" March & Parliamentary Lobby - 11.05.2011
Part (1) The Prelude to the March
Between 8,000 and 10,000 disabled people with long-term conditions, their families, carers and many trade union supporters assembled on London's Victoria Embankment to protest against the punitive cuts to welfare spending implimented by David Cameron's "Caring Conservatives", which are specifically aimed at the sick and the disabled. Using French IT company ATOS Origin to do the government's dirtiest work, the disabled are being summoned to "Work Capability Assessments" at ATOS Regional offices up and down the country, and are then subjected to a twenty minute examination by often medically unqualified staff who ask a series of questions and then try fill in tick boxes on their completely inflexible computerised forms, which are inadequate for coping with the very serious complexities which go with long-term disabilities. These accumulated scores then form that disabled person's Work Capability score. Input from Doctors, Carers and Senior Consultants is not allowed to be considered when going through this sham exercise designed to force people off Disablity benefits and mobility allowances - crucial to many working disabled people, many of whom have had to stop work because they cannot get there any more thanks to this incompetent process. Instead they become trapped in their homes, unable to shop for themselves or socialise.
The ATOS assessors are paid a bounty of around £70 for every person they instruct the Department of Work and Pensions to be thrown off their benefits, and those assessors with medical qualifications are instructed by the government when they sign contracts to do assessment work with ATOS that the normal medical code of conduct regarding their innate responsibility for the well-being of the patient is waived!
Since the introduction of this punitive and intensely cruel process several disabled people have committed suicide, having had their support ripped away from them, with many disabled people becoming homeless. There are also many instances where people with terminal illnesses have been told they are fit for work, their benefits stopped, and have died within weeks in absolute abject misery because the State has treated them monstrously.
Many previously independent disabled people in their own homes have had to be institutionalised in homes run by private comanies who are egging the government forward because they make a huge profit from running these homes. The sickest irony is that it costs around £10,000 per year to keep a disabled person living in their own home, independent and contributing to society, yet it costs the taxpayer between £30/40,000 to put them in a care home where they may be neglected or even worse abused.
Assaults and threats against the disabled has increased sharply over the last year as a direct result of the government's insulting press campaigns which have painted the sick and disabled as workshy scroungers. Nothing could be further from the truth, but as long as those in power have the ability to behave so appallingly towards the very weakest and most vulnerable members of our society just to score cheap political points, then that is what an increasing number of people in this country want to believe.
In December of last year Iain Duncan Smith, the minister for Work and Pensions, said of the disabled in Rupert Murcoch's Sun Newspaper interview:
"It embarrasses me. I think this is the greatest country on earth.
“What I cannot bear is the idea that this country was the workshop of the world. It gave everybody the free market, the industrial revolution. You think what we did to change the world. This was the place that everyone looked to.
“Yet we have managed to create a block of people in Britain who do not add anything to the greatness of this country.
“They have become conditioned to be users of services, not providers of money. This is a huge part of the reason we have this massive deficit. We have had to borrow vast sums of money. We went on this inflated spending spree."
Ever since that statement by Iain Duncan Smith the Sun, the Daily Express and the Telegraph have run continual lie-filled campaigns in their pages stating that around 75% of the disabled are fully able to work but because they are little more than complaining parasites who just want to sit at home enjoying themselves at "Our" expense. The rapid consequence of this disgusting, immoral slur which could be easily mistaken for the propaganda campaigns of the National Socialist Party in pre-war Germany.
Because the government has picked on the Disabled first, they are getting away with it. Most people in this country are unable to even begin to understand what it is like living with a severe disability. Most people in this country are too stupid and dull to have the intelligence to question what they are being told to think by the right-wing press who serve the Global Capitalists hiding 'round the curtain waiting to get the nod to start taking over huge parts of our National Health Service using the appalling American model which is all about profit and not about the patient's actual needs.
This is what David Cameron has planned for Great Britain, and he's starting with the disabled because disability makes most people uncomfortable because they're so self-obsessed and shallow that human empathy is too rich an emotion for them to grasp. Instead they are turning against the disabled, and talking to many disabled people it is very clear that a lot of them are now living in a climate of fear, hounded by bullies in their local communities, taunted in the streets, often physically abused or spat at, their homes broken into, their meagre possessions stolen.
And all this human misery because David Cameron's Conservatives will not punish the banks and hedge funds which caused the recession which has wrecked our economy, and he will not close down the corporate tax loopholes, shut down the tax havens and start throwing corrupt, greedy financiers in prison where they belong. All this human pain because Conservatives think that the State should stop providing services cheaply and reasonably efficiently, and instead services should be run by completely unaccountable private comanies whose only masters are the shareholders. This is all about profit, nothing else. profit at the expense of human pain and fear.
On appeal following an ATOS assessment around 70% of people win their cases, proving how incompetent ATOS' system is, but the cruellest part is that an appeal can take a year, during which that disabled person's mental and physical health has deteriorated. Many are driven to desperation and suicidal thinking. The government is just about to make it much, much harder to appeal against an ATOS decision by making it impossible to get any form of Legal Aid which would pay for a solicitor armed with the Law to represent you. It seems unbelievably wicked and cruel to me.
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