Posted on Wednesday, 11 August, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Wikileaks editor Julian Assange showing the decrypted military video from Baghdad attacks July 2007. Photo by jenny8lee via flickr
Before launching into the diatribe, I thought I’d accomplish the inverse of what most blog posts do (including those found on this site) and make my point first.
Now that we’ve got that sorted, what to do with it all? I don’t know what to say about the encrypted insurance file yet, no one knows what’s in it. Keep it, though. With the other one, well, have at it. do anything you want.
Be like the Guardian and mash it up in different ways and share how you did it. Crunch the data yourself and post it online. Save it on your hard drive somewhere in case different sites mirroring the information should for some mysterious reason come under attack. Burn it onto CDs and write “Dixie Chicks” on them in black marker. Copy them onto spare USB flash drives and leave them on busses, subways or any of your other preferred means of mass transit (In the UK some government agency workers do this by accident anyway) Make image files out of them and share them. Print them off and make wallpaper.
This is how the web works and it is an example of the web working.
Posted on Friday, 18 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Cultures of Resistance the film is a feature-length documentary directed by Iara Lee. The film draws connections between people on every continent and highlights the work of artists, musicians, and dancers throughout the world who are re-conceiving resistance as a fundamentally creative act. The Cultures of Resistancewebsite seeks to get audiences involved with the activist groups and campaigns featured in the film.
Posted on Tuesday, 16 March, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Rachel Corrie was killed today seven years ago as she stood as a human rights activist with the International Solidarity Movement to protect the illegal destruction of a Palestinian home in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces. My friend Dave Reed has recently unveiled the new design for the Rachel Corrie Foundation website, which is a fantastic new version of the site. Today I urge you to visit it and consider donating to help continue the foundation’s efforts of working on projects in the spirit of the foundation’s namesake.
Rachel Corrie
1979 – 2003
On this, the seventh anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death in Rafah, Palestine, the Corrie family and the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice call for a renewed commitment to create a better, more peaceful, and just world.
Posted on Saturday, 16 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Why I hate the luxury cruise industry: Overfed white people from a nearby Royal Caribbean Cruise Liner lounge like beached whales at a fenced and guarded coastal retreat in Haiti within easy view of survivors of a humanitarian crisis in which tens of thousands have died and many more are starving. Photograph: Daniel Morel/AP
So, perhaps this post is a little derivative to the main argument at hand: That Haiti needs donations for earthquake relief. But it seems that Haiti’s financial situation, which keeps it in dire straits, basically stems from the fact that they freed themselves from western slavery a few hundred years ago and the world is still sore about it.
The record of debt certainly can certainly be followed to the Slave Revolt and resulting battles in the early 1800s, and you could look at the ancestry of western concepts about Haiti as originally stemming from French and America’s tantrums at not being able to bring the island nation back under direct control.
Posted on Monday, 4 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
To Shoot an elephant is a new documentary by Mohammed Rujailah and my pal Alberto Arce, and they’re holding a January 18 worldwide screening which you can take part in by downloading the entire film and showing it on the day. The film covers emergency workers, human rights activist and other internationals who were in Gaza during last year’s December-January attack by the Israeli military. The footage is a mashup of edits culled from footage for another film, Erased: Wiped off the Map, which is about the attacks on Gaza. Visit www.toshootanelephant.com, where you can also see the English trailer. Download the film and hold your own screening in your living room or share it with others for screenings elsewhere.
Posted on Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Democracy Now! has the exclusive skinny on military spooks infiltrating groups in my occasional stomping grounds of Olympia, WA: My pal Drew Hendricks, along with Brendan Maslauskas Dunn (of Students for a Democratic Society and the Port of Oly anti-militarization group) pieced together documents from FOIA requests to out “John Jacob” who was passing himeself off as an anti-war activist. He was really John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service at the nearby Fort Lewis military base.
Newly declassified documents reveal that an active member of Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance in Washington state was actually an informant for the US military. The man everyone knew as “John Jacob” was in fact John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service at Fort Lewis. The military’s role in the spying raises questions about possibly illegal activity. The Posse Comitatus law bars the use of the armed forces for law enforcement inside the United States. The Fort Lewis military base denied our request for an interview. But in a statement to Democracy Now, the base’s Public Affairs office publicly acknowledged for the first time that Towery is a military operative. “This could be one of the key revelations of this era,” said Eileen Clancy, who has closely tracked government spying on activist organizations. [includes rush transcript]
The thoughts of worldly men are for ever regulated by a moral law of gravitation which, like the physical one, holds them down to earth. There are no signs in the sun, or in the moon, or in the stars, for their reading. They are like some wise men, who learning to know each planet by its Latin name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly constellations as Charity…and who, looking upward to the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of their own great wisdom and book-learning. — Charles Dickens
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The thoughts of worldly men are for ever regulated by a moral law of gravitation which, like the physical one, holds them down to earth. There are no signs in the sun, or in the moon, or in the stars, for their reading. They are like some wise men, who learning to know each planet by its Latin name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly constellations as Charity…and who, looking upward to the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of their own great wisdom and book-learning.
