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TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!

Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.

Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.

Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!

Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.

Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.

Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!

Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.

Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.

Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

TRUMP'S BALLOT BLOCK!

Ballots are already going out — but the legal fight over how you'll vote in November isn't over.

Part 1 of our next Aure Free Press deep dive breaks down Trump's mail-voting executive order, the Supreme Court's Aug. 24 ruling, and what it actually means for your ballot this fall.

Read:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #VoteByMail

Freedom of the press only exists when the press says things some member of the ruling class wants said. Otherwise it evaporates like a morning fog.
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/05/775701/US-Judge-refuses-to-stop-Pentagon-from-firing-Stars-and-Stripes-journalists

#Iran #IranWar #PressFreedom

A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

A man with an active Swiss arrest warrant for money laundering now runs "the biggest oil deal in history" alongside the U.S. Pentagon and State Department.

Senior Trump officials personally intervened with Swiss prosecutors to clear his path. He controls 17 Venezuelan oil fields, 65 billion barrels in reserves. Congress wants answers on who profits.

We got there first. Read the investigation:
👉 https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever
#AureFreePress #Journalism #IndependentJournalism #PressFreedom #Venezuela

Five FOIA requests have been filed.

Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

Five FOIA requests have been filed.

Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

Five FOIA requests have been filed.

Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

Five FOIA requests have been filed.

Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

Five FOIA requests have been filed.

Three with the State Department. One with Treasury/OFAC. One with the FBI.

We’re looking for the missing bureaucratic handoff: who first put Autistici/Inventati into the U.S. sanctions pipeline, when, and on whose referral?

The investigation is now also a public records docket. As agencies acknowledge, process, deny or release records, we’ll publish the paper trail and update the investigation.

Updates here:
sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati/

Read. Share. Preserve. Organize.

#AutisticiInventati #FOIA #PressFreedom #DigitalRights #Surveillance #Sanctions #IndependentMedia #SabotMedia

NEW REPORT LIVE

We’ve spent the last week digging, cross-checking, archiving posts and reconstructing the sequence that led to the August 26 designation of Autistici/Inventati

The resulting investigation follows a campaign against “Antifa” as it moved through outside advocates, political influencers, the White House, Congress and U.S. counterterrorism policy before an Italian privacy collective was sanctioned.

This is not a theory-of-everything graphic or a pile of screenshots. It is an attempt to document who said what, when they said it, where those arguments moved next, and what the government ultimately did.

FROM KIRK TO A/I
https://sabot.media/post/kirk-to-ai

DEDICATED INVESTIGATION PAGE
https://sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inventati

Background, documents and the continuing campaign:
https://sabot.media/campaigns/autistici-inventati

#AutisticiInventati #Antifa #Surveillance #Counterterrorism #PressFreedom

https://www.europesays.com/dk/159590/ Turkish journalist detained over social media posts, YouTube broadcasts #AKParty #AKP #Ankara #AnkaraChiefPublicProsecutor’sOffice #Article217/A #BizimTV #democracy #DisinformationLaw #Erdogan #ErkAcarer #FreedomOfExpression #HalkTV #HumanRights #journalism #Journalists #Journalists’UnionOfTurkey #Justice #law #oppression #OyaLaleArslan #PressFreedom #ReportersWithoutBorders #RSF #RuleOfLaw #SocialMedia #Stockholm #Sweden #TerroristPropaganda #Turkey #TurkishMedia

Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists

When pressed about the Iran war, a CENTCOM press official threatened to put an Intercept reporter on a “list of people to disregard.”

Nick Turse, August 24 2026

Excerpt: "Under self-styled #WarSecretary #PeteHegseth, the U.S. military has mounted the most aggressive assault on #PressFreedom in memory, from an effort to outlaw 'unauthorized' questions from reporters to imposing unconstitutional restrictions on journalists’ access to the Pentagon. Hegseth has compared reporters to 'Pharisees,' who in the Bible call Jesus’s teachings into question, while the secretary’s minions regularly hurl insults at reporters. This is part of a broader war on press freedoms by the #TrumpAdministration, that includes demonizing #journalists; filing so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation, or #SLAPPs, to intimidate and silence criticism through expensive legal proceedings; and employing grand jury subpoenas and search warrants to intimidate reporters.

" 'Threatening journalists with placement on a #blacklist in retaliation for reporting the government doesn’t like is as #unconstitutional as it gets,' said Seth Stern, the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation. 'This should put to rest the Pentagon’s prior claims that it’s anti-press policies — like its infamous requirement that reporters sign pledges to only print authorized information — are somehow content neutral.'

"Allee revealed the existence of the blacklist after this reporter was left on hold for more than two hours and complained about a long-standing lack of transparency by the command. In calls earlier that morning, Maj. Emma Thompson, #CENTCOM ’s media operations chief, repeatedly refused to answer questions about Iranian attacks on U.S. bases across the Middle East, disparate U.S. casualty counts, and medical evacuation flights: 'Nothing for you,' 'Don’t have anything for you,' 'No comment.' Thompson then hung up on this reporter mid-question.

#TheIntercept called back multiple times until Allee picked up the phone. 'They’re not going to answer your call if you just keep calling and calling,' he told this reporter."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pentagon-military-journalist-blacklist-press-media/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/uPwYW

#USPol #Censorship #SiliencingDissent #SilencingThePress #NoComment #Orwellian #MinistryOfTruth #CharacteristicsOfFascism

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#FirstAmendment #PressFreedom #WarOnTerror #CivilLiberties #Journalism

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Bridget Phillipson condemns Richard Tice’s ‘chilling attempt to silence free press’
By Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Labour chair says Reform deputy leader is trying to harass journalists over reporting on his financial affairs

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/12/bridget-phillipson-condemns-richard-tice-attempt-silence-free-press-reform

#RichardTice #ReformUK #Partyfunding #BridgetPhillipson #Labour #Politics #NCANationalCrimeAgency #UKnews #Pressfreedom #Media #Newspapersmagazines #Newspapers #TheGuardian #RowenaMasonWhitehalleditor

Bridget Phillipson condemns Richard Tice’s ‘chilling attempt to silence free press’ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/12/bridget-phillipson-condemns-richard-tice-attempt-silence-free-press-reform #RichardTice #ReformUk #PartyFunding #BridgetPhillipson #Labour #Politics #NcaNationalCrimeAgency #UkNews #PressFreedom #Media #NewspapersMagazines #Newspapers

The End of Local News? Why I’m Saying Alarm Bells are Ringing at the New FCC Policy

https://bluepress.blog/2026/08/07/the-end-of-local-news-why-im-saying-alarm-bells-are-ringing-at-the-new-fcc-policy/

'Decade' of Trump attacks recoil on Todd Blanche as Don Lemon case faces dismissal

#travesty #VindictiveProsecution #DonLemon #PressFreedom #GOPLiesAboutEverything

www.rawstory.com/don-lemon-26...

'Decade' of Trump attacks reco...

https://www.europesays.com/people/164569/ Trump to attend rescheduled White House correspondents’ dinner #AirForceOne #DinnerFriday #DonaldTrump #IanCameron #journalists #JusticeDepartment #LisaStark #MediaAttacks #NewYorkTimes #PressFreedom #PressFreedomGroups #QatariGiftedJet #RescheduledDinner #SecurityConcerns #shnd #subpoenas #Trump #TrumpAdministration #WaldorfAstoria #washington #WashingtonHilton #WhiteHouseCorrespondents'Association

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1107330/ Swiss Ambassador Jane Owen on Brexit Diplomacy and Bridges #Ambassador #Brexit #Britain #Canada #DiplomaticRelations #DonaldTrump #EU #Europe #European #EuropeanUnion #Finland #GenderEquality #GreatBritain #JamalKhashoggi #JaneOwen #KatriViinikka #PressFreedom #RecepTayyipErdogan #RodrigoDuterte #Switzerland #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ch/105985/ Swiss Ambassador Jane Owen on Brexit Diplomacy and Bridges #ambassador #Brexit #Canada #DiplomaticRelations #DonaldTrump #Finland #GenderEquality #JamalKhashoggi #JaneOwen #KatriViinikka #PressFreedom #RecepTayyipErdogan #RodrigoDuterte #Switzerland

Officials are ‘Refusing’ to Release Bodycam Footage That May Show Cop Stealing Photographer’s Bag https://petapixel.com/2026/06/26/officials-are-refusing-to-release-bodycam-footage-that-may-show-cop-stealing-photographers-bag/ #photojournalist #pressfreedom #delaneyhall #bodycamera #iceprotest #bodycam #News #Law

"Here's that unified message for the president: Donald, Piss Off. But before you piss off: would you release the Epstein Files?"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iPHk7Dofwxw #CBS #Paramount #press #PressFreedom #media #StephenColbert #TheLateShow #AdamSchiff #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Das Motto des Internationalen Tages der Pressefreiheit am 3. Mai lautet heuer: „Eine Zukunft in Frieden gestalten: Pressefreiheit für Menschenrechte, Entwicklung und Sicherheit fördern.“

Während bei der World Press Freedom Day Global Conference am 04. und 05. Mai in Lusaka, Sambia, über diese Themen gesprochen wird, spinne, stricke und häkle ich im Atelier Mitzi für die Pressefreiheit: Mit meiner Handspindel stelle ich aus alten Zeitungen Papiergarn her. Daraus entstehen gehäkelte Körbe und gestrickte Stücke.

Ein herzliches Danke meiner wundervollen Tochter @hasi für die tollen Fotos!

https://www.unesco.at/kommunikation/pressefreiheit/artikel/article/welttag-der-pressefreiheit-2026

#Pressefreiheit #WorldPressFreedomDay #PressFreedom #peace
#HumanRights #FreedomOfSpeech #JournalismMatters
#Upcycling #SustainableArt
#Artivism #KunstUndPolitik
#CriticalArt
#SpeakThroughArt
#AltpapierUpcyceln #chrochet #spinning #knitting #paperyarn #zeitungsgarnspinnen #AtelierMitzi #wels #upcycelninwels

EU imposes sweeping sanctions on German journalist #HüseyinDogru — bank accounts frozen, EU-wide travel ban and a de facto professional ban; critics warn this sets a dangerous precedent for press freedom. ⚠️📰 Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/09/qjdw-o09.html #PressFreedom #EU #Sanctions

#OnTheMedia from #WNYC digs into how media capture is shaping big outlets, then looks at what’s lost as foreign bureaus shut down while Israeli forces keep killing journalists in Gaza. It ends with the story of Brent Renaud, American reporter killed in Russia’s war on Ukraine. #Media #Journalism #Gaza #Ukraine #PressFreedom #CNN
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-ellisons-prepare-to-expand-their-media-empire#MediaCapture

On January 26, 2026, the Eastern High Court lifted a temporary
ban imposed by the Odense District Court on the publication of recordings made on
the property of Jeppe Bloch Nielsen, chairman of the Danish Pig Producers Association.

This version of "Who’s looking after the pigs?" has been updated with the recordings that were previously subject to the injunction.

✴️ Now with English subtitles!

Watch it here!
▶️ https://peertube.wtf/w/uB6N2eeR5HTuArxutDNRsC

#HvemPasserPåGrisene #JeppeBlochNielsen #watch #documentary #swine #pigs #pigfarm #Denmark #Danish #subtitles #DanishPigProducersAssociation #animalwelfare #animalrights #animalfarming #animalabuse #animalholocaust #sausage #bacon #pork #censorship #pressfreedom #activism #hernia #abolition #abolitionism #vet #veterinary #veterinarian

Now on Verdant Square Radio:

https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/115996227573590963

#Secretpolice #Lawenforcement #Ice #News #Commentary #Left #Trump #Civiliberties #Journalism #MeidasTouch #TrumpGestapo #Resist #Vsn #Radio #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia #Firstamendment #Pressfreedom #Trumpterror #Statesanctionedterror #Dhs #Trumplies #Icelies

#VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct

Investigative journalism needs courage, clarity, and consistency.
This poster reflects the work and values of Syed Salman Mehdi, standing for truth, justice, and human rights.

🖊️📓🌍
#InvestigativeJournalism #PressFreedom #HumanRights #Pakistan #MediaIntegrity

WATCH: 50 Yrs of Combatting Suppressed News
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/23/watch-50-yrs-of-combatting-suppressed-news/
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff. The problem of censorship and suppressed news in the United States is older than 50 years,…
#Politics #Analysis #Censorship #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Israel #Media #Palestine #PressFreedom #Propaganda #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #UnitedStates #Wikileaks #CathyVogan #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #LaurenHarper #MickeyHuff. #MischaGeracoulis #ProjectCensored #RyanGrim

WATCH: 50 Yrs of Combatting Suppressed News
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/22/watch-50-yrs-of-combatting-suppressed-news/
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff. The problem of censorship and suppressed news in the United States is older than 50 years,…
#Politics #Analysis #Censorship #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #History #Intelligence #IranContra #Israel #Media #Palestine #PressFreedom #Propaganda #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #UnitedStates #Wikileaks #CathyVogan #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #LaurenHarper #MickeyHuff. #MischaGeracoulis #ProjectCensored #RyanGrim

CN at 30: The Meaning of Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/16/cn-at-30-the-meaning-of-consortium-news/
Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at 30…
#Politics #Afghanistan #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #ConsortiumNewsAt30 #Intelligence #Iraq #Media #PressFreedom #RobertParry #Russia #Russiagate #Ukraine #Vips #Wikileaks #Wmd #JoeLauria #JulianAssange

And a little litmus test:
We are talking #InformationIntegrity at #UnitedNations #Conference with #IMS #InternationalMediaSolutions.

So, anyone here in the #Fediverse?

Because you can not have #Information #Integrity on #corporate #platforms.
Not even if they promise.

Please find me here and let us talk.

https://cphconference2025.mediasupport.org/

https://www.mediasupport.org/

[ed. IMS = @IMSforfreemedia ]

#Copenhagen
#litmus #lakmus #lackmus #press #pressFreedom #HumanRights

Freedom of the Press Foundation highlights 🔒 Google Advanced Protection, now on Android 16! It brings tougher safeguards—blocking unknown USBs, auto-rebooting stolen devices, & secure logging to protect at-risk users. Is it time to level up your security? 👉 https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/should-you-try-google-advanced-protection/ #CyberSecurity #Android #PressFreedom
#oldnewz #reminder

Journalists face extra risks at US borders: CBP can search devices and jeopardize source confidentiality. 🛂💻 Freedom of the Press Foundation shares a crucial checklist to prep your tech, minimize exposure, and keep your data safe. Read more: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/border-security/ #PressFreedom #DigitalSecurity #BorderCrossing #privacy #security

Trump complains the US media aren’t bending to his will. Aren’t they? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/trump-media-journalists-60-minutes #Newspapers&magazines #USpressandpublishing #UStelevisionindustry #Televisionindustry #Television&radio #LosAngelesTimes #Pressintrusion #WashingtonPost #Pressfreedom #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #Censorship #Newspapers #JeffBezos #USnews #Media #CBS

#VoiceOfAmerica WH bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara & #PressFreedom editor Jessica Jerreat, plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits against the #Trump admin over the EO, said this agreement violates the congressional mandate of #VOA.

#law #FreePress #FourthEstate #propaganda #LegislativeBranch #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/

‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/trump-free-speech-media-attack #Newspapers&magazines #UStelevisionindustry #Pressintrusion #Pressfreedom #NBCUniversal #DonaldTrump #Newspapers #Worldnews #USnews #Media #NBC #CBS

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Unlawful Activities: How the Indian prison system denies basic freedoms, rights and dignity to political prisoners

Even the UAPA prisoners under the full glare and scrutiny of the media were subject to a cavalcade of cruelties, large and small. This ranged from the denial of medical treatment, to the mental and physical cruelties of high-security prison cells, and even to being disallowed from speaking to relatives in their native language. Bhavya Dore and Sukhada Tatke write.

#UAPA #PoliticalPrisoners #undertrials #dissent #PressFreedom #activism #BK16 #TalojaCentralJail #disability #HumanRights #healthcare #BhimaKoregaonCase #maharashtra #india

https://www.thepolisproject.com/read/unlawful-activities-how-the-indian-prison-system-denies-basic-freedoms-rights-and-dignity-to-political-prisoners/

#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.

Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.

My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam. I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.

We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.

My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Can Tho near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.

Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.

Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.

The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.

Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.

Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.

The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.

Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.

You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.

Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.

At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.

Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.

I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.

Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.

The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.

Free Palestine!

Christophe Jaffrelot on the Need to 'Revalorise' the Constitution

'What we see now is that it's not so complicated to twist the arms of bureaucrats, it's not so complicated to appoint bureaucrats who are prepared to implement your policy.'

#interview #ChristopheJaffrelot #IndianConstitution #polarisation #CommunalRiots #GujaratRiots #RSS #BJP #adani #dalits #ElectionCommission #PressFreedom #NREGA #dissent #NarendraModi #books #bookstodon #india

https://thewire.in/politics/full-text-christophe-jaffrelot-on-the-need-to-revalorise-the-constitution

Interview: “In my 34-year career as journalist, I have never felt as anxious as I do today,” says Samar Halarnkar

In an interview with Maktoob’s Gafira Qadir, Samar Halarnkar, founder of the independent media house Article-14, talks about the tough situation journalists are in, facing threats and new laws that limit their freedom. He also talks about how hard it is to report on the government in a critical way.

#PressFreedom #media #journalism #censorship #DraconianLaws #BJP #UnionGovt #UAPA #PMLA #kashmir #manipur #UttarPradesh #islamophobia #hindutva #authoritarianism #india

https://maktoobmedia.com/india/interview-in-my-34-year-career-as-journalist-i-have-never-felt-as-anxious-as-i-do-today-says-samar-halarnkar/

Time to repeal UAPA in a country boasting to be a democracy

'A country boasting to be a democracy cannot have a vague and draconian law like UAPA, which is only used to frame activists, political opponents and critiques of the state,' writes Banjyotsna Lahiri.

#UAPA #DraconianLaws #dissent #PressFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #UmarKhalid #StanSwamy #HumanRights #democracy #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/elections/lok-sabha-election-2024/time-to-repeal-uapa-in-a-country-boasting-to-be-a-democracy-says-activist/cid/2020348