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The PBS show Frontline produced The Secret Files of J Edgar Hoover program which has a scene overlooked in lieu of the bigger sound bite everyone remembers. I am talking about the interview with Susan Rosensteil who attended a sex party with her husband , Roy Cohn and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover.
Susan details the scene where Hoover is dressed as a woman and calls himself Mary.The part of her interview that the media conveniently overlooks is when she says " Hoover went into the bedroom to have sex with young boys". Roy Cohn is a confirmed pedophile. Google roy cohn pedophile

But what does this have to do with the Lockerbie bombing?
Well if you had your ear tuned to the whisper stream in 1994
you would have known who created the Lockerbie bombing because you would have watched the banned movie THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5hv6scbBo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The filmaker Allan Frankovich had a convenient heart attack
at the age of 56 see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Francovich" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Backstory: In 1988 Boston Globe reporter and Pulitzer winner Ross Gelbspan covered our 1st annual conference investigating crimes committed by the FBI held at Boston University , for the Boston Globe. The next year he would start writing his book BREAK INS DEATH THREATS AND THE FBI published by South End Press. In the book narrative there is a section where Ross describes a trip he made to New York City to interview an El Salvadoran refugee named Yanirra Correa. In the middle of the interview the Boston Globe photographer who had accompanied Ross for the story leaves the room to use the bathroom. When he return he finds a piece of paper slid under the door. It is a part of a torn poster for Yanirra Correa speaking at a college. In the upper right hand corner is a crudely drawn picture of a decapitated baby with writing above the drawing saying in spanish" do you know where your baby is?" Yaniira had a two year old baby boy.

The FBI Assistant Director Oliver Revell coordinated the attack upon Yannira and the American group called CISPES . Ross Gelbspan was in New York interviewing Correa about her kidnapping in Los Angeles where she was thrown into a van, stripped naked, raped with a stick, burnt with cigarettes and had the El Salvadoran death squad initials carved into her hand with a knife.
After driving around for 6 hours she was thrown onto the Los Angeles freeway naked. Ross would also interview FBI informant Frank Varelli
for his book. Varelli's father was commandant of the El Salvador National Guard responsible for the disappearances of teachers and union organizers who were later found naked and decapitated at the local smoldering garbage dump. Varelli blew the whistle on the FBI . Gelbspan had to buy a bulletproof vest for Varelli and very, very special # 2 guy
at the FBI Oliver Revell was transferred back to running the Dallas FBI office by FBI Director Sessions. What does this have to do with the Lockerbie bombing? Investigators say Oliver Revell pulled his son, also a FBI agent, off the Lockerbie plane. see http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_08.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; See more here http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/05/l ... 0-may.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


So now you know a little more of what I and the FBI already know.
Remember blogging is not truth. Behaviour is truth.

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The FBI Sensitive Informant Program is a taxpayer funded FBI program where FBI agents and FBI informants
are assigned to work for members of Congress and the US Senate; for members of the US Supreme Court; in radio television and print media; to spy on and control these organizations and individuals.




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Redacted in 4-Page Document About the FBI’s ‘Sensitive Informant Program’
December 5, 2013

Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue has received three heavily-redacted batches of recently-declassified documents from the FBI in recent days as partial responses to his ongoing quest for materials related to the Bureau’s “Sensitive Informant Program.” The most recent document, however, could qualify as the most-heavily-redacted document ever offered in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Everything — four pages in all — is redacted! See pics below.

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In an email message Thursday morning, Trentadue describes this latest set of documents as “certainly in line with the Administration’s position on FOIA and the need for ‘transparency.’”

Trentadue has sought details about the “Sensitive Informant Program” in an effort to learn more about the brutal death of his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, under suspicious circumstances while in custody at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City in 1995 and about the connection he believes exists between his brother’s death and the investigation of the Oklahoma City Bombing.

As I reported in a Nov. 21 update to this post, federal Judge Clark Waddoups has set May 5, 2014, as the date on which a new Oklahoma City Bombing trial will begin in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division. The trial will begin at 8:30 a.m. local time, is expected to last three days and could produce some bombshells.

To learn more about Trentatude’s long-running legal battle with the FBI, watch the chilling one-hour video below:

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Portrait Unveilings at Maine State Capitol Building with Maine-Wabanaki Reach

PRESS RELEASE:

Maine Wabanaki Reach

“Americans Who Tell the Truth” Unveils Portraits of Passamaquoddy Women Denise Altvater and Esther Attean
Maine artist Robert Shetterly has added the portraits of Denise Altvater and Esther Attean, Passamaquoddy Citizens and members of Maine Wabanaki REACH, to the “Americans Who Tell the Truth” project (AWTT), which promotes “Models of Courageous Citizenship” in schools and communities around the country.

The portraits will be unveiled at the Hall of Flags in the State Capital Building in Augusta on Wednesday, December 4th from 11:30-1:30.
Shetterly will speak as will TRC Commissioner and Secretary of State Matt Dunlap and portrait subjects Denise Altvater and Esther Attean.
The event is open to the public.

Most Maine citizens are not aware of the official policies of the U.S. Government to forcibly assimilate native people with the intent to “kill the Indian to save the man”. In the 1800s, native children were removed from their communities, brought to boarding schools and stripped of their culture, language and spirituality. The child welfare practices of the 1950s and 1960s carried forth the mentality that native children were better off being raised in white homes. Into the 1970s, Maine removed native children from their homes at a rate higher than most other states.

To shed light on this important history, Maine-Wabanaki REACH established a truth and reconciliation process, and now advises the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission,(TRC) to ensure that truth-seeking activities around these issues are directed by Wabanaki people. The TRC was officially mandated by the five Wabanaki Chiefs and the Maine Governor in June 2012 and has until November 2015 to investigate and document what happened to Wabanaki people involved in the state child welfare system and make recommendations for best child welfare practice while promoting healing for those impacted and support for native communities.

After learning about the ground breaking Commission, the first of its kind in the entire country, Shetterly decided to paint the portraits of two of the truth tellers involved in the project, Denise Altvater and Esther Attean. These portraits will join more than two hundred otherson the AWTT website and as a traveling exhibit that presents people throughout American history who have worked for social, economic and environmental justice. The portraits are used as teaching tools
in classrooms at all educational levels.

“Denise and Esther embody the courage and determination of Wabanaki people who speak hard truths in an effort to bring healing for their people, deeper understanding between Maine and Wabanaki people and a better future for us all. People just like Denise and Esther will come before the Commission to speak out for truth, healing and change,” said TRC Commissioner Carol Wishcamper.

The portraits will be unveiled at the Hall of Flags in the State Capital Building in Augusta on Wednesday, December 4th from 11:30-1:30.
Shetterly will speak as will TRC Commissioner and Secretary of State Matt Dunlap and portrait subjects Denise Altvater and Esther Attean.
The event is open to the public.

A reception with light refreshments and conversation will follow.


Location: HALL OF FLAGS, STATE CAPITAL BUILDING AUGUSTA, MAINE
Date: December 4, 2013

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Ex-CIA, NSA, FBI, and GCHQ Employees Urge Former Colleagues to Blow the Whistle
Daniel Ellsberg and other former leakers plead for current staffers to follow Edward Snowden's example.
Dec 12 2013


An open letter published in The Guardian features seven signatories—including Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers, as well as ex-employees of the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and GCHQ—urging their former colleagues to follow Edward Snowden's example and blow the whistle on ongoing crimes and misconduct within the national-security state.

One portion of the letter says:

Hidden away in offices of various government departments, intelligence agencies, police forces and armed forces are dozens and dozens of people who are very much upset by what our societies are turning into: at the very least, turnkey tyrannies.

One of them is you.

You're thinking:

Undermining democracy and eroding civil liberties isn't put explicitly in your job contract.
You grew up in a democratic society and want to keep it that way
You were taught to respect ordinary people's right to live a life in privacy
You don't really want a system of institutionalized strategic surveillance that would make the dreaded Stasi green with envy—do you?

Still, why bother? What can one person do? Well, Edward Snowden just showed you what one person can do. He stands out as a whistleblower both because of the severity of the crimes and misconduct that he is divulging to the public—and the sheer amount of evidence he has presented us with so far—more is coming. But Snowden shouldn't have to stand alone, and his revelations shouldn't be the only ones.

You can be part of the solution; provide trustworthy journalists—either from old media (like this newspaper) or from new media (such as WikiLeaks) with documents that prove what illegal, immoral, wasteful activites are going on where you work.

There IS strength in numbers. You won't be the first—nor the last—to follow your conscience and let us know what's being done in our names. Truth is coming—it can't be stopped. Crooked politicians will be held accountable. It's in your hands to be on the right side of history and accelerate the process.

Courage is contagious.

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Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.

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Whistleblower Center founder Steve Kohn spoke at our 1st conference investigating crimes committed by FBI agents

National Whistleblowers Center
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
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mjw@whistleblowers.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Whistleblower Fears UBS Banker Raoul Weil
Will Get Sweetheart Deal

UBS Tax Fraud Kingpin Extradited to
United States Faces Hearing Today

Fort Lauderdale, Florida. December 16, 2013. Raoul Weil, the former head of UBS’s Global Wealth Management business is scheduled to appear for a hearing in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale today. He was extradited to the United States from Italy where he was arrested on an international warrant after being indicted for his role in conspiring to violate U.S. tax laws. Weil was the top boss for UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, and controlled the international illegal banking schemes worldwide.

As head of Global Wealth Management while Birkenfeld worked at the bank, Weil had responsibility for five international regions for which UBS actively solicited wealthy clients to establish secret and illegal accounts and other fraudulent enterprises that permitted hundreds of billions of dollars to be hidden from local taxing authorities, including the United States. His regions were: Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Americas). Martin Liechti, who was directly responsible for the illegal banking activities that Birkenfeld exposed, was the head of the America’s program, and reported to Weil.

In 2007, UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld provided the IRS, SEC, U.S. Senate and Department of Justice with unprecedented access to thousands of pages of documents and other information revealing for the first time the international fraud schemes managed by Weil. Birkenfeld’s historic disclosures led directly to Weil’s indictment in 2008 and his eventual arrest by Italian authorities.
In a statement issued today by Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and one of Mr. Birkenfeld’s attorneys, Kohn warned that the Justice Department “may give Weil a sweetheart deal that could cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars and set back international efforts to curb corruption.”

Kohn pointed to a highly improper “deal” cut with Martin Liechti, who formally ran the America’s program under Weil’s leadership at UBS. “Liechti was caught red-handed in the United States, but was permitted to plead the ‘Fifth Amendment’ in testimony before Congress, and soon after permitted to leave the United States without having to face justice for his illegal actions in hiding billions of dollars from the IRS,” Kohn said.

According to Kohn, Weil would have extensive knowledge of UBS’s PEP program:

“UBS had an ultra secret special program for which the bank would accept millions and billions of dollars from ‘Politically Exposed People.’ The program, known as PEP, required bankers to identify PEPs when seeking to open secret accounts. PEPs would be highly placed government officials and very wealthy individuals from around the world who were seeking to hide dirty money, illicitly obtained from bribes, kick-backs and other illegal activities."

“PEPs would include American public officials who held illegal accounts,” Kohn said.

“We fear that political pressure from high ranking officials and extremely wealthy individuals, both from the United States and those in power in foreign countries, will result in a cover-up of the PEP scandal. Weil is one of the very few people in the world who would have information about the PEPs, and any attempt to resolve this case without full accountability for the PEP program, and full exposure of any person enrolled in that program, no matter how high-up the scandal reaches, should be aggressively opposed," Kohn said.

“Moreover, we fear that Weil may use his knowledge of high placed PEPs to leverage a sweetheart deal. Any attempt to give Weil leniency in exchange for protecting millionaires, billionaires and corrupt politicians who illegally stole money and tax revenue from their people would undermine the rule of law and further obstruct justice,” Kohn added.

"It is paramount that American taxpayers obtain justice and those responsible for stealing billions of dollars from our government be held fully accountable," Kohn concluded.

A copy of the UBS bank account opening forms, that Birkenfeld provided to the IRS, SEC, U.S. Senate and DOJ in 2007 are linked here. These forms explicitly reference the PEP program.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation takes over Aaron Swartz's whistleblower project
Published time: October 15, 2013 19:35
Edited time: October 16, 2013 12:07
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Whistleblowers, rejoice! The Freedom of the Press Foundation is taking the helm of a secure document-submission service co-created by late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, and wants to make it more accessible than ever.

The foundation — launched less than a year ago “to crowd-source funding for cutting-edge, independent journalism and publishing outlets” lacking mainstream support — announced early Tuesday that it has taken charge of the DeadDrop project, an endeavor announced earlier this year after the death of Swartz, a transparency advocate who co-created the system with Wired journalist Kevin Poulsen.

DeadDrop was unveiled this past May and touted at the time as being a secure-way of submitting sensitive documents to a single publication: The New Yorker. But only five months after its debut, the Freedom of the Press Foundation said it has now inherited the project from Poulsen and will try to bring it to more media outlets needed to communicate securely with sources.

In a blog post authored by the foundation's Trevor Timm and Rainey Reitman on Tuesday, they wrote that the project has been re-named SecureDrop, and within a matter of weeks it will be available to a number of journalistic outlets who've already expressed interest in getting involved.

The foundation has published the open-source instructions for SecureDrop on its website and claims “Any organization can install SecureDrop for free and can make modifications” now - not just the New Yorker.

When operating accordingly, the SecureDrop system works when an anonymous source accesses a website anonymously and provides documents to the news outlet that are encrypted and only available to select employees. Journalists and sources communicate using code words, and documents are deciphered using an air-gap computer that is never connected to the Internet.

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Aaron Swartz (Photo by Phillip Stearns / flickr.com)

That isn't to say it's easy to someone without a deep computer and security knowledge to get the system and up and running, however, and that's what the foundation is offering to find help for organizations who want to use SecureDrop but might need assistance.

“Freedom of the Press Foundation will also help organizations install SecureDrop and train its journalists in security best practices to ensure the best protection for sources,” the group announced on their website.

A group of independent experts, including Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project and security guru Bruce Schneier, audited SecureDrop in August and have since released their findings. Their initial report revealed a number of flaws that caused concern, though, and the foundation has reportedly since begun correcting those errors.

Even before revamping the system to fix those issues, though, the security experts said the system was still “technically decent” for allowing anonymous communication between sources and journalists. Since then, the foundation says it “has made a number of updates to SecureDrop based on these findings and will be making a significant investment in continually improving the system.”

“We’ve reached a time in America when the only way the press can assure the anonymity and safety of their sources is not to know who they are,” foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow said in a statement released this week. “SecureDrop is where real news can be slipped quietly under the door.”

Timm, the group's executive director, added in a statement that “A truly free press hinges on the ability of investigative journalists to build trust with their sources.”

When the foundation was unveiled last year, it initially began processing donations and contributions to whistleblower-related groups including WikiLeaks and the Center for Public Inquiry. When the military court-martial of WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning was conducted in de-facto secrecy, the foundation raised over $100,000 to hire stenographers so that the press could have transcriptions of proceedings that otherwise would not necessarily be made public.

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December 26, 2013
A Year of Extraordinary Activism
10 Good Things About 2013
by MEDEA BENJAMIN

It would be easy to make a list of 10 bad things—wars, government shut-down, drone attacks, lack of progress on immigrant rights, lousy health-care reform. But it’s also been a year of extraordinary activism: whistleblowers, DREAMers, Walmart workers, peacemakers, gay rights advocates, garment workers. As the year ends, let’s pay tribute to the good things their efforts have wrought.

1. A spontaneous uprising by the American people kept President Obama from invading Syria. This Fall’s “peaceful insurrection” was by far my favorite moment of 2013. It was one of those all-too-rare occasions when folks came together across ideological divisions, flooding their congressional reps with calls. Yes, after 12 years, Americans have become “war-wise”, understanding that US intervention is no solution. So instead, chemical weapons are being destroyed thanks to successful negotiations. But the war in Syria rages on, with casualties mounting daily. Peace talks are scheduled for January 22 in Switzerland, and women’s groups—including CODEPINK—are mobilizing to surround the meetings with a desperate plea to all the guys with guns: Ceasefire NOW!

2. Talks with Iran are progressing, despite Israel and AIPAC’s objections. The P5+1 group of Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany has made great headway in finding a solution to diffuse the crisis around Iran’s nuclear program. Negotiators are anxious to take advantage of the opening represented by the election of a moderate Iranian leader, President Hassan Rouhani. Sadly, a group of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, along with the AIPAC lobby, threaten to derail the talks by pushing for greater sanctions against Iran. If we can move ahead with talks, 2014 could be the year we finally ditch the Bush-era “axis of evil” treatment and build friendly relations with Iran.

3. Edward Snowden has rocked the world of NSA spying. When Edward Snowden first blew the whistle on the NSA’s sweeping surveillance, he said his greatest fear was not what the government would do to him, but that nothing would change. A mere six months later, the cascading effects have, according to the Washington Post, made themselves felt in Congress, the courts, popular culture, Silicon Valley and world capitals.” There is now a vibrant global dialogue about privacy rights. In December, a federal court judge declared the secret collection of domestic phone records unconstitutional and President Obama’s own review panel called a major overhaul of NSA’s activities. President Obama claims he will consider the review board’s suggestions, indicating that reforms are necessary to restore public confidence. While Snowden is under indictment for criminal acts here in the US, thanks to this whistleblower, the days of the NSA doing whatever it wants—in secret and free from public criticism—are coming to an end. Thanks, Edward, for your service!

4. Killer drones are taking a beating. The international community is finally standing up to the use of killer drones and the proliferation of this technology around the globe. With reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, investigations by the United Nation’s Special Rapporteurs, and two briefings in Congress with testimony by drone strike survivors, the dialogue and the outrage around the drone program has increased. This year saw a ban on drone strikes by both the Pakistani National Assembly and the Yemeni Parliament (if only the US would listen!), more protests inside the US and the creation of a global anti-drones network.

5. Yes, the Pope, who beat Snowden for Time’s Person of the Year, is astonishing. I must admit that even as a secular Jew, this pope fills me with awe. He sneaks out at night to feed the homeless; invites homeless people to celebrate his birthday in the Vatican; washes the feet of young prisoners; says he is not one to judge gay people; calls on the church to get beyond its fixation on reproduction and sexual morality; debunks trickle-down economics and questions the morality of capitalism; lives simply and loves to take public transportation. What a cool guy! Unfortunately he doesn’t support abortion rights or the ordination of women, but he is certainly injecting new spirit into the moribund, scandal-ridden Catholic church.

6. Low-wage workers rise up, saying “Low Pay Is Not OK!” Around the county, fast food and other low-wage workers from McDonalds to Walmart rose up in to demand a living wage. Today, 34 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico, as well as dozens of cities, have introduced or passed legislation on minimum wage issues, including increasing the state minimum wage, automatic cost-of-living increases and addressing base wages for tipped employees. (And overseas in Bangladesh, after a huge factory blaze in April left 1,100 people dead, massive strikes led to a 77% pay increase for Bangladeshi garment workers!) Pressure is now on Congress to increase the federal minimum wage, which has remained at a shameful $7.25 per hour for the past three years.

7. Immigrant advocates did spectacular organizing, and are poised to reap the benefits. They held prayer vigils, press conferences, marches. They chained themselves to the White House fence and the gates of detention centers. They encircled ICE facilities to shut down deportations. Hundreds were arrested, including 8 members of Congress, calling for immigration reform. They fasted on the national mall in Washington DC, getting a visit from the President and his wife. This organized, mobilized community with significant voting power stands ready to see major changes in U.S. immigration policy next year.

8. Gay marriage is becoming like apple pie. The Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and Illinois became the 15th state to legalize same-sex marriage. This year alone saw not only Illinois, but Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, California, Hawaii and New Mexico added to the list of marriage equality states. This number is certain to keep rising, now that a majority of Americans are supportive. Also, the Senate voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to ban discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill is being blocked in the House but a growing number of Republicans are starting to embrace LGBT rights. Who knows? 2014 might not only see more gay marriages in our nation’s homes, but basic LGBT rights in the workplace as well.

9. The death penalty at home and abroad is dying, slowing but steadily. This year Maryland became the first state south of the Mason-Dixon line to abolish the death penalty and the 18th state to do so. Signing the bill, Maryland’s Governor O’Malley said the death penalty does not deter crime, cannot be administered without racial bias, costs three times as much as life without parole, and a mistake cannot be reversed if an innocent person is put to death. The number of people executed in the US declined to 39—near its lowest level since capital punishment was reinstated in the US in the 1970s. The trend is true abroad. In 1981, when France abolished the death penalty, over 150 countries put their citizens to death. Today, only 21 nations do so. In the past five years, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Burundi, Togo, Gabon and Latvia have all abolished capital punishment.

10. One nation has come to its senses about smoking weed: Uruguay. In 2013, the nation of Uruguay became the first country to fully legalize marijuana. Back home in the US, Washington and Colorado passed full legalization laws (yes, that means recreational use without big brother stepping in) and the Federal government has stated it will not mount a challenge. Also this year, Illinois and New Hampshire joined the 18 other states that have legalized medical marijuana use. Even the stuffy Canadian federal government made medical marijuana legal. You’ll soon be able to get a deal on your dope from GroupOn and pay in Bitcoins. The times they are achangin’.

We begin the new year with renewed awareness of the effectiveness of nonviolent action and nonviolent movements. The possibilities for a more peaceful and just 2014 are boundless.

Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of the human rights group Global Exchange and the peace group CODEPINK. She is the author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Nuking Negotiations
US Defies Conference on Nuclear Weapons Effects & Abolition
by JOHN LAFORGE
VIENNA, Austria

A pair of conferences here Dec. 6-9 have tried to raise public and government awareness of nuclear weapons.

The first, a Civil Society Forum put on by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, brought together NGOs, parliamentarians, and activists of all stripes to try and boost morale and renew enthusiasm in efforts to ban the bomb.

About 700 participants spent two days delving into the ghastly health and environmental effects of nuclear war, the hair-raising frequency of H-bomb accidents and near detonations, the horrifying impacts of bomb testing—and other human radiation experiments conducted without informed consent upon our own unwitting civilians and soldiers.

This is ground that’s been plowed for decades, but it’s nevertheless staggering to the uninitiated and is never repeated too often—especially in view of the destabilization and skyrocketing death toll of what the Pope has called today’s “World War Three.”

ICAN’s infusion of youthful encouragement and high-energy mobilization is a welcome relief for the doddering anti-nuclear movement that’s seen a generation of activists lost to campaigns against corporate globalization and the perpetrators of climate collapse. Mary Olson, of Nuclear Information and Resource Service, who presented expert testimony on the misogynistic gender bias in radiation effects, said she had gotten a “surprisingly big jolt of hope from the youngness of the gathering.”

A second conference¾the “Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons” (HINW)¾brought together government representatives and hundreds of others, and was the third in a series. Austria, which has neither nuclear weapons nor nuclear reactors, sponsored the gathering.

After decades of negotiations over the strategic and numerical size of nuclear arsenals, the HINW meetings have faced the harsh ugliness and catastrophic health and environmental effects of nuclear testing and warfare.

Expert witnesses spoke directly to 180 government representatives about the ethical, legal, medical and ecological consequences of H-bomb detonations which are—in the language of diplomatic nicety—“foreseeable.” Then, scores of nation-state delegates called on nuclear-armed states to pursue abolition. Dozens of speakers noted that landmines, cluster munitions, gas, chemical and biological weapons have all been banned, but the worst of all¾thermonuclear WMD—have not.

But the emperor can’t see his own nakedness

It turns out that a gathering of elites like the HINW is like a prison population: there is a strict, arcane etiquette; a rigorous separation of classes; and a blatant violation of all the rules by privileged, rich and pampered chieftains.

The most blatant violation came at the start of the first question-&-answer session, and it was my own government—which skipped previous HINW meetings in Norway and Mexico—that put a radioactive foot in its bomb-cratered mouth. Immediately following harrowing personal testimonies from downwind bomb test victims, and a review by Ms. Olson of the science showing women and children to be far more vulnerable to radiation than men, the U.S. interrupted. Everyone noticed.

Although facilitators twice directed participants to ask questions only the U.S. delegate, Adam Scheinman, was first at the mic, and he declared flatly, “I will not ask a question but make a statement.” The bully then ignored the panel’s hour-long discussion of the brutal, gruesome, and long-term effects of nuclear weapons testing. Instead, in ringing non sequitur, Scheinman’s prepared statement declared U.S. opposition to a nuclear weapons ban and noted support for negotiations for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Mr. Scheinman also lauded the U.S. embrace of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty¾code language for decades of winking at open US violations of the treaty’s requirements.

(Principle among U.S. NPT violations are Pres. Obama’s planned $1 trillion, 30-year budget for new nuclear weapons; “nuclear sharing” agreements that keep 180 U.S. H-bombs at US bases in Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy and Turkey; and sales of Trident nuclear missiles to the British submarine fleet.)

Mr. Scheinman’s rude defiance of conference protocol was a microcosm of the country’s global militarism: oblivious, contemptuous, imperious, and defiant of law. Conducted at 1:20 in the afternoon, the scene-stealing disruption was well-timed to be the lead headline on nightly TV news. U.S. refusal to support and dismissal of the movement for a nuclear weapons ban/treaty should be the story of the conference, but corporate media can be counted on to note only Obama’s public agenda and his finger-pointing at non-nuclear Iran.

The desired result of Scheinman’s outburst is that the U.S. momentarily diverted attention from the indiscriminate, uncontrollable, widespread, persistent, radiological and genetically destabilizing, scofflaw impact of its nuclear weapons—and got television to pat it on the back merely for showing up and “listening.”

Indeed, after its usurpation of center-stage here—and after having temporarily recast the subject of the conference—the U.S. may now get back to its real agenda, the massively expensive “upgrade” of machinery for producing 80 new H-bombs a year by 2020.

John LaForge works for Nukewatch, a nuclear watchdog group in Wisconsin, edits its Quarterly newsletter.

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Lawyers lie down in the rain to protest killings by police
Joseph Serna
More than 100 lawyers, law students and others stage a 'die-in' outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, arguing that the legal system in which they operate is broken.

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St. Paul's School
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Artist Brings “Truthful” Portraits to SPS

11/18/2014
For the second time since 2011, artist Robert Shetterly has brought a series of 36" x 30" acrylic portraits to SPS. The paintings – collectively called “Americans Who Tell the Truth” – are inspired by Shetterly’s view of his role as an artist, which changed after the events of September 11, 2001. He realized at that time the need to “engage the moment much more directly, be much more of a citizen – the world demanded of all of us that we be better citizens.”

In contemplating how to accomplish that, Shetterly, who visited the School on November 11, realized he could use his talents to highlight Americans whom he admires. The fruit of that labor is a series of portraits, each incorporating a quote from the subject, whose images appear against a black background. Twenty-six of Shetterly’s works will hang from November 4 to November 24 in an exhibit along the wood-paneled walls of the SPS Chapel.

Those pictured include Phillip Berrigan, Father Roy Bourgeois, Smedley Butler, William Sloane Coffin, Ossie Davis, Marian Wright Edelman, Dwight Eisenhower, Dolores Volk, Bunny Greenhouse, Kim Hawkins, Pat Humphries, Helen Keler, Clyde Kennard, Robert F. Kennedy, John Kiriakou, Winona LaDuke, Aldo Leopold, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther Kin Jr., Bruce “Utah” Phillips, Ai-Jen Poo, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hugh Thompson Jr., Harriet Tubman, and Alice Walker.

Shetterly’s original goal was to paint 50 portraits of truthful historic figures, but he has now produced more than 200. He has painted as many living subjects as posthumous ones and considers many of his modern subjects to be friends and mentors.

During his most recent visit to SPS, Shetterly also had a chance to visit with a number of students. The artist asked them to think about courageous role models and stressed to them the importance of narrative activism.

“It’s about giving people the stories they need to empower their lives,” explained Shetterly.

The portraits of “Americans Who Tell the Truth” have made the rounds, traveling from Maine to Wisconsin, from Kentucky to California, for display in galleries and at schools and colleges. On Shetterly’s previous visit to St. Paul’s, he shared 24 portraits.

Reverend Michael Spencer, dean of Chapel, said Shetterly’s exhibit in the Chapel is helping to build on the medieval cathedral model and to coincide with fall evensong.

Dean Spencer also hopes the exhibit will have an impact on daily life at the School, as one portrait is highlighted at each morning Chapel service through biographies and quotes of those depicted.

“Thinking about these individuals educates and inspires the community,” said Dean Spencer. “We can learn about the truly courageous stories of individuals throughout American history.”

For more on the work of Robert Shetterly, visit http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or view this information on the current exhibit at SPS.


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Alex Salmond calls for ‘peasants’ revolt’ vote to abolish House of Lords
Former Scottish first minister says English referendum needed to ‘clean out the stables’ and provoke a ‘constitutional revolution’



Alex Salmond said English voters needed an opportunity to define their identity, but not in the form of a referendum on EU membership.


Saturday 20 December 2014 06.41 EST

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Hindu activists organize mass 'reconversion camps' in India
New Delhi protest
Protesters voice their disapproval of ceremonies across India to convert Christians and Muslims to Hinduism.



'A thousand years ago, all the Muslims and Christians in India were Hindu. They were converted by the sword.'
The conversion issue pits those who believe India is a Hindu nation against the values in the constitution
By his count, Vyankatesh Abdeo has helped convert 700,000 Indian Christians and Muslims to Hinduism over the last two decades, but he would describe it differently.

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A few ticks north of 25 years old I underwent training in community
organizing based on the tenets of Saul Alinsky.

I was trained by Andrew Vachss who was a graduate of the
Industrial Areas Foundation, a school for community organizers
set up by Saul Alinsky.

see

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Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals

see

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Here is the complete list from Alinsky.

* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
* RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
* RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

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I interviewed Frances Crowe in 2012. see

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A fellow filmmaker has made a documentary about the 30 year struggle to
shut down Vermont Maine Yankee

http://www.turningtide.com/leppzer.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



see link for full story

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/29/v ... to-unplug/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


December 29 2014


Vermont Yankee preparing to unplug
The nuclear power plant most likely will disconnect from the grid Monday and began cooling down.

VERNON, Vt. — Ellen Merkel says she gets “a little teary-eyed” when she thinks about the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant sending its last electrons to the regional power grid. She knows it will likely mean moving from Vernon, where her husband works at the plant, to the South for a new job.

Frances Crowe of Northampton, Massachusetts, says she’ll take some satisfaction that her anti-nuclear activism, which began before Vermont Yankee was built in the late 1960s, has had an impact. But she promised to continue to push for the highly radioactive spent fuel from the plant to be moved as soon as possible.

The plant is preparing to disconnect from the grid, most likely Monday.


“Economically it’s going to really hurt,” said Bob O’Donnell, co-owner of Trend Business Solutions, a small Vernon business that sells clothing and other items adorned with business logos, including that of Vermont Yankee. “It’s going to kill the tax base.”

Vermont Yankee, the state’s only nuclear reactor, employed more than 600 people when it announced it would close. The workforce will be cut in half after a round of layoffs and retirements Jan. 19. In 2016, the plant will see another big reduction as it prepares for a 30-year period during which time its radiation will cool. The plant likely won’t be dismantled until the 2040s.

New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. bought Vermont Yankee in 2002 from a group of New England utilities that had owned the plant since it opened in 1972. In August 2013, Entergy announced it would close the plant because it was no longer economical to operate.

“This has been a bad investment for us,” said Barrett Green, an Entergy finance executive who recommended both that Entergy buy the plant and later that it be closed.

The company was betting on a carbon tax, or some other hit on fossil-fuel-fired power plants, that would make nuclear power a clear winner. Instead, Green said, nuclear plants have been hit with increasing “regulatory costs” like beefed-up security post-9/11 and new safeguards against extreme events like the earthquake and tsunami that struck a nuclear station in Japan in 2011.

A boom in construction of natural-gas-fired power plants around New England has helped make Vermont Yankee less competitive, but the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, said the real problem is a regulatory system not working to keep nuclear plants open.

“Other nuclear energy facilities – producing affordable electricity safely and reliably – are at risk of premature closure due to competitive electricity markets that are not working for the benefit of consumers or the long-term reliability of the electric grid,” said Marv Fertel, NEI president and CEO.

At ISO New England, the regional power dispatch agency, spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg said, “We determined a couple of years ago that the power grid could be operated reliably without Vermont Yankee.”

The announcement that the plant was closing came weeks after it won a round in a legal battle to keep it open. A U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling overturning state laws that appeared aimed at closing the plant. One required a vote of support from both legislative chambers before the state Public Service Board permitted the plant to operate 20 years beyond its initial 40-year license.

The state Senate defeated the measure in 2010 and the House never acted, prompting Entergy to sue. The legislative action came amid political turmoil for the plant: Officials there were caught making false statements to lawmakers and regulators that the plant did not have the sort of underground piping that carried radioactive substances. There was also widespread suspicion among lawmakers about an Entergy plan to sell off Vermont Yankee and other northern reactors to a new, heavily leveraged spinoff company.

On top of that, a vocal cadre of well-organized and well-funded anti-nuclear activists in southeastern Vermont and neighboring Massachusetts took to the streets and to regulators’ hearing rooms in a bid to shut the plant down. They also had the ear of Gov. Peter Shumlin, who had orchestrated the vote in the Senate against the plant’s continued operation.

Entergy officials have said the shutdown decision was purely a matter of economics. For its part, the New England Coalition, perhaps the most vocal and litigious of the anti-nuclear groups, vowed to stay on the plant’s case as it prepares to move highly radioactive spent fuel to concrete and steel casks for its cooling-off period.

“If our mission was to eliminate the threat of nuclear pollution and environmental damage from Vermont Yankee, then contrary to wishful and popular perceptions, advocacy operations are far from over,” the group said on its website.

It’s expected to cost nearly $1.25 billion to dismantle the plant. The fund now has about half that.

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two stories

you do know what to do?

1.
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Ezell Ford's family reacts strongly to autopsy in killing by LAPD


Demonstrators light candles around the corner from Ezell Ford's memorial.

Family of Ezell Ford reacts strongly to autopsy report
Attorney for Ezell Ford's family says police were almost 'animalistic' in deadly confrontation
Attorney for the family of Ezell Ford said the autopsy of the 25-year old shot dead by police in South L.A. shows that officers were almost “animalistic” during the confrontation.


LAPD officials say Ford was shot three times, including once in the back at close range

2.

December 30, 2014


BPD top cop: First Night is wrong time, wrong place for ‘die-in’


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This Dec. 31, 2013, file photo shows marchers making their way down Boylston Street during a parade as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Boston.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014



Police: Protesters Welcome, But Won't Disrupt First Night Boston
CBS Boston


00:00 / 01:57
Boston’s top cop said protesters planning a “die-in” at tomorrow’s First Night New Year’s Eve festivities have chosen an inappropriate venue for the demonstration.

Boston Police Department Commissioner William B. Evans said police will accommodate protesters, but he added they shouldn’t expose “innocent” children to their beliefs.

“I just hope they respect that this isn’t the event to hold this,” Evans said at a morning press conference to address the city’s security plans for the citywide, all-day extravaganza. “I’ve brought my own kids into this event, my wife has. ... There are always 2-, 3-, 4-year-olds there. And I don’t think they should have to see behavior that they have nothing to do with. They don’t understand what’s going on, they are still very innocent. And to disrupt the event on Boylston Street tomorrow night is a disservice not only to the city, but also to their character.”

The group First Night Against Police Violence plans to hold a “die-in” — in which protesters dramatically collapse to the ground as a symbolic act against police brutality — in front of the Boston Public Library at 5 p.m. tomorrow.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh said protesters should be “respectful” and keep streets and sidewalks clear as 1 million people are expected to pour into the city with festivities stretching from the North End to the Back Bay.

Walsh asked all participants to “respect our police officers. Respect their roles as keepers of peace in our city.”

Evans said there have been no credible threats against police in the wake of the unarmed police killings

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couple of reads. http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... milo-mejia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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National protest against U.S. torture prison at Guantanamo planned for Miami
By Cassia Laham | December 30, 2014

Painting banner for protest to shut down the U.S. prison at the Guantanamo Bay. (Fight Back! News/Staff)
Miami, FL - Following the recent CIA torture report, determined activists in Florida are gearing up for the annual march and protest to shut down the U.S. torture prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Anti-war leaders expect hundreds will protest outside the gates of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Jan. 11 in Doral, Florida, which is located near Miami. Notable speakers from across the country include Nancy Mancias of CodePink!, Camilo Mejia of Veterans for Peace and Holly Kent-Payne of Chicago with the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.

“We need to continue to oppose U.S. torture of citizens and non-citizens alike. The detention centers at Guantanamo Bay are symbols of oppression and violence and must be shut down,” said Pamela Maldonado, an organizer with People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism, and Racism (POWIR). “Our pressure has already forced the U.S. to begin repatriating prisoners to other countries and safer locations. We won’t stop until the prisons are closed for good.”

The six demands of those organizing the protest are: 1) Shut down Guantanamo Bay now, 2) End the torture of prisoners, 3) Stop force-feeding hunger-strikers, 4) Release detainees who have not been charged with crimes, 5) Transfer cases to federal court if legitimate evidence exists, 6) Repatriate freed detainees or provide asylum for those who need it and 7) Repatriate the families of those who were wrongfully detained.

The U.S. military base at Guantanamo serves as a place to torture and to dispose of Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. ‘War on Terror.’ It also violates Cuba’s sovereignty, as it projects U.S. empire into the Caribbean and South America. SOUTHCOM is a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense and controls Guantanamo Bay. The purpose of SOUTHCOM is to coordinate military, intelligence and naval missions throughout Latin America in order for the U.S. and Wall Street to dominate and exploit other countries.

SOUTHCOM orchestrates low-intensity wars, terror attacks and destabilization campaigns in Latin America, as currently witnessed in Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela. SOUTHCOM’s General John F. Kelly sits on the Board of Visitors that oversees the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC after a torture scandal) in Fort Benning, Georgia. U.S. military personnel train Colombian military officers to run violent paramilitary groups that kill and disappear people, referred to as “false positives”. These U.S.-trained death squads kill thousands of Colombians each year, especially targeting progressives and labor leaders.

Groups organizing the Jan. 11 march include POWIR, Occupy Miami, Al-Awda, National Lawyers Guild and Students for a Democratic Society. The rally begins at 2:00 p.m. with a march through downtown Doral to the gates of SOUTHCOM. Some protesters will wear orange prison jumpsuits like the prisoners of war. Water will be provided.

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just got a email from Ray McGovern see

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Dear Supporter





The CIA's officially sanctioned torture and – equally important – President Obama's decision not to hold the torturers accountable, leave an incalculably large -- and, I fear, indelible -- stain on America's reputation. *This has been particularly painful for me to watch in light of my three-decade service as an Army intelligence officer and then a CIA analyst.*


One needs "gutsy", *imaginative* companions in actions to raise consciousness, hold the torturers to account, and support whistleblowers -- especially in the desert called "mainstream media." *That's why I'm so grateful to have been working with CODEPINK over the last dozen years*; it's also why I really hope you will support CODEPINK with *a generous year-end donation* [ http://codepink.org/donate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ].


Now that abhorrent "techniques" like waterboarding and "rectal rehydration" have been exposed in a redacted Senate Intelligence Committee report, will the top torture criminals and their obedient lackeys – from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney down to those CIA personnel and contractors "just following orders"– continue to escape accountability? *That depends on us.* And I have to tell you,"* it would be a far lonelier struggle without the leadership and solidarity of CODEPINK.*"


It's our job to rise up against torture and other abuses – drone killings, for example. Stern enforcement of both U.S. and international law is the only deterrent against this kind of unconscionable abuse continuing to happen.


*CODEPINK has been a key partner in this struggle.** *They have *lobbied* hard to close Guantanamo. They have *raised money* to save the home of CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou while he is in prison. They have *pushed* Senator Feinstein hard to release the Torture Study and *urged* Senator Mark Udall to introduce the entire report into the official records. They have *protested* against CIA Director John Brennan (even at his house!) and called for his firing.


We all need CODEPINK to be stronger than ever in 2015, *so please make a generous donation.* [ http://codepink.org/donate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ] Together, we can do our job, as citizens, to hold the torturers accountable, close Guantanamo prison and support whistleblowers.


"*In Justice, then Peace,*"
Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern

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also see

FBI agents the Real Ecoterrorists


http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2015/01/ ... errorists/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

JANUARY 4, 2015 ·

In 2008 at a Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas lease auction Tim DeChristopher bid on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million that he had no intention of buying. The FBI arrested him and charged him with a two-count felony indictment. DeChristopher was branded an “eco-terroist.” Even though the very leases he bid upon were later canceled because of their inadequate environmental review of impacts, DeChristopher nevertheless served 21 months in prison for his act of “terrorism”.

Of course DeChristopher’s motivation was to protect the land from violation by oil companies not his own financial gain. He should have been hailed as a hero. But in America people acting on principle to protect wildlands are often seen as a greater threat than those whose motivation is their personal financial gain.

A good example of the opposite federal government reaction is how the BLM and FBI responded to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. Bundy has repeatedly thumbed his nose at the federal government by refusing to pay minimal grazing fees for more than 20 years (he now owes more than a million dollars), and his failure to remove his cattle from federal property (our property). Instead of being arrested and taken off to jail as DeChristopher was, Bundy is still living free in Nevada, enjoying life as a celebrity.

As a reminder Bundy’s ranch was surrounded by gun toting anti-government militants who threatened to kill federal agents if they attempted to remove Bundy’s cattle from our property. I guess that sends a message that if you want to continue to thwart government action just surround yourself with militia.

One doesn’t have to instigate an armed insurrection to do damage to our patrimony and many acts of eco terrorism are not illegal, yet that doesn’t make them acceptable. Rancher Bill Hoppe, who lives outside of Gardiner Montana, began to run sheep on his ranch in retaliation for wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone which he has vocally opposed. Hoppe is President of the “Friends of the Northern Elk Herd” an anti-wolf organization that has resisted wolf recovery.

Hoppe openly admitted that his domestic animals might jeopardize nearby wild bighorns. As Hoppe is well aware domestic sheep can transmit pneumonia-like disease to their wild cousins causing many to die. Bighorn die-offs linked to domestic sheep have been documented across the West, including in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Idaho. Studies of sheep in captivity have proved transmission. Yet in a blatant disregard for the potential transfer of disease, Hoppe pastured his sheep immediately adjacent to a wild bighorn herd. Bighorns in the area subsequently contracted pneumonia which most observers believe is a result of the presences of Hoppe’s sheep.

Is this an act of “eco terrorism?” It is my book.

Hoppe is not alone in acting with malice towards public wildlife. Rancher Frank Robbins of Wyoming who had his federal grazing leases canceled a number of years ago after more than a dozen violations including overgrazing the public’s grazing lands as well as trespass grazing of other people’s federal leases. Robbins is threating one of Wyoming’s largest wild bighorn sheep herds by purposely running domestic sheep on his property adjacent to occupied wild sheep herds.

Thus Robbin’s threat to mix his domestic sheep in proximity to wild bighorns is analogous to giving small pox infected blankets to Native Americans as a way to reduce their resistance to American settlement and occupation.

Some forms of “eco terrorism” are more subtle and more wide-spread—and unfortunately quite legal. When a rancher’s livestock overgrazes the range, it harms many other creatures dependent on that grass. The grass going into the belly of someone’s cow, means there is that much less grass available for elk, bighorn or even desert tortoises which may depend on the same forage. With less grass, sage grouse may not be able to hide from predators. Yet no one will suffer FBI investigations, much less jail time for starving public wildlife.

Trampling of biocrust by the hooves of livestock damages soil, and permits the establishment of cheatgrass, an exotic alien weed. The spread of cheatgrass has serious consequences for entire ecosystems in part because the plant is highly flammable and increases the likelihood and occurrence of fire, burning out perennial plants like sagebrush. Again destroying biocrusts and spreading cheatgrass while clearly an act of eco-terrorism is not against the law.

How about the draining of our rivers and streams for irrigated hay and alfalfa production? Countless streams around the West are regularly dewatered to grow water loving plants like alfalfa for livestock forage. The removal of water from streams harms fisheries, but also shrinks the stream-side riparian zones that are important habitat for everything from songbirds to bald eagles. You can kill more songbirds and eagles by destroying the volume and acreage of riparian habitat than anyone with a gun may do, but while killing eagles and songbirds is illegal, destroying their habitat to grow cattle feed is not.

We kill thousands of predators from grizzly bears to wolves to coyotes to “protect” private livestock that are grazed on public lands. Even when these animals are not killed, they are harried and displaced by domestic livestock. Even so-called “predator friendly” livestock operations chase wolves and coyotes, harassing our wildlife to make it safe for their livestock. Is this not “terrorism”?

But do we hold ranchers accountable for these acts of eco terriorism? Hardly. Indeed, many politicians, media representatives, and others laud ranchers as the “true conservationists”.

These acts of “eco terriorism do far more damage to our collective heritage than bidding on oil and gas leases that are canceled. Yet while environmental activists like DeChristopher are arrested by Federal Agents and jailed, ranchers and other “eco terrorists” are pampered, and even allowed to continue destroying public property for their private gain. These different approaches to violations of the law demonstrates the blatant inequities in justice in our government’s willingness to fairl

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couple of years ago I traveled to San Fransisco
with the artist Robert Shetterly to conduct interviews with people he has painted for his Americans Who Tell the Truth series

Ms Simon was one of the people interviewed
see

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also see

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Lateefah Simon: Youth advocate nominated as Visionary of the Year


Monday, January 5, 2015





Juvenile Hall on Friday Jan. 02, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Simon is being recognized as a visionary of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Fierce debates over race, class, police and inequality may be raging across the U.S., but for Lateefah Simon, the discussion is all rather simple.
“Everyone’s talking about social justice. What is it? What does it look like? Well, it looks like less crime, less poverty, good schools, jobs we love. ... It looks like peace,” the civil rights advocate said last week at her office in San Francisco. “I think everyone wants the same things. It’s really pretty basic.”
Simon, 37, has been championing those principles since she was a teenager in San Francisco’s Western Addition housing projects. She’s fought for job training and child care for young women caught up in the criminal justice system, education and housing for parolees, and second chances for those least likely to get them.

And, colleagues say, she’s done it all with a smile that could melt even the harshest probation officer.
“People sometimes associate social justice with angry protests, but she does it with warmth, with depth, with love,” said Olis Simmons, director of Youth Uprising community center in East Oakland. “She’s consistently down-to-earth and humble. She’s truly a peaceful warrior.”
Simon’s work, which has led her to the top of numerous Bay Area civil rights organizations, has earned her a slew of accolades, including a MacArthur Foundation grant when she was just 26, a Levi Strauss Pioneer Award and a spot on O magazine’s first Power List.
But for her, the awards and fancy job titles are secondary to the rewards she reaps by helping the Bay Area’s young men and women who are trapped in a seemingly endless labyrinth of unemployment, jail, drug use and despair, she said.
Simon knows a bit about that cycle herself. A high-school dropout, she was working full time at Taco Bell as a teenager, had a baby at age 19 and was on probation for shoplifting before things started to turn around.
“I was the worst student at George Washington High. I was every teacher’s nightmare,” she said with a laugh at her office on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, with views of Alcatraz, the Bay Bridge and passing ferries. “I really had no idea what I was doing.”
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While on probation, she was referred to a nonprofit called the Center for Young Women’s Development, which provided jobs, training, classes, books and other services to girls and young women on the streets and in the criminal justice system.
Troubled young women
There, Simon met girls who were involved in sex trafficking, drug sales and myriad other problems, and, as part of the program, learned how to help them. As a teen not far from the streets herself, she would walk around the Western Addition and Tenderloin and hand out condoms, needles, bleach, candy bars, sandwiches and information about getting help.
“I saw a resilience in these young women,” she said. “These were people who had absolutely nothing, but were somehow able to make it through the day. And the next day. And the next. We developed real friendships and wonderful camaraderie.”
Simon became so involved and motivated by the plight of San Francisco’s struggling young women that she started going to Board of Supervisors meetings every Tuesday to ask what the city was doing to help young women on the fringes. Her passion and intelligence caught the attention of city leaders, including then-Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Kamala Harris, who at the time was a young attorney for the city.
The center’s board was so impressed by Simon’s efforts they named her executive director when Simon was just 19 years old. She was suddenly in charge of a staff of 10 and a $750,000 annual budget.
Harris helped guide her through those years, Simon said.
“She just changed my life. She was tough as nails. She said to me, 'You need to be excellent. ... So first off, you need to go to college,’ “ Simon recalled.
Getting education
Simon enrolled at Mills College in Oakland, taking classes nights and weekends while working full time at the center and raising her daughter. She eventually graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public policy.
Meanwhile, Harris — who by then had become San Francisco’s district attorney — asked Simon to help start a program to help nonviolent, first-time, low-level drug offenders get jobs, enroll in school, attend parenting classes and otherwise improve their lives before they became embroiled in the revolving door of the criminal justice system.
“Our goal was to get people off the street. How do you do that? Turned out it was easy — you just ask them what they need,” Simon said. “Housing? A bank account? A job? Therapy? A gym membership, so you can take better care of yourself? We could help them get those things.”
Simon and her colleagues would go to court hearings and try to intercept young men and women as they met with a judge. In the one-year program, offered as an alternative to jail, offenders would take mandatory parenting classes, regular drug tests, job training workshops and other steps designed to help them “transition to a crime-free life,” Harris wrote in the Huffington Post.
If they completed the program, their felony charges would be dropped.
The program, called Back on Track, was immediately successful. Those who graduated from Back on Track had only a 10 percent recidivism rate, compared with 70 percent for those not enrolled in the program. It was also a bargain for taxpayers: The public pays about $5,000 for each participant, compared with the $50,000 or so it costs to keep a person incarcerated for a year.
The program has since been adopted in cities across the U.S., and was hailed as a model by outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Harris credited the program’s success to Simon’s energy and imagination.
“Lateefah Simon has devoted her life’s work to helping the poor, the disadvantaged, and those trapped in the cycle of our criminal justice system,” Harris said in an e-mail. “While working with me during my tenure as district attorney of San Francisco, she led my office’s work to create 'Back on Track,’ nationally recognized program that helped divert low-level offenders away from lives of crime and toward productive futures. She is a tremendous asset to the state of California and a champion for justice, equality and dignity.”
Civil rights causes
After several years with the city, Simon left to head the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the group formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy to push forward civil rights issues through the legal system. Simon was among the youngest heads of the group, and one of the only non-attorneys.
There, she worked on “ban the box” legislation to remove employment barriers for ex-prisoners, and helped formed a legal clinic to help ex-convicts find housing and jobs.
Since 2011, Simon has served as director of the Rosenberg Foundation’s California Future Initiative, which, among other things, gives grants to organizations helping formerly incarcerated women and children who’ve been exposed to violence and trauma.
But she still finds time to visit young women in jail, to help them find the services they need and serve as a personal role model when she can.
“I want people to know that a better life is possible,” she said. “This city is my soil. I know these people. I love these people. I want them to know that no matter who you are or what you’ve done, you are due a process of transformation. You deserve another chance.”
Simon’s personal life has seen some transformations, as well. Her older daughter is now in college, and Simon has a 3-year-old daughter. She has also moved from San Francisco to North Oakland, where she hopes to be involved with the incoming Libby Schaaf mayoral administration and other East Bay undertakings.
But the biggest change was the death in June of her husband, Kevin Weston, 45, a journalist who headed New American Media, Yo! Youth Outlook and other news outlets focusing on young people, people of color and others sometimes overlooked by the mainstream media.
Weston, who was also a Knight Fellow at Stanford, died of leukemia at their home after the couple launched a nationwide campaign to increase the number of African American bone marrow donors.
“Do I get sad? Yes. We all get sad,” Simon said. “I have friends still dying of AIDS. My dad lives in the Tenderloin. Trust me, it’s not all peachy. ... But what can I do? I keep going. There’s a lot to do, still.”
Colleagues say that Simon’s biggest contribution has been as a role model. Her warmth, optimism and resolve lift up everyone around her, from teenage girls selling drugs in the projects to the leaders in Sacramento, said Zachary Norris, director of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland.
“She’s helped make policies at the very top, and been a role model for those at the very bottom,” he said. “And for me, personally, she’s been an amazing mentor. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel she was a friend.”
Daniel Lee, executive director of the Levi Strauss Foundation, called Simon “one of the truly prophetic people in the Bay Area.”
“You look at what’s happening now in the youth justice system — she was doing that in her teens,” he said. “She’s accomplished so much, it’s like she’s lived six lifetimes. ... She’s so respected and loved and admired, she’s like a grandmother, and she’s not even 40.”
Wide-ranging impact
Simon’s approach has impacted almost every civil rights and social justice group in the region, colleagues said. Not only has she helped change policies, but she’s been personally involved with leaders as well as clients.
“She’s been a pioneer in flipping the youth justice system on its head,” Norris said. “She tells people, 'The people with fancy titles and degrees are not the experts on what your needs are. You are the expert on what you need.’ That approach has really changed everything, for the better.”
For all her accolades, Simon remains approachable and unpretentious. During an interview, she’s as interested in listening and having a conversation as she is in answering questions. Her stories are filled with smiles and laughter, and her enthusiasm never flags.
“My goal is to create a Bay Area that’s good to its people,” she said. “I figure I have 70 more years to pound the pavement and get that done. I know we can do it.”
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: carolynjones@sfchronicle.com

Visionary of the Year award
This is one of 13 profiles of nominees for The Chronicle’s inaugural Visionary of the Year award, which is presented in collaboration with St. Mary’s College’s School of Economics and Business Administration. The honor salutes leaders who strive to make the world a better place and drive social and economic change by employing new, innovative business models and practices. Twelve of the finalists were selected by Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chair of Emerson Collective and widow of Steve Jobs; Daniel Lurie, founder of the poverty-fighting organization Tipping Point; Ronnie Lott, the 49ers Hall of Fame cornerback; Anne Wilson, the chief executive officer of United Way Bay Area; and Zhan Li, the dean of the business school at St. Mary’s. The Chronicle will ask readers to nominate a 13th finalist.
Chronicle Publisher Jeff Johnson, President Kristine Shine, Managing Editor Audrey Cooper and Editorial Page Editor John Diaz will select the winner, who will receive a $10,000 grant. Additionally, a $10,000 scholarship will be established in his or her honor at St. Mary’s College for a graduate business student. The award will be presented during a ceremony in March.
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We brought Frank Wilkinson to speak at our conference
dealing with crimes committed by FBI agents.
see. below

Wilkinson was Director of NCARL which created Bill HR 50
sponsored by former FBI agent Don Edwards

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Herhold: Ex-U.S. Rep. Don Edwards turns 100

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In a long parade of birthdays, Tuesday was the blue-ribbon float for Don Edwards.
The former Democratic congressman from San Jose turned 100, nearly deaf and blind but still strong in spirit and mind. And yes, he celebrated with chocolate cake and ice cream.
"He's so excited about this birthday," said his former aide, Terry Poche, who served him for 20 years. "He's still as sharp as can be."
Santa Clara County has changed so much in the 20 years that Edwards has been gone from Congress, let alone the century since he was born, that many voters have only a fuzzy idea of one of the nation's great liberals.
That's a cruel trick of memory: Edwards, a former FBI agent, left a mark as a politician of conscience, a man who crusaded for civil rights, equal treatment of women, and saving San Francisco Bay (The Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge is named in his honor).
Edwards is not the oldest living ex-congressman. My online check shows that ex-West Virginia congressman Ken Hechler, four months older than Edwards, is still alive.


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Rowley – McGovern Iowa Speaking Tour
July 30, 2015 | Author Ed Flaherty
Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern

Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern

FBI whistle blower Coleen Rowley and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to speak at organized events in nine Iowa cities beginning Sept. 24

IOWA CITY — The three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace announce a nine-city tour of Iowa by former FBI agent and whistle blower Coleen Rowley and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern beginning Thursday, Sept. 24.

McGovern and Rowley seek to raise the level of Iowans understanding of current national security issues. They will focus on specific issues that Iowa caucus-goers may raise at the Feb. 1 caucuses, and on specific questions that Iowans may ask of presidential candidates visiting the state.

The speaking tour includes stops in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Davenport, Parnell, Iowa City, Ames and Des Moines.

Between them, Rowley and McGovern have 51 years of service in the highest levels of the FBI and CIA. Since leaving the agencies, they worked relentlessly for peace and justice. Their nine-city tour begins Sept. 24 in Dubuque and ends in Sept. 30 in Des Moines. The tour is sponsored by the three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace.

“It is refreshing to me and I hope to many others that there is a chance to hear intelligence professionals who are trained and practiced in getting and relaying the truth,” said Paul Appell, member of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 161.

“The foreign policy and war national issues will not be ‘burning’ ones in Iowa unless caucus goers take the initiative to ask,” Rowley said. “Therein lies our real and only mission, our real challenge, to somehow activate them to ask.”

“I think we could surely be attentive to the budget, defense and security issues and how they impinge on efforts toward a fairer country, repair of infrastructure, etc.,” McGovern said.

The public is invited to attend without admission fees.

Rowley McGovern Schedule
All events are free and open to the public, sponsored by Iowa Veterans for Peace

Thursday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. University of Dubuque. Contact Christine Darr, cdarr@dbq.edu.

Friday, Sept 25, 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Building, 50 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, Contact Joe Aossey, jaossey@yahoo.com.

Saturday, Sept 26, Cedar Falls/Waterloo

10:30 a.m.
News Talk sponsored by University of Northern Iowa Democracy Project. University Book Store, 1009 W. 23rd St., Cedar Falls.
3 p.m.
Law Court Theater, Waterloo Center for the Arts. “Addressing/Redressing Global & Local Violence.” Waterloo/Cedar Falls events, contact Tom Kessler tom.kessler@cfu.net.

Sunday, Sept, 27,

2-4 p.m.
Rogalski Center, St. Ambrose University, Davenport. Co-sponsored by the Quad City Times. New Ideas Forum. Contact Paul Foley. 563-333-6025, Foleypaulj@sau.edu.
6 p.m.
JPOG (Just Peace Outreach Group) West Union Mennonite Church, 3253 305 St, Parnell. Finger food potluck, 6 p.m., 7 p.m. program. Bring finger food to share and your own table service. Contact Roger Farmer, 319-653-2547 or Jane Yoder-Short, wilmajane17@gmail.com.

Monday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. Iowa City, University of Iowa Lecture Series “Is Peace Possible?” Englert Theatre.

Tuesday, Sept 29,

Noon
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Both Iowa City events, contact Ed Flaherty, 319-621-6766. Flahertyem@aol.com.
7 p.m.
Ames Public Library, Farwell T. Brown Auditorium. Contact Mary Logsdon. 515-239-5633. Mlogsdon@amespubliclibrary.org.

Wednesday, Sept 30, 7 p.m., Des Moines, Drake University. Contact Gil Landolt, Peacevet@hotmail.com , 515-333-2180.

For more information contact John Jadryev 319-430-2019 or jadryevj@gmail.com.

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