As of Monday, 31 detainees were on hunger strike - about double the number from a week earlier - with eight on feeding tubes, according to authorities at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But lawyers representing most of Guantanamo’s 166 prisoners have said the majority of the detainees held in Camp 6, which houses 130 prisoners, are on hunger strike.
Occupy Offshoot Forgives $1 Million In Random People’s Debt
Occupy Wall Street offshoot, Strike Debt, announced Friday that it has abolished $1.1 million in medical debt for more than 1,000 people.
The protest group did this by buying emergency room debts for pennies on the dollar and then simply forgiving them rather than trying to collect the money, Strike Debt said in a statement.
When a bank, lender or other company, like a hospital, is unable to collect on a debt, it typically sells it to debt buyers or collectors — often at a much lower price than the original amount owed since the odds of collecting the money are low. Whoever buys the debt then attempts to get the money from the debtor.
Citing the large number of bankruptcies that stem from medical bills, Strike Debt’s mission is to stop this collection cycle and abolish the debt altogether.
“Our privatized health care system buries ordinary people in debt all to enrich the 1%,” the group said.
The more than $1 million in debt the group eliminated belonged to 1,064 people, amounting to an average of about $900 in debt per person. These randomly-selected people will receive notices explaining that their debt has been forgiven.
The organization spent about $21,000 to purchase the debt, using money raised from supporters.
To rally the troops around its debt-busting initiative, Occupy’s Strike Debt is planning protests later this month against private insurance companies and other events to raise awareness about hospital closings due to excessive amounts of debt.
Strike Debt originally launched its campaign and fundraising efforts in November, abolishing more than $100,000 in consumer debt before the end of 2012.
A ‘campaign’ by the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts’ (BMHAM) attempts to scare “hip-hop” youth into pulling up their pants.
The video, which is being aired on television, shows a police officer telling viewers that they can be “fined up to $300, be placed into state prison for up to 3 years or be place in a county jail for up to 2 years,” for sagging their pants.
Nevermind the fact that violating a dress code in Massachusetts’ can result in a longer prison term than a misdemeanor assault and battery conviction (2 1/2 years) or that the arrests will disproportionately target African American youth. The real crime here is obviously being committed by the men who where their pant’s “hip-hop style”.
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Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Prisons via Addameer
Since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in 1967,1 an estimated 750,000 Palestinians have been detained under Israeli military orders in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), which constitutes approximately 20 percent of the total Palestinian population in the oPt, and as much as 40 percent of the total male Palestinian population. This figure includes 10,000 women jailed since 1967, including an approximate 800 arrested since 2000. This figure also includes 8,000 Palestinian children arrested since 2000. Each year approximately 700 Palestinian children under the age of 18 from the occupied West Bank are prosecuted every year through Israeli military courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli army. There are currently 4,610 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The arrest and detention of Palestinians living in the oPt is administered by a wide-ranging set of military regulations that govern every aspect of Palestinian civilian life. These military orders provide for a variety of offenses divided into five categories: “Hostile Terrorist Activity”; disturbance of public order; “classic” criminal offenses; illegal presence in Israel; and traffic offenses committed in the oPt. The practical implication of these broadly-defined offenses is the criminalization of many aspects of Palestinian civic life. For example, the political parties that comprise the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are all still considered “illegal organizations” even though Israel has been engaged in peace negotiations with the PLO since 1993. Carrying a Palestinian flag is also a crime under Israeli military regulations. Participation in a demonstration is deemed a disruption of public order. Pouring coffee for a member of a declared illegal association can be seen as support for a terrorist organization.
from Eyes on Israeli Military Court: A collection of impressions](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb16hws8XQ1qjdk8lo1_1280.png)
Click here for the most recent statistics and statistics for previous years [x]
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Prisons via Addameer
Since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in 1967,1 an estimated 750,000 Palestinians have been detained under Israeli military orders in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), which constitutes approximately 20 percent of the total Palestinian population in the oPt, and as much as 40 percent of the total male Palestinian population. This figure includes 10,000 women jailed since 1967, including an approximate 800 arrested since 2000. This figure also includes 8,000 Palestinian children arrested since 2000. Each year approximately 700 Palestinian children under the age of 18 from the occupied West Bank are prosecuted every year through Israeli military courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli army. There are currently 4,610 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons.
The arrest and detention of Palestinians living in the oPt is administered by a wide-ranging set of military regulations that govern every aspect of Palestinian civilian life. These military orders provide for a variety of offenses divided into five categories: “Hostile Terrorist Activity”; disturbance of public order; “classic” criminal offenses; illegal presence in Israel; and traffic offenses committed in the oPt. The practical implication of these broadly-defined offenses is the criminalization of many aspects of Palestinian civic life. For example, the political parties that comprise the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are all still considered “illegal organizations” even though Israel has been engaged in peace negotiations with the PLO since 1993. Carrying a Palestinian flag is also a crime under Israeli military regulations. Participation in a demonstration is deemed a disruption of public order. Pouring coffee for a member of a declared illegal association can be seen as support for a terrorist organization.
from Eyes on Israeli Military Court: A collection of impressions
Greeting US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Wednesday at Israeli defence headquarters, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “The defence ties between Israel and the United States are stronger and tighter than they have ever been and the credit now has to go, most of it, to you, Leon.”
Panetta responded: “We are a friend, we are a partner, we have, as the defense minister has pointed out, probably the strongest US-Israel defense relationship that we have had in history. What we are doing, working together, is an indication not only of our friendship but of our alliance to work together
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Get a fucking room, guys.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/20128171211544932.html
Yeah. I am sure they are investigating real hard….
Boston Police Investigating Officer’s For Choking A Gay Protester
Boston Police is investigating its officers’ response to rowdy duel protests at the Boston Common on Sunday, Tax Day, after a photo surfaced showing “a city officer with his hand around a protester’s neck.” As Daily Kos’ Scott Wooledge reports, the Tea Party-organized event was co-sponsored by the vehemently anti-gay MassResistance and featured Scott Lively, “professional worldwide hunter of homosexuals and top proponent of ‘gay cure’” and a proponent of Uganda’s infamous ‘kill gays’ legislation.
As counter-protesters — including Occupy Boston Queer and Trans Direct Action Working Group — expressed their opposition to Lively’s participation, one of the speakers said from the podium, broadcast across the loud speakers at the Commons, “We will not be silenced by faggots.” Read a first-hand account from the protester roughed up in the picture at Back2Stonewall.
(via anarcho-queer)
If you wonder why I, as an internationalist anticapitalist, still identify part of my struggle with the world as beign connected to my sexuality, here you go.
How can homosexuals proclaim anything but hostility to a nation that by and large is willing to amend constitutions to restrict their rights?!
The actual interactive map has a very good timeline and gives you info on each state, HERE
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