Human Rights &amp; Civil Liberties

No, Mr. Trump, It’s Not About Bigotry On All Sides: The Violent White Supremacist Rally In Charlottesville, Explained

Sun, 08/13/2017 - 13:33 — Dave Culver

Part 1: Unite The Right, The Violent White Supremacist Rally In Charlottesville, Explained
- The alt-right rally was a coming-out party for resurgent white racist movement in America.
Part 2:No, Mr. Trump, It’s Not About Bigotry On All Sides: It’s About White Supremacists
- What we are witnessing are … movements that are interested in provoking violence and are, in many cases, well-armed.

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Part 1: Unite The Right, The Violent White Supremacist Rally In Charlottesville, Explained

The alt-right rally was a coming-out party for resurgent white racist movement in America.

Dara Lind, Vox / Portside

August 12, 2017 Hundreds of protesters descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday for a “Unite the Right” rally: a belated coming-out party for an emboldened white nationalist movement in the United States.

The rally was dispersed by police minutes after its scheduled start at noon, after clashes between rally goers and counter-protesters, and after a torchlit pre-rally march Friday night descended into violence. But activity is ongoing, with some rally goers engaging in a march instead.

Dara Lind: My favorite thing about explainer journalism is that you get to acknowledge the easy questions are easy, but you don't have to pretend there are answers to the hard ones.

Bill Fletcher, Jr., billfletcherJr.com / Portside

Part 2:No, Mr. Trump, It’s Not About Bigotry On All Sides: It’s About White Supremacists

One dead after car plows into anti-racist demo in Charlottesville, Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress

Progressives should stop using the term “alt-Right” and recognize that what we are witnessing are neofascist movements, movements that are interested in provoking violence and are, in many cases well-armed.

August 12, 2017 | I sat here listening to Trump’s remarks in connection with the violence carried out by neofascists in Charlottesville this afternoon, violence which has resulted in the death of at least one anti-fascist. He condemned bigotry on what he called all sides.

Once again Trump obscures reality. He either ignores the violence and terrorism carried out against traditionally oppressed groups, e.g., attacks on mosques, or he uses evasive language in order to avoid pointing the finger at the real perpetrators of racist violence.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO.

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Mon, 08/07/2017 - 19:55 — Mike Steigerwald

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The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear

Mon, 08/07/2017 - 19:55 — Mike Steigerwald

You have, unless you want to stay locked up in a super-secure room all day, virtually zero privacy.
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice
Related: Fake Human Rights News? What the Mainstream Media Is Not Telling You, Week Ending July 29, 2017

John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute / Straight Line Logic

June 26, 2017 | The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers “inconvenient laws” aimed at ensuring accountability and thereby bringing about government transparency and protecting citizen privacy.

Indeed, it has mastered the art of stealth maneuvers and end-runs around the Constitution.

It knows all too well how to hide its nefarious, covert, clandestine activities behind the classified language of national security and terrorism. And when that doesn’t suffice, it obfuscates, complicates, stymies or just plain bamboozles the public into remaining in the dark.

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online.

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Fake Human Rights News? What the Mainstream Media Is Not Telling You, Week Ending July 29, 2017, Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

If you solely rely on the Western media for enlightenment, your acquired knowledge is plain ignorance. You will never learn the truth because they simply manipulate the news. Learn the truth in our selection of articles below.

Mexicans and Chinese Aren’t “Stealing Our Jobs”
Class and Race Are Never an Excuse to Gloat Over State Atrocities.
Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
SPLC board member visits America’s ‘huddled masses’ at an immigrant detention center.
Islamophobia Is the Glue That Unites Diverse Factions of the Far Right
Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march.

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SPLC board member visits America’s ‘huddled masses’ at an immigrant detention center, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Fake Human Rights News? What the Mainstream Media Is Not Telling You, Week Ending July 29, 2017

Mon, 07/24/2017 - 12:37 — Dave Culver

Mexicans and Chinese Aren’t “Stealing Our Jobs”
Class and Race Are Never an Excuse to Gloat Over State Atrocities.
Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
SPLC board member visits America’s ‘huddled masses’ at an immigrant detention center.
Islamophobia Is the Glue That Unites Diverse Factions of the Far Right
Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march

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Mexicans and Chinese Aren’t “Stealing Our Jobs”, Bill Bonner, Bonner and Partners

May 30, 2017 | The US government, not the Mexicans and Chinese, are responsible for the drying up of vitality and risk taking, and consequently the job creation, of the economy.

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Class and Race Are Never an Excuse to Gloat Over State Atrocities, Jeffrey Tucker, Intellectual Takeout

June 21, 2017 | If there is anything redeeming to come of this (the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, it should be a wake-up call to all of us to change the way we think about human rights and stop a terrible trajectory of public rhetoric. He still had a right not to be kidnapped and killed by an evil government.

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Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile. There's no justice, Steven W Thrasher, Guardian

June 2017 | Police harassment and violence, and the ways the system facilitate and enable it, are not exceptional to the US. They are part of what makes the US what it is.
“We are being hunted,” Valerie Castile said before the acquittal even came out. And so it makes sense that there was no redress for her son from a “justice” system that works hand in hand with the police who do the hunting.

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June 28, 2017 | Hidden away in the woods of southwest Georgia sits the euphemistically named Stewart Detention Center. The facility, owned and operated by the for-profit corporation CoreCivic, holds men that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking to deport.

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Islamophobia Is the Glue That Unites Diverse Factions of the Far Right, Spencer Sunshine, Truthout

Friday, July 14, 2017 | In order to confront the current wave of Islamophobia, it is crucial to understand how different far-right groups are deploying it as a unifying tool -- and how this affects the growth of the far right as a whole.

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Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march, Patrick Strickland, Al-Jazeera

Two journalists are among more than 200 people facing felony charges after mass arrests at Inauguration Day rally.

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After Minneapolis police shooting of Justine Damond, it's time to decide who runs this town.

Thu, 07/20/2017 - 11:31 — Dave Culver

Justine Damond “was the bright light the world needed today,” cried out friend Denise Houser as she visited the makeshift memorial that was left at the scene where a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Damond on Saturday night. Elizabeth Flores; Star Tribune

I say it's us civilians, and we insist on the reforms the Police Department resists and its political patrons have shrunk from.
Right now, as a lifelong Minneapolitan, I’m ashamed for my community.
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Richard G. Carlson, Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune

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July 18, 2017 | Thomas Falloon, one of my paternal great-great-grandfathers, arrived here in Minneapolis from Ireland around the time of the Civil War. His daughter, my great-grandmother Priscilla, was born in Minneapolis in 1866. A maternal great-grandfather, Daniel Carroll, who arrived in the 1880s, was organizing labor unions in Minneapolis at the turn of the 20th century. His son, my grandfather William Carroll, was also a union organizer, and was there in the pitched battle between union men and law enforcement on First Avenue in 1934. I became an assistant public defender here in 1982 and retired in 2010. My two multiracial granddaughters are seventh-generation Minneapolitans.

We’ve been here for a long time. We’ve been progressives for a long time. And right now, as a lifelong Minneapolitan, I’m ashamed for my community.

Richard G. Carlson, of Minneapolis, is a retired assistant Hennepin County public defender.

“While there is always room to debate the most effective approach to criminal justice, that debate should be based on facts, not fear.”
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