'Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.' -Article 19, United Nations Declaration of
Universal Human Rights
To whom it concerns,
Over the past years, we have borne witness to a technological
revolution. The individual has become free, in the most extreme
anarchistic sense, to share ideas. Some of these ideas are shared
behind proxies, darknets, or similar ?closed doors?. Nevertheless, the
ideas are out there. There have been similar instances of such
revolutions of the mind. Their effects on society are inestimably
great. As in past times with the invention of the printing press, so it
is today that the people embrace this revolution, this new ?anarchy? of
freedom to share, while their autocratic rulers seek to crush this
freedom.
"Dear friends,
Across the Middle East -- in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, and more countries
every day -- autocratic regimes are trying to crush unprecedented
peaceful protests with brutality and blackouts. These countries are
poised on the brink between liberation and enormous bloodshed -- and
the protesters' ability to reach the eyes of the world could determine
the outcomes.
Avaaz is working urgently to "blackout-proof" the protests -- with
secure satellite modems and phones, tiny video cameras, and portable
radio transmitters, plus expert support teams on the ground -- to
enable activists to broadcast live video feeds even during internet and
phone blackouts and ensure the oxygen of international attention fuels
their courageous movements for change."
The Bradley Manning Support Network is an ad hoc, international grassroots effort to help accused whistle blower Pfc. Bradley Manning.
ReadThe CAE Defense Fund was created in 2005 as a mechanism to raise funds
for legal bills incurred by Dr. Steven Kurtz and Dr. Robert Ferrell in
what its members argued was a politically motivated attack by the
Department of Justice - one which threatened the constitutional and
fundamental rights not only of the two defendants, but also of
everyone, due to legal precedents that would have been set by an
unfavorable outcome.
In response, thousands of people worldwide organized demonstrations and
raised money for the two men's legal defense through fundraisers and a
variety of other grassroots efforts.
www.caedefensefund.org
EuroMayDay is a transnational demonstration of precarious and migrant people held the First of May in more than a dozen European cities.
ReadThis is a struggle for better conditions and for the right to fight!
ReadThe no border network is a tool for all groups and grass root organizations who work on the questions of migrants and asylum seekers in order to struggle alongside with them for freedom of movement, for the freedom for all to stay in the place which they have chosen, against repression and and the many controls which multiply the borders everywhere in all countries. This network is different from lobbying groups and NGOs because it is based on groups of grass root activists and intends to stay so. The coordination between the groups is done through two meetings every year and a working list on e-mail.
ReadThe CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working
conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empower
the workers in it. There is a Clean Clothes Campaign in 12 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Right in time for the 1998 German elections, Christoph Schlingensief decided to found his own party with the futuristic-sounding name CHANCE2000 - motto: Vote Yourself!
No One Is Illegal is an international network of local groups of immigrants, refugees and
allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity
and respect.
McSpotlight.is: "The biggest, loudest, most red, most read Anti-McDonald's extravaganza the world has ever seen."
ReadInternational support campaign for independent media in Yugoslavia, including the famous Radio B92 media center, in operation between March and July 1999.
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