Tag Archives: U.S.

Block Thursday Jan 26th EU Ratification of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By John Kennedy, Silicon Republic | Sharon Polsky, Interweb Freedom | YouTube (courtesy of Defend Your Freedom) | Why You Should Care About ACTA (booklet, in multiple languages), European Digital Rights | Assembled by Haiti Chery. European countries, including Ireland, might later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA. This bill would deputize Internet Service Providers to spy on their customers, among other things. Includes PDF with text of ACTA. UPDATED Jan 26th.

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Longshore Union ILWU and Grain Terminal EGT Reach Settlement

avatarPosted on by December 18, 2018

By Staff, Longshore & Shipping News. International Longshore and Warehouse Union ILWU and Export Grain Terminal EGT reached a tentative settlement, according to a press release today from Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington state. “This is a win for the ILWU, EGT, and the Longview community.” – ILWU President Robert McEllrath. URGENT UPDATE Thu Jan 26: “Scab’s contract has officially been terminated. Pickets have been taken down. There is still no contract! No real answers! No backing down!” – Longview Caravan. UPDATE Jan 27: Settlement reached and approved unanimously by ILWU membership! Congratulations ILWU, Occupy Oakland, and Longview community! UPDATE Feb 11: Longshore workers name Occupy Movement as crucial in settlement with EGT.

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Occupy Oakland Plans Monday Jan 23rd Support of Dock Workers Against Union-Busting Coast Guard

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Editors, Occupy Everything. On Monday Jan 23, 2012, the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee and the Committee to Defend the ILWU will protest the use of armed Coast Guard cutters and helicopters to escort a grain ship to a terminal being picketed by the ILWU.

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SOPA, PIPA Instigators Feel the Heat But More Attacks Expected on ‘Freedom to Share’

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By David Badash, New Civil Rights Movement | Nate Cochrane, Sydney Morning Herald | Clay Shirky, YouTube. One day after an international protest joined by father of world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Internet hacktivist collective Anonymous brought down the web sites of MPAA, the DOJ, Universal Music Group, RIAA, and the U.S. Copyright Office. Video covers what PIPA and SOPA would do and why more is coming.

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A New Reserve Currency to Challenge the Dollar – What’s Really Going on in the Straits of Hormuz

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

By David Malone, Golem XIV | Staff, IRIB News. Once it becomes more profitable for countries to use a basket of currencies tied to the yuan, then the yuan will effectively become the world’s reserve currency.

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The Garzon Trial: Petty Vengeance

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Robert Bosschart, Radio Netherlands. More than anything, Judge Baltasar Garzon is paying the price for seeking to uncover a vast corruption ring (the so-called Gurtel case) within a Conservative party that embezzled millions during its previous administration and has just returned to power.

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How to Blackout Your Site Wed Jan 18th to Protest PIPA

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Jon Fox, Torbit. PIPA will come up for a vote on Tue Jan 24th in the U.S. Senate. Although SOPA is indefinitely postponed, the protest against PIPA is still on. Here’s how to blackout your site on Wed Jan 18.

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PIPA Fight Still On, Wikipedia Joins Wed Jan 18th Blackout

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Andrew Couts, Digital Trends | Background, Haiti Chery. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) vote has been delayed indefinitely, but the equally intrusive Protect IP Act (PIPA) is still scheduled for a U.S. Senate vote on Tue Jan 24th. Reddit, BoingBoing, Mojang, Destructoid, Anonymous, Wikipedia (English) and the entire Cheezburger Network have announced blackouts for Wed Jan 18th to protest PIPA.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

avatarPosted on by March 22, 2020

By Martin Luther King Jr, In: Why We Can’t Wait (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1963) | Charles Moore, Photos | Estate of Martin Luther King Jr, Statement by Clergymen | Assembled by Haiti Chery. “Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” – MLK

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Cholera Vaccines Unnecessary, Ineffective, Expensive, and Dangerous

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

By Rashid Haider, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cholera vaccines are being pushed on Haiti, especially Shanchol, a vaccine that protects only 45 percent of those vaccinated during the first year and is unsuitable for controlling epidemic or endemic cholera. Shanchol is expensive. In addition, preparations of it for use in developing countries contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal.

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MoveYourDomain to Protest Internet Blacklist Bills

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Rainey Reitman, Electronic Frontier Foundation. To protest the internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA, several companies are challenging the internet community to transfer domain names and offering special deals for these transfers.

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Block a January 24th U.S. Senate Vote to Censor Online Communication

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Jane Wells, Word Press Planet. Internet censorship bill SOPA PIPA to allow the U.S. government to take down web sites (presumed to be involved in copyright infringement) will be voted on by the Senate on Tuesday, January 24th. Unless 41 senators can be found to help block this vote, it is going to pass.

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Energy Return on Investment (EROI) Nears Limit for Oil and Gas Discovery, Production

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Jay Kimball, 8020 Vision. Producing a barrel of oil consumes more and more energy. As we approach an EROI of 1:1 (in other words, consuming 1 barrel of oil to produce 1 barrel of oil) it’s game over.

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Bigger Greenhouse Gas Footprint from Fracking

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Lynn Herrmann, Digital Journal. According to a study by scientists at Cornell University, compared to conventional oil, gas, or coal, the shale gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has a greater impact on climate change because of a bigger greenhouse effect due to release of high levels of methane.

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