Donny Rico Episode #5: Be The Victim

"In essence, this case is an effort by Chevron to retaliate against Ecuadorian villagers, their lawyers, and their supporters for suing, bringing public pressure, and petitioning government agencies to hold Chevron accountable for violations of human rights. The district court's decision below, if allowed to stand, poses a severe threat to the rights to expression, association, political participation, and access to courts guaranteed by the First Amendment. If the vaguely defined scope and heavy penalties of RICO – enacted to support law enforcement efforts against organized crime syndicates – may be wielded by private parties against public interest groups and activists who engage in First Amendment-protected activities to seek to hold those private parties accountable, democracy itself is threatened."



— Amazon Watch, Amnesty International, and 15 other human rights and environmental NGOs



#CorporateFascism

#Corruption

#Ecocide

Songwriter's Notebook: US History Lesson Plan

Songwriter's Notebook: US History Lesson Plan



"This is the outline for what will eventually be an online course in US history, which will be written by some combination of me and an actual historian, and musically annotated by me.  I'm going to need technical help, too, in terms of interactive graphics on the web so people can interface with the course in different ways -- chronologically, geographically, etc.  Feedback welcome!"



— David Rovics

There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monumen...

This morning, free speech advocates in NYC held a press conference to demand the confiscated Snowden bust be returned to the artists.

A local gallery has already agreed to exhibit the work while the artists submit an application to legally install the sculpture through the New York City Parks Department. In other words, New York could soon have a permanent monument to the whistleblower who challenged NSA surveillance. But first we need to free the statue!

Petition by FFTF:
https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/snowden-bust/



#Snowden may still be in exile for exposing the NSA’s crimes, but we can honor his efforts to hold the US government accountable by making sure this artwork gets released.

TPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of

If you feel like every week there’s always another looming threat to the future of free speech on the Internet, it’s because there is.



The root of the problem is that too many decisions that impact Internet freedom are made by government bureaucrats and corporate lobbyists behind closed doors and without public input.



Right now, U.S. Congress is planning to pass a “Fast Track” bill that will make this situation even worse by ramming through secret agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership - #TPP - that could lead to more censorship and less privacy online.



We all should have a voice anytime there’s a major decision that impacts our rights. Period.









Here in the #EU we have a similar struggle with equally horrendous #TTIP…

The Chevron Tapes

Internal Chevron videos of secret "pre-inspections" of well sites during the Ecuador pollution trial show company technicians finding and then mocking the extensive oil contamination in areas of the Amazon rainforest that the oil giant had claimed in various courts had been remediated.

#CorporateFascism #Ecocide #Whistleblower

Satsa smartare, Stockholm!

Fossil Free Stockholm uppmanar Stockholms stad att divestera.



Visa att också du vill att vår huvudstad tar klimatansvar. Skriv under uppropet: http://act.350.org/sign/stockholm_divestera/







Under Global Divestment Day den 14 februari 2015 lyftes det faktum att Stockholms stad i dag har investeringar i fossilindustrin som bidrar till förödande klimatförändringar.



Dessa tillgångar skulle istället kunna placeras i hållbara alternativ som gynnar utvecklingen av förnybara energilösningar. En förflyttning av investeringar innebär en förflyttning av makt och möjligheter.



Det är dags att Stockholms stad tar klimatansvar och säljer sina fonder i kol-, olje- och gasbolag.



Om det är fel att förstöra klimatet, är det fel att finansiera den förstörelsen.



http://gofossilfree.org/se/