Forest fires across Palestine (aka "Israel")

Forest fires across Palestine (aka "Israel")
http://cyprus.indymedia.org/node/5083

Dana Beal Sentenced to Prison

Dana Beal, at age 64 is still a devoted freedom fighter and totally committed to the Medical Marijuana Movement - in the defense of which he is going to prison.

Please read the specifics of his sentencing below and details from the trial that include testimonies of support that were made in Court by witnesses. Also, watch the half-hour video of his statement to the Court that summarizes a lot of his work in setting up support networks for Cannabis patients and his promotion of the anti-addiction herbal medicine called Ibogaine.

Through his work with Ibogaine, Dana has helped a lot of addicts to become free from heroin, crack cocaine, alcohol and other killer chemicals.

Dana is a co-founder of the Yippies, comrade of notable revolutionary activists such as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Stu Albert, and he is the "superpower", mastermind and initiator of the Global Marijuana March campaign that sees annual gatherings and protests by thousands of Friends of Cannabis in several hundreds of cities around the planet every MayDay.

Video: Dana's Statement to the Court {please click on the image, or the link below} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKgOh_VSQe0&noredirect=1

Contact
You can communicate with Dana through his lawyer:
Byron Walker, Attorney At Law,
P.O. Box 10, La Farge, WI 54639

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

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Beal gets prison, extended supervision
J. Patrick Reilly, Editor/Co-Publisher

Those who came to the Iowa County courthouse Tuesday to testify on Irvin (Dana) Beal's behalf would not be shocked if he walked on water.

Beal has that affect on those he has helped. But the fact the 64 year old Beal was transporting 180 pounds of medium grade marijuana through Wisconsin when his 1997 Chevrolet Astro van was stopped last January 6 for expired registration, missing bumper and cracked tail light couldn't let him walk out of the courthouse a free man.

Instead, Circuit Judge Robert P. Van De Hey sentenced Beal to five years in prison, 2 1/2 under incarceration and 2 1/2 under extended supervision. Van De Hey also gave Beal credit for time served (267 days) and granted eligibility for early release. That is a better deal than the four years prison and four years extended supervision asked for by assistant DA Timothy Helmberger.

It is a way better deal than the 15 years and $50,000 fine that is the maximum allowed by law. Van De Hey reminded the crowded courtroom that while the passionate testimony offered by people from as far away as New Zealand, California, New York and Minnesota made valid points, he was forced to make a ruling that includes prison time.

"We are a country of laws," he said. "People have acknowledged his deeds but it is not fair to give him a free pass especially with that much marijuana on board. He has committed the offense and now must be held accountable."

"I have no problem with medical marijuana," Van De Hey said. "But I have to keep in mind the 180 pounds he had in his vehicle." "I don't make the laws but I have to enforce the laws as they are written," he said.

This will be Beals's sixth conviction. He was convicted of drug related offenses in 1971, 1987, 1993 and 2006. He was on probation for an arrest in Nebraska when his vehicle was stopped in Iowa County.

Beal testified prior to sentencing and told the judge he would not do that particular thing again. "I am too old," he said. "I need a different job."

He said he was taking the marijuana to be used for medical purposes in Michigan, New York and Washington, DC where it is legal. "Would law enforcement be upset if I was moving medical marijuana to where it was legal?" he asked.

A woman from New Zealand told the court how Beal had come to her country to help set up clinics and with the use of ibogaine, a drug that cures heroin addiction. Ibogaine is not legal in the United States. "If you put Dana away his work will stop," she said. "He has helped a lot of human beings in New Zealand and was planning to do the same in Australia. He is an expert and has paid for those who need treatment. This will all stop if he goes away. Help save our people from drug abuse."

Ed Rosenthal came from California to testify. "I have known Dana for 30 plus years," he said. "Dana saves lives. He is not a drug dealer. You talk community service? Dana has put in 30 years of community service. Don't be part of a system where a person is jailed for his efforts."

Rabbi Issac Freese from Brooklyn said he has known Beal for 20 years and only knows good about him. "He helped us open a medical co-op. He sacrificed himself. He lost money. He went ahead and did it anyway, not for himself but so people could get the help they need." "Dana is needed today by the people he has helped. He has given them shelter, relief and a trusting heart."

A former meth addict credited Beal with getting her sober. "Dana helped me get treatment," she said. "Now I am sober and have a beautiful four year old daughter." Manhattan attorney Doug Green called Beal a champion of medical marijuana and ibogaine. Dennis Brennen, formerly of New York and now of Wisconsin, turned to Dana when he couldn't afford medical marijuana at $30 to $40 per gram. "He could get it for me at $10 per gram. He has helped many get affordable medical marijuana."

Jackie Rickard testified from her wheelchair and credited Beal with helping her get medical marijuana for her condition.

Paul DeReinzo, a school teacher in New York, compared Beal to Galileo who was eventually proven right in his theories after 300 years. "Let's not take 300 years to prove Dana right," he said. "Dana's been right all along. We can do the right thing here for future generations."

Beal may eventually answer charges against him in other states.

From: http://www.thedodgevillechronicle.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=1869

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Valis is Valid
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Entheogens/message/3172

Free Dana Beal, Free Ourselves
http://www.facebook.com/groups/143405647913

Dana Beal is out of Jail - Freedom for all Friends of Cannabis! http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2009/11/dana-beal-is-our-of-jail-freedom-for.html

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Reconciliation and Reunification: exploration of difficulties

South Africa is an excellent point of reference for us in Cyprus who struggle both for Reconciliation and Reunification of our country's two main communities.

Exploration and awareness of the difficulties involved in this, and also the path to successful solutions, are often blocked by the interests and forces of local and global State and Capital who act to bury them under political party slogans, misdirection, and political manipulation.

We are especially in tune with the saga of the South African liberation movement for many reasons. But one in particular has become even more relevant for us in the recent decade, in that the imperialist powers and our local politicians are working to impose a racist Bizonal Apartheid regime on us (a new version of the Annan plan), just like the one that tormented South Africa until 17 years ago. Same as the apartheid regime that continues to torment the people of Palestine who live under zionist Israeli domination.

The process of Reconciliation and Reunification is very difficult, both before and after any solution - even if the solution is functional.

In South Africa, as the article below shows, even after a formal dissolution of the regime problems remain because unofficial Apartheid and the objective domination of one race over another never ended, and this generates racial hatred that is a bitter part of the social justice movement.

In Cyprus we are in an even worse position: because we have not even managed to get the occupation army to allow our people to Reunite and attempt to live together again in the same neighborhoods, workplaces and schools, as we used to in the past.

Reunification is the direction in which every person with a conscience wants us to move in. But the obstacles are tremendous. Military, economic and political obstacles are of course the most difficult, and any effort to examine the effect of social consciousness, psychology, feelings, etc. must take a secondary place.

Nevertheless, emotional and psychological factors are generated by the military, economic and political obstacles, which then take a life of their own.

Occupation, genocide and social injustice breed hatred. Hatred fuels the liberation struggle but it also makes Reconciliation and Reunification more difficult. It's a terrible cycle but it's a part of the truth, and we need to find ways to deal with it.

At the same time we need to recognize that hatred will only be gone when both the formal and the informal (de facto) structures of domination, occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide are removed.

If our two communities succeed in removing them together, by joined action, then the dissipation of hatred will occur at the quickest rate possible, and it will gone forever. I look forward to that beautiful day.

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

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SAfrica rules against youth leader for hate speech
http://news.yahoo.com/safrica-rules-against-youth-leader-hate-speech-094521756.html
By DONNA BRYSON - Associated Press, Sep. 12 2011

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find offensive, a judge said Monday. Judge Collin Lamont went further than AfriForum, the white rights group that brought the hate speech suit, had demanded by saying that all South Africans, not only Julius Malema, should refrain from singing "Shoot the Boer."

Under the ruling, criminal cases can now be brought against those who sing the song or quote its lyrics. In a ruling broadcast live on national television, the judge said that while such anthems had their place during apartheid, they constitute hate speech in a society now struggling to redefine relations between the races.

Monday's ruling comes four months after hearings in Malema's hate speech trial that were broadcast live on national television. The court case is separate from Malema's ongoing African National Congress disciplinary hearings, which also have drawn wide attention.

While Monday's judgment could be seen as a setback for the embattled Malema, the lightning-rod figure might use it to rally support from South Africans who see "Shoot the Boer" as part of the heritage of the anti-apartheid movement. "Boer" means farmer in the language of South Africa's Dutch descendants known as Afrikaners, and is broadly used to refer to whites in general and Afrikaners in particular.

In a statement, the ANC said it was "appalled" by the decision, but would respect it while deciding what steps to take next. Malema, who was not in court Monday but testified at length during hearings earlier this year, had argued the song was not a literal threat against whites.

Malema and the ANC said it was a symbolic call to fight oppression, both under apartheid and 17 years after the end of white rule in a society where the black majority largely remains poor. After the ruling, crowds outside the downtown Johannesburg courtroom sang the song in defiance of the judge.

ANC Youth League leaders urged them to respect the ruling while they consulted with their lawyers about whether to appeal or take other steps. Malema, 30, has forced South Africa to confront its racial divide, insisted on trying to set his party's political and economic agenda, and claimed to represent the country's restive, poor, black majority.

The disciplinary hearings, which could lead to Malema's suspension or expulsion from the party, focus on accusations he is undermining President Jacob Zuma.

The ANC leaders who make government policy have consistently — and at times mockingly — rejected Malema's calls to nationalize mining or confiscate property from whites to hand over to blacks.

But he cannot be ignored. The vehemence and volume of his rhetoric could, over time, be influential. And his Youth League's reputation for getting voters to the polls means it has influence when the party draws up candidate lists.

Malema took credit for putting Zuma at the top of the ANC list in 2009, though he now accuses the president of being too moderate. The next election is in 2014, but the ANC could replace Zuma before that in a process akin to a vote of confidence within the party.

Malema was raised by a single mother who worked as a maid in one of South Africa's most impoverished regions. He shares those biographical details with Zuma, and they explain some of his appeal among poorer South Africans. His appeal has not been undermined by his recent acquisitions of expensive cars, flamboyant friends and a home in one of Johannesburg's most expensive neighborhoods.

Critics question whether he's sold political favors to get his wealth, charges he denies even as police and an anti-corruption office investigate. Critics also say he sets an example that feeds materialistic aspirations among young South Africans that their elders fear have crowded out the previous generation's goals of replacing apartheid with a just and humane society.

In the hate speech case, AfriForum chief executive Kallie Kriel said at court Monday his group respected the heritage of the anti-apartheid movement, but agreed with Lamont that South Africa now should move on.

"We need to find mutual recognition and respect among communities," he said, calling the ruling a victory over Malema's vision of South Africa. Leslie Mkhabela, Malema's lawyer, said he did not believe courts were the right forum to debate such social issues.

The judge had made a point similar to Mkhabela's during the trial, urging the parties to find a mediated settlement. Monday, he said he hoped the attention the trial had drawn, and his decision to allow much of it to be broadcast, would help South Africans heal by learning about each other after decades of being separated by the violence and injustice of apartheid.

Lamont spoke for nearly two hours before delivering his ruling, touching on South Africa's colonial history, the struggle against apartheid and the media attention and public outrage Malema had drawn with his insistence on singing such lyrics as "shoot the boer, they are rapists, robbers."

Lamont also spoke of the limitations of the law, acknowledging that while he could issue an order banning a song, many South Africans "are passionate about the right to sing the song." He urged South Africans to "pursue new ideals and find a new morality. They must develop new customs and rejoice in developing society by giving up old practices which are hurtful to members who live in that society with them."

___ Donna Bryson can be reached on http://twitter.com/dbrysonA

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An earlier version of this article can be found at the Turko-Hellenic Friendship and Dialogue group named KaliMerhaba:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kalimerhaba_HellenoTurkish_Community/message/2612

Images The photo of the mangled Hellenic statue is from the occupied ancient city Salamis, where illegal excavations and commercial exploration are part of an ethnic cleansing process that continues to this day, throughout almost 40 years of occupation.

Republished from here:
http://www.parathyro.com/?p=4028

Childrens' paintings of occupation, division and war atrocities against civilians are from an article published in the Electronic Intifada, titled:
Gaza children’s images of war censored under pressure from US Israel lobby
http://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-childrens-images-war-censored-under-pressure-us-israel-lobby/10373

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16 Dead, Hundreds Injured

A global demonstration for Palestine put down by force of arms

The demonstration in Cyprus

Israeli forces opened fire on unarmed refugees and international solidarity demonstrators killing 16 people and injuring hundreds all along occupied Palestine's borders and inside the occupied areas.

Corporate and State media are under-publishing the massacres in an effort to protect the image of Zionist apartheid. But information is getting through.

Thousands of people amassed along the artificial and illegally imposed borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, where Israeli forces fired upon them with live ammunition - please see this short video by the Russia Today agency:
Video of Golan Heights, West Bank clashes as Israeli forces repel protesters
"Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders on Sunday, leaving as many as 16 people dead and dozens wounded in an unprecedented wave of violence marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgnMczQAIGs

Co-ordinated protests took place everywhere on earth where Palestinians or supporters of Palestine live.

The events are part of the annual commemoration of the Palestinian Nakbah (catastrophe, genocide) which this year has taken on a new character: in the spirit of self-organization and self-mobilization, the Palestinian people have declared that this year's Nakbah date will be the initiation of a Third Intifada (peoples' insurrection). The popular initiative has, as usual, has left behind the "leaders" of the various parties and factions; the people moved forward on their own, and the leaders are running to catch up.

New video shows Israeli soldiers firing as mass marchers enter Golan
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/new-video-shows-israeli-soldiers-firing-mass-marchers-enter-golan

PFLP: National and Islamic Forces salute the martyrs of return and announce a day of national mourning
http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=national-and-islamic-forces-salute-martyrs-return-

Regions Leaders React To al Nakba Killings
http://www.imemc.org/article/61250

150 Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Ramallah
http://www.imemc.org/article/61249

Palestinian Youth Killed, 172 Injured, As Army Attacks “Return Protests” In Gaza
http://www.imemc.org/article/61248

Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh arrested by the Zionist military forces during a non-violent protest
http://www.imemc.org/article/61247

The protest in Lefkosia, Cyprus, was small but very spirited and highly organized, and it showed to the Zionist oppressors and to their allies within the Government of Cyprus that the banner of Liberation, whenever it is taken up by the people, is indomitable.

There will never be Peace until there is Justice.

Editorial Collective, Cyprus IndyMedia
http://cyprus.indymedia.org
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Independent Palestinian News Sources
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/independent-palestine-news-resources.html

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Teaching the Taboo

A new book by Bill Ayers and Rick Ayers titled:
"Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom"

New book by two seasoned social justice activists challenges educators to confront the taboos they face in their teaching.

NEW YORK, NY, January 2011: Teachers College Press, the university press for Teachers College, Columbia University has just released a provocative and highly acclaimed collection of essays by Rick Ayers and William Ayers, two activists who have each dedicated their lives to teaching and the struggle to improve education for all children.

In this volume, the Ayers brothers invite readers to question the basic assumptions and unexamined truths they hold about the purposes, aims, and potential of schooling, young children, and the profession of teaching. They argue that education should not be about tests, competition, and supporting the status quo but of opening doors, expanding minds, and handing power over to students as they engage in the world.

In the foreword to this powerful book, Haki R. Madhubuti, the renowned poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, writes, “If given the chance, this book can be a defining text not only for those in the profession of education, but also for parents and lay readers nationwide who are truly concerned about our children and our future.” In an era of high-stakes testing and rigid curriculum standards, educators who want to encourage creativity and make their classrooms a haven of expression and change all too often wind up instilling compliance and stifling creative action. In Teaching the Taboo, readers will find encouragement in the first-hand accounts of teachers daring to step outside of established classroom guidelines to reclaim their power to teach. Together, the authors have crafted a passionate but grounded call to action that is essential reading for anyone looking to evolve as an educator.

Advance Praise for Teaching the Taboo:

“Drawing from a lifetime of deep thinking about education and courageous commitment to precious students, Rick and William Ayers have given us a marvelous book. Their devastating critique of the pervasive market models in education and their powerful defense of democratic forms of imagination in schools are so badly needed in our present-day crisis!” —Cornel West, Princeton University

“Teaching the Taboo is provocative, challenging, funny in places, wild but sensible enough to be useful, inspiring, and practical for educators who are working to negate the educational madness that is infecting the schools.” —Herb Kohl, author of "36 Children" and "Painting Chinese"

“Like all good teachers, the Ayers brothers challenge us to enter and engage our deepest, darkest questions and concerns in the classroom. In the end, the best thing we can do as critical educators is to teach that which is TABOO!” —David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Don't be mistaken—what counts as ‘taboo’ is often the very thing that must be addressed for change to occur, as brilliantly illustrated in this new book by Richard and William Ayers.” —Kevin Kumashiro, founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education and author of "The Seduction of Common Sense"

Rick Ayers is a university instructor and founder of the Communication Arts and Sciences small school at Berkeley High School. He is an adjunct professor in Teacher Education at University of San Francisco and Mills College. He blogs at the Huffington Post and writes for other publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Teachers College Record. He has worked as a Master Teacher for KQED Education Department, on the Teacher Advisory Board for Youth Speaks, as a teacher trainer for the Bay Area Writing Project, as a fellow at the Institute on Media and American Democracy, Harvard University, and as a core team member of the Diversity Project.

William Ayers is a school reform activist, distinguished professor, and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate. He is the author of many acclaimed works on social justice. Find him at: http://www.billayers.org/

Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom
Rick Ayers and William Ayers
January 2011/ 144 pp./ PB $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8077-5152-7
http://store.tcpress.com/0807751529.shtml

Rick Ayers and William Ayers are available for interviews upon request.

For review copies contact:
Beverly Rivero, Publicist, (USA) (212) 678-3963, rivero@tc.edu;
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To order copies, please call (USA) 800-575-6566
or visit us on the web: http://www.tcpress.com
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More about Rick Ayers

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2006-06-13/article/24383

Speaking Truth to Power: The Mythology of Imperialism
by Rick Ayers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ayers-/speaking-truth-to-power-t_b_273918.html

The Curse of Vietnam Now Haunting Afghan Killing Fields
by Rick Ayers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ayers-/the-curse-of-vietnam-now-_b_695830.html

More about Bill Ayers

10 things to know about Bill Ayers. A primer
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/10_things_to_know_about_bill_a.html

Biography
http://billayers.wordpress.com/biographyhistory

From the Weather Underground Organization: MARCH 6 1970-2010
"We've just received this communication from our friends and comrades Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground Organization...":
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-weather-underground-organization.html

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PKK: A Ceasefire for Ramadan and the Referendum

Forty Days of Peace with Conditions that May Lead to a Truce

The revolutionary armed forces of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that are active in all regions of Kurdistan and primarily in the regions occupied by Turkey and Iraq, have announced a unilateral ceasefire on the occasion of the First Day of Ramadan - the Islamic holy month - and have extended it to September 20, several days past the popular Constitutional Referendum in Turkey that is scheduled for September 12.

The PKK announced the ceasefire during a press conference somewhere in the mountains of Qandil, on August 13.

Among other things the announcement said: "From August 13 to September 20, our forces will not undertake any action, but will use their right to defend themselves in case of any attack against them or the people."

It also contained conditions that, if accepted by the Government of Turkey, can quickly lead to a more lasting Peace. Some of those conditions include:

o- making the ceasefire bilateral and comprehensive;
o- a release of about 1.700 political prisoners;
o- opening up of a formal negotiation process along political lines that have been published in the recent past by PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and the creation of conditions for Ocalan to participate actively in the peace process.

In the announcement PKK also said that this conditional ceasefire was initiated by a message from Abdulla Ocalan, who is still imprisoned under "special conditions" in Turkey.

Abdulla Ocalan's and PKK's conception of how this ceasefire can be turned into a lasting Peace is presented in an article from the FIRAT News Agency that we reproduce in its entirety below, titled
"Will the Turkish government be up to the challenge of peace?"
Below it, please see links to related news, and information on the photographs in this article.

The conditions for Peace that are explored in the article include changes in the electoral laws; the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation process (like the one that helped re-unite South Africa after the revolution against Apartheid); and a safe return home of all the guerillas.

The upcoming Constitutional Referendum in Turkey that is scheduled for September 12 might help to democratize some of Turkey's institutions. Turkey's fifty million voters will decide on new Constitutional provisions that would make the military more accountable to civilian courts, as well as give parliament a say in appointing judges. It would also allow public servants the right to collective agreement and the right to strike, and end immunity from prosecution for the military coup leaders of 1980.

We hope the Government of Turkey will accept this initiative and take the opportunity to work together with the PKK for a lasting Peace.

Cyprus IndyMedia Editorial Collective

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Will the Turkish government be up to the challenge of peace?
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=77014 August 2010

The PKK unilateral ceasefire gives the Turkish government a strong opportunity to engage genuinely in building a just peace process Once again it is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) who took the first step. Yesterday's declaration of yet another unilateral ceasefire shows that the PKK is in a position of strength. Political strength, that is. Indeed, important decision needs (and can only be made) a strong internal support and consensus. This the PKK has shown to have. Not the same can be said for the Turkish government which indeed has demonstrated in this past couple of years (just to keep it close) to be hostage in turns of the army, its internal fundamentalist and sciovinist front, the opposition parties with their blind nationalism and racism.

The PKK has proved once again to be in control which ultimately means it showed to have a vision for the future. And it is a shared vision. Shared and common, which ultimately means it is a vision on which the Kurdish people agree. And again the Kurdish people in all of its shades and organisation, i.e. in all of its reach and diverse core of activities, whether it is the municipalities work, the grassroots work, the cultural work, the social work, the women work. What the Kurdish liberation movement has proved all these years is its incredible ability to face up to the challenges in all of the areas in which people's life is divided. There is a cohesion and consistency which is what has brought the municipalities and the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), and before that the DTP (Democratic Society Party) to work on the building of the so called 'democratic autonomy', a viable (and so far the only proposal on the table) proposal, model to run a state (the Turkish state) which is not (and sooner or later both the kemalists and the ultra nationalists, as well as the army, will have to come to terms with that) the 1923 Turkish Republic as Kemal Ataturk proclaimed it to be. Indeed it never was, because, for its own composition, the Turkish Republic could never be the territory of solely the Turks, with Turkish as their sole language. But this is another story.

Back to the present, the PKK with yesterday's ceasefire has offered once again to the (weak) Turkish government an opportunity. An opportunity to seriously go down to business, which means genuinely get involved in building a viable, democratic and egalitarian peace process.

Former president of human rights association and BDP MP, Akin Birdal, is right. "It is the Turkish government's turn to take a step", he said. It is indeed, and the PKK went even further as it spelled out four simple issues which must be addressed if there is a genuine commitment towards a lasting peace.

In its statement, the PKK says that "before anything else the continuous operations taken up against the military and political areas must be halted and a process of bilateral ceasefire must be developed". The second point is the request for the "immediate release of around 1700 Kurdish civilian politicians and members of the peace group who were arrested unjustly and unjustifiably". The third point underlines the need for the "commencement of a negotiation process based on the three-points resolution framework presented to the public by our leader Abdullah Ocalan and the creation of conditions for leader Ocalan to actively participate in the peace process". The last point asks for the "reduction of the 10 percent election threshold which does not exist in any democratic country". It is worth noting that Abdullah Ocalan underlined three conditions necessary to trigger a peace process: bilateral ceasefire, the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission similar to that established in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid and organising the return home of the PKK guerrillas (which would happened in different stages, beginning with the gathering of guerrillas in one place under the supervision of an international organisation and then, when conditions are suitable, with a return en masse).

Again in its statement the PKK underlines that "in order for this process to transform into a profound and permanent peace, the AKP government and the Turkish state must act accordingly. If the AKP government under various excuses fails to move forward and continues with its elimination process by imposing a deadlock, then it should be known by all that this process shall not proceed unilaterally. "

From:
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=770
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 Photos, Links, Sources  

PKK declares Ramadan ceasefire
http://www.holocaustmuseum.org.uk/politics/middle-east/357181-pkk-declares-ramadan-ceasefire

Kurdish rebels announce ceasefire to September 20
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE67C43420100813

PKK's 40-Day Ceasefire Considers Barzani’s Call
http://rudaw.net/english/kurds/3104.html

PKK calls unilateral ceasefire
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=765

Photo at Top
From the Press Conference where the announcement was made, showing Bozan Tekin and an unidentified woman guerilla leader. It was published by the Rudaw Media Company based in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the north of Iraq with the following caption:
"Having a photo of PKK leader Abdulla Ocelan behind, Bozan Tekin, deputy leader of the PKK (right) sits next to a female PKK leader talking to reporters to delcare a cesefire in the Qandil mountains, Aug 13,2010. - Photo by Hussein Himati for Rudaw."
http://rudaw.net/english/kurds/3104.html

Second Photo
PKK Women Guerillas.
From:
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=765
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From the Weather Underground Organization: MARCH 6 1970-2010

We've just received this communication from our friends and comrades Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the Weather Underground Organization.

Every day is a day to honour the dead and fight for the living - but today is a special one.

Cyprus IndyMedia Collective

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MARCH 6 1970-2010

A front page headline in the New York Times on March 7, 1970 announced: “Townhouse Razed by Blast and Fire; Man’s Body Found.” The story described an elegant four-story brick building in Greenwich Village destroyed by three large explosions and a raging fire “probably caused by leaking gas” at about noon on Friday, March 6.

The body was later identified as belonging to 23-year old Ted Gold, a leader of the 1968 student strike at Columbia University, a teacher, and a member of a “militant faction of Students for a Democratic Society.” Over the next several days two more bodies were discovered—Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins had both been student leaders, civil rights and anti-war activists—and by March 15 the Times reported that police had found “57 sticks of dynamite, four homemade pipe bombs and about thirty blasting caps in the rubble,” and referred to the townhouse for the first time as a “bomb factory.” That awful event announced widely the existence of the Weather Underground, in some ways the most notorious, but far from the only group of Americans to take up armed struggle as a protest tool at that moment—the story took off from there, growing, changing, and accelerating every day

A few days after the Townhouse explosion Ralph Featherstone and William “Che” Payne, two “black militants," associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, according to Time magazine, “were killed when their car was blasted to bits” by a bomb police said was being transported to Washington D.C. to protest the prosecution of SNCC leader H. Rap Brown. The Black Liberation Army leapt onto the national scene, and other organized groups—Puerto Rican independistas, Native American first nation militants, and Chicano separatists— emerged demanding self-determination and justice.

Violent resistance to violence was far from an isolated phenomenon: Time noted that in 1969 there had been 61 bombings on college campuses, most targeting ROTC and other war-related targets, and 93 bomb explosions in New York, half of them classified as political,” a category that was “virtually non-existent ten years ago.” According to the FBI, from the start of 1969 to mid-April 1970, there were 40,934 bombings, attempted bombings, and bomb threats. Out of this total, 975 had been explosive, as opposed to incendiary, attacks, meaning that on average, two bombs planned, constructed, and placed, detonated every day for more than a year. Our national history includes times of anarchist resistance, labor militancy, massive unreported (and still largely unacknowledged) slave rebellions, and the armed abolitionism of John Brown; the late 1960’s and 1970’s was becoming one of those times.

How had it come to this?

Empire, invasion, and occupation always earn blow-back. In 1965 most Americans supported the war, but by 1968 people had turned massively against it—the result of protest and organizing and a burgeoning peace movement, and of civil rights leaders like the militants from SNCC, Muhammad Ali, and Martin Luther King, Jr. denouncing the war as illegal and immoral. Even more important, veterans came home and told the truth about the reality of aggression and occupation and war crimes. The US government found itself isolated around the world and in profound and growing conflict with its own people inside its own borders. The Vietnamese themselves were decisive: they refused to be defeated. The Tet Offensive in 1968 destroyed any fantasy of an American victory, and when President Lyndon Johnson announced at the end of March, 1968 that he would not run for re-election, it seemed to us we had won a victory.

But peace proved to be a dream deferred, for the war did not end—it escalated into an air and sea war, expanded into all of Cambodia and Laos, and every week the war dragged on another six thousand people were murdered in Southeast Asia. Six thousand human beings—massive, unthinkable numbers—were thrown into the furnaces of war and death that had been constructed by our own government. The war was lost, but the terror continued. All Vietnamese territories outside US control were declared “free-fire zones” and airplanes rained bombs and napalm on anything that moved, destroying crops and live-stock and entire villages. John McCain, an unremorseful war criminal, flew some of those missions. As a young lieutenant, John Kerry testified in Senate hearings at the time that US troops committed war crimes every day as a matter of policy, not choice.

No one knew precisely how to proceed, for the anti-war movement had done what it had set out to do—we’d persuaded the American people to oppose the war, built a massive movement and a majority peace sentiment—and still we couldn’t find any sure-fire way to stop the killing; millions of people mobilized for peace, and our project, our task and our obsession, was so simple to state, so excruciatingly difficult to achieve: peace now. The war slogged on into a murky and unacceptable future, and the anti-war forces splintered then—some of us tried to organize a peace wing within the Democratic Party, others organized in factories and work-places, some fled to Europe or Africa or Canada, others to communes, the land, and hopeful but small organizing projects. Some began to build a vehicle to fight the war-makers by other means, a clandestine force that would, we hoped, survive what we thought of as an impending American totalitarianism. Every choice was contemplated, each seemed a possibility then—and we had friends and family in every camp—and no choice seemed utterly beyond the pale.

The Weather Underground carried out a series of illegal and symbolic attacks on property then, some 20 acts over its entire existence, and no one was killed or harmed; the goal was not to terrorize people, but to scream out the message that the US government and its military were committing acts of terrorism in our name, and that the American people should never tolerate that. Some felt that our actions were misguided at best, off-the-tracks, indefensible and even despicable, and that case is not impossible to make. But America’s longest war itself, with all its attendant horrors, was doubly despicable, and while many stood up, who in fact did the right thing; who ended the war; who transformed the world?

We began to think of ourselves as part of the Third World project—revolutionary liberation movements demanding justice and freeing themselves from empire, we believed, would also transform the world. We thought that we who lived in the metropolis of empire had a special duty to “oppose our own imperialism” and to resist our own government’s imperial dreams. Eventually we came to think that we could make a revolution, and that in any case it was our responsibility to try. It was a big stretch, but every revolution is impossible until it occurs; after the fact, every revolution seems inevitable.

All of that was forty years ago—lots of water under the bridge since then, raging rivers and cascading falls, rapids and torrents, chutes and ladders—a long time in the life of a person—the young become the old, and stories get retold. But it’s also a matter of perspective: the meaning of any historical event will always be contested, and the more recent the event, the fiercer the contestation. The last word has not been written about the radical movements of youth in Europe in 1968, and certainly the meaning of the Black Freedom Movement or of the US invasion and occupation of Viet Nam and the various American reactions to that catastrophe—from mindless jingoism to sincere patriotism, from reluctant participation to gung-ho brutality, from protest to armed resistance—are far from settled. We’re reminded of the Chinese premier Chou En Lai responding to a French journalist’s question many years ago about the impact of the 18th Century French revolution on the 20th Century Chinese revolution. He thought for quite awhile and finally said, “It’s too soon to tell.” Forty years is less than the blink of an eye.

The big wheel keeps on turning: events and actions and adventures plunge relentlessly forward and nothing withstands the whirlwind of life on-the-move and history in-the-making. No single narrative can ever adequately speak to the diversity and complexity of human experience, for meaning itself is in the mix, always contested and never easily settled. Because meaning is made and remade in the present tense, our backward glances are now necessarily refracted through the US defeat in Viet Nam, the steady decline of empire, the hollowing out of the economy through militarism, the destruction of our political system, the environmental catastrophe that capitalism wrought, the terror attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent invasions and occupations and wars that continue as defining features of our national life. There is no sturdy accounting of distant times: everything must change, no one and nothing remains the same.

Many who knew and loved them 40 years ago, choose to remember Ted Gold, Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins, Ralph Featherstone, and Che Payne every day as beautiful and committed young people who believed fiercely in peace and justice and freedom, believed further that all men and women are of incalculable value, and thought that they had a personal and urgent responsibility to act on that deep belief. We think of Brecht: a smile is a kind of indifference to injustice. And then we turn to Rosa Luxemburg writing to a friend from prison: love your own life enough to care for the children and the elderly, to enjoy a good meal and a beautiful sunset, to embrace friends and lovers; and love the world enough to put your shoulder on history’s great wheel when required.

We have not forgotten our fallen friends, not for a moment. March 6 is for us a time of more formal remembrance. Their deaths and all that followed offered us an opportunity to reconsider and recover. We were able to recommit and to see that the first casualty of making oneself into an instrument of war is always one’s own humanity, that, in the words of the poet Marge Piercy, “conscience is the sword we wield. Conscience is the sword that runs us through.” We remember our lost comrades, their many brave, as well as their damaging last acts, and we continue to vibrate with the hope and despair they embodied then.

Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn
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Editorial Note:
We reproduce here the first communication from the Weather Underground to show the spirit of the times - and because we still embrace the political and moral validity of that path, as well as its slogan: "Arm the Spirit!"

Communiqué #1 From The Weatherman Underground

From /The Berkeley Tribe/, July 31, 1970. The Red Mountain Tribe.

Hello. This is Bernardine Dohrn.

I'm going to read A DECLARATION OF A STATE OF WAR.

This is the first communication from the Weatherman underground.

All over the world, people fighting Amerikan imperialism look to Amerika's youth to use our strategic position behind enemy lines to join forces in the destruction of the empire.

Black people have been fighting almost alone for years. We've known that our job is to lead white kids into armed revolution. We never intended to spend the next five or twenty-five years of our lives in jail. Ever since SDS became revolutionary, we've been trying to show how it is possible to overcome the frustration and impotence that comes from trying to reform this system. Kids know the lines are drawn revolution is touching all of our lives. Tens of thousands have learned that protest and marches don't do it. Revolutionary violence is the only way.

Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Viet Cong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our own situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world.

Ché taught us that "revolutionaries move like fish in the sea." The alienation and contempt that young people have for this country has created the ocean for this revolution.

The hundreds and thousands of young people who demonstrated in the Sixties against the war and for civil rights grew to hundreds of thousands in the past few weeks actively fighting Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the attempted genocide against black people. The insanity of Amerikan "justice" has added to its list of atrocities six blacks killed in Augusta, two in Jackson and four white Kent State students, making thousands more into revolutionaries.

The parents of "privileged" kids have been saying for years that the revolution was a game for us. But the war and the racism of this society show that it is too fucked-up. We will never live peaceably under this system.

This was totally true of those who died in the New York townhouse explosion. The third person who was killed there was Terry Robbins, who led the first rebellion at Kent State less than two years ago.

The twelve Weathermen who were indicted for leading last October's riots in Chicago have never left the country. Terry is dead, Linda was captured by a pig informer, but the rest of us move freely in and out of every city and youth scene in this country. We're not hiding out but we're invisible.

There are several hundred members of the Weatherman underground and some of us face more years in jail than the fifty thousand deserters and draft dodgers now in Canada. Already many of them are coming back to join us in the underground or to return to the Man's army and tear it up from inside along with those who never left.

We fight in many ways. Dope is one of our weapons. The laws against marijuana mean that millions of us are outlaws long before we actually split. Guns and grass are united in the youth underground.

Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. If you want to find us, this is where we are. In every tribe, commune, dormitory, farmhouse, barracks and townhouse where kids are making love, smoking dope and loading guns—fugitives from Amerikan justice are free to go.

For Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, and for all the revolutionaries who are still on the move here, there has been no question for a long time now—we will never go back.

Within the next fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Amerikan injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of their people.

Never again will they fight alone.

May 21, 1970

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Many of us are Socialists

Many of us are Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Autonomist Feminist Greens... therefore we find it unacceptable that some of our colleagues within the BiCommunal Peace movement, who also proclaim themselves to be socialists, are working together with openly declared enemies of Communism, and with the transnational diplomacy arm of the Imperialist domination project that continues to be aimed against the communities and indigenous people of Cyprus.

Here is a little bit about the major participants of an event that is being promoted as a Bicommunal Open Discussion about Education under the title:
"Myths and bias in education: SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTHS OF THE OTHERS",
featuring "... the well known Greek academic Anna Fragkoudaki".
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kalimerhaba_HellenoTurkish_Community/message/2107

From the announcement by the organizers of the event:
"The activity is co-organised by IKME, the Friedrich – Ebert- Stiftung and the Representation of the European Commission in Cyprus.
Representatives of KTOS, KTOEOS, Mr Takis Hadjidemetriou on behalf of IKME and Mrs Kaminara on behalf of the Representation of the European Commission in Cyprus will address the meeting."

Who they are:
* The Friedrich – Ebert- Stiftung
* Mr Takis Hadjidemetriou
* Anna Fragkoudaki

The juicy details:
* The "Friedrich Ebert Stiftung" (Stiftung means "Foundation") is named for the first President of Germany, Friedrich Ebert, and is committed to continuing his legacy.

Friedrich Ebert was a Monarchist who misled the socialist camp of Germany into supporting the Kaizer's war (before and during World War 1), and by that act signalled the historical split between anti-imperialist Communism and what is now know as "democratic socialism". A Revolutionary Socialist uprising in Germany in 1918/19 simultaneous to the Bolshevik uprising in Russia ended the war, overthrew the Kaizer and declared the Free Socialist Republic of Germany.

In response, Friedrich Ebert led a "democratic" Government of Germany which commanded the Kaizer's troops and drowned the revolution in blood. His actions led to the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the era's two most prominent leaders of autonomist revolutionary socialism and independent communism in western Europe.

The "Friedrich Ebert Stiftung" is now engaged in "exporting democracy" to more than 100 countries, with its local organizations promoting the global ruling class agenda by opposition to all indigenous and autonomous national liberation popular movements that oppose the rule of Capital, and engaged primarily in the ideological indoctrination of opposition to Communism and promotion of projects by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. (Please see links below.)

* Mr Takis Hadjidemetriou was the Accession Coordinator of the Republic, ie. the head of the Committee which oversaw the harmonization of Cyprus with the laws and regulations of the European Union, so that Cyprus could finalize its entry into the EU.

Immediately upon the country's entry into the EU, he reversed himself fully by 180 degrees and embraced the promotion of a "solution" for the Cyprus conflict which is in direct and complete violation of EU laws. It is also in violation of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights; various sections of International Law; and in violation of the Geneva Convention articles that pertain to the Right of Return of populations displaced by war.

In an excellent article by Phaedon Vassiliades titled "Cyprus: Beyond the Boundary", and published by the Socialist Review, Phaedon explains and analyzes how many violations to local, European and International law and just plain insults to human decency are involved in the "solution" promoted by Takis Hadjidemetriou, Kofi Annan and others:
"Instead of bringing the two communities together the constitution provides for internal borders, perpetuation of the dividing lines, quotas of the number of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who will be allowed to reside in the constituent state of the 'other side'.
It is easy to imagine how these regulations and arrangements can strengthen national hatred and allow interference by the 'Great Powers'. "
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9106

* Anna Fragkoudaki is an academic from Greece who has contributed positively to the idea that multi-cultural education is a necessary foundation for a modern democracy. Unfortunately - and to her shame - she has promoted works and ideas that erode the very foundation of freedom, that is the right of people to independence and self-determination.

We live in an era during which the enslaved hellenic nation is still freeing itself from five hundred years of occupation and genocide. Large parts of lands where hellenes have lived for millenia are still under foreign occupation - those of us who live on the edge of this active frontier and under imperialist and Corporate State-sponsored genocidal machinery can attest to that.

And yet, even while our country is still under occupation and screaming to be liberated, Anna Fragkoudaki writes that to be teaching in school about our ethnic and cultural identity is equal to "legalizing the coveting of other lands and preparing for wars of expansion".

She also accuses that in school, "the preparation of students to become soldiers willing to die for the motherland" is contrary to the European Union's multicultural "dialogue" and to the "alliances ...and compromises" that will guarantee peace:
Ιερά ηρωικά σύμβολα και μεγάλες πολιτικές αντιφάσεις
«ΤΑ ΝΕΑ» 17-11-2001, ΑΝΝΑ ΦΡΑΓΚΟΥΔΑΚΗ
http://www.antirrisies.gr/node/328

Anna Fragkoudaki also goes to great lengths to ridicule and attack those of us who persist on trying to hold on to our language, to our hellenic cultural heritage, history and sense of national continuity which are threatened by military and genocidal occupations, by cultural imperialism, by carefully cultivated ignorance and self-directed racism. Why is it important to defend the language rights of the occupied Navajo and Lakota people? Because in defending those languages we are helping defend the indigenous people of the Americas against the colonialist genocide that has almost wiped them out culturally, ethnically and politically. And the same applies to us.

There are many of us who are worried that by one or two generations no one in Cyprus will know how to speak, read or write the indigenous hellenic language any longer. But fake-leftist "luminaries" such as Anna Fragkoudaki and her supporters such as Vassiliki Katrivanou accuse us of being "megalomaniacs" and "archeo-paths".

In her article titled "Η γλωσσική φθορά και οι «μεγαλομανείς» γλώσσες", Anna Fragkoudaki equates the Anglo-American, French and German imperialist efforts to impose their languages on the world's colonized peoples with the indigenous hellenes who struggle to maintain, preserve, cultivate and defend the existence of our language against all odds. She writes - with arrogance! - that all concerns about the erosion of the language and all perceived threats to the existence of the language are lies, based on myth.

You can read her accusation in her own words, here:
Η γλωσσική φθορά και οι «μεγαλομανείς» γλώσσες
ΑΝΝΑ ΦΡΑΓΚΟΥΔΑΚΗ
http://fegari.blogspot.com/2006/12/10-4.html


We hope that activists and organizers of the BiCommunal Peace process will steer away from enemies of the liberation process, and be especially careful of alliances with foreign and local instruments of global imperialism.

Hellenic Language Branch,
Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
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Readings, Sources

Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Ebert "... accepted this position only reluctantly. He was a supporter of the monarchy until the abdication of the Kaiser ("If the Kaiser abdicates, the social revolution is inevitable. But I do not want it, I hate it like sin", he said to Max von Baden on 7 November), and when Scheidemann proclaimed the Republic he responded: "Is that true? You have no right to proclaim the Republic!" By this he meant that the decision was to be made by an elected national assembly, even if that decision would be the restoration of the monarchy.

Ebert led the new government for the next several months, notably using the army under support of Minister of Defense Gustav Noske to suppress the Spartacist uprising, commonly identified with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. When the Constituent Assembly met in Weimar in February, 1919, Ebert was chosen to be the first president of the German Republic.

The German workers protected his government from the Kapp Putsch in 1920 by means of a nationwide general strike. After the strike was over, however, Ebert's government again recruited the Freikorps and the soldiers who had wanted to overthrow him in order to quell remaining uprisings in western Germany. While hundreds of civilians were killed (including many who had nothing to do with the uprising), most of the putschists were treated leniently. Some of the Freikorps already used the swastika as their symbol of resistance against the "red pack" at the time, and many of them as well as right-wing members of the Reichswehr would later become influential national socialists. In November 1923, Ebert rebuked his own party for leaving the coalition government of Gustav Stresemann.

Controversy
Ebert remains a somewhat controversial figure to this day. While the SPD recognizes him as one of the founders and keepers of German democracy whose death in office in February 1925 was a great loss, communists and others on the left argue that he paved the way for fascism by supporting the ultra-right Freikorps and their violent suppression of Marxist uprisings."

[above excerpt is from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Ebert&oldid=319681758 ]

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Foundation)
"The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) office in New York serves as a liaison between the United Nations, FES field offices and partners in developing countries to strenghten the voice of the Global South. It contributes to UN debates on economic and social development, and on peace and security issues. Towards this end, FES New York annually organizes some 30 seminars, conferences and roundtables and regularly publishes briefing papers and fact sheets. In addition, it contributes to a dialogue on the work of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C.
Thematic features include the UN debate on Financing for Development...":
http://www.fes-globalization.org/new_york/

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
http://www.fes.de/inhalt/Dokumente_2009/FES%20SD%202009%20GB.pdf


"Cyprus: Beyond the Boundary"
by Phaedon Vassiliades, Socialist Review:
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9106

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Dana Beal is out of Jail - Freedom for all Friends of Cannabis!

Dana Beal, lifetime Cannabis liberation and US antiwar activist has just been released from Jail, following a solidarity campaign that involved thousands of people, primarily self-organized online with generous and timely initiatives by Aron Kay (thank you Aron!) The page of supporters on Facebook, titled FREE DANA BEAL FREE OURSELVES has more than 1200 members.

Dana is a co-founder of the Yippies, comrade of notable revolutionary activists such as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Stu Albert, and he is the "superpower", mastermind and initiator of the Global Marijuana March campaign that sees annual gatherings and protests by thousands of Friends of Cannabis in several hundreds of cities around the planet every MayDay.

We're happy to report that Dana is out of Jail and free to continue his legal defence stemming from an arrest and a bizzarre case against him and two others, where the Judge ordered him held against bail of a half a million dollars... a few more details at the links below.

Please have a look at the relevant information on this page - any financial contributions for Dana's legal defence fund can be sent either by arrangements with Aron Kay in New York, phone number:
347-962-5024 (if calling from outside the US, plese add the US country code "001" in front);

or can be sent by http://paypal.com to the email address of:
douggreene@earthlink.net

Alternately, you can make arrangements with members of the Cyprus IndyMedia Collective and we'll forward your donation to the defence fund:
imc-cyprus@lists.indymedia.org

Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
http://CyprusIndymedia.org
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Payment Sent (Unique Transaction ID #3V135493XH591821C)

Sent to:
Douglas Greene
Email:
douggreene@earthlink.net
Amount sent:
-$25.00 USD

Date:
Nov 7, 2009

Subject:
for the Dana Beal defence and bail fund

Note:
Hi,
Please accept this small donation from the http://cyprus.indymedia.org/ Collective for Dana Beal's defence, bail fund and any other needs it can help cover.
Many thanks to you and Aron Kay for all the great work to help Dana get out of jail and remain Free.
Petros
http://tinyurl.com/petros-tiny

Funding Source:
$25.00 USD - PayPal Account

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Dana Beal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dana_Beal&oldid=320039496

Global Marijuana March
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_Marijuana_March&oldid=313055180

FREE DANA BEAL FREE OURSELVES
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=143405647913

Please Help Free Dana Beal, by Ed Rosenthal
http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/node/20146

FREE DANA BEAL-the sky is the limit!!!!
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/10/107608.html

Dana in Denver
http://www.comeuptodenver.org/photos/08-23/index.html

The Yippies
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youth_International_Party&oldid=322249005

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