American Peoples Movement

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thepeoplesrecord:

• More than 500 people have died from being tased in the United States
• 90 percent of those who have died were unarmed.
• 85 percent of victims suffered a mental illness.
• Taser International (TI) is a multinational company that sells about US$100 million of Tasers a year.
• In 2008, under pressure from Taser International, a US judge ordered that the word “Taser” be removed from the autopsies of three men, who all died after being shocked with the stun gun.

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occupyallstreets:

Britain Will Begin Monitoring Calls, Text, Emails And Online Activities (Must Read)

Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant attacks, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

“It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public,” a Home Office spokesman said.

The proposed law already has drawn strong criticism, from within the ruling Conservative Party’s own ranks, as an invasion of privacy and personal rights.

“What the government hasn’t explained is precisely why they intend to eavesdrop on all of us without even going to a judge for a warrant, which is what always used to happen,” Member of Parliament David Davis told BBC News.

“It is an unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people,” he said.

New legislation is expected to be announced in the legislative agenda-setting speech given by the queen in May.

Currently, British agencies can monitor calls and e-mails of specific individuals who may be under investigation after obtaining ministerial approval, but expanding that to all citizens is certain to enrage civil liberties campaigners.

Internet companies would be required to install hardware which would allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), referred to as Britain’s electronic ‘listening’ agency, to gain real-time access to communications data.

The new law would not allow GCHQ to access the content of emails, calls or messages without a warrant, but it would allow it to trace who an individual or group was in contact with, how frequently they communicated and for how long.

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thepeoplesrecord:

Some of my favorite Marxist quotes:

“I don’t want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out.”
— Eugene V. Debs

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” – Karl Marx

“Without a guiding organization, the energy of the masses would dissipate like steam not enclosed in a piston-box. But nevertheless what moves things is not the piston or the box, but the steam.” – Leon Trotsky

“For Marxists, alienation doesn’t describe an emotional condition, but an economic and social reality of class society. Marxist alienation refers to the way in which work and the products of our work are outside our control and dominate us.” - Sherry Wolf

“A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The liberation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the liberation of Poland from German oppression.” - Friedrich Engels

“Most of us own neither the tools and machinery we work with nor the products that we produce—they belong to the capitalist that hired us. But everything we work on and in at some point comes from human labor. The irony is that everywhere we turn, we are confronted with the work of our own hands and brains, and yet these products of our labor appear as things outside of us, and outside of our control. Work and the products of work dominate us, rather than the other way around. Rather than being a place to fulfill our potential, the workplace is merely a place we are compelled to go in order to obtain money to buy the things we need.” -Paul D’Amato

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rethinksocialism:

domesticterrorism:

Alleviating the ills of an unjust system = okay; questioning the justness of that system = bad. Commentary unneeded.

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