Human Rights

Submitted by
Henry Poole
on Jan 28, 2009

China: Government’s video-censorship foiled

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Just ran across this on the Witness Hub. When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors film the clashes on their cellphones, and upload the clips to Chinese video-sharing sites, but the clips are rapidly taken offline - only to re-appear on other sites, as respected English-language Chinese blog Danwei reported.
Submitted by
Gregory Heller
on May 06, 2008

Burma Can't Wait

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On Sunday I hear with much sadness about the Cyclone that hit the Irrawady Delta in Burma. With each day the news gets worse. Some 22,000 Burmese presumed dead. Sometimes an event happens that in an instant captures the attention of the world, while even larger tragedies go unnoticed for decades. Such is the case in Burma. Back in the mid nineties I was involved in the Free Burma movement on college campuses, specifically at NYU, and helped pass selective purchasing legislation in the NY City Council.

Submitted by
Gregory Heller
on Apr 24, 2008

Unsubscribe Me: Amnesty International's Anti Tourture Campaign

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Amnesty International has a really powerful campaign up right now called "Unsubscribe Me" (from the "war on terrorism's" torture practices).
Submitted by
Henry Poole
on Apr 18, 2008

Vote for Drupal user, Peter Gabriel, in Time's Most Influential People of 2008

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Who Are the World's Most Influential? Take a moment and Vote for Peter Gabriel to get a spot on this year's Time 100. In the article, he's credited with launching 'the Hub, a so-called YouTube for human rights' which was built with Drupal by a number of the folks right here at CivicActions!
Submitted by
George Frost
on Mar 26, 2008

It is time for Google to put its mouth where its money is.

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It is time for Google to put its mouth where its money is. The Internet search and advertising delivery giant has again opposed shareholder resolutions that would have required it meet minimum standards of internet freedom. These are very modest proposals, that if adopted would have allowed Google to demonstrate that it understands that a totalitarian internet is evil, and that Google will not be evil.
Submitted by
JacobSingh
on Dec 11, 2007

CivicActions launches Amnesty International's new site on World Human Rights Day.

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Amnesty International launched a total overhaul of their website on December 10th (World Human Rights Day). The new site was developed in Drupal, with CRM components provided by CiviCRM and was integrated with a sister project to migrate Amnesty International's ancient lotus notes database of 50K+ reports and press communications to alfresco (http://alfresco.org), an open source document management system.

Submitted by
Henry Poole
on Sep 07, 2007

US Slides Towards Fascism (part 1)

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Richard Stallman was visiting my home this week, and he picked up a new book I had on my coffee table. The next morning, he mentioned that he had read The END of AMERICA, Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf, just published by Chelsea Green Publishing. RMS told me that he couldn't put the book down. He read the entire book that night. He also mentioned that he had blogged it as URGENT. "Really?" I asked.
Submitted by
Henry Poole
on Sep 06, 2007

500,000 protestors wanted to tear down Guantanamo Bay

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Amnesty International USA just launched tearitdown.org, and with it an online movement to tear down the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Visitors to the new Web site can eliminate one pixel from a photo of Guantanamo by signing a pledge protesting the U.S. government's detention center. This is extremely cool!
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