#civil disobedience

[vyorei]

FUCK YEAH

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Jewish Voice for Peace #Jews for Racial and Economic Justice #Direct action #civil disobedience #Joe Biden #USA #Usian Solidarity with Palestine

[luminalunii97]

saying F U to the regime again and again: a quick update on women vs IR regime

Famous Iranian actresses have been appearing in public without a mandatory hijab. This has been happening since the beginning of the protests. Last month, Kiumars Pourahmad, a well known Iranian screenwriter and director, committed suicide. He had a history of criticizing the regime's political decisions. At his funeral, some of the famous actresses attended without mandatory hijab.

You can see Fateme Motamedarya, Katayoun Riyahi, and Golab Adineh in these pictures from the funeral. Ms. Riyahi was one of the first celebrities who took her hijab off at the start of the Jina (Mahsa) Amini protest and for that she's been the target of IRGC harassment and has been to court.

Last week, in the ceremony of screening of the final episode of Lion's Skin (a persian crime show), actress Pantea Bahram participated without hijab. The manager of Tehran’s Lotus Cinema, where the ceremony was held, was fired for letting her attend without hijab.

Other than prosecution, the regime has blocked these celebrities' bank accounts. Basij and IRGC members have also attacked and harassed these women online and in real life.

Students on university campuses take off their hijabs. There's an installed version of morality police in universities that monitor students' styles. Female students must wear "appropriate" hijab and male students must wear "manly" clothes (one of my guy friends once was asked to go back home and change his shoes because they were red casual loafers. Apparently that's gay!). When you enroll in Iranian universities, the first thing you do is to go to the security office and sign an agreement that says you promise to follow the Islamic dress code. There are posters all over the campus that says things like "hijab is security" "respect the islamic hijab" and "not wearing appropriate hijab (tight short clothes, too much hair, makeup, etc) would result in legal action". So not wearing hijab on campus, where a lot of security cameras are installed and it's easy to identify you, is a big deal.

The regime's response to students taking off their hijabs is sending threatening messages to students' phones and increasing the security people. At the entrance of Universities, these security forces check people's clothes and if it's not proper they won't let you in. Some of the students wear the hijab at the entrance and take it off after they're in. They have warned our professors to not let non hijabi students sit in classes too.

One of my favorite trends in Iran now is when guys wear our hijab. These pictures are from universities. Guys wearing hijab make the security mad. This is a great act of solidarity with women against the obligatory hijab.

Some men have been doing either this or wearing shorts in public. The former is to ridicule the obligatory dress code and the latter is because wearing shorts in public is forbidden for guys too.

And women not wearing hijab in general. Though hijab is not our only issue, we want a whole new political system, one that is not theocratic or terroristic, hijab is something the regime won't back down from because it's one of their strongest oppressing tools. If they let us win the fight against obligatory hijab, I quote from a regime head, "people keep demanding more changes"!

So to put people against people to enforce the hijab law again, the regime has closed down many businesses (hotels, cafes, malls, bookstores, etc) for welcoming non hijabi female costumers. They have also warned taxi and bus drivers to not let non hijabi women in their vehicles.

Although not everyone is disobeying the hijab law (some believe in hijab, some don't want to pay the price), the number of women who take the risk and don't wear hijab in Tehran and many other cities is high enough that you feel encouraged to keep doing it.

#iran #iran protests #iran revolution #mahsa amini #jina amini #jin jiyan azadi #women life freedom #politics #human rights #feminism #middle east #women revolution #obligatory hijab #university student #civil disobedience

[benandstevesposts]

CALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICER IN SPOTLIGHT FOR BODY SLAMMING LADY OUTSIDE GROCERY STORE

A police officer’s violent actions in southern California are being investigated after video footage showed the white cop brutalizing an unarmed Black woman for the apparent offense of recording officers detaining her husband.

The video footage recorded by a witness began by showing the woman holding a cell phone and filming officers handcuffing her husband, who can be heard repeatedly asking “why” he was being detained outside the supermarket in Lancaster.

After two officers struggled to handcuff the husband, one walked directly to the wife. When the camera follows the officer, he’s shown grabbing the wife by the back of her neck before violently flinging her to the ground.

The person recording can be heard yelling for the cop to “get off of her” and not to hit her to no avail.

The cop is next shown kneeling on the wife’s neck, evoking horrific imagery from Derek Chavin’s police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

As with the woman’s husband, the officer struggled to place her in handcuffs even though she wasn’t resisting.

Her husband can be heard in the background pleading for the officer to stop. He also said she has cancer. Neither claim prevented the officer from accosting the woman standing at least 20 feet away from the officers when they were handcuffing her husband.

To view the video, you may visit the original report by visiting the site it appeared here.

UPDATED REPORT ADDED REGARDING AREA WHERE ALLEGED ASSAULT TOOK PLACE

#police brutality #police violence #police assault #police crime #black history month #black people #black man #black stories #blacklivesmatter #black love #black lives matter #black history #black women #aclu #los angeles #civil liberties #civil rights #civil rights movement #civil disobedience #american civil liberties union #good trouble #lgbtq #gay #hrc #human rights campaign #human rights #cnn #activism #social justice #discrimination

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.” — Henry David Thoreau

#quote #henry david thoreau #civil disobedience #americanism #american state of mind #americana #rebellion #american literature

[turns-out-its-adhd]

AI exists and there's nothing any of us can do to change that.

If you have concerns about how AI is being/will be used the solution is not to abstain - it's to get involved.

Learn about it, practice utilising AI tools, understand it. Ignorance will not protect you, and putting your fingers in your ears going 'lalalala AI doesn't exist I don't acknowledge it' won't stop it from affecting your life.

The more the general population fears and misunderstands this technology, the less equipped they will be to resist its influence.

#ai #artificial intelligence #ai technology #tech #technology #singularity #futurism #datascience #data analytics #data harvesting #manipulation #civil rights #civil disobedience #ai discourse

[philosophybits]

A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong.

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

#philosophy #quotes #Henry David Thoreau #Civil Disobedience #actions #choices #ethics

[macrolit]

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau

FYI - this is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.

#henry david thoreau #walden #civil disobedience #philosophy #essay #transcendentalism #nature #book contest

[jjeinn-tae]

Oh good, I can edit this now. Hey guys, I am glad we're all upset about this. That's good, and we want to take action. But my signal-boosting of this was not well-thought out. Like you, I was frustrated with the ruling and direction our country has been going. I saw people on reddit trying to call for one, and was like "I have a bit of a platform, I to share it so it can work." then after a stressful shower, remembered blazing is a thing while I was dead tired.

But the thing about organized labor is that, well, it's organized. We have an idea on what we want, yes, but where is our message? Like at all, are we to make it ourselves? I had, but not by the time I'd made the post.

I'm happy that I've started a dialog on something needing to be done at least, but this whole thing was rather irresponsible, and I'm sorry about that.

Honestly, just look at this reblog to really have it put into better words than I can manage.

#civil rights #civil disobedience #general strike #roe vs. wade #ob/gyn & women's health medscape #women's issues #women's rights

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Solarpunk Sunday Suggestion:

Go to a meeting of your local direct action group

#solarpunk #hopepunk #environmentalism #social justice #cottagepunk #optimism #community #climate justice #bright future #tidalpunk #direct action #non-violence #civil disobedience #a22 network #letzegeneration #just stop oil #save old growth #restore suburban rail #dernière rénovation #insulate Britain #this is rigged #renovate Switzerland #extinction rebellion #solarpunksundays

[lasttarrasque]

If you are outside of the US you can still insure you comply with BDS boycotts. You should research your own government’s connections to Israel (probably exists more than you think) and pressure them to end them if they exist, you can do the same thing for institutions like businesses, universities and the like in your country. Attending protested as well is still useful as it further pressures your state to stand up to western powers. If your part of a trade union, try and see if you can refuse to deal with Israeli goods, especially if your involved in shipping things to Israel. If your Jewish you have a extremely important role to play in educating your community and taking away Israel’s support from our communities. Confront genocide enablers and apologists however you can. Engage in civil disobedience. If your nation is in Eurovision, pressure your local broadcaster to withdraw if Israel is aloud to participate. Spread further awareness online, make TikToks, infographic, memes, posters, whatever you can do. And BDS.

Unless your from a list of only a few nations, your government probably dose something to enable genocide, even if they aren’t the primary backers. You need to force your government to join the growing list of nations that are cutting ties with Israel and boycotting, sanctioning and divesting from Israel.

Honestly this is a good list even if your in the us.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free free palestine #current events #gaza strip #jerusalem #direct action #civil disobedience #boycott disney #boycott #boycott israel #boycott mcdonalds #boycott eurovision #boycott divest sanction #boycott starbucks #boycott zara #boycott intel #boycott puma #keep boycotting

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Henry David Thoreau

#henry david thoreau #thoreau #civil disobedience #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #life #literature #writer #books #psychology #write #art #artist #idea #ideas #individual #individuality #individualism

[atomic-anarchist]

needless to say if you can literally see the evidence of the deaths of thousands of children and families but you care too much about other people’s opinions of you to say anything about it, i hate you

#free palestine #free gaza #end the genocide #genocide in gaza #palestine #israel #palestine genocide #gaza genocide #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #save gaza #save palestine #civil disobedience #anti zionisim #it is a genocide #i hate you

[luminalunii97]

Civil disobedience, act 4: art and symbols

Demonstration art could be one of the most powerful ways to convey your message. Iranians have been making art all over the cities these days.

Painting the city with blood: Putting red color in water bodies around the city. throwing red color at street signs specially those that reads Velayat (supreme leading system), hijab, and Kurdistan. putting red blood on pictures of Khamenei, Ghasem Soleimani, and police or judiciary signs. Coloring the university classes and corridors with red. One art classroom door in Alzahra university read "this classroom is covered in blood". These red colors represent the blood the regime has shed.

Pictures on the walls: Faces of our fallen martyrs. Anti regime pictures. They read: "you kill our love, you are our ISIS" "women life freedom" "women of Iran and Afghanistan against the violence of Talib and mullah" "fuck compulsory hijab" "from 2017 to 2022 this regime would fall like dominos" "ambu-lice (ambulances are being used to move policemen)". A religious figure hide behind religion playing his anti riot forces. On an alley named Azadi (freedom) someone has written "there was so much bravery hidden in this land".

(It's important to know that in Iran, mullahs don't represent religion as much as they represent the regime. For 40 years the turbans have been the heads of political powers. Most of those mullah pictures are directly targeting Khamenei the supreme leader)

Slogans on paper money: these ones say "women life freedom" "queer life freedom" "Baloch life freedom".

Khodanoor Lejei, symbol of the islamic republic cruelty: The bloody Friday in Zahedan was one of the darkest spots in Islamic republic brutal history. Opening fire on a crowd of praying Muslims before they even start protesting. Killing about 100 people of Baloch. But one picture stood out and stood as the face of inhumanity of the regime. Khodanoor Lejei was one of the victims of bloody Friday in Zahedan. An old picture of him went viral after his death. He was arrested a couple of months prior to Mahsa Amini murder and was treated with no dignity. Bound to a pole. water in front of his thirsty body but out of his reach. So in universities, sport games, streets and alleys people have been posing Khodanoor in bound to protest the cruelty. In the last two pictures, the signs read "political" (سیاسی) and "justice" (عدالت)!

Students sing revolution anthems. Artists make digital arts. Musicians make revolution songs. People dance and the security forces attack and arrest them.

There have been balloons flying over the cities with banners containing slogans on them. There have been banners on footbridges situated so that drivers would see them. People also have been writing slogans on billboards especially those that promote regime propaganda.

Azad university art students gathered in their campus, painted their palms red and raised their hands to the sky.

Meanwhile the regime forces broke into dormitories and stole students.

Some universities including mine design their campus trees and buildings with names of the murdered protesters or captured students and other revolution symbols (red tulip represents martyrs in Persian literature). The uni authorities take them down but the art students do it again.

After Kian Pirfalak, all over the country you could find paper boats and rainbows. Kian was a 10 year old boy who was murdered by the regime. There's a video of him starting with "in the name of the god of the rainbow" and continuing to explain his crafted boat. He wanted to become an engineer. Now paper boats are banned in universities.

One of the murdered protesters, Hamidreza Rouhi, loved riding motorcycles. He had a video online of him on a motorbike lip syncing to a song and pointing to the camera. A group of motorbike riders in Tehran, 7 day after his murder, gathered in front of his house, their motorbikes lined nearby, with pictures of him on each bike.

And in a recent symbolic act, a woman walked around Tehran streets as The Handmaid's Tale cosplayer. Very on point.

Don't think for a second that these civil ways of protesting are safe or easy. People have been arrested or shot in the head doing these.

People are capable of beauties but the regime can only make ugliness. That's the summary of this revolution.

#iran #mahsa amini #iran protests #iran revolution #politics #human rights #lgbtq+ #feminism #intersectional feminism #art #revolution art #demonstration art #middle east #tw death #streetart #the handmaid's tale #civil disobedience

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Today i learned something that feels illegal to know 👀

#jury nullification #civil disobedience #malicious compliance #because the carceral system is deeply immoral #and individuals can apparently just. not send someone to prison. even when they are guilty #kinda badass ngl

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Patti Astor smiling ( on the right) with Abbie Hoffman.1968 Columbia University.

* * * * “It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

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“During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.” ― Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

#Abbie Hoffman #Kurt Vonnegut #Neil Gaiman #1968 #Columbia University #protest #civil disobedience

[hotcupoteckla]

Hypothetical question: what is more damaging to a Confederacy supporter trying to use a public parking space to sell their truck?

Option 1: having the posted flag on their truck removed entirely?

Option 2: labeling the windows of their truck with "Owner hates America, Honk if you Love Freedom"?

Like for opt 1, reblog for opt 2

#antifa #spider punk #civil disobedience #free speech #vandalism #hypothetical #remove symbol #remove profit #allyship #cyberpunk #can't do polls