Action:Citizen Soldier International
A Coptic Thorn in the Side of Radical Islam: Zakaria Butros
Website: Student Human Rights Committee in Iran
History has, undoubtedly, shown human rights, democracy and free markets to be the most fair and efficient means for humanity to realize its potential. Theocracy, just like communism and fascism, belongs in the ash heap of history. Ultimately, no repressive, intolerant regime or ideology can withstand the spread of these ideals. Iran’s theocracy is no exception. Our triumph is absolutely, positively and undeniably inevitable.
Our confidence in the inevitable victory of these three principals derives not from our naivety, idealism or dislike of the theocracy, but rather from these ideals’ innate ability in bringing out the best of humanity. They are simply a more productive and fair way of governing a society.
Virtually every major technological, scientific, medical, etc… discovery has come from democratic countries. This, of course, is no coincidence. These advancements are made possible because democracies guarantee their citizens certain rights under the law and have the relevant institutions to protect these rights. That is also why their living standards are so much higher than ours.
We need similar rights and institutions in Iran.
These three ideals enable individuals to pursue their dreams far more effectively than any other ideology. And it is this pursuit of dreams that is the original inspiration of every great accomplishment mankind has ever known, such as electricity, telephone, flight, computer, space exploration, etc…
Consider America, for example. Its economic wealth and technological military prowess are nothing but a byproduct of its real strength: the ideals set forth in its Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Help Women in Saudi Arabia
Action: Citizen Journalist International
Get this. From her living room, this woman defends a Yemeni journalist with whom she cannot speak - because she doesn't know Arabic. She has never met him, but is helping hiim from afar. I found the article on AtlasShrugs.com
Her site: ArmiesofLiberation.com
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey, has never been to Yemen. She speaks no Arabic, and freely admits that until a few years ago, she knew nothing about that strife-torn south Arabian country.
And yet Ms. Novak has become so well known in Yemen that newspaper editors say they sell more copies if her photograph — blond and smiling — is on the cover. Her blog, an outspoken news bulletin on Yemeni affairs, is banned there. The government’s allies routinely vilify her in print as an American agent, a Shiite monarchist, a member
of Al Qaeda, or “the Zionist Novak.”
The worst of her many offenses is her dogged campaign on behalf of a Yemeni journalist, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, who incurred his government’s wrath by writing about a bloody rebellion in the far north of the country. He is on trial on sedition charges that could bring the death penalty, with a verdict expected Wednesday.
Ms. Novak, working from a laptop in her Monmouth County living room “while the kids are at school,” has started an Internet petition to free Mr. Khaiwani. She has enlisted Yemeni politicians, journalists, human rights activists and others around the globe. Her blog goes well beyond the Khaiwani case and has become a crucial outlet for opposition journalists and political figures, who feed her tips on Yemeni political intrigue by e-mail or text message.
She says her campaign is a matter of basic principle. “This is a country that lets Al Qaeda people go free, and they’re putting a journalist on trial for doing his job?” she said. “It’s just completely crazy.”
But Ms. Novak does admit to a personal interest in the case. She and Mr. Khaiwani have become close friends, though they have never met, and neither speaks the other’s language. One of the charges against him is receiving a cellphone text message from her, as part of an alleged plot (which he denies) to aid the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.
“The penalty for this crime is usually death,” Mr. Khaiwani said during an interview at his home in the Yemeni capital, Sana, in January. A lanky 42-year-old with large, piercing eyes and a dark sense of humor, he has already been jailed four times by the authorities in connection with his journalism. Last year he was kidnapped and beaten by men he says were plainclothes police officers.
Action: Expose Censors on Chinese Riots
ACTION: Expose Chinese Censors on their 80,000 riots per year.
That's right. Eighty Thousand riots in China per year against the police and government authorities for Property Rights, Human Rights investigations, endemic corruption and more.
Recently, an article talked about a riot erupting in Shishou in Hubei Province. A few highlights from the article.
•Tens of thousands of rioters torched a hotel and overturned police cars, after the authorities allegedly tried to cover up the murder of a 24-year-old man as a suicide.
•A huge mob, of anywhere between a few thousand to 70,000 people, depending on which report you read, quickly gathered outside the building.
•What's extraordinary is the speed in which the riot blew up, and the venom directed against the local authorities. Whatever was behind Tu's death, there's clearly something rotten in Shishou. But after months of calm, there have been a spate of reported riots recently. Is this because media restrictions have been lifted, allowing news of riots to spread, or has there been a genuine increase in social tension in the countryside? It is impossible to tell. China no longer publishes the figures for how many riots take place each year, but most people put the figure at around 80,000 and the vast majority go totally unnoticed.
Take Action:
1. Establish a website about these riots and Chinese Censorship
2. Send stories about these riots and the censors to local and national American newspapers. Send them directly to the appropriate reporter and editor.
3. Note the response - or nonresponse - of the Reporter and Editor to this Human Rights plight.
4. Publicize the Reporters NonResponse about this issue to make their Nonresponse an issue.
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