"Bradley Manning Has Become a Martyr"

EXCLUSIVE:
"Bradley Manning Has Become a Martyr"- WikiLeaks' Julian Assange on Guilty Verdict
© Democracy Now!

» with video

The fight to free Bradley Manning is not over

March Forward! - The fight to free Bradley Manning is not over

Statement issued by March Forward!, an affiliate of the ANSWER Coalition made up of anti-war veterans and active-duty service members.
© Answer Coalition 

the enemy is you, AmeriKKKa !!!!!

The Plight of California's Prisoners

The Plight of California's Prisoners: Hunger Strike, Sterilization and Valley Fever
© Truthout

President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay

Help us reach 300,000 signatures to close Guantanamo !!!!!

Petition from Col. Morris Davis - Former Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo & now one of Guantanamo's harshest critics.


Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay
Change.org

i'll repost this petition again & all over again !!!

Free Them ALLLLLLL !!!!!

Take action in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

Take action in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike
© Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

sign & share !!!!! 

reposting ....

Stop Solitary Confinement !!!!!

16 Years in Solitary Confinement Is Like a "Living Tomb"
© American Civil Liberties Union

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reposting .....

Let Okunishi clear his name before he dies

Let Okunishi clear his name before he dies
© Amnesty International Australia

Okunishi Masaru has been on death row in Japan for 40 years. Now 87 years-old, he's desperate for a chance to clear his name before he dies. Will you help him?

sign & share !!!!!

reposting .....

Save Syrian Lives !!!!!

Syrians are not dying from hunger, they die from wounds, injuries, shrapnel, bombing, and shelling. They need urgent medical relief.

Please help us save Syrian Lives TODAY!
Donate and click 'share' to spread the word. No matter how small your donation is, it can contribute to saving lives.

Save Syrian Lives 

Support !!!!!

Saturn, Titan, Rings and Haze

APOD: 2013 July 29 - Saturn, Titan, Rings, and Haze

Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

thankssssssssssssssss, APOD ♥♥♥

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i’m having a huge attack of allergy, itches all over
and i guess i'm looking like Bette Davis, nooo ???
what can i do, our building annual repairs are over .....
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Magiccccccccccccccc nite & week !!!!! 

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Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny,
but the air is full of bullshit.

- Chuck Palahniuk -

Protesters in 40 cities take part in Bradley Manning 'International Day of Action'

Protesters in 40 cities take part in Bradley Manning 'International Day of Action'
© RT USA - TV-Novosti

Right to life with dignity by Mohammad Saba'aneh

Right to life with dignity by Mohammad Saba'aneh
Cartoon Movement - right to life with dignity 22 

Mohammad Saba'aneh, born in 1978, is a Palestinian painter and cartoonist. He has been an active member in the Cartoon Movement since August 24, 2009.
Mohammad Saba'aneh was detained by the Israelis on February 6, 2013, held in prison without charges and was released on July 1, 2013.

Mohammad Saba'aneh
© Cartoon Movement

Mohammad Saba'aneh Released From Prison
© Cartoonists Rights Network International

Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Saba'aneh sentenced to 5 months in prison 
© Mondoweiss » published April 12, 2013

Museums for Palestinian refugees "light up past before 1948"

Museums for Palestinian refugees "light up past before 1948"
© The Electronic Intifada

Child Workers Maintain Gaza's Cemeteries

Child Workers Maintain Gaza's Cemeteries
© Al-Monitor

July 26 marked 60 years of Cuban Revolution !!!!!

60 years of Cuban revolution: Latin American leaders praise iconic revolt start as anti-US sentiments grow
© RT USA - TV-Novosti

Abdelke's arrest galvanizes artists

Abdelke's arrest galvanizes artists
© The Daily Star

Death Toll In Syria Rises To 100,000, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon Says

Death Toll In Syria Rises To 100,000, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon Says
© Huffington Post  

just wondering why no one Stop Assad ....

shameeeeeeeeeeee on you, Humanity !!!!!

Worldwide Demonstrations in Solidarity with Bradley Manning July 26 and 27

Worldwide Demonstrations in Solidarity with Bradley Manning

July 26 and 27

Free Bradley Manning !!!!!

© Answer Coalition

A protest demanding the release of accused whistle-blower Bradley Manning will be held at Ft. McNair in Washington D.C. on July 26 followed by worldwide solidarity actions the next day.

Portugal speaks out against 500th execution in Texas

Portugal speaks out against 500th execution in Texas
© The Portugal News » published July 25

Syrian refugees - in pictures

Syrian refugees - in pictures

Millions of people have fled Syria since the start of the civil 
war in April 2011. With numbers continuing to rise, most have crossed borders into large camps in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. 
© The Guardian 

Palestinians mark 19th anniv. of Goldstein Massacre

Palestinians mark 19th anniv. of Goldstein Massacre
© PressTV

» with video

Death row inmates moved closer to the gallows in Nigeria

Death row inmates moved closer to the gallows in Nigeria - Amnesty International
© WorldStage News

Int. Campaign to Free Youssef Abdelke !!!!!

Facebook campaign demands Syria free jailed artist
© Ahram Online

on Facebook »

Together For Youssef Abdelke

sign the petition !!!!!

RWB calls for the release of 35 jailed Vietnamese bloggers

RWB calls for the release of 35 jailed Vietnamese bloggers » Petition

Vietnam is 2nd only to China in the number of bloggers and netizens currently detained – 35.
RWB has just launched a petition for the immediate release
of all these bloggers.
© Reporters Without Borders

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Death Before Dying: Death Row Exoneree on Solitary Confinement

 
Published on Jul 23, 2013

From 1994 to 2006, Anthony Graves spent at least 22 hours a day locked alone in a small cell waiting to die -- all for a crime he did not commit. During those years, 400 other prisoners were also locked alone on Texas' death row. 
Watch this video to hear Anthony's story.

When I Was on Death Row, I Saw a Bunch of Dead Men Walking. Solitary Confinement Killed Everything Inside Them.
© American Civil Liberties Union

Secret torture unit at San Quentin

Secret torture unit at San Quentin
by a California Death Row SHU prisoner

© San Francisco Bay View

On Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers, and the Horror of Solitary Confinement

On Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers, and the Horror of Solitary Confinement
by Angola 3 News

© Dissident Voice

Tribute to Hemingway

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong
in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.
It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too
but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Hemingway -
from A Farewell to Arms, 1929

July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Hemingway with one of his cats

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

Ernest Hemingway Collection
© John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Hemingway's Cats

Ernest Hemingway always had cats as companions, from the ones he adored as a child in Illinois and Michigan, to the more than 30 he had as an adult in Paris, Key West, Cuba and Idaho.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon
the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

- Leonardo da Vinci -

Pigs Electro-Shocked in Slaughterhouse

A whistleblower captured video footage of terrified mother pigs' final moments inside a Pontotoc, Miss., slaughterhouse, a sausage supplier to Mississippi schools. 


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The Most Disturbing Sound in the World

You don't need to watch PETA videos to know that animals
are treated cruelly in factory farms.  

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Prison Child Of The Iranian Revolution

Interview: Prison Child Of The Iranian Revolution
© Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Prisoners' Struggle Against "Cruel and Unusual Punishment Amounting to Torture"

Prisoners' Struggle Against "Cruel and Unusual Punishment Amounting to Torture"
© Truthout

Tribute to Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky
1925 (author unknown)

Past One O’Clock ... 

Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed.
The Milky Way streams silver through the night.
I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
I have no cause to wake or trouble you.
And, as they say, the incident is closed.
Love’s boat has smashed against the daily grind.
Now you and I are quits. Why bother then
To balance mutual sorrows, pains, and hurts.
Behold what quiet settles on the world.
Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
In hours like these, one rises to address
The ages, history, and all creation.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky -

July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930

Source: The Bedbug and selected poetry, translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey. Meridian Books, New York, 1960; Transcribed: by Mitch Abidor.
This poem was found among Mayakovsky’s papers after his suicide on April 14, 1930. He had used the middle section,
with slight changes, as an epilogue to his suicide note.

Mayakovsky with his dog Skotik - 1924
 
Russian Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (120th Anniversary Of His Birth)
© Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
» photo gallery

The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky

Syrian artist, Youssef Abdelke, arrested

Syrian artist, Youssef Abdelke, arrested

Internationally acclaimed Syrian artist, Youssef Abdelke, has today been arrested by regime forces at a checkpoint in Tartous.
© NOW

» with photo gallery

Auschwitz Through the Eyes of a Child

Unlikely Nostalgia:
Auschwitz Through the Eyes of a Child

He was sent to Auschwitz as a boy, and never forgot the images and dreams that defined this period of his life. Now Jerusalem academic Otto Dov Kulka has written an unusual book about
his life in a Nazi concentration camp.

© Der Spiegel

The Blue Feeling of Death

The Blue Feeling of Death

On stage in Tehran: Stories of youth on death row
© DAWN

Islamic Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Islamic Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran - Book Five
© Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

On His 95th Birthday, the Story of Nelson Mandela's Struggle Told Outside His Old Soweto Home

On His 95th Birthday, the Story of Nelson Mandela's Struggle Told Outside His Old Soweto Home

As the world marks the 95th birthday of Nelson Mandela,
South Africa’s first black president and a beloved symbol
of the country’s struggle to end apartheid, longtime South African activist Trevor Ngwane takes Democracy Now! 
on a tour of the township of Soweto. Speaking outside of Mandela’s former home, Ngwane recalls when the ANC leader was first captured, leading to a 27-year imprisonment before
his release in 1990. Ngwane was active in the struggle against apartheid that culminated in Mandela’s 1994 election and today remains a leading South African voice for human rights.

© Democracy Now!
» with video 

♥♥ Happy Birthday, Madiba ♥♥

FBI forensic hair analysis errors casts doubt on dozens of death penalty convictions

FBI forensic hair analysis errors casts doubt on dozens of death penalty convictions

Shock report into FBI errors cast doubt on TWENTY-SEVEN death penalty convictions

© Daily Mail

Prisoners on strike for dignity

Prisoners on strike for dignity

Alex Schmaus reports on a prison hunger strike in California against inhumane conditions that is involving tens of thousands of inmates.
© SocialistWorker.org

A Former IRA Hunger Striker Talks About the Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

A Former IRA Hunger Striker Talks About the Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
© VICE United States

Tibetan Exposes China from the Inside

'Anything But Humane'

Tibetan Official to Expose Chinese Abuses from the Inside in Book
© Der Spiegel

Longest Walk Four Begins Today in DC To End on Alcatraz Island

Longest Walk Four Begins Today in DC To End on Alcatraz Island

The purpose of this Walk will be to reaffirm the heart of Traditional Tribal Sovereignty rooted in Ceremony and land based spiritual relationships. We call on all Indigenous Peoples to come and support this Walk, according to the Return to Alcatraz website.

The Longest Walk 4 long walkers will cover the length of the country from Washington, DC to Alcatraz Island from now until December 21.

© Native News Network 


The Longest Walk 4 | Return To Alcatraz

106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - 2012

106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2012
© STREET ART UTOPIA

truly a must !!!!!

Shaman’s Vision by Powell

 Shaman’s Vision by Keith Powell

Powell Art Studio

Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell.
Spirituality is for those who have already been there.

- Vine Deloria, Jr. -

Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Worldwide

Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Worldwide
© Truthout

with video

A Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement: Shane Bauer on Inhuman Prisons from California to Iran

A Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement: Shane Bauer on Inhuman Prisons from California to Iran
© Democracy Now!

with video

End abusive use of solitary confinement in California prisons

End abusive use of solitary confinement in California prisons
Take Action Now - Amnesty International USA

Hunger Strike by California Inmates, Already Large, Is Expected to Be Long
© The New York Times

Khader Adnan expresses solidarity with 30,000 hunger strikers in California prisons 
© The Electronic Intifada » published July 11

The Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement
© Wired Science » published July 10

As Hunger Strike Continues, Ex-Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Says "No Good Reason" To Keep Prison Open

As Hunger Strike Continues, Ex-Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Says "No Good Reason" To Keep Prison Open
© Democracy Now!

End the nightmare. Free Herman Wallace!

End the nightmare. Free Herman Wallace!

Take Action Now - Amnesty International USA

USA must release terminally ill man held in isolation for 40 years
© Amnesty International

Pa. Superior Court panel affirms life imprisonment for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Pa. Superior Court panel affirms life imprisonment for Mumia Abu-Jamal
© Pennsylvania Record

Free Mumia NOW !!!!!

Top European Human Rights Court Deems Life In Prison Without Parole Inhuman and Degrading

Top European Human Rights Court Deems Life In Prison Without Parole Inhuman and Degrading
© ThinkProgress

We will fight until the End !!!!!

Let the world see what's happening in #SYRIA

by Syrian Revolution in Art - Photography

We Love You !!!!!

Free Syria NOW !!!!!

Help Syria now. Tomorrow it may be too late

Help Syria now. Tomorrow it may be too late
by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

An open letter to friends and leaders of public opinion
in the west: current policy is short-sighted and inhumane
© The Guardian

Torture in Israeli Jails: The Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes

Torture in Israeli Jails: The Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes
© Uruknet

♥ Aristides de Sousa Mendes ♥

In Portugal, a Protector of a People Is Honored
© The New York Times

Help Maria to get better Education program and medical check ups

Urgent appeal !!!!! 
Help Maria to get better Education program and medical check ups.

Charity given for Maria to have better Education program and medical check ups 

MARIA is a 13 years old Palestinian girl with optic nerve cancer.
© Indiegogo

via Gaza TV News

please Donate & Support !!!!!

Vietnam's death row inmates enduring a wait worse than death

Vietnam's death row inmates enduring a wait worse than death

Vietnam has postponed its planned resumption of executions
yet again after having approved the use of locally produced lethal injection drugs, leaving 568 death-row inmates tortured
by uncertainty.

© Thanh Nien Daily

Iran: Wave of mass executions continue

Iran: Wave of mass executions continue

The number of executions in the past 22 days reached 75

© Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Support Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners' Five Core Demands (hunger strike)

Petition | Support Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners' Five Core Demands (hunger strike) 
Change.org 

today, prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison and other prisons throughout California began a hunger strike and work stoppage to protest conditions and confinement in Security Housing Units (SHUs).

sign & share !!!!!

Pelican Bay Prison hunger-strikers

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: George Ruiz
© Truthout » published July 16

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Jeffrey Franklin
© Truthout » published July 15

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Ronnie Dewberry
© Truthout » published July 14

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Paul Redd
© Truthout » published July 13

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Luis Esquivel
© Truthout » published July 11

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Todd Ashker 
© Truthout » published July 10

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers' Stories: Gabriel Reyes
© Truthout » published July 9

Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers' Stories: Richard Wembe Johnson
© Truthout » published July 8

testimonial by Richard Wembe Johnson, who is imprisoned
in long-term solitary confinement at Pelican Bay.

Pelican Bay Two Years Later: Those Still Buried Alive Vowing Hunger Strike "Till the End"
© Truthout » published July 7

Female inmates sterilized in California prison

Female inmates sterilized in California prison

Female inmates at California prisons were coerced into undergoing tubal ligation -- sterilization -- without proper approval from 2006 to 2010.
© UPI

Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
© The Center for Investigative Reporting
» full Report

outrageoussssssssssss, California !!!!!

Gitmo POW's hunger strike

Islamic leaders urge Obama to stop force-feeding Gitmo detainees during Ramadan
© RT News - TV-Novosti » published July 8

Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure - video
© The Guardian » published July 8

Only Obama can stop Gitmo force-feeding - US judge
© RT USA - TV-Novosti

My life at Guantanamo  
by Moath al-Alwi

Moath al-Alwi is a Yemeni national who has been in US custody since 2002. He was one of the very first prisoners moved to Guantanamo, where the US military assigned him the Internment Serial Number 028.

© Al Jazeera » published July 7 

shame on you, Obama !!!!!

Chris Rainier: Cultures on the Edge

by Chris Rainier
Maori with moko tattoo. Milford Sound, New Zealand

Chris Rainier

Preserving the Voice of Vanishing Cultures
© Lens - NYTimes

Photographer Chris Rainier Biography
© National Geographic

Chris Rainier: Cultures on the Edge

Considered one of the leading documentary photographers in the field today, Chris Rainier captures powerful and compelling images of indigenous cultures whose ways are under threat.

'Everybody in Guantanamo has been tortured or abused'

'Everybody in Guantanamo has been tortured or abused'
© RT Op-Edge 

Homage to Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo by Lola Álvarez Bravo, 1944


Points of support
For my whole figure there is only one; I want two.
To provide me two they had to cut off one.
The one I don't have is the one I need to have
in order to walk. The other is already dead!
I have more than enough wings.
So cut them.
I'll fly away!

- Frida Kahlo -

July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954

FRIDA KAHLO

Frida Kahlo - paintings, biography, and quotes of Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo - The complete works

Museo Frida Kahlo

The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo

songs »

Paloma Negra by Chavela Vargas
Esa Noche by Cafe tacuba
El Conejo by Los Cojolites

100 PHOTOS BY AI WEIWEI FOR PRESS FREEDOM

 
Be part of a first for RWB:
contribute to the exceptional publication of our Ai Weiwei album ! 

Reporters sans frontières présente 100 photos de Ai Weiwei pour la libertéde la presse
© KissKissBankBank

Greaaaaaaaaaaat work !!!!! Support !!!!!

Assessing Evidence of Genocide

Assessing Evidence of Genocide
A case study of the persecution of Falun Gong in China
© The Epoch Times » published July 4

A Letter From Guantanamo

Abdelhadi Faraj: A Letter From Guantanamo
© Huffington Post

Shameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!

Returns to torture in Central Asia

Cynical subversion of justice in the name of security: Returns to torture in Central Asia
© Amnesty International

Pakistan » Govt resolute to send all death-row prisoners to gallows

Govt resolute to send all death-row prisoners to gallows
© The Nation 

Pakistan: Thousands of prisoners at risk if government resumes executions
© Amnesty International

Govt ends moratorium on executions: Official
© The Express Tribune » published July 4

Nigeria » 1138 condemned prisoners on death row

1138 condemned prisoners on death row - Investigation
© National Mirror

Iwao Hakamada » half century on death row

Japanese man nears half century on death row
© Channel NewsAsia

Shirin Neshat exhibit » PHOTOESPAÑA 2013

Shirin Neshat. Divine Rebellion, 2012
© Shirin Neshat
Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels

Shirin Neshat, an Iranian visual artist in exile, will be showing her work at PhotoEspana 2013 through July as part of an exhibit that looks at Muslim women, as well as Iranian youth.

PHOTOESPAÑA 2013 : Shirin Neshat

Espacio Fundación Telefónica Gran Via 28
Madrid

until July 28

photoespana 2013

Le Journal de la Photographie

Shirin Neshat, born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran, lives in New York City. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.

Shirin Neshat

i love your work !!!!
truly awesome Shirin !!!!!

Gitmo detainees ask US court to end force feeding

Gitmo detainees ask US court to end force feeding
© RT News - TV-Novosti » published July 2

Canada Day: Lament for Confederation by Chief Dan George

Canada Day: Lament for Confederation by Chief Dan George
© White Wolf

with photos & video

thank you sooooooooooo much !!!!!

Death Penalty in Belarus

Why Belarus Keeps Capital Punishment
© Belarus Digest » published July 1

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will adopt a declaration on Belarus
© Charter'97 » published June 30