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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Quakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quakers</span></a> condemn arrests of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> at meeting house</p><p>March 30, 2025</p><p>"The arrests of six female supporters of activist group <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YouthDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouthDemand</span></a> at a Quaker meeting house have been condemned by the faith group.</p><p>"Quakers in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> said the arrests were the first at a meeting house and 'an aggressive violation'.</p><p>"The Metropolitan Police said six people were arrested on Thursday evening at the Westminster Meeting House on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicNuisance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicNuisance</span></a>.</p><p>"The force said it came amid concerns there were plans to 'shut down' London during April using tactics such as road blocks.</p><p>"Youth Demand said more than 30 officers were involved with making the arrests.</p><p>"Paul Parker, of Quakers in Britain, said he could not recall anyone being arrested at a Quaker meeting house in living memory.</p><p>"'The forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalisesProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalisesProtest</span></a>.</p><p>"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a>, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>,' he said.</p><p>"Police said a further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday - four at addresses in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> and one in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exeter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exeter</span></a>.</p><p>"Youth Demand, which is not affiliated with the Quakers, said the meeting was 'an opportunity to share plans for non-violent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilResistance</span></a> actions' due to take place in April.</p><p>"The group claimed a number of houses were also raided on Thursday and Friday as part of the operation.</p><p>"Quakers in Britain said: 'Quakers support the right to non-violent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a> and for our planet.</p><p>"'Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> to women's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/suffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suffrage</span></a> and prison reform.'</p><p>"The Met said the force understood the importance of the right to protest but added that Youth Demand had stated an intention to 'shut down' London in April.</p><p>"'We have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality,' a spokesman said.</p><p>"On Thursday, officers raided a Youth Demand planning meeting where those in attendance were plotting their April action.</p><p>"Six people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.</p><p>"A further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday, 28 March. Four of the arrests were at addresses in London and one in Exeter.</p><p>'Policing priorities'</p><p>"Out of the 11 people arrested, 10 have been released on bail and one will face no further action.</p><p>"Asked about the matter on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'I have made clear to the police this government's priorities for policing are reducing serious violence... and bringing back neighbourhood policing, those crimes in town centres like shoplifting.'</p><p>"Youth Demand, which describes itself as a 'new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>', began carrying out acts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilDisobedience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilDisobedience</span></a> last year.</p><p>"Its demands of the government include stopping all trade with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> and raising money from 'the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SuperRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SuperRich</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fossilfuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossilfuel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elite</span></a>' to pay damages for the effects of fossil fuel burning."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x5j6g30ro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x5j6g</span><span class="invisible">30ro</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThoughtCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtCrime</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicNuisanceLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicNuisanceLaws</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Article20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Article20</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/2023PublicOrderAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2023PublicOrderAct</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked</p><p>Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning</p><p>By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025</p><p>"Secretary of State <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentVisas</span></a>, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a>.</p><p>"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholars</span></a> have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DetentionCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DetentionCenters</span></a>, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.</p><p>"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders. </p><p>"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation. </p><p>"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> and were suspended, expelled or jailed.</p><p>"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and to assemble, experts and advocates said."</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump</span><span class="invisible">-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Clampdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clampdown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToAssemble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToAssemble</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Trump allies circulate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportation</span></a> plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>army</span></a>’</p><p>The group, led by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> veteran <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a>, has close <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> ties.</p><p>By Dasha Burns and Myah Ward<br>02/25/2025 05:55 AM EST </p><p>"Prince declined to comment, and the other contractors and former immigration officials listed as key personnel in the document also declined to comment or could not be reached.</p><p>"The founders of the new special entity called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/2USV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2USV</span></a> have a long history with the U.S. government. Blackwater was formed by Prince in 1996 to provide training services to law enforcement, military personnel and other government agencies. It gained widespread attention for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing security services for U.S. officials and military personnel, with critics viewing its rise as a result of the U.S. military’s overextension in the Middle East.</p><p>The military contractor came under scrutiny in 2007 following the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NisourSquareMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NisourSquareMassacre</span></a>, when <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> contractors opened fire and killed 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded 20 others — raising questions about oversight and accountability of private contractors. Several contractors were charged with manslaughter, and four were convicted in 2014. Trump pardoned them at the end of his first term in December 2020.</p><p>"Trump’s pardon was just one example of the influence of Prince’s family during the first Trump administration. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetsyDeVos</span></a>, Prince’s sister, served as the president’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> secretary, while Prince used his Trump connections as he chased business ventures in the U.S. and abroad.</p><p>"In 2018, he reportedly helped raise money for an effort to spy on progressives and Democratic organizations opposed to Trump." [As well as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a>!]<br><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2025/02/25/d</span><span class="invisible">ocuments-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crapitalism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristoFascist</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrackdownOnProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrackdownOnProtests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiProtestLaws</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TripleCanopy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> tested the limits on using the military at home. If elected again, he plans to go further</p><p>“We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the big — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”</p><p> By STEPHEN GROVES<br>Updated 1:01 PM EDT, October 13, 2024</p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — "During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil.</p><p>"He has pledged to recall thousands of American troops from overseas and station them at the U.S. border with Mexico. He has explored using troops for domestic policy priorities such as deportations and confronting civil unrest. He has talked of weeding out military officers who are ideologically opposed to him.</p><p>"Trump’s vision amounts to a potentially dramatic shift in the role of the military in U.S. society, carrying grave implications for both the country’s place in the world and the restraints that have traditionally been placed on domestic use of the military."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-border-civil-unrest-domestic-use-a136c69cc85184b07f161c4c09b46c50" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-milit</span><span class="invisible">ary-border-civil-unrest-domestic-use-a136c69cc85184b07f161c4c09b46c50</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USElections</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Elections2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elections2024</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateProtestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateProtestors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crapitalism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> faces scrutiny for ‘political’ trial of five <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a></p><p>UN and legal experts have condemned prosecution of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiMining</span></a> campaigners over alleged civil war-era killing</p><p>Nina Lakhani<br>Wed 9 Oct 2024 11.43 EDT</p><p>"Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador are facing life imprisonment for an alleged civil war-era crime, in a case that has been condemned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> and legal experts as baseless and politically motivated.</p><p>The trial against Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega, who were arrested in January 2023 for the alleged killing of an army informant in 1989, opened on Tuesday in Sensuntepeque, in the department of Cabañas in northern El Salvador.</p><p>"The case has proceeded in almost total secrecy amid widespread allegations of legal violations – and repeated calls for the charges to be dismissed from UN experts, and hundreds of international lawyers, academics and rights groups.</p><p>"The defendants, who were at the forefront of a 13-year grassroots-led campaign to ban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MetalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetalMining</span></a> to protect the country’s dwindling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farmland</span></a> from further <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contamination</span></a>, were arrested amid warnings that President Nayib Bukele was planning to overturn the 2017 historic law.</p><p>"The five anti-mining activists had denounced suspicious land sales and mining interests operating in the area when arrested, accused of murder and illicit association over an alleged crime during the 1979-1992 civil war.</p><p>"'This case has no legal basis, but we fear that the lack of judicial independence and the Bukele government’s desire to overturn the metal mining ban risks the five <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> leaders being subjected to a terrible miscarriage of justice,' said Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the Central American Alliance Against Mining.</p><p>"'The five are respected community leaders, and sentencing them to inhumane prison conditions would be a death sentence.'"</p><p>[...]</p><p>"In what was perceived as a show of support for the activists, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> sent representatives to pre-trial hearings. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> administration has remained silent despite 17 members of Congress condemning the arrests and urging the secretary of state, Antony <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blinken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blinken</span></a>, to join calls for the charges to be dismissed." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/el-salvador-trial-environmental-activists-mining" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2024/oct</span><span class="invisible">/09/el-salvador-trial-environmental-activists-mining</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpedUpCharges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpedUpCharges</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a></p>
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