Walk Free Action

Dear bert,

Thank you for taking action and urging Natural Fruit to immediately drop all charges against migrant rights activist Andy Hall.

By standing up for a fellow anti-slavery activist, you are ensuring that more people will be empowered to speak out against injustice all around the world.

As the trial date is fast approaching, will you take a moment and forward this email to 3 of your friends to ensure as many people as possible take action?

Thank you,

The Walk Free team

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Hi,

Andy Hall could face 7 years in prison for doing something I do everyday — talking about modern slavery.

Andy Hall is a British campaigner with a special focus on the rights of migrant workers.  Two years ago, on behalf of Finnwatch, he undertook an investigation into Natural Fruit, part of NatGroup, a Thai company that processes pineapples and supplies retailers around the world. Finnwatch’s final report painted a picture suggesting modern slavery. Instead of addressing the allegations, Natural Fruit decided to try and silence Andy with lawsuits.

Are you as outraged as I am? Join me and call for justice.

http://www.walkfree.org/andy-hall/?utm_source=taf&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=andy-hall

Thank you,

bert

US spy operations: social media

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

March 17, 2011

Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an “online persona management service” that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.

The project has been likened by web experts to China’s attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.

The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as “sock puppets” – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.

Photos: David Petraeus, Obama reception

Read more at: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

Put on the street just before the year-end holidays

I lived for eight months in a humid chamber in the municipality of Saint-Gilles at Brussels.

I had no toilet and had to go to the pubs.

I had no hot water.

I had no bathroom or shower.

I had to leave my room through the garden and the basement every day and late at night I passed the cellar and the garden back to my room.

I was constantly bullied by some members of a Chechen family residing on the ground floor next to my room, whose son I released from prison.

I paid € 540 per month for the room which € 165 charge.

A given moment, I felt so sick and the situation was so unbearablehe that I was forced to flee the house and go to sleep in a small hotel.

Afterwards I found a shelter where I can stay for the moment for a small fee.

The attorney of the owner of the house, which had agreed to mediate and is a very distinguished man, wrote me yesterday that I have only to think of moving ‘because the home owner wants me to leave the home before the end of this month’…

Enduring Freedom…

A few years ago the Court of justice of Turnhout (Belgium) that covered the Zandvoort child pornography case decided that Morkhoven-activist Marcel Vervloesem and his alleged victims who were regular vistors of the gay bar Berkenmus in Morkhoven, had to submit a polygraph.

Only Marcel Vervloesem and one of the alleged victims were invited.

The polygraph test told that Marcel Vervloesem was telling the truth.

The so called victim began to cry and refused the test.

Afterwards nobody was no longer required to go to the polygraph.

The Court of justice of Turnhout concealed these facts.

It was just a way to continue the political trial against Marcel Vervloesem and to cover up the Zandvoort case.

Specialists say that screenings with a computer has no scientific basis and is abused to intimidate and accuse people.

https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2013/05/15/enduring-freedom-isaf-deletes-criticism-of-u-s-governments-handheld-lie-detector/

Americans don’t believe in global power anymore

December 4, 2013

According to latest research, a national support for US global engagement reached historically low level recently. The public thinks that the nation does too much to solve world problems, and increasing percentages want the US to “mind its own business internationally” and pay more attention to problems at home.

Read more at: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_12_04/Majority-of-Americans-believe-US-global-power-is-in-decline-7463/

Latest News Syria: Russia

December 4, 2013

Moscow, (SANA) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the terrorist attacks targeting places of worship and religious figures in Syria must stop, stressing the need to prepare a suitable atmosphere for holding the international conference on Syria “Geneva 2.”

Read more at: http://213.178.225.235/eng/22/2013/12/04/515823.htm

A call for Pan-Arabism and Anti colonialism

Pan-Arabism, Nationalist notion of cultural and political unity among Arab countries

Its origins lie in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when increased literacy led to a cultural and literary renaissance among Arabs of the Middle East. This contributed to political agitation and led to the independence of most Arab states from the Ottoman Empire (1918) and from the European powers (by the mid-20th century).

An important event was the founding in 1943 of the Baʿth Party, which formed branches in several countries and became the ruling party in Syria and Iraq.

Another was the founding of the Arab League in 1945.

Pan-Arabism’s most charismatic and effective proponent was Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. After Nasser’s death, Syria’s Ḥāfiẓ al-Assad, Iraq’s Ṣaddām Ḥussein, and Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi tried to assume the mantle of Arab leadership.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/878838/Pan-Arabism

American military occupation: Cuba (1898-1903)

American invasion Iraq

A newly released study by American, Canadian and Iraqi researchers concludes that the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in nearly half a million deaths.

http://consciouslifenews.com/report-500000-dead-invasion-iraq/

Alcatraz