My dear friends,
On August 29, 2007, police raided the office of the Nizhny Novgorod Foundation to Promote Tolerance, the successor to the Russian Chechen Friendship Society, with an order to seize the organization's computers to investigate alleged "computer related crimes." The police also said that they were carrying out an investigation into the organization's finances.
The raid has resulted in further disruption of the legitimate activities of a non-violent independent human rights organization that has now been the target of sustained repression for over two years. It follows in quick succession the further restrictions imposed on the organization's director, Stanislav Dmitrievsky on August 17, 2007.
Please protest the continuing official harassment directed against the Russian Chechen Friendship Society.....
Click here to take action:
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Dmitrievsky4?rk=sp20Yd612T9EE
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Join and sign this letter! Anna Politkovskaja. In Memoriam.
(In Russian: http://anna-7ottobre2007.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post_17.html )
It will be one year on the 7th of October from the day Anna Politovskaja was killed on the doorstep of her home in Moscow.
Whoever it was who shot his gun at her four times was not disguised, and yet is still unpunished, and the same can be said of all those who ordered that the bravest journalist of Russia could remember should be killed.
Nobody knew Anna her own country, just as president Putin stated, with a delicate sense of opportunity, only a few hours after her execution. Small wonder: Anna’s books on Chechnya and on the democratic involution of Russia have never been published over there. Freedom of the press is under threat in Russia, ever since the ruler at the Cremlin is an ex Kgb officer.
Yet, notwithstanding threats and deaths by poison, Anna had decided not to leave her own country, Russia.
Her courageous reportages on human rights violations both in Groznyj and in Moscow were widely known in the West.
And yet, no European Union representative has felt it his or her duty to be present at her funerals. No head of state, no world premier, although speaking of exporting liberty, either.
The world of politics, deeply involved in the attempt to pay Russian gas a few cents less, has paid no attention to her case: the world of culture, though, cannot forget Anna Politkovskaja.
We therefore ask that, throughout Europe, newspapers, theatres, phylarmonic orchestras and single artists organize memorial events on 7th October 2007, in Anna’s memory.
It will be a way of saying to whoever ordered her death: we do not forget.
mailto: 7ottobre2007@gmail.com
Source:
http://anna-7ottobre2007.blogspot.com/2007/08/anna-politkovskaja-must-not-be.html
It will be one year on the 7th of October from the day Anna Politovskaja was killed on the doorstep of her home in Moscow.
Whoever it was who shot his gun at her four times was not disguised, and yet is still unpunished, and the same can be said of all those who ordered that the bravest journalist of Russia could remember should be killed.
Nobody knew Anna her own country, just as president Putin stated, with a delicate sense of opportunity, only a few hours after her execution. Small wonder: Anna’s books on Chechnya and on the democratic involution of Russia have never been published over there. Freedom of the press is under threat in Russia, ever since the ruler at the Cremlin is an ex Kgb officer.
Yet, notwithstanding threats and deaths by poison, Anna had decided not to leave her own country, Russia.
Her courageous reportages on human rights violations both in Groznyj and in Moscow were widely known in the West.
And yet, no European Union representative has felt it his or her duty to be present at her funerals. No head of state, no world premier, although speaking of exporting liberty, either.
The world of politics, deeply involved in the attempt to pay Russian gas a few cents less, has paid no attention to her case: the world of culture, though, cannot forget Anna Politkovskaja.
We therefore ask that, throughout Europe, newspapers, theatres, phylarmonic orchestras and single artists organize memorial events on 7th October 2007, in Anna’s memory.
It will be a way of saying to whoever ordered her death: we do not forget.
mailto: 7ottobre2007@gmail.com
Source:
http://anna-7ottobre2007.blogspot.com/2007/08/anna-politkovskaja-must-not-be.html
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Take action in defense of Russian human rights' lawyer Stanislav Dmitrievsky!
Lift Restrictions on Russian Activist.
On August 17, 2007, a court in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, imposed more stringent restrictions on Stanislav Dmitrievsky, director of the banned Russian Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS). It is now more likely that Dmitrievsky may be imprisoned and forced to serve out the two-year sentence he received when he was convicted in February 2006.
This court decision is a continuation of the official harassment of Dmitrievsky and the RCFS in recent months, which has included threats, heavy surveillance of the organization's premises, and harassment by law enforcement agencies.
In 2005, Dmitrievsky was the target of a prosecution that appeared designed to disrupt the work of one of the few independent organizations reporting on human rights conditions in the war-torn province of Chechnya.
Despite these official pressures, the organization has re-formed under a new name and is continuing to function. Please call on the Russian authorities to cease interference with the legitimate activities of Stanislav Dmitrievsky............
Read more and take action here:
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Dmitrievsky3?rk=Sd20Yd61bLkaE
On August 17, 2007, a court in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, imposed more stringent restrictions on Stanislav Dmitrievsky, director of the banned Russian Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS). It is now more likely that Dmitrievsky may be imprisoned and forced to serve out the two-year sentence he received when he was convicted in February 2006.
This court decision is a continuation of the official harassment of Dmitrievsky and the RCFS in recent months, which has included threats, heavy surveillance of the organization's premises, and harassment by law enforcement agencies.
In 2005, Dmitrievsky was the target of a prosecution that appeared designed to disrupt the work of one of the few independent organizations reporting on human rights conditions in the war-torn province of Chechnya.
Despite these official pressures, the organization has re-formed under a new name and is continuing to function. Please call on the Russian authorities to cease interference with the legitimate activities of Stanislav Dmitrievsky............
Read more and take action here:
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Dmitrievsky3?rk=Sd20Yd61bLkaE
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Fucking politically correct paranoia of "struggle against smoking" is to be continued? But where's our noisy riot?!
One week ago England prohibited cigarette-smoking in the public places. It's happened under and because of strong pressure of stupid and shameful modern E.U. bureocracy and the new international moralistic totalitarian sect - World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
Nobody of officials being confused, that such decisions are the rough violation over human rights and humiliation of human dignity. And what the prognosis of "health experts"? I laughed sarcastically then I red in the last week's "St.-Petersburgh Times" that only 1 (one!) percent of Englishmen, as it expects, will break smoking as a result of these new unhuman laws!
Why the authorities doesn't agree with positive and non-discriminating experience of 90s, when the smokers and non-smokers were separated from each over by creating special places for both in pubs and cafes?.. Why today, instead of this positive decision of the last century's end, we becomes witnesses of total and shameful tobacco prohibitionism all over the world? And how this fact would cooperate with the modern liberal, and sometimes even libertarian, democracy of the civilized world?..
Fuck anti-smokers!
Fuck W.H.O. officials!
Fuck murders of private rights!
Nobody of officials being confused, that such decisions are the rough violation over human rights and humiliation of human dignity. And what the prognosis of "health experts"? I laughed sarcastically then I red in the last week's "St.-Petersburgh Times" that only 1 (one!) percent of Englishmen, as it expects, will break smoking as a result of these new unhuman laws!
Why the authorities doesn't agree with positive and non-discriminating experience of 90s, when the smokers and non-smokers were separated from each over by creating special places for both in pubs and cafes?.. Why today, instead of this positive decision of the last century's end, we becomes witnesses of total and shameful tobacco prohibitionism all over the world? And how this fact would cooperate with the modern liberal, and sometimes even libertarian, democracy of the civilized world?..
Fuck anti-smokers!
Fuck W.H.O. officials!
Fuck murders of private rights!
Although I'm a member of Gnostic CHURCH, I completely agree with the author.
Religion is exoteric and spirituality is esoteric.
Religion focuses on the outer person (appearance or expression), while
spirituality focuses on the inner person (thoughts, feelings, and so
on).
Religion is form and spirituality is substance.
Religion copies and imitates, but spirituality discovers and
originates.
Religion fills; spirituality overflows.
Religion brings routine. Spirituality brings freedom.
Religion values ceremony. Spirituality values meaning.
Religion imposes rules. Spirituality declares universal truths.
Religion says people are bad. Spirituality says they are good.
Religion empowers others. Spirituality empowers oneself.
Religion is the painting. Spirituality is the flower.
Religion looks to the past. Spirituality looks to the future.
Religion takes discipline. Spirituality takes curiosity.
Religion burdens. Spirituality lightens.
Religion persuades. Spirituality explains.
Religion fears. Spirituality seeks.
Religion defines. Spirituality expresses.
Religion teaches longsuffering. Spirituality teaches patience.
Religion takes away. Spirituality affirms.
Religion limits. Spirituality expands.
Religion requires the acceptance of a belief in place of experience;
Spirituality requires the release of beliefs that hinder experience.
Religion is a bandage. Spirituality is the scalpel.
Religion obscures. Spirituality uncovers.
Religion is the haven of the fearful. Spirituality is the playground of
the joyful.
Religion dulls. Spirituality sharpens.
Religion hushes. Spirituality laughs.
Religion cries tears of guilt and shame. Spirituality cries tears of
release and joy.
Copyright 2007 by Steve Baxter
--from the new book Revolutionary Spirituality: Awakening to Your True
Self by Steven E. Baxter
Religion focuses on the outer person (appearance or expression), while
spirituality focuses on the inner person (thoughts, feelings, and so
on).
Religion is form and spirituality is substance.
Religion copies and imitates, but spirituality discovers and
originates.
Religion fills; spirituality overflows.
Religion brings routine. Spirituality brings freedom.
Religion values ceremony. Spirituality values meaning.
Religion imposes rules. Spirituality declares universal truths.
Religion says people are bad. Spirituality says they are good.
Religion empowers others. Spirituality empowers oneself.
Religion is the painting. Spirituality is the flower.
Religion looks to the past. Spirituality looks to the future.
Religion takes discipline. Spirituality takes curiosity.
Religion burdens. Spirituality lightens.
Religion persuades. Spirituality explains.
Religion fears. Spirituality seeks.
Religion defines. Spirituality expresses.
Religion teaches longsuffering. Spirituality teaches patience.
Religion takes away. Spirituality affirms.
Religion limits. Spirituality expands.
Religion requires the acceptance of a belief in place of experience;
Spirituality requires the release of beliefs that hinder experience.
Religion is a bandage. Spirituality is the scalpel.
Religion obscures. Spirituality uncovers.
Religion is the haven of the fearful. Spirituality is the playground of
the joyful.
Religion dulls. Spirituality sharpens.
Religion hushes. Spirituality laughs.
Religion cries tears of guilt and shame. Spirituality cries tears of
release and joy.
Copyright 2007 by Steve Baxter
--from the new book Revolutionary Spirituality: Awakening to Your True
Self by Steven E. Baxter
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
The Project of My Possible Speech in Helsingin Gay-Pride Meeting in June, 30, 2007, there I was.
Dear friends,
I'm Alex Moma, from Moscow, and I’m glad to be with you, with free people in such free and democratic European country, as Finland.
I’m glad to greet you from the name of Nonviolent (Transnational) Radical Party, that supports Gay-Prides and LGBT-struggle all over the world, and from the name of Moscow’s "Free Radicals" Libertarian Movement.
As you may know, Russian activists of Radical Party – Nikolay Alekseev, Nikolay Khramov and Sergey Konstantinov were going to take part in Moscow’s Gay-Pride of this year, in May, 27. That our Pride was unlawfully prohibited by Moscow’s authorities, it was prohibited under strong pressure of nazi’s clerical and imperialistic circles of Putin’s Russia. Then our activists, as organizers of Pride, decided, according to such situation and for avoiding of mass violence during that manifestation, to limit ourselves by delivering the special petition – in support of our rights on that Pride – to Moscow’s Mayor Y. Luzhkov, petition, supported by fifty deputies of European Parliament. But on the way to the Mayor’s office on Tverskaia street, the police began, absolutely unlawfully, to arrest our activists, and then was a violence from the side of Moscow’s clerical nazis, concerned, particularly, Radical Party’s deputy of European Parliament Mr. Marco Cappato, who later was arrested also, concerned a member of Radical Party’s General Council Mr. Ottavio Marzocci, concerned a member of German Bundestag Mr. Folker Bekk, and other supporters of Pride.
Judicial farces according to fabricated police’s reports against Nikolay Alekseev, Nikolay Khramov and Sergey Konstantinov, who were arrested that day and then unlawfully were retained almost 24 hours, but not 3 hours, as it demands by the law, in the police department, crawled during all last month. There was a serious risk of they would be sentenced to administrative arrest in the inhuman Russian prison’s conditions, but the presence of European, German and Russian deputies, as witnesses of a true picture of events of 27 of May, in the Moscow’s court in the last days of May, had, probably, saved a situation. But later, in June, the judge returned their guilty and sentenced all three activists to paying a fine in the sum of one thousand rubles from the each sentenced man. Particularly, that verdict says that the testimonies of European deputies in support of our activists were consciously false! It’s an additional international scandal, isn’t it?
Dear friends,
I want to inform you that not only discrimination and provoking of stable public hate to LGBT, but also denial of their, and not only their, rights on freedom of nonviolent manifestations are the essential parts of president Putin’s regime in Russia. This political regime calls himself as “a sovereign democracy”, but de facto it is a fascistic dictatorship of new, special type, based on anti-European rhetoric, militarism, xenophobia, clericalism and homophobia. Now Radical Party’s activists initiated company for rejecting European visas, as it was adopted earlier concerning Belarussian officials, for all Russian officials, including Yuri Luzhkov, who are personally guilty in the violence over civil and human rights of the different groups of citizens of Russian Federation. And I think that only international solidarity of LGBT-activists, liberal and libertarian politics, and human rights lawyers all over the world could save situation with human rights and, particularly, with rights of sexual minorities in such problematic countries, as Russia.
Thank you very much and
kiitos paljon!
I'm Alex Moma, from Moscow, and I’m glad to be with you, with free people in such free and democratic European country, as Finland.
I’m glad to greet you from the name of Nonviolent (Transnational) Radical Party, that supports Gay-Prides and LGBT-struggle all over the world, and from the name of Moscow’s "Free Radicals" Libertarian Movement.
As you may know, Russian activists of Radical Party – Nikolay Alekseev, Nikolay Khramov and Sergey Konstantinov were going to take part in Moscow’s Gay-Pride of this year, in May, 27. That our Pride was unlawfully prohibited by Moscow’s authorities, it was prohibited under strong pressure of nazi’s clerical and imperialistic circles of Putin’s Russia. Then our activists, as organizers of Pride, decided, according to such situation and for avoiding of mass violence during that manifestation, to limit ourselves by delivering the special petition – in support of our rights on that Pride – to Moscow’s Mayor Y. Luzhkov, petition, supported by fifty deputies of European Parliament. But on the way to the Mayor’s office on Tverskaia street, the police began, absolutely unlawfully, to arrest our activists, and then was a violence from the side of Moscow’s clerical nazis, concerned, particularly, Radical Party’s deputy of European Parliament Mr. Marco Cappato, who later was arrested also, concerned a member of Radical Party’s General Council Mr. Ottavio Marzocci, concerned a member of German Bundestag Mr. Folker Bekk, and other supporters of Pride.
Judicial farces according to fabricated police’s reports against Nikolay Alekseev, Nikolay Khramov and Sergey Konstantinov, who were arrested that day and then unlawfully were retained almost 24 hours, but not 3 hours, as it demands by the law, in the police department, crawled during all last month. There was a serious risk of they would be sentenced to administrative arrest in the inhuman Russian prison’s conditions, but the presence of European, German and Russian deputies, as witnesses of a true picture of events of 27 of May, in the Moscow’s court in the last days of May, had, probably, saved a situation. But later, in June, the judge returned their guilty and sentenced all three activists to paying a fine in the sum of one thousand rubles from the each sentenced man. Particularly, that verdict says that the testimonies of European deputies in support of our activists were consciously false! It’s an additional international scandal, isn’t it?
Dear friends,
I want to inform you that not only discrimination and provoking of stable public hate to LGBT, but also denial of their, and not only their, rights on freedom of nonviolent manifestations are the essential parts of president Putin’s regime in Russia. This political regime calls himself as “a sovereign democracy”, but de facto it is a fascistic dictatorship of new, special type, based on anti-European rhetoric, militarism, xenophobia, clericalism and homophobia. Now Radical Party’s activists initiated company for rejecting European visas, as it was adopted earlier concerning Belarussian officials, for all Russian officials, including Yuri Luzhkov, who are personally guilty in the violence over civil and human rights of the different groups of citizens of Russian Federation. And I think that only international solidarity of LGBT-activists, liberal and libertarian politics, and human rights lawyers all over the world could save situation with human rights and, particularly, with rights of sexual minorities in such problematic countries, as Russia.
Thank you very much and
kiitos paljon!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Putin's Russia as Fascistic Dictatorship of Special Type.
Somebody <.......@yahoo.com> wrote in "Gnostic Politics":
Topic: Did God or the Demiurge[?] tell Bush in invade Iraq and to
wage war? What do you thinkk of this?
------------------------------
My today's answer:
I think not only G.W. Bush, but all the U.S. neo-conses, with their total moralistic quasi-religious sanctimony, heard the voice of Jaldabaoth, not God's! But our "President", Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is much worse than Bush, I think he's even straight incarnation of somebody from Demiurge's "Angels" crowd: he invaded Chechnya and killed democratic freedoms in Russia - almost all freedoms. And he's establishing, step by step, Orthodoxal-clerical type of state in Russia of the early 21th century.
Sincerely, -
Alex Moma,
a member of
Ecclesia Gnostica Russica,
Moscow region, Russia.
Topic: Did God or the Demiurge[?] tell Bush in invade Iraq and to
wage war? What do you thinkk of this?
------------------------------
My today's answer:
I think not only G.W. Bush, but all the U.S. neo-conses, with their total moralistic quasi-religious sanctimony, heard the voice of Jaldabaoth, not God's! But our "President", Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is much worse than Bush, I think he's even straight incarnation of somebody from Demiurge's "Angels" crowd: he invaded Chechnya and killed democratic freedoms in Russia - almost all freedoms. And he's establishing, step by step, Orthodoxal-clerical type of state in Russia of the early 21th century.
Sincerely, -
Alex Moma,
a member of
Ecclesia Gnostica Russica,
Moscow region, Russia.
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