Serge Konstantinov, an activist of Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational & Transparty, and "Free Radicals" libertarian movement, was arrested and beaten by police in Moscow, during the nonviolent Moscow's "March of Disagree" in November, 24. Serge's now also is one of activists who are participants of presidential electoral campaign of the former Soviet dissident and human rights lawyer Vladimir Bukovsky. Serge took part in that March as, previously, an activist of this campaign.
The police has broken his nose during the yesterday's arrest and freed Serge only in 1 o'clock of night (according to the law they have right to keep him in the police department during only 3-hours-term of arresting maximum), when Moscow's underground (metro) was already closed. Today doctor has officially detected the fact of his beating.
Radical party's officials issued a special press-release in support of Serge (par Italiano): http://coranet.radicalparty.org/pressreleases/press_release.php?func=detail&par=8439
Press-service of Free Radicals.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
American Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty Marks Anniversary Of Anna Politkovskaya Murder.
PRAGUE, October 4, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Friends and colleagues of slain Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya gathered at RFE/RL's Prague headquarters today to honor her memory through personal remembrances and discussions of the struggle for press freedom in Russia.
In addition to today's conference in Prague, ceremonies and vigils marking Politkovskaya's assassination also are scheduled to be held in Moscow, New York, Washington, Stockholm, Hamburg, Paris, and London.
Speaking via video link from Moscow, Dmitry Muratov, Politkovskaya's editor in chief at her newspaper, "Novaya gazeta," recited the telephone number that so many people had dialed to convey the truth about Russia's war in Chechnya and other issues that received little or no coverage in the country's mainstream press.
"798-1034. This telephone number stopped answering on October 7 last year," Muratov said in an emotional speech. "Hundreds of people called this number. On this number, she heard numerous curses and threats. She heard many expressions of gratitude. On this number, people called her to set up meetings during which she was given extremely important information on corruption in the Russian Federation."
Muratov said "Novaya gazeta" will reactivate Politkovskaya's old mobile telephone on October 8 in hopes of reviving the stream of calls ended by an assassin's bullets one year ago. Once again, Muratov said, Russians will be able to call with their pain, grief, gratitude, and information about official malfeasance -- and get a sympathetic ear from Politkovskaya's former colleagues.
Read more:
http://rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/07D8CD2C-7518-4D7E-B390-725CBA592F41.html
Special page of Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty in memory of Anna Plitkovskaya
In addition to today's conference in Prague, ceremonies and vigils marking Politkovskaya's assassination also are scheduled to be held in Moscow, New York, Washington, Stockholm, Hamburg, Paris, and London.
Speaking via video link from Moscow, Dmitry Muratov, Politkovskaya's editor in chief at her newspaper, "Novaya gazeta," recited the telephone number that so many people had dialed to convey the truth about Russia's war in Chechnya and other issues that received little or no coverage in the country's mainstream press.
"798-1034. This telephone number stopped answering on October 7 last year," Muratov said in an emotional speech. "Hundreds of people called this number. On this number, she heard numerous curses and threats. She heard many expressions of gratitude. On this number, people called her to set up meetings during which she was given extremely important information on corruption in the Russian Federation."
Muratov said "Novaya gazeta" will reactivate Politkovskaya's old mobile telephone on October 8 in hopes of reviving the stream of calls ended by an assassin's bullets one year ago. Once again, Muratov said, Russians will be able to call with their pain, grief, gratitude, and information about official malfeasance -- and get a sympathetic ear from Politkovskaya's former colleagues.
Read more:
http://rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/07D8CD2C-7518-4D7E-B390-725CBA592F41.html
Special page of Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty in memory of Anna Plitkovskaya
Sunday, October 7, 2007
The New York Times. October, 6, 2007: Save the Gnostics!
By NATHANIEL DEUTSCH
THE United States didn’t set out to eradicate the Mandeans, one of the oldest, smallest and least understood of the many minorities in Iraq. This extinction in the making has simply been another unfortunate and entirely unintended consequence of our invasion of Iraq — though that will be of little comfort to the Mandeans, whose 2,000-year-old culture is in grave danger of disappearing from the face of the earth.
The Mandeans are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity, cousins of the people who produced the Nag Hammadi writings like the Gospel of Thomas, a work that sheds invaluable light on the many ways in which Jesus was perceived in the early Christian period. The Mandeans have their own language (Mandaic, a form of Aramaic close to the dialect of the Babylonian Talmud), an impressive body of literature, and a treasury of cultural and religious traditions amassed over two millennia of living in the southern marshes of present-day Iraq and Iran.
Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/opinion/06deutsch.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
THE United States didn’t set out to eradicate the Mandeans, one of the oldest, smallest and least understood of the many minorities in Iraq. This extinction in the making has simply been another unfortunate and entirely unintended consequence of our invasion of Iraq — though that will be of little comfort to the Mandeans, whose 2,000-year-old culture is in grave danger of disappearing from the face of the earth.
The Mandeans are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity, cousins of the people who produced the Nag Hammadi writings like the Gospel of Thomas, a work that sheds invaluable light on the many ways in which Jesus was perceived in the early Christian period. The Mandeans have their own language (Mandaic, a form of Aramaic close to the dialect of the Babylonian Talmud), an impressive body of literature, and a treasury of cultural and religious traditions amassed over two millennia of living in the southern marshes of present-day Iraq and Iran.
Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/opinion/06deutsch.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
October, 4, 2007. Action of Solidarity with Burman Monks and Human Rights Activists and Against Burman Military Dictatorship.
This action took place in Moscow, in front of Burman Embassy; it was organized by our "Free Radicals" libertarian movement and by Russian members of Nonviolent Radical Party. Photo: France Press.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST asks you to take action in support of Burman human rights' and religious activists
It's necessary to do in these bloody days in Burma:
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Burma?rk=L720Yd61QL%2dhE
http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Burma?rk=L720Yd61QL%2dhE
Dear friends, sign the petition against Iranian "president".
Tell Ahmadinejad We Don't Believe His Lies
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has exceeded all the bounds of international relations in his persistent calls for the destruction of the State of Israel, his denial of the Holocaust, and his supposedly innocent desire to develop nuclear power.
Ahmadinejad suppresses academic freedom, denies Iranian students’ freedom of speech, and has aggressively prosecuted student leaders. Iran is suffering from what the World Bank has called the largest brain-drain in history. More than 150,000 academics and other highly educated people are leaving Iran each year.
Please add your name to this petition. And Tell A Friend – share this with your friends and family!
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To: Congressional Leadership and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Iran continues to defy UN Security Council resolutions to end its nuclear program. Iran is also a state sponsor of terrorism, stirring unrest in the Middle East and providing weapons for Hezbollah to use against Israel. Its president has denied the Holocaust and called for the destruction of Israel.
We urge Congress and the Administration to continue their support of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Iran. Additionally, we urge you to build consensus in Europe and the UN to support these sanctions and maintain pressure on Iran until their leaders pursue a more peaceful agenda.
these sanctions and maintain pressure on Iran until their leaders pursue a more peaceful agenda.
Signatures' form here:
http://www.kintera.org/site/c.cqLMI0OGKtF/b.3447121/k.6B7E/Tell_Iranian_President_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_We_Dont_Believe_His_Lies/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=cqLMI0OGKtF&b=3447121&en=dkIVI6MILdJQL1PIIeLWK6PJLnJZI8NNLhJ0JgP1KuLbG
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has exceeded all the bounds of international relations in his persistent calls for the destruction of the State of Israel, his denial of the Holocaust, and his supposedly innocent desire to develop nuclear power.
Ahmadinejad suppresses academic freedom, denies Iranian students’ freedom of speech, and has aggressively prosecuted student leaders. Iran is suffering from what the World Bank has called the largest brain-drain in history. More than 150,000 academics and other highly educated people are leaving Iran each year.
Please add your name to this petition. And Tell A Friend – share this with your friends and family!
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To: Congressional Leadership and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Iran continues to defy UN Security Council resolutions to end its nuclear program. Iran is also a state sponsor of terrorism, stirring unrest in the Middle East and providing weapons for Hezbollah to use against Israel. Its president has denied the Holocaust and called for the destruction of Israel.
We urge Congress and the Administration to continue their support of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Iran. Additionally, we urge you to build consensus in Europe and the UN to support these sanctions and maintain pressure on Iran until their leaders pursue a more peaceful agenda.
these sanctions and maintain pressure on Iran until their leaders pursue a more peaceful agenda.
Signatures' form here:
http://www.kintera.org/site/c.cqLMI0OGKtF/b.3447121/k.6B7E/Tell_Iranian_President_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_We_Dont_Believe_His_Lies/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=cqLMI0OGKtF&b=3447121&en=dkIVI6MILdJQL1PIIeLWK6PJLnJZI8NNLhJ0JgP1KuLbG
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
S.O.S. Moratorium!
URGENT NON VIOLENT INITIATIVE FOR THE UN MORATORIUM ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!
The 62nd UN General Assembly opens September 24th. According to a Government communication dated September 11, from the co-meeting of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Parliament and the Senate, the pro-Moratorium Resolution will be presented to the UN at the ministerial meeting the day after, September 25th.
The Radicals, however, have not forgotten that in 14 years the approval of the Resolution has been compromised three times by the mistakes and delays, if not the outright ostracising behaviour, of European Governments and, above all, by the Council bureaucracy in Brussels. For more than a decade this bureaucracy has impeded the UN General Assembly voting to approve the Universal Moratorium on capital punishment, where member nations still using the death penalty have been reduced to a fifth.
To achieve the presentation of the Resolution for the Moratorium (again for emphasis: moratorium on the death penalty, not abolition) at the opening of the General Assembly on September 24th, right now – and more than ever before – it is necessary to strengthen our non violent movement. This initiative comprises the hunger strike on September 2nd of Marco Pannella, Lucio Bertè, Guido Biancardi, Sergio D'Elia, Marco Perduca, Michele Rana, Alessandro Rosasco, Antonio Stango, Claudia Sterzi, Valter Vecellio e Dominique Velati (which many other people have joined), and also the extraordinary number of people who have become members to show their support. Becoming a member is a vital part of the non violent action for supporting the Radical Party and Hands Off Cain.
HOW YOU CAN PARTIPATE IN THE INITIATIVE (click on the link of your chosen option)
- JOIN THE HUNGER STRIKE OR WITH ANOTHER NON VIOLENT INITIATIVE
http://www.radicali.it/scioperomoratoria2/form.php?lang=en
- MAKE A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAMPAIGN (an amount for every day of your non violent initiative or for the total duration of the non violent initiative; or a single contribution) - http://www.radicalparty.org/join/join.php?lang=en
BECOME A MEMBER:
*) THE TRANSNATIONAL NON VIOLENT RADICAL PARTY (200 EURO)http://www.radicalparty.org/join/join.php?lang=en
*) HANDS OFF CAIN (100 EURO)http://www.handsoffcain.info/areautenti/iscriviti.php
*) THE ITALIAN RADICAL PARTY (200 EURO) - if you're an Italian resident - http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=45698
Sources:
http://www.radicalparty.org
http://www.handsoffcain.info
http://www.radicali.it
http://radicalfree.org
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