August 2014

TPL · War Tax Resister Katsuki James Otsuka

Here are a couple more data points about the war tax resistance of American Quaker Katsuki James Otsuka. First, a United Press dispatch from :

Refuses to Pay Tax, Sentenced

 A Japanese-American Quaker today was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to 90 days in jail for failing to pay a $4.50 federal income tax.

Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell sentenced Katsuki James Otsuka, 28, a student at Earlham college in Richmond, Ind.

Otsuka paid 71 per cent of his tax but refused to pay the other 29 per cent because it “would be used for military purposes.” He is a farm worker between terms at school.

Next, a second United Press dispatch (as distilled through an Indiana paper), from :

Hoosier Carpenter Among Those Who Refuse To Pay Tax

 Only one Hoosier was listed among 40 “peacemakers” who refused to pay all of their federal income tax.

National headquarters of the organization here said the Hoosier was Roy Nusbaum, a carpenter of Wakarusa, Ind.

There would have been two from Indiana on the list, but Katsuki James Otsuka, former Earlham college student from Richmond, did not earn a taxable income in , the statement said.

Otsuka was in federal prison nearly half of because he refused to pay $4.50 in a previous year, a part of his income tax. The Peacemakers refuse to pay that part of their tax which, they say, corresponds to the percentage of national budget now allocated for defense.

In a prepared statement, the Peacemakers said President Truman’s decision to make the hydrogen bomb made them “even more determined than before” not to pay taxes.

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International Courts vs. the Nation State

Amnesty International declared that the sentence passed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on a case in which the Guatemalan government did not investigate the tragic murder of a teenager, tells the whole world that violence against women will not be tolerated.

Maria Isabel Veliz Franco was 15 when she was sexually abused, tortured and brutally murdered in Guatemala in 2001. Her mother fought for justice and, on July 28, 2014, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the Guatemalan authorities had not adequately investigated the murder, neglecting it in an environment of systematic violence and discrimination against women.

Sebastian Elgueta, a researcher from Amnesty International who writes on Guatemala, stated that the “lessons from this case will only be apprehended when the death of every women in Guatemala is taken seriously, and when concrete measures begin to be taken to prevent violence against them, creating a safe and respectful society for all.”

This tragic case highlights the importance of courts and rulings outside the nation state, for they judge whether governments are respecting so-called obligations they take upon themselves to respect human rights and hence legitimize their power.

The first case I researched in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court was also a Guatemalan case, Street Children (Villagran Morales et al) v. Guatemala.

I was already a libertarian then and I was actually surprised to see that the case of five kids killed by the police, which no doubt would’ve been ignored forever if it was up to the Guatemalan state, had been taken to an international independent court that would rule and sentence the state to compensate the families of the victims, investigate and punish the responsible and take measures to avoid that situation in the future.

The emergence of these courts is important in that it’s at least an independent power acting to limit the state and challenging the idea that the state is the final arbiter of our liberties and rights within its borders. The state here is faced with the awkward situation of being the defendant rather the accuser in a court that holds them up to the standard of actually respecting the rights they vowed to uphold.

In a Brazilian case of a mentally impaired patient, Damiao Ximenes Lopes, who had been neglected and died in a nursing home linked to the government health care system, the Brazilian state was condemned for lack of investigation of the occurrence. Another case involved the disappeared people from the Araguaia guerilla during the military dictatorship, where the Court understood that the Brazilian Amnesty Act, forgiving blatant violations of human rights committed by the dictatorship, was illegal, something I’ve touched upon in other article.

From a radical free market perspective, these international courts could allow us to argue that Brazil violates human rights for not allowing union freedom to its citizens.

The possibility exists because the Inter-American Court of Human Rights can evaluate rights violations listed in the American Convention on Human Rights, which deals with civil and political rights, but can also examine some of the provisions of the Protocol of San Salvador, that deals with economic, social and cultural rights. Among them, there’s this one:

Article 8
Trade Union Rights
1. The States Parties shall ensure:
a. The right of workers to organize trade unions and to join the union of their choice for the purpose of protecting and promoting their interests. As an extension of that right, the States Parties shall permit trade unions to establish national federations or confederations, or to affiliate with those that already exist, as well as to form international trade union organizations and to affiliate with that of their choice. The States Parties shall also permit trade unions, federations and confederations to function freely . . .

Since Getulio Vargas, Brazilian workers have had no freedom to unionize, for they must submit to “union oneness,” a legal monopoly that allows only one union to represent a given segment of workers in a territory. No wonder the largest unions in the country, CUT and Forca Sindical, are firmly aligned with corporate interests.

That’s also one of the reasons the Brazilian government doesn’t recognize the Convention No. 87 of the International Labour Organization. ILO in its own constitution establishes the freedom of union association, but by ratifying it Brazil would have to commit to the application of the principle in its work relations. Article 2 establishes that workers, without distinction and previous permission, have the right to constitute the organizations they deem convenient and to affiliate themselves to them, provided they respect their internal statutes. ILO’s Article 2 and PSS’s article 8 are very similar and are meant to protect a simple principle of union relations that the Brazilian government violates.

Should we secure a condemnation of Brazil in an international court for impeding the functioning of a free union, outside its monopoly system, that would be a very important step in calling attention of workers of this aburd denial of their righs to free association and better work conditions.

Thus, international courts may possess one of the few authorities a state might be forced to recognize, and we can use that to have it investigate the murder of street kids or to have it sentenced for not respecting workers’s rights to unionize the way they see fit. The means might not be radical, but the idea is: the state can’t have the last word on our lives and rights.

Legislative activism will not guide us to freedom, but there’s a law on our side, we might as well exploit it.

Translated into English by Erick Vasconcelos.

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Jubilados y pensionados: a la merced de los antojos gubernamentales


José Rafael Ruiz

Recientemente en el portal gubernamental de internet Gran Misión en Amor Mayor Venezuela (AMAV) nos encontramos con la siguiente información:

“El presidente de la república, Nicolás Maduro, desde el Palacio de Miraflores anunció a través de su programa, “En contacto con Maduro”, que esta noche (13/08/2014) será publicada la nueva lista con 8 mil beneficiados de las pensiones del programa Amor Mayor, para que circule próximamente en los medios nacionales”

“Además dijo, que después de un punto de cuenta que le entregaron, opto por aprobar 596 millones de bolívares para entregar 20 mil a los pensionados que hasta ahora suman un total de 28 mil nuevos pensionados a lo largo del país”

Transcurrido 15 días de dicho anuncio y en vista de no encontrar ningún medio nacional con el listado que ofreció el presidente de la república, optamos por volver a buscar en diferentes portales de internet asociados a la seguridad social, sin lograr respuesta alguna. Al volver a la página web del Amor Mayor: encontramos una nota de prensa indicando “La seguridad social seguirá expandiéndose para proteger a nuestros abuel@s. Aquí van 7.274 nuevos pensionados!”, escribió el Mandatario a través de su cuenta en la red social Twitter @NicolasMaduro, el vínculo para consultar el listado de beneficiarios: http://nuevospensionados.ivss.gob.ve/.

Como bien señala la nota, es un vínculo del Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales, donde colocamos nuestro número de cedula y la fecha de nacimiento, para constatar si salimos o no en el listado. No es el listado de los supuestos nuevos pensionados, por lo tanto no podemos hacer seguimiento a la promesa del presidente. Si nos remitimos a la nota de prensa, son 7.274 y no 8 mil, menos aun 28 mil los nuevos pensionados, honestos trabajadores que durante años dimos nuestra fuerza de trabajo por el desarrollo del país y cotizamos consecuentemente al IVSS, con la esperanza de tener garantizada una vejez digna. Lo que sí se puede ver son los comentarios de muchos de nosotros respondiendo a la nota de prensa mencionada, donde de una u otra manera solicitamos al gobierno nos responda por qué no se ha publicado dicho listado y por qué los que consultamos el vínculo anexo en el Twitter del presidente no aparecemos seleccionados, pese a haber cumplido con la cotizaciones y la edad reglamentaria para obtener el beneficio, producto del ahorro de millones de trabajadores y no de las limosnas del gobierno.

Con la certeza de que estos comentarios no serían leídos por Maduro ni por su corte de burócratas enquistados en el Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales; el 27/08/14 una considerable representación de trabajadores jubilados, organizados en el comité de Derechos de los Pensionados y Jubilados, realizamos una protesta en las afueras del IVSS, en el centro de Caracas, para reclamar que desde marzo de este año no se publican las listas de pensionados y exigir que se nos incluya en los listados a los trabajadores que ya hemos cumplido con los requisitos de ley. Por otra parte rechazamos la orden del presidente del IVSS, Carlos Rotondaro, de no otorgar pensiones a los trabajadores de las empresas privadas y del Estado morosas en el pago de las cotizaciones al organismo; nosotros los trabajadores cotizamos completo, no respondemos por las faltas de los patronos.

La banca y las aseguradoras privadas durante años han gozado de la administración de nuestros ahorros con el aval de los diferentes gobiernos, bajo la figura de productos financieros como los plazos fijos, los fidecomisos a las prestaciones sociales y antigüedades y los HCM etc. Han obtenido grandes ganancias, pero siempre han querido meterle mano a las jubilaciones de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, este jugoso privilegio ha sido hoy exclusivo del estado y el gobierno del socialismo del siglo XXI, que no ha perdido oportunidad de beneficiarse de nuestros ahorros y pensiones. Es más, mantiene una maravillosa relación con la banca privada otorgándoles muy buenas condiciones para su funcionamiento y beneficios, mientras por otro lado crea una red de bancos estadales que se encargan de invertir y administrar estos recursos. Con la figura de las misiones y el seguro social nos hacen creer que tenemos el control y la administración de nuestros dineros.

Para completar su disfraz de socialistas, Nicolás Maduro se llena la boca denunciando las administraciones de EE.UU y Europa como transgresores de los derechos de los trabajadores, generando ajustes económicos para que sean los trabajadores y los pueblos los que paguen la crisis. Si bien esto es verdad, en Venezuela bajo el socialismo del siglo XXI se violan nuestras conquistas de igual manera, con el incumplimiento en el pago de la pensión, las prestaciones sociales y los intereses de mora son ejemplo de ello. El gobierno del “presidente obrerista” no presenta la lista de pensionados y decide quién y cuándo debe cobrar la pensión, además no tenemos información, ni garantías de donde están nuestros ahorros ya que no se adjudican automáticamente a los jubilados luego que este cumple con los procedimientos de ley.

Es de destacar que estos atropellos se han venido desarrollando a lo largo de estos 16 años y son parte indiscutible “del legado del difunto Hugo Chávez Frías” y que su hijo Nicolás Maduro lleva adelante disciplinadamente con el apoyo de los burócratas sindicales de las federaciones y la CSBT, además del conjunto de partidos que conforman el polo patriótico.

Aun a nuestra circunstancia seguimos peleando. Es necesario que nosotros los trabajadores y el pueblo, seamos los garantes, inversores y administradores de este patrimonio obtenido a través de los años de trabajo y el sacrificio de nuestras familias. Nuestras pensiones no son un regalo de los patronos, ni son una dádiva del ejecutivo. Exigimos al gobierno que rinda cuentas de nuestros ahorros, que se publiquen los listados, para el ejercicio de la contraloría social y que se respeten y liquiden de forma automática todas las pensiones. No estamos dispuestos a pagar la irresponsabilidad de los patronos.

[Difundido originalmente por http://deslinde2011.blogspot.com/2014/08/sin-los-listados-de-pensionados-el.html.]

Guide to Cell Phones at Protests

From Sprout Distro:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization working to protect civil liberties in the digital realm, recently put together a “Cell Phone Guide for US Protestors” that offers helpful tips for those who find themselves in protest situations. It makes a good addition to zines we distribute on the topic, including “London Calling” and “Anonymity/Security.”

Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition

With major protests in the news again, we decided it’s time to update our cell phone guide for protestors. A lot has changed since we last published this report in 2011, for better and for worse. On the one hand, we’ve learned more about the massive volume of law enforcement requests for cell phone—ranging from location information to actual content—and widespread use of dedicated cell phone surveillance technologies. On the other hand, strong Supreme Court opinions have eliminated any ambiguity about the unconstitutionality of warrantless searches of phones incident to arrest, and a growing national consensus says location data, too, is private.

Protesters want to be able to communicate, to document the protests, and to share photos and video with the world. So they’ll be carrying phones, and they’ll face a complex set of considerations about the privacy of the data those phones hold. We hope this guide can help answer some questions about how to best protect that data, and what rights protesters have in the face of police demands.

Before The Protest

Think carefully about what’s on your phone. When we last visited this question, law enforcement in many states were arguing that they could search the contents of a phone incident to arrest without a warrant. Today, thanks to the unanimous Supreme Court decision in Riley v. California, that’s no longer the case. Still, if you can avoid carrying sensitive data, you don’t have to worry about it getting pulled off the phone. That can include photos, your address book, application data, and more. If you don’t need it for the protest, consider removing it for the duration.

If you have access to a temporary phone with only the essentials, that might be a better option. Modern smartphones record all sorts of data, and there may be overlooked sources of sensitive information.

Password protect your phone. Password protection can guard your phone from casual searches, but it can still be circumvented by law enforcement or other sophisticated adversaries.

Start using encrypted communications channels. Text messages, as a rule, can be read and stored by your phone company or by surveillance equipment in the area. If you and your friends can get comfortable with encrypted communications channels in advance, that can keep prying eyes off your texts while they’re in transit.

Direct messages through social media may be encrypted while in transit, but can be subject to subpoenas from law enforcement. You may wish to explore end-to-end encrypted options, like Whisper Systems’ TextSecure,1 Guardian Project’s mobile IM software ChatSecure, or the mobile version of Cryptocat, or Whisper Systems’ RedPhone ( for Android) or Signal (for iOS) for voice calls, which only store the contents of your communications in an encrypted, unreadable form.

End-to-end encryption does not protect your meta-data. In other words, using end-to-end encrypted communications will keep law enforcement from being able to read the contents of your messages, but they will still be able to see who you’re talking to and when you’re talking to them.

At The Protest

Keep control of your phone. You may wish to keep the phone on you at all times, or hand it over to a trusted friend if you are engaging in action that you think might lead to your arrest. In any case, you can set the lock screen to turn on quickly, so that if you do lose control of your phone, nobody else gets access easily.

Take pictures and video of the scene. As the ACLU says in a recent Know Your Rights guide, “Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right.” Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop law enforcement officers from occasionally demanding that protesters stop doing exactly that.

If you’re planning to document the protest, you should read the whole guide ahead of time. There are special considerations for videotaping, too, so make sure to brush up on that if you plan to be recording video.

Finally, you may wish to explore options that upload directly to another server. Livestreaming sites, and even social media services, can make sure photos and videos get online before law enforcement officers have a chance to delete them.

Help, I’m being arrested!

You have a right to remain silent—about your phone and anything else. If questioned by police, you can politely but firmly decline to answer and ask to speak to your attorney.

If the police ask to see your phone, tell them you do not consent to the search of your device. Again, since the Supreme Court’s decision in Riley, there is little question that officers need a warrant to access the contents of your phone incident to arrest, though they may be able to seize the phone and get a warrant later.

As we said in the last guide, if the police ask for the password to your electronic device you can politely refuse to provide it and ask to speak to your lawyer. Every arrest situation is different, and you will need an attorney to help you sort through your particular circumstance. Note that just because the police cannot compel you to give up your password, that doesn’t mean that they can’t pressure you. The police may detain you and you may go to jail rather than being immediately released if they think you’re refusing to be cooperative. You will need to decide whether to comply.

OK, now how do I get my phone back?

If your phone or electronic device was seized, and is not promptly returned when you are released, you can file a motion with the court to have your property returned. If the police believe that evidence of a crime is on your electronic device, including in your photos or videos, the police can keep it as evidence. They may also attempt to make you forfeit your electronic device, but you can challenge that in court.

Increasingly, we keep our most sensitive communications and personal information on our cell phones. We carry in our pockets these devices that can tremendously enhance our ability to exercise our First Amendment rights, but which also carry serious privacy risks. We hope that with these tips in mind, you can take the necessary precautions with your digital technology.

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Australian government supporting terrorists (PKK)?

Huh. The Australian government has announced it will be transporting arms to Kurdish groups fighting IS/IS in Iraq: Australian troops to deliver arms in person in Iraq Dan Harrison The Age August 31, 2014 This is quite remarkable given that … Continue reading

No Human Can Be Illegal.


     For three days now some refugees have been protesting against their treatment, by staying on the roof of a hostel in Berlin, from which they were to be evicted.


          A call for solidarity and the latest from Contra Info:

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       On the 28th of August there was an evening demo from Frankfurter Tor with around 500 people. cops tried to break it two times. they beat up people. one arrest was confirmed. the demo was crumbling after the arab group (antiimperialist communist group, which also organised the ‘revolutionary may 1st demo’) announced that the cops attempt to storm the hostel roof. people with bicycles left and rushed to the junction in Gürtelstraße. it caused an alarm also at the junction where protesters were because nobody, apart from the arab group, had heard anything about it.
        At around 9.30pm, after the demo arrived at the location, same as usual, speeches, slogans, marginalised political groups presenting their banners, etc. there was lot of free food, which people also took well, but soon afterwards they started leaving again, and before midnight only few people remained. a sign of solidarity was expressed by a neighbour who made kind of a laser show beaming the slogan “no human being is illegal” on his balcony. he later came down when he saw that refugees who tried to get some sleep at the junction had not enough blankets, and went through the barriers giving them two thick ones. then, when he wanted to pass through the barriers, the cops hindered him and prompted him to show his ID, which he had not on him. they made a fuss until his wife shouted: “could you let my husband inside again?…” they let him pass but he was forced to get inside home, get his ID, go down again and show it to the cops. meanwhile the refugees on the roof started continuously drumming (probably on pots), gave light signals and also shouted from the rooftop. protesters replied by shouting back slogans, blowing whistles and there was also one megaphone. but soon cops disallowed all of that.
     Also, a couple of nazis showed up. comrades recognized at least four. three of them appeared in the middle of the road in the Scharnweberstraße standing there and shouting a nazi slogan, while one passed by in a car, but was recognized too late. for sure, there were far more of them who went unrecognized (the protest is directly at the border of their stronghold district Lichtenberg).
    During the 29th and the 30th of August, the situation remained relatively unchanged. authorities still starve refugee protesters on the hostel roof in Gürtelstraße, and support of demonstrators is still low.
      There’s a call for a demo tomorrow, Sunday the 31st at 5pm in Warschauer Straße, Friedrichshain.
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Opinión: Las "misiones", instrumentos de control social


J.R. López Padrino

La mayoría de la población venezolana padece las consecuencias de una crisis económica, política y social producto de los errores e improvisaciones cometidos por parte de la banda de forajidos que han desgobernado al país en los últimos 15 años. Una inflación galopante, escasez de alimentos y medicamentos, empleos precarios o informales, inestabilidad laboral, inseguridad generalizada, crisis de vivienda, deterioro acelerado de los servicios básicos (agua, electricidad, salud y educación) son algunos de los rasgos que caracterizan la situación que vive la mayoría de la población. Todo ello a pesar de una extraordinaria bonanza petrolera, la mayor de nuestra historia.

Esta severa crisis, que afecta fundamentalmente a los sectores más desposeídos, le ha permitido al régimen bolivariano profundizar perversamente la dependencia económica de esos estratos (C, D y E) con respecto al Estado, es decir le ha permitido aumentar el control social que ejerce sobre esos sectores a través del uso de los sobrantes de la renta petrolera en programas sociales, rebautizados con el nuevo argot militarista como “misiones sociales”. Programas sociales que surgieron no con la finalidad de acabar con el flagelo de la pobreza y la exclusión social, o como producto del amor que profesaba el difunto tte coronel por los pobres, como falazmente se ha repetido en estos últimos años, sino por la urgente necesidad de aumentar el apoyo electoral (número de votos) de cara al referéndum revocatorio del 2004 y las elecciones del 2006, que podían comprometer la continuidad del proyecto hegemónico bolivariano. Es decir, se trataba de comprar con recursos del Estado la voluntad electoral de una buena porción de la población -subyugada por el hambre y la miseria- a fin de garantizar la continuidad del proyecto facho-bolivariano y no como falsamente se ha afirmado de que se trataba de estrategias masivas orientadas a garantizar los derechos fundamentales a la población, con énfasis en los sectores más excluidos. Esas fueron las razones políticas que llevaron al régimen del fallecido vocinglero de Miraflores, en colaboración estrecha con el gobierno de Cuba, de establecer las tan cacareadas misiones sociales.

La penetración de las misiones (Robinson, Barrio Adentro, Alimentación, Ribas, Sucre, Piar, Zamora, Negra Hipolita, vivienda, Agro Venezuela entre muchas otras) alcanza entre un 45-53% de los hogares venezolanos, es decir que casi la mitad de la población obtiene algún beneficio de esos programas que lejos de dar una solución estructural a la problemática del desempleo, la pobreza y la exclusión social, contrariamente institucionalizan y consolidan la miseria. Es obvio, que cuando un porcentaje por demás importante de la población vive de alguna manera de las “gratificaciones” que proporciona el Estado, que en muchas ocasiones no van acompañadas de contraprestación de trabajo por la ayuda que reciben, el sujeto beneficiado se transforma en rehén político al servicio de los intereses del régimen, a merced de los criterios que le imponga el mecenas de turno en el poder. Las misiones han sido utilizadas por el régimen facho-bolivariano a fin de lograr que los individuos que integran la sociedad actúen conforme a los intereses del proyecto, es decir de imponer una uniformidad en la intención del voto a favor de la revolución. Ello ha quedado demostrado en lo sucesivos éxitos electorales del fachochavismo, a pesar del rotundo fracaso social y económico de las manoseadas misiones sociales. A pesar de haberse malgastado millones y millones de bolívares en estos programas los resultados de este gran fracaso están a la vista: hoy hay más familias pobres en el país que en los pasados 15 años.

Estas políticas domesticadoras del régimen no representan una solución estructural a la problemática de la pobreza y la exclusión social. La prolongación en el tiempo de estas limosnas sociales, lejos de erradicar sus causas, por el contrario las han exacerbado y además han estimulado el surgimiento de un sujeto social eunuco con mentalidad parasitaria que pretende vivir indefinidamente de ingresos que no son fruto de su trabajo, sino de dádivas del Estado las cuales tiene que mendigar a cambio de su voto.

Las misiones sociales representan una de las tantas ignominias del difunto dicharachero de Sabaneta, una de las tantas políticas fraudulentas gestadas durante su gobierno a fin de consolidar el proyecto facho-militarista bolivariano en el país. Las misiones sociales representan medios institucionalizados de control social (rasgos muy propio de los proyectos autoritarios) que ejerció el régimen del comandante galáctico en el pasado y que el ungido de Miraflores continua aplicando en nombre de una reaccionaria, castrante y represiva revolución.

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