Tag Archives: Voluntaryism

Turks invent new form of ‘standing’ protest to get around ban on gatherings

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“A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took up position in the middle of the square, just a stone’s throw from Gezi Park.  Five hours on, the man was still there, hands in his pockets, a bag and some bottles of water at his feet.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/18/turks-invent-new-form-of-standing-protest-to-get-around-ban-on-gatherings/

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Connecticut health officials bully barber giving free haircuts to the homeless

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“An 82-year-old barber who has been giving free haircuts to the homeless in exchange for hugs for 25 years was granted permission by the mayor Thursday to keep working in a city park, despite orders to leave from police and health officials. Anthony ‘Joe the Barber’ Cymerys has been a fixture every Wednesday for years at Bushnell Park, where he cuts hair and his friends hand out food to the needy. But shortly after Cymerys set up shop this week, he said, health officials and police confronted him and his friends and told them they had to leave because they didn’t have permits.”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/13/connecticut-health-officials-bully-barber-giving-free-haircuts-to-the-homeless/

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Firefox plug-in warns users of NSA surveillance

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“Justin Blinder released a plugin for the Web browser Firefox this week, and he’s already seeing a positive response in the press if not just based off of the idea alone. His ‘The Dark Side of the Prism’ browser extension alerts Web surfers of possible surveillance by starting up a different song from Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ each time a questionable site is crossed.  Blinder told the Guardian that he built the program over the course of four hours with the hopes he could ‘create some sort of ambient notification that you are on a site that is being surveiled by the NSA.'”

http://rt.com/usa/prism-floyd-nsa-surveillance-723/

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New York woman solves her father’s cold case murder 26 years later

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“A man arrested in Miami last Thursday who confessed to the killing of a New York restaurant owner 26 years ago was caught thanks to the persistence of a daughter who never forgot the man’s name. The NYPD had improperly closed the case on Martinez’s killing. Joselyn Martinez was just 9 years old when her father was shot and killed.  In November 2012, she found her father’s cold case file in the NYPD’s 34th precinct archives. Martinez worked furiously for three months before approaching police again with evidence she’d collected online, paying less than $300 to track the man down. Armed with this new information, police acted swiftly.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/12/new-york-woman-solves-her-fathers-cold-case-murder-26-years-later/

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California man jailed for painting crosswalk

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“A Northern California man is facing vandalism charges after authorities say he painted a crosswalk on a street, allegedly telling officials it was needed. Fifty-two-year-old Anthony Cardenas was arrested Thursday morning in Vallejo and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of felony vandalism. Solano County Sheriff’s Lt. Brad DeWall says workers spotted Cardenas committing the vandalism at a city intersection. State transportation workers painted over Cardenas’ alleged crosswalk later in the day. A police cadet had been posted at the intersection until then to keep pedestrians from using it.”

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Calif-man-suspected-of-painting-crosswalk-4565955.php

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Senator Menendez Calls for More Dead Bodies

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“There are no vital national interests at stake in Syria. None. Not Iran, not Israel and not oil. Yes, we can watch from the sidelines and let the Iranians and Syrians form their own politics. This is what the U.S. did with Mexico and Canada. Did the U.S. relish interference from Spain, France, Great Britain and Russia into its affairs? How brainless is it to act as if the refugee crisis is an independent reason for intervening, when it is an outcome of the war itself, encouraged every step of the way by the U.S.? And why must the U.S. rectify this tragedy? What good is a ‘freedom’ that marches us off to wars willy-nilly or grabs our wealth to do what it wills?”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/138136.html

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Parents patrol immigrant suburbs to deter Stockholm youth from rioting

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“Parents and volunteers have been patrolling the streets of Stockholm’s immigrant-heavy suburbs to help quell riots that have raged for almost a week, serving as a successful deterrent to troublemakers and winning praise from police. ‘They have helped a lot in reducing the unrest,’ Stockholm police spokeswoman Karin Solberg told Swedish news agency TT. Sweden has since the 1980s had a network of volunteers called ‘Nightwalkers’, usually made up of parents who walk the streets of their own suburbs in groups on weekend nights, talking to youngsters and simply making their presence known.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/25/parents-patrol-immigrant-suburbs-to-deter-stockholm-youth-from-rioting/

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As Thieves Troll Spanish Farmland, Villagers Begin Patrols

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“Police officials say they have seen a steady rise in the crime rate in rural areas since 2009. Just about everything is a target. Three hundred onions one night. A rubber irrigation hose the next. In Albelda, thieves have taken diesel fuel, nail guns, electric clippers — even shampoo and soap that workers use. Elsewhere in Spain, particularly in coastal regions like Valencia where there is a lot of farming, villagers are organizing themselves into patrols, too. It is not a trend that police officials like much. But they understand it. In many areas, there are too few officers to cover acres and acres of farmland. And yet there are few useful alternatives to a watchful eye.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/world/europe/as-crime-rises-spains-farmers-patrol-their-land.html?emc=eta1&_r=1&

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New Hampshire city suing ‘Robin Hood’ for paying parking meters of strangers

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“The six ‘Robin Hooders’ named in the suit troll downtown Keene — often tracking parking enforcement officers — in search of cars parked at expired meters.  When they find one, they pay the meter and slip notes under the windshield wiper of the vehicle that says: ‘Your meter expired; however, we saved you from the king’s tariffs, Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Please consider paying it forward.’ The note includes an address where people can send donations for the effort. The city claims in the lawsuit that the ‘Robin Hooders’ are causing the city’s three parking enforcement officers so much anxiety and distress that they’ve considered leaving their jobs.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/14/new-hampshire-city-suing-robin-hood-paying-parking/

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Dale Brown of Detroit-based Threat Management Center is On-Point

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Dale Brown of Detroit-based Threat Management Center is On-Point

“In February of 2012 a write-up to http://CopBlock.org titled, ‘Frustrated, Detroit Residents Compete with Police’ included a picture of Dale Brown, founder of the Threat Management Center. In early 2013 when Pete Eyre visited Detroit as part of the http://copblock.org/tour he reached-out to Brown, who graciously welcomed Eyre at his facility.”

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