Iran opposition leader’s brother-in-law arrested
— “The wife of Iran’s opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, said on Thursday that her 62-year-old brother was among the hundreds arrested in Iran’s post-election crackdown, as Mousavi warned that the country is becoming ‘more militarised’ amid the turmoil.”
Month: July 2009
Indonesia: West Java, Protestant church demolished by local government
UK: 609 Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes in First Half of 2009
(UK) Anti-semitic attacks in Britain increase
— “The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 609 anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of 2009, more than the total for all of last year.”
Russia: Another Human Rights Activist Dead in Russia – Andrei Kulagin
(Russia) Another Human Rights Activist Dead in Russia
— “Just days after the kidnapping and murder of prominent human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, another civil rights activist in Russia has been buried after being found dead. The body of Andrei Kulagin, head of Spravedlivost (‘Justice’), was discovered in a quarry on July 10, roughly 600 miles north of Moscow”
Chicago – IPT News: “Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian Propaganda on Display at Caliphate Conference”
Chicago – IPT News: “Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian Propaganda on Display at Caliphate Conference”
— IPT reports: “While Hizb ut-Tahrir, a pro-jihadist group which met openly near Chicago last weekend, is surprisingly candid about its desire to re-establish an Islamic Caliphate, literature available at its conference shows the group also views Christians and Jews as untrustworthy enemies of God.”
North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible: Rights Group
North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible: Rights Group
— “A Christian woman accused of distributing the Bible, a book banned in communist North Korea, was publicly executed last month for the crime, South Korean activists said Friday.”
— “The 33-year-old mother of three, Ri Hyon Ok, also was accused of spying for South Korea and the United States, and of organizing dissidents, a rights group said in Seoul, citing documents obtained from the North.”
— “The Investigative Commission on Crime Against Humanity report included a copy of Ri’s government-issued photo ID and said her husband, children and parents were sent to a political prison the day after her June 16 execution.”
Minnesota – Report: “Old South Slavery Defender to Speak at Conference”
— SPLC report on “extremist preacher Doug Wilson” to speak in Minnesota
— SPLC: “Wilson runs an extreme right religious empire in Moscow, Idaho, that includes a church, Canon Press, and New Saint Andrews College. Popular in neo-Confederate circles as well, he co-wrote a partly plagiarized booklet, Southern Slavery, As It Was, defending Old South slavery; his co-author was Steve Wilkins, a founding member of the neo-secessionist and racist League of the South.”
— SPLC: “Southern Slavery, As It Was is a repulsive apologia for the enslavement of black Americans. Among other things, the booklet contends that, “Slavery as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. … There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.'”
Iowa: White Supremacist Neo-Nazis Sentenced in Racial Crimes Attack
— AP reports: Iowa: 2 sentenced in Eastern Iowa hate crimes case
— “Two people have been sentenced in a federal hate crimes case involving attacks on black patrons at an eastern Iowa bar.”
— “During a hearing last week, a judge sentenced Jeffrey Lee to nearly four years in prison and Wendie Groen to nearly three years.”
— “Prosecutors argued that Lee and Groen, and two other defendants, all from Kansas, violated the civil rights of the victims during December 2007 assaults at the Econolodge hotel in Muscatine. They were accused of shouting racial slurs as well as making references about the white supremacist group Aryan Nation during the attacks.”
Vietnam: 20 Vietnamese Christians Detain After Clash at Bombed Church — Tam Toa church
(Vietnam) 20 Vietnamese Christians Detain After Clash at Bombed Church — Tam Toa church
— “‘The police beat the Catholics, and some of them were bleeding,’ Phung said, adding that officers dismantled the makeshift church and took away the cross.”
July 25 – NYC Union Square Park South – Equality And Liberty Event
On Saturday, July 25, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) will continue its Orange Ribbon public awareness campaign for Equality And Liberty in New York City – at the Union Square Park South plaza – challenging anti-freedom ideologies. The R.E.A.L. NYC Public Awareness Event is planned for 1 PM to 4 PM ET on Saturday, July 25.
Our focus will be on our message that “Love Wins” by promoting our universal human rights of equality and liberty — to challenge those anti-freedom supremacist and totalitarian ideologies that promote institutionalized hate and violence against women, gay individuals, other races, and other people.
Our challenge of anti-freedom ideologies at this public awareness event will include a focus on:
— the continuing challenge of Racial Supremacism with thousands of members in over 900 racial supremacist hate groups in America today. We have been publicly warning about such racial supremacism since April at our event at DC’s Lincoln Memorial, and remain concerned that the tragic murder at the Holocaust Memorial Museum since that time by a white supremacist Neo-Nazi is symptomatic of a larger problem.
— the global challenge of Extremism using “religious arguments” as a disguise for those whose institutionalized hate leads to violence against women, gay individuals, non-Muslims, and Muslims around the world on a regular basis – and why such hate against our fellow human beings must never be legitimized or rationalized as anything other than hate.
We view such supremacist ideologies as based on the same institutionalized hate that denies our universal human rights and that continues to spread violence, intolerance, and injustice around the world.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty continues to offer a solution to such injustice, inequality, and institutionalized hate – and we believe that the answer is LOVE.
We believe that Love Wins and will ultimately prevail over all forms of institutionalized hate and injustice. Our public awareness event will be to inform the public about such challenges of institutionalized hate, and call for their active support in being “Responsible for Equality And Liberty” as individuals to defy such ideologies.
We will be providing Orange Ribbons for Equality And Liberty to the NYC public to help promote public awareness of the need to defend our universal human rights as part of our love for our fellow human beings.
Event Logistics:
Date: Saturday, July 25
Time: 1 to 4 PM ET
Location: NYC Union Square Park South Plaza
For more information: realpublic@earthlink.net
Jeffrey Imm will be wearing a shirt that states “Love Wins – RealCourage.org”
We are going to try to do a “pre-event” meet-up at the Starbucks near Union Square at 10 Union Square East at 12:30 PM, if you are interested, let us know by email at realpublic@earthlink.net
NYC’s Union Square Park South Plaza can be accessed via the NYC Subway system at 14 Street-Union Square / 4 Avenue stop [L,N,Q,R,W] — see this web link for the NYC subway map. The NYC government also provides a map of Union Square Park, along with a web-based “Trip Planner” to Union Square Park to help you find the best way to get there. Union Square Park South Plaza is on the side of the park where Union Square South, East 14th Street, and Broadway intersect.
