Category: Totalitarianism

North Korea Freedom Human Rights Activist Urges South Korean Tribunals

— “Tribunal for North Korea” by Suzanne Sholte
— “Seoul can show that it’s serious about protecting human rights”
— “There are many horrible stories about the North Korean regime’s disregard for human rights, but I recently heard one that’s hard to forget: On a recent trip to Seoul, a North Korean mother told me she and her 14-year-old daughter fled North Korea but were separated in China. The mother waited in China to reunite with her daughter only to discover that Chinese security agents had forced the girl back to North Korea, where border guards beat her to death.”
— “It is hard to conceive of human beings who are capable of killing a 14-year-old girl simply for fleeing with her mother in search of a better life. Yet these same monsters are continuing this brutality in detention centers and political prison camps all over North Korea. What can a civilized society do to stop the atrocities being committed right now against the North Korean people by the Kim Jong Il regime?”
— “South Korea has a tool it can use: It should establish and convene a tribunal of South Korean judges and legal experts to collect evidence and take defectors’ testimonies with the hope that, eventually, those guilty of these heinous crimes face prosecution. Under the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, North Koreans are citizens of South Korea and thus have standing in South Korean courts. There are a number of reasons why this action is critically important.”

DC: Crackdowns in China prompt rally on National Mall in Washington DC

(U.S.) DC: Crackdowns in China prompt rally on National Mall in Washington DC
— “CSN invites the public for July 19 rally, 3-6pm”
— “Marking the tenth anniversary of Falun Gong persecution in China”

— See also: July 19: DC Rally for Freedom in China and Freedom for Falun Gong

July 11 Lincoln Memorial Public Awareness Event – Orange Ribbon Campaign Kickoff for Equality And Liberty

On July 11, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) members held a public awareness event at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool steps to promote equality and liberty.  This public awareness event was the official launching of our Orange Ribbon campaign for equality and liberty.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Orange Ribbon Campaign for Equality And Liberty
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Orange Ribbon Campaign for Equality And Liberty
Orange Ribbon for Equality And Liberty
Orange Ribbon for Equality And Liberty

We addressed the issues of equality and liberty which are so critical to our human experience, including:

— in America, the urgent need for the support and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and inviting the public to our August 26 event at the Freedom Plaza

— the recognition of the global hate crime of misogyny and the need to treat misogynist actions as hate crimes

— the 1 billion that continue to suffer under Communist oppression in Communist China with over 1,000 “forced labor camps” imprisoning 6.8 million, the Communist oppression of people in North Korea including millions starved to death and also put in “forced labor camps”, and continuing Communist oppression of people in Vietnam.  We also promoted the July 19 Million Minutes of Meditation rally for freedom in China and for the Falun Gong to be held on the National Mall

— the continuing Racial Supremacism based out of the same institutionalized hate that denies our universal human rights, with thousands members of over 900 racial supremacist hate groups in America today.  We pointed to our warning about such racial supremacism in April at our last Lincoln Memorial event, and the tragic murder at the Holocaust Memorial Museum since that time by white supremacist Neo-Nazi Von Brunn.  We pointed to those who praised Von Brunn as “an intelligent man” right after the attack, and how hate continues to get a platform in America.   We also invited the public to join our public awareness event challenging racial supremacism on August 28, the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial;  our August 28 public event challenging racial supremacism will be held at the Robert E. Lee Memorial.

— the challenge of religious extremists using “religious arguments” as a disguise for those whose institutionalized hate leads to violence against women, homosexuals, religious minorities 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.

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.

We call on our fellow human beings to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty and join our Orange Ribbon campaign to promote public awareness of the urgent need to continue to defend our universal human rights, through our love for our fellow human beings.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty's Jeffrey Imm Promotes Equality And Liberty Through Love as the Answer to Institutionalized Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s Jeffrey Imm Promotes Equality And Liberty Through Love as the Answer to Institutionalized Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty's Jeffrey Imm Addresses the Need for the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) at the Lincoln Memorial
Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s Jeffrey Imm Addresses the Need for the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) at the Lincoln Memorial
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights - Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

North Korea: U.S. seeks amnesty for two held in North Korea — Laura Ling and Euna Lee

(North Korea) U.S. seeks amnesty for two held in North Korea — Laura Ling and Euna Lee
— “The United States has dropped its request that two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea be released on humanitarian grounds, and is seeking amnesty instead, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said”
— ” A plea for amnesty implies forgiveness for some offense.”
— “The women — Laura Ling and Euna Lee — were sentenced in June to 12 years in prison on charges of entering the country illegally to conduct a smear campaign”

Communist China: Changchunli Church in Shandong Sends Plea for Prayer

(Communist China) Changchunli Church in Shandong Sends Plea for Prayer
— ChinaAid reports: “ChinaAid received a letter from Changchunli Church asking Christians around the world to pray for them as the government has shut down their church gatherings and is attempting to demolish their church building. Even though Changchunli Church is a legally registered, government-sanctioned church, government officials, working together with government-sanctioned religious organizations, the China Christian Council (CCC) and the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM,) have made agreements with real estate developers to take over the church land to for financial profit.”