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We Will Record Mass Connection

by Agent on April 15, 2012 in #Occupy, Campaigns, Global, Jury Nullification, Network, Occupy the Courts, Outreach, P.A.S.T., Peaceful (r)Evolution, Stateless Solutions, War on Cameras, We Will Record | Comments { 1 }

Agent TalleyTV has trial tomorrow for the “crime” of wearing a camera on his belt. He is facing 2 years in a “state” jail cell. If you feel inspired to lend a hand in his defense, you can call the prosecutor’s office right before the trial–which is MONDAY, APRIL 16! Calls can start as early as 6am and can take place during the trial.

“Cheshire County Attorney’s Office” (603) 352-0056

Fr33 Agents will receive special prizes for recording calls with the following outcomes:

He who art the first person to upload a video recording of themselves calling “the County Prosecutor” John Webb WINS A T-SHIRT$*!!

He who hath the video recorded phone call which makes us LOL the most, WINS A T-SHIRT*!!

He who hath the first successful phone call in which the prosecutor says he’ll drop the charges, and records it, WINS A T-SHIRT*!!

* Send an e-mail to fr33agentstv@gmail.com with a link to your video.

Why not apply peaceful public pressure on the persecutors with a polite conversation?

Here’s what I’m going to say when I call.

“Hi this is the County Prosecutor’s Office, this is (Lori).”

Hi (Lori), I’m audio and video recording at this time.  I’m looking to speak with Mr. John Webb, please.

“Hold please.”

After being nice to his secretary, when he’s on the phone…

Hello. This is John Webb speaking.

Hi, (John / Mr. Webb). I’m (DerrickJ / Mr. Freeman).  I’m audio and video recording at this time.  I’m calling to inquire if you have decided to drop the charges against Mr. Jason Talley?

“Yes.”
Thank you, sir! I’m delighted to hear you did that. Have a splendid day. Goodbye.

“No.”
I am a (friend / associate) of Mr. Jason Talley of Talley.TV. I know him (personally / from youtube videos). He’s a reporter that always advocates peace. I’m feeling upset because I have a need to to understand and be understood, and that need isn’t getting met.  John, will you please help me to understand why you are prosecuting Jason?

…

Here I intend to have a brief, polite conversation about feelings, needs, and requests.

Ex: I’m afraid of losing Jason, who is an important source of (companionship / joy) for me. Would you please dismiss the charges against him?

…

Denouement

Thank you, (John, Mr. Webb).

You’re welcome, (DerrickJ / Mr. Freeman).

Both: Goodbye.

I won’t be arguing the case with him.  That only puts ideas for potential legal arguments into his head.  Instead, I’ll be focusing on feelings and needs.  I will see him as a human being with feelings and needs of his own.  I will express how my needs aren’t being met right now and request for him to drop the charges against Jason.

Here are some lists of feeling words and needing words that I will use to help my conversation reach an outcome where both my needs and John’s needs are met.

Feeling Words

Need Words

 

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Activists Respond to State DEA Agents Raid on Oakland Medical Marijuana College

by Agent on April 2, 2012 in P.A.S.T., War on Drugs | Comments { 0 }
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The LA Times reports from Oaksterdam:

Dozens of protesters gathered Monday in Oakland outside Oaksterdam University, chanting “DEA, Go Away” as U.S. marshals stood at the medical marijuana school’s doors behind yellow police tape.

Supporters of Richard Lee, who founded the state’s first cannabis-industry training school, said he was detained temporarily by unknown federal agents at his nearby apartment but had been released.

A DEA spokeswoman confirmed Lee was detained for questioning and released and that his home was raided.

“I’m outraged,” said Jane Klein, 63, of Oakland, whose Marijuana Growers Handbook is used by the trade school.

Her husband, longtime marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal, 66, is on the faculty.

“It’s insulting to be standing here and finding out that our government is behind this,” Klein said. “Richard Lee is a philanthropist to the city of Oakland. He has supported our state laws, our city laws.”

Steve DeAngelo, CEO of Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, received an email about the raid early Monday and came to the scene. He said four locations associated with Lee had been raided.

“This is one more skirmish in a 40-year war that we’re destined to win,” he said, sporting a small cannabis pin on the lapel of his black wool sportcoat.

Even conservative televangelist Pat Robertson has questioned the efficacy of federal marijuana laws, noted DeAngelo, whose organization sued the IRS in December to challenge its attempt to collect millions in additional taxes from Harborside, which has been called the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary.

“It’s only the federal prosecutors who continue to press this war,” he said over shouts of, “Shame! Shame! Shame!”

“What this is about is Richard Lee has been a very focused voice for change,” DeAngelo said. “This is not about justice, this is about revenge.”

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T.W.I.H.: MLK Leads War Protest of 5,000

by Agent on March 25, 2012 in #Fr33 Press, #Occupy, Outreach, P.A.S.T., Peaceful (r)Evolution, War on Peace | Comments { 0 }
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr

History.com reports that:

This week in 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led a march of 5,000 antiwar demonstrators in Chicago. King first began speaking out against armed intervention of Vietnam in the summer of 1965. In addition to his moral objections to the war, he argued that involvement in waging war was fiscally irresponsible. He was strongly criticized by other prominent civil rights leaders for attempting to link civil rights and the antiwar movement.

Here are some excerpts from a speech he made that day:

Poverty, urban problems and social progress generally are ignored when the guns of war become a national obsession. When it is not our security that is at stake, but questionable and vague commitments to reactionary regimes, values disintegrate into foolish and adolescent slogans.
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace. We must combine the fervor of the civil rights movement with the peace movement. We must demonstrate, teach and preach, until the very foundations of our nation are shaken. We must work unceasingly to lift this nation that we love to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humaneness.

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Syrian Actress Speaks Out Against Bashar Al Assad

by Agent on March 13, 2012 in #Fr33 Press, Natural Rights, P.A.S.T., Peaceful (r)Evolution, Video | Comments { 3 }

The Washington Post writes on Monday that women are being impacted heavily in the massacres taking place in Syria, and in return they are making an even bigger impact on the dialogue of peaceful protest. A crowd of men and women gathered Monday in mass protest against the massacre that took place the day before. Many women did not wear hijabs, a facial covering traditionally worn by women in that area.

Here’s a video of them protesting this week chanting anti-government slogans:

Here’s actress-turned activist Fadwa Sulayman, also seen without a hijab, talking about a hunger strike in which she is participating in order to draw attention to the violent repression by state agents in Syria:

In the video, the Fadwa calls for more protests outside of the embassies and hunger strikes to support the freedom of speech by the people against state agents.

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Rick Santorum’s Family Votes Ron Paul

by Agent on March 13, 2012 in #Fr33 Press, P.A.S.T., Peaceful (r)Evolution, Video | Comments { 0 }

In a story by the Daily Caller, the nephew of Rick Santorum explains in his own words why he is voting for Ron Paul:

If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum. America is based on a strong belief in individual liberty. My uncle’s interventionist policies, both domestic and foreign, stem from his irrational fear of freedom not working.

It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work with each other freely. When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them as a senator. The reason we have so much debt is not only because of Democrats, but also because of big-spending Republicans like my Uncle Rick.

It is because of this inability of status quo politicians to recognize the importance of our individual liberties that I have been drawn to Ron Paul. Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions. He believes that an individual is more powerful than any group (a notion our founding fathers also believed in).

Another important reason I support Ron Paul is his position on foreign policy. He is the only candidate willing to bring our troops home, not only from the Middle East, but from around the world.

Ron Paul seems to be the only candidate trying to win the election for a reason other than simply winning the election.

This year, I’ll vote for an honest change in our government. I’ll vote for real hope. I’ll vote for a real leader. This year, I will vote for Ron Paul.

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Interior Ministry in the Newly Democratic Iraq Encourages the Stoning of Emo Kids

by Agent on March 12, 2012 in P.A.S.T. | Comments { 2 }

Gawker reports on what’s going on from the newly democratic  Iraq where :

at least 14 young people have been stoned to death over the past three weeks, apparently for wearing “emo” clothes and haircuts.

It all started last month when Iraq’s interior ministry declared “emo” to be “Satanism,” and demanded that a community police force end the trend for good. In response, militants have been circulating leaflets with the names of emo kids in danger of being killed.

“We strongly warn you, to all the obscene males and females, if you will not leave this filthy work within four days the punishment of God will descend upon you at the hand of the Mujahideen,” the leaflet said.

Another leaflet in Sadr City bore 20 names. “We are the Brigades of Anger. We warn you, if you do not get back to sanity and the right path, you will be killed,” it said.

And sadly, they’re not all talk. So far 14 youths have been brought to the hospital with fatal injuries from rocks and bricks, while 6 others were wounded as a “warning.” But there is no official confirmation that these deaths are linked to the victims’ emo style, in part because hospital sources “were not authorized to speak to the media.”

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