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La Deutsche Welle diffusait récemment un #documentaire sur les liens qui existent entre les groupes d'extrême droite de divers pays. #FarRight #Radicalisation #Extremism

Titre : #Racism, #hatred and terror - The global network of #rightwing #extremists
Lien : youtube.com/watch?v=zV4H4R3Y78
Synopsis : Right-wing extremist groups are networked worldwide. Driven by the #ideology of white supremacy, they spread their propaganda via digital platforms.

From 2021... This started before #Trump, but things are way worse now!

#AntiProtestLaws Threaten #Indigenous and #Climate Movements

#CriticalInfrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting #PipelineProtesters.

Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021

"In 2016 as a member of Congress, #DebHaaland stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the #StandingRockSioux Reservation against construction of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. Today, as the first #NativeAmerican to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the #FirstAmendment rights of the protesters she joined in the past.

"With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.

"Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'

"Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas #pipelines. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as #ALEC, a powerful lobbying group funded by #FossilFuel companies like #ExxonMobil and #Shell.

"Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under #Ohio’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.

"Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down #SafetyCones and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.

"The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the #BayouBridge charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.

"Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in #Minnesota, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In #Oklahoma organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.

"The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of #HomelandSecurity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as #DomesticTerrorists and violent extremists in order to justify further #surveillance and #policing. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '#AnimalRights / #EnvironmentalExtremism,' describing even #NonviolentProtesters as #extremists.

"At Standing Rock, a private security firm [#Blackwater] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the #KeystoneXLPipeline protests in 2018, #DHS agents held an '#AntiTerrorism training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the #FarRight militant group the #ThreePercenters have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.

"To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural #GasPipelines and experience higher #CancerRisk due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the #SiouxTribe’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.

"The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating #FirstAmendment challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.

"As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."

Source:
brennancenter.org/our-work/ana

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Brennan Center for JusticeAnti-Protest Laws Threaten Indigenous and Climate Movements“Critical infrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting pipeline protesters.

this was a funny headline i seen "we are being watched" on some media title i stumbled across, yeah course, but im not the national security problem or threat and im not some public enemy when i stand solidarity with the working class humans of the world, im in poverty but not desperate and have no rash ideas or thinking... Rightwing fascist losers are the national security risk

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“The aggressive targeting of #Democratic elected ofcls by… #Trump …will invariably result in #law abiding #PublicServants being marked for death by violent #extremists. The Trump admin & their squad of masked agents must change course before it is too late.

“This is #America. The request for a judicial #warrant & observance of #LawEnforcement activity are not #crimes. There is zero basis for a federal investigation & any such plans should be dropped forthwith.”

- #HakeemJeffries

Random thought as we've got tickets to a fundraising concert featuring a Ukrainian singer, as we know a Ukrainian refugee family. They're making a life here, but would love to go home and be with their extended family again.

Do #extremists paint #refugees and benefits recipients as grifters and criminals because they can't imagine anyone would behave any differently from them?

"For Putin, it is imperative that his invasion of Ukraine is framed as a spiritual war in defence of Russo-Christian values. It is therefore hardly surprising that the church’s supreme leader gave his blessing to the war, which he has labelled “a holy war”."

Source: bylinetimes.com/2025/05/28/rus

And people wonder why organized religion is viewed as oppressive and cruel by so many... by me!

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Byline Times · How Russia's Fake Spirituality Became a Key Weapon in the Kremlin’s Disinformation ToolboxUnder Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine

#Reform council abolishes flood committee in flood-prone area

#Lincolnshire #council has #abolished its #flooding committee on #ReformUK’s first day in charge.

That is despite Lincolnshire suffering some of the worst flooding in its history in both 2023 and 2024, with 900 homes affected, as well as further flooding in January this year.

informuk.org/reform-council-ab

informuk.orgReform council abolishes flood committee in flood-prone areaInform UK | The truth about the Reform party

Last night, in the lawsuit brought by #FBI agents who worked on #Jan6 investigations, seeking to prevent their names from being disclosed for fear of #retribution & physical #threats from #MAGA #extremists, the plaintiffs alerted Judge Cobb of the press conference by disgraced fmr acting #DC #USattorney, current #DOJ Weaponization "captain" & under #DCbar #ethics probe #EdMartin who pledged: "We will name them."

documentcloud.org/documents/25

www.documentcloud.org51-Notice re Ed Martin
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At the Dept of #Defense, spox Kingsley Wilson faced criticism from #Jewish #CivilRights groups for sharing #antisemitic #ConspiracyTheories on social media, including references to the "great replacement theory" & the lynching of Leo Frank in 1915.

Historians widely believe that Frank was falsely accused of raping & murdering a 13-year-old girl, although antisemitic #extremists & #NeoNazis continue to assert his guilt.