Happy Birthday Human Rights!
Exactly today 59 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights got adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. amnesty international germany is starting it’s “Gold For Human Rights” campaign today and amnesty.org is also themed golden. The campaign is about the human rights violations in china and amnesty is trying to use the publicity of the Olympic Games in Bejing 2008 to draw more attention on this really important Topic.
I actually quite in a hurry so I have to stop here with this short teaser and hope to find more time later on to write more about it!
The Future of Reading
I just found this awesome Blog entry about the future of reading. It blends several statements about the new Amazon Kindle device, Open source and the usage of books and knowledge. And if you read this you can get actually really concerned about the future of knowledge and how we are going to have access to it. We have to assure that everybody has access to all the knowledge available no matter how much money she/he has, where this person is from and why and how she/he is going to use it. And not protecting against so called “pirates” which are “stealing” intellectual property, which should be anyway public available. So please support OpenSource and OpenAccess wherever you can!
Yet another stupid Idea…
Or better the same stupid idea over and over again from different politicians!
Franco Frattini wants to “prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism.” Once such a system is set up we gonna have almost chines conditions in our “democratic” Europe! Does this people really think they can avoid terrorist attacks by censoring information, which every 17 year old wannabe revolutionizer has? We should start to think about why this “terrorists” are so angry with us. Not only fighting against the symptoms.
Welcome to Germany…
Yesterday a group of about 50 persons attacked and chased through the city 8 Indians at a village fair in the town of Mügeln. Mügeln, which a small town in Saxony, german state well known for its aggression potential from right wing groups(so called “Neo-Nazis“). 14 people(8 Indians, 4 police man, 2 attackers) got hurt badly and hat to get treated in a hospital.
The major of this town said to this incident: “There are no right wing groups in our town. IF there was a right wing background it must have been people from our neighbor towns.”(netzzeitung.de german) How could somebody so ignorant? There is in almost in every little/medium/big town in Germany a group of people which carrying right wing thoughts. And if there where 50 people chasing these victims through the town there have to be at least some locals…
But this is a problem what you can find all over Germany. Right wing extremist are just accepted… as long as they just sitting around, making party and talking bullshit about “foreigners” and all this usual prejudices which you can find in almost everybody’s mind about something unusual and alien. But when they really start to act, everybody gets horrible upset (“Something like this in our nice little town… I just can’t understand why!”) and wants to do something against the brown swamp. And you will see, after a few months or days, depends on how big the incident was, everybody goes back to normal and ignores this strange, hairless guys on the neighbor table in the pub.
I’m sick of it!
irrepressible.info
After removing the ugly centrino / winodows vista / energy star stickers from my laptop, I put a irrepressible.info sticker on the back of the lit. Irrepressible.info is a Amnesty International campaign, which fights against censorship in internet, especially in blogs, chats and forums. So help to defend the Freedom Of Speech and fight against censorship!
To Do:
- sign the pledge on irrepressible.org (even if it’s a little bit old)
- add censored content to your blog/website
- become member of Amnesty International
- set up a TOR server
- … and so on!
Use your mind! Get active!
