Fascistic Rule: Abusing the human rights of oppositions and perceived enemies.
To quote Gene Sharp, a researcher who has for many decades studied and written about the technique of nonviolent struggle:
The rulers of governments and political systems are not omnipotent (One having unlimited power or authority) nor do they possess self-generating power.
All dominating elites, Dictators, Tyrants, Fascists and all other Despotic Regimes depend for their sources of power upon the cooperation of the population and of the institutions of the society they would rule.
If people do not obey, rulers cannot rule
So we need not take over the State’s decision-making process (elections); we need not physically destroy the State’s coercive resources (violent resistance); instead we can win our freedom by striking at the heart of the State’s power, disrupting the patterns of cooperation and obedience on which it depends.
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The Woyanne junta continues to commit horrible atrocities against Ethiopians with {www:impunity}. The recent ethnic cleansing campaign against the Amhara, Gambella and Afar people is not surprising because nothing has been done when khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi waged a war of genocide against fellow Ethiopians in Ogaden, filled Ethiopian prisons with Oromos, stolen elections, destroyed historic monasteries, sold Ethiopian fertile land to foreign investors at {www:basement bargain} prices, etc.
The Woyanne tribal junta is doing all this not because it is a superior power. It is a regime that survives on foreign handouts! Woyanne is peeing on us because we allowed it to do so. We finance its crimes against us by paying tax, buying goods and services from Woyanne-controlled businesses, socializing with Woyanne members whose hands are socked with the blood of our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.
We can stop the Woyanne junta dead if we are really serious. One of the first things we can do to stop Woyanne is to wage a worldwide economic boycott campaign and target its revenue sources.
One of the biggest hard currency earning enterprises for the tribal junta is Ethiopian Airlines. Currently there are serious discussions going on about boycotting Ethiopian Airlines and this coming Saturday, for the first time, several Ethiopian media representatives will propose a set of actions. [see here]
Ethiopian Airlines is Ethiopian only in name. From the CEO down it is controlled by central committee members of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne). Many of the Ethiopian pilots are leaving and being replaced by foreigners who are hired at double the salary. The sales, maintenance, and all other parts of the company are staffed with Woyanne members.
Since the Woyanne took over the airline, domestic flights drastically decreased while flights to Tigray region expanded {www:manyfold}.
In 2010, the airline generated USD$1.3 billion for the junta. This money is being used to fuel the Woyanne killing and torture machine.
I heard some individuals saying that Ethiopian Airlines should not be boycotted since it carries the Ethiopian national flag around the world. This argument doesn’t work any more, because at the current pace, there will be no nation called Ethiopia if we allow Woyanne to remain in power. When Meles and gang implement Article 39 of their constitution, Ethiopian Airlines will be renamed Greater Tigray Airlines.
Let’s stop bitching and take action. Starve the Woyanne beast by drying its sources of income.
In light of the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in Ethiopia against the Amhara, Oromo, Ogaden, Gambella, Afar and other Ethiopians, several Ethiopian media will come together on Saturday, April 14, at 1 PM, to propose a worldwide economic boycott campaign against the Woyanne junta.
The discussion will take place live via teleconference, radio program, paltalk rooms, and audio stream.
Details of the proposal, such as what Woyanne institutions to target for boycott, will be announced on the conference.
The conference will be open for every one.
Attend one of the major Ethiopian paltalk rooms or call:
Tel: 712 432 0900
code: 506741#
Date/Time: Saturday, April 14, 2012, at 1 PM (Washington DC time)
BEIRUT (The Daily Star) — Beirut’s general prosecutor has charged Ali Mahfouz with contributing to and causing the suicide of Alem Dechasa-Desisa, the Ethiopian woman who allegedly committed suicide after a widely publicized beating outsider the gate of the Ethiopian consulate.
A judicial source told The Daily Star that Mahfouz was charged Thursday, adding that he is not currently in custody.
A video released by LBCI earlier this month showed Dechasa-Desisa moaning as a man, later identified as Mahfouz, dragged and forced her into a car. Mahfouz reportedly owns her employment agency.
Another man helped Mahfouz, as others stood by. According to Ethiopia’s consul general in Lebanon, Asaminew Debelie Bonssa, the incident took place two weeks before it became public on March 8.
Doctors told Bonssa that Dechasa-Desisa hanged herself using strips of her bed sheets on March 15 while at to Pyschiatrique de la Croix Hospital, known as Deir al-Salib. Police took her to the hospital after the incident.
Mahfouz has told media outlets that Bonssa had previously attempted suicide.
Invitation to press conference on Ethiopian National Transitional Council
The Ethiopian National Transitional Council Steering Committee will hold a press conference with members of the Ethiopian media on Saturday, March 24, at 3 PM EST.
Everyone is invited to attend the press conference, which will be broadcast live via teleconference, video and audio stream.
Teleconference
Call: (712) 432-0900
Code: 551780#
Live Video Stream: USTREAM.TV: http://ustre.am/IUR3
A judicial source told The Daily Star that Mahfouz was charged Thursday, adding that he is not currently in custody.