'No Woman, No Drive!’ Wanita-wanita Arab untuk tetap memerangi larangan memandu . . .

Seorang wanita memandu kereta di Arab Saudi Oktober (A woman drives a car in Saudi Arabia October (Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

MADAyuMadyan - 16 wanita Arab Saudi telah didenda kerana memandu selepas hanya beberapa dozen wanita Melaluinya ancaman hukuman pada hari protes kebangsaan “Wanita memandu adalah pilihan” yang berlaku pada hari Sabtu.

Aktivis Online pada mulanya merancang global “memandu dalam” Sabtu, tetapi dibatal-kan kempen selepas ancaman daripada kerajaan, sebaliknya mengisytiharkan kempen terbuka bagi mereka yang berani untuk memandu. Kira-kira 60 wanita duduk di belakang roda pada hari Sabtu mengikut aktivis.

Terdapat laporan bahawa wanita menerima ancaman daripada Kementerian Dalam Negeri selepas amaran rasmi bahawa undang-undang “akan dikenakan terhadap pesalah dan orang-orang yang menunjukkan dalam menyokong perjuangan ini.”

Pada hari tindakan itu, polis menahan 6 wanita memandu di Riyadh, dan denda mereka 300 riyal setiap (kira-kira $ 80), Timbalan polis jurucakap di ibu negara, Kolonel Fawaz al-Miman kepada AFP.

Setiap wanita terpaksa menandatangani “berikrar untuk menghormati undang-undang negara itu,” tambah Miman.

2 wanita juga telah dikenakan denda di Jeddah, polis juga mendendakan mereka kerana memandu, menurut jurucakap polis, Nawaf al-Bouq .

6 lagi wanita telah berhenti di Timur wilayah, dan 2 yang lain di bahagian-bahagian lain dalam kerajaan, surat khabar Arab dilaporkan.

‘No Woman, No Drive!’ Saudi women to keep fighting 

against driving ban . . .

Sixteen Saudi Arabian females have been fined for driving after only a few dozen women braved the threat of punishment on the national protest day “Women's driving is a choice” which took place on Saturday.

Online activists at first planned a global "drive-in" Saturday, but cancelled the campaign after threats from the government, instead declaring an open-ended campaign for those brave enough to drive. Some 60 women sat behind the wheel on Saturday according to the activists.

There were reports that women received threats from the Interior Ministry after the official warning that laws “will be applied against violators and those who demonstrate in support of this cause.”

On the day of the action, police stopped six women driving in Riyadh, and fined them 300 riyals each (about $80), the capital's police deputy spokesman, Colonel Fawaz al-Miman told AFP.

Each woman had to sign a “pledge to respect the kingdom's laws,” Miman added.

Two women were also fined in Jeddah, police also fined them for driving, according to a police spokesman, Nawaf al-Bouq.

Six more women were stopped in Eastern Province, and other two in other parts of the kingdom, Saudi newspapers reported.

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Orang-orang yang melarikan diri kecaman kerajaan telah menyiarkan video yang menunjukkan diri mereka memandu di Twitter, walaupun laman web rasmi kempen itu digodam Sabtu.

Latar belakang hitam dengan bolt guruh merah dan hitam tengkorak masih dilihat pada skrin laman utama oct26driving.com, dengan teks bahasa Inggeris di atas bacaan-mel “hacked oleh G6RaaT Hacker . . . Kebebasan untuk KSA.”

Sabtu Arabic teks yang berbunyi, “Sebab hacking: Saya terhadap wanita memandu di kedua-dua tempat suci,” menurut Reuters.

Pada hari Ahad, “No Woman, No Drive” lagu virus telah bermain sebagai latar belakang laman web yang digodam.

Those who escaped government censure have posted videos showing themselves driving on Twitter, although the official website of the campaign was hacked Saturday.

A black background with red thunder bolts and black skulls are still seen on the homepage screen of oct26driving.com, with English text at the top of the page reading “Hacked by G6RaaT Hacker . . . Freedom for KSA.”

Saturdays Arabic text read, “Reason for the hacking: I am against women driving in the land of the two holy shrines,” according to Reuters.

As of Sunday, “No Woman, No Drive” viral song has been playing as the background of the hacked site.

Those who escaped government censure have posted videos showing themselves driving on Twitter, although the official website of the campaign was hacked Saturday.

A black background with red thunder bolts and black skulls are still seen on the homepage screen of oct26driving.com, with English text at the top of the page reading “Hacked by G6RaaT Hacker ... Freedom for KSA.”

Saturdays Arabic text read, “Reason for the hacking: I am against women driving in the land of the two holy shrines,” according to Reuters.

As of Sunday, “No Woman, No Drive” viral song has been playing as the background of the hacked site.

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Lagu menyindir yang Virus . . .

Arab menyindir YouTube penyesuaian terkenal lagu Bob Marley telah pergi dalam talian virus dengan lebih daripada 2.5 juta tontonan dalam masa 2 hari

“No Woman , No Drive,” yang diilhamkan oleh Marley “No Woman, No Cry,” dicatatkan oleh 3 SAUDi yang mengatakan bahawa pengalaman mereka di Barat mempengaruhi mereka untuk tampil dengan sambutan menyindir untuk pertempuran yang berterusan.

“Saya seorang artis dan aktivis sosial. Saya tidak mendengar muzik, tetapi ketika belajar di Amerika Syarikat saya mendengar lagu ini dengan lelaki Jamaica yang menarik perhatian saya. Saya memutuskan untuk melakukan rendition saya sendiri, dengan lirik yang berkaitan dengan budaya saya, “Hisham Fageeh, yang dikenali dalam web berbahasa Arab untuk video YouTube beliau.

Ungkapan seperti “ova - ovari semua selamat dan baik, supaya anda boleh membuat banyak dan banyak bayi,” dan " anda boleh memasak makan malam untuk saya malam ini”  muncul kepada wanita merendahkan, walaupun hasratnya mungkin ironis.

Penonton yang kebanyakannya ditemui video lucu mata yang diberikan tambahan untuk penggunaan janggut seperti dalam instrumen dalam video.

Satirical song goes Viral  . . .

A satirical YouTube Saudi adaptation of a famous Bob Marley song has gone viral online with over 2.5 million views in two days

“No Woman, No Drive,” inspired by Marley's "No Woman, No Cry," was recorded by three Saudis who say that their experience in the West influenced them to come up with the satirical response to the ongoing battle.

“I’m an artist and social activist. I don’t really listen to music, but while studying in the US I heard this song by this Jamaican guy that caught my attention. I decided to do my own rendition; with lyrics relevant to my culture,” Hisham Fageeh, known in the Arabic-speaking web for his YouTube videos.

Phrases such as “ova-ovaries all safe and well, so you can make lots and lots of babies,” and “you can cook dinner for me tonight” appear to demean women, although its intent may be ironic.

Viewers who mostly found the video funny awarded extra points for the use of a beard as in instrument in the video.

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MADAyuMadyan - Jika wanita Arab menentang larangan untuk belakang roda pada hari Sabtu, mereka akan dihukum, kerajaan telah memberi amaran.

Walaupun undang-undang tidak jelas melarang wanita daripada memandu, mereka tidak dikeluarkan lesen. Kingdom adalah satu-satunya negara di dunia yang tidak membenarkan wanita di belakang roda.

Kempen yang dikenali sebagai 26 Oktober ‘Women2Drive (october26driving.com) kepada wanita yang mempunyai lesen memandu antarabangsa untuk meneruskan hasrat mereka untuk memandu, tetapi tidak untuk membuat 26 Oktober tarikh yang simbolik, yang menyatakan bahawa ada wanita yang telah mula untuk memandu sebelum hari Sabtu. Perubahan tack datang selepas beberapa aktivis menerima panggilan daripada Kementerian Dalam Negeri mengingatkan mereka bahawa wanita di Arab Saudi telah dilarang daripada memandu.

Ia akan menandakan bantahan ke-3 itu sejak tahun 1990. Tindakan sebelumnya membawa kepada tangkapan bagi kesalahan ketenteraman awam dan demoralisation, penjara dan beberapa wanita kehilangan pekerjaan mereka.

Kali ini wanita telah mengambil kempen mereka dalam talian untuk mendapatkan sokongan media, menyiarkan video di rangkaian sosial dan YouTube. Sesuatu petisyen dalam talian yang dikumpul sekurang-kurangnya 16,000 tandatangan sebelum laman itu disekat 2 minggu lalu.

Kempen ini telah reignited perdebatan umum mengenai larangan itu. Ketua polis agama berkata tidak ada undang-undang yang melarang wanita daripada memandu. Walau bagaimanapun, hanya satu bulan yang lalu ulama Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan berkata memandu ovari wanita yang rosak.

Pada 23 Oktober, 150 ulama konservatif membantah di luar istana raja di Jeddah terhadap apa yang mereka lihat sebagai ‘kebaratan’ dan konspirasi wanita memandu, mendakwa Amerika Syarikat berada di belakang kempen.

Arab Saudi, nota Human Rights Watch, merawat wanita bawah umur undang-undang, “yang tidak boleh menjalankan rasmi kerajaan, perjalanan perniagaan di luar negara, berkahwin, melanjutkan pelajaran yang lebih tinggi, atau menjalani prosedur perubatan tertentu tanpa mendapat kebenaran daripada manusia.”

Saudi Government Warns Women not to defy driving ‘ban’

If Saudi women defy a ban to get behind the wheel on Saturday, they will be punished, the government has warned.

Though laws do not explicitly forbid women from driving, they are not issued licenses. The Kingdom is the only country in the world not to allow women behind the wheel.

The campaign known as October 26 'Women2Drive' (october26driving.com) told women with international driving licences to continue with their intention to drive, but not to make October 26 a symbolic date, stating that some women had already begun to drive before Saturday. The change of tack came after several activists received calls from the Interior Ministry reminding them that women in Saudia Arabia were forbidden from driving.

It would mark the third such protest since 1990. Previous actions led to arrests for public order offences and demoralisation, imprisonment and some women lost their jobs.

This time women have taken their campaign online to garner media support, posting videos on social networks and YouTube. An online petition collected at least 16,000 signatures before the site was blocked two weeks ago.

The campaign has reignited public debate on the ban. The head of the religious police said there was no law forbidding women from driving. However, just one month ago cleric Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan said that driving damaged womens' ovaries.

On October 23, 150 conservative clerics protested outside the king's palace in Jeddah against what they saw as 'Westernisation' and the 'conspiracy of women driving', claiming the US was behind the campaign.

Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch notes, treats women as legal minors, "who cannot conduct official government business, travel abroad, marry, pursue higher education, or undergo certain medical procedures without permission from men."

‘Masa untuk reformasi negeri pengawasan’: 'Stop Watching Us' (Hentikan Memerhati Kami) perhimpunan cabaran pengintip NSA . . .

Demonstarator memegang sehingga tanda “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

MADAyuMadyan - 12 tahun selepas Amerika telah dilucutkan hak-hak mereka atas nama memerangi keganasan, beribu-ribu berkumpul di Washington DC untuk membantah perlembagaan NSA mengintip program didedahkan oleh Edward Snowden, dan panggilan untuk memansuhkan Akta Patriot.

Hentikan Memerhati Kami kempen menuntut reformasi “Seksyen 215 Amerika Syarikat Akta Patriot, rahsia keistimewaan negeri, dan Pindaan Akta FISA untuk membuat jelas bahawa pengawasan selimut aktiviti internet dan rekod telefon daripada mana-mana orang yang tinggal di Amerika Syarikat adalah dilarang oleh undang-undang dan pelanggaran boleh dikaji semula dalam prosiding pertentangan di hadapan mahkamah awam.”

Penunjuk perasaan juga menuntut penubuhan sebuah jawatankuasa penyiasatan didakwa melaporkan tahap mengintip domestik dan menggubal pembaharuan peraturan. Penganjur juga mahu memegang bertanggungjawab mereka pegawai-pegawai awam yang didapati bertanggungjawab bagi “pengawasan perlembagaan.”

'Time to reform surveillance state': Stop Watching Us 

rally challenges NSA spying . . .

Twelve years after Americans were stripped of their rights in the name of fighting terrorism, thousands have gathered in Washington DC to protest unconstitutional NSA spying programs revealed by Edward Snowden, and call for repeal of the Patriot Act.

Stop Watching Us campaign demands reform of “Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity and phone records of any person residing in the US is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court.”

hit (here): RT's TIMELINE of the 'Stop Watching Us' event

Protesters also demand the creation of an investigative committee charged with reporting the extent of domestic spying and enact regulatory reform. Organizers also want to hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for “unconstitutional surveillance.”

Bersatu di bawah panji-panji yang berbunyi “Terima kasih Snowden” beribu-ribu berbaris di Capitol mendengar kenyataan oleh bekas kontraktor NSA yang dibacakan.

“Hari ini, tidak ada telefon di Amerika membuat panggilan tanpa meninggalkan rekod dengan NSA. Hari ini, tiada urus niaga Internet memasuki atau meninggalkan Amerika tanpa melalui tangan NSA itu. Wakil kami di Kongres memberitahu kita ini tidak pengawasan. Mereka salah, “kata Snowden dalam satu kenyataan dibacakan oleh Bekas US Department of Justice etika penasihat, Jesselyn Radack.

“Ini adalah mengenai tindakan tidak berperlembagaan, tidak beretika, dan tidak bermoral negeri pengawasan moden dan bagaimana kita semua perlu bekerjasama untuk mengingatkan kerajaan untuk menghalang mereka. Ia mengenai hak kami untuk tahu, untuk berpersatuan secara bebas, dan hidup dalam masyarakat yang terbuka, “kata Snowden.

Twelve kotak besar 575,000 tandatangan petisyen telah ditunjukkan kepada orang ramai di kaki Capitol Amerika Syarikat.

United under a banner reading “Thank You Snowden” thousands lined the Capitol to hear a statement by former NSA contractor read out.

“Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no Internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands. Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong,” Snowden said in a statement read out by Former US Department of Justice ethics adviser, Jesselyn Radack.

“This is about the unconstitutional, unethical, and immoral actions of the modern-day surveillance state and how we all must work together to remind government to stop them. It’s about our right to know, to associate freely, and to live in an open society,” Snowden said.

Twelve large boxes of 575,000 petition signatures were shown to the crowd at the foot of the US Capitol.

Glenn Greenwald, wartawan yang bekerja dengan Edward Snowden untuk mendedahkan banyak prosedur pengawasan NSA telah menghadiri perhimpunan tersebut.

“Ia adalah sangat penting bahawa orang-orang bersuara, mengambil tindakan, perarakan, perhimpunan menunjukkan terhadap amalan-amalan kerajaan,” kata aktivis anti-perang Richard Becker memberitahu RT. “Apa yang benar-benar boleh membawa perubahan adalah tindakan rakyat,” katanya, sambil menekankan bahawa “tiada perubahan progresif” dalam sejarah Amerika Syarikat yang pernah “berasal di dalam Kongres atau di White House”.

Kongres wakil Justin Amash memberitahu orang ramai bahawa membawa rang undang-undang anti-NSA pada bulan Julai kepada Kongres adalah detik paling membanggakan beliau sebagai pegawai yang dipilih.

“Kami akan terus berjuang dan kita akan meluluskan sesuatu untuk mengekang NSA,” katanya, sambil menambah bahawa “NSA sedang berjuang kembali, pertubuhan ini berjuang kembali.”

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with Edward Snowden to expose many of the NSA’s surveillance procedures attended the rally.

“It is very important that people speak out, take action, march, rally demonstrate against these practices of the government,” anti-war activist Richard Becker told RT. “What can really bring a change is the actions of the people,” he said, stressing that “none of the progressive changes” in the history of the US have ever been “originated inside the Congress or in the White House”.

Congressional representative Justin Amash told the crowd that bringing his anti-NSA bill in July to Congress was his proudest moment as an elected official.

“We’re going to keep fighting and we’re going to pass something to rein in the NSA,” he said, adding that the “NSA is fighting back, the establishment is fighting back.”

Demonstarators membawa tanda-tanda di “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Bekas Wakil Politik Dennis Kucinich Ohio dan bekas Gabenor New Mexico Gary Johnson juga menghadiri protes anti-NSA.

“Kerajaan telah diberikan sendiri kuasa yang ia tidak perlu,” kata Johnson. “Kita perlu berdiri menentang ini.”

“Kerajaan kita sendiri telah menjadi satu ancaman kepada kebebasan, di rumah dan di luar negara,” kata bekas ahli Kongres, Dennis Kucinich.

Pemberi Thomas Drake dalam menangani orang ramai berkata bahawa dia bernasib baik tidak berakhir di dalam penjara. “Perkara terakhir masyarakat yang bebas dan terbuka memerlukan adalah pagar digital di sekeliling kita,” kata Drake. Beliau dipanggil untuk pemulihan Pindaan Keempat dan berkata bahawa pengawasan NSA “Engenders takut dan menghakis kebebasan kita.”

2 hari sebelum perarakan Jabatan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat telah menerbitkan satu wawancara YouTube dengan Pengarah NSA dan CYCOM Komander Umum Keith Alexander cuba untuk menjustifikasikan program agensi. Setakat ini kurang daripada 2% peratus daripada penonton bersetuju dengan hujah Alexander kerana keperluan untuk jumlah pengawasan dan mengintip rakyat sendiri untuk melindungi keselamatan negara.

Sehari selepas pengumuman itu, laman web untuk US National Security Agency tiba-tiba pergi luar talian dalam apa yang sesetengah mendakwa adalah serangan DDoS Anonymous. 12 jam kemudian NSA bagaimanapun berkata, ia adalah disebabkan oleh masalah teknikal semasa kemas kini perisian rutin, menafikan ia adalah di bawah serangan.

Kebocoran Edward Snowden telah mendedahkan bahawa NSA bukan sahaja intipan rekod awam tetapi juga kepada lombong data daripada komunikasi peribadi pemimpin-pemimpin DUNIA, termasuk Amerika Latin presiden dan pemimpin-pemimpin Eropah - walaupun orang-orang yang dianggap sebagai sekutu Amerika Syarikat, seperti Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel yang berada di dalam senarai perisik NSA sejak tahun 2002, menurut ayat-ayat terkini.

Perhimpunan Stop Watching Us datang sebagai 21 negara, termasuk Amerika Syarikat sekutu Perancis dan Mexico, telah menyertai rundingan untuk memuktamadkan satu resolusi PBB yang mengutuk “sembarangan” dan pengawasan “tambahan - wilayah”, dan pastikan “pengawasan bebas” elektronik pemantauan.

Negara-negara lain yang terlibat dalam rundingan dilaporkan termasuk Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Paraguay, Afrika Selatan, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay dan Venezuela.

Former politicians Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson also attended the anti-NSA protest.

"The government has granted itself power that it does not have," said Johnson. "We have to stand against this."

“Our own government has become a threat to freedom, at home and abroad,” said former Congressman, Dennis Kucinich.

Whistleblower Thomas Drake in addressing the crowd said that he was fortunate not end up in prison. “The last thing a free and open society needs is a digital fence around us,” Drake said. He called for the restoration of the Fourth Amendment and said that NSA surveillance "engenders fear and erodes our freedom."

Two days before the march the US Department of Defense published a YouTube interview with NSA Director and CYCOM Commander General Keith Alexander trying to justify the agency's programs. So far less than 2 percent of viewers agree with Alexander’s reasoning for the need for total surveillance and spying on own citizens to protect national security.

A day after the release, the website for the US National Security Agency suddenly went offline in what some claimed was an Anonymous DDoS attack. Twelve hours later the NSA however said it was due to a technical problem during a routine software update, denying it was under attack.

The Edward Snowden leaks have exposed that NSA not only spied on public records but also on data mined from personal communications of world leaders, including Latin American presidents and European leaders - even those who are considered to be US allies, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel who was on NSA spy list since 2002, according to latest revelations.

The Stop Watching Us rally comes as twenty-one countries, including US allies France and Mexico, have joined talks to hammer out a UN resolution that would condemn “indiscriminate” and “extra-territorial” surveillance, and ensure “independent oversight” of electronic monitoring.

Other countries involved in the talks reportedly include Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Paraguay, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Demonstarators membawa payung terjun semasa “Hentikan Memerhati Kami: perhimpunan Terhadap Mass Pengawasan” berarak berhampiran Capitol Amerika Syarikat di Washington, 26 Oktober, 2013. (Reuters, Jonathan Ernst – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

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