Global Protest Just the Beginning...WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 &21, 2009
Hi
everyone. I'm resending this report to include a picture from the
Toronto event, plus an updated version of the video to include a few of
their pictures as well. Please note the change in the video url.
Thanks
again to all who participated in this first "Global Protest" event of
the International Alliance Against Covert Electronic Abuse (IAACEA), a
new, international umbrella organization that was created for this
effort, which can be found at: www.iaacea.org
This
event, like none we have had before has galvanized the TI community.
Finally, we are starting to work in unison and do things for ourselves,
things that we can do.
We've all heard for years from our elected officials time and again
that "there's nothing we can do" or nothing at all. Well, here is something
we can do. And it is just the start. Most of us are just getting used
to sidewalk activism, while some are veterans at this. It is something
that we are learning because we have to since those who are tasked with
helping us are refusing to. We find that we must take our message
directly to the people. And from the reports we are receiving, people
are listening.
More is coming soon. Watch for news of "Walking to Stop Organized Stalking".
GLOBAL PROTEST VIDEO
Here
is a short montage from some of the photographs received. This has
been posted at YouTube (you'll need to copy and paste the link):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnITSphBiIM
REPORTS:
VICTORIA, CANADA Hello to all
I feel our Victoria protest was a success. We had 5 people present at
the protest: Keith Tickleback from Nelson BC, Consuelo Galomar from
Vernon BC, David Smith from Grabriola, Heather Quinn from Victoria BC
and me Debbie Newhook. We had one protester from Nanaimo, Doug (Jerry)
Rose who could not make the protest as he reported he was feeling
horrible the night before the protest and he did not think he would be
able to make it.
As
soon as we arrived at the protest location we were greeted by a
University of Victoria student who wanted an interview with us. David
and I spent 30 mins with her speaking about this crime. We gave her
hand out material which included FFCHS material along with a Jim Guest
letter of support. In addition we suggest that she research James
Walbert and directed her to an article in Wired Magazine about James
Walbert. She was genuinely interested and shocked at many of the
details about this crime.
During
the time David and I were being interviewed, the police arrived.
Consuelo spoke to the friendly police officer and was told that the
police got 2 telephone calls indicating that we were obstructing the
sidewalk traffic. Upon his arrival he saw that we were only a small
group and that we were not blocking the sidewalk traffic and asked that
we continue to allow the flow of pedestrians and not to interfere with
them.
Keith
was our camera person and did take still pics only of the event and did
capture a picture of the police as he was talking to Consuelo.
Later
I was approached by woman who knew she was a target of this crime. She
knew much about the goings on of the world and she expressed that she
was a whistle blower. David and I could tell that she was genuine and
she was fearful. I gave her my contact info.
We had many other people briefly speak to us about this crime and did take hand out material.
The area of the protest was a very busy location in Victoria and we all thought it was a success.
After
about 2.5 hours we had given away about 400 fliers and we were almost
out of hand out material when the skies opened up and it began to rain
very hard. We called it quits at that time and went back to Heathers
house for a chat and a meal.
In
my opinion, I thought this was good activism day. David and I later
talked about doing this in Nanaimo at a later date and discussed the
date of Dec 10 as it was the UN day of Human Rights. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Debbie Newhook International Alliance Against Covert Electronic Abuse 'we live to achieve justice'
WASHINGTON, DC: Thought
the protest went well. Weather wasn't the greatest. Kind of nervous
with all the cops and undercover cops around. Thought some of them had
to be perps. Ate alot of the chips and drank sodas I bought by a great
donation from Cynthia. There were lots of tourists that stopped by and
took pictures of the White House and us.
Enjoyed talking to other TIs about their situation. Learning alot from
other TIs about how to cope and different remedies to use to uplift
myself.. We spoke to a freelance writer who took notes and took our
pictures. We spoke with other human rights groups that were nearby.
Handed out fliers.
MARC BURNELL
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Hello Everyone,
We had 12 TI's outside of UCLA today and handed out over a 1,000 flyers. Many people stopped to ask questions.
Great day for TI's. Wanda
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Tina was the lone soldier here, passing out flyers. We hope that for the next event, we will have more support for this area.
LONDON, ENGLAND There were eight of us who met at trafalgar square. One person who wanted to come woke up with the flu and couldn't make it.
We
handed out hundreds of leaflets around Trafalgar Square (we were
actually made to leave Trafalgar Square as it is illegal to protest
there, as is the same in much of central London). We walked along the
Strand handing out leaflets and stood outside The Royal Courts of
Justice handing out leaflets and engaging the public. We did this for
about five hours. John Allman is following this event up by speaking at
'Speaker's Corner' Hyde Park on Sunday 18th October from 3-5PM.
Darrim
CINCINNATI,OHIO In
Cincinnati, we decided to have a meeting and considering the way I'm
targeted, a meeting rather than sidewalk activism is advised. We
started at around 10 am. There were seven in attendance: Mary Ann
Stratton, Jeremy and I live in the area. Jamie drove in Columbus,
Tammye from Cleveland, Brian from Kentucky, and Ken Rhoades from
Michigan.
We
opened with introductions and sharing our stories. Then Mary Ann did a
presentation which was about 45 or 50 minutes of great stories and
information that could easily have gone on for another half hour or so,
except she had to leave early to go to work. We all wanted to hear
more. Jeremy then gave a presentation with a discussion about some
shielding solutions that he's been working on. He also brought along
some samples for display. A good discussion followed as Jamie also
brought some samples of shielding that has worked for her that she had
bought from lessemf. We then had a very good discussion about the
video project that Mary Ann had brought up. Soon it was almost 2:30
and time to wrap up the meeting. We adjourned to a nearby restaurant.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA - 2 REPORTS AT CITY HALL IN SAN FRANCISCOBY BRUNO
Yesterday,
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, from 11:00am to 2:00pm, there was a civil
protest against OS/EH at city hall in San Francisco, California, one of
several being planned on or about that same day in several cities
around the world, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington D.C.,
Cincinnati (meeting only), Victoria and Toronto in Canada, London,
India (internet mailings) and China (internet mailings), as part of a
global day of protest being organized by a newly formed TI activism
group called the International Alliance Against Covert Electronic
Abuse, www.iaacea.org. Debbie Newhook and Galina Kurdina in Canada, Soleilmavis in China and Derrick Robinson of FFCHS were some of the planners.
Christine
Harris in SF was the contact person for the San Francisco protest, with
Mesha Monge-Irizarry being a resource having had experience in
protesting. Mesha is a non-TI activist Christine recently began
networking with who among other things setup and moderated a forum to
help organize the global protest. She has an office in San Francisco
and apparently moderates ~250 internet forums, one of them being the
recently created Targeted_Individuals yahoo group. She is considering
holding TI meetings at her office in San Francisco.
A
possibility of rain was forecast but the weather was clear and mostly
sunny. I counted 16 protesters being present, including Christine,
Richard in Marin, many other TIs who I've met before, a few I hadn't
met yet, Mesha, and Marlon Crump, writer for Poor Magazine who
Christine has recently began networking with. Most had arrived within
the first half hour of the 11:00am protest start time.
We
originally planned to protest at the park across the street from city
hall, to be respectful of city hall workers, but a police officer came
by and said we needed a permit to protest in a public park, though he
said this first time he'd allow it. He also indicated we could protest
directly in front of city hall if we liked, so we moved our protest to
the sidewalk in front of city hall.
There
was a plethora of protest signs of various sizes, colors and styles:
"stop group stakling," "stop organized stalking," "stop organized
terror," "stop covert torture," "stop electronic harassment," "stop
electronic torture," "stop electromagnetic weapons," "stop defamation
of character now," "restore human liberties now," "stop residential
directed energy attacks now IAACEA," "unforgivable! MKULTRA should
never happen again," and "my family is victim of mind control program
illegally run by the US gov agencies. Torture, mental rape, robbery --
the outcome of the Nazi experiment."
Also I brought buttons with the
FFCHS logo for us to wear. The mood was positive if not festive, with
us talking amongst ourselves, getting to know each other. Some of us
had come from as far away as Modesto and Fresno, and for at least one
of us this was our first time meeting with other TIs.
Foot
traffic was light, even during the lunch hour, with some passers-by
looking to see what our signs said. A few spoke with us to try to
understand what we were protesting. Due to the relatively light foot
traffic and us not being very aggressive at distributing handouts, we
didn't distribute all that many. Handouts included one of the IAACEA
press releases announcing the global protest, a letter from Missouri
State Representative Jim Guest acknowledging the existence of OS/EH on
many of the constituents in the country, a flyer on the book "A New
Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America" by Dr. John Hall, who has
treated patients suffering from the effects of OS/EH, a copy of an
article entitled "Is the NSA Conducting Electronic Warfare On
Americans?" regarding former NSA intelligence officer Russ Tice and the
NSA's purported mind control technology, and a compilation of excerpts
from Cheryl Welsh, FFCHS and H. Michael Sweeney.
Vehicular
traffic on the other hand was ongoing, and heavier during the lunch
hour. Some of us were lined along the edge of the sidewalk displaying
our signs -- several drivers honked their horns and gave us the "thumbs
up" in support!
At
one point a reporter and cameraperson for an independent San Francisco
internet video news group came by and did a brief interview with
Christine and Mesha -- everybody felt they did a great job! Later on a
CBS van parked across the street to cover a different event and
Christine went over and gave them some handouts.
I
spoke with several TIs at the protest. Christine says she is doing
what she can to network to help end our harassment, a TI from Fresno
says he is educating some of the people in Fresno on OS/EH, and another
said God's message of love is the most important tool in counteracting
our harassment. Marlon wanted everyone to know about his new, second,
article on OS/EH, entitled "Targeted Individuals."
In
my opinion the protest was certainly successful in terms of turnout --
this has been the largest turnout for any TI event in the San Francisco
Bay Area I'm aware of and slightly exceed my expectations! Most of us
stayed there until the 2:00pm protest end time, shortly after which we
disbanded. I and at least a couple of others who were present took
pictures of the event and I will be forwarding mine to Felix, a TI who
plans to make a video of the global protests.
RECOUNT OF SF PROTEST BY MESHA OCT 14, GLOBAL RALLIES AND PROTESTS AGAINST ELECTRONIC TORTURE.
We
were a "crowd" of about 20 TIs & Allies with signs brought by
Bruno, Richard, a Black Brother who came from Fresno (name?),
Christine, the Kats Family, Judy, ... Who am I forgetting ?
Among
us, a Black Sister who is a college professor in Political Science in
Oakland, accompanied by a Latina and a white woman TIs.
Also
was present a San Franciscan woman, former nurse who blew the whistle
on her medical unit at PMC, when she saw several patients with
electrodes in their brain, and realized from their encephalograms that
something terribly wrong was being done to them... she disconnected
everything, and the electronic torture started, did not let up for over a decade.
At first the cops, then the sheriffs tried the intimidating routine by demanding to see a permit , but when told: "we are not blocking traffic, we are only exercizing our right to peaceful assembly, this is a peaceful demonstration", they did not know what else to do.
Then when they approached us again, twice, I gave them a big smile, told them I was a City Commissioner and asked: "Are you going to keep us safe, Officers?" which was sufficient to make them instantly go away after exclaiming "Of course !!"
one sheriff, astoundingly, raised a timid fist and quickly told us "GO GET 'EM" as he walked away with his colleagues
(Refreshing ! A TI cop ? )
Christine,
Richard, the Kats Family, Carole, Judy, John, Yolanda, Carol , Bruno,
Marlon, educated onlookers and passed on flyers (forgive this fried
brain for omissions...), and Bruno passed out Buttons.
SF Based Tom MCray, TI and political writer, and a homeless person soon joined us.
I talked to a colleague, a Veteran for Peace, published poet, who actually wore many political buttons, among them one on Covert Surveillance:
Robert
Wegan , who is the acclaimed Honorary chief of the Native Nation,
although he is white, due to his incredible activism for Natives and
Aborigines and tireless fight to ban School of the Americas and ROTC. He happened to just be waiting for a friend on City Hall steps, and enthusiastically interacted with us.
Robert stated: "We are ALL targeted !". I will stay in touch, potential powerful ally for us.
I talked about the protest and IAACEA Goals & Objectives as defined in Debbie's pres release to Sophie Maxwell, City supervisor of my district, and to a campaign team member of James Keys, District 6 Supervisor candidate.
Many participants actively engaged passerby's, including an Asian Gay Youth who now wants to be an ally to our movement.
No negative interaction whatsoever!
(To the sorry exception of a perplike loser... older white dude in a SUV who sped by, hollering: "Go get a job!"
Which made us laugh.... Comic relief of the day)
One press interview with Christine who handed out a press package and with myself,
Christine connected with the City Hall Court TV Media Liaison, and participants took many pictures and videos of our event
For a first, Huge Success !
In the future, we should bring munchies, 2 participants were hungry and broke, and started getting hypoglycemic and shaky. Being a diabetic, fortunately I had glucose tablets with me, and after ingesting 2 of them, they got better. But
we need to FEED folx who came from afar, and our local people next time
! Just water and packaged Health bars, so we do not need a food permit,
would do jut fine.
Marlon
Crump from Poor Magazine PPN came to interview participants, stayed
with us during the entire event, and will work on his third article on
"Targeted Individuals" that he will submit to his editor, the
formidable "Tiny" Gray Garcia !
Christine
and I will work on an article , recount that we will self publish on
Indybay.org, along with a compilation of pictures, under Health isues
(Covert Violence IS a Public Health issue !)
People came to join us from : Modesto, Fresno, Marin County, Oakland, Berkeley, local San Franciscans too !
Cloud 9 yall !
Christine is talking about making it a monthly event, either still City Hall, but also in front of the SF Chronicle newspaper, where there is a lot of foot traffic. We could also "target" (umph....) all Bart Stations, the old Mint, and the Federal and State buildings.
A
month timeline gives us time to prepare press conferences, and work
on solid 3 minute presentations, with a core team and a couple of
prepared public testimonies at each event.
The most endearing marker for me was to see the visible, profound camaraderie and empathy of all participants towards each other. One woman TI was escalating, but the group kept it under loving control.
It amazed me that we were not met even once with skepticism, incredulity or mockery by any onlookers who inquired around what it was all about!
The Collective Unconscious KNOWS !
Up to us now is to develop speaking engagements with colleges, progressive churches, social groups etc.
The Global Movement at street level is in full motion, and there'no stopping dat train !
I am interested in working on a People of Color Coalition, to grow that contingent in our poor neighborhoods, where trust and cultural norms are different from mainstream,
which has been extremely successful for
example in building grassroots Power against Police Excessive Force and
Racially biaed policing and the monitoring of ICE Raids, as well as taskforces against the local and State Budget Cuts.
Maybe also an LGBTQ contingent.
The spirit not being divide and conqueer by all means, but working within intimate circles of trust, in collaboration with larger, generic coalitions.
There's no Power Like the Power of the People kuz the Power of the People Don't Stop ! and yes, we should start working on chants, (no shouting....),
to be visible, ongoing presence, people on the streets recognizing our signs and joining our effort, like Code Pink, Global Exchange, Oct 22 Coalition, etc.
Chosing a color to always wear on rallies day, maybe Green for Healing ? Arm bands would also make us more recognizable.
TORONTO PROTESTTORONTO, CANADA
Dear All,
We have protested in front of the Legislative Assembly Building and
near the Medical Science Building of the University of Toronto today.
We started at 10.30 A.M. There were 5 people in front of the
Legislative Assembly: Robin Yan, Regan Hallett, Carlo Calandra, Mark
Holden and I, Galina Kurdina. People approached us and we distributed
about 10 fliers. One woman came to us and started a scandal. She
offered us to hire people, pay them and ask to hold our posters on
streets of Toronto. She suggested us not to appear ourselves on the
streets. She persuaded us that we had to put some soft information on
our posters, not the truth that we experienced and described. When
asked, what soft things she would advice to write on our posters, she
did not answer. She asked Robin, what was the reason of his targeting.
It was clear for all of us that she worked for police, or RCMP or
Government. Robin took his camera and wanted to take pictures of her,
and she immedieately disappeared. I kinldly ask you not to talk to such
people, not to waste your time and strengths. Even if you have the best
proofs in the world, these people will spead lies about you, because
they are paid for it.
We
left Legislative Building about 1.30 P.M. Robin, Regan and I went to
Tim Horton and had some coffee. After that we decided to go to any
street and came to Medical Science Building of University of Toronto.
Regan left us in 30 minutes, Robin and I stayed there for one hour. We
distributed our fliers very quickly, people approached us, read our
poster about mind control and took fliers. One student of UofT, sweet
boy, said to us that, in his opinion, these experiments were
disgusting, another person wished us to continue our struggle.
We made pictures and video records. I will send them to all of you, as soon as I get them. Sincerely,
Galina
AT THE OBAMA PROTESTTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
Judy and I went to the Obama protest last night at 5:00 P.M.
to 7:00 P.M. last night at Powell Street and Geary Street, with over
1000 people. I brought my huge sign, and Russell Tice FBI fliers, and
had many inquiries, and victims stopping to talk with us.
With the support of Judy, two reporters from cable channels
13, and 26, which may have been on T.V. last night at 10:00 P.M.
stopped to interview me. I was brief, but stated our plight.
Three interviews in two days, I like it!!
Best Wishes, Christine Harris
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Here is a list of cities and countries participating in this week of protests:
---CANADA--- TORONTO, ONTARIO - Protest Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Location: On the grounds in front of the Legislative Building Contact: Galina Kurdina - helenkurdin@yahoo.ca
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Protest Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 2:30 pm Location: in front of Chapters, 1212 Douglas Street, Victoria Tel: 250-591-5888
---INDIA--- Emailings Date: 12-17 Oct 2009 Location: No street protest. Contact: Vijay Karthic - vijayk_dsp@yahoo.com
---PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA--- Mass emailing Date: 14 Oct, 2009 Location: No street protest. Only Internet Mass emails and websites promotion Contact: Soleilmavis - soleilmavis@yahoo.com
---UNITED KINGDOM--- LONDON, ENGLAND - Protest Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 1 PM Location: In front of Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, London Contact: Winston Smith - winston_smith_will_win@yahoo.co.uk
---UNITED STATES--- WASHINGTON, D.C., USA - Protests Dates: 12-17 Oct 2009. October 14 will be the main event. Time: 10am-5pm Location: White House
Local Transportation: Metro stop - McPherson Housing:
Local volunteers will put up out-of-towners. Notes: Protesters must
keep moving if holding a sign. No boxes allowed on sidewalk. Must dress
respectively. Marc Burnell will participate definitely on the 14th all
day. May leave early on the other days. Contact: Marc Burnell - burnellmarc@yahoo.com, Cassandra Lewis - gardenlove1988@msn.com Tel: 202-528-2752, 410-532-6223
CINCINNATI, OHIO - Meeting Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 10:30 am Location: Main Library, Downtown Cincinnati 800 Vine Street Contact: Derrick Robinson - derrickrobinson@gmail.com Tel: 513-344-4113
LOS ANGELES, CA - Protest Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 8:00 am Location: On the corner of Westwood Blvd & Leconte, ACLU campus.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK Car Pool to Washington, DC Protest Date: 14 Oct. 2009 Note:
Denise is a limo driver who works in NYC. She's offering to drive NY
T.I.s to Washington, DC Contact: Denise Tel: 917-273-2200 c
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Pamphleting Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 4 pm Location: Southwest corner of 15th and Market Streets Contact: T. Josephine - xposperps@yahoo.com
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Protest Date: 14 Oct 2009 Time: 11 am to 2 pm Location:
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place (the "Victoria Garden", between Polk,
Grove, Mc Allister and Larkin streets, across the street from F CIty
Hall) Directions: MUNI Bus line: 49 Van Ness, or Civic Center BART
Station, then walk up one block on Grove to City Hall Notes: We are
protesting with a large group downtown, as Obama is going to be here
for a fundraiser, at 5:00 P.M. at the Westin St. Francis, Powell and
Geary Streets, San Francisco, CA We will get some media attention.Dress
and act respectfully and gracefully so we can gain respect.. Contact Person: Christine Harris - christinelynnharris@yahoo.com Tel: 415-235-6466 c
