Navalny's supporters call for civil disobedience against Ukraine war

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

Feb 28 (Reuters) - The movement of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on Monday for a campaign of civil disobedience to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"Putin declared war on Ukraine and is trying to make everyone think that Ukraine was attacked by Russia, that is, by all of us. But that's not right," the Navalny team wrote on its Twitter account.

"We must show that we do not support the war. We call on Russians to show civil disobedience. Do not be silent."

Navalny, the most prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was jailed last year when he returned to Russia from Germany after recovering from what Western laboratory tests established was an attempt to poison him with a nerve agent in Siberia. Russia denied carrying out such an attack.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/navalnys-supporters-call-civil-disobedience-against-ukraine-war-2022-02-28/

[Budi]

1. Thanks. He was just given 15 more years in RU prison.

Putin declared war on Ukraine and is trying to make everyone think that Ukraine was attacked by Russia, that is, by all of us. But that's not right," the Navalny team wrote on its Twitter account.

"We must show that we do not support the war. We call on Russians to show civil disobedience. Do not be silent."


This uprising must happen from Russia's own people.
Navalny would be proud.
Now the world must demand the same & call for his release.

[L. Coyote]

2. Belarus, loading the killed and wounded onto a special train back to Russia.

This is not going to play well back in mother russia.

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[Budi]

3. Do watch "Navalny" the documentary

https://www.sundance.org/blogs/festival-blog/navalny-introduces-the-world-to-alexei-navalny/
January 26, 2022
10:06 am
“NAVALNY” INTRODUCES THE WORLD TO ALEXEI NAVALNY


SNIP
Pevchikh’s desire for everyone to see Navalny isn’t just for camaraderie, though: “Alexei is in prison and he’s been there for a year. We now need to assemble everyone’s attention [to force his release].” When asked what he wanted his doc to accomplish — the best case scenario — Roher reiterates Pevchikh’s point: “I want every single human being on the planet earth to know the name Alexei Navalny, and I want that name to be to be associated with a grotesque injustice being perpetrated by the Russian state against a man who survived a murder attempt and then was arrested for merely surviving.”

Roher’s voice gets stronger as he sits next to Dasha, in the digital presence of his team: “I want there to be a global outrage and outcry and I want people to stop doing business with the Russians and I want reasonable expectations for Navalny’s release.” Roher takes a breath and collects himself. “I know that those are lofty expectations, but when you spend enough time in the Navalny-sphere you learn to dream big and have big expectations for your work.” Now we all are within that sphere, and there’s no turning back.

From Variety:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2022/film/reviews/navalny-review-alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-1235163437/amp/

January 25, 2022 6:43pm PT
‘Navalny’ Review:
A Must-See Documentary About the Anti-Putin Freedom Fighter Who Has Become the Conscience of Russia
It tells the stirring and riveting-as-a-thriller story of Alexei Navalny: his poisoning, his challenge to Vladimir Putin, his fearless role as Russia's opposition leader.

Find it & watch it.

[Budi]

4. 1 month ago Navalny urged Biden to "stand up to Putin"

From TIME letter correspondence. Jan 2022

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/6140114/alexei-navalny-interview/%3famp=true

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In an exchange of letters with TIME over the last few months from Russia’s Penal Colony No. 2, he shared his thoughts about prison life, the future of the opposition movement, and the recent diplomatic standoff between the U.S. and Russia.
Below are portions of his letters, responding to questions from a TIME journalist. They have been edited for clarity.

TIME: How are you? What are the conditions like for you in prison?
A prison inside a prison. I think that’s the most precise description of my reality. In my unit there are 13 men. Only one out of all of them is allowed to speak with me. The rest can only communicate in single words. Yes, no. Mostly they all stay silent, not wanting to let the wrong word slip. Video cameras are everywhere, plus the guards never under any circumstances talk to me unless it is video recorded.

The windows in my barracks are covered over. Literally. With white paper. It lets the light through, but nothing at all is visible through it. It’s the only barrack with covered windows, and everyone understands that it’s to stop me from seeing what happens outside. Sometimes I get the sense I’m living inside a shoebox.

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[TeamProg]

5. K&R Thanks for posting. n/t

[TomWilm]

6. Amnesty International condemned Navalny's hate speech

Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status. Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience". A second notorious video from the early 2000s shows Navalny dressed as a dentist, interspersed with images of immigrant workers, calling for the removal of "everything that bothers us", like rotten teeth.

"Navalny has not publicly denounced his YouTube videos," Amnesty's Alexander Artemev explained, though clearly uncomfortable with the decision and its implications. "He cannot be a prisoner of conscience: that is someone who never advocates hate or violence or uses hate speech," Mr Artemev argued, adding that Nelson Mandela had also been stripped of the status in the 1960s after advocating the use of force against the apartheid regime in South Africa

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084