So this is just our introductory slide, helping people practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively. Militia came in and said, you know, we're going to kill you, get out of here,
And yet, number one domestic terror threat. Not militia movements, white power movements, anti-abortion folks-- people who kill people, people who try to kill people-- but puppy huggers and tree huggers. And there was also, shortly after that, the passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, or AETA, which is a piece of pernicious post-911 legislation
sub-saharan Africa rebel warlords have looted minerals and diamonds and smuggle them in order to fund our militia groups plunging their countries into war and chaos other economic gangsters are Asian dictators who build networks of crony capitalism
murder, ones to do with torture. I mean essentially he was an enforcer for the Assad regime. He was someone who would gather militias to fight on behalf of President Assad eastern Gouta which is on the outskirts of Damascus which is still an utterly devastated area. I visited it not long ago. Nothing has been done to rebuild it since its destruction essentially during one of
imagine and all of that serves to destroy the community and break up the family and absolutely destroy the infrastructure of the community so that people then flee and then the militias take over the mines. So all of us are a part of this same global story and I've spent a lot of time there in the last few years. I've been there a lot and we're doing a huge campaign which I'll
The current director of National Intelligence who issued her threat assessment, Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who issued her threat assessment in February, It was a Shiite militia backed by Iran that sort of proto Hezbollah that did that attack, that killed those marines.
others have are reportedly in uh police custody because of what the government terms as uh uh aspects of a militia training and also high-grade uh military equipment, which they allege was uh found at uh the venue of the opposition leader. And also
And what happens when you have no employment? You join a militia group because they are the only employer-- so again, the laws of unintended consequences. What we really need is sectoral reform.
So they called in the local militia to protect the prison, the jail. So the militia surrounded the jail. And the mob came back.
congress on july four 1861 during that period lincoln summoned the militia increased the army and navy beyond authorized levels i called out volunteers for three years of service
I mean, this is a company that infiltrated animal welfare groups, that spent $10s of millions to defend its use of elephants. principally by militias and terrorist groups that are financing their terrorism by slaughtering elephants and selling the ivory.
Nobody elected them. And as a result of this, there has been chaos in Ukraine-- throughout the countries. And right-winged militias have roamed the streets and been allowed to, kind of, patrol and bring order. In Crimea, where there's a majority ethnic Russian population, these people-- terrified of both the fascists and the prospect of future discrimination because
there's a whole, been books written about the Toledo war. We actually sent Michigan Militiamen down there. They sent up Ohio Militiamen and there would actually be skirmishes in the Toledo Strip. And at the time there wasn't much there.
In the meantime, the mayor got together with the sheriff and said, we need to do something to keep these people out. So they called in the local militia to protect the prison, the jail. So the militia surrounded the jail.
jobbing at the time. He failed to call out the militia in time to repel Benedict Arnold and General Cornwallis.
He was then the first Secretary of State. It's besieged by South Carolina militia .
these police forces the the militia the militia infested National
and so if a Shiite militia man got in he wasn't going to get out if he killed anybody this was actually very effective
Then he had to go to the colonel of the militia that was in the area at the time.
Then he had to go to the colonel of the militia that was in the area at the time.
I'm just a member of the Oscar Mike militia , the rugby team.
four members of a self-described student women's militia hurled buckets of fresh animal blood on army recruiters while chanting slogans of protest
She is a young teenager who is a militia leader, of course, and really, really loves books and hates librarians.
They did an incredible job convincing us that they were government militia men.
When the mob came back, they were larger, they were more menacing, and they were trying to attack the jail. Something happened, and the militia fired on the crowd. And they killed nine people.
But they're far from most of it. And the interim government is trying to get control over the militia 's. And they've taken legal action.
And the people around him are in charge of the local militias , where they have gathered together the local population to protect the city.
He's an extraordinary human being and he's devoted his life to saving women who are being raped and tortured in the war. He's sewing up women's vaginas as fast the militias are ripping them apart and at any given time, there are 300 women in Panzi Hospital. Most of them have fistula which is a hole between your vagina and your rectum, or your vagina and your bladder, and a lot of these women have fistula because so many things
How is the ongoing conflict between government forces in the DRC and various militia groups impacting the Ebola
So this is just our introductory slide, helping people practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively. And a couple of minutes later, the militia burst in-- AK-47s, axes, sharpened sticks.
with young people, when we have worked with teachers and other educators to make sure that they had access to education, could go back to school at an appropriate grade level-- because if you're 17 and you've been fighting with the militia group in eastern Congo and you're functionally illiterate, you don't want to go back to being in grade one with a bunch of six-year-olds.
loudspeakers blaring the chant of the jaish alaki MD Al s radical Shiite militia in Sunni neighborhoods that had
In Africa, the same kind of business is connected to militia and terrorist group.
I don't know exactly what they're going to do when ISIS is gone and different militia groups that they were allied with, including the Kurds,
So this is just our introductory slide, helping people practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively. So there's this flipping the script, right-- intense moment of confrontation-- and the militia turned around and left.
What we used to think of when we thought of the far right extremist movement-- we think of skinheads and Klan and militia .
And on the 7th, the Rwandan Armed Forces and the Interahamwe Militia started the systematic killing of Tutsi and moderate Hutus.
Certainly, it is true that kids who have almost nothing in environments where there is a tremendous amount of violence, where there is recruitment that's going on by various armed groups, militia groups-- in the case of the Congo, it's an inordinate number of people that are recruiting and abducting young people to fight in that conflict in a climate of absolute impunity.
It is readily smuggled across Congo's borders and ends up in international markets. It generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues and often use towards arms sales for various Congolese-backed military groups and militia groups operating in that unstable part of the world.
We were captured, we thought, by pro-government militia men.
And the trajectory of the novel basically follows him as he goes off to fight with an Afghan militia .
That first morning a guy named General Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of the Uzbek militia commanders that was renowned in that region, been actively fighting
And they've taken legal action. And, in fact, the police shot one of the militia leaders recently-- and under questionable or-- according to the police he shot himself twice in the chest, so-- while resisting arrest.
this tall and Douglass Houghton was about this tall -- they called Douglass Houghton a little doctor, he five foot four, so he's probably about this tall. Stevens T. Mason rounded up a militia of Michigan men, a Michigan Militia , and basically sent them down to protect the Toledo strip from Ohio marauders. And it's a fascinating concept, there's a whole, been books written about the Toledo war.
in which politics and violence are all on the same scale where you have political parties that have armed Wings where you have militias that have
It's essentially an economic war because the Congo is one of the richest in mineral countries in Africa and they have coltan which goes into our cell phones and our Playstations. And they have copper and tin and gold and so many of the Western countries use militias that get those minerals out of the mines and then they take them to the West. And we are all served in our luxurious items by those minerals but the way the militias get to take over villages is they use rape and they use sexual torture and they go into
And they have copper and tin and gold and so many of the Western countries use militias that get those minerals out of the mines and then they take them to the West. And we are all served in our luxurious items by those minerals but the way the militias get to take over villages is they use rape and they use sexual torture and they go into villages and they rape very little girls, six month old babies, eight year old girls, eighty year old women.
You know, and that's, once again, when I talk about like the-- what I was just saying about the rugby team and the militia ,
So this is just our introductory slide, helping people practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively. right now. And suddenly, that camp was attacked by a militia .
known, across into southern Lebanon, into Hezbollah, its financed and trained armed militia , which