David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

Here is my cartoon in response to the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo , being attacked by fanatics. Terrorists do their shit to frighten people. The opposite is happening with the resolve to protect free speech being demonstrated by people around the world. These cowardly terrorist murderers have been shouted down. #JeSuisCharlie

  " Green " has a very specific meaning now: Iranian people named "Protesters" are now the symbol of freedom, bravery, and liberation. They chose "Green" as their symbol. The subject for this exhibition are these people. The people who are going to be the most brave people of 2009. You can send your cartoons on this theme. There is no money prize, no Trophy and party but we will organize an exhibition of selected cartoons in Paris. Your prize will be proud of involvement of the Iranian Green Movement. Regulations: Participating in this exhibition is free Any cartoonist without consideration to age, nationality and religion can participate in this exhibition The technique of cartoons is free  Each participant can send up to 5 entries  Size limitation is minimum A4 and maximum A3.  Digital (scanned) cartoons should be actual size and the resolution should be at least 300 DPI. These kind of entries sh...

Renowned cartoonist Hadi Heidari who contributes to several reformist newspapers and heads the website Persian Cartoon was arrested in the capital Tehran on the evening of October 22. He was among several people arrested while taking part in a religious ceremony in honour of political prisoners, held at the home of Shehaboldin Tabatabai, one of the prisoners close to the reformist party, Participation. Some of them were released the following day but around a dozen others, including Heidari, were moved to Evin prison. Heidari was cultural editor of the banned daily Etemad-e Melli. The editor of the newspaper, Mohammad Ghochani, a member of its editorial staff, Fayaz Zahed, and website editor, Mohammad Davari, are all still in prison. A gallery of cartoons in support of Hadi can be found on Toonpool . There is also a Facebook support group. Technorati Tags: Heidari , arrest , political prisoner , Iran , cartoonist , Green Revolution , Hadi Heidari , FECO , Participation ,...

  A message from Firuz Kutal in Norway, Dear colleagues, I send you a portrait that I did. Usually we do portraits of either celebrities or people who are known by us in a context. The person I did a portrait of is not a famous person. He is a kind of insubordinate and remonstrant. His name is Cem Yilmaz and works nowadays as a music producer. He will be known from now on as a person who did a very interesting protest against the military coup d'etat which took place in Turkey in 1980. After the military came to power he was arrested and tortured for three years. One of the torture methods used against him and others was to force political prisoners to listen to a song named ''Turkiyem'' (My country Turkey) from loudspeaker while they were either under torture or they were in their room. After he released later, in 1993 he decided to establish a music production company and searched for the copyright owner of the song he heard...

Right-Wingers accuse the Obama health care reform as being Fascist. Phony grass roots organizations are packing town hall meetings to drown out questions or debate. They are not interested in working to fix a health care system that is a disaster. They are trying to maintain the status quo. They are shills for the insurance industry who are spreading lies and misinformation about the health care proposals to frighten those who refuse to obtain correct information on their own and prefer to be lead by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and other professional loud mouths. Technorati Tags: health care , Obama , Rush Limbaugh , Glenn Beck , protests , tea-baggers , health care reform , fascist del.icio.us Tags: health care , Obama , Rush Limbaugh , Glenn Beck , protests , tea-baggers , health care reform , fascist

Weapon Of Terrorism by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART See full article on story.

Published on Friday, July 18, 2008 by Inter Press Service by Sanjay Suri / Mel Frykberg LONDON - Medical reports seen by IPS appear to confirm the testimony of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer of physical abuse at the hands of Israelis last month.0718 04 1 Omer said he was physically and mentally abused at the Allenby crossing into Gaza while on his way back from a European tour. In London, he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn prize for investigative reporting.Omer left for Europe through an agreement secured by Dutch diplomats to escort him in and out of Gaza. The abuse was reported Jun. 26 as Omer was searched at the crossing in Israeli custody while a Dutch diplomat waited outside. According to Omer’s testimony, he was forced to strip by an Israeli officer wearing a police uniform. He was pinned down on the floor with a boot on the neck. He says he collapsed during interrogation, and when he came round his eyelids were being forcibly opened. He was then dragged along ...

This is a special appeal to sign the following Petition addressed to Condoleezza Rice. It will be presented to her early tomorrow….. Petition to End Israel’s Restrictions on Freedom of Movement and the Press To: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 We, the undersigned, condemn Israel’s appalling treatment of Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Gaza correspondent and author of the magazine’s regular feature, “Gaza on the Ground.” The 24-year-old Palestinian journalist was brutally assaulted by Israeli Shin Bet security officials at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on his way home to Gaza on June 26. He had just received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, which he shared with independent American journalist Dahr Jamail. Omer’s award citation reads, “Every day, he reports from a war zone, where he is also ...

Originally posted by my good friend in Israel, Desert Peace . Make a point of reading his site daily! UPDATE from IPS NEWS… just published. My dear friend and brother Mohammed Omer returned to his native Gaza Strip on Thursday… literally unconscious and unable to speak after being beaten and tortured by Israeli troops. He is still unable to speak so I was not able to communicate with him, I will be posting updates on his condition in future posts. Mohammed was in Britain, where he was the recipient of a prize for journalism. You can read about it HERE in a post I wrote earlier in the week. Mohammed’s ordeal is written about in an Action Alert issued by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs , a journal in which he appears regularly. Gaza Correspondent Mohammed Omer Home Again in Rafah At a June 16 ceremony in London, Mohammed Omer, author of the regular Washington Report feature “Gaza on the Ground,” received the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Pri...

"Now we have nothing left" Report, PCHR, 28 May 2008 Nasser Jaber ( PCHR ) "They came at four in the morning with two bulldozers, and they left before 8:00am. I own this chicken farm with my three brothers, and we worked day and night for 18 years to build up our business. The Israelis destroyed everything in less than four hours." Nasser Jaber's chicken farm was bulldozed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) 10 days ago, in the early morning hours of 16 May, while he was sleeping at home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. He still looks stunned. Wearily, he guides us round the ruins of his 18-year business. "This was a lifetime project for me and my brothers" he says as we clamber over rubble, wire, shattered sheets of metal and thousands of putrefying chickens. "I have never belonged to any political faction, and I have never been to jail. I don't know why they did this." The farm workers who are starting to clear some of th...

By Bill Van Auken 23 May 2008 Originally published on the World Socialist Web Site The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports. The World Socialist Web Site , together with human rights groups and other opponents of US militarism and repression, has long insisted that the actions of the Bush administration—the launching of wars of aggression, assassinations, the abduction and detention of civilians without trial and, most repugnant of all, torture—constitute war crimes under any legitimate interpretation of longstanding international statutes and treaties. To have this assessment confirmed, however, by the IG of the Justice Department, the only senior official there not ans...

Sign the " Condi Must Go " petition. I have doubts anyone will ever do anything about the crimes the Bush administration has been involved with. This is a sad state of affairs for the USA. How many more blatant lies must we be told to our faces to put an end to this abomination of a government. Thomas Jefferson was so god damned right when he stated: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." -- Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of...

Much is being made about various statements the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has made in past sermons. The noisemakers are squawking because of the Reverend's relationship with Barack Obama. You know, the usual attacks using guilt by association. Obviously, if some one Obama knows makes "controversial" statements, he may as well have done it as well. I listened to Wright's messages as broadcast on the news and, truthfully, didn't find anything he said untrue. Just because white America chooses to bury it's collective head up it's ass, does not make those statements any less true. A sermon on the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Wright preached that the United States brought the attacks itself. "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said. "We have supported state terror...

From My Cartoons Representative Dennis Kucinich from Ohio, USA, candidate for US President in the Democratic Party, has been consistently barred from participating in the corporate media controlled televised presidential debates. Corporate America seems intent of silencing the only Democratic candidate who opposes the Iraq War, the Bush doctrine of preemptive war and has authored a motion to impeach Vice-President Cheney. He is also the only Democrat to plan on immediate withdrawal from Iraq if he is elected. Big Oil will not allow this to happen. Print Available on DeviantArt and Zazzle

Author: Joelle Fishman, Rosalío Muñoz and Emile Schepers People's Weekly World Newspaper, 01/17/08    A look behind the anti-immigrant furor In the buildup to the 2008 elections, the right-wing Republicans have decided to make immigrants the scapegoat for the failure of the Bush administration and the shortcomings of the capitalist system. Right-wing personalities on cable TV, on talk radio and in newspapers are fueling this process. Vicious lies are being told about immigrants. The questions and answers here are designed to provide you with accurate information about the impact of immigrant workers and their families, with or without papers, on the United States today.   Why are so many immigrants coming to the United States? • Working people in Mexico and other poor countries have been devastated by the practices of U.S. and other international corporations. So-called free trade pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are imposed with conditions ...

Come on Dennis! If they shut you out of the Democratic primaries, it is time for you to ditch that dinosaur party and found a new Progressive Democrats Of America party. Let the Centrists have the mess they've made. Let them carry the banner of the jackass! Don't keep supporting a party that doesn't want you.

The Senate will vote this week (as early as Tuesday) on two critical measures: The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act and the Peru Free Trade Agreement . Already passed in the House, both bills will be taken up in the Senate this week and both issues need your attention. Read more below and use the links to take action!   STOP the Police State Bill   The Senate is about to vote to criminalize thought and shred the first amendment, unless we stop them .   This flawed and dangerous legislation , T he Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, HR 1955 , introduced by Rep. Jane Harman , was passed on October 23, 2007 , with only four Democrats and two Republicans voting against it. The companion bill in the Senate, S. 1959, will be voted on soon, as early as Tuesday.   Why do we need this bill? We already have laws that allow the police to arrest perpetrators of violent crimes. Could the real purpose of Harman's bill be to create a ...

    Notice how the Capital Hill Gestapo hauls out the rest of Code Pink after the initial incident. I guess the committee didn't want their pleasant little social gathering to be disrupted by trivial things like the Iraq War.  

Published on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 by The Hill by Karissa Marcum An Iraq war protester who got within inches of Condoleezza Rice at a hearing last week said she was shocked that tighter security did not prevent her from coming so close to the secretary of state.   If there had been more security at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, protester Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz said, she probably wouldn’t have approached Rice. “I anticipated that she would have been surrounded by SS [Secret Service] or by private security,” she said.   Photos from the hearing show Ali-Fairooz sticking her hands, which had been soaked in fake blood, in the face of a startled Rice. She then screamed that the blood “of millions of Iraqis” was on the hands of the administration.   Ali-Fairooz, a member of Code Pink who has been arrested four times in the last seven months, was charged with disorderly conduct, defacing of government property and assault on a federal officer. ...