Navalny's Wife Will Continue to Fight For The Russian Constitution; Americans Must Find the Will to Defend Ours
"It is not shameful to do little, it is shameful to do nothing."
By Denise Rivette
Yulia Navalnaya, Alexi Novalny’s widow, has vowed to carry on her husband’s fight for the Russian Constitution and asks us all to join her in the continual fight for freedom (see video below). As the Russian situation shows, constitutions are just pieces of paper unless the citizenry actively defends them every day.
It might surprise you to know that the Russian Federation has a constitution that guarantees the following:
Fundamental human rights and freedoms are inalienable and shall be enjoyed by everyone since the day of birth.
Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to assemble peacefully, without weapons, hold rallies, meetings and demonstrations, marches and pickets.
Man and woman shall enjoy equal rights and freedoms and have equal possibilities to exercise them. (The United States has yet to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment to our Constitution)
Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of ideas and speech.
The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be banned.
Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of conscience, the freedom of religion, including the right to profess individually or together with other any religion or to profess no religion at all, to freely choose, possess and disseminate religious and other views and act according to them.
Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to participate in managing state affairs both directly and through their representatives.
Everyone shall be guaranteed social security at the expense of the State in old age, in case of an illness, disableness, loss of the bread-winner, for upbringing of children and in other cases established by law.
Everyone shall have the right to favourable environment, reliable information about its state and for a restitution of damage inflicted on his health and property by ecological transgressions.
Yulia Navalnaya’s video message to the world:
What can you do? Here are a few things: Defend the rights of others as vigorously as you defend your own. Speak up when you see or hear violations of the U.S. Constitution. And, most importantly, stay informed and vote.
