September 26, 2009
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In President Obama’s speech to the United Nations on September 23, 2009, he spoke of a “new direction.” Two years ago, four solitary nations voted against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, they were Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America. Th… Source: www.aimovement.org Share
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But one week before classes began, the school cancelled it. Why? Too many Arabs. That’s right. Only three Jews registered and the rest were Israeli Palestinians. Not wanting to develop a reputation for being in bed with Arab lovers, the entrepreneur who founded the school pulled the plug. It’s not racism… it’s just business. Source: [...]
September 25, 2009
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Interview with UC President Mark Yudof, who doesn’t seem to care much about the UC or public education in general. UC is not a cemetery, but if Yudof keeps running the place, it might be soon enough. Source: www.nytimes.com Share
September 24, 2009
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Students and faculty members demonstrate against plans to raise tuition fees and cut workers Source: www.guardian.co.uk Share
If the “peace process” is not driving events, then what is? Israeli colonization — as Obama initially understood — is the major factor determining the present and future of Palestine/Israel. Geographer and former Israeli deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Meron Benvenisti, has observed that Israel’s 1967 … Source: electronicintifada.net Share
We need to convene a constitutional convention and get serious about changes to the system. Until we do, we’re jeopardizing our ability to be competitive in the global economy. Preparing our children for success in the 21st century necessitates investment in higher education not cuts to it. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Share
September 23, 2009
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In much the same way that the United States drops “humanitarian relief” on the lands of Iraq and Afghanistan while also dropping murderous bombs, al-Abdullah is a “humanitarian” monarch. Contrary to the Arab student quoted in YDN, I do not think that Her Travesty is a “role model” for Arabs or for anyone else for [...]
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The report reveals how the police, the prosecutors, the General Security Service (GSS or the “Shabak”), the courts and even certain academic institutions acted to use arrest and imprisonment as quick and easy tools to suppress protests by opponents of the military aggression, crushing the rights of … “They who wish to hurt you, work [...]
The San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, Featuring the Best of the Bay and independent reporting on San Francisco Source: www.sfbg.com Share
September 22, 2009
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So things got medieval in Honduras today, as pretend coup president Roberto Micheletti decided to violently crack down on public demonstrations, place the entire country under house arrest, and cut off electricity, water & phone lines to the Brazilian embassy–an actual ACT OF WAR (maybe) designed t… Source: www.borev.net Share
Up to 52 civilians killed in Nato attack in Helmand, Afghan president’s office says.
How regrettable. How unfortunate. Bombs away!
(Discussion)While anti-Semitism means, rightly, social death, Islamophobia might get you a television spot, a column in a newspaper, or academic tenure.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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The 400 richest families in America, who saw their wealth increase by some $400 billion during the Bush years, have now accumulated $1.27 trillion in wealth. Four hundred families! During the last fifteen years, while these enormously rich people became much richer their effective tax rates were sla…
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A six-year archive of classified military documents to be made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.
Shoot, you don’t need secret documents to tell you that… but viva WikiLeaks either way.
(Discussion)Israeli parliament passes first of three readings illegalizing boycott activism or advocacy
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But what we’re seeing today is just the unleashing of a long-incubated racism, both institutional and incidental. It doesn’t emanate from the Jewish component of Israeli nationhood. It is informed by the Eurocentric cornerstones of the country: the belief, expressed by Israel’s founding fathers and …
(Discussion)More then twice as many Oscar Grant protestors came out to the Walnut Creek Courthouse to show that nowhere in the bay area will attempts to justify the murder of Oscar Grant go unquestioned. While about a hundred supporters of Johannes Mehserle and law enforcement attended the rally, their numbe…
Racists for Mehserle
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In the US, anti-miscegenation laws were on the books until 1967, when the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. That was the same year that Israel began its occupation of Sabbar Kashur’s home in East Jerusalem. Since then, Israelis have fine-tuned their own obsession with racial purity. Only…
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