February 24, 2010
Posted by yaman
Representatives of UCSD’s Black Student Union direct students to walk out of the campus teach in on Wednesday.
Students at UCSD protest administration inaction by walking out of a chancellor-sponsored teach-in after excoriating the institution.
Source: www.nbcsandiego.com
February 23, 2010
Posted by yaman
If calls for the deliberate starvation of a blockaded refugee population, in front of an audience made up substantially of Israeli military and political officials responsible for the siege of Gaza, does not cross any line, the Weatherhead Center has yet to provide any indication of what forms of ex…
m-f-r, how dare you call a [...]
February 22, 2010
Posted by yaman
Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian children born in the Gaza Strip should be deliberately curbed, and alleged that this would “happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies to Palestinians with refugee status.” Due to the Israeli blockade, the vast majority of Palestinian…
Sick, sick, sick.
Source: electronicintifada.net
U.S. Special Operations Forces ordered an airstrike that killed at least 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan and the soldiers may not have satisfied rules of engagement designed to avoid the killing of innocents, Afghan and coalition officials said.
How many more times is this going to happen before we stop this fanatical war.
Source: online.wsj.com
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When a man fueled by rage against the U.S. government and its tax code crashes his airplane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service, is it a criminal act or an act of terrorism?.
There’s that word again.
Source: www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2010
Posted by yaman
The Prefect wrote in a report uncovered by Le Nouvel Observateur magazine: ‘Despite the fact that the information on Monsieur Mallah is favourable I have decided to reject his and his wife’s requests because of his lack of serious degree qualifications’.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
February 20, 2010
Posted by yaman
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated.
If the students are doing nothing wrong, why are they so afraid of teachers watching them wherever they go and no [...]
February 16, 2010
Posted by yaman
On Thursday, January 21, 2010, General David Petraeus addressed Georgetown students and faculty in Gaston Hall. Approximately 10 student protestors gathered …
General Petraeus meets the ghosts of his victims at Georgetown.
Source: www.youtube.com
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What ties together all these strategies is that they are aimed at frustrating, delaying and distracting attention from the fundamental issue: that Israel — despite its claims to be a liberal and democratic state — is an ultranationalist ethnocracy that relies on the violent suppression of the most…
“At the very least, Reut seems to be [...]
A request for a state audit of the University of California will be filed Wednesday in response to alleged financial mismanagement by the university administration.
UC Regents: Making money off your money.
Source: www.dailycal.org
Ibrahim Shikaki, a Visiting Scholar from Palestine, spoke in favor of the bill although he did not feel that it was written from the Palestinian perspective. Shikaki explained that “If this were a Palestinian bill it would have mentioned my grandfather’s land that was stolen from him, or my friend w…
Source: electronicintifada.net
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Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17
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For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC…
Congratulations everyone!!
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The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.
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OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.
Police the police.
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Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
(Discussion)Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…
Source: occupyca.wordpress.com
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