Elana Golden serves on the Advisory Board of Cafe Intifada. ——– Original Message ——– Subject: Letter to the Israeli Philharmonic asking to denounce the Occupation Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:56:53 -0700 From: Elana Golden To: emmarosenthal@earthlink.net References: Dear friends against the Israeli Occupation, Following is a letter to the Israeli Philharmonic, initiated by Women [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Letter to the Israeli Philharmonic asking to denounce the Occupation
Posted in Art and Activism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Obituary and Memorial
Posted in Human Rights, Obituary on October 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Alfred M. Loeb, Presente December, 10 1926 – October 25, 2006 In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to Sojourner House in Rochester N.Y. http://www.sojournerhouse.org/contr.html My father died this morning. He had been on a respirator for several days and decided to be taken off the machine. He and I [...]
Letter from the American Jewish Congress to Patrick (!?) Duffy.
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Palestine, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Monday October 9th, 2006 Mr. Patrick Duffy, President United Teachers Los Angeles 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90010 Dear Mr. Duffy, The American Jewish Committee wishes to thank you for prohibiting the Human Rights Committee (HRC) of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) from meeting on October 14th at UTLA headquarters to discuss divestment [...]
Jewish Journal: Anti-Israel UTLA committee gets sent to the corner for a time out
Posted in ADL, Advisory Board, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Cafe Intifada Advisory Board, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Commentary: “Going forward, he said he (UTLA President Duffy) would personally review committee requests for meetings at UTLA headquarters. If proposed gatherings are inconsistent with the union’s official political position, Duffy said, he could exercise “emergency powers” and deny usage. ” So, only meetings that adhere to the party, er uh, I mean, union [...]
The Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech: Corporate Funded Privatized Espionage
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Cafe Intifada Advisory Board, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Palestine, Privatization, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Large NGO’s and the Campaign Against Human Rights Activists What is at stake in UTLA’s capitulation to Zionist pressure to close a meeting and shut down a committee? (For the full history of UTLA’s decision, and the events leading up to it go to: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/anatomy-of-a-blacklisting-a-thread-in-two-blogs/ ) According to an article printed in the Jewish Journal,* [...]
CAMS Distortions and Rationalizations
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Disability Rights, Dissident Jewish Voices, Don White, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Military Recruitment, Palestine, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What follows are two statements from the General Coordinator (initials A.I.) of CAMS, sent to two different lists, two days apart. Please Note the contradictions. (CAMS statement in green. CAFE Intifada commentary in black.) CAMS statement to the CAMS list. Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:02:15 Dear CAMS, Since Michael Novick * posted [...]
CAMS Capitulation to Zionist Pressure
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
While perhaps this was intended as a “private” communication between CAMS’ Media Director and the HRC Webmaster, Emma Rosenthal; Emma, under the strong belief that this decision impacts the group as a whole, and that they should be informed, posts it to the HRC listserve. The names of individuals have been replaced with their initials. [...]
Jewish Journal: UTLA quashes Israel divestment push
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Palestine, Stand With Us, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
October 12, 2006 UTLA quashes Israel divestment push BY MARC BALLON http://www.jewishjournal.com/ community_briefs/article/utla_quashes_israel_divestment_push_20061013/ UTLA’s A. J. Duffy Under a tidal wave of pressure from the local Jewish community, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) decided to deny use of its headquarters to the UTLA Human Rights Committee. The committee planned to discuss economic sanctions against [...]
Duffy’s Two Letters and a Statement:
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Dialectics of a change in policy Progressive Politics and Labor Democracy Or Q: When is free speech NOT free speech? A: When it threatens the leadership of the Union. Cafe Intifada has place in bold and italics, those portions of Duffy’s statements that CI wishes to highlight. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Letter 1: The HRC web page [...]
THREE LETTERS STEVE SEAL: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out the liberal left!, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Privatization, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 15, 2006 | 2 Comments »
1. Steve Seal’s OFFICIAL public statement, posted to the UTLA web page, regarding the controversy at UTLA- October 11, 2006. 2. Steve Seal’s email to the Human Rights Committee internal list serve, posted on October 6, 2006. 3. The original email Steve Seal sent to the list serve on September 14, 2006, along with SDS/MDS’s [...]
