Please forward this to ALL Students and Teachers, Youth Organizers Student and Youth meeting! STOP the ICE RAIDS!! Wednesday April 29, 2009 4:00PM Centro Cultural Francisco Villa 2100 Maple Ave. LA, CA 90011 (corner of 21st and Maple in front of Santee Education Complex) Students from the Southern California Immigration Coalition are calling for a [...]
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Student and Youth meeting! STOP the ICE RAIDS!!
Posted in Education, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Indigenous Rights, Latin America, The Americas, The war against the children, U.S. empire on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Reflection on “the Left” and my Arrest by Joaquin Cienfuegos
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Calling out the liberal left!, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Now who's the terrorist?, Prison Industrial Complex, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Emma’s Notes (Joaquin’s message to follow) One of the most important lessons of my early activism: when i was 16, working in the dc boycott house, which attracted a number of activists from a variety of tendencies, came from a veteran black panther, named paul (i forget his last name.) he left the house one [...]
Clark University Cancels Talk by Professor Norman Finkelstein
Posted in Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Palestine, Shoah, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clark drops Holocaust scholar Schedule conflict, controversy cited By Matt ByrneGlobe Correspondent / April 10, 2009 Clark University canceled a campus talk scheduled for later this month by controversial Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein, saying his presence “would invite controversy and not dialogue or understanding,” and would conflict with a similar event scheduled around the same time. The [...]
On Anti-Semitism, Boycotts, and the Case of Hermann Dierkes: An Open Letter from Jewish Peace ActivistsD
Posted in 18383280, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Letter in support of Hermann Dierkes, with the list of 371 signatures. Please help to ensure its wide circulation. Thanks to Roland Rance for collecting and collating the UK signatures On Anti-Semitism, Boycotts, and the Case of Hermann Dierkes: An Open Letter from Jewish Peace Activists We are peace activists of Jewish background. Some of [...]
Laila el Haddad and children, Denied Entry to Gaza, Held 36 hours, Deported to U.S.
Posted in Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Prison Industrial Complex, The war against the children, U.S. empire, Women's Lives on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“I am the only one here because I cannot go home- you are all being deported home, I am denied home” -Laila el Haddad Laila el Haddad’s Update from twitter.com/gazamom After 36 hours of being held at Cairo Airport, where she was repeatedly interrogated and given contradictory information as to what would happen, Laila el Haddad [...]
UMass students for divestment: a global approach
Posted in Afghanistan, Calling out neo-liberalism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Privatization, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Exciting times. I was a student at Hampshire College for two years, before transfering to UMASS and graduating in 1981. Those were the days fighting South African apartheid. Towards a Divestment Policy that Makes Global Connections University of Massachusetts/Amherst Calls for Divestiture of Companies that profit from War and Occupation Emma Rosenthal [...]
Supreme Court lets Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction stand
Posted in Death Penalty, Human Rights, Mumia, Prison Industrial Complex, U.S. empire on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There will be a book release/birthday party for Mumia and to free all political prisoners on Saturday, April 25, 5-7 pm at the Southern California Library for Social Studies, 6120 S Vermont, L.A. We must continue to mobilize for Mumia and all political prisoners, and against the death penalty. We will be showing “In Prison [...]
Trading Afghan Women’s Rights for Political Power
Posted in Advisory Board, Afghan Women's Mission, Afghanistan, Cafe Intifada Advisory Board, Calling out neo-liberalism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, U.S. empire, Women's Lives on April 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Sonali Kolhatkar serves on the Advisory Board of Cafe Intifada Published on Monday, April 6, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Trading Afghan Women’s Rights for Political Power New Afghan Law Comes as No Surprise: Women’s Rights Have Always Been Traded for Political Power by Sonali Kolhatkar The proposed new Afghan law requiring (among other things), women to [...]
