With 70 people reported injured in the attack on the flotilla, surely some of them will acquire permanent dis-abilities. will they be part of an inclusive movement, or will they be sidelined for the consequences of their bravery and sacrifice?Too often, activists with dis-abilities, are discarded or dismissed within the movement, EVEN when their dis-abilities [...]
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Could the newly dis-abled 70+ wounded activists of the Freedom Flotilla, attend your next event?
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Calling out the liberal left!, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Now who's the terrorist?, U.S. empire on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More Blacklisting Crap from the L.A. Liberal Left
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Calling out the liberal left!, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Racism on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(human rights as a menu, a cause du jour, something to think of when they get around to it. and they’ll throw in some non-seqitur race baiting to justify it all! but it’s not all bad. scroll down for the way it should be done!–posted to the sister blog- in bed with frida kahlo.) I [...]
Links for KPFK Listeners
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Art and Activism, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Disability Rights, Dissident Jewish Voices, Emma's Room, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Immigrant Rights, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Racism, Shifting Sands: Jewish American Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire, UTLA, Women's Lives, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For KPFK listeners, interested in more information: To buy the book: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/cafe-intifada-shoppe-available-now-shifting-sands-jewish-american-women-confront-the-israeli-occupation/ Information on the upcoming readings: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/¡cafe-intifada-events-and-activities/ for information on the blacklisting: http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/anatomy-of-a-blacklisting-a-thread-in-two-blogs/ Emma Rosenthal: http://home.earthlink.net/~emmarosenthal/ and http://emmarosenthal.wordpress.com/ In Bed With Frida Kahlo: http://inbedwithfridakahlo.wordpress.com/ Cindy Sheehan on line: http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/ http://peaceoftheaction.org/
Columbia University Stands Down Pressure to Silence Dissent and Quash Academic Freedom
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
when the zionist jewish establishment descended on the teachers union in los angeles, after years of monitoring our activities, attacking a class taught at the union hall by the afsc, and attacking a meeting hosted by the human rights committee of the union (utla) to discuss bds, and specifically calling on utla to disassociate from [...]
The Attack on Tenure and Teachers’ Job Security
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Disability Rights, Education, Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, this is what a police state looks like, UTLA on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A recent L.A. Weekly article “addressed” the “problem” of getting rid of “bad” teachers. (see link below) As someone who retired from LAUSD with disability retirement after trying to get the most minimal of accommodations for my dis-ability and facing incredible harassment for such a request; As someone who requested basic accommodations, found ways to [...]
Stand up for students rights, Stand down groups like “Stand with Us”!
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Art and Activism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Privatization, Racism, Shoah, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A Cafe Intifada response to demands made by Stand With Us* ______________________________________________ This week, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke as a guest of the UC Irvine Law School. Eleven students were arrested and may yet be EXPELLED because each uttered one sentence and then walking peacefully out of the hall. Zionist, right wing organization, “Stand [...]
Jstreet succumbs to the lobby it claims to replace!!!!
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Art and Activism, Building Community, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
when the human rights committee of united teachers los angeles agreed to host a meeting to discuss bds, we were attacked by the zionist establishment. most activists capitulated, and i was blacklisted when “jewish” organizations met with utla president duffy, demanding that he disassociate himself from my organization cafe intifada and me (a union member [...]
Anatomy of a Blacklisting: A Thread in Two Blogs
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Disability Rights, Dissident Jewish Voices, Don White, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 28, 2009 | 8 Comments »
For the last three years I have been documenting a series of events within United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), around disability rights, Palestinian rights, union democracy and blacklisting, which started as a strange power play within the Human Rights Committee apparently around disability rights, but in my estimation, may have merely been the utilization of [...]
Following the Thread: Anatomy of a Blacklisting
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Needs Link, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those following; Anatomy of a Blacklisting, a thread in two blogs, return to my other blog, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, and follow the thread, starting where you left off. It’s not perfect chronological order, though if you wanted to you could take the time to follow both blogs that way. I think you’ll get [...]
Pro-Israel lobby steps up pressure at UC-Santa Barbara
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please note the similarity of tactics and parties, here as with the situation within UTLA, the methodologies employed, rhetoric etc. to stifle debate, intimidate, limit academic (and union) freedom and free speech, to isolate dissident Jewish voices, and control the narrative in respect to Israeli policies, actions and history. When a concession is made in [...]
