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 [...]
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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 »
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 | 5 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 [...]
UCSB STANDS UP TO THE ZIONIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST FREE SPEACH AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM!
Posted in ADL, Calling out neo-liberalism, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Shoah, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So glad UCSB stood down the bully tactics of the Simon Wiesenthal Ctr, the ADL and Stand With Us. But the impact of this investigation can not be underestimated. The stress and trauma to Professor Robinson and the effect these campaigns have on education and public discourse is chilling. These are the new blacklists. support [...]
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 [...]
Counterpunch using Anti-Jewish Antipathy to Advocate an Anti-gay Anti-disability Agenda.
Posted in ADL, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Shoah, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Counterpunch article below claims that the Hate Crime Bill of 2009 will result in criminalizing speech that is (specifically?) critical of Israel, Jews, Christianity, or that questions the Holocaust. The article follows my commentary.
1. The hate crime legislature is quiet specific. It limits hate crimes to acts of violence, and simply extends the protections [...]
CONFERENCE “Afghanistan: Obama’s Iraq?”
Posted in Advisory Board, Afghanistan, Cafe Intifada Advisory Board, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, U.S. empire on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
INTERFAITH COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE CALL TO A CONFERENCE
“Afghanistan: Obama’s Iraq?”
Sunday, May 3rd – 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
University of Southern California Mark Taper Hall of Humanities -
3501 Trousdale Parkway
Keynote Speakers: Sonali Kolhatkar & Tom Hayden
Suggested Donation $25 – ($10 Low Income)
INFORMATION: icujp@pacbell.net – www.icujp.org – Phone: 213 626 [...]
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
On March 25, The Student Government [...]
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 | 4 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 have sex with their husbands [...]
On the U.S Mexican Border and the “Colonization” of the U.S. by Mexicans and Israel!!!!
Posted in Calling out neo-liberalism, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Iraq, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, The Americas, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Thought these links were interesting– a different connection between Amerikan racism and neo-liberal support for Israel.
These two articles come from rense.com, which seems to be positioned between the neo-liberal (realist school of foreign policy ), and the neo-Nazi camp. The position on palestine of the realists is essentially zionist, in that it differs from [...]
From la Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian Connections
Posted in Calling out neo-liberalism, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Latin America, Palestine, The Americas, U.S. empire on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
i often hear it stated (especially by neo-liberals such as findley, carter, weir, if americans knew, etc) that us. support for israel is against all u.s. values and is hurting the image of the u.s around the world; as if u.s. policy toward israel were so different than the policy that forged this nation, created [...]
