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 [...]
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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 »
¡Don White Presente! images from the memorial
Posted in Building Community, Don White, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Obituary on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“”An activist I believe has to be one who moves away from narrow single issue focus and links up with other people in a larger struggle. Th challenge to poor people, working people, immigrant people, people of color, the challenge against youth, the challenge against gays and lesbians, is not a single issue any more [...]
Don White Presente!
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Don White, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Obituary, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Evening to Celebrate the Life of Our
Compañero Don White
PRESENT
Sunday, August 10th
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90010
(Corner of Berendo Street, 2 blocks west of Vermont Avenue)
SPEAKERS and [...]
Compañero Don White Film Tribute
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Don White, Human Rights, Obituary, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Compañero!
Don White Film Tribute
Don’s contribution to the Human Rights Movement was so far reaching that we are creating a 10-minute film called
COMPANERO!
For Don’s August 10th Memorial we’re collecting visuals of Don from everyone, editing footage,
and adding Spanish subtitles.
Could you please donate to the budget for his film?
[...]
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 to our military free schools list [...]
Emergency Human Rights Committee Meeting and the Chronology to a Decision
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Don White, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Privatization, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Not at this time. Not in this place.” AJ Duffy, regarding the discussion of Palestinian Human Rights. 10/13/06
Duffy called an emergency Human Rights Committee meeting, for October 13. Before the meeting, several activists, including Human Rights Committee member, David Rapkin, and founding Committee member and UTLA Charter member, Don White, were turned away and told [...]
