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Short Animated Film by Formerly Detained Palestinian Child
Posted in Art and Activism, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Prison Industrial Complex, Racism, The war against the children, this is what a police state looks like, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Children of Gaza’s art work
Posted in Art and Activism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Racism, The war against the children, this is what a police state looks like, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
we wonder if any educators in l.a. would be interested in organizing an exhibit of the art work of the children of gaza? maybe hosted by utla? human rights committee? progressive educators? the iso or solidarity? the jewish labor committee? coalition against (oops, my bad, they changed their name) for alternatives to militarism in the [...]
Lawsuit Filed by Principal Fired From Arabic School Is Dismissed
Posted in Education, Human Rights, Palestine, Something about intifada- What's in a name?, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on September 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Cafe Intifada Commentary: This article is part of a new thread on this blog: Something about intifada- What’s in a name? It is an examination of the contextual aspect of language, the war against language in the context of imperialism, colonialism and oppression, and the demonization of a language, a culture and a people. Intifada [...]
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 [...]
UCSB: Professor’s comparison of Israelis to Nazis stirs furor
Posted in ADL, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Offense Forces, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, This is what genocide looks like, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-professor30-2009apr30,0,7753995.story From the Los Angeles Times Professor’s comparison of Israelis to Nazis stirs furor The UC Santa Barbara sociologist, who is Jewish, sent images from the Holocaust and from Israel’s Gaza offensive to students in his class. He has drawn denunciation and support. By Duke Helfand April 30, 2009 Controversy has erupted at UC Santa [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
