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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/

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Letters to UTLA Re the BDS Meeting After the death threats, Andy and I decided to take Duffy up on his offer to view the letters received.  We went  to the Communications Office and requested the file.  After a short wait, while staff got permission from Duffy to let us see the documents he had [...]

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Large NGO’s and the Campaign Against Human Rights Activists What is at stake in UTLA’s capitulation to Zionist pressure to close a meeting and shut down a committee? (For the full history  of UTLA’s decision, and the events leading up to it go to:  http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/anatomy-of-a-blacklisting-a-thread-in-two-blogs/  ) According to an article printed in the Jewish Journal,* [...]

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October 12, 2006   UTLA quashes Israel divestment push   BY MARC BALLON http://www.jewishjournal.com/ community_briefs/article/utla_quashes_israel_divestment_push_20061013/ UTLA’s A. J. Duffy Under a tidal wave of pressure from the local Jewish community, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) decided to deny use of its headquarters to the UTLA Human Rights Committee. The committee planned to discuss economic sanctions against [...]

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