[LAAMN] FW: Hitchens slams Falwell's life
GOOD ONE!!
Good to see Hitchens on the correct side of an issue again!
Rafi
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/16/hitchens-slams-falwells-life/
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[LAAMN] Rumsfeld's Resignation Letter Remains Elusive
I just read the following in truthout.org http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051607O.shtml Rumsfeld's Resignation Letter Remains Elusive In response to a November request, the Defense Department's Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) office said last month that a thorough search of the records systems ... revealed no records responsive to your request. Bush's office of administration, in response to another FOIA request, said this month that it, too, had no copy of Rumsfeld's resignation letter. Now I am asking myself; does this mean that the SOB was FIRED? Maybe so! Or maybe his Resignation Letter is a mater of National Security - Or maybe the dog ate it? With these guys, who knows! Recommended Resources http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ Ara [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Initial Warrantless Eavesdropping Program Deemed Illegal by the Justice Department
Initial Warrantless Eavesdropping Program Deemed Illegal by the Justice Department By Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa Taylor McClatchy Newspapers Tuesday 15 May 2007 Washington - The Bush administration ran its warrantless eavesdropping program without the Justice Department's approval for up to three weeks in 2004, nearly triggering a mass resignation of the nation's top law enforcement officials, the former No. 2 official disclosed Tuesday. In testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey said that those he believed were prepared to quit included then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller. Comey said then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card visited Ashcroft as he lay gravely ill in a hospital bed on March 10, 2004, and pressed him to re-certify the program's legality. Ashcroft refused. I was angry. I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very seriously sick man, who did not have the powers of the attorney general because they had been transferred to me, Comey recalled. I thought it was improper. Comey, who'd assumed Ashcroft's powers on an acting basis, had raced ahead of Gonzales and Card to the George Washington University Hospital, his car's emergency lights flashing, and dashed up the stairs to Ashcroft's room, trailed by his security detail. That night was probably the most difficult time of my professional life, Comey recalled. Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief counsel, David Addington, also challenged the Justice Department's stand on the legality of the program, which was intended to detect terrorist threats and would have expired on March 11, 2004, if Bush hadn't reauthorized it, he said. The revelations dealt a new blow to Gonzales' efforts to keep his job as Ashcroft's successor amid congressional and Justice Department investigations into whether he's politicized his agency with the pursuit of alleged voter fraud, the screening of job applicants based on their party affiliations, and the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, which Gonzales said Tuesday were overseen by Comey's successor, Paul McNulty. Comey's testimony also raised new questions about the administration's repeated assurances that the monitoring program has been conducted legally and that Americans' constitutional right to privacy has been fully respected. Read the Full Report Here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051607A.shtml Recommended Resources http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ Ara [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] FW: Feminist, Socialist, Devout Muslim: Woman Who Has Thrown Denmark into Turmoil
When I read the article bellow my mouth hung open with disbelief, and when I read about the right-wing and even the left-wing showing such shameful reaction to her announcement for parliamentary candidacy I felt sick. I just cannot believe our Christian paranoia. Can you? And I am trying hard to digest this in every logical way I can unsuccessfully. How is it I ask, that a every US Senator, and Political, or Presidential Candidate proclaims that they are devout Christians while having (Right, Left or Center leaning) political views and positions, and it is never questioned or feared in this paranoid fashion, and it never raises red flags for the Christian political establishments, but as soon as a Muslim does the same the entire Christian Political movement stands alert and is up in arms against it. Remember; that if Muslims have Khomeini, we have Falwell; if they have Ben Laden we have McVeigh; if they have Ahmadinejad, we have Bush. and If they have killed, so have we, in much greater numbers. I wander who should fear who? Oh, I forgot, that when Christians kill God's on their side. It reminds me of our racist past. To a time when a white man could kill and they would be absolved of the crime, but God forbid if a Blackman even in self defense, or accidentally killed a Whiteman. Back to the report; at least this lady Asmaa is progressive. Whether she chooses to be devoted to the practice of her religion should remain her private business. If the scarf that she chooses to wear is a representation of reactionary repression of women and an illiberal religious agenda Our Politicians are doing that in practice. So what's their problem with reactionary repression of women and an illiberal religious agenda? Ask Falwell, or Pat Robertson, or any of the dangerous and crazy Nazis of the Christian Right. If I was Danish, I'd vote for her, as she stands for every progressive political agenda that I and I am certain most of us do. My 2 Cents for you. Published on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 by the Guardian/UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2080360,00.html Feminist, Socialist, Devout Muslim: Woman Who Has Thrown Denmark into Turmoil by Ian Traynor ODENSE, DENMARK - In the land that launched the cartoons war between Islam and the west, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid finds herself on the frontline, gearing up for a new battle. The 25-year-old social worker, student and town councilor describes herself as a feminist, a democrat, and a socialist. She has gay friends, opposes the death penalty, supports abortion rights, and could not care less what goes on in other people's bedrooms. In short a tolerant Scandinavian and European. She is also a Palestinian and a devout Muslim who insists on wearing a headscarf, who refuses, on religious grounds, to shake hands with males, and who is bidding fair to be the first Muslim woman ever to enter the Folketing, the Danish parliament in Copenhagen. For the extreme right, the young activist is a political provocateur, an agent of Islamic fundamentalism bent on infiltrating the seat of Danish democracy. To many on the left, Ms Abdol-Hamid is also problematic, personifying through her dress the reactionary repression of women and an illiberal religious agenda that should have no place in her leftwing red-green alliance of socialists and environmentalists. As a result of announcing her parliamentary candidacy earlier this month, the young Muslim and Danish citizen has been thrust to the centre of a debate tormenting Denmark and the rest of western Europe - on the place and values of Islam in modern Europe and the treatment of large Muslim minorities. Ms Abdol-Hamid is unfazed. I see more Islam here in Denmark than in Iran or in other places in the Middle East, she says. It's easier to be a Muslim in Denmark than in Saudi Arabia. I don't feel a stranger here. I'm interested in politics. I want to talk about this society, about political issues. But I'm not in politics because I'm a Muslim. Her ambition, combined with her insistence on flaunting her religious affiliation, have outraged the Danish political establishment and triggered a new bout of soul-searching almost two years after the publication of cartoons of the Prophet ignited violence and protest across the Islamic world. Read the Full Report Here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2080360,00.html Recommended Resources http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.kpfk.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ http://www.commondreams.org/ Ara [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[LAAMN] Thursday, May 17th March to MacArthur Park
MARIA JUAREZ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] yaocihuatljuarez http://profiles.yahoo.com/yaocihuatljuarez Thursday, May 17th March to MacArthur Park Community Mobilizes for Thursday, May 17th March to MacArthur Park Return to the Park: Community Mobilizes for March to MacArthur Park - Thursday, May 17th - Meet at 5:00 PM at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - March to MacArthur Park PROCESSION AND VIGIL FOR JUSTICE, CIVIL RIGHTS, LIBERTY, AND IMMIGRATION REFORM WHEN: Thursday, May 17th 5:00pm WHERE: Starting at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd (corner of Berendo), Ending at MacArthur Park For more information, please contact: (213) 353.3921 (Spanish/English) (213) 385.7800 x131 (Spanish/English) (213) 738.9050 (Korean/English) SPONSORED by CARECEN, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), COFEM, Garment Worker Center (GWC), Instituto Popular de Educacion del sur de California (IDEPSCA), Koreatown Immigrant Worker Association (KIWA), Los Angeles Archdiocese Social Justice Committee, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, the Multi- ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON), Pilipino Worker Center (PWC), SEIU 1877, and the We Are America Coalition. -- PROCESION Y VIGILIA POR JUSTICIA, DERECHOS CIVILES, LIBERTAD, Y REFORMA MIGRATORIA Jueves, 17 de mayo 5:00pm Comenzando en la Iglesia Presbiteriana de Immanuel Localizada en 3300 Wilshire Blvd. (Esq. con Berendo) Terminando en el Parque MacArthur Para mas información llamar: (213) 353.3921 (espanxol/ingles) (213) 385.7800 x131 (español/ingles) (213) 738.9050 (coreano/ingles) Patrocinado por: CARECEN, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), COFEM, Garment Worker Center (GWC), Instituto Popular de Educacion del sur de California (IDEPSCA), Koreatown Immigrant Worker Association (KIWA), Los Angeles Archdiocese Social Justice Committee, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Multi- ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network (MIWON), Pilipino Worker Center (PWC), SEIU 1877, y la We Are America Coalition. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Bill Moyers' The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis - Watch it on Google Video. It is one of the very best documentaries ever made on U.S. foreign policy. Originally aired on PBS
Bill Moyers' The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis You can watch the entire 90-minute made-for-television-film on Google Video at: HYPERLINK http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3505348655137118430q=Bill+Mo yers+duration%3Alonghttp://video.-google.co.-uk/videoplay?-docid=350534 8655-137118430-q=Bill+Moyers+-duration%-3Along This is one of the very best documentaries ever made on U.S. foreign policy. It originally aired on PBS in 1987. It has not been available for years. I believe it was purposely disappeared because it is so well done informative. I used to have a 22-minute segment of The Secret Government on my DVD compilation titled: What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against The Third World This very powerful 2-hour film is still for sale at my web site: HYPERLINK http://www.addictedtowar.com/www.addictedtowar.com I was forced to remove the The Secret Government segment over 2 years ago. I replaced it with an excellent talk given by former CIA agent Philip Agee. You can watch the entire original version of my film including The Secret Government on Google Video at: HYPERLINK http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3453261789658676035http://vide o.google.com/videoplay?docid=3453261789658676035 In Peace, Frank Dorrel Publisher Addicted To War P.O. Box 3261 Culver City, CA 90231-3261 310-838-8131 HYPERLINK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] HYPERLINK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] HYPERLINK http://www.addictedtowar.com/www.addictedtowar.com No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.1/807 - Release Date: 5/16/2007 6:05 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] For Palestinians, memory matters, UCLA events this Sunday,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/05/13 /INGQDPOOUD1.DTL San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, May 13, 2007 For Palestinians, memory matters By George Bisharat Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget? That question is especially poignant at this time of year, as we move from Holocaust Remembrance day in early spring to Monday's anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948. In the months surrounding that date, Jewish forces expelled, or intimidated into flight, an estimated 750,000 Palestinians. A living, breathing, society that had existed in Palestine for centuries was smashed and fragmented, and a new society built on its ruins. Few Palestinian families lack a personal narrative of loss from that period -- an uncle killed, or a branch of the family that fled north while the others fled east, never to be reunited, or homes, offices, orchards and other property seized. Ever since, Palestinians worldwide have commemorated May 15 as Nakba (Catastrophe) Day. No ethical person would admonish Jews to forget the Holocaust. Indeed, recent decades have witnessed victims of that terrible era not only remembering, but also regaining paintings and financial assets seized by the Nazis -- and justifiably so. Other victims of mass wrongs -- interned Japanese Americans, enslaved African Americans, and Armenians subjected to a genocide that may have later convinced Hitler of the feasibility of mass killings -- receive at least respectful consideration of their cases, even while responses to their claims have differed. Yet in dialogues with Israelis, and some Americans, Palestinians are repeatedly admonished to forget the past, that looking back is not constructive and doesn't get us closer to a solution. Ironically, Palestinians live the consequences of the past every day -- whether as exiles from their homeland, or as members of an oppressed minority within Israel, or as subjects of a brutal and violent military occupation. In the West we are amply reminded of the suffering of Jewish people in World War II. Our newspaper featured several stories on local survivors of the Nazi holocaust around Holocaust Remembrance Day (an Israeli national holiday that is widely observed in the United States). My daughter has read at least one book on the Nazi holocaust every year since middle school. Last year, in ninth grade English literature alone, she read three. But we seldom confront the impact of Israel's policies on Palestinians. It is the security of the Jewish people that has rationalized Israel's takeover of Palestinian lands, both in the past in Israel, and more recently in the occupied West Bank. There, most Palestinian children negotiate one of the 500 Israeli checkpoints and other barriers to movement just to reach school each day. Meanwhile, Israel's program of colonization of the West Bank grinds ahead relentlessly, implanting ever more Israeli settlers who must be protected from those Palestinians not reconciled to the theft of their homes and fields. The primacy of Jewish security over rights of Palestinians -- to property, education, health care, a chance to make a living, and, also to security -- is seldom challenged. Unfortunately, remembering the Nazi Holocaust -- something morally incumbent on all of us -- has seemingly become entangled with, and even an instrument of, the amnesia some would force on Palestinians. Israel is enveloped in an aura of ethical propriety that makes it unseemly, even anti-Semitic to question its denial of Palestinian rights. As Israeli journalist Amira Hass recently observed: Turning the Holocaust into a political asset serves Israel primarily in its fight against the Palestinians. When the Holocaust is on one side of the scale, along with the guilty (and rightly so) conscience of the West, the dispossession of the Palestinian people from their homeland in 1948 is minimized and blurred. What this demonstrates is that memory is not just an idle capacity. Rather, who can remember, and who can be made to forget, is, fundamentally, an expression of power. Equally importantly, however, memory can provide a blueprint for the future -- a vision of a solution to seek, or an outcome to avoid. My Palestinian father grew up in Jerusalem before Israel was founded and the Palestinians expelled, when Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in peace and mutual respect. Recalling that past provides a vision for an alternative future -- one involving equal rights and tolerance, rather than the domination of one ethno-religious group over others. Thus, what Palestinians are really being commanded is not just to forget their past, but instead to forget their future, too. That they will never do. George Bisharat is professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He writes frequently about the Middle East. Contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Web link for the event:
[LAAMN] After the MacArthur Park rally, come by the Mumia film showing
The march back to the park starts at 5:00 PM. Later that evening, come by the Southern CA Library (6120 S. Vermont) for the LA premiere of Framing an Execution, narrated by Danny Glover, about the czse of Mumia Abu Jamal. Benefit for the Jericho Amnesty Coalition. Event starts at 7 PM --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Live Free. Palestine Awareness Week at UCLA
From: Outreach at Students for Justice in Palestine @ UCLA Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:05 PM Subject: Live Free. Palestine Awareness Week at UCLA Hello, As you may know, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA is hosting along with many other organizations our Live Free. Palestine Awareness Week. We would like you to distribute this information to your group as well as anyone else who may be interested. Below is a more detailed description of the events going on throughout the week and attached are the front and back of the official flier. Also keep us posted if you wanted to table at our Monday Night event. If you need to get in contact with me, you can email me back at this address or call me at (626)255-4375. Thank you in advance. a.. Monday (5/21): Day: The Spirit of Palestine: The Culture of Peace - 11:00am Bruin Plaza - An afternoon dedicated to celebrating Palestinian culture. There will be music, food, cultural performances and a bazaar of goods Night: Branch Out to Peace! Fundraising Banquet - 8:00pm Ackerman Grand Ballroom - Cultural Performances along with Palestinian dinner, comedy, and spoken word. Featuring: Comedians Maysoon Zayid and Ray Hanania and spoken word artist Mark Gonzalez. b.. Tuesday (5/22): Day: Apartheid Meets UCLA - 12:00pm Bruin Plaza - There will be an exhibit of the wall being built in Palestine as well as live footage of palestinians under the occupation. Night: Media and the Manipulation of Democracy - 6:00pm Moore 100 - Allison Weir will be talking about the things that get left out of American media and democracy Featuring: Allison Weir from If Americans Knew c.. Wednesday (5/23): Day: From Cali to Pali: The Fight for Education - 12:00pm BruinWalk - Demonstrations of what its like to be a Palestinian trying to get an education under the occupation. Night: Students: The Code Red Terrorists - 8:00pm Moore 100 - Connecting UCLA's diversity campaign with the campaign at Birzeit University to be able to get an education Featuring: Dr. Hatem Bazian of UC Berkeley and Majeed Shihade of the University of Washington d.. Thursday (5/24): Day: A People Forgotten - 12:00pm Meyerhoff - Learn about the largest refugee population in the world and the cause of their plight, featuring a mock refugee camp. Night: Coexistence - 6:00pm Moore 100 - Professor Gabriel Piterberg will be discussing the possibility of coexistence between Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land Featuring Professor Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA. -- Yousef Mohammad Outreach Coordinator Students for Justice in Palestine @ UCLA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Israel, Zionism Apartheid--the case for divestment and sanctions--Sun, UCLA
Dear Friend of Justice, We urge you to attend this important southern California event. Visit our literature table, and join in this important discussion. In Solidarity, Muffy Sunde Los Angeles Freedom Socialist Party Organizer As part of UCLA Palestine Solidarity Week, and in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation and the 59th anniversary of Al Nakba, CEIA-SC is proud to announce an educational forum: Israel, Zionism and Apartheid: The Case for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Sunday, May 20, 2007 · 10 am until 2:30 pm Humanities A51 · UCLA The Consequences of Zionism The inherent inequalities of the Jewish state Dr. Zahi Damuni, co-founder of Al-Awda The Misuse of Anti-Semitism Making accusations in order to deflect legitimate criticism of Israel CEIA-SC Members Lessons from South Africa Learning from the Anti-Apartheid Movement Samuel A. Paul, Ph.D. The Nature of Israel as an Apartheid State Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, spokesperson and past-president of Muslim Women's League, chairperson of Kinder USA, and MPAC board member University Divestment Campaign The Muslim Students' Association-UCLA and Students for Justice in Palestine-UCLA Presented by CEIA-SC in conjunction with Muslim Students Association-UCLA, Students for Justice in Palestine-UCLA and Palestinian American Women Association of Southern California. Endorsers (as of 5/09): American Friends Service Committee, ANSWER Coalition-LA, Islamic Shura Council, Palestine Aid Society, Jan 27 Action Coalition, Council on American-Islamic Relations-LA, Coalition for World Peace, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Global Voices for Justice, Global Women's Strike, Women of Color/Global Women's Strike, Payday Men's Network, The Middle East Fellowship of Southern California, Friends of Sabeel-Southern California, International Socialist Organization, SWANA Collective/Radio Intifada, MEChA de USC, Women in Black-Los Angeles, Office of the Americas, The Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism-Los Angeles, The International Action Center, Addicted to War, Venice Peace and Freedom Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Students for Justice in Palestine-USC, Foothills Peace Coalition, Radical Women, Muslim Public Affairs Council Individual Endorsers (as of 5/05; affiliations included for identification purposes only): Jim Lafferty (National Lawyers Guild), Sally Marr and Peter Dudar (Arlington West Film) Free admission. Lunch will be offered. For additional information, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) UCLA map link: _http://www.ucla.edu/map/map_south.htm_ (http://www.ucla.edu/map/map_south.htm) l Or go to our detail map: _http://ceia-sc.org/page1/page2/page2.html_ (http://ceia-sc.org/page1/page2/page2.html) Park in Structure 2 KPFK Media Sponsor: _http://www.kpfk.org_ (http://www.kpfk.org/) === The Two-State Solution: Still Possible? Peace is Achievable May 20, 2007 | 3-5 pm. Humanities A51 · UCLA As we near the 40th anniversary of the Israeli military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, there is still hope that a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be reached. For the past two decades the two-state solution has become and remains the international consensus framework for a solution to the conflict. Yet, in recent years questions have been raised as to whether this proposal is still feasible after 40 years of military occupation. Please join the American Friends Service Committee, for an evening of discussion of this important question. Speakers: Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim: is a Chair of the Department of History at Cal Poly Pomona. He is the author of two books, Merchant Capital and Islam, about the rise and expansion of Islam in the 7th century and The Oral History of the Intifada in Arabic, about the Intifada and how it could be used to challenge traditional/orientalistconceptions of Middle Eastern Society. Mahmood is the author of many articles and book reviews dealing with Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present. Dr. Ibrahim was born in Ramallah, Palestine. Dr. Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Professor of Political Science, Chapman University. Hovsepian's edited book: The War on Lebanon: A Reader (Interlink 2007) is forthcoming in June. In addition, his book: The Politics of Palestinian Education will be published in 2008. He also worked in the UN as a Political Affairs Officer on the secretariat of the International Conference on Palestine (1982-84). Moderator: Dr. Leila Al-Marayati, is the spokesperson of the Muslim Women's League (MWL), a Los Angeles based organization dedicated to disseminating accurate information about Islam and women and to strengthening the role
