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The Forgotten “–ism" An Arab American Women’s Perspective on Zionism, Racism and Sexism About Racial Discrimination Amongst Feminists
During the month of July 1985, I was in Nairobi, Kenya attending the
International UN Women’s Conference. I was getting ready to climb the steps up the
platform and give my speech when a woman came up to me and whispered in my ear
“Please do not bring up Palestine in your speech, this is a women`s conference not a
political conference.” The woman was Betty Friedan, one of the leading American
feminists in the sixties of the last century.
Of...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 12:38pm PDT
New College CESA Event List, 7/27 - 8/3 Wed, July 27 - Norman Solomon speaks on Iran and his new book War Made Easy (at the Women's Building) / Thu, July 28 - How Did You Become an Activist? (New College, SF) /
Wed, Aug 3 - Life in Occupied Palestine: An Eyewitness' Stories & Photos (New College, SF)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 10:41am PDT
Sex+culture, TG media training, more... Selected political events, July 27 thru Aug. 3, incl. new park near Q center, TG media training, AIDS volunteers, toxic toys, bike circus, TG clinic party at Center 4 Sex & Culture, more......
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 10:30am PDT
SF DEA News on MMJ Busts the top 3 stories on the SF DEA's web site are California medical
marijuana bust stories. So if any DEA agent tries to deny their
priorities at public hearings like they did here in Sacramento use
this to show their full of crap and misguided in their priorities....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 10:41pm PDT
Tonight! Queers and Gentrification El Rio 8pm Come check out tonight's radical film event on "Queers and Gentrification" at El Rio, 8pm. Event is free but we'll be collecting donations for the Manilatown Heritage Foundation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 3:38pm PDT
Norman Solomon Event 7/27 PSA (audio/mpeg 951.5KB) A :48 Second PSA for Event Tomorrow: NORMAN SOLOMON, BAY AREA AUTHOR AND MEDIA CRITIC, IN SAN FRANCISCO ON JULY 27 TO DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK "WAR MADE EASY: HOW PRESIDENTS AND PUNDITS KEEP SPINNING US TO DEATH” AND HIS RECENT TRIP TO IRAN...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 2:14pm PDT
Will San Francisco Be Outraged? (On Random Searches) David Anderson notes that there is little sense of outrage against random searches being conducted in the New York City Subway.
Will San Francisco be as meek?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 12:26pm PDT
Peskin to Request City to Enter Fight Over Important Tenant’s Rights Case Supervisor Aaron Peskin will present a resolution to the Board of Supervisors today calling for the City Attorney’s office to weigh in on a controversial tenant’s rights case currently on its way to the California Supreme Court. The outcome of the case, Action Apartment Association vs. City of Santa Monica, could potentially make wrongful eviction lawsuits far more difficult, opening the door for landlords to harass, threaten, and evict tenants without providing them legal recourse. Peskin’s ...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:10am PDT
LAFCo To Deal With "Standard Power Play" To Move SF Toward Sustainable Energy Sources The Local Agency Formation Commission will try to keep afloat Friday a plan that would permit the city to reduce its dependence on PG&E--and, consequently, on fossil fuels. The plan, called 'community choice aggregation', would permit the city to purchase energy wholesale from non-utility Energy Service Providers, or ESPs, for retail sale to citizens....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 8:09am PDT
Networking: Storage-software sales soaring Rapacious profiteers pile up the cash - but what of the worker's plight?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 8:39pm PDT
Anti-G8 Legal Update 7/25/05 Everyone is out of jail. The court process is slowly progressing. The FBI has been questioning and harassing people. Please call 415-285-1011 with questions or if you were a witness....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 4:23pm PDT
A Synopsis of the Israel/Palestine Conflict For 2,000 years there was no such conflict.
The land of Palestine was inhabited by Palestinian Arabs. In 1850 these consisted of approximately 400,000 Muslims, 75,000 Christians, and 25,000 Jews. For centuries these groups had lived in harmony: 80 percent Muslim, 15 percent Christian, 5 percent Jewish....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 1:22pm PDT
US BUSTED OUT FOR PROPAGANDA The U.S. military on Sunday said it was looking into how virtually identical quotations ended up in two of its news releases about different insurgent attacks....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 12:07pm PDT
Wed 7/27: Norman Solomon Speaks on Iran & His New Book "War Made Easy" Wednesday, July 27 at 7:00 pm -
Norman Solomon will speak about his recent trip to Iran and his new book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" Women's Building Auditorium, 3543 18th Street, San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 11:36am PDT
7/28-8/14: Presentations on Life in Occupied Palestine by Anna Anna recently returned from Palestine. She worked
with International Womens Peace Service(IWPS) which
is a 3-month commitment in Hares, a village in the
Salfit Governorate of Occupied Palestine's West Bank.
Here is the URL for her website:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 9:45am PDT
Established: A Pattern of Abuse - police brutality in the U.S There is a widespread and persistent problem of police brutality across the United States. Thousands of individual complaints about police abuse are reported each year and local authorities pay out millions of dollars to victims in damages after lawsuits. Police officers have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons, chemical sprays, and electro-shock weapons; they have injured or killed people by placing them in dangerous restraint holds....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 8:42pm PDT
Wireless World: Mobile WiMax coming soon Exploitative capitalists concoct a way to make you work while you drive....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 6:45pm PDT
March to Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco (video/quicktime 18.2MB) After the rally at Powell and Market, the demonstration moved down Market to Montgomery and then the Brazilian Consulate.
Three-minute QT movie. 18MB....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 2:42pm PDT
Peace caravan prevented from entering Palestine Fifty members of a European caravan of peace activists who were trying to enter occupied Palestine in order to show their solidarity with the Palestinians and to demonstrate against the Zionist regime’s apartheid wall were prevented by Israeli authorities from crossing from Jordan into the West Bank on Thursday....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 12:54pm PDT
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