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Today - WE WILL NOT BE SILENT - UC Berkeley 12 noon
THIS ACTION IS TODAY (WEDNESDAY)
please come show your support....if you get this in time, please forward to others you think would come out.
Wednesday, October 16, 12 Noon
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
We Will Not Be Silent.
- Rally - March - Direct Action -
please come show your support....if you get this in time, please forward to others you think would come out.
Wednesday, October 16, 12 Noon
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
We Will Not Be Silent.
- Rally - March - Direct Action -
THIS ACTION IS TODAY (WEDNESDAY)
please come show your support....if you get this in time, please forward to others you think would come out.
Wednesday, October 16, 12 Noon
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
We Will Not Be Silent.
- Rally - March - Direct Action -
CALL TO ACTION
On Wednesday, October 16th at 12 noon, people will converge on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to say: We will not be silent. We will not be complicit in the UC's funding of the Apartheid State of Israel, and we will not be complicit in the UC's persecution of students and community members who exercise their rights of free speech and free assembly to criticize the policies of the Israeli government. Specifically, we demand: Drop the Charges on the Wheeler 32 and Divest from Israel.
We recognize the continued persecution of the 32 students now facing Student Conduct Hearings as one example of the recent attempts to silence those people of conscience across the continent - from Montreal to New York to Cambridge to Berkeley - who criticize the current State of Israel.
We also recognize the horrible precedent it would set for free speech and protest on campus if these students are punished.
On April 9, over 1200 people rallied on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza for Divestment from Israel. After marching through campus, several hundred people entered Wheeler Hall in non-violent civil disobedience to make their demand. 79 people sat in and took arrest. By all reasonable accounts, it was one of the most peaceful protests on Berkeley's campus in its history, and all were found Factually Innocent by the Alameda County Court.
Still the University of California at Berkeley waged a campaign against the 41 student protestors, charging them with violations of the Student Code of Conduct.
Nine students opted out of going to hearings and took informal resolutions of a stayed suspension to avoid this harrowing process. Now 32 students have hearings, facing possible punishments of suspension. This response to non-violent protest on campus is unprecedented, and is obviously politically motivated. The University has also made the process as difficult and inconvenient as possible along the way, in some instances even violating its own student code of conduct.
We stand in solidarity with the Wheeler 32 and their rights to free speech and free assembly. While advocates of human rights in Palestine face persecution across the continent from authorities, we say, "We will not be silent."
http://www.ucdivest.org/wheelersolidarity
We understand that many people we are outreaching to are not in the Bay Area, or cannot make it to the October 16th action because it is being held in the middle of the day, while many people have to be at work.
But ALL of you can still be part of the Ocobter 16th action!
Plan on emailing letters of support and calling the University on October 16th to demand that the UC drop the charges on the ?Wheeler 32? and that the UC Divest from Israel.
http://www.ucdivest.org/wheelersolidarity/email.php
please come show your support....if you get this in time, please forward to others you think would come out.
Wednesday, October 16, 12 Noon
Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
We Will Not Be Silent.
- Rally - March - Direct Action -
CALL TO ACTION
On Wednesday, October 16th at 12 noon, people will converge on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to say: We will not be silent. We will not be complicit in the UC's funding of the Apartheid State of Israel, and we will not be complicit in the UC's persecution of students and community members who exercise their rights of free speech and free assembly to criticize the policies of the Israeli government. Specifically, we demand: Drop the Charges on the Wheeler 32 and Divest from Israel.
We recognize the continued persecution of the 32 students now facing Student Conduct Hearings as one example of the recent attempts to silence those people of conscience across the continent - from Montreal to New York to Cambridge to Berkeley - who criticize the current State of Israel.
We also recognize the horrible precedent it would set for free speech and protest on campus if these students are punished.
On April 9, over 1200 people rallied on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza for Divestment from Israel. After marching through campus, several hundred people entered Wheeler Hall in non-violent civil disobedience to make their demand. 79 people sat in and took arrest. By all reasonable accounts, it was one of the most peaceful protests on Berkeley's campus in its history, and all were found Factually Innocent by the Alameda County Court.
Still the University of California at Berkeley waged a campaign against the 41 student protestors, charging them with violations of the Student Code of Conduct.
Nine students opted out of going to hearings and took informal resolutions of a stayed suspension to avoid this harrowing process. Now 32 students have hearings, facing possible punishments of suspension. This response to non-violent protest on campus is unprecedented, and is obviously politically motivated. The University has also made the process as difficult and inconvenient as possible along the way, in some instances even violating its own student code of conduct.
We stand in solidarity with the Wheeler 32 and their rights to free speech and free assembly. While advocates of human rights in Palestine face persecution across the continent from authorities, we say, "We will not be silent."
http://www.ucdivest.org/wheelersolidarity
We understand that many people we are outreaching to are not in the Bay Area, or cannot make it to the October 16th action because it is being held in the middle of the day, while many people have to be at work.
But ALL of you can still be part of the Ocobter 16th action!
Plan on emailing letters of support and calling the University on October 16th to demand that the UC drop the charges on the ?Wheeler 32? and that the UC Divest from Israel.
http://www.ucdivest.org/wheelersolidarity/email.php
For more information:
http://www.ucdivest.org/wheelersolidarity
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Lame, lame rally. One big bust. The organizers didn't even show up until 12:30, and there weren't too many people there to preach to at that point.
SJP?
No one fucking cares. Wheeler 32? No one fucking cares.
SJP?
No one fucking cares. Wheeler 32? No one fucking cares.
Hi, I'm from Montreal and I care. Its worldwide.
> "Lame, lame rally. One big bust. The organizers didn't even show up until 12:30, and there weren't too many people there to preach to at that point."
Hopefully, most of those who would have shown up realized what hypocrites they would be after reading Tom Friedman's column in the New York Times yesterday:
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The New York Times
Campus Hypocrisy
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Oct. 16, 2002
The Washington Post recently reported that students and faculty at a growing number of universities are pressuring their schools "into selling their holdings in companies that do business with Israel, prompting a counter-campaign among Jewish groups that consider the effort part of a creeping tide of anti-Semitism on campus." Here's what I would say to both sides on this issue:
Memo to professors and students leading the divestiture campaign: Your campaign for divestiture from Israel is deeply dishonest and hypocritical, and any university that goes along with it does not deserve the title of institution of higher learning.
You are dishonest because to single out Israel as the only party to blame for the current impasse is to perpetrate a lie. Historians can debate whether the Camp David and Clinton peace proposals for a Palestinian state were for 85, 90, or 97 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. But what is not debatable is what the proper Palestinian response should have been. It should have been to tell Israel and America that their peace proposals were the first fair offer they had ever put forth, and although they still fell short of what Palestinians feel is a just two-state solution, Palestinians were now prepared to work with Israel and America to achieve that end. The proper response was not a Palestinian intifada and 100 suicide bombers, which are what brought Ariel Sharon to power.
It is shameful that at a time when some Palestinians are writing that they made a historic mistake in not nurturing the Clinton peace offer, pro-Palestinian professors and students in America and Europe pretend that the only reason the occupation persists is because of Israeli obstinacy. This approach will never gain the Palestinians a state, and those who dabble in it are simply prolonging Palestinian misery.
You are also hypocrites. How is it that Egypt imprisons the leading democracy advocate in the Arab world, after a phony trial, and not a single student group in America calls for divestiture from Egypt? (I'm not calling for it, but the silence is telling.) How is it that Syria occupies Lebanon for 25 years, chokes the life out of its democracy, and not a single student group calls for divestiture from Syria? How is it that Saudi Arabia denies its women the most basic human rights, and bans any other religion from being practiced publicly on its soil, and not a single student group calls for divestiture from Saudi Arabia?
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction — out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East — is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.
Memo to Israel's supporters: Just because there are anti-Semites who blame Israel for everything that is wrong does not mean that whatever Israel does is right, or in its self-interest, or just. The settlement policy Israel has been pursuing is going to lead to the demise of the Jewish state. No, settlements are not the reason for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but to think they do not exacerbate it, and are not locking Israel into a permanent occupation, is also dishonest.
If the settlers get their way, Israel will de facto or de jure annex the West Bank and Gaza. And if current Palestinian birth rates continue, by around the year 2010 there will be more Palestinians than Jews living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza combined. When that happens, the demand of the college anti-Israel movements will change.
They won't bother anymore with divestiture. They will simply demand: "One Man, One Vote. Since Israel has de facto annexed the territories, and there is now just one political entity between Jordan and the Mediterranean, we want majority rule." If you think it is hard to defend Israel on campus today, imagine doing it in 2010, when the colonial settlers have so locked Israel into the territories it can rule them only by apartheid-like policies.
This is not a call for unilateral Israeli withdrawal. This is a call for everyone who wants Israel to remain a Jewish state — and not become a binational state — to urge President Bush to renew the U.S. push for a two-state solution. If you think the Bush team is doing Israel a favor with its diplomacy of benign neglect, if you think the only campaign Jews need to be involved in today is with hypocrites on U.S. college campuses — and not with extremists in their own camp — you too are telling yourselves a very big and dangerous lie.
Hopefully, most of those who would have shown up realized what hypocrites they would be after reading Tom Friedman's column in the New York Times yesterday:
----
The New York Times
Campus Hypocrisy
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Oct. 16, 2002
The Washington Post recently reported that students and faculty at a growing number of universities are pressuring their schools "into selling their holdings in companies that do business with Israel, prompting a counter-campaign among Jewish groups that consider the effort part of a creeping tide of anti-Semitism on campus." Here's what I would say to both sides on this issue:
Memo to professors and students leading the divestiture campaign: Your campaign for divestiture from Israel is deeply dishonest and hypocritical, and any university that goes along with it does not deserve the title of institution of higher learning.
You are dishonest because to single out Israel as the only party to blame for the current impasse is to perpetrate a lie. Historians can debate whether the Camp David and Clinton peace proposals for a Palestinian state were for 85, 90, or 97 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. But what is not debatable is what the proper Palestinian response should have been. It should have been to tell Israel and America that their peace proposals were the first fair offer they had ever put forth, and although they still fell short of what Palestinians feel is a just two-state solution, Palestinians were now prepared to work with Israel and America to achieve that end. The proper response was not a Palestinian intifada and 100 suicide bombers, which are what brought Ariel Sharon to power.
It is shameful that at a time when some Palestinians are writing that they made a historic mistake in not nurturing the Clinton peace offer, pro-Palestinian professors and students in America and Europe pretend that the only reason the occupation persists is because of Israeli obstinacy. This approach will never gain the Palestinians a state, and those who dabble in it are simply prolonging Palestinian misery.
You are also hypocrites. How is it that Egypt imprisons the leading democracy advocate in the Arab world, after a phony trial, and not a single student group in America calls for divestiture from Egypt? (I'm not calling for it, but the silence is telling.) How is it that Syria occupies Lebanon for 25 years, chokes the life out of its democracy, and not a single student group calls for divestiture from Syria? How is it that Saudi Arabia denies its women the most basic human rights, and bans any other religion from being practiced publicly on its soil, and not a single student group calls for divestiture from Saudi Arabia?
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction — out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East — is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.
Memo to Israel's supporters: Just because there are anti-Semites who blame Israel for everything that is wrong does not mean that whatever Israel does is right, or in its self-interest, or just. The settlement policy Israel has been pursuing is going to lead to the demise of the Jewish state. No, settlements are not the reason for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but to think they do not exacerbate it, and are not locking Israel into a permanent occupation, is also dishonest.
If the settlers get their way, Israel will de facto or de jure annex the West Bank and Gaza. And if current Palestinian birth rates continue, by around the year 2010 there will be more Palestinians than Jews living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza combined. When that happens, the demand of the college anti-Israel movements will change.
They won't bother anymore with divestiture. They will simply demand: "One Man, One Vote. Since Israel has de facto annexed the territories, and there is now just one political entity between Jordan and the Mediterranean, we want majority rule." If you think it is hard to defend Israel on campus today, imagine doing it in 2010, when the colonial settlers have so locked Israel into the territories it can rule them only by apartheid-like policies.
This is not a call for unilateral Israeli withdrawal. This is a call for everyone who wants Israel to remain a Jewish state — and not become a binational state — to urge President Bush to renew the U.S. push for a two-state solution. If you think the Bush team is doing Israel a favor with its diplomacy of benign neglect, if you think the only campaign Jews need to be involved in today is with hypocrites on U.S. college campuses — and not with extremists in their own camp — you too are telling yourselves a very big and dangerous lie.
Mr Friedman is 100% right although no doubt he'll be labeled a "zionist apologist" by terrorist symphathizers
Mr Friedman is 100% right although no doubt he'll be labeled a "zionist apologist" by terrorist symphathizers
One man one vote? Isn't that the way it should be in countries we support now anyway? Is Mr. Friedman making a call against democracy here? Or should we have a racial overclass in Israel and an underclass with no political representation, and two racial states rather than one secular modern non-theocratic non-racial non-medieval state?
I hope the 32 dirtbags get what they deserve
the flyer below was hande out at a meetng in my campus sponsored by Israel Club. They brought the Jewish Defense Organization to speak and over a thousand young Jews were in the room. The JDO leader was surrounded by 100 bodyguards. He preached that all the Jews shuld get guns. As a progressive it was terrifying. They Jew chanted long live Israel and 6 million never again.
This group listed their website on the flyer http://www.jdo.org
and their phone # 212-252-3383. I even just gpt reports they have started attacking members of the Communist Party for being pro-PLO !At the meeting the JDO spoke and said G-D gave the entire land of israel to the Jewish People !
At the meeting they announced they are going to crush any group that is anti-Israel as part of Operation Crush !Some of violent goons were packing weapons !
B'SD
Like the Nazis of the 1930's and the Brownshirts annti-semitic and anti-Israel groups led a march in the past in Bekely at which Jews were threatened and attacked
The Moslem students groups and their Israel and America hating sympathizers though are only one thing a sawstika on trhe arm. The same groups that
wated every Jew in Israel destroyed must and will be stopped as part of "Operation Crush" by the Jewish Defense Organization
We will not let the worshippers of Arab terror destroy Israel or America !]]
This group listed their website on the flyer http://www.jdo.org
and their phone # 212-252-3383. I even just gpt reports they have started attacking members of the Communist Party for being pro-PLO !At the meeting the JDO spoke and said G-D gave the entire land of israel to the Jewish People !
At the meeting they announced they are going to crush any group that is anti-Israel as part of Operation Crush !Some of violent goons were packing weapons !
B'SD
Like the Nazis of the 1930's and the Brownshirts annti-semitic and anti-Israel groups led a march in the past in Bekely at which Jews were threatened and attacked
The Moslem students groups and their Israel and America hating sympathizers though are only one thing a sawstika on trhe arm. The same groups that
wated every Jew in Israel destroyed must and will be stopped as part of "Operation Crush" by the Jewish Defense Organization
We will not let the worshippers of Arab terror destroy Israel or America !]]
The college campuses MUST be doing good work!!
Thanks Tommy! Good to know we've got you riled.
Thanks Tommy! Good to know we've got you riled.
How surprising that an SFSU student would side against Friedman, giving the rampant Jew-hatred that was exhibited on campus by Pallie sympathizers. Even the University President had to condemn it.
what about rampant Islamophobia?
But tomorrow we will be because we've all decided as a group to play The Quiet Game.
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