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New Definition of "Anti-Semitism": Say "Six Million" & Laugh.
These days almost anything is considered to be “Anti-Semitic”, that Orwellian word which
stop all thought. You know, you’re Anti-Semitic if you’re against Israeli snipers killing 12
year old rock throwers, if you think that Israeli apartheid is wrong, if you think that
perhaps Israel was involved in 9/11, if you’re against giving a country with a GNP if Spain
(which hires 100,000 foreign workers to take out its garbage) $4 Billion a year, if you
wonder why ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 9:43am PDT
Chronicle watch
Call or write the Chronicle and tell them what really needs to be fixed. Surely, there is a long list we could generate....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 9:33am PDT
Put the words into Bush's mouth!
Have some fun and get rid of some of your angst and enter some gags in this week's caption contest. Gags could relate to the environment, war, neoliberalism or just about anything given Bush's track record!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 8:55am PDT
Another Kangaroo Trial In The "Brave Little Democracy"
Article from Gush-Shalom (Israeli Peace Org) about "democratic" trials in the "Brave Little Democracy". Kind of long, but interesting....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 7:53am PDT
Israeli Terrorist kill 24 Year Old Palestinian Farmer
More news from the "Brave Little Democracy". Well, actually nothing really new ( it happens everyday), Armed Israeli terrorists (call them Settlers, if you prefer) kill yet another Palestinian for....well, for not being one of "God's Chosen People"...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 7:44am PDT
War On Iraq? Ten Years From Now, What Will You Tell Your Children?
Read only if you have an open mind (and I know I'm going to get you looking even if you don't with this kind of summary ;-) Are we being lied to? Let me walk you through some history. Let me challenge you to look in the mirror and face your (future) children....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 7:42am PDT
portland indymedia reports on 11-12,000 person march on Oct. 5
portland brought out 11-12,000 folks to demand No War In Iraq on Oct. 5...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 5:21am PDT
A Tale of Two Assassinations: Mustafa Zibri And Rehavam Ze’evi
The U.S.-brokered deal to end the standoff in Ramallah has been widely lauded, both for defusing a confrontation with potentially catastrophic political implications, and for signaling the beginning of sustained American engagement in the Middle East. Closer examination of the facts, however, suggests the Bush administration is playing with a fire largely of its own making, and that its conduct in this affair is symptomatic of a U.S. approach which both aggravates conflict and obstructs meani...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 3:47am PDT
Ween War Poems
~poem
~Come fiddle with the Devil
and ~Dance Till Dawn.
~Kiss the Horned Serpent
and ~Skate on the Pond....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 3:40am PDT
Flashpoints Oct 4: 'Freedom'.. Oakland police.. Queer activists.. Forum on Peace
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Oct 4, 2002:
-new book, 'FREEDOM', a history of black America in photograghs and essays; w author Manning Marable..
-Oakland Riders police scandal; w civil rights attorney, Van Jones
-Not In Our Name demonstrations around the country this Sunday.....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 2:52am PDT
VIDEO: Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB)
Since the Israeli government annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, it has persued a deliberate policy to limit the Palestinian population in the city, while at the same time seeking to increase the Jewish population, all against international law....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 2:24am PDT
Australian's protest US military base and war
The protest at the Pine Gap joint defence facility grew today as parliamentarians and doctors joined protesters and local residents at the gates in peaceful actions....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 2:00am PDT
SUNDAY HERALD DISCOVERS 'SMOKING GUN' DOCUMENT ABOUT AMERICA'S ATTACK ON IRAQ
The Sunday Herald, which broke the story about the Project for a New American Century document advocating a global American Empire, now uncovers a document which is another SMOKING GUN revealing the real reasons for the proposed US attack on Iraq. This reason--in case anybody still believes the lies about 'Weapons of Mass Destruction,' Terrorism, or 'Saddam as a new Hitler'--can be spelled O-I-L....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 12:39am PDT
13 Women Reclaim Redwoods
In an attempt to stop oldgrowth logging operations and to raise awareness of the corporate lead destruction of our environment, 13 Women have taken to the branches of 13 trees scheduled for cutting by the The Pacific Lumber Company....
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 10:40pm PDT
Harvard President Speaks out on Middle East
Where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities. Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent....
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 10:12pm PDT
Hey SF: 11,500 in Portland Saturday
Voices of conscience, you are not alone. Even if we don't stop this war, you'll at least be able to look at yourself in the mirror. Attend Sunday's demonstration. See http://portland.indymedia.org...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 8:06pm PDT
Yawn, Just Another Palestinian Kid Killed By Israel for Throwing Stones
Just more of the same (it happens EVERY SINGLE DAY!) Palestian Kids make poor Israeli Snipers kill them by Throwing stones at their tanks. WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS!!!! (stones can hurt, and imagine mental anquish of the poor nervous young Israeli snipers)....
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 7:32pm PDT
Rovics No War (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.5MB)
David Rovics offers in song his analysis of US foreign and domestic policy: “The Axis of Evil / We’ll bomb ‘em down the skids / There’ll be no more terrorists / Once we kill their kids / People may starve / And economies may crumble / But those folks’ll just / Have to learn to be more humble….” With Allie Rosenblatt April 21, 02 DC Colombia Mobilization.
3 min...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 7:29pm PDT
A Breif History if th Occupation
It has nothing to do with terrorism. It is neither a holy war nor a conflict between Islam and Judaism, nor directed against the Jews per se. The only way to end the conflict is to end its original cause: racial colonial settlement....
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 6:29pm PDT
Enviromentalists to Join ILWU on Picket Line 10/7
Environmentalists to join portworkers at picket line in Oakland on 10/7; Statement of Support for the ILWU from Organizations and Leaders in the Environmental Movement...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:49pm PDT