From david.etheridge at verizon.net Fri Sep 1 09:52:26 2006
From: david.etheridge at verizon.net (David Etheridge)
Date: Fri Sep 1 09:54:07 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Peace vigil at the US Capitol on September 2
Message-ID: <000f01c6cde7$02467830$6500a8c0@Study>
Please join us in a Peace Vigil at noon on Saturday September 2 on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Look for the blue banner with the message, "Seek Peace and Pursue It. --Psalms 34:14"
The vigil lasts one hour and is silent except when one of us responds to the occasional questions about why we are there.
For more information see http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/seekpeace.htm or email seekpeacevigil@yahoo.com.
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From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Sep 4 02:16:06 2006
From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org)
Date: Mon Sep 4 07:38:58 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-9-4
Message-ID: <200609040916.k849G2dc024435@ebte.umd.edu>
Visit our sister site: http://triptopalestine.com/
New photos and articles added from a recent visit
This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating
to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar
engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event,
please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE
YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES!
========================= T H I S W E E K =========================
THURSDAY, September 07, 2006
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FUNDRAISER: PROGRESSIVE THURSDAY
TIME: 9:00pm-11:00pm
LOCATION: Busboys and Poets
DIRECTIONS: 14th and V St. NW - DC Metro Accessible - Green Line, U
Street/Cardozo Metro Station
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center)
ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center
CONTACT: (202) 338-1290 info@palestinecenter.org
Progressive Thursday
A Meet and Greet for Down People Doing Good Work
Busboys and Poets
(14th and V St. NW - DC)
Metro Accessible - Green Line, U Street/Cardozo Metro Station
Thursday, 7 September 2006
9:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Featuring:
SON of NUN
Hip-Hop Artist
NADINE
Poetess/Singer
SAMANTHA
S ...
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FRIDAY, September 08, 2006
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ART: THE MODERN ARABIC CALLIGRAPHIC DESIGNS OF NIHAD DUKHAN
TIME: 6:30pm-8:30pm
LOCATION: The Palestine Center
DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel.
(202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund) Tel. (202) 338-1290
(Palestine Center) Fax (202) 333-7742 Foggy Bottom Metro
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center)
ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center
CONTACT: 202.338.1958 info@palestinecenter.org
Opening reception: Friday, 8 September, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
"Every Curve, Every Dot: The Modern Arabic Calligraphic Designs of Nihad Dukhan"
Blessed among the crafts, Arabic calligraphy possesses an emotive appeal and a visual impact that captivates and invites the viewer to meditation. It is generally rooted in ...
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========================= N E X T W E E K =========================
==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS ===================
Fundraiser: PROGRESSIVE THURSDAY
Progressive Thursday
A Meet and Greet for Down People Doing Good Work
Busboys and Poets
(14th and V St. NW - DC)
Metro Accessible - Green Line, U Street/Cardozo Metro Station
Thursday, 7 September 2006
9:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Featuring:
SON of NUN
Hip-Hop Artist
NADINE
Poetess/Singer
SAMANTHA
Spoken Word Artist
Hosted by the IRON SHEIK
www.ironsheik.biz
Suggested Donation: $10
It's a Fundraiser - The proceeds of this event will go to support The Jerusalem Fund's humanitarian projects, which identify and support key humanitarian non-profit organizations and programs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
........................................................................
Art: THE MODERN ARABIC CALLIGRAPHIC DESIGNS OF NIHAD DUKHAN
Opening reception: Friday, 8 September, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
"Every Curve, Every Dot: The Modern Arabic Calligraphic Designs of Nihad Dukhan"
Blessed among the crafts, Arabic calligraphy possesses an emotive appeal and a visual impact that captivates and invites the viewer to meditation. It is generally rooted in the sacred and is a celebration of the divine. Dr. Dukhan's fascination with the Arabic language, written and spoken, started when he was in grade school. He has been training himself in all the classical styles of Arabic calligraphy by imitating the works of many master calligraphers. In 1998, he became a student of the noted Istanbul master calligrapher Hasan Celibi in Thuluth and Naskh style and recently, of master calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya in T’aliq style. Although inspired by, and occasionally resembling some of the classical styles of Arabic calligraphy, the modern look of his designs is achieved through innovation guided by artistic sensibility and a certain quality of pursuing the form. His designs are highly stylized, but remain legible, and offer a fresh rendering of the Arabic letters.
This exhibit opening is free and open to the public. Registration is not required to attend.
The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037 USA
Tel. (202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund)
Tel. (202) 338-1290 (Palestine Center)
Fax (202) 333-7742
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Mon Sep 4 07:26:08 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Mon Sep 4 07:39:36 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Thurs 7th: Protest Any US attack on Iran - Khatami at
Natl Cathedral
Message-ID: <44FC3780.7070606@carolmoore.net>
TELL BUSH: HANDS OFF IRAN, DIALOGUE DON'T DOMINATE
Protest any US or Israel Attack on Iran at Khatami Speech at National
Cathedral
WHEN: Thursday Sept 7 6:30-7:30 pm
WHERE: Wisconsin Ave, at National Cathedral, North of Mass Ave.
WHY: To oppose any US/Israel attack on Iran over its alleged plans to
someday produce nuclear weapons. And to support former Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami's call for dialogue among civilizations,
which he will discuss during this speech at the National Cathedral.
WHO: Organized by ad hoc group of DC Area Peace Activists;
endorsements welcome
More information on the speech below
http://www.cathedral.org/cathedral/news/khatamipre.shtml
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2006
Revised August 25, 2006
Contact: Greg Rixon
(202) 537-2198
GRixon@cathedral.org
FORMER IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO SPEAK
AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL
WASHINGTON ? Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will present an
address at Washington National Cathedral on September 7, 2006 at 7:30
pm. Attendance at the address will be by Cathedral invitation only.
President Khatami served as Iran?s president from 1997 to 2005 and was
the first reformist president following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Elected with the broad support of women and young adults, Khatami is
credited with the promotion of the rule of law, democracy, and the
inclusion of all Iranians in the political decision-making process. His
1998 U.N. statement calling for a dialogue among the world?s
civilizations and cultures prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to
declare 2001 the U.N. Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations. In February
of this year Khatami founded the International Institute for Dialogue
among Civilizations and Cultures in Tehran.
Khatami presently participates in the High-Level Group of the United
Nations? Alliance of Civilizations. He is one of 20 international
leaders called together by U. N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and the
prime ministers of Spain and Turkey to counter the deterioration of
relations between societies and nations. The Alliance seeks to establish
a relationship of mutual respect between civilizations and rejects
religious and political extremism. His visit to the Cathedral will
follow a meeting of the Group at the United Nations in New York,
September 5th and 6th.
The Reverend Canon John L. Peterson, director of the Center for Global
Justice and Reconciliation at the Cathedral noted that Khatami?s visit
is wholly appropriate at this time of increasing global tensions, since
the former president intends to speak on the role the three Abrahamic
faiths can play in shaping peace throughout the world. ?The Cathedral is
a place of reconciliation that opens its doors to people of all faiths,
and we have a special commitment to embracing the children of Abraham.
We have found that the Cathedral is an important platform for dialogue
and open discussion,? he said.
Of Khatami?s visit Cathedral Dean, the Very Reverend Samuel T. Lloyd III
said, ?President Khatami?s commitment to a dialogue between
civilizations and cultures is an important component in the peace
process. This is much needed in the world today.? Dean Lloyd noted that
Khatami is regarded as a man of peace and moderation.
Khatami will be speaking on the role the three Abrahamic faiths?Judaism,
Christianity and Islam?can play in shaping the peace process. For
additional information, please call (202) 537-2221 or go to
www.nationalcathedral.org for updates.
From minorthreatsxepunk at yahoo.com Sun Sep 3 17:51:59 2006
From: minorthreatsxepunk at yahoo.com (bob)
Date: Mon Sep 4 07:39:51 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] A lively march and rally!
Message-ID: <20060904005159.83482.qmail@web33206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
A lively march and rally!
Thursday September 14
5:00 pm.
Assemble at Murrow Park (18th and H St. NW, near
Farrgut North and West Metros)
March to Franklin Park (13th, 14th, I and K St. NW,
near McPherson Square and Metro Center)
Meet outside the World Bank and International Monetary
Fund, who are perpetuating poverty worldwide while
ignoring the poor and homeless, whether across the
street from them or in distant Africa and Asia.
March to Franklin Park, where the city government is
busy trying to hand over a homeless shelter to a
wealthy developer at a rock-bottom price to build a
luxury hotel.
Remember 'the Earth is not dying, it is being murdered and the people murdering it have names and addresses' -- Utah Phillips
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"Executing McVeigh will not bring back the people he killed, but it will bring back the machinery of death. The federal government hasn't killed anyone in 40 years, and now they're trying to use McVeigh to bring the death penalty back. But don't make any mistake about it after McVeigh, the next person they kill won't look like him, he will look like me. He might be innocent like me, too." --Darby Tillis, an exonerated former Illinois death row inmate
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Kinky Friedman
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A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Mon Sep 4 07:40:53 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Mon Sep 4 10:00:23 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Tues 5th Camp Democracy Events
Message-ID: <44FC3AF5.8040207@carolmoore.net>
Come on by! Check out web page for full schedule.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2006
Contact: Ryan Fletcher 202-641-0277
Michael McPhearson 314-303-8874
Nancy Lessin 617-320-5301
Camp Democracy contact: David Swanson 202-329-7847 or Online at:
http://www.campdemocracy.org
*Veterans and Military Families Hold Press Conference and Day of Events
to Open Camp Democracy September 5th*
WASHINGTON, DC - September 5th in Washington DC will witness the opening
of a 17-day event called Camp Democracy, a non-partisan camp for peace
and democracy, focusing on ending the war in Iraq, righting injustices
here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and
Congress.
WHO: Veterans of the Iraq War and Other Conflicts, Military and Gold
Star Families
WHAT: Silent Procession, Press Conference, and Day of Activities to Open
Camp Democracy
WHERE: Camp Democracy will be located at Constitution Avenue and 14th
Street NW
WHEN: Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Summary of events on Tuesday, September 5, 2006:
For a full schedule of events, go to: www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
8:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. -Vigil, March around Capitol Building to remember
the fallen and remind Congress of the human cost of the War in Iraq
(visuals include combat boots and shoes representing the fallen;
tombstones, pictures), led by Veteran, Military and Gold Star families.
Assembly point is 1st and Independence at 8:00 a.m.; procession steps
off at 8:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. to Noon
? Opening Press Conference featuring Iraq War Veterans, Military
Families, Gold Star Families, Veterans of other Conflicts
? Opening Ceremony at Camp Democracy
? Speak-Out featuring members of Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans
Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families Speak
Out and Gold Star Families for Peace
1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. - Roundtable Discussion: Why We Say "Bring Them
Home NOW, and How To Make That Happen (Veterans and Military Families)
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion - How the U.S. anti-war/Peace
and Justice movements can support reconciliation and Peace in Iraq and
the greater Middle East.
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ? Sneak Preview Film Screening: "The Ground
Truth" ? Iraq Veterans talk about their wounds of war, and the hidden
wounds of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; followed by a panel of
Veterans and Military Families discussing Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder. Opening soon in major theaters across the country.
9:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. - Concert featuring Anne Feeney
http://annefeeney.com and Emma's Revolution
http://emmasrevolution.com
For more information see: www.veteransforpeace.org
, www.ivaw.org
, www.mfso.org www.campdemocracy.org
Technical note: Events in the morning on the 5th will use a sound system
powered by batteries. There will be no power outlets available to the
media (or anyone else) until after our generators arrive at 11 a.m. and
are hooked up and started.
###
*Members of Congress, Progressive Democrats of America to ?Organize the
Progressive Agenda? at Camp Democracy Sept 6th*
PDA Main Contact: Tim Carpenter tim@pdamerica.org
413-320-2015
PDA Camp Democracy Contact: Mike Hersh mike@pdamerica.org
240-483-3191
Camp Democracy Contact: David Swanson david@davidswanson.org
202-329-7847
WASHINGTON, DC - Several Members of Congress will join grassroots
activists on September 6 to present more effective, better alternatives
to the failed, fatal policies of the Bush/Cheney Administration. They
will lead discussions about Ending the Iraq War, Implementing
Single-Payer Universal Health Care, Helping Katrina / Rita Refugees, and
other critical issues.
PDA National Board Members Rep. Lynn Woolsey and Rep. Barbara Lee,
(Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus); Rep. Maxine Waters,
(Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus); Rep. Jim McGovern, Sponsor of H.R.
4232: End the War in Iraq Act; Rep. Bob Filner; PDA Executive Director
Tim Carpenter; PDA Board Members Rev. Lennox Yearwood (CEO Hip Hop
Caucus), Steve Cobble, (Peace, Trade, and Voting Rights expert) and Joel
Segal (Legislative Aid for Health Policy, for Rep. John Conyers) will
present a Progressive Agenda for National Security and Domestic / Human
Needs. Local and national political activists will join them. All events
will be in the Main Tent on Constitution Ave. between 14 St. and 15 St.
near the Washington Monument.
4:00 PM. Rev. Yearwood, just back from New Orleans, will report on
continued devastation and suffering then lead a discussion about the
campaign to pass the Gulf Coast Reconstruction Act.
5:00 PM. Joel Segal will lead a discussion of HR-676, legislation to
implement a universal, single-payer healthcare system, eliminate
corporate waste in health care and cover all of the 45 million Americans
who lack access to quality health care today.
5:30 PM. Rep. Lynn Woolsey will lead a discussion on legislation to end
funding for the Iraq war and to bring the troops home now with
Grassroots progressive leaders.
PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter said, ?PDA is proud to sponsor Camp
Democracy. Our country needs an open dialogue about ?changing the
course.? At Camp Democracy, the grassroots will organize and strategize
for progress on critical issues: getting out of Iraq, combating
corruption, protecting voting rights, and refocusing our resources to
address human needs.?
For more information see: http://www.pdamerica.org
and http://www.campdemocracy.org
From pete4peace at gmail.com Mon Sep 4 08:09:42 2006
From: pete4peace at gmail.com (Pete Perry)
Date: Mon Sep 4 10:00:39 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Camp Democracy begins Tuesday!
Message-ID: <6f0f1f510609040809g60397d16o7191f7abbbf18ff8@mail.gmail.com>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2006
Contact: Ryan Fletcher 202-641-0277
Michael McPhearson 314-303-8874
Nancy Lessin 617-320-5301
Camp Democracy contact: David Swanson 202-329-7847 or Online at:
http://www.campdemocracy.org
*Veterans and Military Families Hold Press Conference and Day of Events to
Open Camp Democracy September 5th*
WASHINGTON, DC - September 5th in Washington DC will witness the opening of
a 17-day event called Camp Democracy, a non-partisan camp for peace and
democracy, focusing on ending the war in Iraq, righting injustices here at
home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.
WHO: Veterans of the Iraq War and Other Conflicts, Military and Gold Star
Families
WHAT: Silent Procession, Press Conference, and Day of Activities to Open
Camp Democracy
WHERE: Camp Democracy will be located at Constitution Avenue and 14th Street
NW
WHEN: Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Summary of events on Tuesday, September 5, 2006:
For a full schedule of events, go to: www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
8:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. -Vigil, March around Capitol Building to remember the
fallen and remind Congress of the human cost of the War in Iraq (visuals
include combat boots and shoes representing the fallen; tombstones,
pictures), led by Veteran, Military and Gold Star families. Assembly point
is 1st and Independence at 8:00 a.m.; procession steps off at 8:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. to Noon
? Opening Press Conference featuring Iraq War Veterans, Military Families,
Gold Star Families, Veterans of other Conflicts
? Opening Ceremony at Camp Democracy
? Speak-Out featuring members of Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against
the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families Speak Out and Gold
Star Families for Peace
1:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. - Roundtable Discussion: Why We Say "Bring Them Home
NOW, and How To Make That Happen (Veterans and Military Families)
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion - How the U.S. anti-war/Peace and
Justice movements can support reconciliation and Peace in Iraq and the
greater Middle East.
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ? Sneak Preview Film Screening: "The Ground Truth" ?
Iraq Veterans talk about their wounds of war, and the hidden wounds of Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder; followed by a panel of Veterans and Military
Families discussing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Opening soon in major
theaters across the country.
9:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. - Concert featuring Anne Feeney
http://annefeeney.com and Emma's Revolution http://emmasrevolution.com
For more information see: www.veteransforpeace.org , www.ivaw.org ,
www.mfso.org www.campdemocracy.org
Technical note: Events in the morning on the 5th will use a sound system
powered by batteries. There will be no power outlets available to the media
(or anyone else) until after our generators arrive at 11 a.m. and are hooked
up and started.
###
*Members of Congress, Progressive Democrats of America to "Organize the
Progressive Agenda" at Camp Democracy Sept 6th*
PDA Main Contact: Tim Carpenter tim@pdamerica.org 413-320-2015
PDA Camp Democracy Contact: Mike Hersh mike@pdamerica.org 240-483-3191
Camp Democracy Contact: David Swanson david@davidswanson.org 202-329-7847
WASHINGTON, DC - Several Members of Congress will join grassroots activists
on September 6 to present more effective, better alternatives to the failed,
fatal policies of the Bush/Cheney Administration. They will lead discussions
about Ending the Iraq War, Implementing Single-Payer Universal Health Care,
Helping Katrina / Rita Refugees, and other critical issues.
PDA National Board Members Rep. Lynn Woolsey and Rep. Barbara Lee,
(Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus); Rep. Maxine Waters,
(Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus); Rep. Jim McGovern, Sponsor of H.R. 4232:
End the War in Iraq Act; Rep. Bob Filner; PDA Executive Director Tim
Carpenter; PDA Board Members Rev. Lennox Yearwood (CEO Hip Hop Caucus),
Steve Cobble, (Peace, Trade, and Voting Rights expert) and Joel Segal
(Legislative Aid for Health Policy, for Rep. John Conyers) will present a
Progressive Agenda for National Security and Domestic / Human Needs. Local
and national political activists will join them. All events will be in the
Main Tent on Constitution Ave. between 14 St. and 15 St. near the Washington
Monument.
4:00 PM. Rev. Yearwood, just back from New Orleans, will report on continued
devastation and suffering then lead a discussion about the campaign to pass
the Gulf Coast Reconstruction Act.
5:00 PM. Joel Segal will lead a discussion of HR-676, legislation to
implement a universal, single-payer healthcare system, eliminate corporate
waste in health care and cover all of the 45 million Americans who lack
access to quality health care today.
5:30 PM. Rep. Lynn Woolsey will lead a discussion on legislation to end
funding for the Iraq war and to bring the troops home now with Grassroots
progressive leaders.
PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter said, "PDA is proud to sponsor Camp
Democracy. Our country needs an open dialogue about 'changing the course.'
At Camp Democracy, the grassroots will organize and strategize for progress
on critical issues: getting out of Iraq, combating corruption, protecting
voting rights, and refocusing our resources to address human needs."
For more information see: http://www.pdamerica.org and
http://www.campdemocracy.org
--
Pete Perry
571-271-1313
http://beltwaybeast.blogspot.com/
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
~Buddha
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From wkatzfishman at igc.org Mon Sep 4 07:41:03 2006
From: wkatzfishman at igc.org (Walda Katz-fishman)
Date: Mon Sep 4 10:00:57 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] This week: Sept. 7 at 7pm: Another World is Possible -
USSF DC Metro Aea
Message-ID: <001b01c6d030$3daf3ce0$6930f904@user1qojvlwii3>
Please share with networks & friends. Apologies for cross-posting.
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Next steps for building movement & the USSF in the DC Metro Area
Another world is possible, Another United States is necessary!
The Community Coalition for Justice and Peace & US Social Forum DC Metro
Host/Organizing Committee
Invite you to ongoing dialogue for Building Movement & the USSF in the
DC Metro Area
Thursday, September 7, 2006
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
St. Stephen's Church (dining room, lower level)
1525 Newton Street, NW (at 16th Street a few blocks from the Columbia
Heights Metro)
* What's up with the 4 working groups: Black Brown Alliances,
Youth & Education,
Affordable Housing, Local-Global Connects
* How will we do outreach & fundraising
* Planning community dialogues & a DC Metro US Social Forum
For more information, please contact:
lana Solomon at 202-835-1240 or ilana.solomon@actionaid.org
walda katz-fishman 301.367.1079 or wkatzfishman@igc.org
We urge folks to support the IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MARCH starting at 3pm,
3rd St. in front of the Capitol& then come to the USSF-DC Metro meeting
for 7pm.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * *
building today's bottom-up movement for justice & equality
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
301.367.1079
1525 Newton St., NW
Washington, DC 20010
wkatzfishman@igc.org
www.projectsouth.org
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From nbloch at igc.org Mon Sep 4 14:22:26 2006
From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch)
Date: Mon Sep 4 17:15:29 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Re: SAVE the DATE!!Facilitators Skillshare: Sept 7th!!
In-Reply-To: <44E60673.9000000@igc.org>
References: <44E60673.9000000@igc.org>
Message-ID: <44FC9912.5040404@igc.org>
/please distribute widely/!******************************
> ** Next WDC Ad-hoc Trainers' Collective Facilitator Skill Share:***
> ***Thursday, September 7th, 2006**
> 7:30--9:30pm
> **American Friends Service Committee/DC**
> 2211 14th St NW
> Ust/Cardozo Metro
>
> **TOPIC::::::: **FACILITATION: tricks and traps!*
> Join our Back-to-School Session focusing on strategies and skills for
> successful facilitation of Large and Small groups. This will be a
> 'real' skillshare, RSVP to Nadine with games, exercises, tricks and
> plans that you would like to TEACH or TRY OUT on the group !
> /
> NOTE:: For this skillshare, we invite NEW and UNINITIATED
> participants: Please Join us if you are interested in learning about
> Facilitation but have LITTLE or NO experience, as well as if you are a
> seasoned facilitator./
> *
>
> **/NOTE: PLEASE RSVP, space is limited!!! email
> /**//**nbloch@igc.org** //**/ to hold your
> spot, we expect a large turnout.....!/**
>
> HOST: Nadine and YOU!
>
> ****this IS part of an ongoing series of trainers' skillshares,
> workshops
> for the public and trainings for trainers!!! Feel free to pass this
> invitation on to other facilitators, workshop leaders and trainers from
> any discipline that would be interested in engaged skillshares and
> building our collective resources.
>
> PROPOSED SCHEDULE::
> **********************************
> YOUR IDEAS WANTED!! We will decide at this skillshare on a new
> structure and process for moving forward.. Do you want a skillshare on
> "Dealing with Difficult People" or " Theater tools for Facilitation"
> or " Organizational Development: Strategies for using your Board of
> Directors"...... Let's make it happen!
>
> ************* if you would like to be on the SkillShare email list
> serve, please
> send a note to : dctraining-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
> (Very LOW traffic,
> about 2/month)
>
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From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Tue Sep 5 07:42:58 2006
From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride)
Date: Tue Sep 5 08:27:03 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Unity Walk Sept. 10
Message-ID: <20060905144258.685.qmail@web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
The DC Interfaith Initiative for Peace is calling for a Unity Walk on Sunday September 10 starting at 2PM. People will assemble at Massachusetts Avenue and Macomb Streets NW at the Washington Hebrew Congregation. The Unity Walk will proceed down Massachusetts Avenue passing The National Cathedral, The Islamic Center, and end at The Gandhi Memorial.
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From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Tue Sep 5 09:08:17 2006
From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride)
Date: Tue Sep 5 09:18:04 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN meets tonight 7PM
Message-ID: <20060905160817.71808.qmail@web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
DAWN meets tonight at 2211 14th Street, NW at 7PM in the offices of the American Friends Service Committee. Come on up to the DAWN meeting after Camp Democracy or go to Camp Democracy after the meeting. DAWN is working on Camp Democracy and Declaration of Peace in addition to other projects planned for this Fall. All are welcome!
Note: Pursuant to Title II and Title V of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), all electronic transmissions may be monitored by numerous federal and state agencies without notice or judicial authorization.
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From agentforchange at comcast.net Tue Sep 5 19:12:32 2006
From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder)
Date: Wed Sep 6 04:30:20 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Help distribute "opt-out" form on Thursday evening
Message-ID: <20060906021335.E3811BE25A8@catfur.mutualaid.org>
Please consider showing up on Thursday evening at 6:15 in front of Walt
Whitmen HS to help distribute the military recruiter"opt-out" form to
parents as they enter the buiding for back-to-school night. Please let me
know off-list if you can make it. We can expect national television
coverage. Seven are committed thus far.
Take the Beltway all the way to River Road and then take River south about a
mile and a half and take a left on Whittier. The school is on the left. I
have 1,000 forms to distribute.
Pat Elder
202-210-3467
www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400761.html
Parents To Give Opt-Out Reminder
Personal Data Can Be Kept From Military Recruiters
By Lori Aratani
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 5, 2006; Page B02
A group of Montgomery County parents and peace activists will use
back-to-school nights to hand out forms that allow parents to block
information about their children from being released to military recruiters.
The opt-out forms are distributed to all of Montgomery's 139,000 students at
the beginning of the school year. But Pat Elder, a parent at Walt Whitman
High School, said he and others want to be sure families know their options
when it comes to controlling who has access to their children's personal
information.
"People get so much information at the beginning of the year that we want to
make sure this doesn't get lost in the crush," he said.
Elder was one of several parents who successfully lobbied the school system
last year to revise student privacy forms to give parents a choice of who
would be allowed access to students' personal information. A parent can
prevent the information from being released to military recruiters but give
colleges access to phone numbers and addresses.
The previous form gave parents two options: to allow the release of all of
their children's information or none.
Military recruiters have been allowed to visit high school campuses for
decades, but their presence has drawn more scrutiny in recent years largely
because of the war in Iraq.
When reports surfaced that a little-known provision of the federal No Child
Left Behind law required schools to release student information to the
military or risk losing federal funding, several prominent groups, including
the National PTA, launched campaigns to let parents know they could block
school systems from releasing the information. No school has lost funding
for refusing to turn over information.
Laura Steinberg, director of the Department of Reporting and Regulatory
Accountability for Montgomery County Public Schools, said the system is
working to ensure that parents are aware of their options. This year, the
opt-out forms were included in back-to-school packets, posted on the
system's Web site and printed in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese,
Korean and French.
Several families have chosen to restrict the release of information to the
military, Steinberg said, but a total was not available.
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Talking points:
More than 6,600 specific incidents of recruiter wrongdoing in the last full
year. (GAO)
www.gao.gov/new.items/d06846.pdf#search=%22gao%20report%20recruiters%
22
100 young women sexually abused this year by recruiters: (Associated Press)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082006A.shtml
17 year-old given drugs to cover drug use and fake diploma to enter service
(CBS News)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/02/eveningnews/main692497.shtml
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From david.etheridge at verizon.net Tue Sep 5 18:37:43 2006
From: david.etheridge at verizon.net (David Etheridge)
Date: Wed Sep 6 04:30:29 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Peace vigil at the US Capitol on September 9
Message-ID: <023201c6d155$0d34fe80$6500a8c0@Study>
Please join us in a Peace Vigil at noon on Saturday September 9 on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Look for the blue banner with the message, "Seek Peace and Pursue It. --Psalms 34:14"
The vigil lasts one hour and is silent except when one of us responds to the occasional questions about why we are there.
For more information see http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/seekpeace.htm or email seekpeacevigil@yahoo.com.
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From nbloch at igc.org Tue Sep 5 22:18:29 2006
From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch)
Date: Wed Sep 6 04:31:30 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Facilitators Skillshare:Thursday!!
In-Reply-To: <44FC9912.5040404@igc.org>
References: <44E60673.9000000@igc.org> <44FC9912.5040404@igc.org>
Message-ID: <44FE5A25.4020505@igc.org>
/please distribute widely/!******************************
>> ** Next WDC Ad-hoc Trainers' Collective Facilitator Skill Share:***
>> ***Thursday, September 7th, 2006**
>> 7:30--9:30pm
>> **American Friends Service Committee/DC**
>> 2211 14th St NW
>> Ust/Cardozo Metro
>>
>> **TOPIC::::::: **FACILITATION: tricks and traps!*
>> Join our Back-to-School Session focusing on strategies and skills for
>> successful facilitation of Large and Small groups. This will be a
>> 'real' skillshare, RSVP to Nadine with games, exercises, tricks and
>> plans that you would like to TEACH or TRY OUT on the group !
>> /
>> NOTE:: For this skillshare, we invite NEW and UNINITIATED
>> participants: Please Join us if you are interested in learning about
>> Facilitation but have LITTLE or NO experience, as well as if you are
>> a seasoned facilitator./
>> *
>>
>> **/NOTE: PLEASE RSVP!! email /**//**nbloch@igc.org**
>> //**/ to hold your spot, we expect a large
>> turnout.....!/**
>>
>> HOST: Nadine and YOU!
>>
>> ****this IS part of an ongoing series of trainers' skillshares,
>> workshops
>> for the public and trainings for trainers!!! Feel free to pass this
>> invitation on to other facilitators, workshop leaders and trainers from
>> any discipline that would be interested in engaged skillshares and
>> building our collective resources.
>>
>> PROPOSED SCHEDULE::
>> **********************************
>> YOUR IDEAS WANTED!! We will decide at this skillshare on a new
>> structure and process for moving forward.. Do you want a skillshare
>> on "Dealing with Difficult People" or " Theater tools for
>> Facilitation" or " Organizational Development: Strategies for using
>> your Board of Directors"...... Let's make it happen!
>>
>
>> ************* if you would like to be on the SkillShare email list
>> serve, please
>> send a note to : dctraining-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
>> (Very LOW traffic,
>> about 2/month)
>>
>>
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From pete4peace at gmail.com Tue Sep 5 23:00:26 2006
From: pete4peace at gmail.com (Pete Perry)
Date: Wed Sep 6 04:31:38 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] GANDHI, this Saturday
Message-ID: <6f0f1f510609052300v21f551bai4dbad4f615c31c44@mail.gmail.com>
Hey There,
Please join me to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's founding the
modern nonviolence movement by watching the film GANDHI and by taking in a
panel discussion about the significance of his life's work. It is really
helpful if you RSVP so we can prepare. Feel free to FORWARD this invite on,
even if you can't make it!--John
*FILM PICK OF THE MONTH:*
Richard Attenborough's GANDHI
DATE/TIME: SATURDAY, September 9th @ 6:00PM
SCREENING LOCATION: Betts Theater, 1st Floor of the Marvin Center, George
Washington University, 800 21st Street, NW (21st between H & I Sts)
PANEL @ THE NONVIOLENCE MOVEMENT:
Rev. Clark Lobenstine, InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
Imam Yahya Hendi, Georgetown University Chaplain
Kamran Elahaian, Gandhi Project
Rev. Mark Hoelter, InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
--
Pete Perry
571-271-1313
http://beltwaybeast.blogspot.com/
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
~Buddha
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From wpc at igc.org Wed Sep 6 07:18:09 2006
From: wpc at igc.org (Washington Peace Center)
Date: Wed Sep 6 08:19:53 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Work parties this weekend - help Washington Peace
Center's move into Peace House
Message-ID: <44FED8A1.1000009@igc.org>
Washington Peace Center has begun its move into the Peace House (1233
12th Street NW), but there is much yet to do.
We'll be having two work parties this weekend, on Saturday, September
9th at 10 am, and Sunday, September 10th, at 2 pm, for the first stage
of the project, cleaning out the basement, which will be the new home
for the Peace Center.
Come dressed for dirty work! Snacks will be provided.
Please call 202-234-2000 to let us know that you'll be able to come!
(Leave a message.) If you have any urgent questions, or can't come at
the last minute, call Ellen Thomas - 202-682-4282.
Subway to Peace House: Green line to convention center; turn west
(left) on M Street, walk to 12th Street NW (3 blocks), turn right, green
house with white picket fence halfway up the block on right (east).
Ellen Thomas
for the
Washington Peace Center
PO Box 50032, Washington, DC 20091
202-234-2000
wpc@igc.org
http://washingtonpeacecenter.org
From endviolence at carolmoore.net Wed Sep 6 06:11:22 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Wed Sep 6 08:20:09 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] This Weekend: Camp Democracy Events on Mall, 3rd Street
Message-ID: <44FEC8FA.30603@carolmoore.net>
**PLEASE DISTRIBUTE**
___________________________
CAMP DEMOCRACY http://campdemocracy.org
has tents at 14th and Constitution from the 5th to the 21st.
For full daily schedules see http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
BUT THIS WEEKEND (SAT-MONDAY) Their tents
also will be on the Mall at 3rd Street by The Capitol.
Workshops and events start at 10:30 am and go
til evening with movies and entertainment. So
if you can't make weekday events, bring a picnic lunch and
BE THERE this weekend. Here's the Saturday to Monday schedule.
Sat, Sept. 9^th Free Public Viewing of film *"Why We Fight." *Workshops,
trainings, entertainment, featuring* Ray McGovern, Karen Kwiatowski,
Antonia Juhasz, Steven Zunes, Simin Royanian, Diane Perlman, Dick Bell,
Swami Beyondananda, Bruce Gagnon, Brendan Smith, Jeremy Brecher, Bill
Moyer, Glen Ford, Rob Kall, Mike Stark, Stirling Newberry,
VotersForPeace, Workshop on Political Songwriting *featuring* Wishing
Chair *www.wishingchair.com * / Greg
Greenway *www.greggreenway.com * / Nick
Annis *www.nickannis.com * / Janet Bates
*www.janetbates.com Noon-3 pm**
Sun, Sept. 10^th *Col. Ann Wright* (USAF ret.) resigned from the State
Dept. to protest Iraq War. Music Workshop on *Political Satire* with
*Dave Lippman, AKA George Shrub the Singing CIA Agent
*www.davelippman.com / *Chandler & Roe*
www.chrischandler.org
www.royalrounders.com / *Eric Schwartz*
www.ericschwartz.com / *Nadir*
www.distortedsoul.com / *Tristan James
*www.proletariatproductions.com/tj.htm
- Noon
Mon, Sept. 11^th *Memorial Concert:* John Flynn www.johnflynn.net
/ Tom Chelston www.tomsongs.org
/ Chandler & Roe www.chrischandler.org
http://www.royalrounders.com / Nadir
http://distortedsoul.com / Spook Handy http://spookhandy.com - Noon.*
Sheldon Rampton*, Center for Media and Democracy: /The Best War Ever/,
*Larry C. Johnson* former CIA Official, /War Lies and U.S Intelligence/,
*ARUN GANDHI*, grandson of Mahatma. New film about Gandhi ?*100 Years of
Nonviolence.*?
For many more concerts, workshops, films, discussions check here:
www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
From david at davidswanson.org Wed Sep 6 09:39:44 2006
From: david at davidswanson.org (David Swanson)
Date: Wed Sep 6 10:22:30 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Come to Camp Democracy!
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From dchurchm at yahoo.com Wed Sep 6 13:09:21 2006
From: dchurchm at yahoo.com (Debby Churchman)
Date: Wed Sep 6 14:18:43 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Workshop: "Language Matters"
Message-ID: <20060906200921.45336.qmail@web56104.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
On September 21, which is International Day of Peace
as well as the
final
day of Camp Democracy, the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Arlington
will
hold a free workshop on enhancing the way we
communicate to accomplish
the
goals of the peace movement. ?Language Matters:
Incorporating
Metaphors,
Values, Branding, and Conviction into the Way we Speak
and Write? will
be
held on Thursday, September 21, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at
UUCA, 4444
Arlington
Blvd. (southwest corner of Route 50 and George Mason
Drive), Arlington.
The
workshop will draw on George Lakoff?s best-selling
book, ?Don?t Think
of an
Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate,? to
help participants
enhance their communications skills to help in efforts
toward peace. To
register, please contact Linda Switzer, 703-892-9061
or
reasst@uucava.org
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Wed Sep 6 18:29:05 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Wed Sep 6 19:39:05 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN Meeting Camp Democracy Tues Sept 12
Message-ID: <44FF75E1.1010300@carolmoore.net>
Facilitator David Barrows asked me to alert people
that the NEXT DAWN meeting, Tuesday Sept
12, will be at Camp Democracy at the 14th
and Constitution Site near Washington Monument
(NOT at the Mall and 3rd site where this weekend's
events will be.)
One of things we will discuss is the DAWN Workshop
at CAMP DEMOCRACY Sunday, September 17th
from 2pm to 3pm. (Thanks Pat Elder for setting it up.)
We've discussed doing reports on DAWN actions, other groups
reports on current activities, brainstorms on local actions as possible
formats. Let's discuss and decide next meeting... which WILL
be at CAMP DEMOCRACY...
From endviolence at carolmoore.net Thu Sep 7 18:12:38 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Fri Sep 8 06:22:37 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Camp Democracy Needs Volunteers 8 AM Saturday
Message-ID: <4500C386.60501@carolmoore.net>
Camp Democracy needs volunteers to help set up
equipment, tables, chairs etc. at 3rd Street on the
Mall starting 8 Am sharp Saturday AM.
Camp Democracy will be there Saturday to Monday.
Please help!!
From david at davidswanson.org Fri Sep 8 10:12:09 2006
From: david at davidswanson.org (David Swanson)
Date: Fri Sep 8 11:31:36 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Camp Democracy Veterans to Lead March
Message-ID: <026d01c6d369$f3a56f10$6f9ac246@A25BD8260D5F438>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Swanson 202-329-7847
September 8, 2006 Karen Bradley 202 669 3927
Online at: http://www.campdemocracy.org
Speakers available for interviews: http://www.campdemocracy.org/speakers
Camp Democracy Veterans to Lead March
When: Saturday September 9, 2006
What: Silent March and Vigil around the Capitol Building
Why: To remember the fallen and remind Congress and the public of the human cost of the War on and Occupation of Iraq.
Gather at 9 am at 1st and Independence Southwest corner located 1 block North of Capitol South Metro Stop
Step off at 9:30 am end at 10:30 am
All invited
Michael T. McPhearson
Veterans For Peace, Executive Director, 314-303-8874
"Festival Democracy" at Camp Democracy on September 9-11
Camp Democracy is a 17-day event focused not only on ending the war but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.
WASHINGTON, DC - September 9-11
WHAT: A festival of workshops, speakers, training and entertainment focused on a variety of causes,
all intent on changing the course that the Bush administration is taking our country.
WHERE: On the National Mall between 3rd and 7th Streets (different location from the rest of Camp
Democracy!)
WHEN: Friday-Monday, September 9-11, 2006
Summary of events on Saturday, September 9, 2006:
Funded by Democracy Rising
For a full schedule of events, go to: www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
Continuous events from 10:30am-10:00pm
Highlights include:
10:30-12: Mike Stark, presenting "Giving it to the Right Wing: Blog and Op-ed Research"
10:30-12: Carlos Arredondo, Gold Star Father, Dad on Fire
10:30-12: Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
10:30-12: Stephen Zunes, author of The United States and Iran: How We Can Stop the Next War
10:30-12: Diane Perlman, presenting Conflict Resolution
12-1:30: Swami Beyondananda, presenting Comedy for Lunch
12-1:30: Bruce Gagnon, presenting "The Necessity of Converting the Military Industrial Complex"
12-1:30: Rob Kall, presenting "Tapping the Power of Stories"
2-4: Ray McGovern and Karen Kwiatowski, Whistleblowing 101
3-5: Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher, presenting "Restoring the Rule of Law"
3-5: Bill Moyer, presenting "From Opposition to Proposition: Crystallizing a Progressive
Movement for 2008 and Beyond"
3-5: Glen Ford, creator of TheBlackCommentator.com
3-5: Stirling Newberry **
7-10: VotersForPeace, showing the excellent film "Why We Fight"
Summary of events on Sunday, September 10, 2006:
For a full schedule of events, go to: www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
Continuous events from 10:30am-10:00pm
Highlights include:
10:30-12: Joel Bleifuss and Harvey Wasserman, presenting Stolen Election Planning and Action
Planning
10:30-12: Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
10:30-12: Nancy Talanian, presenting Bill of Rights Defense
12-1:30: Harvey Wasserman, presenting Solartopia: Our Green Powered Earth
12-1:30: Linda Schade, Co-Founder of VotersForPeace, presenting how to challenge our pro-war
Congress
12-3: Adam Roufberg, presenting Responsible Citizenship and Accountability
1:30-3: Rahul Mahajan **
1:30-3: Raed Jarrar **
1:30-3: Simin Royanian **
1:30-3: Dave Lippman, presenting "Clinton Got a B*** J***"
1:30-3: Billionaires for Bush, presenting Loyal to Big Oil
3-5: Ann Wright, retired U.S. Colonel who quit the service over the Iraq war **
3-5: John Kim, National Coordinator of Korea Peace Campaign, a project of Veterans for Peace
3-5: Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher, presenting "Restoring the Rule of Law"
5-7: Barbara O'Brien, presenting "Blogging the Movement"
7-10: Open readings from Fear Up: Stories from Baghdad and Guantanamo
Summary of events on Monday, September 11, 2006:
Funded by The Best War Ever
Commemorating the 5-year Anniversary of 9/11 and the Gandhi Day of Nonviolence
For a full schedule of events, go to: www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
Continuous events from 10:30am-10:00pm
Highlights include:
10:30-12: Sheldon Rampton, Center for Media and Democracy and author of The Best War Ever with
Larry C. Johnson
10:30-12: Liza Sabater, Culture Kitchen, presenting "So You Want to Blog the Revolution"
11:00: Arun Gandhi, Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and author of Legacy of Love: My
Education in the Path of Nonviolence
12-1:30: Lester Brown, presenting Earth in Crisis
12-1:30: Kevin Zeese, presenting stories from Democracy Rising
12-3: Music in Memoriam: Remembering Five Years Ago (various artists)
1:30-3:00: Gareth Porter, presenting "Talking about Putting Down the Arms: Rethinking Militarism"
1:30-3: Jim Bovard presenting Bush and Attention Deficit Democracy
3-5: Ellen Ratner, presenting Messaging to the Media
3-5: Dr. Gene Bolles
5-7: Movement Choir for Peace, led by Marylee Hardenbergh
6:30-7:30: Guerilla Poets present an Open Mic
8:00: Presentation of the film Gandhi: 100 Years of Nonviolence
For more information see: http://www.campdemocracy.org
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From minorthreatsxepunk at yahoo.com Fri Sep 8 13:11:35 2006
From: minorthreatsxepunk at yahoo.com (bob)
Date: Fri Sep 8 14:00:04 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] DC IWW TO PICKET ADAMS MORGAN STARBUCKS (THIS MONDAY)
Message-ID: <20060908201135.43036.qmail@web33205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
The DC IWW (industrial workers of the world) is
holding an informational picket of the Dupont Circle
Starbucks in order to raise awareness of the firing of
four Starbuks employees for their IWW union activity.
Monday, September 11, 6:30-8:00 PM
Adams Morgan Starbucks (Adams Mill road I believe)
With the termination of IWW members Daniel Gross, Evan
Winterscheidt, Joe Agins Jr., and Charles Fostrom in
less than a year, Starbucks has demonstrated
conclusively its intense hostility to the right of
workers to join a union.
Come help us show solidarity with all the Starbucks
workers who are organizing in their workplaces as we
begin a campaign of informational pickets at DC area
Starbucks! People need to know what kind of a boss
Starbucks really is!
Remember 'the Earth is not dying, it is being murdered and the people murdering it have names and addresses' -- Utah Phillips
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"Executing McVeigh will not bring back the people he killed, but it will bring back the machinery of death. The federal government hasn't killed anyone in 40 years, and now they're trying to use McVeigh to bring the death penalty back. But don't make any mistake about it after McVeigh, the next person they kill won't look like him, he will look like me. He might be innocent like me, too." --Darby Tillis, an exonerated former Illinois death row inmate
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From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Sep 11 02:16:04 2006
From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org)
Date: Mon Sep 11 06:29:53 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-9-11
Message-ID: <200609110916.k8B9G1pm020837@ebte.umd.edu>
Visit our sister site: http://triptopalestine.com/
New photos and articles added from a recent visit
This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating
to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar
engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event,
please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE
YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES!
========================= T H I S W E E K =========================
TUESDAY, September 12, 2006
------------------------------------------------------------------------
PANEL DISCUSSION:ILLEGAL WARS: A REPORT ON ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES IN LEBANON AND GAZA
TIME: 12:00Noon
LOCATION: American University
DIRECTIONS: Washington College of Law Room 528 4801 Massachusetts
Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: SJP-AU(Students for Justice in Palestine at American
University)
ORGANIZED BY: SJP-AU
CONTACT:
Illegal Wars: A Report on Israel's War Crimes in Lebanon and Gaza
Tuesday, September 12, at 12:00 pm, Room 528
Speakers:
Professor Nicholas Kittrie - Professor, American University Washington College of Law
Joe Stork - Human Rights Watch, Middle East and North Africa Division Deputy Director
Adam Shap ...
........................................................................
WEDNESDAY, September 13, 2006
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BRIEFING: REFORMULATING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST
TIME: 12:30-2:00pm
LOCATION: The Palestine Center
DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel.
(202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund) Tel. (202) 338-1290
(Palestine Center) Fax (202) 333-7742 Foggy Bottom Metro
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center)
ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center
CONTACT: 202.338.1290 rsvp@palestinecenter.org
The Palestine Center invites you to a briefing on
"Reformulating U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Middle East"
with
Kevin Zeese
Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
Recent miscalculations in U.S. Foreign Pol ...
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TUESDAY, September 19, 2006
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PRESENTATION: PALESTINE FOR BEGINNERS
TIME: 7:00pm
LOCATION: Howard County Central Library
DIRECTIONS: 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21044 (Enter
the parking lot from South Entrance Road.)
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Howard County Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
CONTACT: HCCEIO@yahoo.com
Palestine for Beginners" (and everyone else!)
Filmed before a live audience and professionally edited, the Palestine Information Project's "Palestine for Beginners" is a 72-minute presentation by Linda Bevis, international human rights lawyer, and Edward Mast, playwright and performer. It is a fast-paced, yet cl ...
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Panel Discussion: ILLEGAL WARS: A REPORT ON ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES IN LEBANON AND GAZA
Illegal Wars: A Report on Israel's War Crimes in Lebanon and Gaza
Tuesday, September 12, at 12:00 pm, Room 528
Speakers:
Professor Nicholas Kittrie - Professor, American University Washington College of Law
Joe Stork - Human Rights Watch, Middle East and North Africa Division Deputy Director
Adam Shapiro - PhD Candidate, American University School of International Studies
Sponsors:
Society for Justice in Palestine/Israel, Arab Law Students Association, Islamic Legal Forum
Middle Eastern lunch will be served.
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Briefing: REFORMULATING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST
The Palestine Center invites you to a briefing on
"Reformulating U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Middle East"
with
Kevin Zeese
Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
Recent miscalculations in U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Middle East have brought about a series of events that have pushed the region deeper into conflict. U.S. disengagement from a bilateral negotiation process in favor of Israeli unilateralism changed the political make up of Palestinian governance. The outcome of the Israel-Hizballah war and the increasing turmoil in Iraq has weakened U.S. national security.
How can the U.S. reformulate its Middle East foreign policy in order to strengthen U.S. national interest? Can the U.S. adopt a morally defensible foreign policy that is beneficial to the American people, their domestic concerns and to the people of the region?
Kevin Zeese is an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. He was nominated by the Green, Libertarian and Populist Parties (the first time these parties have ever agreed on a candidate anywhere in the U.S.).
The Palestine Center is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization. It does not endorse political candidates in the U.S. or abroad. This event is for educational purposes only.
Registration is required. Unregistered guests will not be admitted.
To register, send your name, affliation and contact information to
rsvp@palestinecenter.org by 12:00 noon Tuesday, 12 September 2006.
This briefing is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served to registered
guests at 12:30 p.m. The briefing and "Q and A" will follow from 1:00-2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
Tel. (202) 338-1290
www.thejerusalemfund.org/palestinecenter/index.php
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Sun Sep 10 16:31:52 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Mon Sep 11 06:29:58 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Mon 5-9 PM: Camp Democracy Needs Volunteers
In-Reply-To: <4500C386.60501@carolmoore.net>
References: <4500C386.60501@carolmoore.net>
Message-ID: <4504A068.4080106@carolmoore.net>
Camp Democracy needs volunteers to move BACK
to it's 14th and Constitution site where it will stay until
Sept 21.
Help move equipment, tables, chairs etc. FROM 4rd Street
on the Mall starting 5 pm Monday. Closest metros
are Redline Judiciary or Green or Orange line L'Enfant
Plaza.
Please help!!
And come by earlier for events
See http://campdemocracy.org/schedule/
From david at davidswanson.org Tue Sep 12 05:53:37 2006
From: david at davidswanson.org (David Swanson)
Date: Tue Sep 12 06:23:23 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Please Send to Media and Post Online
Message-ID: <9AA3BB45-63CC-4A3C-A272-1B4A2294BAA3@davidswanson.org>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2006
Camp Democracy contact: David Swanson 202-329-7847 or Online at:
http://www.campdemocracy.org
Speakers available for interviews: http://www.campdemocracy.org/speakers
Impeachment Day at Camp Democracy on Sunday, September 17
WHO: Elizabeth Holtzman, Michael Avery, Ray McGovern, David Green,
John Nichols, Marcus Raskin, Elizabeth De La Vega, Dave Lindorff,
David Swanson, Jennifer Van Bergen, Geoff King, David Waldman, Dan
DeWalt, Steve Cobble, Anthony St. Martin, Cindy Bogard, Mubarak Awad,
Susan Crane, Frank Anderson.
WHAT: Panel discussions, workshops, book signings, concerts.
WHERE: Constitution Avenue and 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
WHEN: Sunday, September 17, 2006
Summary of events on Sunday, September 17, 2006:
For a full schedule of events, go to: www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
9 ? 10 a.m. David Green: Evidence of Impeachable Offenses
10 a.m. ? noon Panel discussion with: John Nichols, author of "The
Genius of Impeachment"; Marcus Raskin, member of the special staff of
the National Security Council in President Kennedy?s Administration,
and author of "Liberalism," and co-editor of "In Democracy's Shadow";
Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor; Dave Lindorff,
authors of "The Case for Impeachment"; Moderated by David Swanson,
cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org.
Noon ? 2 p.m. Songwriting for Peace: MUSIC
Dream Kitchen http://www.myspace.com/thedreamkitchen
Spook Handy http://spookhandy.com
Sue Jeffers http://www.fbirecords.com
2 ? 3 p.m. Coalition for Justice and Accountability
3 ? 5 p.m. Panel discussion with: Elizabeth Holtzman, former
congresswoman and co-author of "The Impeachment of George W. Bush";
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Jennifer Van Bergen, author and
professor; Geoff King, President of Constitution Summer; Michael
Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild; Moderated by David
Waldman, who blogs as Kagro X;
5 ? 7 p.m. Impeachment strategy meetings organized by home state /
region, led by and with opening workshop by Dan DeWalt, Steve Cobble,
Anthony St. Martin.
7 ? 8 p.m. Screening of film "Articles of Impeachment."
PLUS:
Cindy Bogard: How to Frame Peace
Hip Hop Caucus Helping the Homeless "Stop the War, House the Poor" A
panel on the homeless situation in DC: while our president sleeps in
his bed at1600 Pennyslvania Ave, over 12,000 people are homeless in DC.
Nonviolence Training with Mubarak Awad, Susan Crane
Hands-on Workshop on How to Get Ink in Local Media with Dave Lindorff
DC Anti-War Network: How to Organize Actions.
Freeway blogging with David Waldman and Frank Anderson.
Camp Democracy is a 17-day event focused not only on ending the war
but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding
accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.
For more information see: http://www.campdemocracy.org
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Tue Sep 12 04:30:09 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Tue Sep 12 06:23:34 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN Meets Tonight Camp Democracy - Plus other activities
there
Message-ID: <45069A41.8000207@carolmoore.net>
DAWN Will meet tonight at 7 PM at Camp Democracy
Please come by earlier for some of these events.
UNTIL SEPT 21 Camp Democracy is at
14th and Constitution Avenues.
+++++++++++++
10-11:30:AM
Freedom From Oil Flag: A Hands-on Art Workshop, Diane Wittner
11:30-12:30:
Mountaintop Removal--Coal's
Dirty Secret Exposed, Bill Price, Environmental Justice coordinator for
Sierra Club in the central Appalachian region.
1:00-2:00:
Federal Policy Campaigns to Address Global Warming,
Kate Abend, Union of Concerned Scientists
2:00-3:00:
Campus Climate Challenge,
Arthur Coulston, Energy Action
3-4:30: Challenging Corporate Power:
A Model to Break US Oil Addiction, Nile Malloy, Rainforest Action Network
4:30-7: Intro to Non-Violent Direct Action, Nile Malloy, Julie Wolk,
Rainforest Action Network
7-8:30:
Movie and discussion: We're All Smith Islanders,
The local effects of global warming,
Anne Havemann, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
&
Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher of Buzzflash
From jamilah7 at hotmail.com Mon Sep 11 11:59:43 2006
From: jamilah7 at hotmail.com (Jamilah Shami)
Date: Tue Sep 12 06:23:56 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] =?iso-8859-1?q?Celebrating_the_Life_of_Jeff_M=E9ndez_-?=
=?iso-8859-1?q?_12th_September_2006?=
Message-ID:
Open House Memorial Service for Jeff Méndez:
Date: Tuesday, September 12
Time: 12-4PM
Location: The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20037
If you would like to prepare brief comments, there will be an open mic for
remembrance.
Please bring pictures for a photo collage or send digital copies to
adamsop@gmail.com (by 8:00PM EST 9/11/2006) or precolonial@yahoo.com (by
9:00AM EST 9/12/2006).
If you would like to send messages of solidarity to the family, please send
them to precolonial@yahoo.com by 9:00AM on September 12th so that they can
be printed and delivered at the memorial.
Condolences may also be sent to his family:
Mr. & Mrs. Librado Méndez
2528 US HWY 183 North
Cuero, TX 77954
From david.etheridge at verizon.net Wed Sep 13 08:53:29 2006
From: david.etheridge at verizon.net (David Etheridge)
Date: Wed Sep 13 09:02:35 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Peace vigil at the US Capitol on September 16
Message-ID: <051701c6d74c$c5e14900$6500a8c0@Study>
Please join us in a Peace Vigil at noon on Saturday September 16 on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Look for the blue banner with the message, "Seek Peace and Pursue It. --Psalms 34:14"
The vigil lasts one hour and is silent except when one of us responds to the occasional questions about why we are there.
For more information see http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/seekpeace.htm or email seekpeacevigil@yahoo.com.
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From: david at davidswanson.org (David Swanson)
Date: Wed Sep 13 09:02:41 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Be At Camp Democracy This Weekend
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From: chatareena at gmail.com (catarina correia)
Date: Thu Sep 14 06:23:53 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] stop the war - house the poor
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Thu Sep 14 07:43:50 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Thu Sep 14 08:17:40 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Friday Electoral reform at Camp Democracy
Message-ID: <45096AA6.8080502@carolmoore.net>
Camp Democracy - Electoral Reform Day
Friday Sept. 15th 12 noon to after dark
http://campdemocracy.org
some photos http://stopthewarnow.net/campdemocracy/
Starting at 12:00 noon, 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., at the main tent will
be a presentation by Senator Mike Gravel about codifying the power of
the people through the National Initiative for Democracy (www.ni4d.us
) .
Starting at 1:00 and at 4:00 p.m. will be 2 hour panel discussions about
what necessary steps we must take to protect and strengthen our
democracy. Panelists include elections experts Rob Richie, Bob Fitrakis,
Kevin Zeese, Solange Bitol-Hansen and Jonathan Simon.
7-8 p.m. Free popcorn and Ice Cream Social, minstrels, poetry and open mike
8 p.m. Introductions by Bob Fitrakis and Jonathan Simon to a premier of
the new movie "Stealing America, Vote by Vote".
Forecast is for nice weather. Please come join discussion about what we
must do to strengthen and protect our democracy and, while you're out,
make the movie your perfect Friday night movie date under the stars and
twinkle lights, on the mall.
Camp Democracy is located between 14th and 15th on Constitution Ave.,
at the foot of the Washington Monument on the Washington Mall.
2 blocks from both Federal Triangle metro stop and Smithsonian metro
stop, both stops are on the Orange and Blue metro lines.
Buses to the location are #52, # 54, and #11Y on 14th, and #13
A,B,F,G on Constitution Ave.
***************************************
Senator Mike Gravel is the man who alone and succesfully filibustered to
end the Vietnam era draft. He is the man who read the Pentagon Papers
into the national record,...He is being featured 3 times on Friday
because he is offering citizens the means by which to codify the
democratic empowerment of the people to control their government. He
is currently the only declared presidential candidate, and is a peace
candidate, outspoken in national media since before the war. Although
it is too early for her to state an official endorsement, Granny D in
New Hampshire, where she is a super celebrity whose political opinion is
like gold, has shown a great deal of interest in Mike, despite her
having worked closely with Sen Feingold on campaign finance reform.
******************************************
**
*STEALING AMERICA, VOTE BY VOTE, *premier of a new film by CPB Gold
medal and Emmy award wining producer Dorothy Fadiman This movie is an
examination of ways in which privatized election systems,
disenfranchisement of certain populations and vulnerable voting
technology are impacting our democracy. The film introduces a spectrum
of issues, including discrepancies between exit polls and final official
tallies, the silence of the media following the election and the impact
of technological glitches such as vote flipping. The film documents
stories such as those of inner city voters and students at Kenyon and
other campuses who experienced waiting for hours in line, along with the
apparent unequal distribution of voting machines. The movie underscores
that election reform is not a partisan issue but the responsibility of
both Democrats and Republicans working together towards real solutions,
some of which are suggested in the film. The film's goal is to open the
dialog among all Americans about what is actually happening to our
election system, to open people's minds to the irregularities in voting
systems and their hearts to the impact of disenfranchising voters. The
final question that the film poses is: How can we create an election
system in which voters have confidence, and in which they can trust that
their vote is being counted fairly? Fri., 9/15, at 8 p.m., in the main
tent at Camp Democracy, on the Mall between 14th and 15th at
Constitution. Under the stars and twinkle lights at 8 p.m. movie and
popcorn free -(202) 986-5977
From jamilah7 at hotmail.com Thu Sep 14 06:58:53 2006
From: jamilah7 at hotmail.com (Jamilah Shami)
Date: Thu Sep 14 08:17:47 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Lebanon: Past & Present - Sep. 18 7PM
Message-ID:
On the 24th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacres
ADC Washington DC Area Chapter invites you to a report back and discussion
entitled:
"Lebanon: Past & Present"
Date: Monday, September 18th, 2006
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
Place: ADC National Office - 1732 Wisconsin Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20007
Featured Speakers:
Luci Murphy
Participant, ADC Delegation to to 4th Annual
Sabra and Shatila Rememberance Week
Carlos Arrien*
Participant, ADC Delegation to 5th Annual
Sabra and Shatila Rememberance Week
Huwaida Arraf
International Solidarity Movement
Traveled to Lebanon in solidarity during the Israeli attacks
(*Invited)
For more information, please call (202) 939-6050 x103 or write to
adcdcarea@yahoo.com
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From: david at davidswanson.org (David Swanson)
Date: Sun Sep 17 07:59:51 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] U.S. versus John Lennon Tickets
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From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Sep 18 02:16:04 2006
From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org)
Date: Mon Sep 18 06:37:26 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-9-18
Message-ID: <200609180916.k8I9G1OL008194@ebte.umd.edu>
Visit our sister site: http://triptopalestine.com/
New photos and articles added from a recent visit
This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating
to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar
engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event,
please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE
YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES!
========================= T H I S W E E K =========================
TUESDAY, September 19, 2006
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PRESENTATION: PALESTINE FOR BEGINNERS
TIME: 7:00pm
LOCATION: Howard County Central Library
DIRECTIONS: 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, MD 21044 (Enter
the parking lot from South Entrance Road.)
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Howard County Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
CONTACT: HCCEIO@yahoo.com
Palestine for Beginners" (and everyone else!)
Filmed before a live audience and professionally edited, the Palestine Information Project's "Palestine for Beginners" is a 72-minute presentation by Linda Bevis, international human rights lawyer, and Edward Mast, playwright and performer. It is a fast-paced, yet cl ...
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WEDNESDAY, September 20, 2006
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LECTURE/BOOK SIGNING:CHRISTIANS IN PALESTINE
TIME: 12:30pm-2:00pm
LOCATION: The Palestine Center
DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel.
(202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund) Tel. (202) 338-1290
(Palestine Center) Fax (202) 333-7742 Foggy Bottom Metro
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center)
ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center
CONTACT: 202.338.1290 rsvp@palestinecenter.org
The Palestine Center invites you to an evening lecture and book signing for
Christians in Palestine
with
Jean Rolin
Author of the new release, Christians in Palestine
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
Christians in Palestine (Ig Publishing, 2006) is Rolin's perso ...
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FRIDAY, September 22, 2006
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READING/BOOK SIGNING:THE WOMAN I LEFT BEHIND
TIME: 6:30pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: The Palestine Center
DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel.
(202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund) Tel. (202) 338-1290
(Palestine Center) Fax (202) 333-7742 Foggy Bottom Metro
SPONSORING
ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center)
ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center
CONTACT: 202.338.1290 rsvp@palestinecenter.org
The Jerusalem Fund Gallery invites you to a reading and book signing for
The Woman I Left Behind
with
Kim Jensen
Author of the new release, The Woman I Left Behind
Friday, 22 September 2006
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Jerusalem Fund Gallery
The Woman I Left Behind tells the story of a love between a Pa ...
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==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS ===================
Presentation: PALESTINE FOR BEGINNERS
Palestine for Beginners" (and everyone else!)
Filmed before a live audience and professionally edited, the Palestine Information Project's "Palestine for Beginners" is a 72-minute presentation by Linda Bevis, international human rights lawyer, and Edward Mast, playwright and performer. It is a fast-paced, yet clear and informative, guide to the roots of the conflict, key historical and current events, and the characters and motivations behind the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
7 p.m.
Howard County Central Library
10375 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
(Enter the parking lot from South Entrance Road.)
Free of charge and open to the public.
Sponsored by:
Howard County Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
For more information: HCCEIO@yahoo.com
........................................................................
Lecture/Book Signing: CHRISTIANS IN PALESTINE
The Palestine Center invites you to an evening lecture and book signing for
Christians in Palestine
with
Jean Rolin
Author of the new release, Christians in Palestine
Wednesday, 20 September 2006
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
Christians in Palestine (Ig Publishing, 2006) is Rolin's personalized account of the lives of the Arab Christian population in Palestine. Through his visits to Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jerusalem, he found a people torn between their religious beliefs and their Arab patriotism. Despite the importance of the community as guardians of the holy sites of Christianity and their presence in Palestine for over 2,000 years, the rate of Palestinian Christian emigration is so high as a consequence of the ongoing Middle East conflict that they are now on the verge of extinction.
Jean Rolin is a French writer and journalist. He received the Albert Londres prize for journalism and his novel L'organisation (Gallimard) won the Medicis award. Christians in Palestine is his first work to be translated into English.
Registration is required. Unregistered guests will not be admitted.
To register, send your name, affiliation and contact information to
rsvp@palestinecenter.org by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, 19 September 2006.
This evening lecture and book signing is free and open to the public. The speaker's remarks will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a book signing. Copies of his latest book, Christians in Palestine, will be on sale before and after the lecture.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
Tel. (202) 338-1290
www.thejerusalemfund.org/palestinecenter/index.php
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Reading/Book Signing: THE WOMAN I LEFT BEHIND
The Jerusalem Fund Gallery invites you to a reading and book signing for
The Woman I Left Behind
with
Kim Jensen
Author of the new release, The Woman I Left Behind
Friday, 22 September 2006
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Jerusalem Fund Gallery
The Woman I Left Behind tells the story of a love between a Palestinian student and a young American woman. This debut novel explores the difficulties of an intercultural relationship, and it gives a rare glimpse into Palestinian history and culture. Set in southern California during the first Gulf War with flashback scenes in Jerusalem and Beirut, The Woman I Left Behind reveals the cultural dilemmas that inevitably occur when lovers from different worlds come together.
"This is a love story with an edge to it, a novel that is daring in style and content, a riveting exploration of the place where politics, culture and psychology intersect, where a history of wars collides with everyday life."- Jordan Times
"Packed with politics and sensuality, warm as bread baked in a Palestinian village bakery and passionate as California's purple jacaranda, The Woman I Left Behind is a marvelously told tale, a timely offering for American and Arab readers to view themselves in the other's intimate and unsparing mirror." - Sharif S. Elmusa, Al-Ahram Weekly
Registration is required. Unregistered guests will not be admitted.
To register, send your name, affiliation and contact information to
rsvp@palestinecenter.org by 5:00 p.m. Thursday, 21 September 2006.
This reading and book signing is free and open to the public. The reading will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a book signing. Copies of her latest book, The Woman I Left Behind, will be on sale before and after the lecture.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
Tel. (202) 338-1290
www.thejerusalemfund.org/palestinecenter/index.php
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DCPalestine representative or e-mail events@dcpalestine.org .
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Designed and administered by Spidy.net - No one masters the Web like Spidy!
From david at davidswanson.org Sun Sep 17 12:25:06 2006
From: david at davidswanson.org (David Swanson)
Date: Mon Sep 18 06:37:33 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Women for Peace Day and John Lennon Movie
Message-ID: <027701c6da8f$01c11f50$5101a8c0@A25BD8260D5F438>
Women for Peace Day and John Lennon Movie on Wednesday
At Camp Democracy in Washington DC, located at Constitution Avenue and 14th Street
Wednesday, September 20th, is Women for Peace Day at Camp Democracy. Meet women leaders of the peace movement and take part in a workshop on history with Howard Zinn. Here's the schedule:
http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
We have 150 free tickets to the opening night screening of "US Vs John Lennon."
You can sign up on a first-come basis for 50 of the tickets by coming to Camp Democracy at 3 p.m. The other 100 can be reserved online here:
http://codepinkalert.org/modinput4.php?modin=61
In either case, to claim your ticket, be at Camp Democracy at 6 p.m. on Wednesday to pick up your ticket and join our march to the theater, where we'll watch the movie and then march back to Camp Democracy-- the party will last all night!
Bring musical instruments and noisemakers, and dress in pink 1960s garb!
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From endviolence at carolmoore.net Mon Sep 18 09:06:39 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Mon Sep 18 10:49:13 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] War Ciminals,
Diet Coke and Mentos: Video from Camp Democracy
Message-ID: <450EC40F.3010706@carolmoore.net>
Camp Democracy had a great weekend with hundreds of people
dropping by and filling up the main tent and workshops.
The Busy-Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld Chain Gang was there
and had some fun with Diet Coke and Mentos, a popular
theme on YouTube. See the "War Criminals, Diet Coke
and Mentos" video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2f3c03JW8k
http://stopthewarnow.net/campdemocracy has photos
from last week.
For upcoming events, and this weekend's schedules, see
http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
Wednesday, September 20th, is Women for Peace Day at Camp Democracy.
Meet women leaders of the peace movement and take part in a workshop on
history with Howard Zinn. Here's the schedule:
http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
We have 150 free tickets to the opening night screening of /"US Vs John
Lennon/."
You can sign up on a first-come basis for 50 of the tickets by coming to
Camp Democracy at 3 p.m. The other 100 can be reserved online here:
http://codepinkalert.org/modinput4.php?modin=61
From endviolence at carolmoore.net Mon Sep 18 09:55:20 2006
From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC)
Date: Mon Sep 18 10:49:13 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Tuesday: Ray McGovern & Scott Ritter at Camp Democracy!
Message-ID: <450ECF78.5000904@carolmoore.net>
Camp Democracy is located at 14th and Constitution Ave NW near the
Washington
Monument. Meet us at the Post after work and come on down to Camp Democracy
to hear the presentations. http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
Tuesday September 19
5:00 ? 6:00 p.m.
Protest March to Washington Post to say "Thanks for Selling Us This War"
with Jeff Cohen, Scott Ritter, and Ray McGovern:
http://tinyurl.com/ht2nk (Note: McGovern reveals a navy officer has
leaked info on an October attack on Iran and some of that info featured
in a TIME MAGAZINE Cover Story described here
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/17/coverstory.tm.iran.tm/
6:00 ? 7:00 p.m. Music by Bill Farkas
7-10 pm
Take on the Media Event featuring Jeff Cohen, Scott Ritter, and Ray
McGovern, followed by screening of the film "Rush to War" and talk by
the filmmaker Robert Taicher
http://www.rushtowar.com
++++++++
Wednesday, September 20th, is Women for Peace Day at Camp Democracy.
Meet women leaders of the peace movement and take part in a workshop on
history with Howard Zinn. See more details at
http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
We have 150 free tickets to the opening night screening of /"US Vs John
Lennon/."
You can sign up on a first-come basis for 50 of the tickets by coming to
Camp Democracy at 3 p.m. The other 100 can be reserved online here:
http://codepinkalert.org/modinput4.php?modin=61
++++++++
See the Bush-Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld CHAIN GANG
play with Diet Coke and Mentos at Camp Democracy!
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=carolmoore
See photos:
From relamine at yahoo.com Mon Sep 18 13:55:43 2006
From: relamine at yahoo.com (Rami Elamine)
Date: Mon Sep 18 17:51:30 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Anti-Arab Racism, Islam, and the Left/Antiwar movement
Message-ID: <20060918205543.94616.qmail@web33214.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
The following article is adapted from the Oct/Nov issue (#22) of Left Turn magazine. This issue is packed with timely articles and essays on the Middle East, New Orleans, and Public Education by members of Save Our Schools. Email us at leftturn-dc@onebox.com if you'd like a copy or copies to distribute.
Anti-Arab Racism, Islam, and the Left
by Rami El-Amine
http://www.leftturn.org/Racism.aspx
We thrash, curse for air
As our strangler declares, look
How violent the Arab
-- Haiku for the Head Locked by Zein El-Amine
According to an ABC-Washington Post poll taken in March 2006, a majority of people in the US believe that "Muslims are disproportionately prone to violence," with 46 percent expressing a negative view of the religion, 7 percent higher than in the immediate aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The poll also found that 25 percent of people in the US admitted to "harboring prejudice towards" Muslims and Arabs. The institutional effect of this racism is stark. The earnings of Arab and Muslim men working in the US dropped about 10 percent since 9-11, according to a new University of Illinois study. The drop in wages was most dramatic in areas reporting high crime rates. Robert Kaestner, co-author of the study said there was "an immediate and significant connection between personal prejudice and economic harm."
This should not come as a surprise when you consider the extent of anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism being perpetrated by governments and the media around the world. The past year has seen the mass publication of Danish cartoons ridiculing Islam, police brutality and repression against North Africans in France, and a riot against mostly Lebanese immigrants in Australia -- all of which led to mass protests and, in the case of France, riots by Arabs and Muslims in response.
While such blatant racism has not yet provoked a similar response in the US, it has not been because of any shortage of incidents:
-Last year a Washington, DC, radio host continuously referred to Islam as a "terrorist organization" on his show (Paul Farhi, "Muslims Call Comments by WMAL Host 'Hate-Filled,'" Washington Post 26 Jul 2005: C01).
-The Coalition for a Secure Driver's License started a campaign to put up "Don't License Terrorists" billboards depicting an Arab holding a hand grenade in one hand and a driver license smeared with blood in the other.
-Republican Congressman Tancredo of Colorado openly called for the US to preempt a terrorist attack by attacking Muslim holy sites like Mecca.
War on Terror
Anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism is an indispensable part of the so-called "war on terror" or "the long war," as it is now referred to, and US plans to dominate the Middle East. By dehumanizing those that the US is waging war against, this racism makes their death and the destruction of their countries more palatable to the US public and quells domestic resistance to the war. Today it helps numb people to the deaths of dozens of Iraqis per day and the mass murder of Lebanese and Palestinians by Israel.
Fomenting anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism has not been difficult because, as Noam Chomsky puts it, such racism has "long been extreme, the last 'legitimate' form of racism in that one doesn't even have to pretend to conceal it." I do not want to minimize all the other forms of racism that run deep in this country, but there is indeed a certain legitimacy and respectability given to anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism that is not found with other forms of racism. This legitimacy stems from the fact that anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism cuts across the entire political spectrum, from right to left. It is accepted and even practiced by those who would not tolerate other forms of racism. While the anti-racist record of liberals and some on the left is not the best, it is particularly bad when it comes to Arabs and Muslims.
Green Menace
Arabs have historically been more the targets of this racism than Muslims. This began to change in the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian revolution because it was no longer just Arabs who were the enemy. The end of the Cold War and resistance to US hegemony, particularly by Muslims in the Middle East, made Islam a useful scapegoat for US imperialism -- its new bogeyman now that communism was gone. Books by the Orientalist Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations became popular because they gave "scholarly" backing to the idea that Islam was the main threat to Western "civilization."
Many have drawn parallels between this scapegoating of Muslims to the red scare during the Cold War, referring to it as the "green menace." While the comparison is appropriate, the concept of the green menace is, in many ways, much more insidious because it relies on racism rather than ideology. It is a more effective means of instilling fear in people, deflecting their attention from their everyday problems, and mobilizing them against some supposedly powerful enemy. That is not to say that the red scare was not (and still is not) used in a racist manner against countries like Vietnam, North Korea, China, Cuba, and against black activists in the US. It is just that the main communist bogeymen, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, were white Europeans.
The specter of the green menace, on the other hand, relies on the fact that Muslims look different and, even if they do not look different, they have distinct names, places of worship, dress, and customs that can be easily exploited to portray them as the "other" -- different, prone to violence, and barbaric. Also, in the age of "full spectrum dominance," this racism can be used to justify and mobilize attacks on a huge swath of the world's poor because Muslims are not only present in large numbers in the Middle East, but in Africa, Asia, and most urban centers in Europe, the United States, and Canada.
Having said that, I have chosen to use the term "anti-Arab/anti-Muslim" rather than just one or the other because both groups -- and many others, including Sikhs, who are neither Arab nor Muslim -- are the targets of the racism we are seeing today. The piercing words, physical assaults, and flying bombs and bullets do not know nor care that we are not all the same.
Republicratic Racism
The racist hysteria around an Arab company, Dubai Ports World (DPW), managing six US ports is a good example of both the uniqueness and pervasiveness of anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism in the US. During the public debate over the deal, it was those who traditionally have at least paid lip service against racism, the Democrats, who were the most xenophobic and, in some cases, downright racist. At a rally in Newark, New Jersey, attended by a number of Democratic Congressmen, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) described the port deal as an "occupation." He added that "we wouldn't transfer the title to the Devil; we're not going to transfer it to Dubai."
The liberal group MoveOn.org was less blatantly racist but still contributed to the hysteria. On its website it asked people how it should respond to the "port security scandal." In their summary of the issue, they regurgitated the same distorted arguments politicians from both parties had been using, like "Dubai is . . . known as an international money laundering hub for Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks." Such use of unsubstantiated generalizations only feeds into the stereotype that the Middle East is crawling with terrorists. Of the five possible responses that MoveOn.org asked people to choose from, all but one fed into the anti-Arab hysteria whipped up around the deal. For example, one of the choices was for MoveOn.org to "[f]ocus on whichever course is most likely to stop the ports from being handed over to the UAE." The other was to "[s]upport the Democratic bill in the Senate banning all corporations owned by foreign governments from managing security
at American ports." None of the options were about exposing the anti-Arab bias of both political parties and the media.
With Democrats and liberals taking such a right-wing stance, it's no wonder that Bush and some Republicans were portrayed as supporting the deal because they were friends of Arabs. In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, liberal Richard Cohen says, "Maybe because Bush is a Bush -- son of a president who got to know many Arabs -- or maybe because he just naturally recoils from prejudice, his initial stance on this controversy has been refreshingly admirable."
Yes, remarkably, Bush may indeed be a defender of Arabs. However, he is selective in which Arabs he defends. Bush is more than willing to protect the rich Arab monarchies that lord over the Gulf, but certainly not the thousands of Arabs and Muslims that his racist war on terror has maligned, detained, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. Nothing captures this fact and the dehumanizing role of racism better than the following words from a letter Guantanamo Bay detainee Jumah Dossari gave his lawyer before attempting suicide:
The detainees are suffering from the bitterness of despair, the detention, humiliation, and the vanquish of slavery and suppression. I hope you will always remember that you met and sat with a "human being" called "Jumah" who suffered too much and was abused in his belief, self, dignity and also in his humanity. He was imprisoned, tortured, and deprived from his homeland, his family, and his young daughter who is in the most need of him for four years . . . with no reason or crime committed.
Sadly, Jumah Dossari is only one of thousands of Arab and Muslim prisoners, many of them nameless, being "detained" in US prisons and unknown "black sites" around the world, including here in the US at places like the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The Anti-war Movement
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) and others in the anti-war movement, as well as generally perceived progressive groups such as the Green Party sat out the DPW deal "controversy" and, more importantly, the whole anti-Muslim cartoons debate. There were protests on every continent, led mostly by Muslims who saw this as part of a broader war on Islam by non-Muslims -- one that they were actually finally allowed to act on, as opposed to more egregious aspects of the war on terror like torture, imprisonment, and occupation that their rulers do not want to rock the boat over. The failure of anti-war groups in the US to organize any events in solidarity with Muslims worldwide, let alone even put out statements condemning their publication, helped reinforce the perception that the anti-war movement is not concerned with anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism.
On the positive side, some of the anti-war groups who are part of UFPJ have been organizing speaking tours of Iraqis. US Labor Against the War (USLAW) organized a tour of six Iraqi trade unionists around the country in June 2005, and in early 2006; Code Pink brought several Iraqi women to the US on a powerful tour involving Cindy Sheehan and other families of US soldiers killed in Iraq. Such events are very effective in combating racism because they humanize Iraqis and help break down stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims. The Green Party has also been good about issuing statements condemning the government's targeting and racial profiling of Arabs and Muslims. However, if groups are genuinely concerned and committed to bringing about a just peace in the Middle East, then an explicit strategy of confronting anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism needs to be a central and consistent part of their work.
The failure of some anti-war groups to take anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism head-on may be due to the small number of Arabs and Muslims involved, and organizations' lack of movement on these issues then reinforces the lack of Arab and Muslim involvement. For example, there is only one Muslim (and no Arabs) on UFPJ's Steering Committee. While UFPJ does manage to have Arabs and Muslims speak at their actions and events, they are generally not involved in organizing with UFPJ on any consistent basis.
Islamophobia and Zionism
The failure of many in the US antiwar movement to fight anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism is often rooted in conscious or unconscious acceptance of two interconnected racist ideologies of Islamophobia and Zionism. A good example of this is the anti-war movement's wary response to Hamas' overwhelming victory in this year's Palestinian legislative elections.
The election was immediately seized upon by Zionists to tighten the occupation and add to the already heightened racism against Arabs and Muslims in the US. While US and European leaders were mobilizing the world against the new, democratically elected government of Hamas (punishing the entire Palestinian people in the process) on the grounds that it did not renounce violence and recognize the state of Israel, few in the anti-war movement were exposing the virulent anti-Arab racism found at all levels of the Israeli government, which is actively working to ensure that a Palestinian state will never exist, refuses to give equal rights to Palestinians (and all non-Jewish residents of Israel), and is killing Palestinians on a daily basis. At the annual conference of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC, in March, the Israeli Ambassador to the UN commented: "While it may be true . . . that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to
be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim." This comment was applauded and went unchallenged by the media or any of the Congresspeople in attendance.
Calls for the ethnic cleansing or "transfer" of Palestinians are not uncommon in Israel, even at the highest levels of the government because Zionism -- a product of European colonialism -- sees a Jewish majority and Jewish-privileged state as being incompatible with respecting the rights of the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Rehavam Zeevi, the Minister of Tourism assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 2001, called Palestinians "lice" and "a cancer" and openly advocated their forced transfer. In March, Zvi Bar'el, a regular columnist for the Israeli paper Haaretz wrote, "Israel's problem is not Hamas, strong or weak; the problem is with the Palestinian people, who chose it. They have to be changed or eliminated if one wants quiet. . . ." Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Israel Is Our Home party, the largest party in the sizeable Russian bloc in Israel's new Knesset, supports what is essentially a plan to ethnically
cleanse Israel of its Palestinian citizens. Sergei Podrazhansky, the editor of one of Israel's Russian language dailies, said "I know that even the most left-wing person in Israel wants to wake up and not see any Arabs here." The annual poll by the Center for the Struggle Against Racism shows that comments like these are not isolated views. The poll found that 68% of Israeli Jews would refuse to live in the same building as an Arab and 40% believe "the state needs to support the emigration of Arab citizens" (Eli Ashkenazi and Jack Khoury, "Poll: 68% of Jews Would Refuse to Live in Same Building as an Arab," Haaretz 22 March 2006).
Support for the "transfer" or expulsion of Palestinians is evident in the US as well, particularly among neoconservatives. In response to a suicide bombing in Israel in August 2001, two neoconservative Washington Post columnists, Michael Kelly and Charles Krauthammer, called for the expulsion of Palestinians. So it was no surprise to read the rank racism in Krauthammer's column following Hamas' recent election victory. He said, "By a landslide, the Palestinian people have chosen these known stances: rejectionism, Islamism, terrorism, rank anti-Semitism, and the destruction of Israel in a romance of blood, death and revolution."
The US media, and even many activists, perpetuate the steroetype that Hamas wants to destroy Israel, rather that listening to what Hamas has to say about its goals. Hamas' leadership has often publicly committed to end violent resistance and enter into negotiations to resolve the main impediments to a just peace for the Palestinians. In a July 11 Washington Post Op-Ed by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas, described the conditions necessary to make this possible: "[R]ecognition of the core dispute over the land of historical Palestine and the rights of all its people . . . reclaiming all lands occupied in 1967; and stopping Israeli attacks, assassinations and military expansion. . . . Statehood for the West Bank and Gaza, a capital in Arab East Jerusalem, and resolving the 1948 Palestinian refugee issue fairly, on the basis of international legitimacy and established law."
Colonial Mentality
Israel's colonization of Palestine has actually been the source of much of the anti-Arab/anti-Muslim ideas that have been accepted by the mainstream. The propagation of the idea that Palestinians are Arab and Muslim fanatics not deserving of rights and equality, let alone their own state, has been an indispensable part of the process of the creation, expansion, and support of the state of Israel since 1948. What has helped these ideas spread and become "legitimate" in the US are not neoconservatives like Krauthammer, but liberal supporters of Israel who are actively involved in the Democratic Party and social justice causes. While this has changed over the past six years as more people have begun to identify Israel with US imperialism and apartheid South Africa, supporters of Israel still play an important role in making these ideas acceptable, particularly on the left (see the Arab Women's Solidarity Association's "The Forgotten ' ?ism:': An Arab American Women's
Perspective on Zionism, Racism and Sexism").
For example, in response to the US Green Party (USGP) Resolution 190 calling for divestment from Israel, opponents have started a "Let 190 Go" campaign complete with its own website, www.advocatesforisrael.org. A number of prominent leftists and former candidates of the Green Party like Stanley Aronowitz and Marakay Rogers have been pushing to repeal the resolution. While most have been careful to avoid racist arguments (a difficult thing to do when supporting a racist state), many have cited a letter from the Israeli Green Party (IGP) in their effort to convince more Greens to repeal the resolution. The letter is rife with arguments based on racist stereotypes, like "Did you know that in the Palestinian media there is glorification of violence and of suicide bombers?"
In arguing against the resolution, one prominent global justice activist and member of the DC Statehood Green Party (DCSGP) said, "I feel if the USGP party won't listen to fellow Greens in Israel . . . my continued membership or enthusiasm for our party is going to shrink . . . as Green Values . . . seem to have changed with this stupid resolution." But he exposed the colonial mentality of so many supporters of Israel when he said that it all boils down to the fact that "Israelis should have human rights too and quality of life doesn't have to suffer in order to improve the Palestinian's." In other words, he is concerned about Israelis having to give up their swimming pools so that Palestinians could drink and water their fields.
Worthless Arab Lives
The tragic consequences of the failure of the anti-war movement in the US to challenge anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism were laid bare during Israel's bloody invasion of Gaza and Lebanon. The public support for or, at best, indifference to such massive loss of innocent life and virtual destruction of entire countries and territories can only be fathomed in the context of a racism that basically says that Arab and Muslim lives are worthless and dispensable. In what other situation would the blatant targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure and the carrying out of not one but three massacres in the span of a week by a close US ally -- with explicit US approval and military support -- be tolerated? Add to this the fact that something similar continues to take place in Gaza and dozens of Iraqis are dying every day under the US occupation in Iraq.
Nothing exemplifies this dehumanization better than the case of Private Steven D. Green, the US soldier who raped a young Iraqi girl along with several other soldiers and then killed her and her entire family in the town of Mahmudiyah. Well before this incident, Green had said in an interview with a Stars and Stripe correspondent (now AP reporter) that he came to Iraq to kill people. He said, "I shot a guy who wouldn't stop when we were out at a traffic checkpoint and it was like nothing. . . . Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant. I mean, you kill somebody and it's like 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'" I'm not sure what's more problematic -- what Green said or the fact the reporter never reported it until charges were filed against Green.
Of course such racism is dismissed as the words and actions of some crazed individual. But Green's comments --- like those of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who fought in the first Gulf War and said similar things -- are the logical outcome of the racism being espoused at the highest levels of government and in the media. In response to the dozens of Lebanese civilians that were being killed in the early days of Israel's assault, US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said with no regrets: "There's no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and those killed in Israel from malicious terrorist attacks." Meanwhile the mainstream media portrayed the war as being between equals even though over 1200 Lebanese, almost entirely civilians, and only 157 Israelis, more than two-thirds soldiers, were killed.
Instead of immediately challenging this and other lies, UFPJ reinforced the perception of a symmetrical war propagated by the media by mentioning first in communications their concern for "the loss of life on all sides . . . all attacks on civilians" and front-loading condemnations of Hezbollah, without necessarily even getting to the point of the grossly uneven death and destruction in Lebanon and Palestine caused by Israel. Although the statements UFPJ released improved as the slaughter of Lebanese and Palestinians continued unabated (partially due to feedback from Palestine-solidarity activists), they did not even call for a day of decentralized protests around the country.
To get a sense of how conservative UFPJ was around the invasion of Lebanon, one need only compare their statements and actions to anti-war groups and individuals in other countries. A widely distributed and lauded video during the fighting was British MP George Galloway's interview on Sky Television (Britain's Fox) in which he not only exposes the media's bias toward Israel but challenges the widely accepted view in the West that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. This argument needs to be made because after 9-11 most people in the US don't need to hear anything beyond "this is a terrorist organization" to make up their mind about who is right and who is wrong. Therefore, challenging the US government labels of "terrorist" would go a long way toward shifting the debate in this country on issues related to the "war on terror."
The reason no one in the US has done what Galloway did is that in addition to Islamophobia there is a level of acceptance of the lies about Islamism, even by radicals. For example, the anti-capitalists who blog at www.threewayfight.blogspot.com posted an entry titled "Defending My Enemy's Enemy" during Israel's recent invasion of Lebanon in which they argued that while Israel is the clear aggressor in the conflict and needs to be opposed, it doesn't mean the left should support Hezbollah. The bloggers argue:
Hezbollah is essentially a right-wing political movement. Its guiding ideology is Khomeini-style Islamic fundamentalism. Hezbollah's political ideal, the Islamic Republic of Iran, enforces medieval religious law, imposes brutal strictures on women and LGBT people, persecutes religious and ethnic minorities, and has executed tens of thousands of leftists and other political dissenters.
If it's not already, this argument will one day become part of one of Hillary Clinton's or even George Bush's (minus the part about LGBT people) speeches justifying a war on Lebanon and Iran. Even though the entry is insignificant in terms of the number of people who probably read it, it articulates a political view that a lot of the left, particularly anarchists and anti-authoritarians, subscribe to but are not as open about -- hence their conspicuous absence from a lot of the organizing against Israel's invasion.
These kinds of arguments ignore the fact that Hezbollah gave up on fighting for a theocracy long ago. It is an established political party in a multi-ethnic and -religious state in which they have the support and admiration of the other ethnic and religious groups and work closely with those on the left as well as the right. Additionally, Hezbollah's recent victory was not just a victory over the Israeli apartheid state but a major blow to US imperialism, the main source of oppression and exploitation in the world. It could possibly have a libratory effect not just in the Middle East but also in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Understanding Islamism
In short, proponents of anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism can be broken down into several groups. One consists of the Pipes and Krauthammers of the world who see Islam as inherently violent, authoritarian, intolerant (anti-Semitic, misogynist, etc.), and therefore a natural breeding ground for terrorists. Another group says that it is not Islam but political Islam or Islamism that is the source of terrorism -- that Islamists have twisted what is otherwise a "good" religion for their own fanatical purposes. Fluctuating between these two groups is the majority of people in the US, who, according to the ABC-Washington Post poll cited earlier, have for now apparently bought into the first group's blatant racism.
This is not surprising since Pipes, et al. are given free reign in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post and New York Times and appear extensively in the media. They also have the ears of a large number of politicians, including their fellow neocons in the administration. But the main reason for the growth in the number of people who feel Islam is inherently prone to terrorism is the paucity of people exposing and combating these ideas. Even those who say Islamism is the problem and not the religion itself end up feeding into stereotypes of Muslims because their arguments are based on generalizations -- that all Islamists are reactionary and even fascistic -- and the false belief that there are other stronger secular forces and factors that are being ignored by the media.
A good example of this could be seen on the USLAW tour of Iraqi trade unionists. A number of people stressed that the tour was a good way to show that there was a more progressive alternative to the Islamists and Baathists when it came to opposition to the US occupation. One problem with this is that it overstates the role unions play in the opposition to the occupation. But the bigger problem is that the leaders of one of the unions doing the best work against the occupation, the General Union of Oil Employees in Basra (GUOE), clearly sympathize and have close relations with the Islamist Moqtada Al Sadr. I would even venture to say that the majority of the Basra oil workers -- who have gone on strike several times, including most recently in February 2006, over economic as well as political issues like privatization and the occupation -- are supporters of Al Sadr.
The GUOE and its leaders are a perfect example of why a more dynamic understanding of Islamists -- one that does not lump them all into one homogenous group and dismiss them as reactionaries -- is needed. While only a minority of Muslims might consider themselves Islamists, a large number, maybe even a majority, support them. This is especially the case among the poor and marginalized.
As the Islamists have steadily filled the vacuum created by the disintegration of the left (a direct result of US intervention in the region), they have taken on some of the language and politics of the left, becoming the main force in resisting the ravages of poverty, imperialism, and authoritarian rule. As a result, they have also gained the support of some non-Islamist political activists and co-opted others, becoming the hegemonic force in opposition to the ruling regimes and their imperial backers.
Islamists
This is not to say that all Islamists are progressive, but that they are not uniformly reactionary. Moreover, each Islamist group or party differs from the other in significant ways. They are products of their own distinct histories, shaped by different colonial experiences, class struggles, and imperialism.
For example, Hamas and Hezbollah reflect the experience of a much poorer and oppressed population than Al-Qaeda. As a result of not being based in any one country and who its leaders are, Al-Qaeda says and does very little for workers and the poor. Hezbollah takes positions against privatization and neoliberalism and for workers' rights that have historically been taken up by the left in Lebanon. Moreover, like some of their fellow Shiite Islamists in Iraq, Hezbollah is not trying to create a theocracy through an Islamic revolution but work within a democratic system to ensure the rights and aspirations of the Shiites, the most downtrodden in Lebanese society.
In contrast, those groups who hold or have held state power like the Islamists in Iran and the Taliban in Afghanistan are more right-wing and authoritarian, ruthlessly suppressing any resistance. Almost all the groups that are allowed to operate openly -- or in the case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, semi-openly -- provide a wide range of social services to the poor.
Hamas and Hezbollah have also been shaped by a resistance struggle against Israeli occupation and US imperialism. In Iraq, the Sadrists took up arms against the US occupation while their fellow Shiite Islamists in the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) supported it. Hezbollah, and now Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, all participate in elections while Al-Qaeda and other Islamists reject them.
Even on the question of women's rights there are differences, with the level of involvement of women in the day-to-day activities of each group being an indicator of how supportive they are of women's rights. With Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and most of the Islamist groups in Iraq, Sunni and Shiite, there is little or no involvement of women and little or no support for women's rights. On the other hand, Hamas and the Egyptian Brotherhood ran women candidates; some even won. And women are openly involved at many levels in Hezbollah (for more on this, check out the documentary The Women of Hezbollah airing on Link TV).
They'll Never Win
Exposing and ending anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism needs to be a priority in the anti-war movement and the left in general. Doing so will not only bring more Arabs and Muslims into the movement, but also undercut the racist basis of support for the war. It will also alleviate the sense of isolation and powerlessness that so many Arabs and Muslims feel as a result of being the targets of war and racism.
Such blatant injustice combined with a lack of any effective mass opposition to the US-backed murder of so many innocent Arabs and Muslims is, ultimately, what pushes people to resort to terrorism. On the other hand, what the resistance in Lebanon has accomplished shows a successful alternative to such desperate and, ultimately, counterproductive tactics. It has also shown how quickly things can turn in this seemingly overwhelming struggle to stop the US war machine.
Most importantly, however, Lebanon has shown that we, Arabs and Muslims, can be locked up, tortured, and bombed but we will never stop resisting US and Israeli efforts to beat us into submission. Nothing captures this better than the words of Kamel, a shopkeeper who refused to leave Nabatiyeh, one of the hardest hit towns in south Lebanon: "Look around you, they have destroyed much of Nabatiyeh, but that is all they can do, destroy people's homes and livelihoods. They can't destroy our spirit and that is what they don't understand and why they will never win this war."
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Rami El-Amine, an Arab/Muslim activist and writer, is a founder and former editor of Left Turn magazine. His article, ?The Shia Rise Up,? in the Summer 2004 issue of Left Turn also appeared on ZNet, Muslim WakeUp, and Dissident Voice as well as a number of other websites and blogs. He can be reached at qawom (at) mutualaid.org.
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From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride)
Date: Tue Sep 19 11:30:05 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] DC Anti-War Network meets tonight: 7PM Sept 19
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Tuesday 7PM Sept. 19, the DC Anti-War Network meets Date Edited ?19 Sep 2006 01:36:22 PM
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Join the DC Anti-War Network's meeting this evening starting at 7PM. DAWN will review our recent participation in Camp Democracy and the Declaration of Peace. We'll hear a report back on DAWN activists participation in a creative anti-war action in front of The White House on Sunday. DAWN meets at 2211 14th Street, NW near the U Street Cordozo Metro and on the 52, 54, S2, S4 Metro bus lines.
Note: Pursuant to Title II and Title V of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), all electronic transmissions may be monitored by numerous federal and state agencies without notice or judicial authorization.
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From katharinene at yahoo.com Wed Sep 20 08:51:17 2006
From: katharinene at yahoo.com (Katie Nelson)
Date: Wed Sep 20 11:01:32 2006
Subject: [dawn-dc] Anti-immigrant phone-a thon in effect. CALL NOW!!
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Anti-immigrant phone-a-thon in effect. CALL NOW!!
Pass it on.
DC, MD & VA
Dear Friends in our National Capital Immigration Coalition region - We Need You to Make 5 telephone conversations TODAY - Wednesday Sept. 20!
What is going on?
ELECTION PANDERING BY HOUSE REPUBLICANS! House Republicans, in an attempt to mobilize anti-immigrant base voters, are moving "security only" non-comprehensive bills. We need to stop them now!
On September 14, the House of Representatives passed the Secure Fence Act, H.R. 6061, which calls for 700 miles of fence on the U.S./Mexico border and requires the Department of Homeland Security to achieve "operational control" of the rest of the U.S./Mexico border through a "virtual fence." The Senate may debate and vote on this legislation shortly. This week the House will vote on three new enforcement bills introduced by Representative Sensenbrenner (R-WI):
? HR 6091- Gives the Administration? s Department of Homeland Security the unchecked power to deport people without their day in court.
? HR 6090 ? Allows the Administration? s Attorney General to simply ?designate? people as gang members without a trial, without giving them their day in court. It would also make it easier in any immigration case for the administration to continue violating the law even after it has lost in court.
? R 6089 ? Expands the Administration? s ability to lock people up indefinitely with no end in sight. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that they are required to eliminate this practice.
Who Do You Call RIGHT NOW?
VA
Call Jim Moran ? usually an ally, Congressman Moran voted on the floor to build a wall across the U.S. ? Mexico border. Tell him he VOTED WRONG AND WE ARE WATCHING! (202) 225-4376
Call John Warner ? when these bills hit the Senate, we need Senator Warner to remain committed to a comprehensive reform bill. (202) 224-2023
MD
Call Dutch Ruppersberger - usually an ally, Congressman Ruppersberger voted on the floor to build a wall across the U.S. ? Mexico border. Tell him he VOTED WRONG AND WE ARE WATCHING! 202-225-3061
Call Steny Hoyer ? as House Minority Whip, Congressman Hoyer can make the House Democrats hold out for comprehensive immigration reform. Call him and let him that that in Maryland we want him to do the right thing! (202) 225-4131
Call Barbara Mikulski ? As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Mikulski will have the firsthand opportunity to ensure that bills coming out of the House have these wrong-headed provisions removed. Please give her a call at (202) 224-4654.
Script:
"Congress must stop their enforcement- only approach to immigration reform. I support a comprehensive bill that reunites families, legalizes the undocumented population, and provides future immigrants with a safe and legal way to live and work in the U.S."
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From agentforchange at comcast.net Sun Sep 24 18:15:09 2006
From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:15:09 -0400
Subject: [dawn-dc] FW: Press Release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gordon Clark, 301-466-5689
September 24, 2006
Ken Butigan, 360-402-4761
National Religious Leaders to Join Peace Groups in Nonviolent Action Against
Iraq War
With the backdrop of reports that U.S. intelligence agencies agree the Iraq
war is increasing the threat of terrorism, leaders of national religious
organizations will be joining peace groups in a nonviolent action for the
first time since the 2003 invasion, demanding an end to the war and military
occupation of Iraq. The action on Tuesday, September 26, will be preceded by
a rally, including music and liturgy, beginning at 10am in Upper Senate Park
(Delaware and Constitution Aves.), and then a procession led by the faith
community leaders to the Senate.
"As religious leaders, we have a responsibility to reflect the core values
of our faith traditions," said Rick Ufford-Chase, Executive Director of the
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. "We want a security that is not built on the
false premise of the War on Terror. The fundamental principle of the
Christian faith is that we must love our enemies. Christians are stan