UJP Strategy Conference: March on Washington; Anti-Muslim Agitation
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sun, 08/22/2010 - 10:13am.![]() |
| Jose Perez |
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| Juan Cofield |
Note time change! Conference starts at noon. Potluck Lunch!
Marking the anniversary of 9/11, the conference will hear an invited speaker from the Roxbury Mosque critique the anti-Muslim agitation generated by the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy.
The conference will discuss the economic crisis and the One Nation Working Together mobilization which will rally progressive movements in Washington, DC on October 2.
Juan Cofield, Executive Director of NAACP's New England regional council, will address the conference, as will Jose Perez, Massachusetts organizer of One Nation and an organizer for SEIU Health Care Workers 1199. Cofield and Perez will explain the importance of the project, describe the organizing being done in Massachusetts, and talk about how peace groups can get involved.
Filed under:Pakistan Flood Disaster - Political Dimensions
Submitted by ujpadmin on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 10:25am.[This statement from the Labour Party of Pakistan puts the horrific scenes of Pakistan's flood disaster into a political context. What political demands should be raised by the US peace movement? - Ed.]
August 20, 2010
The Disaster, and the Way Out
Labour Party Pakistan (Karachi), National Trade Union Federation
Contact: ntufpak@gmail.com
The recent floods represent the worst disaster in Pakistan’s history. The country has been devastated from the Northern Areas to its Southern tip. The State, stripped of its capacity to meet peoples’ needs by neoliberalism and militarism alike, has been found wanting—both in its longstanding failure to maintain existing infrastructure, and in its response to the calamity.
Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America's Military Strategy in the Muslim World
Submitted by ujpadmin on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 8:17am.Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security.
By Fred Branfman - August 24, 2010 - alternet.org
"[General McChrystal says that] for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies." -- "The Runaway General," Rolling Stone, 6/22/10
The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that that mass U.S. assassination on a scale unequaled in world history lies at the heart of America's military strategy in the Muslim world, a policy both illegal and never seriously debated by Congress or the American people. Conducting assassination operations throughout the 1.3 billon-strong Muslim world will inevitably increase the murder of civilians and thus create exponentially more "enemies," as Gen. McChrystal suggests -- posing a major long-term threat to U.S. national security. This mass assassination program, sold as defending Americans, is actually endangering us all. Those responsible for it, primarily General Petraeus, are recklessly seeking short-term tactical advantage while making an enormous long-term strategic error that could lead to countless American deaths in the years and decades to come. General Petraeus must be replaced, and the U.S. military's policy of direct and mass assassination of Muslims ended.
The U.S. has conducted assassination programs in the Third World for decades, but the actual killing -- though directed and financed by the C.I.A. -- has been largely left to local paramilitary and police forces. This has now has changed dramatically.
NYC “Ground Zero” Mosque Madness
Submitted by Jeff on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 1:27pm.Islamophobia, Neocons and Pro-Israel Extremists
My last days in Gaza
Submitted by Ridgely on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 8:36am.NO electricity starting early in this morning which is a first for me ..so hope my battery will last to cut and paste this message which I will try to send later ..the blackout periods have become more numerous and prolonged. The electricity shortage could so easily be remedied by simply increasing the fuel supply and allowing the repair of the one interior electrical plant is also critical. The entire population is punished by these dreadful blackouts,a constant and humiliating reminder to the Palestinians here of Israeli control of every minute of their lives. This total control being the reason international law does not consider Israel to have lifted the occupation of Gaza even though their settlers no longer physically occupy this area. Economists name this manipulation of the electrical supply as part of the Israeli plan of deliberate "de-development of Gaza" which has been implemented in various forms for dozens of years.



In theory, an investment policy that promotes the values of peace and human rights is desirable. But, despite the protestations of its supporters, that is not what the Iran Divestment bill is about. Although Iran’s record is far from perfect, there are worse human rights abusers who are US allies and which have threatened to attack or actually attacked their neighbors, as Iran has not. Israel, unlike Iran, is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and is believed to have as many as 200 nuclear weapons -- but receives upwards of $3 billion in annual US aid.

