Keynote speaker Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi: ADC Convention - Sunday, 15 June 2008 - “Palestine: 60 Years of Dispossession”

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The Nakba Never Ended

ADC ended its convention on June 15 with a riveting luncheon speech on the Nakba by Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative. In reality, Barghouthi said, the Nabka never ended; it has been continuing for the past 60 years.

The Israelis have established three historical records, Barghouthi said: the fastest ethnic cleansing in modern history; the longest occupation in modern history; and the establishment of an apartheid system which—according to those who lived under South Africa’s apartheid government—is much worse.

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Part Two

Kevin Zeese
13 May 2009

We’ve Lit a Fire, Now We Need to Fan It Into a Movement That Cannot Be Ignored

Last week when I was one of the Baucus Eight – so-named because eight of us were arrested before Sen. Baucus – I hoped others would join us. Yesterday, they did and the single payer movement grew stronger.

Before the hearing I joined nearly 50 people in a spirited protest outside the U.S. Senate letting all who entered know we wanted a single payer national healthcare plan.

And, inside there were a series of protests.

Click here to view a series of photos showing nurses and doctors being arrested in protest for single payer health care

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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
11 May 2009

Action: Tuesday May 12: National call in day to Congress to stop funding wars. Use it to ask them to resist AIPAC’s calls for conflict with Iran and for a cut-off of military aid to the apartheid state of Israel. Call 1-800-517-5696, the Washington Switchboard and ask for your representative. We suggest expanding this action to write to all politicians especially in Europe and in the Vatican (benedictxvi@vatican.va and Find all Vatican Emails: http://www.tldm.org/email/vatican_emails.htm ) and to all media outlets (many have been regurgitating Israeli government talking points). Silence is complicity!

Note: If you emailed and have not heard back, please email again as a few hundred emails were lost recently. Especially for those who email to invite me to give talks on my upcoming trip to the US, I hope you do not assume I am ignoring you.

I am a Christian and I teach at a Catholic University in the occupied West Bank but I doubt the Pope will hear views of people like me. His trip is scripted by the Israeli foreign ministry, itself under a direction of a Russian racist who lives in an illegal colonial settlement on the land of the Bethlehem District, the birthplace of Jesus. We do not know if he will ask Israel privately to end the occupation but it is likely his visit is dominated by the usual politics of history (and Jewish-Catholic issues). We do know that the Pope’s visit is looked at as a big PR success for Israel as it legitimizes the state of apartheid and the mistaken notion that Zionists represent “the Jewish people”. As the Pope stands next to war criminals like Shimon Peres and Binyamin Netanyahu, he utters words of contrition and friendliness to “the Jewish people”. Jesus would not stand next to the murderous Herod and utter such words. Jesus would be with the poor (in this case the people of Gaza would be a perfect target group, like the lepers of his time). The Pope at least should meet with more decent Jews like Ezra Nawi, a peace activist who stood up to the demolition of poor Palestinian homes near illegal colonial settlements and was arrested by occupation soldiers who were laughing about the demolition of homes (Must see video at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/06/israel-human-rights-police. Help to free him is needed.). Or he could meet with the Israeli artists who declared in 2002: “If the state of Israel aspires to perceive itself as a democracy, it should abandon once and for all, any legal and ideological foundation of religious, ethnic, and demographic discrimination.  The state of Israel should strive to become the state of all its citizens.  We call for the annulment of all laws that make Israel an apartheid state, including the Jewish law of return in its present form”

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