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LOCAL News :: Education |
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Harvard center condemns, then defends, fellow's pro-genocide statements |
by Electronic Intifada (No verified email address) |
24 Feb 2010
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Leaders of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (WCFIA) have condemned and then defended statements by Martin Kramer, one of the center's fellows, which endorsed a cut off of UN food and other humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugee children besieged in the Gaza Strip as a means to reduce the Palestinian birthrate and thus the Palestinian population. |
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Harvard Professor's Modest Proposal: Starve the Gazans into Having Fewer Babies |
by Juan Cole, Informed Comment (No verified email address) |
24 Feb 2010
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Martin Kramer revealed his true colors at the Herzliya Conference, wherein he blamed political violence in the Muslim world on population growth, called for that growth to be restrained, and praised the illegal and unconscionable Israeli blockade of civilian Gazans for its effect on reducing the number of Gazans. |
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News :: Human Rights : International |
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Mass Demo Bil'in: Five Years of Resistance Commemorated |
by The Popular Committee in Bil'in (No verified email address) |
23 Feb 2010
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Mass Demo Bil'in: Five Years of Resistance Commemorated
http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=250&I
Today Bil'in commemorated the fifth anniversary of popular demonstrations against the settlements and the Apartheid Wall. Israel's occupation has confiscated over 50% of Bil'in's land. Only last week the construction work to reroute the Wall began, nearly two and a half years after the High Court of Justice ordered the Wall to be moved. Approximately 30% of land will be returned to the village. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Gender : Human Rights : Social Welfare |
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Save the Date: CLPP Conference 2010! |
by Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (No verified email address) |
23 Feb 2010
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Join with other activists across the U.S. and internationally to create a
stronger, more cohesive movement for reproductive justice and social
change at CLPP's 24th Annual Conference for Student and Community
Activists: |
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News :: Globalization |
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Zhibin Gu: China outsourcing, stock market, insurance and finance strategies: history, trends and challenges |
by Asia study forum (No verified email address) |
23 Feb 2010
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Watch out on exploding China and Asia century! Discover what is really inside Chinese and Asian stock market, multinationals, banking, yuan, insurance, management, and politics. Get great info and analysis from veteran researcher George Zhibin Gu on the ground inside China. |
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LOCAL News :: Education |
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Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births |
by Electronic Intifada (No verified email address) |
23 Feb 2010
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A fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: War and Militarism |
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All Out! Park St. 5pm. 1000 Killed in Afghanistan! |
by thousandeaths thousand (nospam) afghanistan (unverified) |
22 Feb 2010
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Monday, February 22, 5pm - Park Street Station at Boston Common, Boston, Ma.
Please join us at Park Street tomorrow evening. At least 999 U.S. service men and women have died so far in the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the violence is continuing daily. We call on all peace-loving people to join military family members, veterans, clergy and members of peace groups as we gather to remember the U.S. soldiers, Afghans and others who have lost their lives in this futile conflict, and to call for an immediate end to the war. |
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