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Tuesday, May 20th, 6:30 pm
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Khalil Barhoum, Stanford University
| This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites - working in combination with Israeli public relations strategies - exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists, and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion. |
Co-sponsored by the Current Affairs Club, Foothills Community College,
De Anza Students for Justice, and
South Bay Mobilization |
Tuesday, May 20th
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Thursday, May 22nd, 6:30 pm
Ghada Karmi’s new book, Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine, explores the Israel/ Palestine conflict; in particular Israel’s dilemma and the One-State solution.
Ghada Karmi is the author of several books, including a much acclaimed memoir: In Search of Fatima. She has also worked on a major Israel-Palestine reconciliation project for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. |
The "Nakba" means "catastrophe", and refers to Israel's depopulation of over 450 villages, 60 massacres, and creation of over 700,000 permanent Palestinian refugees in 1948. This was the start of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, a process which continues to this day.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has stated there were over 4.4 million Palestinian refugees in 2006 just from the original Nakba, a conservative number which includes only those displaced in 1948 and their descendants. |
Sponsored by the
Arab Cultural Society, the Arab American Cultural Center, and
South Bay Mobilization |
Thursday, May 22nd
6:30pm
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Recent
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Wednesday, May 7th, 6:30 pm
Good Kurds,
Bad Kurds
No Friends But the Mountains
A film by Kevin McKiernan
Film followed by talk and discussion
by
Sharat G. Lin
"Good Kurds" are those in Iraq: they are Saddam Hussein's victims, whom we want to help. "Bad Kurds" are those waging an armed insurrection against Turkey, an American ally: they are the receiving end of US weaponry. During the first Gulf War, Kevin McKiernan went to northern Iraq to cover the uprising against Saddam Hussein. Just a few miles away no one was covering the hidden war in Turkey. Kevin McKiernan, the director of the film, determined he would report the story independently.
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Co-sponsored by the Current Affairs Club, Foothills Community College,
De Anza Students for Justice, and
South Bay Mobilization |
Wednesday, May 7th
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2:45 - 6:00 pm
Panelists include:
- Emad Yahya: Is there light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq?
- Salem Ajluni: Political economy of occupied Palestinians
- Hossam el_Hamalawy: Egyptian labor movement and U.S. backing for Mubarak
- Gil Villagran: U.S. exceptionalism in the Middle East
- Sharat G. Lin: Moderator |
| Sponsored by:
SJSU School of Social Work, César Chávez Community Action Center, MOSAIC, Our Developing World, San José Peace & Justice Center, South Bay Mobilization |
Tuesday, April 29th
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 12:00 pm
Bil'in Habibti
(My love, the village of Bil'in Habibti)
Featured Speaker:
Palestinian Activist,
Bekah Wolf
Join us for the film about the village, "Bil'in Habibti", followed by a talk and discussion by Bekah Wolf. Bekah Wolf has been doing solidarity work in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2003 and co-founded the Palestine Solidarity Project, a Palestinian organization that incorporates international volunteers in proactive non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation and economic self-sufficiency projects in the West Bank. She lives in Beit Ommar, a Palestinian village in the Hebron district where PSP is based.
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Co-sponsored by the Current Affairs Club, Foothills Community College,
De Anza Students for Justice, and
South Bay Mobilization |
Tuesday, April 22nd
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Wednesday, April 16th, 6:30 pm
WHY WE FIGHT
A documentary about the
US Military-Industrial-Complex
Featured Speaker:
Professor Rich Wood,
De Anza College
An unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine of today, the "military-industrial- complex" (a phrase coined by President Dwight Eisenhower in his legendary farewell speech on January 17, 1961).
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| Co-sponsored by the Current Affairs Club, Foothills Community College |
Wednesday, April 16th
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Saturday, March 22nd, 1:30 pm
On the 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq - based on lies - the US govt is making plans to stay in Iraq for 100 years! CINDY SHEEHAN is challenging Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, for abandoning the American people's call to end the US War on Iraq. The people must demand an end to the US War on Iraq Now! For more information, please see www.CindyForCongress.org
Please join us to welcome CINDY SHEEHAN
to San Jose and help make the voice of
the anti-war movement louder in Congress. |
Saturday, March 22nd
1:30pm
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Admission:
$5-$15 sliding scale
Students Free!
No one turned away for lack of funds. |
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Tuesday, February 12th, 6:30 pm
Life in
Occupied Palestine
Eyewitness Stories and Photos
A Talk & Book Signing
by Anna Baltzer
Anna Baltzer, Jewish American Columbia Graduate, Fulbright scholar, and the grand-daughter of Holocaust refugees, will present photographs and stories from her work documenting human rights abuses and supporting non-violent resistance in the West Bank. |
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| Anna Baltzer will talk about checkpoints, the Wall, nonviolent resistance, and ways for Americans to support Palestinian resistance to Israeli Apartheid. She is currently touring with the revised 2nd edition of her book, Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American in the Occupied Territories. |
Tuesday, February 12th
6:30pm
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Thursday, January 24th, 6:30 pm
Army of None:
Strategies to Counter
Military Recruitment, End War
and Build a Better World
Join Aimee Allison to learn about people power strategies to win!
Army of None exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power strategies to win.
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| AIMEE ALLISON has led counter-recruitment activities for a decade and contributed to "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military." She was recruited out of high school and became a Conscientious Objector to the Gulf War. |
Thursday, January 24th
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Monday, January 14th, 6:30 pm
Click here for more information...
MEETING RESISTANCE raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle, and documenting for the very first time, the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied.
"Every time I saw them, I felt pain."
-- "The Warrior" (referring to American Occupiers)
Meet the film's Directors, Steve Connors and Molly Bingham! After the film, they will talk about what they learned about the Iraqi Resistance and the challenges they faced in making this film. |
Sponsored by:
South Bay Mobilization and
Students for Justice/De Anza
www.StudentsForJustice.org
Endorsed by:
National Lawyer's Guild-South Bay,
San Jose Peace Center, WILPF
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Sunday, December 16th, 5:00 pm
Click here for more information...
Why must AIPAC be stopped? Here's a short list...
* AIPAC has played an active role in getting the U.S. to invade Iraq.
* AIPAC wants tough sanctions against Iran and a military strike against the people of Iran.
* AIPAC heavily lobbied Congress to support their Apartheid Wall surrounding the West Bank, which deprives thousands of Palestinian of access to their own land, their source of food, preventing them access to work and proper medical care.
* AIPAC has lobbied the US government to support Israel's 20-month-long siege of Gaza, which has led to a humanitarian crisis--crippling critical infrastructure, depleting fuel supplies, blocking medical supplies from reaching 1.5 million people.
* and much more... |
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Protest Initiated
by:
South Bay Mobilization
Be sure to arrive by 5:00pm
to properly
greet AIPAC. This Sunday
is
their
big annual fundraising dinner!
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Thursday, November 29th, 6:15 pm
Free Event! Book signing after the talk.
6:15pm
- Talk by Dahr Jamail
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US
Empire's Accomplishments:
As
of 5/4/08:
1,206,616
Iraqi Civilians Killed
Extrapolated from
7/1/06 thru 5/4/08 using the
rate of deaths from
IraqBodyCount.org
(IBC)
times the Lancet Study estimate (thru 7/1/06).
As of July 1, 2006, IBC: 47,288
As of 5/4/08, IBC: (83,336 + 90,897) / 2
= 87,117.
87,117 / 47,288 = 1.84226 ==> death rate
increase.
Using Lancet study death toll as of 7/1/06:
654,965.
1,206,616 = 654,965 * ( 1.84226
)
Note: The UK ORB study also confirms that over
one million Iraqi civilians have been killed.
These numbers below are clearly under-reported
but these are the numbers for which
we have references.
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US Troop Statistics |
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US Troops Killed |
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Vet Suicides Due to War
(6,256 Vet suicides in 2005 alone!
"Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans",
CBS, 11/13/07) |
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Gulf War I
Veteran Deaths (see p.8) |
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35,291 |
US Troops Dead |
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US Troops Wounded |
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View Cost of Perpetual War flyer here...
654,965
Iraqi Civilians killed as of 6/30/06
-
Lancet,
10/12/06
New
MIT study
in Lancet,
10/12/06
Full
report, Lancet
version,
Addn'l comments... (local copy)
See also this study by ORB in the UK:
"Iraq Conflict Has Killed a Million Iraqis"
In the January, 2008 update to this study,
ORB wrote the following on their website: |
| "Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003." - Notice that they won't say what also started in 2003: The US Invasion & Occupation of Iraq. |
- Does not include 567,000+ Iraqi children
killed by 13 years of US sanctions
(nor the number of adult deaths due to lack
of
medical care/equipment/medicine), nor any
of
several hundred thousand Iraqis that
were
killed by the US military in Iraq in Gulf
War I.
The sum for these deaths are
well over 1 million
- caused by policies architected by
both Democrats and Republicans.
(See
photos here...)
Iraq
Now in Civil War!,
says NBC
(Boston
Globe, 11/28/06)
As
of 11/26/06, the US has been waging
War on Iraq for longer than the
US fought in World War II
(SF
Chronicle, 11/25/06)
1 of out 4 Homeless are Veterans...(11/8/07)
"We
don't do body counts."
- General Tommy Franks,
US Central Command
Add
to this the deaths from the 11-years of
brutal US sanctions on Iraq, which killed
over 500,000+
Iraqi children (confirmed
by Secty of
State Madeleine Albright on 5/12/96 on "60
Minutes"), and
the number of Iraqi Civilians killed
by Americans is well over...
1,000,000
Iraqi Civilians Killed!
(Some
estimates go as high as 2,000,000!)
Not
persuaded yet?
Then you aren't digging deep enough. The
more you look, the more you find. Example:
On 11/21/04, the Wash. Post reported
that 400,000
Iraqi children are suffering
from chronic "wasting" disease.
Any way you look at it, the
horrifying genocidal body count
just keeps going up.
[ "Children
Pay Cost of Iraq's Chaos",
Washington Post, 11/21/04 ]
[
"1
in 8 Iraqis Dies Before 5th Birthday",
San Francisco Chronicle, 5/23/07 ]
The
Cost of Perpetual War
- Thru 9/30/08 -
$1,541,000,000,000
Spent!
$1.541 Trillion Dollars!
$1,541 Bn = $755 Bn (GWOT)
+ $786 Bn (DoD)
(GWOT: Global War on "Terror"
DoD: Dept. of Defense(War))
$755 Bn GWOT = $145Bn + $100Bn
+ $510Bn
($145Bn thru 9/08, $100Bn thru 9/07,
$510 Bn thru 9/06.)
$786
Bn = Accumulated DoD Budget
Cost Overruns Above 2001 levels
(2001 DoD budget used
as a baseline: $292.3Bn)
[ See DoD "Greenbook" for 2001,
pg.13 of PDF for $292.3Bn
number... ]
5/9/07
Article-Jeff Leys ($145Bn thru 9/08)...
5/25/07 MSNBC article ($100Bn thru 9/07)...
6/15/06 AFP article ($66Bn)...
[
local
copy ]
2/4/06
Guardian article ($440Bn)... [
local copy ]
7/17/05
SF Chronicle article... [
local copy ]
The
$314 Billion Chart... [ local
copy ]
The
People of Santa Clara County
Are Paying $8.8+
Billion
for War
and for War Crimes! |
Former Secty of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Reported on 9/10/01 That the Pentagon
Lost $2.3 Trillion Dollars!
[ Local copy..., Video of report... ]
That's right...
$2,300,000,000,000 Lost!
Then of course, 9/11 buried this inconvenient
admission of massive fraud and theft
from the American people.
End the
War and
Genocidal Occupation Of Iraq!
All Troops
Out Now!
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Cost
of Perpetual War Flyer
Flyer Updated as of 4/4/08:
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Information Of Interest |
Suffering from Media Malnutrition?
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2007 Calendar for Palestine
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"Terrorism, Globalization, and Conspiracy"
A talk by Michael Parenti given at St. Andrews Wesley Church, in Vancouver, British Columbia
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"War and Globalization - The Truth Behind 9/11"
A talk my Prof. Michel Chossudovsky at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada
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Same Methods 300+ Years Later,
Aftermath of First Thanksgiving
How similar is the near
annihilation of the Wampanoag people
in 1675 to what the US is
doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran?
Answer: The tactics are identical. More...
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November 26, 2007
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November
22, 2007 |
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New Counter Recruitment Resource
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Police Brutality in Santa Clara Cty
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On
11/11/05: Santa
Clara County Police Racially Profiled,
Beat and Brutally Arrested Muslim
and Black youth at De Anza College.
Click
here for more information
& to donate. |
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Rescue, Not Repression
in New Orleans!
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Breaking the News! 8/6/05
Real-Wired
SBM News
Click
for full map...
(165 KB) |
Trans-Multinational
Geographic has just released a new map
of Iraq, Inc.,
which more accurately reflects the advanced
stages of US plans to move from Neocolonialism
to more direct Colonialism
for Iraq, Inc. paving
the way for stricter control over and
accelerated resource extraction and privatization
of the wealth of the Iraqi people by US
multi-national corporations. As always,
the US recognizes the Iraqi's right to
die if they don't agree. |
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