Mad as Hell Doctors

What: “Mad as Hell Doctors Tour”

Who: Presented by the Peace and Justice Studies Program at UVU

When: September 12th 2009 from 7:00 to 9:00pm

Where: Student Center 206C

Contact: Crystal Busenbark
Peace and Justice Studies Intern
Crystal.pjst@gmail.com

Website: http://www.madashelldoctors.com/
http://www.uvu.edu/peaceandjustice/

Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine

Cecilie Surasky: What is the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? Why are you supporting it?

Naomi Klein: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions: It’s a tactic with a very clear goal, to force Israel to comply with international law.

The call [for BDS] was made in 2005 by an extraordinarily broad range of Palestinian civil society groups, political parties, and trade unions. But it didn’t really start to gain an international profile until the Israeli attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

In the midst of the war, the writer John Berger sent out a letter, signed by many prominent artists, mostly European, declaring their support for the boycott strategy. When that letter surfaced, I was in the middle of writing The Shock Doctrine, and I made a personal decision at the time that when the book came out, I wouldn’t do what I had done with the Hebrew translations of my previous two books, which was to publish with a fairly traditional commercial publisher.

Instead, I planned to do what John Berger was calling for, which was to find a way to publish in Hebrew that directly supports groups that are working to end the occupation. So that’s how I met Yael, who is anything but a traditional Israeli publisher, and who has been outspoken in her support of BDS, at genuine professional cost.

Israel begins sell-off of refugees’ land

Abu Arab, 74, a refugee from the destroyed village of Saffuriya, stands in the village’s surviving cemetery surrounded by the homes of a new Jewish community called Tzipori. The houses visible outside the cemetery are built on Abu Arab’s parents’ land.

Amin Muhammad Ali, a 74-year-old refugee from a destroyed Palestinian village in northern Israel, says he only feels truly at peace when he stands among his ancestors’ graves.

What Actually Happened in Fatah’s Elections?

The US government has been meddling in the Palestinian internal affairs since at least 2003. Its effort is to transform the Palestinian national movement for liberation and independence into a more compliant or puppet government, willing to accede to Israel’s political and security demands.

Socialized Health Care For Dummies

Our health care in America is a joke. It might be wonderful for a select few but for the rest of us it’s downright awful. We are currently ranked 36th in the world with every other country who has universal health care ranking above us. We have 46 million people without insurance, doctors wasting time filling out insurance forms, insurance companies dreaming up ways to avoid paying out to people who faithfully paid their premiums for years and 50% of the 1,458,000 personal bankruptcies in the US in 2001 were due to medical bills. Health care should be considered a universal human right that should be made available to all persons regardless of race, gender, sexuality, or ability to pay. What it comes down to is countries who offer universal health care have happier citizens who live longer and are healthier.

For those who still are not convinced, I have provided some arguments that are posed to my friends and I almost daily, along with our replies:

Mad World – 2010 Global March To Palestine

Help End The Siege On Gaza

We all know the story of the atrocities committed by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people. There is no question that the occupation is illegal, that there have been innumerable human rights violations, that Israel is continuing to build settlements and their apartheid wall is reaching ever farther into Palestinian land. We are going on 60 years now of what most people would consider ethnic cleansing, while the world at large sits idly by unable or unwilling to stand up to the American backed Israeli war machine.

The Vulcans Take Lessons From The Zionists

In the run-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration had failed miserably to win any international support or backing for the war from the UN Security Council. There was a wide spread global consensus that this upcoming war being waged by the US was going to be an illegal one. But the US was not going to give up hope just yet. President George Bush knew that he had a comrade in Tony Blair and Britain would soon join the so called “coalition of the willing”. Britain and Spain as well as a handful of others were more than willing to support and endorse Bush’s war on terrorism despite opposition from virtually every other country.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN on December 10th, 1948 human rights are the inalienable rights of all human beings. It states that the essence of global peace and justice is the recognition of human dignity. Virtually every atrocity committed by mankind has been a direct result of a blatant disregard of certain inalienable rights – such as the freedom of belief and speech as well as the freedom from fear and want, thus the rights of human beings should be defended by rule of law.

Honduras And The School Of Coups

A controversial facility at Ft. Benning, Ga., formerly known as the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA), is still training Honduran officers despite claims by the Obama administration that it cut military ties to Honduras after its democratically elected president was overthrown on June 28.