From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Wed Jan 4 21:15:52 2017 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:15:52 -0600 Subject: [OccupyCU] Action Alert: Congressional Attack on Obama's Legacy References: Message-ID: <53453543-859F-49A5-8980-A714026E1566@gmail.com> Please make the 1 minute phone call! This is a new year, and thinking these things don’t matter is last year. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Robert Naiman via Peace > Subject: [Peace] J Street: Action Alert: Congressional Attack on Obama's Legacy > Date: January 4, 2017 at 2:19:40 PM CST > To: peace > Reply-To: Robert Naiman > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dylan Williams, J Street Government Affairs > > Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:25 PM > Subject: Action Alert: Congressional Attack on Obama's Legacy > To: "Mr. Robert Naiman" > > > > > URGENT ACTION ALERT: > > Oppose House Resolution 11, which undermines President Obama & Secretary Kerry’s efforts to preserve the two-state solution and falsely labels United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2334 an “obstacle to peace.” > > Action: Call your member of Congress immediately. > Here's a script . > > > Rep. Davis - (202) 225-2371 > Issues with this legislation: > > Makes objectively inaccurate claims about United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. The resolution incorrectly asserts that the UN action "imposes" terms for final status negotiations on the parties, when it is a non-binding action that does not impose any terms on anyone. > Incorrectly claims the Obama administration departed from longstanding policy by abstaining. In fact, the US has supported or abstained from voting on more than 50 UNSC resolutions critical of Israeli actions since 1967. > Mischaracterizes the UNSC resolution as one-sided and anti-Israel. In fact, the UNSC resolution calls on both sides to cease actions that harm prospects for peace, and specifically mentions terror and incitement. > Other mischaracterizations of longstanding bipartisan US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict permeate the text. > Act now: Get your script to call Representative Rodney Davis and tell him to oppose H.Res.11. > Further information: > > While J Street supported President Obama’s decision to abstain and allow UNSC 2334 to pass, we understand the distrust many in our community have toward the United Nations, which has a well-documented history of anti-Israel bias. > > The UNSC resolution, however, was very much in line with US policy and reflects the views of the entire global community -- including Israel’s allies in Europe, which voted for the resolution. > > The US abstention and subsequent speech by Secretary Kerry reflected an attempt by the Obama administration to preserve the viability of the two-state solution and thus the survival of Israel as a democratic, Jewish homeland. > > For eight years, this administration has worked tirelessly to defend Israel’s security and bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace. Sometimes that has meant disagreeing with the policies of the current Israeli government. > > This House resolution constitutes an attack on the pro-Israel, pro-peace legacy of the Obama administration. If the resolution succeeds in garnering broad bipartisan support, it will deter leaders in Congress and future administrations from speaking openly and honestly to Israel about the danger settlements pose to US foreign policy interests and Israel's reputation on the world stage. > > You’d better believe that Representatives will be receiving intense pressure to add their names to this deeply flawed piece of legislation. Let’s make sure they hear from us. > Thanks, > Dylan Williams > Vice President of Government Affairs, J Street > > > > DONATE > > > > > © 2017 J Street | www.jstreet.org | info at jstreet.org > J Street is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people. Working in American politics and the Jewish community, we advocate policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm Mon Jan 9 20:43:41 2017 From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx) Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:43:41 -0800 Subject: [OccupyCU] Internationalist on The Battle Over Standing Rock Message-ID: <1483994621.3403146.842301721.31013416@webmail.messagingengine.com> A package of articles on the Battle Over Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline is now available on the Internationalist Group web site (www.internationalist.org[1]). This is a unique in-depth Marxist analysis linking the immediate events to the struggle for Native American Indian rights and probing the environmental issues posed by energy production and transportation as part of the struggle for socialist revolution. The articles in the package include: The Battle Over Standing Rock[2] Standing Rock and the Revolutionary Fight for Native American Rights[3] Pipelines, Oil Trains and Capitalism[4] Spartacist League: Land Surveyor Socialists[5] Please circulate widely and encourage people to read this important contribution. Links: 1. http://www.internationalist.org/ 2. http://www.internationalist.org/battleoverstandingrock1701.html 3. http://www.internationalist.org/standingrocknativeamericanrights1701.html 4. http://www.internationalist.org/pipelinesoiltrains.html 5. http://www.internationalist.org/spartacistlandsurveyorsocialists1701.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm Wed Jan 18 00:06:02 2017 From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:06:02 -0800 Subject: [OccupyCU] Get The Internationalist No. 46! Message-ID: <1484697962.3235035.851042392.01AFE1EB@webmail.messagingengine.com> Get The Internationalist No. 46! Essential reading for the fight for socialism. Send US$0.50 to Mundial Publications, Box 3321 Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008 USA. Subscriptions US$10. In this issue: * Post-Traumatic Election Shock Defeat Trump ... And the Democrats: Fight for Workers Revolution * Shock electoral postraumático Para derrotar a Trump ... y a los demócratas: ¡Luchar por la revolución obrera! * The Battle Over Standing Rock * The Myth of a "White Working Class" * Donald Trump, the "Alt-Right" and Fascism * Portland Union Calls to Mobilize Against the Ku Klux Klan and Other Racist Forces * For Workers Mobilization to Smash the Gasolinazo! * Betsy DeVos: Trump's Voucher Vulture * NYC Schools Must Be A Sanctuary For Immigrant and All Students * NYC Transit Workers: Fight for Track Safety and Free Mass Transit! * Hands Off Standing Rock Sioux! * Pipelines, Oil Trains, and Capitalism * Standing Rock and the Revolutionary Fight for Native American Rights * Spartacist League: Land Surveyor Socialists * Free Mumia Abu-Jamal And All Black Panther and MOVE Prisoners! * Free the Panthers and MOVE Prisoners! * Defend Immigrant Students -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Republicans need to get the message from the majority of Americans that we value and need the benefits of Obamacare. Here’s how we do that. >>>>> On January 24rd, everyone who feels that way (our numbers are legion) sends a note to Donald Trump with a simple message: >>>>> “Don’t make America sick again. Improve Obamacare. Don’t repeal it." >>>>> One envelope for every ACA supporter in your household…even if they are under 18 years old. >>>>> Just that simple message. Put it in an envelope, and put a stamp on it. >>>>> On January 23rd, mail it to: >>>>> Pres. Donald Trump >>>>> 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, >>>>> Washington, DC 20500 >>>>> Can you imagine the picture of 53 MILLION letters arriving at the White House by January 26th? It will be a mountain. That image might help deter the Republicans from killing the most substantial improvement to American healthcare since the discovery of Penicillin. >>>>> Do it today! Drop it into a mailbox near you on Monday, January 23rd. >>>>> Please send this email to 20 (or more) of your friends, neighbors ann fellow Americans. Ask them to do the same. >>>>> This also helps out the US Postal Service, with about $20 Million of stamp sales. >>>>> Don’t send emails to Trump…they don’t photograph well. >>>>> This is about images, since words and ideas are falling on deaf ears. >>>> > > ---------- > Marian Rich > 917-509-2764 > www.castillo.org > www.allstars.org > http://careerplayinc.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Wed Jan 25 15:54:13 2017 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:54:13 -0600 Subject: [OccupyCU] TODAY at noon: Billy Keniston on repression of white radicals influenced by Black Consciousness in 1970's in South Africa References: Message-ID: Hi friends——sorry for the short notice. Billy is an excellent writer, and a thoughtful politicized person. Center for African Studies is located at 210 International Studies Bldg, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign > Begin forwarded message: > > From: billy keniston > Subject: I'm giving a talk, this Wednesday 1/25 at the Center for African Studies, at noon > Date: January 20, 2017 at 1:02:28 PM CST > To: Taylor Sparow > > Dear friends and colleagues, > > This coming wednesday, I will be giving a talk at the Center for African Studies. There is more information below, but in more casual terms, I am going to be presenting my research that I have been doing, into the ways that the state repressed young white radicals that were influenced by Black Consciousness in the 1970s in South Africa. I have done a number of interviews with the friends of Rick Turner (www.morethanthinking.wordpress.com ) and have been reading through a 1,200 page government report on these young activists and the organizations they were a part of. > > I’m trying to understand more deeply the relationship between the “thinking” arm of the government, and the “violent” arm, which are forever connected to one another, and working side by side. > > And I’m trying to understand what people - especially people with privilege - are supposed to do in response to a repressive society. > > In that sense, at least, I hope that the talk is timely, and not “merely” history. > > Hope to see you there, > billy > > > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: "Gitler, Terri" > >> Subject: CAS brown bag, 1/25 >> Date: January 18, 2017 at 1:09:23 PM CST >> >> Hello everyone, >> On Wednesday, January 25, we will have our first brown bag of the spring semester from noon to 1:00 in 101 ISB. It will feature Billy Keniston of the History Department speaking on "The Troubled Mind of Apartheid: Black Consciousness and White Radicals Through the Eyes of the 1972 Schlebusch Commission." A full description of the talk follows. Below and attached is a flyer for the event. >> We hope you will mark the opportunity on your calendars now to hear Mr. Keniston and add your comments after his talk. >> Thank you! >> >> Abstract: >> In reading operatives of the state as themselves readers and writers, it is possible to begin entering into the troubled mind of apartheid. >> The Schlebusch Commission (1972-1974) represents a pivotal moment in the struggle against apartheid. Initiated by the Minister of Justice, and supplied with “intelligence” by the Security Police and their informants, the Commission was convened in response to the growing momentum of the Black Consciousness Movement, and the corresponding radicalization of white university students. Using the Commission's six volume report as an archive, compared and contrasted against interviews I conducted with half a dozen people that were called to testify before the Commission, I have analyzed the apartheid state's capacity to understand these new political developments. In tracing the significance of the Schlebusch Commission, I am skeptical of any attempt to minimize the extent to which such an undertaking is dangerous. The state is always dangerous, and this remains true regardless of whether it acts through batons or bullets, surveillance or study. >> >> >> >> >> >> Terri L. Gitler >> Center for African Studies >> 910 S. Fifth Street >> Champaign, IL 61820 >> (217) 265-5016 >> tgitler at illinois.edu >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The rooms have large closets, plenty of storage space, central AC, a porch in the front, a fruit and flower garden in back. The house is 5 blocks away from Down Town Urbana, is located near the Gold Line for easy access. The home is a cat-friendly space with two indoor cats currently living there. Unfortunately, no other pets would be allowed at this time. This home is also a non-smoking home. Rental price includes all utilities (heat, AC, water, sewage, internet, trash, and recycle) Each of the available rooms has a distinct size, layout, presence, furnishing: bedroom 1, 1st floor, is 13'5" x10'4", queen size futon--rent is $475 per month bedroom 2, 2nd floor, east side of house, is 9'3" x 13'5', twin bed---rent is $425 per month. bedroom 3, 2nd floor, west side of house, is 16'8" x 11'4", queen bed--rent is $625 per month. bedroom 1 [image: Inline image 1] bedroom 2 [image: Inline image 2] bedroom 3---looks dark but isn't (bad photo) [image: Inline image 3] *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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