Here is the interview with Mustafa Barghouti and Anna Baltzer, an American Jewish activist on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Unfortuantely there was no option to embed it on this blog, here are the links to the full extended interview you couldn't see on the actual show:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/exclusive-interviews/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---anna-baltzer-and-mustafa-barghouti-interview-extended/#clip229121
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/exclusive-interviews/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---anna-baltzer-and-mustafa-barghouti-interview-extended/#clip229122
Anna Baltzer has said that this would not have been possible just a short few years ago. Time's truly are changing.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Anna Baltzer - Witness to Palestine
I just recently came across this amazing young Jewish American activist. Here is a sample of her work in these 6 videos. I know it's long but I really hope you watch them. If you are unfamiliar with Israel/Palestine issues it is must see videos. She is appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart alongside Mustfa Barghouti this Wednesday, Oct. 28th. Catch it! I'll try to post it on here after it's released on the comedy central site. I think it's great that this point of view is finally becoming more mainstream and that non-Zionist Jews are getting the courage to come out and tell the truth:
Sunday, October 25, 2009
York U faculty and student correct misrepresentations
*just came across this. It is a statement done by 200 or so faculty and students at York University that deny the claim by government and media that York University has become a hotbed of anti-semitic activity, explaining how most of the supposed anti-semitic activity is concocted by media and pro-Zionist groups. These groups have an interest in making it seem like it is such a hotbed for a number of reasons. Here is the statement and the names of witnesses verifying the inauthenticity of these statements, many of whom are Jewish.*
http://www.straight.com/article-266050/york-university-professors-and-students-reject-claims-antisemitism?awesm=fbshare.me_Wvf
York University professors and students reject claims of antisemitism
By Staff
Nearly 200 York University faculty members and students have signed a petition rejecting a claim by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and others that the campus has become a hotbed of antisemitism. Their petition appears below:
Faculty and students reject the smearing of York, and uphold the
University’s mission to promote public debate
Over the course of the past year, York University has been targeted in
various public spaces as a site where antisemitism is rife. In a
September 12, 2009 advertisement in the National Post, B’nai Brith
Canada offers a “checklist” of antisemitic incidents likely to occur
on university campuses. Jewish students are told they can “expect ...
harassment ... intimidation by your professor or teaching assistant
... Swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti all over campus”.
Concocted accounts of “violent anti-Jewish riots at York University”
(in the words of the Jerusalem Post, February 15, 2009) have become
widespread.
Federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney was quoted just a
few weeks ago (Thornhill Liberal, September 11, 2009) as describing
what was going on at York as resembling “pogroms”.
The use of such inflammatory language cannot any longer be ignored and
allowed to fester. Its implications could be seen when the National
Post ran a piece earlier this year (Matt Gurney, February 13, 2009)
that actually called for York to be “purged of its hateful elements".
The fact is that representations of the York campus--and indeed
university campuses generally--as hotbeds of antisemitism are simply
untrue.
The B’nai Brith “checklist,” like the allegations of
“antisemitic” acts at York, let alone “riots’ or “pogroms”, are
entirely inaccurate, if not libelous, and amount to nothing but
fear-mongering. Notably, the B’Nai Brith advertisement featured a
photo of a rally in York’s central hall in which some Palestinian
national symbols could be seen, but no antisemitic imagery whatsoever.
As teachers and researchers at York, Jewish and non-Jewish, we do not,
and will not, tolerate antisemitism or any other forms of racism or
discrimination on this campus. But at the same time, we strongly
defend our university’s long-cherished mission to promote public
debate, including debate on contentious political issues.
We deplore attempts to use misinformation and fear, let alone the accompanying call for “purges”, to stifle academic freedom.
Signatories:
Faculty:
1. Adrian Shubert, Professor, History
2. Alan Simmons, Professor, Sociology
3. Allan C. Hutchinson, Distinguished Research Professor, Osgoode
Hall Law School
4. Allan Greenbaum, contract faculty, Social Science and Sociology
5. Allyson M. Lunny, Assistant Professor, Law & Society Program,
York University
6. Amanda Glasbeek, Assistant Professor, Social Science
7. Amnon Buchbinder, Associate Professor and Chair, Film
8. Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Associate Professor, Political Science
9. Anna Zalik, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
10. Arun P. Mukherjee, Professor, Department of English
11. Barbara Cameron, Associate Professor, York University
12. Barbara Godard, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar of English,
French, Women's Studies, Social and Political Thought; Historica Chair
in Canadian Literature Emerita.
13. Barbara Rahder, Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies
14. Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor, Coordinator of the
Undergraduate Degree Program in Race, Ethnicity and Indigenous Studies
15. Bonnie Kettel, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies
16. Brenda Longfellow, Associate Professor, Department of Film
17. Bruce Ryder, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean First Year,
Osgoode Hall Law School
18. Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor, Film
19. Carl Baar, Adjunct Professor, Political Science
20. Carla Lipsig-Mumme, Professor of Work and Labour Studies.
21. Carlota McAllister, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
22. Claudio Durán, Senior Scholar
23. Colin Mooers, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in
Communication and Culture
24. Craig Scott, Director, Nathanson Centre on Transnational Rights,
Crime and Security, and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
25. Cynthia Wright, contract faculty, School of Women's Studies
26. Daniel Drache, Professor, Political Science, and Associate
Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
27. Daphne Winland, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate Program
Director, Social Anthropology, Chair, Human Participants Ethics Review
Committee
28. David Langille, Course Director, Division of Social Sciences
29. David McNally, Professor, Department of Political Science
30. David Mutimer, Associate Professor of Political Science, and
Deputy Director, York Centre for International and Security Studies.
31. David Shugarman, Professor, Political Science
32. David Szablowski, Assistant Professor, Social Science
33. Dawn Bazely, Associate Professor of Biology
34. Dayna Nadine Scott, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
and the Faculty of Environmental Studies
35. Douglas Hay, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School and Department of History
36. Douglas Young, Assistant Professor of Social Science
37. Derek Hrynyshyn, Adjunct Faculty, Political Science
38. Eduardo Canel, Associate Professor, Social Science, and Director,
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
39. Elizabeth Lunstrum, Assistant Professor, Geography
40. Enda Brophy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science
41. Esteve Morera, Associate Professor Department of Philosophy and
Department of Political Science
42. Gail Fraser, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
43. Gamal Abdel-Shehid, Kinesiology, York University
44. Gene Desfor, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies
45. George C. Comninel, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of
Political Science
46. Gerald Kernerman, Associate Professor, Political Science
47. Greg Albo, Associate Professor, York University
48. Gus Van Harten, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
49. Haideh Moghissi, Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Liberal
Arts and Professional Studies
50. Harry Glasbeek, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Osgoode Hall
51. Himani Bannerji, Professor, Department of Sociology
52. Howard Daugherty, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
53. Ilan Kapoor, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
54. J. David Wood, Prof. Emeritus, Geography
55. J.J. McMurtry, Assistant Professor, Business and Society Program
56. James Laxer, Professor of Political Science, Department of Equity Studies
57. James Sheptycki, Professor, Criminology
58. Janet Owens, Contract Faculty, Social Science, and Environmental Studies
59. Janice Newton, Associate Professor, Political Science and School
of Women's Studies
60. Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and
Globalization, Faculty of Fine Arts
61. Jennifer Foster, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
62. Jennifer Hyndman, Professor, Social Science
63. Jody Berland, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, and
Editor, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
64. Joe Sheridan, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
65. John Greyson, Associate Professor, Film
66. John S. Saul, Professor Emeritus, Social Science and Political Science
67. John Simoulidis, Contract Faculty, Social Science
68. Jon Sufrin, Adjunct Professor, Humanities
69. Jonathan Nitzan, Associate Professor of Political Economy,
Political Science
70. Judith Adler Hellman, Professor, Social Science and Political Science
71. Karen Murray, Associate Professor, Political Science
72. Kevin Moloney, Contract Faculty, Deptartment of Languages,
Literatures & Linguistics
73. L. Anders Sandberg, Associate Dean and Professor, Faculty of
Environmental Studies
74. Laam Hae, Assistant Professor, Political Science
75. Lee Lorch, FRSC,Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar, Mathematics
76. Leesa Fawcett, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
77. Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor, Senior Canada
Research Chair, Political Science
78. Lesley J. Wood, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
79. Liette Gilbert, Associate Professor, PhD Coordinator and
Associate Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies
80. Liora Salter, FRSC, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
81. Lorna Erwin, Associate Professor of Sociology, York University
82. Lorna Weir, Professor, Department of Sociology
83. Louis Lefeber, Professor of Economics and Graduate Program for
Social and Political Thought (emeritus)
84. Luin Goldring, Associate Professor, Sociology
85. Malcolm Blincow, Associate Professor, Anthropology
86. Marcela S.Duran, Community Practicum Coordinator, Concurrent
Program, Faculty of Education
87. Marcia Rioux, Professor, School Health Policy and Management and
Director, York Institute for Health Research
88. Maria Legerstee, Professor, Department of Psychology
89. Marilyn L. Pilkington, Associate Professor and former Dean,
Osgoode Hall Law School
90. Marion Werner, Researcher, Gender and Work Database Project at
York University
91. Mark J. Goodman, Department of Sociology and Coordinator, Human
Rights and Equity Studies, Department of Equity Studies
92. Mark Thomas, Associate Professor, Sociology
93. Martin Breaugh, Assistant Professor, Political Science.
94. Martin J. Bunch, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
95. Martin Thomas, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and
Administration
96. Mary Jane Mossman, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
97. Michael Mandel, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
98. Michael Nijhawan, Associate Professor, Sociology
99. Michael Ornstein, Associate Professor, Sociology
100. Nalini Persram, Associate Professor, Social Science
101. Nick Lary, Emeritus Professor, Humanities
102. Nicola Short, Associate Professor, Political Science
103. Norene Pupo, Director, Centre for Research on Work & Society
104. Obiora Okafor, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
105. Patricia Wood, Associate Professor, Geography
106. Paul Antze, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science
107. Penni Stewart, Associate Professor, Sociology
108. Peter Vandergeest, Associate Professor, Geography
109. Peter Victor, Professor, Environmental Studies
110. Radhika Mongia, Associate Professor, and Director,
Graduate Program in Sociology
111. Raju J Das, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
112. Ravi de Costa, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies
113. Ricardo Grinspun, Associate Professor, Economics
114. Richard Saunders, Associate Professor, Political Science
115. Robert Latham, Associate Professor, Political Science, and
Director of the York Center for International and Security Studies
116. Robert MacDermid, Associate Professor, Political Science
117. Robin Roth, Associate Professor, Geography
118. Rodney Loeppky, Associate Professor, Political Science
119. Roger Keil, Professor, Environmental Studies, and
Director, The City Institute and The Canadian Center for German and
European Studies
120. Rosemary J. Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law,
Communication and Culture
121. Sabah Alnasseri, Associate Chair, Professor, Department of
Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
122. Saeed Rahnema, Professor, Political Science
123. Sam Gindin, Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice,
Political Science
124. Sandra Whitworth, Professor, Political Science
125. Scott Forsyth, Associate Professor, Film and Political Science
126. Sergei Plekhanov, Associate Professor, Political Science
127. Sergey N. Krylov, Professor, Canada Research Chair in
Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Director, Centre for Research on
Biomolecular Interactions
128. Shubhra Gururani, Associate Professor, Anthropology
129. Stanley Jeffers, Associate Professor Emeritus, Senior
Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy
130. Stefan Kipfer, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
131. Stepan Wood, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
132. Stephanie Ross, Assistant Professor, Coordinator, Labour
Studies Programme, Division of Social Science
133. Stephen Hellman, Professor, Political Science
134. Steven Tufts, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
135. Susan Drummond, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
136. Tania Das Gupta, Chair and Associate Professor, Department
of Equity Studies and Department of Sociology
137. Teresa Holmes, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
138. Terry Goldie, Professor, English
139. Wenona Giles, Professor, Centre for Refugee Studies,
Anthropology Department, Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
Students:
1. Aaron SanFilippo, Student
2. Adam Hilton, MA Political Science
3. Adrienne Roberts, PhD candidate, Political Science
4. Aidan Conway, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science
5. Albert R. Gaudio, MA Candidate, Political Science
6. Andrea Hopkins, MA Candidate, Political Science) and York
Centre for International and Security Studies Graduate Researcher
7. Andrea Sellinger, Political Science, MA Student
8. Baris Karaagac, PhD Candidate, Political Science
9. Brad Bauerly, PhD Candidate, Political Science
10. Bryony Halpin, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
11. Chris Vance, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science
12. Claire Major, PhD Candidate, Geography
13. Cory Jansson, Phd student, Political Science
14. Dan Freeman-Maloy, PhD Candidate, Political Science
15. Daniel Moure, PhD Candidate, Political Science
16. Dave Campanella, Student, Environmental Studies
17. Derek Maisonville, Doctoral Candidate, Political
Science/Researcher, York Centre for International and Security Studies
18. Diana Abraham, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
19. Gabriel Levine, Doctoral student, Social and Political Thought
20. Genevieve LeBaron, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science
21. Graham Potts, PhD Candidate, Social and Political Thought,
22. Ian Hussey, PhD candidate, Sociology
23. Irina Ceric, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
24. Isaac Asume Osuoka, Canada Vanier Scholar, Environmental Studies
25. Janine MacLeod, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
26. Janna Promislow, Adjunct Professor and PhD Candidate, Osgoode
Hall Law School
27. Japji Anna Bas, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
28. Jasmin Mujanovic, Political Science Graduate Student
29. Jesse Ovadia, PhD Candidate, Political Science
30. Jessica Parish, Phd Candidate, Political Science
31. John Carlaw, PhD Candidate, Political Science
32. Jordan Brennan, Tutorial Instructor, Political Science
33. Jordy Cummings, Student, Graduate Department of Political Science
34. Kathleen Mullen, MFA Student
35. Kaushalya Bannerji, Ph.D. Candidate, Law
36. Kole Kilibarda, PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant, Political Science
37. Mazen Masri, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
38. Michael Skinner, Researcher, York Centre for International and
Security Studies
39. Natasha Jerome, Undergraduate Degree Candidate, Honours Double
Major: Philosophy & Political Science, Faculty of Arts
40. Nchamah Miller, B.A., M.A. (york Alumni), Visiting Professor,
Institute of Philosophy of University Havana
41. Nicole Cohen, PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Communication and Culture
42. Nishant Upadhyay, PhD Candidate, Social and Political Thought
43. Noaman Ali, MA Student, Social and Political Thought
44. Pablo Vivanco, Student, MES
45. Peter Brogan, PhD Candidate, Geography
46. Rade Zinaic, Social and Political Thought
47. Roxana Salehi PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
48. Ryan James, PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Anthropology
49. Ryan O'Neill, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
50. Simon Granovsky-Larsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science
51. Simon Tremblay-Pepin, PhD student, Political Science Department
52. Sonja Killoran-McKibbin, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
53. Sophie Voegele, Graduate Student, Sociology
54. Stu Marvel, Chair, Graduate Law Students' Association, Osgoode
Hall Law School
55. Tania Hernandez-Cervantes, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
56. Teresa Abbruzzese, Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Studies
57. Tod Duncan , PhD Student/Teaching Assistant, Social and Political Thought
58. Tyler Shipley, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science
http://www.straight.com/article-266050/york-university-professors-and-students-reject-claims-antisemitism?awesm=fbshare.me_Wvf
York University professors and students reject claims of antisemitism
By Staff
Nearly 200 York University faculty members and students have signed a petition rejecting a claim by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and others that the campus has become a hotbed of antisemitism. Their petition appears below:
Faculty and students reject the smearing of York, and uphold the
University’s mission to promote public debate
Over the course of the past year, York University has been targeted in
various public spaces as a site where antisemitism is rife. In a
September 12, 2009 advertisement in the National Post, B’nai Brith
Canada offers a “checklist” of antisemitic incidents likely to occur
on university campuses. Jewish students are told they can “expect ...
harassment ... intimidation by your professor or teaching assistant
... Swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti all over campus”.
Concocted accounts of “violent anti-Jewish riots at York University”
(in the words of the Jerusalem Post, February 15, 2009) have become
widespread.
Federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney was quoted just a
few weeks ago (Thornhill Liberal, September 11, 2009) as describing
what was going on at York as resembling “pogroms”.
The use of such inflammatory language cannot any longer be ignored and
allowed to fester. Its implications could be seen when the National
Post ran a piece earlier this year (Matt Gurney, February 13, 2009)
that actually called for York to be “purged of its hateful elements".
The fact is that representations of the York campus--and indeed
university campuses generally--as hotbeds of antisemitism are simply
untrue.
The B’nai Brith “checklist,” like the allegations of
“antisemitic” acts at York, let alone “riots’ or “pogroms”, are
entirely inaccurate, if not libelous, and amount to nothing but
fear-mongering. Notably, the B’Nai Brith advertisement featured a
photo of a rally in York’s central hall in which some Palestinian
national symbols could be seen, but no antisemitic imagery whatsoever.
As teachers and researchers at York, Jewish and non-Jewish, we do not,
and will not, tolerate antisemitism or any other forms of racism or
discrimination on this campus. But at the same time, we strongly
defend our university’s long-cherished mission to promote public
debate, including debate on contentious political issues.
We deplore attempts to use misinformation and fear, let alone the accompanying call for “purges”, to stifle academic freedom.
Signatories:
Faculty:
1. Adrian Shubert, Professor, History
2. Alan Simmons, Professor, Sociology
3. Allan C. Hutchinson, Distinguished Research Professor, Osgoode
Hall Law School
4. Allan Greenbaum, contract faculty, Social Science and Sociology
5. Allyson M. Lunny, Assistant Professor, Law & Society Program,
York University
6. Amanda Glasbeek, Assistant Professor, Social Science
7. Amnon Buchbinder, Associate Professor and Chair, Film
8. Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Associate Professor, Political Science
9. Anna Zalik, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
10. Arun P. Mukherjee, Professor, Department of English
11. Barbara Cameron, Associate Professor, York University
12. Barbara Godard, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar of English,
French, Women's Studies, Social and Political Thought; Historica Chair
in Canadian Literature Emerita.
13. Barbara Rahder, Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies
14. Bonita Lawrence, Associate Professor, Coordinator of the
Undergraduate Degree Program in Race, Ethnicity and Indigenous Studies
15. Bonnie Kettel, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies
16. Brenda Longfellow, Associate Professor, Department of Film
17. Bruce Ryder, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean First Year,
Osgoode Hall Law School
18. Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor, Film
19. Carl Baar, Adjunct Professor, Political Science
20. Carla Lipsig-Mumme, Professor of Work and Labour Studies.
21. Carlota McAllister, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
22. Claudio Durán, Senior Scholar
23. Colin Mooers, Professor and Director, Graduate Program in
Communication and Culture
24. Craig Scott, Director, Nathanson Centre on Transnational Rights,
Crime and Security, and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
25. Cynthia Wright, contract faculty, School of Women's Studies
26. Daniel Drache, Professor, Political Science, and Associate
Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
27. Daphne Winland, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate Program
Director, Social Anthropology, Chair, Human Participants Ethics Review
Committee
28. David Langille, Course Director, Division of Social Sciences
29. David McNally, Professor, Department of Political Science
30. David Mutimer, Associate Professor of Political Science, and
Deputy Director, York Centre for International and Security Studies.
31. David Shugarman, Professor, Political Science
32. David Szablowski, Assistant Professor, Social Science
33. Dawn Bazely, Associate Professor of Biology
34. Dayna Nadine Scott, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
and the Faculty of Environmental Studies
35. Douglas Hay, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School and Department of History
36. Douglas Young, Assistant Professor of Social Science
37. Derek Hrynyshyn, Adjunct Faculty, Political Science
38. Eduardo Canel, Associate Professor, Social Science, and Director,
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
39. Elizabeth Lunstrum, Assistant Professor, Geography
40. Enda Brophy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science
41. Esteve Morera, Associate Professor Department of Philosophy and
Department of Political Science
42. Gail Fraser, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
43. Gamal Abdel-Shehid, Kinesiology, York University
44. Gene Desfor, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Studies
45. George C. Comninel, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of
Political Science
46. Gerald Kernerman, Associate Professor, Political Science
47. Greg Albo, Associate Professor, York University
48. Gus Van Harten, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
49. Haideh Moghissi, Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Liberal
Arts and Professional Studies
50. Harry Glasbeek, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Osgoode Hall
51. Himani Bannerji, Professor, Department of Sociology
52. Howard Daugherty, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
53. Ilan Kapoor, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
54. J. David Wood, Prof. Emeritus, Geography
55. J.J. McMurtry, Assistant Professor, Business and Society Program
56. James Laxer, Professor of Political Science, Department of Equity Studies
57. James Sheptycki, Professor, Criminology
58. Janet Owens, Contract Faculty, Social Science, and Environmental Studies
59. Janice Newton, Associate Professor, Political Science and School
of Women's Studies
60. Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and
Globalization, Faculty of Fine Arts
61. Jennifer Foster, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
62. Jennifer Hyndman, Professor, Social Science
63. Jody Berland, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, and
Editor, Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
64. Joe Sheridan, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
65. John Greyson, Associate Professor, Film
66. John S. Saul, Professor Emeritus, Social Science and Political Science
67. John Simoulidis, Contract Faculty, Social Science
68. Jon Sufrin, Adjunct Professor, Humanities
69. Jonathan Nitzan, Associate Professor of Political Economy,
Political Science
70. Judith Adler Hellman, Professor, Social Science and Political Science
71. Karen Murray, Associate Professor, Political Science
72. Kevin Moloney, Contract Faculty, Deptartment of Languages,
Literatures & Linguistics
73. L. Anders Sandberg, Associate Dean and Professor, Faculty of
Environmental Studies
74. Laam Hae, Assistant Professor, Political Science
75. Lee Lorch, FRSC,Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar, Mathematics
76. Leesa Fawcett, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
77. Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor, Senior Canada
Research Chair, Political Science
78. Lesley J. Wood, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
79. Liette Gilbert, Associate Professor, PhD Coordinator and
Associate Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies
80. Liora Salter, FRSC, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
81. Lorna Erwin, Associate Professor of Sociology, York University
82. Lorna Weir, Professor, Department of Sociology
83. Louis Lefeber, Professor of Economics and Graduate Program for
Social and Political Thought (emeritus)
84. Luin Goldring, Associate Professor, Sociology
85. Malcolm Blincow, Associate Professor, Anthropology
86. Marcela S.Duran, Community Practicum Coordinator, Concurrent
Program, Faculty of Education
87. Marcia Rioux, Professor, School Health Policy and Management and
Director, York Institute for Health Research
88. Maria Legerstee, Professor, Department of Psychology
89. Marilyn L. Pilkington, Associate Professor and former Dean,
Osgoode Hall Law School
90. Marion Werner, Researcher, Gender and Work Database Project at
York University
91. Mark J. Goodman, Department of Sociology and Coordinator, Human
Rights and Equity Studies, Department of Equity Studies
92. Mark Thomas, Associate Professor, Sociology
93. Martin Breaugh, Assistant Professor, Political Science.
94. Martin J. Bunch, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
95. Martin Thomas, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and
Administration
96. Mary Jane Mossman, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
97. Michael Mandel, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
98. Michael Nijhawan, Associate Professor, Sociology
99. Michael Ornstein, Associate Professor, Sociology
100. Nalini Persram, Associate Professor, Social Science
101. Nick Lary, Emeritus Professor, Humanities
102. Nicola Short, Associate Professor, Political Science
103. Norene Pupo, Director, Centre for Research on Work & Society
104. Obiora Okafor, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
105. Patricia Wood, Associate Professor, Geography
106. Paul Antze, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science
107. Penni Stewart, Associate Professor, Sociology
108. Peter Vandergeest, Associate Professor, Geography
109. Peter Victor, Professor, Environmental Studies
110. Radhika Mongia, Associate Professor, and Director,
Graduate Program in Sociology
111. Raju J Das, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
112. Ravi de Costa, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies
113. Ricardo Grinspun, Associate Professor, Economics
114. Richard Saunders, Associate Professor, Political Science
115. Robert Latham, Associate Professor, Political Science, and
Director of the York Center for International and Security Studies
116. Robert MacDermid, Associate Professor, Political Science
117. Robin Roth, Associate Professor, Geography
118. Rodney Loeppky, Associate Professor, Political Science
119. Roger Keil, Professor, Environmental Studies, and
Director, The City Institute and The Canadian Center for German and
European Studies
120. Rosemary J. Coombe, Senior Canada Research Chair in Law,
Communication and Culture
121. Sabah Alnasseri, Associate Chair, Professor, Department of
Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
122. Saeed Rahnema, Professor, Political Science
123. Sam Gindin, Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice,
Political Science
124. Sandra Whitworth, Professor, Political Science
125. Scott Forsyth, Associate Professor, Film and Political Science
126. Sergei Plekhanov, Associate Professor, Political Science
127. Sergey N. Krylov, Professor, Canada Research Chair in
Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Director, Centre for Research on
Biomolecular Interactions
128. Shubhra Gururani, Associate Professor, Anthropology
129. Stanley Jeffers, Associate Professor Emeritus, Senior
Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy
130. Stefan Kipfer, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
131. Stepan Wood, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
132. Stephanie Ross, Assistant Professor, Coordinator, Labour
Studies Programme, Division of Social Science
133. Stephen Hellman, Professor, Political Science
134. Steven Tufts, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
135. Susan Drummond, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
136. Tania Das Gupta, Chair and Associate Professor, Department
of Equity Studies and Department of Sociology
137. Teresa Holmes, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
138. Terry Goldie, Professor, English
139. Wenona Giles, Professor, Centre for Refugee Studies,
Anthropology Department, Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
Students:
1. Aaron SanFilippo, Student
2. Adam Hilton, MA Political Science
3. Adrienne Roberts, PhD candidate, Political Science
4. Aidan Conway, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science
5. Albert R. Gaudio, MA Candidate, Political Science
6. Andrea Hopkins, MA Candidate, Political Science) and York
Centre for International and Security Studies Graduate Researcher
7. Andrea Sellinger, Political Science, MA Student
8. Baris Karaagac, PhD Candidate, Political Science
9. Brad Bauerly, PhD Candidate, Political Science
10. Bryony Halpin, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
11. Chris Vance, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science
12. Claire Major, PhD Candidate, Geography
13. Cory Jansson, Phd student, Political Science
14. Dan Freeman-Maloy, PhD Candidate, Political Science
15. Daniel Moure, PhD Candidate, Political Science
16. Dave Campanella, Student, Environmental Studies
17. Derek Maisonville, Doctoral Candidate, Political
Science/Researcher, York Centre for International and Security Studies
18. Diana Abraham, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
19. Gabriel Levine, Doctoral student, Social and Political Thought
20. Genevieve LeBaron, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science
21. Graham Potts, PhD Candidate, Social and Political Thought,
22. Ian Hussey, PhD candidate, Sociology
23. Irina Ceric, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
24. Isaac Asume Osuoka, Canada Vanier Scholar, Environmental Studies
25. Janine MacLeod, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
26. Janna Promislow, Adjunct Professor and PhD Candidate, Osgoode
Hall Law School
27. Japji Anna Bas, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
28. Jasmin Mujanovic, Political Science Graduate Student
29. Jesse Ovadia, PhD Candidate, Political Science
30. Jessica Parish, Phd Candidate, Political Science
31. John Carlaw, PhD Candidate, Political Science
32. Jordan Brennan, Tutorial Instructor, Political Science
33. Jordy Cummings, Student, Graduate Department of Political Science
34. Kathleen Mullen, MFA Student
35. Kaushalya Bannerji, Ph.D. Candidate, Law
36. Kole Kilibarda, PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant, Political Science
37. Mazen Masri, PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School
38. Michael Skinner, Researcher, York Centre for International and
Security Studies
39. Natasha Jerome, Undergraduate Degree Candidate, Honours Double
Major: Philosophy & Political Science, Faculty of Arts
40. Nchamah Miller, B.A., M.A. (york Alumni), Visiting Professor,
Institute of Philosophy of University Havana
41. Nicole Cohen, PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Communication and Culture
42. Nishant Upadhyay, PhD Candidate, Social and Political Thought
43. Noaman Ali, MA Student, Social and Political Thought
44. Pablo Vivanco, Student, MES
45. Peter Brogan, PhD Candidate, Geography
46. Rade Zinaic, Social and Political Thought
47. Roxana Salehi PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
48. Ryan James, PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Anthropology
49. Ryan O'Neill, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies
50. Simon Granovsky-Larsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science
51. Simon Tremblay-Pepin, PhD student, Political Science Department
52. Sonja Killoran-McKibbin, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
53. Sophie Voegele, Graduate Student, Sociology
54. Stu Marvel, Chair, Graduate Law Students' Association, Osgoode
Hall Law School
55. Tania Hernandez-Cervantes, PhD Student, Environmental Studies
56. Teresa Abbruzzese, Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Studies
57. Tod Duncan , PhD Student/Teaching Assistant, Social and Political Thought
58. Tyler Shipley, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science
Friday, October 23, 2009
"I am a racist" - Jason Kenney
*I am borrowing this post from No One Is Illegal. http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/
I hope they don't mind. I have great admiration for this organization considering what they are up against.*
"I plead guilty, I'm a racist." -- Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney confronted and disrupted in Montreal
October 23, 2009 -- Migrant justice activists and organizers, with their McGill allies, confronted and disrupted Jason Kenney -- Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism -- before and during a closed function with Conservative McGill.
At least 50 protesters, in an action called by No One Is Illegal-Montreal, were able to surround Kenney in the Arts Building as he tried to enter the private event. For about one-minute, Kenney was asked about the report in today’s Toronto Star that a Mexican woman, who twice tried to apply for refugee status to Canada, was found murdered in Mexico (article is linked below). Kenney brushed off the question and didn’t answer.
Kenney was also asked explicitly about his party’s blocking of a refugee appeals division, and again he didn’t answer.
When Kenney was told by a member of No One Is Illegal that his policies scapegoat migrants and pander to racists, Kenney replied (with a hint of sarcasm): “I plead guilty, I’m a racist.” At that point, Kenney’s handlers and security pushed through protesters to get Kenney inside the venue.
For the next hour and more, protesters chanted and made noise to disrupt the event from outside. The protest was partially a teach-in as demonstrators gave speeches about Kenney’s track-record, highlighting in particular:
- the murder in Mexico of Grise, a woman who twice tried to claim refugee status in Canada but was refused
- the Conservatives continued refusal to implement a refugee appeals division;
- the recent treatment of Sri Lankan migrants who are currently detained in British Columbia;
- Kenney’s introduction of visas for Mexicans and Czechs while falsely misrepresenting their refugee claims as bogus;
- Kenney’s role in US-style mass raids on migrant workers in Ontario this past April;
- Kenney’s unapologetic defense of Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon;
- Kenney’s attack on free speech by preventing the entry of George Galloway into Canada;
- Kenney’s involvement in cutting the funding of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF);
- Kenney’s proposed changes to the status of migrant workers, which makes their situation more precarious;
- the trend under Kenney and the Conservatives to push migrants into temporary worker categories;
- Kenney's defense of Conservative policies justifying rendition to torture and security certificates;
- the lifting of the moratorium on deportations to Burundi, Rwanda and Liberia, while making it harder for other migrants to make refugee claims;
- Kenney’s record of comments that pander to racists, by inaccurately portraying migrants as abusive of the immigration and refugee system.
- and more (!).
Members of Solidarity Across Borders, active in support work with local migrants facing removal, also spoke to the day-to-day reality of deportation and detention in Montreal, citing examples of local individuals and families fighting for status, in defiance of removal orders.
At one point, two members of Conservative McGill – Gregory Harris and Derek Beigleman -- began chanting “We love Kenney, we love Kenney.” Protesters stayed silent for at least a minute, and then asked the Conservatives about their view on the murder of Grise, as well as Conservative immigration and refugee policies that allowed the tragedy to happen. The two Conservatives laughed throughout the narration of Grise’s deportation and eventual death.
During the picket, protesters also spoke in solidarity with No One Is Illegal Vancouver’s picket today demanding the release of Sri Lankan migrants who are currently detained after arriving in Canada last Sunday, as well as this evening’s migrant justice assembly by No One Is Illegal-Toronto.
No borders, no nations, stop the deportations!
-- No One Is Illegal-Montreal
I hope they don't mind. I have great admiration for this organization considering what they are up against.*
"I plead guilty, I'm a racist." -- Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney confronted and disrupted in Montreal
October 23, 2009 -- Migrant justice activists and organizers, with their McGill allies, confronted and disrupted Jason Kenney -- Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism -- before and during a closed function with Conservative McGill.
At least 50 protesters, in an action called by No One Is Illegal-Montreal, were able to surround Kenney in the Arts Building as he tried to enter the private event. For about one-minute, Kenney was asked about the report in today’s Toronto Star that a Mexican woman, who twice tried to apply for refugee status to Canada, was found murdered in Mexico (article is linked below). Kenney brushed off the question and didn’t answer.
Kenney was also asked explicitly about his party’s blocking of a refugee appeals division, and again he didn’t answer.
When Kenney was told by a member of No One Is Illegal that his policies scapegoat migrants and pander to racists, Kenney replied (with a hint of sarcasm): “I plead guilty, I’m a racist.” At that point, Kenney’s handlers and security pushed through protesters to get Kenney inside the venue.
For the next hour and more, protesters chanted and made noise to disrupt the event from outside. The protest was partially a teach-in as demonstrators gave speeches about Kenney’s track-record, highlighting in particular:
- the murder in Mexico of Grise, a woman who twice tried to claim refugee status in Canada but was refused
- the Conservatives continued refusal to implement a refugee appeals division;
- the recent treatment of Sri Lankan migrants who are currently detained in British Columbia;
- Kenney’s introduction of visas for Mexicans and Czechs while falsely misrepresenting their refugee claims as bogus;
- Kenney’s role in US-style mass raids on migrant workers in Ontario this past April;
- Kenney’s unapologetic defense of Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon;
- Kenney’s attack on free speech by preventing the entry of George Galloway into Canada;
- Kenney’s involvement in cutting the funding of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF);
- Kenney’s proposed changes to the status of migrant workers, which makes their situation more precarious;
- the trend under Kenney and the Conservatives to push migrants into temporary worker categories;
- Kenney's defense of Conservative policies justifying rendition to torture and security certificates;
- the lifting of the moratorium on deportations to Burundi, Rwanda and Liberia, while making it harder for other migrants to make refugee claims;
- Kenney’s record of comments that pander to racists, by inaccurately portraying migrants as abusive of the immigration and refugee system.
- and more (!).
Members of Solidarity Across Borders, active in support work with local migrants facing removal, also spoke to the day-to-day reality of deportation and detention in Montreal, citing examples of local individuals and families fighting for status, in defiance of removal orders.
At one point, two members of Conservative McGill – Gregory Harris and Derek Beigleman -- began chanting “We love Kenney, we love Kenney.” Protesters stayed silent for at least a minute, and then asked the Conservatives about their view on the murder of Grise, as well as Conservative immigration and refugee policies that allowed the tragedy to happen. The two Conservatives laughed throughout the narration of Grise’s deportation and eventual death.
During the picket, protesters also spoke in solidarity with No One Is Illegal Vancouver’s picket today demanding the release of Sri Lankan migrants who are currently detained after arriving in Canada last Sunday, as well as this evening’s migrant justice assembly by No One Is Illegal-Toronto.
No borders, no nations, stop the deportations!
-- No One Is Illegal-Montreal
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Israeli Lobby's Bullying of Campuses
In a bit of a follow-up from the last blog below I wanted to post this article by Tikkun, a major progressive Jewish organization that is very critical of Zionist ideology and the ongoing occupation. It is too long to post here, but I really recommend it as it is of key importance. The article is on the Israeli Lobby and it's activities on campuses throughout the U.S. Canadian campuses are not mentioned here, but the lessons from this article are as true in Canada. I know this from experience. Please read: http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/sept_oct_09_goldberg_makdisi
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
*The Last Bundist* a borrowed posting
*I felt the need to post it. It's from the blog : http://syds-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/last-bundist.html (hope ya don't mind, Sid!) Times are really started to change, finally.
Marek Edelman dies last week. He was 90. He was buried on Friday.Marek Edeleman was the last surviving member of the Warsaw Ghetto. He was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and its last commander - after Mordechai Anelewicz was killed. The President of Poland spoke at his funeral, held in the old Jewish cemetery of Warsaw.
Two thousand people attended the grave-side ceremony. But no one from the Israeli government attended - though Israel's former ambassador to Poland, Shevach Weiss, attended in a personal capacity. No official representative of any international Jewish organization attended either: not even from the Holocaust memorialization organizations. As far as I can tell, neither the Jerusalem Post nor Ha'aretz ran a story when Edelman died, nor any sort of eulogy. (Haaretz did run a short AP wire story about his funeral.)
Why is Edeleman mostly ignored while Anelewicz is lionized? (I lived for a year on Mordechai Anelewicz St. in Jerusalem, there is a kibbutz Kfar Mordechai named after him, his name and story is taught in every Israeli school, and in most Hebrew Schools around the world.)Perhaps because he remained a firm anti-Zionist all his life. In pre-war Poland he was a leader of the "Bund" - the Jewish Socialist Party, that advocated for a "multi-cultural" solution for Jews within a socialist Poland. It dreamed of a thriving Yiddish based Jewish culture within a secular, multi-ethnic Poland - where significant minorities - like Jews and Ukrainians - would have cultural autonomy. The Bund was a significant party within the Polish Parliament of those years, and there where as many supporters of the Bund as there where Zionists among polish Jews of the 1930s.
After the war Edelman remained in Poland, became a noted doctor, and later was active in the Solidarity movement that brought down Communism in Poland. In the 1990s, he served in the Polish Parliament. In 2002, in the middle of the second intifada, Edelman wrote a letter to Palestinian resistance leaders. Though the letter criticized the suicide bombers, its tone infuriated the Israeli government and press.
According to The Guardian, "He wrote in a spirit of solidarity from a fellow resistance fighter, as a former leader of a Jewish uprising not dissimilar in desperation to the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories." He addressed his letter to "To all the leaders of Palestinian military, paramilitary and guerrilla organizations - To all the soldiers of Palestinian militant groups". This set up a howl of rage in the Israeli press, especially that Edelman had consciously used the terms that described the structures of the resistance movement in Warsaw.
I am struck by Edelman's consistency throughout his life. He believed that Jewish liberation could only come through the liberation of the people among whom they lived, and he opposed Zionism as an escape from the Jewish responsibility to help liberate all people. He was too much of an anti-Zionist to move to Israel, and too much of a socialist to move to America. He also felt a responsibility to the few Jews remaining in Poland, and to the memory of all those who perished there. He saw no reason for a Jews to move in order to solve "the Jewish problem". He believed that Jews should fight for their rights (and those of others) wherever they lived. He believed that a Jewish life could be lived anywhere. He remained a Bundist to the end.
Marek Edelman dies last week. He was 90. He was buried on Friday.Marek Edeleman was the last surviving member of the Warsaw Ghetto. He was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and its last commander - after Mordechai Anelewicz was killed. The President of Poland spoke at his funeral, held in the old Jewish cemetery of Warsaw.
Two thousand people attended the grave-side ceremony. But no one from the Israeli government attended - though Israel's former ambassador to Poland, Shevach Weiss, attended in a personal capacity. No official representative of any international Jewish organization attended either: not even from the Holocaust memorialization organizations. As far as I can tell, neither the Jerusalem Post nor Ha'aretz ran a story when Edelman died, nor any sort of eulogy. (Haaretz did run a short AP wire story about his funeral.)
Why is Edeleman mostly ignored while Anelewicz is lionized? (I lived for a year on Mordechai Anelewicz St. in Jerusalem, there is a kibbutz Kfar Mordechai named after him, his name and story is taught in every Israeli school, and in most Hebrew Schools around the world.)Perhaps because he remained a firm anti-Zionist all his life. In pre-war Poland he was a leader of the "Bund" - the Jewish Socialist Party, that advocated for a "multi-cultural" solution for Jews within a socialist Poland. It dreamed of a thriving Yiddish based Jewish culture within a secular, multi-ethnic Poland - where significant minorities - like Jews and Ukrainians - would have cultural autonomy. The Bund was a significant party within the Polish Parliament of those years, and there where as many supporters of the Bund as there where Zionists among polish Jews of the 1930s.
After the war Edelman remained in Poland, became a noted doctor, and later was active in the Solidarity movement that brought down Communism in Poland. In the 1990s, he served in the Polish Parliament. In 2002, in the middle of the second intifada, Edelman wrote a letter to Palestinian resistance leaders. Though the letter criticized the suicide bombers, its tone infuriated the Israeli government and press.
According to The Guardian, "He wrote in a spirit of solidarity from a fellow resistance fighter, as a former leader of a Jewish uprising not dissimilar in desperation to the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories." He addressed his letter to "To all the leaders of Palestinian military, paramilitary and guerrilla organizations - To all the soldiers of Palestinian militant groups". This set up a howl of rage in the Israeli press, especially that Edelman had consciously used the terms that described the structures of the resistance movement in Warsaw.
I am struck by Edelman's consistency throughout his life. He believed that Jewish liberation could only come through the liberation of the people among whom they lived, and he opposed Zionism as an escape from the Jewish responsibility to help liberate all people. He was too much of an anti-Zionist to move to Israel, and too much of a socialist to move to America. He also felt a responsibility to the few Jews remaining in Poland, and to the memory of all those who perished there. He saw no reason for a Jews to move in order to solve "the Jewish problem". He believed that Jews should fight for their rights (and those of others) wherever they lived. He believed that a Jewish life could be lived anywhere. He remained a Bundist to the end.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Governor General's Gaffe?
To paraphrase a particular puppet dog that once enraged Canadian MPs: "Do you hear that? It's the sound of No One Giving A Shit!" Well, apparently some people give a shit. But do people give a shit about them?
Ok, so, Michelle Jean, our Governor General, has recently described herself as the Head of State. Read more about this gaffe in today's Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/708390--head-of-state-c-est-moi-some-are-not-amused
Both the Prime Minister's Office and The Monarchist League (they exist?) scolded the GG. No, the GG is not the Head of State, apparently, the Queen of England is.
From the article:
"It is an attempt to elevate the office into something it is not and never was intended to be and all at the expense of the Queen," said league chair Robert Finch. "The evidence is overwhelming that the governor general is not the head of state ... you don't have to be a constitutional scholar or a legal expert to grasp that concept."
Here is a picture of Mr. Finch. 
Friday, October 9, 2009
Parents had Moon-Landing; I have Moon-Bombing!
NASA: Buoyed by India's Chandrayan I findings, NASA have been prepared to bomb Moon in search of water on the planet. The US space agency will start bombing on moon in this evening to measure the quantity of ice in the lunar soil. The NASA has followed the ISRO's footstep to estimate the water in the planet. According to the sources, the space agency will launched two spaceaircrafts of 2,305 kg at a velocity of nearly 8,000 kmph.
The Nasa spacecraft Centaur will slam onto the south pole of the Moon with such force that it will throw up 350 tonnes of lunar soil and debris and create a 13-feet-deep crater. The 6.6 metres crater will be one-third the size of a football field. Just four minutes after the crash of Centaur, another spacecraft Shepherding will fly in the same path through the cloud of debris and crashland on to the Moon's surface, throwing up another 150 tonnes of material at a point close to the previous crater. If the space agency succeeds in its mission it will be a landmark achievement for human being.
The space agency will eager to get the findings of today's Moon bombings as it has planned to set up lunar base on Moon to study Mars and other Solar System. A sufficient quantity of Ice will pave the way for NASA to go ahead with the plan. Earlier, ISRO's first moon Mission Chandrayan I has sent first pics of water in the Moon. After getting the pictures, NASA has intensified its mission. The Moon bombing is scheduled for 5.00 pm IST.
The Nasa spacecraft Centaur will slam onto the south pole of the Moon with such force that it will throw up 350 tonnes of lunar soil and debris and create a 13-feet-deep crater. The 6.6 metres crater will be one-third the size of a football field. Just four minutes after the crash of Centaur, another spacecraft Shepherding will fly in the same path through the cloud of debris and crashland on to the Moon's surface, throwing up another 150 tonnes of material at a point close to the previous crater. If the space agency succeeds in its mission it will be a landmark achievement for human being.
The space agency will eager to get the findings of today's Moon bombings as it has planned to set up lunar base on Moon to study Mars and other Solar System. A sufficient quantity of Ice will pave the way for NASA to go ahead with the plan. Earlier, ISRO's first moon Mission Chandrayan I has sent first pics of water in the Moon. After getting the pictures, NASA has intensified its mission. The Moon bombing is scheduled for 5.00 pm IST.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Harper: Canada no colonialism
"We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them." - Stephen Harper, Sept. 25, G20 summit Pittsburgh.
What is wrong with this guy??
What is wrong with this guy??
Thursday, October 1, 2009
NDP on Mark
It's been a while since I've posted anything on the current situation in Ottawa, especially from a NDP supporter's perspective. If you haven't read this brilliant article yet here it is again:
On many vital issues, the NDP have been on the mark
Lawrence Martin
Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009 06:21PM EDT
What party is getting it right? Not on the political scoreboard, which is the journalistic obsession, but on the criteria that really count – policies that affect the country.
On that note, the question of track record, has anyone been looking at the NDP's performance? There have been several developments in the past week alone that bring the third party to mind.
First was the government's decision to amend the employment insurance system. The New Democrats were highly instrumental in that call, a decision that, as a healthy byproduct, prevented the onset of an unwanted election. In aligning with the Conservatives on the issue, they also turned the coalition debate and all its attendant paranoia on its ear.
No credit came their way. Nothing new here. In big media precincts, the knees started jerking, as they often do when the left rears its unshapely head, and the NDP move was denounced as a politically motivated act of desperation. Out came the machine guns. Bang! Bang! Down went the guys in orange ties.
But be that as it may. It's well known that the Dippers have no media proprietors in their philosophical corner. It's well known that counterculture journalism is a bygone thing. There was obviously political calculation in what the party did. But on what matters, the EI issue, a policy advance was made.
The past week was also notable with regard to Afghanistan. The war has reached such a point of deterioration that even the generals are no longer issuing the types of public-relations pronouncements that have sucked in so many for so long, in so many wars. Even the military brass are down on the war's prospects. And, since we're on the subject of track record, we should ask which party was the most skeptical about this war from the outset. Which was the party that said the war couldn't be won militarily, that pushed for negotiations and that, for its efforts, had its leader denounced as Taliban Jack?
The past week saw Barack Obama's cancellation of the missile defence system for Eastern Europe. Canada's most vocal opponent of missile defence, going back a long way, has been the NDP. The idea of putting up a system that might not work and that alienated Russia, in places like Poland, was at best bewildering. One had to presuppose (A) that Iran would be allowed to get nuclear weapons, (B) that Iran would risk retaliatory annihilation in deploying them and (C) that the Iranians would choose Krakow as a target.
The past week saw the arrival of a film sardonically titled Capitalism: A Love Story. The New Democrats are not as far out there as Michael Moore, but they are the party that took the strongest stance against the excesses of capitalism, excesses that torpedoed the world economy. They warned against the dangers of deregulation. They pressed the government on the need for an auto sector strategy, on a backup plan for pensions. They led the charge in demanding billions in stimulus spending.
The New Democrats have their own long list of ill-advised excesses on economic policy and other aspects of their platform, but there are times when the party's activism is in order.
They have been the most vocal opponents of foreign takeovers of Canadian companies. That got them labelled as antediluvian nationalists. But as our crown jewels continue to be sold off, you don't hear that criticism as much. Even some Conservatives are now wondering if the hollowing-out trend has gone too far.
The Dippers were early environmental warriors. Their warnings on income inequality – check the ugly stats on the current gap between rich and poor – have turned out to be highly credible. On the native peoples file, they were the ones who pressed the government to make the emotional residential schools apology.
Politically, the New Democrats are not getting much traction. It's tough when you have no control of the airwaves. They are still stereotyped by an image tethered to decades past. But they can take comfort in knowing that on many of the vital issues, they've been on the mark. Never mind the political score. On what really matters, vindication has come their way.
*from Globe & Mail
Bolded letters were done by me, save the title of course
On many vital issues, the NDP have been on the mark
Lawrence Martin
Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009 06:21PM EDT
What party is getting it right? Not on the political scoreboard, which is the journalistic obsession, but on the criteria that really count – policies that affect the country.
On that note, the question of track record, has anyone been looking at the NDP's performance? There have been several developments in the past week alone that bring the third party to mind.
First was the government's decision to amend the employment insurance system. The New Democrats were highly instrumental in that call, a decision that, as a healthy byproduct, prevented the onset of an unwanted election. In aligning with the Conservatives on the issue, they also turned the coalition debate and all its attendant paranoia on its ear.
No credit came their way. Nothing new here. In big media precincts, the knees started jerking, as they often do when the left rears its unshapely head, and the NDP move was denounced as a politically motivated act of desperation. Out came the machine guns. Bang! Bang! Down went the guys in orange ties.
But be that as it may. It's well known that the Dippers have no media proprietors in their philosophical corner. It's well known that counterculture journalism is a bygone thing. There was obviously political calculation in what the party did. But on what matters, the EI issue, a policy advance was made.
The past week was also notable with regard to Afghanistan. The war has reached such a point of deterioration that even the generals are no longer issuing the types of public-relations pronouncements that have sucked in so many for so long, in so many wars. Even the military brass are down on the war's prospects. And, since we're on the subject of track record, we should ask which party was the most skeptical about this war from the outset. Which was the party that said the war couldn't be won militarily, that pushed for negotiations and that, for its efforts, had its leader denounced as Taliban Jack?
The past week saw Barack Obama's cancellation of the missile defence system for Eastern Europe. Canada's most vocal opponent of missile defence, going back a long way, has been the NDP. The idea of putting up a system that might not work and that alienated Russia, in places like Poland, was at best bewildering. One had to presuppose (A) that Iran would be allowed to get nuclear weapons, (B) that Iran would risk retaliatory annihilation in deploying them and (C) that the Iranians would choose Krakow as a target.
The past week saw the arrival of a film sardonically titled Capitalism: A Love Story. The New Democrats are not as far out there as Michael Moore, but they are the party that took the strongest stance against the excesses of capitalism, excesses that torpedoed the world economy. They warned against the dangers of deregulation. They pressed the government on the need for an auto sector strategy, on a backup plan for pensions. They led the charge in demanding billions in stimulus spending.
The New Democrats have their own long list of ill-advised excesses on economic policy and other aspects of their platform, but there are times when the party's activism is in order.
They have been the most vocal opponents of foreign takeovers of Canadian companies. That got them labelled as antediluvian nationalists. But as our crown jewels continue to be sold off, you don't hear that criticism as much. Even some Conservatives are now wondering if the hollowing-out trend has gone too far.
The Dippers were early environmental warriors. Their warnings on income inequality – check the ugly stats on the current gap between rich and poor – have turned out to be highly credible. On the native peoples file, they were the ones who pressed the government to make the emotional residential schools apology.
Politically, the New Democrats are not getting much traction. It's tough when you have no control of the airwaves. They are still stereotyped by an image tethered to decades past. But they can take comfort in knowing that on many of the vital issues, they've been on the mark. Never mind the political score. On what really matters, vindication has come their way.
*from Globe & Mail
Bolded letters were done by me, save the title of course
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