Opinion
Yes, Palestinians are the victims of genocide
Dane Coefer from Ashland, Oregon, 02-08-2006 - 17:51
"I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child [that] will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child are more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child's existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger." --Ariel Sharon, 1956.
Yes, Palestinians are the victims of genocide.
Deir Yassin, Qibya, Tantura, Shatila, Sabra massacre after massacre--over 100,000 dead Palestinian civilians--and still we read letters in the Tidings denying genocide.
Genocide is the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." It is not limited to the killing of members of such groups but also includes "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."
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Unsustainability Crisis #1 Continues: Bus 4
art, 01-08-2006 - 17:12
RVTD's Bus 4 Gets Second Extension, Crisis Continues
Same Song, Second Verse....
Bus 4 has been extended for 1 more month. MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization) contributed $65,000 of its federal money to continue Bus 4's schedule through August. Community-wide dialogue isn't happening, so county-wide employer tax is again front stage. Current top option after August extension is 2-day-per-week Bus 4 schedule through Nov. ballot, with an employer payroll tax on that ballot.
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Date rape drugs in Ashland
Mara , 28-07-2006 - 12:36
Recent incidents of date rape drug use in Ashland inspired this piece on a firsthand account of such criminal activity.
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Long term solutions = short term benefits
Chane Sau, 30-06-2006 - 21:48
The "progressive" movement is blinded by passion.
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THE LEFT & THE ISRAEL LOBBY – Joseph Anderson
Joseph Anderson, Berkeley, CA, 18-06-2006 - 13:11
Now that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer have broken the taboo in the mainstream American media establishment of not only pointing out that the Israel lobby exists, but actually analyzing it from their perspective, the only place that open discussion, analysis and debate about the lobby remain firmly taboo is, ironically, ON THE LEFT! It’s a taboo imposed on the left by certain leftist icons and their suppression – if not censorship – of free expression and debate on this topic in progressive venues (lectures, panels, press or broadcast). Even some Palestinian-Americans have been forced to knuckle under to these leftist icons’ denial of the power of the Israel lobby in exchange for those icons’ or certain progressive/leftist groups’ political support.
For example, as of this writing, where is an informed rebuttal to Noam Chomsky's dismissive position on the Lobby or at least an honest, open debate about the lobby on the national radio program Democracy Now? So, I wanted to incisively debunk at least some of the major arguments used by certain Left icons in denying the power and influence of the Israel lobby in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and in suppressing discussion of its power domestically. Now, some people will bring up a red herring list of other possible influences in U.S. Mideast foreign policy to deny my analysis, but here I am dealing with THE ISRAEL LOBBY and how leftist icons respond to that topic. My ultimate position is: whatever our positions on the lobby, do we get to honestly discuss and debate it in formal public settings? Please read more:
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Leuren Moret Describes Vicious Attacks on Whi
reposted, 16-06-2006 - 20:48
June 15, 2006
by Leuren Moret
To the Berkeley City Council and City Manager:
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Military is in DU (uranium weapons) Denial
US Army Gulf War l Veteran, 09-06-2006 - 12:34
Thursday 13 April, 2006
by Susu Jeffrey
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Spoils of War Today? - Gulf War Syndrome
D. Burbeck, 28-05-2006 - 11:55
For our troops on Memorial Day -
The Kings of Britain and France and
many other empires were able to raise
huge armies every several decades
because the soldiers who survived
the battles were rewarded with the
riches that they could carry and
women that they could rape at will.
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STOP the Wal-Mart Supercenter! Its NOT Over!
Medford Citizens for Responsible Development, 23-05-2006 - 13:09
http://www.medfordcitizens.org/main.htm
June 1st 2006, 7:00 pm
Medford City Council Hearing
RE: Wal-Mart Supercenter in Medford, Oregon
Location: Medford City Council Chambers, 411 W. Eighth Street
WAL-MART will add 8,755 additional vehicle trips per day...
Why Not Require a Traffic Study?
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¡Somos Milliones! We are millions!
US supporters of the FT-CI, 08-05-2006 - 07:46
The May Day outpouring, which was called the “Gran Paro Americano / Great American Strike” or “Un Día Sin Inmigrantes / A Day Without Immigrants” was, though in a partial form due to the minimal organized participation of most trade unions, a general strike: by all measures a momentous political advance for the working class.
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More Work Needed 4 Workforce Housing 2 Work
Pogo, 05-05-2006 - 23:28
Ashland is becoming "Aspen-ized" warned Housing Commissioner Alice Hardesty at Thursday night's forum on Workforce Housing. To the gathered crowd this was no surprise. It was a decade ago that teachers, firemen and police officers were being priced out of the community. Now it is hard to find city administrators willing to move here.
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Message from Ramsey Clark - Impeach NOW!
reposted, 05-05-2006 - 01:23
"(Bush's) Impeachment is essential to the
integrity of constitutional government"
What's at Stake?
A message from Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States
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Give Them ALL Amnesty!
F A I R T R A D E - N O T F R E E T R A D E, 16-04-2006 - 22:47
Give Them ALL Amnesty!
For the current immigration debate you fail to see the real problem and want to blame hard working people. You sound like you are caught up in the hype promoted by savage, lars, and even garth & rosemary. And all that hype just doesn't see the forest for the trees. Don't blame the workers! There are real global population issues which are huge problems, but to jump on the emotional train of the current anti-immigration hype is just plain wrong.
NAFTA 101
International Trade Agreements which do not Include enforceable Labor and Environmental Protections are to BLAME. I have to repeat this one more time as it is fundamental to understanding cause and effect, and this is about understanding the real problem. Its not the exploited hispanic workforce in this country. Don't blame the workers! International Trade Agreements which do not Include enforcable Labor and Environmental Protections are to BLAME.
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The Results of Censorship
Chane Sau, 10-04-2006 - 13:19
Do you really want the results? Does this really promote free speech?
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SKIPPING SCHOOL TO PROTEST
Students walked on March 5 '03 Books Not Bombs, 02-04-2006 - 20:38
The power and vibrancy of youth
On March 5, 2003 the huge BOOKS NOT BOMBS rally in Ashland, Oregon saw students walk out from college, high school and the middle school. This preemptive rally BEFORE THE BOMBS DROPPED ON BAGHDAD had the bright vibrant faces of youth standing up for democracy in a very important way.
Three (3) years later we need to examine current news, this repost from the Portland Independent Media Center Newswire:
"SKIPPING SCHOOL TO PROTEST" (portland indymedia repost)
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/336996.shtml
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Direct Action.
Craig Rosebraugh, 25-03-2006 - 17:40
Commentary on US justice movements.
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Venezuela 2006: Anarchism against all odds
Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas, Venezuela, 10-03-2006 - 15:06
Our friends from abroad continuously ask us to explain our views about the current situation in Venezuela. This reply is based on two recent texts by the editing team of El Libertario, already published in their entirety in the internet (in Spanish), and from which we extract our main points.
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This year's First Amendment Forum is SLANTED
wes brain, 26-02-2006 - 21:51
Here is a letter to the editor which has been sent to the Ashland Daily Tidings.
If you were going to conduct a forum wouldn't you want multiple viewpoints? At question is the focus of this year's Thomas W. Pyle First Amendment Forum at Southern Oregon University on March 1. The event produced by SOU's Communications Department fails in a huge way because it only invites mainstream media, and then asks the mainstreamers to critique themselves.
The keynote "Is TV news fulfilling its promise?" will be delivered by former CNN anchor Aaron Brown and then the one-sided event follows with a panel discussion of the news directors from Medford's three network television affiliates. Their topic to discuss "TV news' promise and performance both nationally and locally" would be great if it wasn't so lop-sided. We know what the fox guarding the hen house looks like and its not very pretty.
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Open letter to the Green Anarchy Collective
Tony C., 13-02-2006 - 15:49
Today we are writing to you in hopes that you, the Green Anarchy Collective, will take a good look at the theoretical direction of Green Anarchy magazine and how it relates to action. We also would like you to step out of the Anarchist frame of reference to see why you are marginalizing yourselves into an abstract reality
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To the AMERICAN NATION
Joseph Ferrante, 08-02-2006 - 10:21
URGENT!!!
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