More Gitmo Trial Boycotts Loom

Defendants at Guantanamo Bay are turning their backs on U.S. war crimes trials, creating complications in the long-stalled effort to prosecute suspected terrorists.

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British labor unions on Thursday agreed to support a boycott of some Israeli goods in response to the offensive in Gaza last winter. a ban on importing goods produced in some Israeli settlements, an end of arms trading with Israel and disinvestment from some companies.

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ohn Greyson, a highly acclaimed filmmaker whose films, including "Zero Patience" (1993), "Lilies" (1996; winner of four Genie Awards, Canada's highest film prize), "Fig Trees" (a 2003 installation released as a film in 2009), and other films, decided last week to withdraw his new …

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According to the Jerusalem Post, in a Letter from Minister Yossi Peled the minister suggests reconsidering military and civilian purchases from the US & sales of sensitive equipment that Washington opposes.

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WITH THEIR rallying cry of ¡Sí Se Puede!, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (UFW) brought the brutal treatment of workers in the fields to national attention in the 1960s.

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Israel's response to thousands of rocket attacks from Gaza brought another wave of vituperous attacks, with more false claims of "war crimes," human rights violations and other spurious allegations of immorality. The Durban strategy of demonization is moving at top speed,  …

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The Political Reform Act of 1974, passed overwhelmingly by California voters during the Watergate era, was meant in part to end secret donations to political campaigns.

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Proposition 8 proponents' complaint that a California campaign-finance disclosure law has led to harassment of same-sex marriage opponents failed today to sway a federal judge, who refused to throw out the law or shield donors' names.

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The Proposition 8 campaign has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California laws that require campaign contributors to disclose personal information, claiming donors to the campaign have been threatened.

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More than a week after the passage of Proposition 8, activists opposed to the ban on gay marriage have shifted their protests to new arenas -- using boycotts to target businesses and individuals who contributed to the winning side.

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Proposition 8 should have been defeated. It represents an unfortunate backslide away from full equality for gay couples, and California now sadly reverts to being one of 48 states in which equality remains a goal, not reality.

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Ready to Join an Economic Revolution Now? - Demanding Our Country Back

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this …

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Sellers on EBay are planning a boycott of the online marketplace to protest a new fee structure and other changes they say are unfair.

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ABC News left several candidates out of hte NH debates, censored or truncated the interviews with others, behaved unprofessionally, etc....this exposee calls their work for what it is: An attempt to rig the election, to chose the next President for the American people, to underwr …

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The humbling of Don Imus has done nothing to quiet Michael Savage, a radio host with a far bigger following and far more checkered track record.

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Politics has abandoned us, so it's power of the people or nothing. Either we find new social forms to save Democracy and the Earth, or we will all die like dogs in a Bush Dictatorship of the Rich Police State. That's the bad news.

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This is an SOS to the progressive/liberal Hollywood actors and actresses to help us establish, promote, and institute nationwide, targeted boycotts. We all KNOW the boycotts would work, but we need some high profile validation to jump start them.

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It has long been one of the perverse talents of British middle-class activists to be able to devise campaigns which, instead of drawing attention to real grievances, divert attention away from them.

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So when on an OU summer school in July one of the tutors passed over the word "Zionism" with barely a flinch, I was mystified and somewhat annoyed. Thus on goggling his name and articles he had written, I happened upon "Engage" and an article around anti-Semitism .

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Seeds of Peace - good or evil? Isn't it obvious?

In a recent article, I asked that question with a poll. Seeds of Peace brings young people on different sides of conflict together to learn leadership and conflict resolution skills. At the same time they learn about each other.

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In the forthcoming Summer 2007 issue (out the first week of July), Martha Nussbaum provides an impassioned argument against academic boycotts. Because of the imminent—and consequential—nature of the debate, we are publishing her article online in advance of the issue.

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First, Israeli journalists and academics are among the most dedicated critics of their own society.

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Who would respect the judgment of a scholar who selects or rejects colleagues on political grounds?

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Israel: Self-defeating boycotts

The vote by University and College Union, the largest union of British academics, to consider an academic boycott of Israel is a stain on British academia and, by extension, on British society.

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The basic argument is that the union cannot support projects, however worthwhile, if the people running them are Jewish. Supporters of "boycotting" Labourstart will reply that the objection is not that people like Eric Lee are Jewish, but that they are "Zionists".

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A new wave of militant consumer is rising, hitting large corporations where it hurts - in the wallet. They're middle-class, sick of bad service and they're not taking it any more. Rail strikes are usually attacked for the pain they inflict on poor, hard-working commuters.

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