STARTS FEBRUARY 18, 2010
FOCUS ON PALESTINE/GAZA PANEL:
CYNTHIA McKINNEY, “The People’s Secretary of State”, former Congresswoman
BARBARA LUBIN and ZIAD ABBAS, Middle East Children’s Alliance
NUHA MASRI, UC Berkeley student activist
NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN, award-winning Flashpoints producer

February 18, 7:00 PM, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists,1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley
Sliding scale $5-$20 at the door, Benefit for Nora Barrows-Friedman’s Palestine/Gaza [...]

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
BEWARE: MIRANDA RIGHTS RESTRICTED – Another Constitutional Right flies out the Door
By Marti Hiken
The words we hear in so many movies and television shows when someone is arrested, “Read him his Miranda rights,” no longer have meaning. These rights are dead because the courts have “interpreted” them out of existence. Throughout our country, if you don’t [...]

United Nations special rapporteur Raquel Rolnik reports that the wealthy United States citizens are ignoring the ever growing homeless crisis while pumping billions in bank rescues. Rolick claims that instead of spending money on other expenses the United States should be putting more money into lifting its people out of homelessness and substandard, overcrowded housing. [...]

Uganda parliament is seeking to ratify an Anti-Homosexual Bill, which would put to death any of its citizens caught having repeated homosexual offences, and throw into jail those who touch each other in any sort of “homosexual manner.” The Bill would also seek to punish offenders who have HIV/AIDS.
David Bahati of Uganda’s Ndorwa County West [...]

By guest blogger Terry Morrone
I’ve heard a lot of gloom and doom about the United States lately. We have so much debt we’ll have to go into default or inflate the currency. The dollar is falling in value. The middle class is disappearing. We’re doing nothing substantial about global warming. We’re running out of oil [...]

Hey Friends & Acquaintances,
You can help directly with money (in any amount) to the What If Foundation http://whatiffoundation.org created by Margaret Trost & the late Father Gerard Jean-Juste ten years ago when Wadner Pierre, whom you may have met through our film project at the farmer’s market, was their Program Coordinator.

At the WhatIfFoundation you’ll see a [...]

By guest blogger George Thompson
Just as the mainstream media ramped up anti-terrorism fear to justify invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the same could be said of the campaign to generate distrust of teachers’ unions in order to justify further privatization in both the US and Canada. Indeed, as the main opponent of privatization, teachers’ unions have [...]

By guest blogger George Thompson
The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) has provided precisely the kind of alignment desired by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a globalization think-tank which is responsible for the “raise the bar” and “close the gap” propaganda used to pressure governments into the public-private “partnership” model in most of its member [...]

Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment.
Dr Ahmad Hardan, who served as a special scientific adviser to the World Health Organization, the [...]

By Guest Blogger George Thompson
OTF, the umbrella group for Ontario’s teacher unions has recently hired Lorna Earl, despite the fact that her conflict of interest case has yet to be resolved. The contract, given to her by OTF with money paid by the Ministry to survey teachers about “assessment”, would seem to represent yet another obvious conflict [...]