Posts Tagged ‘students’
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
These are my links for March 1st through March 2nd:
- Israel/Gaza: Donors Should Press Israel to End Blockade | Human Rights Watch – In the weeks since heavy fighting ceased on January 18, Israel has arbitrarily refused entry to items like chickpeas, macaroni, wheat flour, notebooks for students, freezer appliances, generators and water pumps, and cooking gas, OCHA said. Annotated link
- Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist? (Part II/II) – Second part, with a greater focus on the comparisons with the case of India. Annotated link
- Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist? (Part I/II) – A great piece analyzing armed vs. non-violent struggle in Palestine, using the case of India and Ghandi’s satygraha as a point of comparison/contrast. The piece is more focused than I would like on national liberation rather than liberation writ large, but it is instructive nevertheless. Annotated link
- About Crabgrass – All About Crabgrass – Groups – riseup.net – This is a great tool for groups of people trying to collaborate on social justice projects in cases where face-to-face meetings can be difficult to arrange. Please sign up and get in touch. Annotated link
- EGYPT: New curbs on Internet cafe users | Menassat – Apparently you have to have a cell phone to use the internet in Egypt
- وضع جنسي – ويكيبيديا، الموسوعة الحرة – An Arabic Wikipedia article on sexual positions
- ei: Israel lurches into fascism -
- Michael Hudson: The Language of Looting – Michael Hudson harkens back to classical liberal economics to unpack current usage of words like “nationalize” and “socialize”.
- Mustafa Barghouthi: The Return of Benjamin Netanyahu – “Furthermore, it is not only the settlements which constitute the occupation. By themselves, the settlers consume only 3% of the West Bank
- Bloomberg.com: Arsonists Torch Berlin Porsches, BMWs on Economic Woe – “While youths in Athens protest by throwing Molotov cocktails, in Paris by toppling barricades, and in Budapest by hurling eggs at politicians, protesters in Berlin rage at their economic plight by targeting the most expensive cars—symbols of German wealth and power” (Thanks Angry Arab)
- Petition on Tuition: AUC Students Plan Strike – These are some ambitious demands
Tags: activism, Arabic, armed_struggle, arson, AUC, Barghouti, blockade, cars, Crabgrass, Egypt, Gaza, India, internet, Israel, national_liberation, Netanyahu, non-violence, no_tag, Palestine, satyagraha, security, settlements, sex, SocialNetworking, students, surveillance, theDepression, theEconomy, WestBank, Wikipedia
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
These are my links for February 23rd from 12:22 to 13:45:
- Reform in Saudi Arabia | Tiptoeing towards reform | The Economist – The Economist on changes afoot in the kingdom of the two holy shrines, and an Ikea outlet (thanks to Angry Arab for the jab)
- Faculty shortages leads to registration nightmares | AUC Caravan – AUC spends all this money to move out to the desert, ostensibly so that it will have more space for an expanding student body, but now it has no money to pay enough teachers to instruct the students. That's AUC for you.
- Janitors dine on litter, while thousands for student free food went unused | AUC Caravan – The AUC Caravan keeps up its solid reporting
- Khan al-Khalili: Neo-Terrorism and the Gaza Effect? – "I'd also guess that the bombing came in response to the Egyptian government's tacit support for the Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza in December and January. The radicals had been repressed, penetrated, tapped, imprisoned, watched. They had made deals. There hadn't been a bombing in Cairo for some time. But my guess is that for a few of them, Gaza was a deal breaker." I like Juan Cole better when he doesn't guess.
- Daily News Egypt – STUDENT PROTEST DEMANDS END TO SECURITY PRESENCE ON CAMPUS – Sarah Carr reports: “For the first time the Muslim Brotherhood has taken part in a protest where demonstrators were holding up pictures of Gamal Abdel Nasser — who imprisoned and killed MB members — and called for the removal of [President] Hosni Mubarak and his government,” the commentator said. “This was previously a red line for the MB — it’s the first time it happens.”
- Can Egypt bring Cleopatra’s palace back to life? – "The water down there isn't just difficult to see through, it's poisonous. And the designs put forward at the moment are for an underwater Disneyland, not a place where people will learn about heritage. If these corporate sponsors want to build a sunken theme park then fine, but don't try and pass it off as a serious archaeological endeavour."
Tags: antiquities, AUC, education, Egypt, El-HusseinExplosion, Gaza, labor, MiddleEast, SaudiArabia, students, terrorism, theEconomy, tourism
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
These are my links for February 5th through February 7th:
- Petition on Tuition: There’s a Party and We’re Not Invited – AUC's inauguration, coming months late, was indeed quite a scene, though I wouldn't have been welcome to see it for myself. I heard it was awful, predictably enough.
- A market of the living amidst the tombs of the dead: Inside Souq el-Gomma – I just visited the Souq el-Gomma last Friday and had a great time. I'm somewhat glad I didn't get a chance to write down my observations, as this article by one of my favorite local journalists encapsulates much of what I would have had to say, except maybe for the mention of the bald dude in a Liberace fur jacket openly trying to sell a high-powered rifle (scope included) around the toilet plumbing section.
- Rizk’s family file case against Banha police, faculty to demand AUC intervention | AUC Caravan –
- Egypt police detain Egyptian-German activist | World | Reuters – "Rizk, who blogs at Tabula Gaza (http://tabulagaza.blogspot.com) is "passionate" about Gaza and had recently completed most of the work on a short documentary about non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation"
- Defense and the National Interest » On War #290: Blowback Revisited – Not coming from my perspective, really, but an interesting analysis of what we might expect from returning vets who may have been learning lessons from all the wrong models (in my opinion) of life in a stateless society.
Tags: AUC, blowback, Egypt, Gaza, InformalEconomy, interstices, Iraq, Palestine, police, recycling, Rizk, statelessness, students, veterans, war, WasteManagement
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
These are my links for January 21st through January 22nd:
- Vacation To Israel Canceled Due To History Of Israel | The Onion – May the boycotting begin
- Alternative history – How would the history read if Germany had won WWII
- DutchNews.nl – Wilders should be prosecuted, says court – Ugh! This is ridiculous. I saw "Fitna" and it was a monumental piece of crap that isn't worthy of this amount of attention. And the timing couldn't be worse. Public opinion in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, appears to be shifting ever more toward sympathy with Palestine and Muslim immigrants and this will do nothing but mobilize the right-wing nut-jobs. Legislating against hate is always a bad idea in my opinion. If you're so keen on legislating something, impose sanctions on Israel. That might make a difference.
- Israel’s bigger battle ahead: its national identity | csmonitor.com – Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups are often criticized for not "recognizing" Israel. This article makes it clear why such groups refer to Israel as "the Zionist entity" rather than a state: it refuses to delineate its geographic boundaries (not mentioned here), refuses to accept Arabs as equal citizens and doesn't even have a constitution. I'm no fan of states, but seriously, you can't have your cake and eat it, too.
- ei: Up to 200 still missing under Gaza’s rubble – "I don't have any feelings any more," said Mohamed Hindi. "The Israelis have managed to destroy everything. Even our emotions."
- Bloomberg.com: Gaza Tunnel Owners Renew Smuggling Under Egypt Border – If they were ever closed down in the first place, the smuggling tunnels are up and running again. They are unlikely to have the capacity to feed and fuel the entire 1.4 million-strong population of Gaza, but it puts the lie to Israel's claims to have aimed to shut down the tunnels and stop the rockets, having either failed in their goals or deliberately mislead the public about their true aims.
- Barack Obama’s inauguration speech … crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks | World news | The Guardian –
- YouTube – Students occupy LSE – speech to 10.000 in Trafalgar square – London School of Economics students have staged an occupation in support of Gaza and in support of the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanction campaign against Israel
- Train drivers demand promised pay raise, threaten to strike – Daily News Egypt – Sarah Carr reports on one of many labor struggles in Egypt right now
- ei: Israel’s "Dahiya Doctrine" comes to Gaza – Jonathan Cook addresses Israel's goal to "turn back the clock 20 years" in Gaza through the leveling of civilian infrastructure. Learning lessons from the 2006 assault on southern Lebanon, they'll also be impeding reconstruction efforts.
Tags: boycott, Egypt, Gaza, GeertWilders, history, Israel, labor, Netherlands, Obama, occupations, reconstruction, speeches, states, students, trains, tunnels, Zionism
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