[ May 4, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Monday, May 4 7:00-9:00 pm Town of Ithaca Hall, 215 North Tioga St. All local residents are invited to a panel discussion and forum: “Local Implications of the National Economic Crisis.” Panelists are Karl Graham, Director of Community Relations and Development at Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Kathy Schlather, Executive Director of the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County, [...] [...]
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[ May 3, 2009; 2:00 pm; ] The International Socialist Organization in Collaboration with The United Auto Worker’s Union, Local and The Cornell Organization for Labor Action Present: Karen Ross, Shop Steward, Cornell UAW -presenting the UAW’s fight for a fair contract COLA Representative -speaking to the important role students can play in labor struggle and what students can do to help UAW locally Margo [...] [...] [ April 28, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Tuesday, April 28, 7:30 pm IC Square (The Pub), Ithaca College All are invited to an interactive documentary-style event about the lives of several students living under occupation in the city of Nablus in the territory of the West Bank. Four IC students interviewed the Palestinian students through videoconferences to learn about the impacts of military occupation [...] [...] [ April 26, 2009; 8:30 pm; ] UJAMAA UNITY HOUR PRESENTS: OCCUPATION 101 – AN ANALYSIS OF ISRAELI APARTHEID We would like to present you the opportunity to attend the screening of Occupation 101 at Ujamaa Unity Hour on Sunday April 26th starting at 8:30 pm. Occupation 101 is a documentary providing a historical analysis of the Palestine/Israel conflict from a [...] [...] http://socialistworker.org/2009/04/20/tenure-travesty-in-ithaca By Troy Pasulka | April 20, 2009 ITHACA, N.Y.–Sixty people gathered April 16 at the Workers’ Center to hear Professor Margo Ramlal-Nankoe describe how she was denied tenure at Ithaca College due to her complaints about sexual harassment and her outspoken opposition to the Israel-U.S. war on Palestinians. She is reaching out to the public for [...] [...] [ April 21, 2009; 12:00 pm; ] The Violence Must End: My Experience in Palestine With IC Alumna Emily McNeill Tuesday, April 21, noon Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise, room 103 Academic Freedom Forum With Emily McNeill and Cornell Professor Eric Cheyfitz Tuesday, April 21, 7:00 pm Textor 101 Emily McNeil, who graduated from IC in 2008 and author of the controversial IC View alumni magazine article, “The [...] [...] [ April 18, 2009; 10:00 pm; April 21, 2009; 10:00 pm; ] Saturday, 4/18 &Tuesday 4/21 (Try to come to one or both nights!) 10pm. Saturday Line up: Spoken word by members of SJP and friends Created Persons Rye’n Clover Dan Barker’s Amplified String Band 2KD Tuesday Line up: POSSIBLY POETRY (IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN READING..) F.B.I (free boody institute) a great local funk band http://www.myspace.com/freeboodyinstitute $5 at the door to support the Gaza Community Mental Health Program facebook [...] [...] [ April 18, 2009; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Please join us for Sister 2 Sister’s event on Saturday, April 18, 1-4pm, Hope & Healing: a benefit for the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic at the Women’s Community Building downtown Ithaca. The event promises to be fantastic, spearheaded by students and amazing spoken word artists. Local Ithaca non-profit organizations will take part in the event [...] [...] [ April 18, 2009; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] On Saturday, April 18th I will be interviewing Tamer Nafer of DAM (Da Arabian MCs) Palestinian Hip Hop and rap group from Lid, Palestine/Israel on my radio show Sonic Planet. The show airs locally on 91.7 fm WICB 5-7:00 pm. A live internet audio stream is available at www.wicb.org DAM is currently touring [...] [...] Dude, Where’s My Karma? April 14, 2009 – 12:00am By Ariela Rutkin-Becker “If only the Palestinians had better leadership.” I often hear this point from well-intentioned, but in this case at least misguided, pro-Israeli friends and colleagues. They continue to bemoan, “If only they had a Ghandi or an MLK.” And one can surely make a logical case [...] [...] President Obama has just taken a small first step to change US/Cuba policy. Of course, we support his initiative to lift travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans, and we should express our support but it is most important that we make our voices heard in favor of even stronger measures for reconciliation and normalized relations. It’s time [...] [...] Dr. Ismail Mehr, the doctor form Hornell who led a medical delegation into Gaza just days after the Israeli bombing, will be interviewed at 6:45 am Wednesday morning on WHCU 870 AM. Dan Burgevin was interview on Tuesday on WHCU regarding the Obama administration’s easing of restriction on travel and remittances for Cuban American families [...] [...] [ April 16, 2009; 5:00 pm; ] You are invited to a screening of the award winning Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority A film by Sufyan Omerish and Abdallah Omerish Thursday, April 16 at 5 pm in G85, Cornell Law School. Pizza [...] Washington Times Op-Ed, Friday, April 10, 2009 SOSA: Time to lift travel bans by Ignacio Sosa http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/10/time-to-lift-travel-bans/ Please go to article on Washington Times website to comment. There is much anticipation that President Obama will use the April 17-19 Summit of the Americas to announce the lifting of Cuba travel and family-remittance restrictions for Cuban-Americans. Although a welcome step toward crafting [...] [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION: April 9, 2009 Jeff Leys – 773-619-2418 Www.nevadadesertexperience.org Indian Springs, NV – Late this afternoon, fourteen peace activists were arrested at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. The arrests occured during a ten day vigil which seeks to raise public awareness of the increasing use of unmanned drones in the war in [...] [...] [ April 23, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] New Green Deal: Can We Stop Global Warming under Capitalism? Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:30pm – 9:30pm Location TBA ************************************************************************************************************* Human society is rapidly approaching–and may have already passed–hugely significant ecological limits. Environmental concerns are beginning to take center-stage in public dialogue. Still, the people who set policy for our economy, media, and government have not halted man-made environmental destruction. [...] [...] An Open Letter to the Peace/Anti-War Movement from Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans For PeaceAfter six years of war and the historic election of a new President, we as veterans, military and Gold Star families felt an urgent need to reach out to the larger peace/anti-war movements to make our position on Iraq clear during this time of political and economic uncertainty. Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace continue to stand together in our demand to Bring the Troops Home Now! We ask all those who have stood with us in the past to stay faithful to the cause. [...] [ May 6, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Announcing an open forum on “The New Gas Drilling: What Local Governments Can Do”
Over 2000 Tompkins County land owners, and thousands more in the surrounding Southern Tier, have signed leases to permit Marcellus Shale gas drilling on their property. Many expect to see drilling begin later this year, perhaps as early as summer. While some welcome the drilling and others dread it, a common concern for all is the protection of our clean water and air, our land, and our quality of life*. **NY State law (Environmental Conservation Article 23) took the ability to regulate most aspects of gas drilling activity away from towns, and gave it to the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) instead. This leaves many local legislators and community members wondering just what they can do to protect our critical resources given these constraints. The Sullivan County, NY Drilling Task Force has been working for many months on answering just this question.*** Dr. Pammer will describe the work of the Gas Drilling Task Force in Sullivan County. The group investigated possible impacts and the authority of local municipal governments. Their recently released Task Force Report outlines 21 recommendations that will be presented to their County Legislature. You can see a newspaper story about the report at http://www.sc-democrat.com/news/002February/20/news.htm and the *full* report on the Sullivan County Division of Planning website: http://www.scgnet.us/index.asp?orgid=610&storyTypeID=&sid=&. Dr. Penningroth, Biochemist and Toxicologist, directs the Community Science Institute’s state-certified water testing laboratory. The CSI lab monitors water quality in Cayuga Lake and its tributary streams in partnership with citizen volunteers. He believes a reasonable estimate of drinking water that will be contaminated near drilling sites is between 1% and 5%. He will describe why and how to test private water wells so that land owners discover problems and have solid scientific evidence of* **pre-drilling, **baseline water data* should contamination occur. CSI has two information fact sheets on testing drinking water that will soon be available on their website: www.communityscience.org. This Forum is co-sponsored by: Social Ventures; Ithaca Health Alliance; Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton; Department of City & Regional Planning/Cornell University; Sustainable Tompkins; CRESP Center for Transformative Action; Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition; Back to Democracy. For copies of informational handouts from the recent forum, Gas Drilling: Health Effects, Economics and the Watershed http://www.shaleshock.org/open-educational-form-on-natural-gas-drilling-march-26th-in-ithaca/ Questions or comments? shaleshock08 AT yahoo DOT com or 202-368-8753 [...] |
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Our Friend Bassam Killed in Bilin, Palestine, April 17th
By Mary Anne Grady Flores I was deeply saddened to see that it was our friend Bassam Abu Rahmah that was killed this past Friday, April 17th, 2009, in the village of Bil’in, Palestine. He was killed by an Israeli soldier firing a high velocity tear gas canister into his chest from only 100 feet away! [...] [...]