...Creative Commons/Warren Rohner South Africa has moved away from nonviolence, but Nelson Mandela’s legacy still lives on in significant ways. ...

...CYNTHIA B. DILLARD The first lesson was that she was drawn into and present in a spiritual heritage homeland, in this case, Ghana, West Africa. It is critical that we provide opportunities for Black students to very explicitly experience their heritage and culture, not simply as an important...

... in opposition to the Vietnam War, intervention in Central America, and apartheid in South Africa, BDS advocates range the gamut from religious pacifists to far Left ideologues, long-time human rights activists to those new to activism, those currently involved in numerous progressive causes to those for whom...

... Israeli citizens, but most holy land is not unique in became refugees in Arab states. colonial history. The French in After 1949, Israelis accepted the borders of their new state. Only a minority longed for North Africa saw themselves...

... down. They don’t succeed, w a s f i l m c r itic o/The Christian Science Monitor the tide of World War II dramatically but the madman gets his just deserts any­ f o r d eca d es. H i s la te st b o o ks a re The B List a n d turned against the Axis in North Africa, way, thanks to Susie’s...

... with Africa and with the Third World as American Jews have with Israel. Doubly ironic, this same intensity of identification with a “Motherland” seems rooted in the mythologies common to both groups. In this special sense—in the spiritual sense implied by “Zion” and “Diaspora” and “Promised Land”—Black...

... continue to evolve our po­ (the title of my book). If apartheid (segregation) was the problem litical and activist agenda. We know now that the catastrophe in South Africa and the Jim Crow South, why would we think it a (Nakba) of1948 was not inevitable and certainly most Jews in the solution...

... campaign to boycott Kodak for their role in producing the racist ID cards used in South Africa during apartheid. Just as Kodak was complicit in maintaining South African apartheid, HP is complicit in maintaining Israeli apartheid and occupation. Strategic BDS campaigns educate people about the conditions...

..., yet avoiding the kind of guilt-ridden worship of the oppressed that often distorts contemporary Western sensibilities. The expansion of Muslim power over most of northern Africa and the Middle East, into Turkey and parts of Eastern Europe is seen not solely as a product of military prowess but also...

..., and includes other people’s stories and a lot of the things going on in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America right now. I was an economic hit man. W hat we do is not, in essence, illegal, but it should...

... into the tens of thou­ sweet conclusion. and lived with one another. sands. Sadly, there are few Jews left today in It is this rich history that comes to Jews in North Africa were caught in a North Africa. Only Morocco has a commu­ life through song in S iw...

.... W ashington. We still didn’t have any money, b u t by now the We had training camps in Turkey for people in central Asia, we seven students had graduated from Middlebury. So they could had one in the Caribbean, we even had one in South Africa for w ork all the tim e on this. A nd...

... it separate us from others with whom we share basic political, cultural, and spiritual values. Many of us act as if “we are what we eat” when it comes to decisions about vegetarianism, macrobiotic diets, boycotts of food grown by oppressed workers in Chile, South Africa, or the United States. Yet many of us...

..., the goal of this strategy would be equal citizenship within an entirely new political design, and that very thing was accomplished through a comprehensive set of negotiations among an inclusive set of political actors in South Africa. Local political groups such as the African National Congress were...

... of their operation while feeding informa­ Africa, hovering in the air for months with was the yawning gap between the movie’s tion to one of their competitors. Asked how no apparent purpose. Flying up to investi­ excellence as cinema and its deficiency as he learned about this, Mark names an over­ gate, a human...

... North Africa to the Asian states of the former Soviet Union, would indicate to most Israeli citizens that Israel’s geographical and functional locations have, after sixty years of existence, finally become synchronized, and the country has come home to rest. Discussions of external...

... ing editorial and intellectual integrity upon women in Eastern Africa are Philip Mendes just so you can sprawl the name of a young African men who were not Victoria, A u stra lia...

... Africa, or providing relief after a natural disaster. natural a after relief providing or Africa...