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... Union Theological Seminary, Heschel joined a protest rally organized by a local committee of clergy, both Christians and Jews. At issue were the maneuvers by the Johnson adm inistration to stifle dissent. (At a Chicago news conference Attorney General Nicholas...

... committees, and their Israeli allies as they organize against land theft, home demolitions, settler violence, and inequality before the law. Every Friday the West Bank villagers in Bil’in and Nil’in hold peaceful demonstrations against the encroaching “apartheid wall.” At Friday demonstrations in the village...

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... to, in effect, kill the messenger: attack the is beyondtalk.net, which is a kind of a cli­ committee, issued a joint statem ent United Nations, Amnesty International, or mate pledge of resistance, pledging to get claiming the Goldstone Commission re­ anyone else—journalist, scholar, activist...

... security programs. Students at Idaho Falls High Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, School in Idaho look over the which is also responsible for nutrition and forestry. This committee will draft the legislation, selection...

... Is this m an a m averick? Study Commission, I testified before your Senate Committee on Com­ merce, Science, and Transportation on March 29,2000. You were concerned about the corrupting impact on college athletes and coaches of Nevada’s amateur sports...

... available to activists; indeed, Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions also run tours with even higher rates of Jewish participation. But the Freedom Theatre’s tour is unique in that it is the only tour that is focused on the prism of culture, and specifically cultural...

... the more established German Jews who dominated the centrist and anti-Zionist American Jewish Committee and the relatively recent arrivals from Eastern Europe who had created the more liberal and pro-Zionist American Jewish Congress, as well as the Bundist/Socialist-leaning Jewish Labor Committee. It’s...

... committees that have followed his lead Montpelier. have chosen principally to focus on getting insurance for the uninsured. That seemed simpler to ad­ dress so, as a result, they have adopted the “mandate model...

... on the Left. ■ transform the very sense of possibility—as ton lobbyists, congressional committees, Tom Hayden has said, the radicalism of and presidents actually operate. What Charles Derher, professor o f sociology a t Boston today is the common sense of tomorrow. makes Nader remarkable is that he...

... a congressional committee (Congressman Don Fraser’s Com­ mittee on International Organizations and Movements within the House Committee on Foreign Affairs) about my experiences in Brazil. In that testimony I said the following: “Torture brutalizes and dehumanizes not only those who...

... serious cultures. Plus: an international peace committee appointed by about lasting peace. All the rest is commentary1, fluff, and political representatives of the three major religious communities of the self-interest and has little to do with creating peace. area to develop and implement...

... ent m ust n o t b e conditioned on pri­ are being debated in the Senate’s finance and health committees, vate industry actions. chaired by Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. Ted Kennedy, respectively. There has been discussion o f creating a public option th a t only...

... Arab American community in the United States, to hear about post-9/11 civil rights problems faced by Arab Americans and Muslims in their respective states. In addition, state advisory committees held public forums and initiatives addressing the civil rights concerns of Arab Americans and Muslim...

... LETTERS LETTERS Activities Committee for contempt of entirety of the West Bank and Gaza (continuedfrom page 5) Congress because he refused to re­ (with minor border modifications as lease to them the names...

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... committee, issued a joint statem ent United Nations, Amnesty International, or mate pledge of resistance, pledging to get claiming the Goldstone Commission re­ anyone else—journalist, scholar, activist, or arrested in the interests of climate change port was “biased against Israel.” Ignoring one...

... that it didn’t have enough money left to use for drug treatment. In response to this report, in the year 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs. Although it is still illegal to possess or use any of these drugs, the police refer the offenders to a regional Committee for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction...

.... It would enable Obama supporters to communicate to an Obama assistant the re­ sults of any votes taken to endorse a particular policy sug­ gestion or to critique an Obama policy. • Creating a national coordinating committee that would be invited to meet with Obama once...

... level of reparations will also be made available to all Jews who fled Arab lands between 1948 and 1977. A truth and reconciliation process will be created, modeled on the South African version but shaped to the specific needs of these two cultures. In addition, an international peace committee...