NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.14.08

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*40 DAYS AFTER
*CLASS WAR AT HOME
*AFGHANISTAN
*IRAQ
*PALESTINE
*GREECE
*DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE
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40 DAYS AFTER

Chicago Protest: U.S. Out of Middle East Now
"This is the first speak out of this sort [that I know of] since Obama has been elected."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Now-More-Than-Ever-The-Wo-by-Kevin-Gosztola-081214-200.html

U.S. Plans More Imperial Wars
The directive also requires the Pentagon to develop capabilities to conduct larger-scale irregular campaigns, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120303495.html

"Humanitarian" Imperialism
The rhetorical frameworks may differ, but the practical results may be much the same.
http://counterpunch.org/kampmark12122008.html

Barack Obama, Honeymoon Killer?
Obama was bound to disappoint his supporters; think of the transition as the road map for how it's going to happen.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/24/obama/



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CLASS WAR AT HOME

Despite Defiant Rhetoric, UAW Chief Offers More Givebacks
The two sides wound up apart only by the date when concessions might take effect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/business/13union.html?hp

Illegal Activism: Moving Homeless People Into Foreclosed Houses in Miami
"There's a real need here, and there's a disconnect between the need and the law."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/06/AR2008120601968.html

Obama Retreat on Taxing the Rich
Obama is also said to be reconsidering a key campaign pledge: his proposal to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24transition.html?ref=us

G.I.s Re-Enlisting Because of Poor Economy
"We do benefit when things look less positive in civil society."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081202/ap_on_re_us/meltdown_choosing_war



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AFGHANISTAN

Taliban Denies Throwing Acid
"Throwing acid on any human being, whether a man or a woman, has never been the Taliban's policy and the Taliban deny their involvement in such acts".
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/08/rahmani-interview.html



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IRAQ

Blackwater Massacres Breed Resistance
"I hate the Americans. They killed my only son. Until now, I have seen nothing from the Americans to get my rights."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/13/AR2008121302042.html

Military Contractor Holds Foreign Workers in Warehouses
About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/56910.html

SOFA: Iraq's U.S. Security Charade
[I]t's the same charade that the Bush administration and previous administrations have promoted for decades, in Iraq and also elsewhere.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/925/op37.htm

Soldier's Parents Own PTSD
"I wish he had never gone in."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-soldier14-2008dec14,0,6601955.story



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PALESTINE

Trade Union Journalists Denounce Siege of Gaza
"Israel clearly does not wish the rest of the world to see the impact of its siege."
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=33918

Video: Israeli Forces Complicit in Hebron Pogrom
[T]he security forces failed to properly protect the city's Palestinian residents also after the eviction, when settlers invaded Palestinian neighborhoods in the city, torched houses and cars, threw stones, shattered windowpanes, and damaged solar-heated water tanks, satellite dishes, and water containers.
http://www.btselem.org/English/Settler_Violence/20081210_Hebron_riots.asp

Report: The State of Israel Apartheid
In modern Israel in the early twenty-first century, some citizens, not coincidentally, all of them Arab, still live in third-world conditions.
http://www.acri.org.il/pdf/state2008.pdf

U.S. Zionist Lobby's Responsibility for Israeli Apartheid
The day will come when Israel's cheerleaders in this country will be asked to explain why they supported the pounding and starving of a people into submission, how they could ever have thought that discriminating against a nation on the basis of religion and ethnicity is somehow more rational and less appalling than discrimination on the basis of skin color.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10019.shtml

Israel Boycott's Growing Success
Over the last few months, European, Palestinian and Israeli activists have won significant victories toward the 2005 call by Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10001.shtml



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GREECE

More Action on Thursday
Every day will have action, but next Thursday will be a day of general action. The students will be all out. And we're trying to force the leaders of the trade unions to have a new general strike.
http://i1.democracynow.org/2008/12/11/greek_uprising_protests_riots_strikes_enter

Israel Provides Tear Gas to Suppress Revolt
Police sources say they are running out of teargas after using more than 4,600 capsules in the last week and have urgently contacted Israel and Germany for more stocks.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4B91LB20081212?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0



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DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE

Ecuadorean Man Dies From Beating Before His Mother Arrives to See Him
The brutal attack on Mr. Sucuzhanay outraged Ecuadoreans in New York and Ecuador, and came four weeks after an Ecuadorean immigrant on Long Island was fatally stabbed by a group of teenagers who, the police have said, had set out to attack a Hispanic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/14ecuadorean.html?ref=nyregion



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