{"article":{"id":222490,"heading":"NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.23.08","author":"NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War","created":"2008-11-24 18:33:24","modified":"2008-11-24 18:33:24","last_modified":"Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:33:24","article":"
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NYCLAW<\/span><\/span> -- New York City Labor Against the War<\/span>
<\/div>NYCLAW<\/span><\/span><\/span> Antiwar<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Digest<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\nNovember 23, 2008<\/b>
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CONTENTS<\/span><\/b><\/u><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>
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*19 DAYS AFTER<\/b>
\r\n*AFGHANISTAN<\/b>
\r\n*IRAQ<\/b>
\r\n*PALESTINE<\/b>
\r\n*DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE<\/b>
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\r\n19 DAYS AFTER<\/b><\/u>

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Change Is Landing in Old Hands<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"The way to ensure that nothing changes is to place people in positions of authority who are incapable of effecting change.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/23\/weekinreview\/23harwood.html?hp
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\r\nObama Agrees to Clinton's Foreign Policy Demands<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\r\nBefore Hillary Clinton has been formally offered the job as Secretary\r\nof State, a purge of Barack Obama's top foreign policy team has begun.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/hillary-plays-hardball-1031238.html
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\r\nArab World Wary of Clinton<\/b><\/u>
\r\nThere is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for\r\nsecretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary\r\nRodham Clinton.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/22\/AR2008112201999.html
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\r\nLawrence Summers Treasury Appointment: Change We Can Bank On<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\r\nThis is not change we can believe in.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-scheer\/change-we-can-bank-on_b_144804.html
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AFGHANISTAN<\/b><\/u>

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U.S. Planning Escalation of 20,000+<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"The commanders are looking for well north of 20,000 forces. Gates wishes to fulfill the commanders' request.\"
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\r\nWinter of War<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"[T]hat sense of being hunkered down, that it's hard to know what's happening out there around us.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-winterwar23-2008nov23,0,5905353.story
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\r\n\r\nRussian General's Sees \"Same Mistakes\"<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"[W]e understood, finally, that we are fighting the people.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-aushev23-2008nov23,0,4727945.story
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IRAQ<\/b><\/u>

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Pro-War Advocate Cordesman: SOFA Won't Stop the Wars<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\r\nEven if the United States fully withdraws from Iraq in 2011, as Mr.\r\nObama and the Iraqi government say they would like, we will remain on\r\nsomething very like a war footing there throughout the next presidency.\r\n. . . At best, President Obama will have to conduct the equivalent of\r\none-and-a-quarter wars throughout his first term. At worst? The outside\r\nchance of war with Iran as well.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/23\/opinion\/23cordesman.html
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PALESTINE<\/b><\/u>

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Gazans Resist by Surviving<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"This siege isn't about 'security' or even about Hamas. Israel's\r\nultimate aim is to separate Gaza from the West Bank and kill the\r\nPalestinian national project.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/palestinethinktank.com\/2008\/11\/21\/ramzi-kysia-gazans-resist-by-surviving\/
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\r\nIsrael Jails San Jose Teacher Who Breached Gaza Seige<\/b><\/u>
\r\n[T]hree [international] activists have been placed in isolation cells\r\nat a prison near Tel Aviv and have gone on a hunger strike to secure\r\nthe release of the three confiscated fishing trawlers.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_11044328?nclick_check=1&forced=true
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\r\nBush Funds P.A.'s Offer to Surrender Right of Return<\/b><\/u>
\r\n[I]n some last-minute scurrying, the Bush administration has funneled\r\nat least $300 million to the Palestinian Authority. . . . Some of this\r\nmoney might have paid for recent advertisements placed by Mahmoud Abbas\r\nin Israeli newspapers in an attempt to increase interest in an Arab\r\npeace plan for the region.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jamal-dajani\/the-ramallah-banana-repub_b_145474.html
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\r\nP.A. and Peace Now Jointly Push Bantustan Plan<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"Both peace camps can feed off of each other.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1039866.html
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\r\nU.S.-Backed P.A. Forces Intensify Repression<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"[T]here's going to be an intifada [uprising], not against the [Israeli] army, but against these [Palestinian] soldiers.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/22\/palestinian-police-hit-for-use-of-force\/
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DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE<\/b><\/u>

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Obama's Anti-Immigrant Pick<\/b><\/u>
\r\n[Obama's] likely choice for Homeland Security secretary, Arizona Gov.\r\nJanet Napolitano, [is] known for pragmatic views on the issue and\r\nsupport for tough border enforcement.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-obama-team23-2008nov23,0,1740870.story
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\r\nElection Islamophobia Didn't Work<\/b><\/u>
\r\n[D]espite the extent and volume of anti-Muslim rhetoric, candidates who\r\nembraced these methods this year universally failed to get elected.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/shahed-amanullah\/the-surprise-effect-of-an_b_145618.html
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\r\nGrowing Racist Backlash Follows First Black President<\/b><\/u>
\r\n[T]he Ku Klux Klan, is reasserting itself in a spate of recent violence, after decades of disorganization and obscurity.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-klan23-2008nov23,0,7570102.story
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\r\nArmy Refuses to Take Action Against Rising Domestic Violence<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"We are in the business of fighting a war, and we let very little interfere with that.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/23\/us\/23abuse.html?ref=us
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