{"article":{"id":222966,"heading":"NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.14.08","author":"NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War","created":"2008-12-15 18:34:19","modified":"2008-12-15 18:34:19","last_modified":"Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:34:19","article":"
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NYCLAW<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> -- New York City Labor Against the War<\/span>
<\/div>NYCLAW<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Antiwar<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Digest<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n
December 14, 2008<\/b>
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CONTENTS<\/span><\/b><\/u><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
*40 DAYS AFTER<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\r\n*<\/b>CLASS WAR AT HOME<\/b><\/u>
*AFGHANISTAN<\/b><\/u>
*IRAQ
<\/b><\/u>*<\/b>PALESTINE
<\/b><\/u>*<\/b>GREECE
<\/b><\/u>*<\/b>DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE<\/b><\/u>
*<\/b>NYCLAW Links
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40 DAYS AFTER<\/b><\/u>

Chicago Protest: U.S. Out of Middle East Now<\/b><\/u>
\"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<\/b><\/u>
The\r\ndirective also requires the Pentagon to develop capabilities to conduct\r\nlarger-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<\/b><\/u>
The rhetorical frameworks may differ, but the practical results may be much the same.
http:\/\/counterpunch.org\/kampmark12122008.html

Barack Obama, Honeymoon Killer?<\/b><\/u>
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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\r\nCLASS WAR AT HOME<\/b><\/u>
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\r\nDespite Defiant Rhetoric, UAW Chief Offers More Givebacks<\/b><\/u>
\r\nThe two sides wound up apart only by the date when concessions might take effect.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/13\/business\/13union.html?hp
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\r\nIllegal Activism: Moving Homeless People Into Foreclosed Houses in Miami<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"There's\r\na real need here, and there's a disconnect between the need and the\r\nlaw.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/06\/AR2008120601968.html
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\r\nObama Retreat on Taxing the Rich<\/b><\/u>
\r\nObama\r\nis also said to be reconsidering a key campaign pledge: his proposal to\r\nrepeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/24\/us\/politics\/24transition.html?ref=us
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\r\nG.I.s Re-Enlisting Because of Poor Economy<\/b><\/u>
\r\n\"We do benefit when things look less positive in civil society.\"
\r\nhttp:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081202\/ap_on_re_us\/meltdown_choosing_war



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AFGHANISTAN<\/b><\/u>

Taliban Denies Throwing Acid<\/b><\/u>
\"Throwing\r\nacid on any human being, whether a man or a woman, has never been the\r\nTaliban'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<\/b><\/u>

Blackwater Massacres Breed Resistance<\/b><\/u>
\"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<\/b><\/u>
About\r\n1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S.\r\nmilitary have been confined for as long as three months in windowless\r\nwarehouses 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<\/b><\/u>
[I]t's\r\nthe same charade that the Bush administration and previous\r\nadministrations have promoted for decades, in Iraq and also elsewhere.
http:\/\/weekly.ahram.org.eg\/2008\/925\/op37.htm

Soldier's Parents Own PTSD<\/b><\/u>
\"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<\/b><\/u>

Trade Union Journalists Denounce Siege of Gaza<\/b><\/u>
\"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<\/b><\/u>
[T]he\r\nsecurity forces failed to properly protect the city's Palestinian\r\nresidents also after the eviction, when settlers invaded Palestinian\r\nneighborhoods in the city, torched houses and cars, threw stones,\r\nshattered windowpanes, and damaged solar-heated water tanks, satellite\r\ndishes, and water containers.
http:\/\/www.btselem.org\/English\/Settler_Violence\/20081210_Hebron_riots.asp

Report: The State of Israel Apartheid<\/b><\/u>
In\r\nmodern Israel in the early twenty-first century, some citizens, not\r\ncoincidentally, 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<\/b><\/u>
The\r\nday will come when Israel's cheerleaders in this country will be asked\r\nto explain why they supported the pounding and starving of a people\r\ninto submission, how they could ever have thought that discriminating\r\nagainst a nation on the basis of religion and ethnicity is somehow more\r\nrational and less appalling than discrimination on the basis of skin\r\ncolor.
http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10019.shtml

Israel Boycott's Growing Success<\/b><\/u>
Over\r\nthe last few months, European, Palestinian and Israeli activists have\r\nwon significant victories toward the 2005 call by Palestinian civil\r\nsociety for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article10001.shtml



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GREECE<\/b><\/u>

More Action on Thursday<\/b><\/u>
Every\r\nday will have action, but next Thursday will be a day of general\r\naction. The students will be all out. And we're trying to force the\r\nleaders 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<\/b><\/u>
Police\r\nsources say they are running out of teargas after using more than 4,600\r\ncapsules in the last week and have urgently contacted Israel and\r\nGermany for more stocks.
http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE4B91LB20081212?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0



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DOMESTIC RACISM, REPRESSION & INJUSTICE<\/b><\/u>

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



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