Fliers advertising tonight's lecture by Itamar Marcus, have been pulled down or vandalized, according to UCSC lecturer, Tammi Benjamin. Some campus groups, such as the Committee for Justice in Palestine have, in the past, urged their members to boycott past speakers which urged peaceful solutions to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Their fliers were, in some cases, stapled on top of notices about a moderate Islamic speaker. Tonight's (Thursday March 10th) speaker is the director of Palestinian Media Watch. PMW was established in 1996 to gain an understanding of Palestinian society through the monitoring of the Palestinian Arabic language media and schoolbooks. PMW analyzes Palestinian Authority [PA] culture and society from numerous perspectives, including studies on summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, religious ideology, crossword puzzles, and many more. PMW has been playing the critical role of documenting the contradictions between the image the Palestinians present to the world in English and the messages to their own people in Arabic. The world’s view of the Palestinian Authority, to a significant degree, is the result of PMW research.

Tuesday, March 15
7:00pm
Quaker Meeting House
225 Rooney St, Santa Cruz

GENERAL PROGRAM MEETING. Dalit Baum, Ph.D., Israeli feminist, activist, and educator will speak. Dalit has taught in a community school for disempowered women, worked as an organizer in the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace and in Women in Black, and is a co-founder of "Black Laundry," a gay anti-occupation group which strives to make visible the connections between different oppressions within Israel and the occupation.

The Lake Merritt peace walk, dating from 1991, began again in 2001, shortly after 9/11. The weekly demonstration is a Sunday afternoon event which helps to keep the antiwar movement visible in Oakland.

Richard Heinberg: Wednesday, March 23, 7pm, Vets’ Hall, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz. Event is wheelchair accessible. Tickets at the door- $5-$15, sliding scale.

Violating the rights of US citizens while they are abroad: a practice now called "extraordinary rendition" has a long and sordid history. Today it is an official Bush administration policy, applicable to suspects regardless of citizenship.