This article understates the human rights disaster occurring right now in Sudan. An estimated 1000 people A DAY are dying. Huge concentration camps have been set up where Sudanese are not allowed to leave but where they have no food, clean water, shelter, or medicine. Men who try to leave are shot on the spot. The women who try to leave are raped. The 350,000 that the Seattle Intelligencer editorial board fear might die this year without intervention is a low-ball figure. Others have estimated that as many as a million people may be dead by the end of the year if the international community doesn't intervene right now. Look at the pathetic response so far from the United Nations. They are still "considering" sanctions. In the USA, neither George W. Bush NOR Colin Powell will call the disaster by its proper name: Genocide. By contrast, Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry called it genocide last April. Also, locally, I note that the Resource Center for Nonviolence does not have a single mention of Sudan on its website.

Join us on September 11, 2004 at
UN Plaza in San Francisco
11:00 am to 1:00pm

Kick-off of national campaign
Mothers Speak for Truth about The War on Terror

How many dead? (military, contractor, civilian)
How many US troops wounded? 5,000? 11,000? 3,000? 16,000?

Call for honoring the dead with a day of national mourning!

Statement of the Israeli Communist Forum (5.8.2004)

A call for Unity in the Struggle Against the Occupation and for a Just Peace

In a recent thread of comments, several readers who were critical of Sam Farr's support of Israel suggested once again that the whole problem began in 1948 when the Israelis "drove the Arabs out of their homes". While such a scenario suits Palestinian propaganda purposes, this is hardly an accurate assessment of what actually happened in 1947 and 1948. In this article, David Meir-Levi, a Jewish historian and archeology professor, documents wave after wave of Arab migration with each cause noted. He has included dozens of quotes from Arab, British, and Israeli press at the time to document his claims.

An interview done with Utah Phillips at the Books not Bombs rally at the Lawerence Livermore Nuclear Lab on 8-8-04.

The MP3 file is 25min 30sec long and just under 24 MB.

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