Amazing Speakers & Events

Including speakers such as Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Winona LaDuke, Ward Churchill, Michael Parenti, Vandana Shiva, Howard Lyman, Ralph Nader, Maude Barlow, Alexander Cockburn, Kathy Kelly, and Andreas Toupadakis.

Charles Kernaghan: Support the Fired Sweatshop Workers in Nicaragua

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Labor

While in New York for the United Nations meeting in early September, I paid an unannounced visit to the National Labor Committee’s small offices. I walked into an emergency meeting of college students with the NLC’s charismatic and energetic director Charles Kernaghan. One of the major sweatshop contractors, sewing clothes for Kohl’s, J.C. Penney, Kmart and Wal-Mart in Nicaragua’s maquiladora, had just fired 600 union workers. This is the story of the fight back of the Nicaraguan workers and their appeal for help from US consumers who are paying $30 for a pair of jeans that they earn just 20 cents to sew.
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Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Civil Rights

Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, Ireland’s foremost human rights leader and former political prisoner spoke in San Francisco about the controversial US/British sponsored “peace agreement”. Flanked by banners of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier, she humorously and incisively drew the parallels between the Irish struggle, colonialism and globalization. (60 minutes, April 1998)
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Women of the Sixties – Sara Jane Olson AKA Kathleen Soliah – Kathleen Cleaver speaks on Mumia Abu-Jamal

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Civil Rights, Racism

Olson is charged with attempting to blow up a police car while she was allegedly a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army in the early seventies. Born Kathleen Soliah, Olson moved to Minnesota, took a new identity, married, and has a family. In this interview she speaks about her case for the first time.
Cleaver was one of the most important members of the Black Panther Party. After the demise of the Black Panthers she became a law school professor. She speaks on the international campaign to prevent the execution of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Edward Said: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Palestine

This is a special tribute on the anniversary of the death of Edward Said. Friends say that he knew that his life was coming to an end when he gave this legacy address on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.
Professor Said was known as both a scholar of modern literature and an expert on Middle Eastern politics. Educated at Princeton and Harvard he now teaches at Columbia. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, include: Covering Islam, and The Politics of Dispossession. He was born in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish State. By 1950 his extended family had all fled Jerusalem for Cairo. Like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they were displaced by the Jewish [ . . . ]

Naomi Klein – War And Fleeze

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

How Economic Shock Therapy Backfired in Iraq
Naomi Klein, the award winning journalist and author of the international best seller, No Logo, spoke to the abyss between the spin of the new democratic Iraq in the US media and the reality on the ground. The wave of privatization, instituted by Paul Bremer and reinforced by the International Monetary Fund, will not easily be reversed since the new government needs an impossible to reach majority to undo Bremer’s laws and enact the wishes of the Iraqi people. The IMF, the US government, the Paris Club and other international organizations are making a cruel joke of the promise of self determination in Iraq.
Naomi Klein writes an internationally syndicated column for The Nation, The [ . . . ]

Tariq Ali Movement Against the Wars in the Middle East & Religious Fundamentalism

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East, Palestine

An eloquent analysis of the wars in Iraq and Palestine and the reasons for the absence of an anti war movement in the US.
Writer, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali came to Berkeley at the end of April 2005. Tariq Ali was born in Pakistan in 1943. Educated at Oxford, he became involved with the movement against the war on Vietnam. He is also a world renowned scholar on the history and culture of Islam. Tariq Ali is editorial director of Verso books and editor and board member of the New Left Review.
Tariq Ali’s fiction includes a series of historical novels about Islam: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, A Sultan in Palermo and The Stone Woman. His non-fiction includes the just [ . . . ]

Tariq Ali – War, Empire And Resistance

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

Exiled from his home in Pakistan where he was born in 1943, Tariq Ali is a scholar, activist, novelist, play write, film maker and radio and TV commentator. He is the editor of the New Left Review and his name is linked with the rise of the New Left since his arrival in Oxford in the 1960s. He is one of the charismatic speakers of the anti-war movement.
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Robert Fisk: The Fantasy War Liberation, Weapons of Mass Destruction & Democracy

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

Fisk’s detailed account of events on the ground stands in stark contrast to reports in the US media. He says that today Iraq lives “a tragedy of epic proportions”. Governments in the West “are doomed to suffer contagion by our hubris, lies and fantasies.” Details of this very informative talk include: Civilian casualty reports, life in the palace of Paul Bremer, the use, by the US army of Israeli “terms of engagement in civilian areas”, the cutting down of orchards, a terrible sequence of sounds from a Secret Police torture, an update on the frigate Stark incident and more.
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Robert Fisk on war crimes in Jenin and the New Terrorism

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

The refugees in the Jenin camp, near the center of the town of Jenin in occupied Palestine were able to see their former homes across the border of what is now the state of Israel. In April of this year the camp made world history. After 12 days of shelling and bulldozing by the Israeli army large parts of the camp were turned to rubble. Did Israeli bulldozers destroy buildings while people were trapped inside? What occurred here while the media and foreign observers were excluded at gun point? Robert Fisk tells the story.
As a war and Middle East correspondent for the London Times, and now for the London-based Independent, Fisk has shown both personal and political courage. His coverage [ . . . ]

Robert Fisk: On the War on Iraq

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

Pity the Nation
What a war on Iraq would do to the Middle East
Just back from Beirut where he lives, the noted British journalist and Middle East expert gave another fact filled talk about recent developments in the Middle East. Topics: 9/11, hidden motives for war, his meeting with Osama bin Laden and US plans to pay itself back with Iraqi oil for the cost of war.
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Iraq, Alternatives to Occupation Rania Masri

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

While the attention of the world is focussed on the daily attacks on US soldiers the radical restructuring of the Iraqi economy gets little notice. Privatization, destruction of the local economy by imports and free trade zones, changes in tax and banking laws decreed with the stoke of a pen by executive order have made Iraq a free-for all for US and British corporations. Things are so bad that two bills are making their way through House and Senate to deal with dishonest contracting and war profiteering. <http://www.southernstudies.org >
Rania Masri is a Lebanese American writer, scholar and activist. She is the director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, [ . . . ]

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti A Challenge to Humanity – The Situation in Palestine

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Palestine

This is a moving, urgent report from Palestine by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. He is a medical doctor, and one of the leaders of the Palestinian movement that calls for an end to Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza. His organization provides health and community services to more than 1 million people every year.
Reduced to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinians were promised by a UN resolution, to maintain the state of Palestine on 45% of their former land. But this promise was never filled. Instead Israel occupied both areas and established armed settlements. Presently Ariel Sharon demands that over half of the West Bank also be given to Israel. The terrible humanitarian crisis of our time is [ . . . ]

Amira Hass: Thoughts about Suicide Bombers and their Families

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

Amira Hass is the only Jewish Israeli correspondent on Palestinian affairs living among the people she reports on. As guest of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley she received a standing ovation and gave this moving, compassionate and critical talk.
Amira Hass was born in Israel to Holocaust survivors. She is the author of: Reporting from Ramallah – An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land and Drinking the Sea at Gaza.
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Behzad Yaghmaian: The Secret World of Refugees

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

This is a moving, highly personal account by an exiled Iranian in search of the stories of migrants. He found an Afghan boy who lost his family in US bombing, a young girl trying to survive in New York, or men waiting to stow away on a ship in a Greek harbor. Yaghmaian is a professor of economics and the author of “Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights”. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch < http://www.counterpunch.org >
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Greg Palast: Who Won the War on Iraq?

By MariaJuly 5, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Middle East

The Carlyle Group, Lockheed Martin, Choice Point or more?
The author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy answered that question at his April 03 stop in Berkeley. Palast has a huge audience in Europe. He can’t get his work shown or printed in the mass media in the US where he was born.
He was introduced by Jello Biafra.
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