Jose Palafox is pretty good. He is doing research on border crossings and actions of vigilantes along the Arizona border. When David horowitz was here, the young republicans put Palafox under citizen's arrest for walking by outside and making jokes that were too humorous for them, and they had the police put him in jail for at least a day and he had *felony* charges filed before they were dropped. I don't know how forgiving I would be. I think he writes for MRR too?
The Berkeley anti-war group started out in the first days with BAMN people being the most vocal and prominent which tended to make me avoid going to their meetings, but 2 or 3 weeks later the group voted to kick and and permanently exclude all members of BAMN unless they quit BAMN. I'm not sure what it was that they did, but they went against decisions that the group had voted on or were passing themselves off as the leaders or something like that. BAMN has had such a bad history - not with just a few bad apples, but consistently over many years. There are several essays on the internet about what their tactics have been. Christine
>From: Jim Fung <jfung79 at uclink4.berkeley.edu>
>To: calpsa at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [calpsa] CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS AGAINST WAR - WEST COAST CONFERENCE,
>NOVEMBER 10-11
>Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:53:51 -0800
>
> > CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS AGAINST WAR-WESTCOAST CONFERENCE
>SCHEDULE
> >
> > 11/10/01
> > 9 a.m.: Registration, 10 Evans Hall - $5.00-$10.00
> > DONATION (NO ONE TURNED AWAY)
>
> > 10a.m. -12 p.m.: Opening Plenary Session, 10 Evans
> > Hall
> > Noura Erakat-STW
> > Dr. Jennifer Terry-Professors for Peace
> > Dr. As'ad Abu Khalil
> >
> > 12 pm - 1 pm Lunch
> >
> > 1 pm - 2:30 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
> > A. History of Middle East and Southwest Asia
> > and
> > the Role of Oil
> > Dr. Kiren Chaudhry
> > Dr. Hatem Bazian
> >
> > B. Military and dissent
> > Jeff Paterson
> > Peter Brown
> >
> > C. WWII Internment
> > Ling-chi Wang
> > Jere Takahashi
> > Grace Shimizu
> >
> > D. Hate Crimes: Causes and Responses of the
> > Communities Affected
> > UCB student
> > ADC
> > ASATA
> >
> > E. Terrorism
> > Dr. Robert Gould
> >
> >
> >
> > 2:30 pm - 4 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
> > A. Palestine/ Israel
> > Dr. Joel Beinin
> > Marwan Bishara
> >
> > B. U.S. agenda for war
> > Dr. David Lloyd
> > Dr. Christian Parenti
> >
> > C. Civil Liberties
> > Kyung Jin Lee-Asian Law Caucus
> > Riva Antin-National Lawyers Guild
> >
> > D. Globalization and War
> > Larry Everest
> > Peter Brown
> >
> > E. Domestic Policy
> > Sara Flocks (TENTATIVE)
> > Cloe Osmer-Labor for Peace and Justice
> > Ewrin Bauer-1937 Little Steel Strike
> > activist
> >
> > 4 pm - 5:30 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS
> > A. Alternatives to Military Action
> > Students/ activists
> >
> > B. Humanitarian and Environmental Impact of War
> > Dr. Robert Gould
> > Tara Durabji
> >
> > C. Media/ Manufacturing Consent
> > Dr. As'ad Abu Khalil
> > Dennis Bernstein
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > D. Militarization of the United States
> > Jose Palafox
> > Sarah Chester-Critical Resistance
> > Eunice Cho-National Network for
> > Immigrant
> > and Refugee Rights
> >
> > E. Activism Then and Now
> > Tom Condit
> > Tuyet Tran
> >
> >
> > 7-9p.m.: CLOSING SESSION: 2050 Valley Life Science
> > Building
> > Francisco Cisique-Mandela Arts
> > Shailja Patel
> > Dr. Elias Rishmawi
> >
> >
> > There will be organizing workshops held
> > simultaneously. Workshops include:
> >
> > How to create a newsletter
> > How to deal with media
> > Nonviolence
> > Environmental effects of the war
> > Feminist approach on war
> > Macroeconomics and globalization
> > Media analysis/alternative media
> > Imperialism and its links to militarism
> > Talking points
> > How to address the Israel-Palestine question
> > Organizing youth
> > Organizing volunteers
> > Developing messages for the unconvinced
> > Structural sexism in activism
> > Art and history as an organizing tool
> > Grassroots organizing
> > Anti-capitalist convergence with the anti-war
> > movement
> > Strategizing (four sessions by R.U.C.K.U.S.)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sunday: 11/11
> > 10–12p.m. and 2-4p.m.: Plenary for C-SAW delegates
> > Rm. 2050 Valley Life Science Building
> >
> > 2040 VLSB: Video screenings 10-12p.m. and 2-6p.m.
> > (TENTATIVE LIST)
> > What I Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy
> > Hunting Osama Bin Laden
> > New Rulers of the World
> > Videos on Iraq with presentation by Larry Everest
> > New World Border with presentation by Jose Palafox
> > Hidden Internment-The Story of Art Shibayama, Hijab:
> > An Experience of My Soul, and Voices of Palestine
> > from
> > South Africa with presentation by Irum Shiekh
> >
> > 1-5p.m.-Free concert at People’s Park
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