Chuck0
Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Loon Mitchel Cohen is amazed Howard Zinn signed this. Dorothy Healey,
> who I looked up to in LA NAM was in the CPUSA from the 30's till 1973,
> when she quit over the way that Al Richmond, author of , "A Long Life On
> The Left, " was treated by Gus Hall et. al. over the criticisms in the
> book over the crushing of the Prague Spring.
> Michael Pugliese
>
> ------- Forwarded message -------
> From: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at MINDSPRING.COM>
> To: SPSM-LIST at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
> Subject: Howard, did you sign this awful statement?
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:09:55 -0500
>
> Michael P.
> did you actually sign this statement, which ends, horribly, in the
> following:
>
> "it exemplifies ANSWER's unfitness to lead mass mobilizations against war
> in Iraq" ?
>
> I just want to check with you directly, because I cannot believe you would
> allow you name to be used in this way.
>
> Mitchel Cohen, editor
> Green Politix, Green Party USA
> www.greenparty.org
>
>
> Published on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 by CommonDreams.org
> Let Anti-War Rabbi Michael Lerner Speak
>
>
> Also See:
> The Banning of Rabbi Lerner
> by David Corn / The Nation 2/11/02
>
>
> Rabbi Michael Lerner has been banned from speaking at the antiwar
> rally in San Francisco this Sunday, February 16. One of the rally
> organizers, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), has stated that it
> will not allow a "pro-Israel" speaker to take the stage -- despite the fact
> that Rabbi Lerner has been an outspoken critic of Israeli policy in the
> occupied territories, has endorsed ANSWER's antiwar rallies in the past,
> has signed the Not in Our Name petition against the war, and is widely
> known to be among the most progressive of American rabbis. Other coalitions
> organizing the rally, including Not in Our Name and United for Peace and
> Justice, have acceded to ANSWER's opposition to Lerner, on the grounds that
> they had previously accepted as a condition for participation in the
> demonstration the agreement that if one of the groups vetoed a speaker that
> all would have to agree.
> We, the undersigned, protest ANSWER's refusal to let Rabbi Lerner speak at
> this Sunday's rally. At a time when the antiwar movement needs as broad a
> platform and as broad an appeal as possible, ANSWER has chosen instead to
> put the interests of sectarianism ahead of the interests of all those who
> oppose this foolish and unnecessary war. We believe this is a serious
> mistake, and that it exemplifies ANSWER's unfitness to lead mass
> mobilizations against war in Iraq.
>
> Partial List of Signers:
> Greg Goldin, writer
> Robert W. McChesney, writer
> Jack Newfield, writer
> Howard Zinn
> Doug Ireland, writer
> Ariel Dorfman, writer
> Marc Cooper, writer
> Michael Berube, Penn State
> Candace Falk
> Janine Jaquet, Nation Institute
> John Powers, writer
> Katha Pollitt, writer
> Suzi Weissman, professor and author
> Eric Alterman, writer
> Kateri Butler, writer
> Todd Gitlin, writer
> Suzy Marks
> Wally Marks
> Michael Pugliese
> Judy Bertelsen
> Nelson Lichtenstein
> Richard Falk
> Tom Christie, writer
> Eyal Press, writer
> Jon Wiener, historian UCI
> Mark Schubb
> Lee Smith, writer
> Michael Balter, writer
> Carl Bromley, Editorial Director, Nation Books
> Harold Meyerson, writer
> Stew Albert
> Judy Albert
> Al Wasserman
> Anne Wasserman
> Celeste Fremon, writer
> Matthew Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive
> Stanley Aronowitz
> Isaac Balbus
> David Bensman
> Ken Brociner
> Shirley Bryant
> Chaz Bufe
> Leo Casey
> Bogdan Denitch
> Tom Edminster
> Stuart Elliott
> Irene Theodore Heinstein
> Maurice Isserman
> Peter Kosenko
> Justin Paulson
> Jason Schulman
> Timothy Sears
> Clifford L. Staples
> Luke Weiger
> Arthur Wilke
> Ian Williams
> Ellen Willis
> Adam Shatz, writer
> Emily Jane Goodman
> Sonia Jaffe Robbins
> Phyllis Chesler
> Richard Healey
> Dorothy Healey
> Roy Ulrich, attorney
> Naomi Glauberman, writer
> Judith Long, The Nation
> Maurice Zeitlin, author and professor
> Bruce Shapiro, writer
> Tad Daley, UCLA
> Andrew Gumbel, journalist
> Dr. Aryeh Cohen, University of Judaism, Los Angeles
> Nalini Lasiewicz, Lasiewicz Foundation
> Barbara Osborn, Liberty Hill Foundation
> Fr. Chris Ponnet, Co-Chair Pax Christi USA, Los Angeles Chapter
> Anita Frankel, former Public Affairs Dir. Pacifica Radio
> Roane Carey, The Nation
> Reverend Ed Bacon, Rector, All Saints Church, Pasadena CA
> Prof. Steve Ross, USC
> Dr. Lawrence Littwin, CSUN
> Kenneth Pomeranz
> Ella Taylor, writer
> Daniel Sokatch, Executive Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance
> Francisco Letelier, writer
> Devra Weber
> Jules Tygiel, SFSU
> Ellen Carol DuBois, UCLA
> Mike Davis, UCI
> Marla Stone, Occidental College
> Terrence McNally
> Vicki Ruiz
> Peter Dreier, Occidental College
> Bobbi Murray, Journalist
> Ginger Varney
> Kevin B. Anderson, Purdue University
> Jody Zonenchin
> Robert H. Silk, Attorney
> Susan T. Silk. PhD, Biochemist
> Frank Smyth, journalist
> Laurie Salen
> Dave Anderson
> Sam Bottone
> David Nasaw, CUNY Grad Center
> Moshe Machover
> Robin Arie-Donch
> Amie Potsic
> Ana Villa-Lobos
> Constance Bernstein
> Gretchen Mackler-Lipow
> Arthur Lipow
> Maggie Helwig, writer
> Rabbi Shaya Isenberg, University of Florida
> Richard H. Schwartz, College of Staten Island
> Marcia Diaz
> Howard A. Rodman
> Rabbi Rachel Cowan, Nathan Cummings Foundation
> Scott Tucker
> Daniel Pope, University of Oregon
> Jordan Elgrably, Open Tent Middle East Coalition
> Don Bustany, host "Middle East in Focus" KPFK
> Marge Piercy
> Richard Applebaum
>
>
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