From: radkid2 (radkid2@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 21:53:44 EDT
Hopefully the Palestine Discussion scheduled for the STARC Summer
Conference will help us in taking a stance on this issue. If you'd
like to get involved in this or other STARC discussions please be
sure to register for our kickass conference at www.starcalliance.org.
SEE YOU AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY AUG 9-12!!
--- In starcgrassroots@y..., Jonah Z <jonah@r...> wrote:
> Last night I was at a party talking to an elder, a wise Mexican
woman from
> Oaxaca. In the course of our conversation I told her about STARC
and how it
> was created, how proud I was at how the organization's analysis had
developed
> from a room of almost all white college "elite" corporate reformers
into a
> truly developing radical, multi-racial and anti-racist group. I
started
> talking about what STARC was doing today, including the Peaceful
Justice
> Cluster and then I stopped, I had to tell her that STARC had not
taken a stance
> to support Palestine, my claims of STARC as anti-racist seemed less
firm to me
> and I'm sure to her.
>
> I believe that it is the responsibility of STARC as leaders and
visionaries to
> understand Palestine, to support these prosecuted people. I
believe that it is
> the responsibility of STARC as anti-racists to support the people
of Palestine
> as the United States gives $4 billion/year to their oppressors,
just as STARC
> supports the people of Columbia against the US government's $1.2
billion/year
> or Afghanistan or Iraq for the persecution of the people there.
Please
> understand that there is no difference, only that it in the hearts
and minds of
> Jewish people that we must challenge our zionist training and learn
the truth.
>
> As anti-racists I ask you please support the Palestinean people in
their
> struggle for freedom and dignity.
>
> Jonah
>
> *******************************************
> "Just like the moons and the suns, with the certainty of tides,
just like hopes
> springing high, still I'll rise." Maya Angeleou
> -------------------------------
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> http://www.sf.indymedia.org
> http://www.rethinkingschools.org
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