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Open letter to Bay Area Activists from Bay Area
United Against War (BAUAW):
Dear friends who organized, participated, and/or spoke in the demonstrations
sponsored by Not in Our Name and ANSWER on Nov. 3 and Nov. 9.
At the concluding rally of the emergency demonstration ANSWER called to
protest the U.S. assault on Fallujah, Jahahara, of AFSC and N'COBRA, issued
a kind of challenge to all the major antiwar organizations to make a unified
response to the U.S. government's war against Iraq. He called on the
national organizations, of which we are all affiliated to one or
more-ANSWER, UFPJ, NION-to unify in building a massive antiwar movement.
This call is so timely because the war and occupation continue unabated, the
consequences for the Iraqis are devastating (over 100,000 civilians killed
by U.S. actions) and over 1,110 U.S. troops are dead and tens of thousands
Those of us who are old enough to have participated in the movement against
the U.S. war on Vietnam know that the most effective mass actions against
that war that called for bringing all U.S. troops home now [Out Now!] were
unified actions where people of different ideologies were able to come
together for
Out Now despite their divergent opinions on other topics. The mass movement
that was built on the streets of the U.S. created a supportive environment
U.S. soldiers to resist the war in multiple ways eventually becoming an
unreliable fighting force for U.S. imperialism.
Now, it is very clear from all who spoke at the last two demonstrations,
including you, that we have wide areas of agreement. We all spoke about the
need for the movement to get back into the streets to protest the war in
massive demonstrations. We all spoke about the need for unity. We all spoke
about the way to bring peace and end the war was for the U.S. government to
get out of
The next step is for all our organizations to meet together and concretely
plan how this unity will be carried out.
Bay Area United Against War is willing to host such a meeting, or
participate in such a meeting called by others. Let's make it happen.
Bring the Troops Home Now!
Carole Seligman, Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH, 7:00 p.m.
1380 Valencia Street
(Between 24th & 25th Streets, SF)
Special point of personal privilege from Bonnie Weinstein:
I received the following Email message today
addressed to me:
--- "xx.xx"
> Judenrat
The brave sole did not leave his or her name.
Of course, this is not the first time I have had an anti-Semitic slur
thrown at me.
In the neighborhood I grew up in during the McCarthey erea, our
family was routinely referred to as, "those dirty, commie,
Jew bastards."
Not only was I a "Jew," but my parents were "commies" also.
It was a time when the picture of Krushchev that appeared in the
"Catholic Monitor" was kept hidden from the eyes of the children.
Good Catholic parents were advised that it wasn't safe for their
children to look upon this "face of Satan." It was hidden
under the couch cushion at my childhood friend's house.
I dared to take a peek! My friend thought I would for sure
go to hell.
And when a Black couple and their two children, friends
of our family, tried to visit us, they were stopped outside of our
building by the local cop on the beat. The cop demanded to know
where they thought they were going. They said they were
visiting us, so the cop went up to our door and asked if, indeed, these
"n---ers" were invited.
My father had to go downstairs and escort them into our apartment.
Rumors abounded for weeks after in our little apartment building.
"A white family just didn't sit at the same table with Blacks!"
This horrified our neighbors.
Even though my immediate family was not religious at all, we were
atheists, our name was enough to categorize us and place that
star on our chests. Anti-Semitism is a dead-wrong racist philosophy
that can't be tolerated. Just as the theft of Palestinian land and the
systematic extermination of the people of Palestine cannot
be tolerated in a free and democratic society. This "Jew" supports
the unconditional right of return of the Palestinian people. And
this "Jew" demands that all U.S. aid to Israel be stopped
immediately--NOT ONE MORE DIME! And this "Jew" says
Racism is about "divide and concur." It's purpose is to deflect us from
our common interests to live in a free and democratic society with
equal opportunity for all. Where all human needs are rights that
belong to all people--the equal right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, free healthcare, food, clothing, housing, education, happy
and productive work--all the things necessary to make everyone "the best
they can be" from birth to the grave.
These are the inalienable rights of all of us on Earth.
And, what is most important of all to recognize, is that our needs stand
diametrically opposed to the needs of the wealthiest 1% of humanity.
Racism and bigotry ultimately benefits the tiny minority in control
of wealth of the world. It is their most powerful tool for the
imprisonment of the mind that makes ordinary, good people blame
their brother for their plight in life while the rich get richer and throw
an occasional bare bone to the ravenous masses--the old "trickle
down" theory.
The only thing that can plow asunder racism and bigotry is human
solidarity for freedom, justice and equality for all.
It is a world only the masses acting in unity and solidarity can create.
When do we start?
Bonnie Weinstein
Saturday, November 20 at 11 a.m.
Union Square, Downtown San Francisco
2) Iraqi Insurgents Shoot Down U.S. Army Helicopter
By ROBERT F. WORTH and JAMES GLANZ
FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 12
3) Falluja a 'Big Disaster,' Aid Needed - Red Crescent
By Omar Anwar
BAGHDAD (Reuters)
Fri Nov 12, 2004 07:37 AM ET
4) Falluja Battle Erupts, Unrest Spreads Elsewhere
By Michael Georgy and Fadel al-Badrani
FALLUJA (Reuters)
Fri Nov 12, 2004 09:34 AM ET
5) Subject: Mordechai released again!
From: Jeanie Shaterian
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:42:10 -0800
6) Bush and Blair Meet to Discuss Mideast Peace
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:41 p.m. ET
November 12, 2004
7) Subject: In Memory of Yasser Arafat
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:45:58 -0500
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8) Ever Upward: At Nearly 1.5 Million,
US Prison Population at New High
9) New College of California
Center for Education and Social Action (CESA)
Listing of Peace and Social Justice Events, November 12 - 15, 2004
Saturday, November 20 at 11 a.m.
Union Square, Downtown San Francisco
Initiated by: Million Worker March Committee
Co-sponsored by:
San Francisco Labor Council
UNITE-HERE Local 2
ILWU Local 10 Executive Board
Four thousand San Francisco hotel workers have been locked out for
more than a month. The hotel owners -- representing Hilton, Hyatt,
Holiday Inn, Sheraton and the other major chains -- have flown in
hundreds of strikebreakers from around the country to smash the
San Francisco hotel workers and their union. It is a defining struggle
that will set the stage for broader attacks on wages, pensions,
full-time work and the very existence of health coverage for
working Americans.
The global multinationals that own the major hotels and other
industries, make profits in the billions, but 61% of U.S. corporations
and 71% of corporations that have offices overseas pay no taxes
at all while their profits soar. The bosses are demanding that hotel
workers pay the escalating cost of healthcare. They seek to prevent
workers from having a unified expiration date on contracts precisely
to prevent workers from carrying out a united defense of their
interests and, by fragmenting workers, to undermine the union.
We call on workers everywhere to unite and to support the locked-out
hotel workers on their picket lines. Their fight is our fight. As the
motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers
proclaims: "An Injury to One Is An Injury to All."
Join us at this "Stand By The Hotel Workers and Their Pickets" rally
in Union Square in San Francisco, followed by a March to join the
pickets at key hotels.
UFCW Grocery Workers are mobilzing on Nov. 19 at Oakland,
San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose grocery stores and
For information about the UFCW actions and the Locked-Out Local 2
Hotel Workers solidarity actions, contact these web sites:
* www.millionworkermarch.org
* www.unitehere.org
* www.bayareacoaliton.org
Million Worker March Committee,
c/o ILWU Local 10,
400 North Point St., San Francisco, CA 94133
Tel. 415-771-2028
Solidarity Statement from the Million Worker March Committee
with the Local 2 Locked-Out Hotel Workers
Four thousand San Francisco hotel workers have been locked out for
more than a month. Hotel workers in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.
are fighting as well for a contract with a common expiration date.
These are workers who do the most difficult jobs from room cleaners
to cooks to front desk staff. The low wages they receive are designed
to keep them in permanent poverty.
Most of these workers -- many of whom are African-American as
well as Latino and Asian immigrants -- work two jobs to survive
and provide for their families. They are fighting to protect their
health care, pensions, wages and the right to contracts that expire
at the same time as do other hotel contracts around the country so
the bosses cannot fragment the struggle for decent working conditions.
They need our support and the support of workers across America.
By targeting the most vulnerable of workers, the hotel owners are
setting the stage for a generalized assault upon for the healthcare
benefits of all workers in the United States, union and non-union.
Millions of other workers are threatened with contracts that deprive
them of their health care -- from airline to grocery workers.
This is a coordinated corporate offensive. Let there be no mistake
about it. The Hotel owners, representing Hilton, Hyatt, Holiday Inn
and Sheraton and the other major chains, have flown in hundreds
of strikebreakers from around the country to smash the San Francisco
hotel workers and their union. This is a class war on behalf of
corporate and banking America.
The global multinationals, that own the major hotels and other
industries, make profits in the billions, but 61% of U.S. corporations
and 71% of corporations that have offices overseas pay no taxes
at all while their profits soar. These are the stakes.
The Million Worker March Organizing Committee and the Million
Worker Movement (contact www.millionworkermarch.org) call upon
workers to forge their own agenda and to unite in exposing and
resisting the national epidemic of union busting and the all out
attacks on our healthcare, wages, pensions, social services and the
vital infrastructure of our society.
We call on workers everywhere to unite and to support the locked-out
hotel workers on their picket lines. Their fight is our fight. As the
motto of the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union
proclaims: "An Injury to One Is An Injury to All."
The defense of the locked-out hotel workers today is a fight to alert
and mobilize workers in America who face give-back contracts that
jeopardize decent healthcare. We call upon rank and file workers
to urge your union to stand with our brothers and sisters:
* Adopt a hotel and join in informational picketing.
* Join us November 20, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. for a "Stand By The
Hotel Workers and Their Pickets" rally in Union Square in San
Francisco followed by a March to join the pickets at key hotels.
* Organize a telephone campaign flooding hotel chain owners with
calls demanding that the bosses pay for healthcare benefits and
open the books on their billion dollar profits.
Keep the struggle alive: defend the right of hotel workers to healthcare,
decent wages and full benefits. In San Francisco the hotels that have
locked out workers include:
Crown Plaza, San Francisco Hilton, Grand Hyatt, Holiday Inn/Civic
Center Holiday Inn/Express @ Wharf, Holiday Inn/Fisherman's
Wharf, Hyatt Regency, OMNI, Palace Hotel, St. Francis Hotel,
Mark Hopkins.
* Toll-free phone numbers for these hotels are:
(866) 655-4669 Holiday Inns
(888) 625-4988 Starwood-St. Francis
(800) 228-3360 Hyatt Hotels
(800) 445-8667 HILTON Hotels
(800) 819-5053 Four Seasons
(800) 465-4329 Intercontinental Hotels-Mark Hopkins
(800) 843-6664 Omni Hotels
* * *
2) Iraqi Insurgents Shoot Down U.S. Army Helicopter
By ROBERT F. WORTH and JAMES GLANZ
FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 12
FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 12 - Insurgents shot down an Army helicopter
north of Baghdad today, wounding its three crew members, military
officials in Baghdad said.
Earlier today, insurgents attacked an American patrol in southern
Baghdad, killing one American and wounding three others, the
miiltary said.
The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was hit by anti-aircraft fire in
Taji, 12 miles north of the capital, the military said. The crew
members injured in the attack were rescued and are expected
to recover. The helicopter was recovered.
This was the third time an American helicopter was shot down
this week. On Thursday, in separate incidents to the north and
southeast of Falluja, two Super Cobra helicopters were brought
down after being fired on from the ground, military officials said.
Both Marine pilots and their two-man crews escaped after being
picked up by American troops in the area, and one of the pilots
was injured, officials said.
In Falluja, on the fifth day of an American campaign against
insurgents, a battle erupted near a mosque in northwest part
of the city today just hours after the Marines said insurgents were
now trapped in the south of the city, Reuters reported.
"They can't go north because that's where we are,'' Master Sgt. Roy
Meek told Reuters. "They can't go west because of the Euphrates
River and they can't go east because we have a huge presence there.
So they are cornered in the south." The news agency reported that
relief agencies were calling on the interim Iraqi government and
American forces to grant relief workers and medics access to the
city, saying more than a hundred families were in desperate need
of help and describing the situation as a "big disaster."
A military spokeswoman, Capt. Angela Bowman, told Reuters that
Mosul was calm overnight, after insurgents appeared to have opened
up a second front in the fighting by overruning police stations and
laying siege on the provincial headquarters there.
The insurgents in Mosul stormed a half-dozen police stations and
looted the buildings of weapons, ammunition and body armor,
police officials and witnesses said. By the afternoon, they had
seized five bridges running across the Tigris River, which splits
the city in half.
The American military said it had mounted a major counteroffensive
in Mosul hoping to control the violence before guerrillas could seize
the government center. But at nightfall, carloads of guerrillas
continued to roam the streets freely, melting away at the approach
of American troops.
"It's very fluid," Lt. Col. Paul Hastings, an Army spokesman, said in
a telephone interview near midnight. "It's been going on for much
of the day, and it's still going on."
Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, the commander of American forces in
northern Iraq, said in an e-mail message early today from his
headquarters in Mosul that there had been "some tough fighting"
on Thursday, but that the city was "quite calm" at the moment.
"I do expect more attacks on Friday," General Ham said, adding that
it was "hard to say if the enemy includes some who may have left
Falluja, but clearly they are responding to operations there."
Violence surged throughout the Sunni triangle west of Baghdad, with
ambushes, bombings and mortar attacks jolting Tikrit, Kirkuk,
Hawija, Samarra and the provincial capital of Ramadi, just 30 miles
west of Falluja. Iraqi officials have imposed curfews on Baghdad,
Mosul, Baiji, Ramadi and Falluja. A curfew has been in place in
Samarra since last month.
American military officials have said in recent days that insurgent
leaders probably fled Falluja before the assault on the city began
and could be organizing the counter offensive now unfolding
across the country.
The invasion of Falluja, now in its fifth day, is seen by military
planners as a way to smash the largest safe haven for the insurgency
in Iraq. Since the assault began on Monday, about 600 rebels have
been killed, along with at least 19 American and 5 Iraqi soldiers,
military officials said.
American marines and soldiers seem to be carrying out a pincer
movement in Falluja, pressing insurgents ever farther south in intense
fighting. But the military has been forced to detach an armored
battalion from its cordon operation around Falluja to help quell
violence in Mosul, about 200 miles to the north, siphoning off about
a third of the forces that had been put in place to catch insurgents
attempting to flee the fighting here.
In downtown Baghdad, a powerful suicide car bomb exploded on
a busy commercial street Thursday morning, killing at least 17 people
and wounding at least 30 others. In the evening, explosions rattled
across the capital with a frequency not seen here since August, when
American soldiers fought a Shiite uprising in the south.
In Falluja, the Second Battalion of the Seventh Cavalry pressed south
and east from Highway 10, which runs across the middle of the city,
sparking heavy fighting in the neighborhoods of Resala, Nazal and
Jebail. Another unit, the Second Battalion of the Second Infantry,
swung south and west through an industrial area, seemingly
trapping the insurgents in a pincer.
But in the center of the movement, heading due south, a Marine
battalion ran into ambushes, stiff counterattacks and at least one
booby-trapped house, all of which slowed their advance. This
advance moved through Sinai, a neighborhood known both for
car garages and hidden weapons caches, and Shuhada, a relatively
modern residential area at Falluja's southernmost edge.
"They're all over the place," a Marine officer, Lt. Christopher Wilkens,
said. "They're very well trained."
Still, some insurgents have tried to escape across the Euphrates
River to the south and west of the city by boat or swimming. On
Thursday, Apache gunship helicopters destroyed five rowboats and
a motorboat as insurgents prepared to board them.
Insurgents in the towns and rural areas to the north of Falluja have
become more sophisticated in their bomb and mortar attacks,
military officials said. In one apparently coordinated attack on
Thursday near Karma, one group fired mortars at an American
position. As an armored vehicle began moving on the only road
leading to the mortar's point of origin, another group detonated
a roadside bomb and began firing mortars at the vehicle. No one
was injured in the attack.
Military commanders had hoped to take time in the next few days
to clear out insurgents thought to be congregating in Karma, north
of Falluja, and Amariya, to the south. But with the armored battalion,
called a Stryker group, headed up to Mosul, that operation could
become much more difficult.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, arriving Thursday in El Salvador
at the start of official visits across Central and South America, said
the American and Iraqi offensive in Falluja was going well and that
hundreds of adversary fighters had already been killed.
"They are well along in that task and they'll finish it successfully,"
Mr. Rumsfeld said. "It will end, and it will end successfully, and it
will no longer be a safe haven for terrorists or extremists."
Mr. Rumsfeld acknowledged that an unknown number of insurgent
leaders and fighters had fled Falluja before the offensive began.
"I have no doubt but that some people did leave before it started,"
he said. "We also know that there are a number of hundreds that
didn't and have been killed. Others have been captured."
As American forces continued their advance through Falluja, support
troops were filtering into more secure parts of the city to begin what
officials called an ambitious relief and reconstruction effort. "The
marines and Iraqis are working to bring humanitarian assistance
right behind tactical units once areas are clear and secure," one
senior American officer in Iraq said in an e-mail message.
"There is, for example, already food and water going in to
certain areas, and Iraqi medical assistance/supplies going
into the hospital."
One of the Super Cobra helicopters came down just west of Falluja
after being struck by a shoulder-fired missile. The pilot and crew
were rescued by the Third Light Armored Regiment, which is posted
nearby. The other helicopter was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade
10 miles north of the city. The pilot was rescued but the burning
helicopter was destroyed.
On Thursday afternoon, the Muslim Scholars Association, a powerful
group of Sunni clerics that says it represents 3,000 mosques, held
a news conference in Baghdad at which it condemned the offensive
in Falluja and renewed its call for a boycott of elections scheduled
for January. The clerics have been uncompromising in their stand
against the Americans and the interim Iraqi government, and it is
unclear how much impact their protest will have on the elections.
A spokesman for the group said American-led forces conducted
dawn raids on the homes of Harith al-Dhari, the group's director,
and Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, a senior official, in the capital.
If a widespread Sunni boycott of the elections were to ensue, it could
jeopardize the legitimacy of the vote. Sunnis make up a fifth of Iraq
and are still embittered after having been ousted from power during
the initial American invasion.
American and Iraqi officials have also said they need to dampen the
insurgency in Ramadi. The Marines still control the government center
and police headquarters, and maintain bases on the edge of downtown,
but are fending off daily assaults.
In the northern oil city of Kirkuk, a car bomb aimed at a convoy
carrying the Kurdish provincial governor, Abdul-Rahman Mustafa,
exploded in the city center, wounding 16 people, news agencies
reported. In Baquba, about 30 men attacked an Iraqi National Guard
post at dawn, killing one guardsman and injuring three others.
A mortar attack on a national guard compound in Hawija wounded
eight people, and a car bomb at a petrol station in Hilla injured four.
No word emerged of the fate of three relatives of the Iraqi prime
minister, Ayad Allawi , who were kidnapped on Tuesday night.
A group called Ansar al-Jihad posted an Internet message on
Wednesday saying it would behead the hostages within 48 hours
unless Dr. Allawi halted the invasion of Falluja and released all
prisoners in Iraq. Those kidnapped were Ghazi Majeed Allawi,
a 75-year-old first cousin, his wife and their daughter-in-law.
A Lebanese satellite channel broadcast a tape showing weeping
relatives of one of the women begging for her release, Reuters
reported. The relatives said the captive, Wasnaa Muhammad Jaafar
Husseini, was nine months pregnant. "She's pregnant, and she can't
hold up to this," said a sobbing woman who identified herself as
Ms. Husseini's sister.
Robert Worth reported from Falluja and James Glanz from Baghdad.
Ed Wong and Khalid al-Ansary contributed reporting from Baghdad,
Dexter Filkins from Falluja, an Iraqi employee of The New York
Times from Mosul, Eric Schmitt from Washington, Thom Shanker
from El Salvador and Maria Newman from New York.
Copyright 2004 The New York Times
3) Falluja a 'Big Disaster,' Aid Needed - Red Crescent
By Omar Anwar
BAGHDAD (Reuters)
Fri Nov 12, 2004 07:37 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Aid agencies called on U.S. forces and the Iraqi
government to allow them to deliver food, medicine and water
to Falluja on Friday and said four days of intense fighting had turned
the city into a "big disaster."
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society, which receives support from foreign
agencies including the Red Cross and UNICEF, said it had asked
U.S. forces and Iraq's interim government to let them deliver relief
goods to Falluja and establish medics there.
But it said it had received no reply.
"We call on the Iraqi government and U.S. forces to allow us to do
our humanitarian duty to the innocent people," said Firdoos al-Ubadi,
Red Crescent spokeswoman.
"This is their responsibility," she said, adding that judging by reports
received from refugees and pictures broadcast on television, Falluja
was a "big disaster."
A U.S. military spokesman said the Red Crescent had permission
to help refugees in towns around Falluja, but could not say if it had
been granted access to the city itself.
The Red Crescent has seven teams of doctors and relief workers,
backed by trucks of food and other aid ready to go into each
of Falluja's districts when the word is given.
About 10,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines, backed by heavy artillery
and war planes, surged into Falluja from several directions on
Monday night, launching an offensive on rebels.
The U.S. military estimates that 600 militants have been killed in
four days of street fighting.
Scores of buildings in Falluja have been completely destroyed, with
TV footage showing some districts all but leveled. There has been
no water and electricity for days and food shops have been closed,
residents say. The stench of dead bodies is hanging over some areas
of the city, the say.
U.S. commanders say civilian casualties have been low, but residents
dispute that, describing incidents in which non-combatants, including
women and children, have been killed by shrapnel or hit by bombs.
In one case earlier this week, a 9-year-old boy died after being hit
in the stomach by shrapnel. Unable to reach a hospital, he died hours
later of blood loss.
"Anyone who gets injured is likely to die because there's no medicine
and they can't get to doctors," said Abdul-Hameed Salim, a volunteer
with the Iraqi Red Crescent. "There are snipers everywhere. Go outside
and you're going to get shot."
Rasoul Ibrahim, a father of three, fled Falluja on Thursday morning and
arrived with his wife and children in Habbaniya, about 12 miles to the
west, on Thursday night.
He said families left in the city were in desperate need.
"There's no water. People are drinking dirty water. Children are dying.
People are eating flour because there's no proper food," he told aid
workers in Habbaniya, which has become a refugee camp, with around 2,000
families sheltering there.
Ubadi said many families taking refuge in Habbaniya and other villages
nearby were suffering from diarrhea and malnutrition and needed medicine as
well as basic necessities such as lentils, sugar, bread, tea and candles.
An aid convoy reached Habbinya on Thursday to help hundreds of families
living in schools, shops and tents on the streets, but the biggest concern
is now Falluja, where the Red Crescent has identified at least 150 families
in desperate need.
She said a convoy of aid, including drinking water, food and medicine, was
ready to leave for Falluja from Amiriya, a town to the south, but needed
permission from U.S. forces.
(c) Copyright Reuters 2004.
4) Falluja Battle Erupts, Unrest Spreads Elsewhere
By Michael Georgy and Fadel al-Badrani
FALLUJA (Reuters)
Fri Nov 12, 2004 09:34 AM ET
FALLUJA (Reuters) - A battle erupted near a mosque in northwest Falluja
Friday just hours after U.S. Marines said insurgents were now trapped in
the south of the city.
Insurgents determined to show they are undeterred by the four-day-old
offensive in Iraq's most rebellious city have hit back hard with attacks
and bombings elsewhere, causing two days of bloody chaos in the northern
city of Mosul.
Iraqi authorities struggling to contain the unrest roiling Sunni Muslim
cities have imposed curfews on Baghdad, Mosul, Baiji, Ramadi and Falluja
this week. A curfew has been in force in Samarra since U.S.-led forces
stormed it last month.
U.S. Captain Angela Bowman described Mosul as calm overnight, with its
three million residents under a dusk-to-dawn curfew, after Thursday's
attacks on nine police stations.
An American soldier was killed in the Mosul fighting, the military said,
and Bowman said U.S. planes staged air strikes on Thursday as U.S. and
Iraqi forces sought to restore order.
"Iraqi National Guard and multinational forces are restoring security to
those areas of the city where terrorists are attacking from, primarily in
the southwestern area," she said.
Machinegun fire and grenade blasts echoed across northern Baghdad's Sunni
Adhamiya district Friday as rebels fought national guards, witnesses said.
The clashes subsided later.
Heavy fighting resumed in Falluja's northwestern Jolan district, where
resistance had dwindled in the previous 24 hours, a Reuters correspondent
with Marines in the area said.
Gunmen emerged on a rooftop beside a mosque as Marine tanks headed for the
area. Troops evacuated two U.S. casualties.
Smoke rose from an ice factory on the edge of Jolan after rebels fired
three rockets at U.S. forces there, residents said. A huge explosion shook
Jolan later, but its cause was not clear.
The U.S. military acknowledges that insurgent leaders and foreign militants
may have fled Falluja before the attack began Monday night, but says those
who remain are bottled up.
"They can't go north because that's where we are. They can't go west
because of the Euphrates river and they can't go east because we have a
huge presence there. So they are cornered in the south," Marine Master
Sergeant Roy Meek told Reuters.
Tank crews said they had driven rebels through a "ghost town" to a southern
area the Americans say is a stronghold for foreign militants led by al
Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The U.S. military says 18 U.S. and at least 5 Iraqi troops have been killed
and 178 American soldiers wounded in Falluja.
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society urged U.S. forces and the Iraqi government
to let it deliver food, medicine and water to Falluja, describing
conditions there as a "big disaster."
"We call on the Iraqi government and U.S. forces to allow us to do our
humanitarian duty to the innocent people," said Red Crescent spokeswoman
Firdoos al-Ubadi.
A U.S. military spokesman said the Red Crescent had permission to help the
many civilians who have fled Falluja, but could not say if it had been
granted access to the city itself.
Rasoul Ibrahim, a father of three, fled Falluja on foot on Thursday morning
and arrived with his wife and children in Habbaniya, about 12 miles to the
west, at night.
He said families left in the city were in desperate need.
"There's no water. People are drinking dirty water. Children are dying.
People are eating flour because there's no proper food," he told aid
workers in Habbaniya, which has become a refugee camp, with around 2,000
families sheltering there.
Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, writing in Britain's Sun newspaper,
said the Falluja offensive would improve security across Iraq and pave the
way for elections due in January.
Violence in Falluja and elsewhere in Iraq has taken a toll on U.S. forces.
Two planes ferried 102 seriously wounded soldiers from Iraq to the main
U.S. military hospital in Germany Thursday, joining 125 who arrived earlier
in the week.
Marie Shaw, spokeswoman at Landstuhl hospital, said 11 more soldiers
wounded in combat were due to arrive Friday.
U.S. spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Boylan said in Baghdad an estimated
600 rebels had died in Falluja so far.
Insurgents have kidnapped Dean Sadek, an American of Lebanese origin who
works at Baghdad airport, Al Jazeera television said. It showed Sadek and
his identity papers in a video issued by a group called the 1920 Revolution
Brigades. (Additional reporting by Omar Anwar, Luke Baker and Lin
Noueihed in Baghdad, Sabah al-Bazee in Samarra and Dubai bureau)
(c) Copyright Reuters 2004.
5) Subject: Mordechai released again!
From: Jeanie Shaterian
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:42:10 -0800
Mordechai is released and back at St. George's, his things returned.
Ha'aretz said the release was to discourage him from speaking to the press.
He said this afternoon on Israeli TV in English, "One, two, three times, how
many times do they need to arrest me for the same thing?" He is under house
arrest, the conditions to be announced. He is exhausted but otherwise okay.
The Presiding Bishop made a strong statement to Israeli and US authorities.
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6) Bush and Blair Meet to Discuss Mideast Peace
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:41 p.m. ET
November 12, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Friday the death of Yasser Arafat
provides ``a great chance to establish a Palestinian state'' and a broader
Middle East peace.
At a joint White House news conference, Bush and British Prime Minister Tony
Blair pledged their support for a fresh stab at peace. The president said it
was up to Palestinians to elect a democratic government and Arafat's
successors to allow freedoms to take root.
``We'll hold their feet to the fire to make sure that democracy prevails,''
he said.
Bush, whose policy in Iraq frayed relations with France, Germany and other
traditional allies, also said he intends to travel to Europe as soon as
possible after his second inaugural, on Jan. 20.
He said he looked forward to using the ``combined strength of Europe and
America'' to advance freedom.
The leaders spoke from the stately East Room shortly after the Palestinian
leader was laid to rest in a chaotic scene in Ramallah. The Bush and Blair
governments hope a change in Palestinian leadership might open new avenues
toward peace.
There was fresh news, too, in Iraq, a chilling reminder of the perilous life
of the Middle East: Insurgents downed a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter
north of Baghdad, wounding three crew members. In their two days of
meetings, Blair had hoped to shift Bush's attention from Iraq to the stalled
Mideast peace process.
While the president coupled his call for a Palestinian state with his
unwavering support of Israeli security, Blair stressed the need to bolster
``If we want a viable Palestinian state, we want to make sure the political,
the economic and the security infrastructure of that state is shaped and
comes into being,'' the British prime minister said.
``We've got the chance over the next few months, with the election of a new
Palestinian president, to put the first marker down,'' Blair said.
Bush didn't commit to a Mideast conference or sending a U.S. envoy to the
region -- two items sought by Europeans. But he did talk more optimistically
than usual about the prospects for a Palestinian state.
``I intend to use the next four years to spend the capital of the United
States on such a state,'' Bush said. ``I believe it is in the interests of
the world that such a truly free state develop. I know it is in the interest
of the Palestinian people.''
He said there was a ``new opportunity'' for resolving the decades-old
stalemate and put the onus on the new Palestinian leadership.
The United States is ``looking forward to working with Palestinian leaders
who are committed to fighting terrorism and committed to democratic
reform,'' Bush said.
Arafat was viewed as a hero by Palestinians, a terrorist by Israel. Bush
refused to deal with the Palestinian leader in his final years.
The president sounded cool about the prospects of attending an international
conference on Middle East peace. ``I'm all for conferences,'' he said,
``just as long as a conference produces something.''
Blair lost political ground at home for being Bush's steadfast comrade in
the U.S.-led war in Iraq that was unpopular in Europe.
Bush dismissed critics of Blair who call the British prime minister a lackey
of the United States. ``He's plenty capable of making up his own mind'' on
Iraq and other issues, Bush said. ``When times get tough, he doesn't wilt.''
Bush and Blair said the prime minister's motives are pure -- protecting the
British people.
``We are not fighting the war against terrorism because we are an ally of
the United States,'' Blair said. ``We are an ally of the United States
because we believe in fighting this war on terrorism. ... We share the same
objectives, we share the same values.''
Bush opened the news conference by calling Blair ``a statesman and a
friend'' and said U.S.-British relations have never been stronger. He listed
accomplishments by the nations' forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He warned that with upcoming Iraqi elections, ``the desperation of the
killers will grow and the violence could escalate.'' But he said victory in
Iraq would be a blow to terrorists everywhere.
Bush and Blair both said they oppose any attempt by Iran to develop nuclear
weapons. ``There's an agreement in the international community'' on that,
said the British leader.
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press
7) Subject: In Memory of Yasser Arafat
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In Memory of a Fallen Leader
In honor and remembrance of the passing of the Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the
Palestine National Authority, Yasser Arafat, the Free Palestine Alliance -
USA, joins our people in Palestine and throughout exile in calling on the
Palestinian and Arab community and all peace and justice loving people in
the United States to observe 3 full days of national mourning, remembrance,
and a steadfast of reciprocal solidarity and unity.
We call on all to display on their homes, institutions and property
Palestinian flags, scarfs, or other symbols of the Palestinian national
movement for liberation and justice.
The life and passing of Abu Ammar embodies the very struggle of our people
in their totality, in all of its opposing complexities, critical junctures,
endless pain, and stubborn victories. Like him, many have passed before,
either as a result of curfews, confinement, and imprisonment, or by rockets,
bullets, tanks and fighter planes. In all, the target has always been
Palestine, yet the victor will always be Palestine. With every fallen
leader, we inch forward in our journey home - be it in a coffin through
France and Egypt, or on the shoulders of our embattled youth, we are
destined to go home free and liberated of Israeli Apartheid and colonial
The legacy of Yasser Arafat is inextricable from that of the entirety of not
only the Palestinian people, but all those struggling for freedom. Through
the confinement of Yasser Arafat during the assault on Janin Camp, the
attempt was to imprison Palestine. Today, and during the assault on Falluja
and the people of Iraq, the Arab people bid farewell to a sea of victims
from the hills of Palestine to the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates, as
the attempt to imprison Iraq intensifies.
As we hold our tears back for those who have fallen in the camps of exile
and Palestine and the streets of Iraq, and as we salute in struggle convoys
of passing leadership, we know too well that ours is inevitably the future.
Let every flag and kuffiyya fly high in honor of all those who have passed -
from Falluja to Rafah and from Baghdad to Jerusalem.
The Free Palestine Alliance - USA
November 11, 2004
8) Ever Upward: At Nearly 1.5 Million,
US Prison Population at New High
The number of people in prison in the United States increased again last
year, according to a report released Sunday by the Justice Department's
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). According to the annual report,
American prisons held 1,470,045 inmates as of December 31, 2003, an increase
of 2.1% over the previous year. (For those wondering about the oft-cited
figure of 2.2 million prisoners in the US, the discrepancy lies in the fact
that Sunday's report does not count people imprisoned in jails.)
Southern Correctional Institution, Troy, NC
The drug war continues to play a significant role in the expansion of the
prison population. According to BJS, 20% of all prison inmates are serving
time for drug charges. "Drug-related" crimes, such as property theft by
addicts or violent conflict-resolution in unregulated drug markets, and to a
much lesser degree, drug-induced violence, create an unknown number of
additional drug war-related inmates.
Despite sentencing reforms that began taking hold in various states
beginning in the late 1990s, the number of state prisoners continues to
increase, rising by 1.6% last year. In California, for instance, where
voters passed the "treatment not prison" Proposition 36 in 2002, the state
prison population increased by more than 3,000 people last year. Similarly,
in Texas, where authorities have moved to ease parole revocations in a move
to keep inmate numbers down, the inmate population actually increased by
nearly 5,000.
But once again, the federal prison system and the federal war on drugs are
the prime factor pushing the numbers higher. The federal prison population
grew by 5.8%, nearly four times the rate of growth in the states. While
only slightly more than one-tenth the size of the combined state prison
systems, federal prisons accounted for fully one-third of the growth in
prisoners, accounting for 9,500 of the nearly 30,000-prisoner increase in
the overall prison population last year. With drug offenders making up 55%
of all federal prisoners (only 13% are doing time for violent crimes), the
federal drug war is the driving force not only in the increase in federal
prisoners but in the overall increase in prisoners nationwide.
Given the long-term decrease in overall crime rates since 1991, BJS noted
that the government's version of "sentencing reform," as the report called
it, had actually increased both prison admissions and average sentence
length in the period since 1995, with annual admissions jumping from 522,000
that year to 615,000 in 2003. Similar, sentence lengths increased from an
average of 23 months to 30 months during the same period.
"This increase is largely due to policy changes that have increased the
amount of time offenders are serving in prison," said the sentencing reform
group The Sentencing Project in a statement greeting the BJS report. "These
include such measures as 'three-strikes,' mandatory sentencing, and 'truth
in sentencing,'" the group noted.
In one landmark, again largely a function of the drug war, the number of
women prison inmates has passed the 100,000 mark for the first time. As The
Sentencing Project noted, "The rapid growth in the rate of women's
incarceration -- at nearly double the rate for men over the past two decades
-- is disproportionately due to the war on drugs. Women in prison are more
likely than men (30% vs. 20%) to be serving a sentence for a drug charge."
The US also retains its status as the world's greatest jailer nation. With
an imprisonment rate of 714 per 100,000 population, the US easily outpaced
second-place Russia with its rate of 584 per 100,000. The US imprisonment
rate is nearly four times that of neighboring Mexico (169) and more than
five times that of Great Britain (141).
As a result of the imprisonment binge, American prisons are stuffed past
capacity, with all that implies for the quality of life behind bars.
According to BJS, state prisons were operating at as much as 116% of
capacity, while the federal prison system is operating at 39% above
Last but not least, blacks continued to be the largest group of prisoners,
making up 44% of all inmates, compared to 35% white and 19% Hispanic, with
2% "other." These proportions have gone almost unchanged in the past
decade, BJS noted.
Read the BJS report, "Prisoners in 2003," at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p03.htm online.
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9) New College of California
Center for Education and Social Action (CESA)
Listing of Peace and Social Justice Events, November 12 - 15, 2004
Nov 12 at New College - Yael Berda: Defending Political Dissent in Israel
and Palestine
Nov 13 at Castro Theater; Nov 14 at Roxie Cinema - 3rdI's Second Annual
International South Asian Film Festival
Nov 15 at New College - Media Technology and Democracy Post-Election 2004:
Where Do We Go from Here?
Yael Berda:
Defending Political Dissent in Israel and Palestine
Friday, November 12th; 5:30 pm: reception; 7:00 pm: Yael Berda will speak
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Visiting Israeli human rights attorney and community organizer, Yael Berda
will speak on the current struggle to defend political dissent in both
Israel and occupied Palestine. Drawing on her experience as both a community
organizer and a defense attorney for various political prisoners, Yael Berda
will give an overview of the state of dissent within Israel and the rising
voices to bring an end to social, economic and cultural oppression, as well
as the occupation. She will address how people both inside Israel and in the
United States can act as solidarity allies to Israelis and Palestinians in
building solutions through a non-violent struggle.
Please join us in an evening of discussion and organizing to protect
democratic dissent and the fight for social justice!
Donations of $5-20 accepted at the door. Proceeds to go towards the
International Solidarity Movement, the NLG and legal aid projects in
Palestine and Israel. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Sponsored by Northern California Support Group of the International
Solidarity Movement, Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and New
College Center for Education and Social Action. For more information about
this event, please contact email@example.com or call 415-437-3425.
New College's Women's Spirituality Program and the Activism and Social
Change Emphases are co-sponsoring some of the films at
3rd I's Second Annual South Asian film Festival
Saturday, November 13 at the The Castro Theater, S.F.
Sunday, November 14 at the Roxie Cinema, S.F.
3rdI's Second Annual International South Asian Film Festival will be held
Saturday, November 13 at the Castro Theater and Sunday, November 14 at the
Roxie Cinema. This is a great opportunity to see films showcasing diverse
images of Indians and other South Asians through art house classics to
documentary films, from innovative and experimental visions to classic
We will be screening Ritwak Ghatak's film, "Jukti Takko Aar Gappo" (Reason,
Argument & Story) -- this is a choice opportunity to see this rarely
screened gem. "Second Generation" about second generation South Asian youth
living their lives in sync with the pulse of their London, on Saturday
11/13 at the Castro with actress Parminder Nagra from Bend it Llike Beckham
and ER (Nagra will be here for a Q&A post screening) . Naturally we have a
tribute to Bollywood with Shah Rukh Khan's latest "Main Hoon Na" (8:00pm
11/13) at the Castro which isn't all campy fun and frivolity -- it does
attempt to address the conflict with India & Pakistan -- and works for the
whole family as well.
Sunday's schedule includes a film in Marathi "Eternity" (Anahaat) adapted
from the original play in Hindi by Surendra Verma "Surya Ki Antim Kiran Se
Pehli Kiran Tak.'; the documentary "Starkiss: Circus Girls in India" about
the Great Rayman Circus and the harrowing life the Nepalese girls who are
recruited for the circus go through
(http://www.thirdi.org/festival/film/starkiss.htm); and"Laatoo", a
documentary about the Pakistani dance world. We have two great shorts
programs: a selection of South Asian women's short films (from the Bay Area
to Bangladesh) with the award winning A Certain Liberation
http://www.thirdi.org/festival/film/womenshorts.htm; and lastly a collection
of South Asian British shorts.
Last year most shows soled out so we suggest you purchase your tickets
online in advance. For film program and to purchase tickets in advance,
please visit: http://www.thirdi.org/festival/index.htm or call 415
Media Technology and Democracy Post-Election 2004:
Where Do We Go from Here?
Monday, November 15th, 7- 9 pm
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco
What are the lessons of the 2004 elections regarding media, new technology
and politics? What is on the horizon for the media democracy and media
justice movements? Media technology has the capacity for both liberation and
oppression; it can enlighten and obfuscate; serve the interests of progress
or reaction. From the perspective of the recent elections, an outstanding
panel talks about the future of media technology and democracy.
Dan Coughlin, Executive Director of Pacifica Radio. He was appointed the
Executive Director of Pacifica Radio in January 2002. Under his stewardship,
the network pulled itself back from the brink of bankruptcy following a
debilitating 2-year internal struggle. Pacifica has since undergone the
largest financial and audience expansion in the network's 55-year history
while transforming itself into a membership organization with national
elections for its board of directors. Coughlin previously served as the
network's news director and as a producer of Democracy Now! He came to
Pacifica from Inter Press Service (IPS) Third World News Agency, a wire
service specializing in the Global South, where he worked as a senior editor
Jan Frel, Political Editor of AlterNet - the highly acclaimed Internet
information source that provides readers with crucial facts and passionate
opinions. He recently worked on the Dean for America campaign in Vermont,
and before that he worked for the public interest journal TomPaine.com. Jan
graduated from St. Andrews University Scotland with a degree in Geography.
He says he could have been a better student.
Art McGee, communications, media, and technology consultant with Online
Policy Group. Art McGee has over 15 years of experience in the corporate and
non-profit arenas. He has worked with organizations such as Project Change
(AntiRacismNet), Media Alliance (San Francisco), TAO Communications (now
known as the Organization for Autonomous Communications), the Center for
Third World Organizing (CTWO), the Black Radical Congress (BRC), and the
Institute for Global Communications (The World's First Non-Profit Internet
Service Provider), among many others.
Thenmozhi Soundararjan, Co-founder and Executive Director, Third World
Majority. She is a filmmaker, singer, and grassroots media activist. As a
second generation Tamil Untouchable woman, she strives to connect grassroots
organizers in developing countries with media resources that can widen their
base of resistance. She was the director and founder of the Center for
Digital Storytelling's national community programs in which she developed
the framework for community based digital storytelling. In that capacity she
has worked with over 200 communities around the country developing grounded
new media practices for their work. Further she is in residence at the MIT
Center for Reflective Community Practice writing about her experiences with
community based digital storytelling. She is also a 2001-2002 Eureka
foundation fellow.
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Transfer Of Tenancy And Separated Spouses
I came across an anomaly in this area of the law recently whereby separated (but importantly not divorced) spouses could not obtain a court order for a transfer of a tenancy. The reason was that there were no divorce proceedings and hence no decree of divorce or judicial separation as required by paragraph 2(a) of Schedule 7, FLA 1996.
Of course there could be, and was, an occupation order. In an appropriate case there could be an application under Schedule 1, CA 1989. However, it seemed to both the judge and myself a strange position to be in and one where effectively the husband in that case was forced to either divorce his wife or judicially separate from her in order to obtain a contested transfer.
I tried to argue around this on the basis that the husband would apply for a divorce and the order for transfer would not be dated until after the granting of the decree (akin to the position with regards there being a financial remedies order before decree nisi). It was acknowledged in the case of Pounds v Pounds [1994] WLR 1535 that a District Judge would have power under RSC Ord.
42, r3 to approve a draft financial consent order in advance of decree nisi and to direct that it should take effect at a future date and that no fresh appraisal of the matter was required after decree nisi was announced.
Whilst the authority only extends to consent orders it is important to note that RSC Ord. 42, r3 states,"(1) a judgment or order of the court...takes effect from the day of its date (2) Such a judgment or order shall be dated as of the day on which it is pronounced, given or made, unless the court...orders it to be dated as of some other earlier or later day, in which case it shall be dated as of that other day". The wording of the RSC Order therefore is not limited in its application to consent orders.
The court would therefore be able to consider the application for a transfer of tenancy and once satisfied on the evidence proceed to make the order with a direction pursuant to RSC Ord. 42 r3(2) that the final order is not to be dated until a date after the decree has been granted. Unfortunately, such argument did not succeed in the case I was briefed in on the basis the husband had not yet even issued divorce proceedings!
A Sigh Of Relief Or A Sad Farewell To The Statutory Dismissal & Grievance Procedure...
We have now reached the first anniversary of the repeal of the statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures: So the question I ask is, are we pleased to see the back of the old procedures? Many will agree that the old procedures could be a burden and a hindrance.
A review of the Employment Act 2002 concluded that the mandatory nature of the statutory procedures had led to unforeseen consequences, in particular disputes becoming formalised, with lawyers often involved at an early stage. Most, will on first consideration, be pleased that the provisions have been repealed. I was in the position recently where I spent a day at a tribunal arguing over whether or not a redundancy procedure (or rather lack of it) adopted by the dismissing employer was fair. I was left frustrated by the fact that had the procedure commenced just six weeks earlier (and hence had a trigger event pre-6 April 2009) the procedure adopted would have been automatically unfair on several grounds. Hence, there we were spending a day in the tribunal (when the tribunal is already suffering a backlog) arguing over something that would not have been necessary under the old procedure. It was then that I questioned whether the old provisions were so bad after all.
In this particular case not one stage of the old procedure was followed. There was no step one statement, no step two meeting as such and certainly no disclosure of any scores provided to the employee in question. I then asked myself what will happen now with cases such as Alexander v Bridgen Enterprises Ltd [2006] IRLR 422 and GM Davies v Farnborough College of Technology [2008] IRLR 14 where a lack of consultation over the scores given to a particular employee at stage two led to a finding of automatically unfair dismissal (notwithstanding any remedy on appeal). Of course, the answer is one has to turn back to the ordinary principles of unfair dismissal under s98 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures does not apply to redundancy situations).
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text: Weimar Berlin, with its cultural vibrancy, sexual libertinism, and political turmoil, has inspired any number of acclaimed narratives by creators from Isherwood to Fassbinder. The completion of Berlin, which Lutes has been serializing for more than two decades, adds another formidable work to that list. The monumental graphic novel opens in 1928, with the fateful meeting of aspiring artist Marthe Müller and journalist Kurt Severing on a Berlin-bound train. Newcomer Müller is increasingly drawn to the city's vitality, while Severing's innate cynicism grows into despair as he witnesses the rise to power of the National Socialists. In addition to this central pair, Lutes follows the lives of a handful of representative Berliners, including struggling workers, a divided Jewish family, Communists and Nazis, a wealthy socialite, and a touring group of African American jazz musicians, all set against his vividly rendered portrayal of the teeming metropolis. Lutes' unfussy graphic approach is derived from the European ligne claire cartoon style, a geographically and stylistically appropriate technique for his complex, sprawling tale. When Lutes launched his ambitious effort in 1996, he had no way of knowing how prescient and timely its story of idealistic radicals resisting violent white nationalists in the streets would be by the time he completed it.


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The partnership between Newlands College and Collège Louis Nucera will initially involve electronic exchanges (emails, vlogs etc.), for students to get to know each other. This will progress by accessing letters written by soldiers from our communities, to be translated and shared via email and/or video recording. We will also share information on monuments and commemorations to the soldiers of World War I in our cities. 15 Newlands College students will travel to Nice in April 2016, where they will meet students from Collège Louis Nucera. We intend for this to be a regular two year event.
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The three of them began walking down the main street. Although Sieg and Rider had randomly gotten involved with other people when they were walking through the streets earlier (and Sieg had desperately stopped the joyful Rider from going out of control each time), now everyone they passed seemed to avert their faces from them.
It appeared to be because of Saber of Red who walked at their head… Certainly, her brutal presence, which could be clearly felt even from behind her, was unbearable for normal people.
"So. Just what on earth are you guys doing here?"
Saber of Red looked over her shoulder and asked them. The sullen-looking Rider had his arms crossed and his face turned away.
"We have no obligation to ans—"
"Rider was insistent on going out, so I was chosen to keep an eye on him. Ruler seemed to judge that he wouldn't do anything too absurd as long as I'm with him."
Sieg replied as if to restrain Rider.
"What's your reason for coming to Bucharest in the first place?"
"I don't know, but apparently it's necessary."
"Hmm," said Saber of Red with a shrug. She thought about reporting this to her Master, but since he was in the middle of working, she decided to tell him later.
"I heard that Assassin of Black died. Is that right?"
"…Yeah, she died."
Rider was still ignoring Saber, so Sieg answered instead.
"I see," Saber murmured disinterestedly.
"So, why are you here in Bucharest, Saber?"
"I have no obligation to answer… Well, we thought it wouldn't be good for us to continue staying in Trifas. That's all."
Though they had temporarily decided to work together, Trifas was still enemy territory for her and her Master. This answer which Saber's Master, Shishigou Kairi, had given her was extremely valid.
"So, what did you want to talk about?"
"That's right, Sieg. What do you walk to talk about with someone like this?"
"…You've been far too grumpy since earlier."
Saber of Red murmured in amazement, and Rider of Black vehemently protested.
"What are you saying!? As if I could forget that you killed him!"
"Well, I don't really care about it myself."
"Hey, you should care, you know!?"
Rider of Black retorted to Sieg's calm words. To Sieg, it wasn't a problem since he was alive now. Of course, it was only natural for a victim to have painful feelings—to feel hate towards the perpetrator.
But this wasn't the time for that right now.
They weren't enemies right now, so Sieg had thought he might be able to talk to her a bit. After all, Saber of Red was Mordred—the Knight of Rebellion who had ended King Arthur's legend.
She might have her own personal view about human beings.
Sieg wanted to ask her that. He didn't want an answer from her, but an opinion.
"No, well, if you're okay with it, it's fine, but… All right, I'll forgive you for having survived my Noble Phantasm. There, now we're even."
…Does that really make us even? Sieg tilted his head in puzzlement, but Saber of Red seemed to be in a good mood, so he decided not to comment.
"Here, huh?"
Seeming to imply without words 'This is the perfect choice', Saber of Red quickly opened the door of a coffee shop. Sieg and Rider followed behind her.
A grey-mustached shopkeeper greeted the three of them in a somewhat brusque manner. Fortunately, there were no other customers to be seen. Though, since this was the state of the shop at lunchtime, they might not be able to expect good taste from the food here…
"Sieg, what will you have?"
"…A ham sandwich and coffee."
"Then I'll have the same."
Saber of Red took a while to think over the menu she had been given before she spoke.
"I'll have a grilled chicken sandwich, a green apple sundae, a seafood buster and beef steak, and for dessert, umm, three of these muffins. Ah, and a coffee too."
Sieg and Rider exchanged glances, and then looked at the shopkeeper.
"…Miss, can you eat all that?"
"I wouldn't order it if I couldn't eat it. Do you have it or not? If not, instead I'll have—"
When Saber was about to take out the menu again, the shopkeeper frantically stopped her.
"It's fine, I'll bring out everything you ordered!"
The shopkeeper headed back to the kitchen in a panic. It appeared he was managing the shop by himself, based on the shop's smallness and old interior design. Fortunately, however, the shop wasn't unsanitary.
"So, what did you want to talk about?"
When the shopkeeper was gone, Saber of Red immediately leaned forward.
"Do you mind if I explain it from the beginning?"
When Sieg asked her that, Saber of Red made a bitter face, but agreed as long as he kept it short.
Sieg first explained a little about his own origins—and then spoke about what kind of Servant Assassin of Black had been.
And by the time he finished briefly explaining the illusion Assassin showed him, their order arrived at their table in large amounts.
"…Before grumbling about other things, let's eat first, okay?"
"All right."
"Good idea."
It wasn't that Saber of Red was fixated on eating. Rather, since she had a contract with a first-rate magus, she didn't even need to eat.
But that was that, and this was this. She was capable of eating. Moreover, she was a Servant, a being that existed outside of the world's logic.
80% of the reason she ate wasn't to fill her stomach, but out of pure curiosity.
"…Muu. I want to make another order, but that wouldn't be nice to the shopkeeper, and my stomach isn't particularly empty. I don't have any money, either."
"Because I'm afraid of what would happen if I gave you money…" Sieg murmured seriously. Rider had been making a ruckus saying "Let's buy that" and "Let's buy this" ever since they left Trifas.
…There was no meaning in buying a clearly fake platinum ring. Moreover, when Sieg declared it was a fake, the owner of the street stall became angry—that was one of the few examples where Sieg made the disturbance worse.
Saber of Red greedily devoured her sandwich at a frightful pace and then moved on to attack her steak.
"By the way, where's your Master? That rough-looking guy wearing sunglasses."
Rider of Black raised a finger to his brow in curiosity.
"He's in the middle of working in his workshop. My presence there was in the way, so I went out."
"We're going to be using airplanes, but what about you guys?"
"I don't know either. But probably something similar? After all, it's those Hanging Gardens we're talking about."
"True," Rider agreed with a nod.
Since they were going to a flying fortress, their means of getting there were limited. It would have to be either an aircraft or flight enabled by magecraft. And whichever method they chose, it didn't change the fact that the fortress would be firmly defended.
It didn't matter how frail their transport was. Even if there was an enchanted flight device that could withstand top-class spells, it would be no different than paper and plywood in the face of EX rank spells.
"I think we can somehow make it through if my hippogriff seriously goes all out, though."
Saber of Red became speechless, and Sieg covered his eyes. Seeing their reactions, Rider asked "What's wrong?" while holding his sandwich.
"Hippogriff, hippogriff… Ah, could it be that you're that hero? From Charlemagne's something or other, Astolfo?"
"Yeah, that's right. Wait, I didn't tell you that, did I?"
"You didn't. I know about the guy beside you being Siegfried, though."
"I see," said Rider of Black in a calm and accepting manner.
"…Well, learning it now doesn't make any difference."
Saber of Red didn't show much surprise.
"Right? I was viciously beaten by you! But I've changed Masters now, so there's no way to know how it will go next time, you know?"
Saber of Red sneered and shrugged.
"I'm not going to be defeated to the likes of you. Idiots should think before speaking, idiot."
"Someone who calls someone else an idiot is an idiot!"
…As the atmosphere was getting somewhat dangerous, Sieg quickly raised his hand.
"More coffee, please!"
Because he shouted it so loudly, the two Servants looked at Sieg in surprise.
"…Well, whatever. I'll also have more coffee."
"Me too!"
"That costs extra here."
The shopkeeper said that curtly, but Sieg said they didn't mind. He should still have at least that much money left.
"Now then. You want an answer your question, about whether humans are good or bad, right?"
When Sieg nodded, Saber of Red sighed as if astounded from the bottom of her heart.
"Are you an idiot? Humans are humans, beasts that can become either good or bad depending on the situation. In the end, they're merely slightly intelligent animals that lose all manners and virtue when they lack food and clothing. I don't care about others. As long as I myself can continue living as a superior being—got it?"
Saber of Red's opinion was harsh and straightforward. She didn't see humans as either good or bad.
They merely… fell down either path depending on the situation. And they were all foolish. That's why she didn't care about others and only placed importance on herself.
"Do you hate humans?"
Saber of Red answered in the affirmative without flinching at Sieg's frank question.
"I hate them. Even though they don't forget grudges, they forget the debts they owe to others. If something will disadvantage them, they'll avoid it even if they have to sacrifice everything around them. Even though they do good deeds when it's convenient, they don't mind overlooking great evil when it's troublesome for them. They act out of selfishness, and if they fail, they use the excuse of saying it's the fault of something besides themselves. They're not worth protecting for even a penny. That's what humans are. How about it, are you disappointed?"
Having spoken her conclusion, Saber stabbed at her steak with her fork.
"Hmm… what a sad conclusion."
Saber of Red didn't waver even at Rider of Black's words. Sieg went into deep thought for a while, and then asked another question.
"Then, Saber of Red, is that also the reason you rebelled when you were alive?"
In an instant, the atmosphere chilled.
"…No. How I feel about humans had nothing to do with my rebellion. Don't speak of it again."
Saber of Red's gaze immediately became filled with killing intent. Most likely, if Sieg said anything further, she really would cut him down. Sieg wondered if she was a moody person. Certainly, just talking with her was a trial in and of itself.
"But hey, leaving aside the matter of the rebellion itself—there were also people you followed you, weren't there?"
Just when Sieg thought to close this subject, Rider of Black thoughtlessly stepped into the conversation. Perhaps also having thought the subject would end there, Saber of Red widened her eyes at Rider.
"Weren't there people who adored you and put their life on the line to make you king? Do you despise them too? If so, I think that's sad."
Sieg felt as if his heart were being strangled, and he restrained his hand upon which his Command Spells were engraved. If they picked a fight in the middle of this huge city, and at midday at that, it would create a huge panic. But he didn't think that Rider of Black and Saber of Red were the type of people that could use that much self-control.
Even the completely unrelated shopkeeper seemed to notice the abnormal mood as he froze while carrying a coffeepot in hand.
But ignoring the two other people present who were stiff with fear, Saber of Red merely sighed and shrugged. It appeared there was no problem as long as it was a question about the people who followed her and not the facts of the rebellion itself.
"Not really. They had to bet on me for their own reasons. They needed to rebel against King Arthur. Just as I don't despise those who rebelled against me, I have no intention of viewing those who served me as the same as me."
"So you despise them all equally?"
"—I'm someone meant to become king. How can a king view the people the same as himself? Will the people be saved if the king cries and laughs with them? That's not it. That's not what a king should be."
Saber of Red quietly said that without any anger or scorn in her voice.
"You want to become king?"
"Basically, yeah. Because during my life—I failed."
Saber clicked her tongue in annoyance. In other words, that was her wish for the Holy Grail.
Her declaration that she was 'someone meant to become king' was quite far off from reality. But neither Rider nor Sieg raised any eyebrows at it. At the very least, Sieg didn't think he had the right to disparage someone else's wish when he didn't have any wishes of his own.
"…What's with you two? You suddenly became quiet."
"No, nothing really. I can't refute your words. I never became king and… though I did think about becoming one a little, I only had enough ambition to 'accept it if it were offered to me'."
"Like Rider, I can't refute you either. The position of king is far too distant for me."
The only ones who had the right to say that her words were mistaken were those who were once kings… and those who tried to become kings like her.
"All wishes are equally precious. Well, I would have to object to a wish like humanity's annihilation, though. But your wish belongs to you alone. Finding fault with it would be wrong—at least, that's my philosophy."
Rider of Black replied with an unusually serious expression, causing Saber of Red to unpleasantly fall silent. Rider then asked her another question as if to take advantage of that opening.
"But—still, even so, there's one thing I'd like to ask. Do you want to become a bad king, or a good king?"
Rider of Black asked that question not as a king himself, but as a retainer who had served a king.
It was a simple question, but one that couldn't be avoided.
…Saber of Red's expression distorted slightly. She tried to open her mouth, but hesitated slightly and turned her gaze to the side.
And then, she squeezed out a short sentence.
"—A good king, obviously."
Rider of Black merely murmured "I see" in response. Afterwards, Saber of Red finished her coffee and stood up.
"You're leaving?"
"Our business here is done… Or do you have something else to ask?"
Sieg shook his head. She had seriously told him her opinion from another point of view, different from that of Ruler, Rider and Archer of Black.
He didn't completely agree with it. But he didn't fully reject it either. Right now, he was still in the stage of thinking about it.
"No, there's nothing else. Thank you, it was useful as a reference," Sieg replied.
Saber of Red then gave a bold smile and ruffled Sieg's hair roughly.
"Then the next time I'll see you guys will be at the Hanging Gardens. Make sure to survive until then!"
With those final words, she gallantly left the shop. Watching her leave, Sieg murmured with a sigh.
"…She ate that much and yet left without paying her share."
"She really is like a king in that regard," Rider of Black said as he burst into laughter.


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Hey Free World!
I know you haven't heard from me in a while, but finals just finished up at my school and I'm still recovering (both physically and mentally) from the stress of those last few weeks… things got rough to say the least.
But it's over now, and I can review all of the products and junk that I've tried since January! Yay!
(Y'all really shouldn't be encouraging my PJism…)
Anywho, we'll start with the typical story:
The weather had begun to change, and I'd taken my twists out in hopes of enjoying some nice, free hair when I realized:
"Damn it, my hair is super-duper dry… AGAIN. Why must my life be plagued with Sahara-hair?"
So I hopped in my car and rode on down to my friendly neighborhood Target (pronounced "Tarzhay" to the boughie folk) where one of the cutie-pie cashiers from Morehouse politely wonders how I always end up in his line. Silly rabbit. But he's so cute though…
Moving on swiftly (but not too swiftly)… *oh he's so fine*
I went to the little end-cap over on the hair aisle on the suggestion of the many blogs I read when I should be studying and after a 10-minute smell-and-sneak test (where you smell the product, then sneak a little on your dry hair when you think no one is looking), I decided on a very delicious-smelling, yet very moisturizing pump-bottle full of Organic Yucca and Baobab Volumizing Conditioner!
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Company: Shea Moisture
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Oh young coily readers like myself, you don't have to use products the way they are supposed to be used! Silly geese!
So what I did was wet my hair completely with a spray bottle until it dripped and then added a few pumps of the conditioner to each of my six sections. Instantly, my hair sprang into clumps and coils and detangling with both my fingers and my modified Denman brush was super easy, easier, in fact, than when I use Darcy's Botanicals' leave-in conditioner (and that's saying something). The tangles seemed to slide right out of my hair, but my hair felt funny when I braided it up for my braid-out with a little Bee Mine Bee Hold Curly Butter on top. Not crunchy, but each strand felt hard while wet. It was weird. I wasn't so sure the next day would be a good hair day, but I put my bonnet on and went to sleep anyway.
The next day, I woke up and unraveled my hair to reveal a pretty dope, amazingly soft braid-out of epicness! I was so pleased with this product's performance, and my hair stayed moisturized for about 4 solid days, through PT and all! This stuff is pretty awesome, as are most Shea Moisture products to my understanding.
Rating: 9/10 (only because I've only been using it for about 2 months and really need to see how it responds to the summer, when my hair is at it's driest).
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Theresa and the Make-A-Wish team gave us more than we ever could have dreamed
Kasey has a lot in common with Theresa Caputo, best known for her reality TV show, "Long Island Medium," on which she helps people communicate with the dead.
Kasey also has cystic fibrosis. Every day, she takes 50 pills and uses various inhalers to manage her illness. Twice a day for 30 minutes, she wears a special vest designed to clear her lungs so she can breathe more easily.
Kasey would have been ecstatic just to meet Theresa, but she got to do much more than that. She joined Theresa for sound check before her show, which was on tour in Chicago. They had lunch together, and she gave Kasey a reading. Kasey, an aspiring cosmetologist, even got to do Theresa's make-up. The next day, Kasey appeared on TV with Theresa, who was co-hosting a Chicago talk show. "Kasey felt so comfortable with Theresa that she wasn't even nervous," says Sandy.
As for her daughter's communications with the spirit world, Sandy doesn't pass judgment. She's just grateful that Kasey had the opportunity to connect with someone who understands her experiences and can help her cope with them. "Theresa gave Kasey advice and tools she can use for a lifetime," Sandy says.
Sandy continues, "Kasey was extremely happy the entire trip, and she is still flying high. Theresa and the Make-A-Wish team gave us more than we ever could have dreamed."
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The Tennessee Legislature introduced two bills on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 to enact the 2010 Amendments to U.C.C. Article 9. Identical bills were introduced in both the Senate and House. Senate Bill 2931 and House Bill 3150 selected the legislative Alternative A "Only If" approach for sufficiency of individual debtor names in Section 9-503(a)(4), provide images of the safe harbor forms in Section 9-521, and adopt the uniform effective date of July 1, 2013.
The Tennessee legislation does not appear to contain any significant departures from the official text of the 2010 Amendments. The text may be amended during the legislative process, so CSC will continue to provide updates of any significant developments with these bills and all state Article 9 legislation.


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Rhoni Epstein: A Boston native. "After graduate school, I took a three month long road trip across country. I fell in love with the West and decided to stay in Los Angeles, a very horizontal and visually open city compared to Boston, it felt like a good place to create. Applying my degree in counseling and my passion for Art, I became an established photographers' agent /consultant, assistant professor at Art Center College of Design, and hotelier."
Cristina Pestana: An Italian from Brazil, who Arrived in US in 1989. "I was formerly a marketing director at Alcoa and left it all to pursue my childhood dream to be in America. With my masters in marketing/language from USP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I landed in America without English. I delivered pizzas in a broken down car, it was challenging but it was all part of achieving my dream. I became a student and then a partner in a small massage school. Applying myself, embracing English and the culture, I helped to grow the school into one of the largest accredited and respected institution in California.
Why/How did you get into the boutique spa business?
Rhoni: Like Goldilocks, I couldn't find a bed — a place in the desert that felt just right. I love warm mineral spring water and had experienced the benefits while traveling cross country! DHS has some of the best! Cristina, had explored the mineral water while traveling throughout Brazil.
Describe the sense of personal risk you felt and how you countered it. Learning curve?
We had absolutely no experience in the hotel business, simply a passion to create and follow the process. The remodel took a year, designing as we went along. We embraced our instincts and did what felt right.
Any Big Breaks?
Our very first guest, an English writer from Travel & Leisure magazine, arrived with a cold, I greeted her with a pot of tea, honey and lemon. We landed on the cover of the hotels issue ( because of the photography ) The rest is history!
Design aesthetic. Tell us everything about your vision.
We created a space where people are not burdened by our aesthetics.
Tell us a little about the building/renovation process. What major challenges did you face?
We bought the hotel "AS IS." Sagewater Spa's roof virtually did not exist, the hotel needed a new pool, deck, windows, paint and electrical – everything! Because of our high standards we've already replaced the pool and decking for a second time.
How did you choose your amenities?
Sagewater Spa is an internal and external reflection of our vision based completely on instinct, aesthetic and creative exploration. The linens and towels were an important choice – hand-pressed Frette linens, towels and robes – in the desert! All comforters and pillows are either non-allergic down or non-down. Aveda had never authorized their products for a boutique hotel but with all the press they just couldn't say no.
Any funny stories?
One weekend, two film directors checked in, at different times. Believe it or not, each one had been nominated for an Academy Award in the same year! They didn't discover each other until they had experienced one of our amazing massage treatments. Meeting up at the mineral pool, these colleagues, in surprise and wonderment, both discovered that they shared in the same private getaway! They had a good laugh about each others good taste.
What is it about the desert?
You have to look to see! It's quiet, the silky warm water, views of Mt. San Jacinto, fresh air, blue skies the spaciousness. The desert flowers subtle beauty, that without warning, springs forth so brilliantly and at night the clear majestic starry sky.
What is it about the spring water?
The magic waters are odorless, soothing, and rejuvenating. They heal physical strains and cleanse the body and mind. We like to think of it as the fountain of vibrancy and youth. Even weekend guests feel as if they have been away for a week!