[WCUSP] Carter speaking/ Mazin Qumsiyeh

[Marlene Santoyo]

Hello All,

Passing this info on. I imagine there will be some interesting coverage
when Carter speaks at Brandies Univ.

Has JVP Philly or National,and/or AFSC expolored having Carter speak
here in Philly or could there be a national tour { Mitchell, Peter at
AFSC}?


Marlena Santoyo
515 Glen Echo Road
Philadelphia, PA 19119
Tel. (215)-247-4385
marlsan at cavtel.net <mailto:marlsan at cavtel.net>

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From: Mazin Qumsiyeh [mailto:qumsi001 at hotmail.com]
Sent: 2007 January 14 Sunday 11:26 PM
Subject: [HumanRights] Amazon.com, wheels of justice, and "Little Mosque
on the Prairie"

1) The controversy about Andover High School (see
http://justicewheels.org/joe-carr-and-mazin-qumsiyeh-on-andover ) was
rather
unique (we had controversies in only three of nearly 200 schools,
perhaps
when racists get wind of our activities and overreact :-).  But it is
also
important to see the effectiveness of such educational programs and the
need
to do more speaking in these and similar settings (more classrooms at
schools, colleges and Universities etc).  The Wheels of Justice bus tour
(http://wheelsofjusticetour.org) could use your support!  If you are
living
in these states or know people who live therr who can help in our spring
tour, please contact me (qumsi001 at hotmail.com) and/or Mike Miles
(anathoth at lakeland.ws): Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia,
Mississippi, Alabama.   We are also looking for experienced volunteer
speakers with eyewitness accounts to occupation in Iraq or Palestine.
You
can also donate to us and get more info on how you can help at the
website
(http://wheelsofjusticetour.org).  Also if you liked what the local
group
and teachers did in Andover, you could donate to the Somerville
Divestment
Project (http://www.divestmentproject.org)

2) Follow-up to earlier action alert about Amazon's poor treatment of
Carter's book: Thanks to the hundreds of you who wrote and those who
copied
me on the letters to Amazon.  Other recipients of my email said they
could
not find the negative Washington Post/Goldberg review displayed
prominently
in the front. But you can go to Amazon.com and search Jimmy Carter and
it
will take you to its page. There you would actually have to scroll
through
it to get to customer reviews which I agree were good. Other readers
said
that Amazon has allowed good customer reviews and so it is OK if they
included Goldberg's malicious review.  But this is simply not how Amazon
treats other books.  In fact to my knowledge there is simply no book in
Amazon's top 100 sellers that is treated like Carter's (with a negative
long
review before customer reviews).  Take for example Thomas Friedman's
stupid
book in defense of corporate globalization "The World is Flat" and see
how
it is displayed with no negative editorial reviews.  In fact, Amazon
sells
Hitler's Mein Kempf, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and other
books
like that without treating them in as shabby a way they treated Carter's
book (ie. no lengthy 1600 word negative reviews in the section for
editorial
reviews)! BTW, the reviewer (Goldberg) was a guard at the infamous
Ketziot
prison (in this video about political prisoners in Israeli jails their
is
quite a chilling anecdote about Ketziot: "Captured Prisoners,"
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/cap-pris.html).  Anyway I know I
will
buy my future books at local booksellers and when I have to do it over
the
internet, I will use the  unionized bookstore Powells. If you enter
through
the union portal, a percent supports the union there:
http://www.unionplus.org/benefits/education/frame_powells.cfm

On a related matter, Carter has agreed to speak at Brandeis University
January 23rd and take questions after the University agreed that it
would
not be a debate with Racist pundit Alan Dershowitz (who called for
destroying whole villages and supports torture and racial profiling).
Dershowitz will be in the audience and will have a chance to ask a
question.
  I would like those who can go to simply mention in public "Why does
Dershowitz have the Chutzpah to demand a debate with a president when
Dershowitz refuses to havea  public debate with Professor Norman
Finkelstein?" Also ask Carter why he thinks Israel has apartheid only in
the
occupied areas when it clearly has discriminatory laws and segregated
schools inside Israel.  62 unrecognized Palestinian villages inside the
Green line, 250,000 Palestinians with Israeli citizenship who are
recognized
by Israeli law as "present absentees" (Christian and Muslim citizens
whose
land was confiscated); see http://www.qumsiyeh.org/isisraelunique/ .
Just
this week and contrary to International and Human rights laws, Israel
passed
a law to revoke citizenship from "unpatriotic" Israelis
(http://www.imemc.org/article/46504)! Carter is also looking for other
invitations to Universities so if you have strings to pull, this is a
good
opportunity.

A new comedy/sitcom aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is
called
"Little Mosque on the Prairie" and it is amazing.  Here are four clips
from
one of the episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2-lXDe2to&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSAYyTKD0o&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SH-vxBZEo&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsOH7Kmmfrs&mode=related&search=

Background on show is at:
http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?program=Little+Mosque+O
n+The+Prairie&network=CBC%20Television&startDate=2007/01/15&startTime=21
:00

Wish we could see this or something like it in the US.

Bishop Desmond Tutu taken from and describing the book: "Speaking the
Truth
About Zionism and Israel" (edited by Rev. Michael Prior, Melisende,
2004):
"In our struggle for justice and peace in South Africa we had to learn
to
speak - and listen to - hard truths. Our experience should encourage all
who
strive for justice and peace in the Holy Land. My visits to the Holy
Land
remind me so much of South Africa: apartheid is back, complete with the
"Separation Wall" and bantustans. History, it seems, repeats itself.
Yet, if
peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come  also to the Holy
Land.
I welcome this book that exposes some of the hardest truths about
Israel-Palestine. The distinguished contributors - from Israel,
Palestine,
the US, the UK and Ireland, women and men, Jews, Christians and
Muslims -
speak their Truth. Reconciliation will follow later."

Mazin
http://qumsiyeh.org


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