March 22, 2010 A Moral Vest By June Terpstra 3/19/10
It is most certainly not easy for the Cubans to live their principles in the face of so much oppression from the USA. Their daily lives are restricted from the moment they wake till they sleep at night and not by the government. Running water, flushing toilets, toiletries, access to oil to run a tractor or a car, obtaining the parts to fix a car, obtaining medicines; these and more are scarce and make life difficult. It is interesting to me that while their form of socialism is so hated by USA elites it is based in hard work and contributions to the country; they are rewarded for the level of their commitment to social justice and the sharing of resources. This is not allowed under capitalism. The homes and apartments in which Cubans live, whether they are allotted cars, their jobs are all based on education, level of commitment and hard work as evidenced in their contributions at work and in their communities. People from the USA have difficulty grasping the concept of a life where one does not pay rent or a mortgage or a car payment or for health care or school. Members of this delegation from the USA continue to ask questions about shareholders; how much cars cost; where the stores are located; and, how much oppression people here are facing without any real understanding of the fundamental changes this government is attempting to establish and manifest. In the Cuban medical schools they are taught both traditional and natural medicine. These doctors are known and trusted around the world because they have been taught to care about the patient and not view them as a client to be charged money for profit. Just recently seven American women doctors trained in Cuba returned to work with the medical brigade in Haiti. All of the training done in Cuba is framed within the commitment to serve communities in need. On the contrary, the people of the USA are programmed to think hate of medicine not for healing rather as a mechanism to maintain disease to keep a drug and surgical industry as a profitable way to make money. On the farms in Cuba the land is given to those who apply and they are allowed to live on the land and work for 90 days before they make their commitment and a cooperative board accepts them as a member of the cooperative association. Women and all races in Cuba have access to these opportunities and many incentives are provided because developing a self-sustaining Cuba has been critical since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Once one is a member they contribute to both their own sustenance and receive the resources and benefits of their hard work. Women and all races are present at every level of labor and leadership. Education, intellectual life, and culture is highly respected and valued in Cuba. They have established a teacher training program for artists in music, literature, theater, dance and painting, and sculpture. The students pay nothing for this specialized education but they must make a commitment to teach at the end of their training. There is no job insecurity in Cuba; the teachers of the arts will always have jobs! On the contrary, in the USA, the arts programs are always the first to be cut and many schools no longer have these programs for all the students nor are they offered on a daily basis. Which country is really a country of wealth? Every place I have visited and talked with the people they express their commitment and passion for their culture and society. This is not my experience in the USA where the focus is rarely on producing art for the people. Producing art is for money and fame. Where ego is de-emphasized here; narcissism is encouraged in the West. Where good behavior is encouraged here, ugly and violent behavior is glorified in the USA. Where the women's federations set up programs to counsel all family members in domestic crisis and teach them to live in ways that benefit the family; the USA model is to disconnect and provide a band-aid in the form of a shelter. I am not telling you things are perfect here in Cuba. They are not. Most certainly, the effects of the embargo have been devastating. The effects of colonial racism and sexism have their own unique manifestations here as Cuban socialism attempts to rid itself of these internalized oppressions. However, the real Cuban people; not the ones who are sitting in Miami plotting the destruction of their own people out of their own greed and selfishness; the real Cuban people wear a moral vest and the examples they set for their children in the schools and hospitals and their daily life are visible to those of us to whom they open their doors. UN CHALECO MORAL Por June Terpstra, Doctorado en Filosofia Translation by Gabriel Perez 19 de marzo 2010 En la película, Fidel, la Historia Indecible, hay una entrevista con Fidel Castro donde él dice que él no necesita un chaleco de Kevlar para protegerlo de intentos de asesinato innumerables porque él lleva puesto un chaleco moral. Estoy de vuelta en La Habana, Cuba hoy después de visitar una clínica de medicina natural en Santa Clara; una cooperativa agrícola en Matanzas; una escuela de arte para entrenar profesores en Matanzas; y el ELAM, la Facultad de Medicina Latinoamericana increíble que entrena y envía a doctores para trabajar por todo el mundo. Con cada programa o institución visitada me pregunto, que sería vivir en un país con valores de la justicia social en vez de valores de ganancia y pillaje. Hay ejemplos innumerables de aquellos que llevan puesto un chaleco moral aquí en No es seguramente fácil para los cubanos vivir de sus principios ante Las casas y los apartamentos en los cuales los cubanos viven, sus coches cuales se les asigna, sus empleos están todos basados en la educación, el nivel En las facultades de medicina cubana enseñan ellos tanto medicina tradicional Sobre las granjas en La educación, la vida intelectual, y la cultura son muy respetadas y valoradas en Cada lugar que he visitado y he hablado con gente, ellos expresan su compromiso y pasión para su cultura y sociedad. Este no es mi experiencia en los EE. UU donde el efoque está raramente en la producción No le digo que las cosas son perfectas aquí en
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A Black Cat in a Dark World by Husayn Al-Kurdi
There is a Black Situation
a Black Condition
a Black Revolution
and a Black Liberation
not defined by pigmentation
but through blood and fire
for Self-Determination.
In a Dark World
Blackened by the darkness of enforced ignorance
Blackened by the dictates of enslavement and servitude
Blackened by the heartless nostrums of False Gods and priestery
Blackened by the bloodless calculated cruelties of vampirish capitalists and bankers
Blackened by the slimy wily robberies of Judges and Lawyers
Blackened by the death-dealing butcheries and druggings of Doctors
Blackened by the lying treacheries of fear-mongering Office-seekers
Blackened by the madnesses of a Sociopathic Society
Blackened by the results of fear and ignorance of the strange and peculiar who are not as strange and not as peculiar as the fear and ignorance of them are
Where we the Blackened "Blacks" are
Blackened by being killed
by having our homes blown up over us
by being made to wander around homeless with nothing
by having nothing and being ground down into nothingness
by perpetual insults, scorn and degradation
by knowing no comfort or help or rest until the grave
by being blown to pieces because we were in the way of those who measure their success in magnitudes of killing and conquest
by designations of illegality stamped on us by those who make up the Law as they plunder along
by having nowhere to run and no one to turn to
by other's phony regrets at our misfortune
by other's worthless sympathy at our distress
by other's bullshit apologies for our unspeakable suffering
So we stand and turn and struggle and fight
to emerge from our Darkness
from our beaten-down Blackness
and into Black Freedom
to the Black which is Beautiful
the Black that Soars
the Black that is Resplendent
the Black that is Unchained
where and when we get the Jew and Christian Capitalists and their accomplices, lackeys, cronies, puppets, agents and assets
Off our Backs
Away from our House
Out of our Home
Off our Land
and Out of our Life.
And to those still not getting it somehow:
What part of quit fucking with everyone all the time is so difficult to comprehend?
What part of leave the people and their land alone is so hard to grasp?
And what part of "Off the Pig" did you pretend to not understand?
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Cuba Research Trip
June Terpstra, Ph.D.
2010
In March, 2010 I was a member of a research delegation that travelled to Cuba. The aim of the March 2010 Research Program organized by Marazul Charters with the US Women and Cuba Collaboration was to examine through a series of daily meetings over the course of 10 days the status of gender and race equity in light of fifty years of the Cuban Revolution. Additionally, we were there as US citizens supporting the ending of the unfair USA embargo against Cuba. Our trip meetings and interviews were structured by the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. (ICAP) in such a manner that we could meet with leaders from community levels to national levels be they farmers, teachers, artists, cultural workers, trade unionists, students, politicians, administrators, or doctors in their work environments.
It was our translator and guide, Tatiana Rodriguez, who modeled Cuban revolutionary praxis (theory transformed into action) as manifested in her daily life with the delegation. A hard working, well educated, dedicated anti-imperialist woman, Tatiana, patiently educated the delegation members from the imperialist USA about all aspects of history, politics and culture in Cuban life. She was with us from early morning till late evenings with a 2 hour commute back to her home and family after intense meetings where she translated, coordinated, and graciously facilitated all aspects the delegations journey through Cuba.
The revolution's solidarity ethic started at home for Tatiana, whose mother taught in the literacy campaigns after the revolution. She explained how the first constitution, racism was officially combated and discrimination made illegal. In one of the first acts of the young government an agrarian reform was initiated that benefited small farmers.
Tatiana described the accomplishments of universal opportunities for education at all levels and socialized medicine. She detailed how illiteracy was eliminated with the participation of 100,000 young people in the National Literacy Campaigns and that free education extends all the way to post graduate studies with a university system that is currently extending to all of the country's 169 municipalities.
National Literacy Campaign
"The revolution does not tell you to believe - the revolution tells you to read".
Visit to the National Literacy Museum
We met with Norma Rita Guillard Limonita, Feminist psychologist and Luisa Campos Gallardo, Museum Director. Both of these women served in the Literacy Brigades. Additionally we met with Katherine Murphey who previewed her film about some of the amazing women of the Literacy Brigades.
The great literacy campaign inspired thousands of volunteer teachers to leave their homes and travel into remote and rural communities in Cuba to teach people to read. In 1959 a quarter of Cuban adults were illiterate. Today, Cuba has the highest number of teachers and educators per head of population in the world. This year Cuba was recognized by UNESCO as the most literate country in the region.
Over the past 50 years Cuba has been transformed into one of the most literate countries in the world, where many of the most basic rights people in the USA cannot depend on - such as free and accessible health care, care of the elderly, education for all - have been made a reality despite the cruelties and hardships of economic sanctions.
We visited with staff and students from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), in Havana, Cuba, which was founded in 1998, as Cuba's response to the devastation of Hurricanes Mitch and Georges. Cuba understood that, if the poorest regions in our hemisphere were able to develop adequate health care infrastructures, they could save as many lives every year as had been lost in the hurricanes. The Cubans offered full scholarships to enroll at ELAM to young people from the nations affected by the hurricanes - on the sole condition that, once they graduated, they would return to their home countries and offer low-cost health services in their own underserved communities.
This exceptionally generous offer of a world-class full-scholarship medical education is also being extended to students in the United States.
Art Instructors School, Mantanzas, Cuba
We met with Yeni Marisol Carmenate Falcón, Directora General and her teaching staff who told us about the teacher's training school. Yoan Trujillo, Director of music and his students performed their original Nueva Trova music for us.
The network of teacher preparation institutions functioning in Cuba today was established by the General Educational Reform Law of 1976. There are currently 15 Higher Pedagogical Institutes, all funded by the government as public institutions. These institutions offer 21 specialized licenses under one of the following areas: Preschool Education; Primary Education; Secondary Education; and Special Education. Physical education teachers attend the Higher Institute for Physical Culture or one of its provincial branches. Like all education in Cuba, there are no charges for fees or books. There are no privately funded teacher education institutions in Cuba.
We also met with some of the Mothers and Wives of the Cuban Five. The people of Cuba and their families have suffered through blockades, embargoes and USA/CIA sponsored attacks experiencing chronic "September 11" type traumas and their after-effects in addition to the cruelties of the embargo. When five brave men were sent into Miami, Florida, to help prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba they were unfairly prosecuted by the US government and now remain in US prisons. Their wives are not allowed to visit them. We met with some of these are brave women, the wives and mothers of the Cuban Five, who bring are going from countries and communities to raise support for these Cuban heroes.
These are just a few of the places and people we visited. I am honored to have new companeros di mi vida. Viva Cuba!
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Odiado por su estilo de vida
Por June Terpstra, Doctorado en Filosofía
Translation Gabriel Perez
17 de marzo de 2010
Escribo hoy de La Habana,
¿Por qué odian EE. UU y el Oeste a
¿Por qué odian los capitalistas globales a sociedades que intentan nuevas formas de gobierno, utilizando nuevos modelos de justicia social? Porque cuando la gente alrededor
La gente cubana entiende y articula muy bien la política de colonialismo, neocolonialismo, imperialismo, y globalización. A diferencia
La gente cubana está en las escuelas, las universidades, el gobierno, los campos, los parques, las cafeterías, los hoteles, y haciendo la conversación en las calles, sonrien, juegan, trabajando, y queriendose el uno al otro. La gente cubana defiende su estilo de vida en sus relaciones consideradas a su prójimo. La gente cubana es atenta a lo que es necesario para sobrevivir cada período especial impuesto de los EE. UU y cada acto
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VIVA CUBA!
June Terpstra, Ph.D.
In a few hours I leave for Cuba as part of the 2010 Women's Research Delegation on Women's Human Rights and Racial Justice. Today I fulfill a life long dream to walk in the streets of revered social justice revolutionaries, such as La Paloma, Celia Sanchez, whom we study in my course on Women in Revolution.
Fidel Castro called Celia Sanchez "the greatest guerrilla fighter and the most outstanding leader of the Cuban Revolution." Cuban historian Pedro Alvarez Tabio stated: "If Batista had managed to kill Celia Sanchez anytime between 1953 and 1957 there would have been no viable Cuban Revolution, and no revolution for Fidel and Che to join." Cuban journalist Roberto Salas wrote in his book A Revolution in Pictures: "Celia made all the decisions for Cuba, the big ones and the small ones." In her seminal Castro biography Guerrilla Prince, Georgie Anne Geyer wrote: "Even those who despised Fidel loved Celia." In 2009 the Cuban Revolution celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its historic victory over U. S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. The most important player in that epochal and ongoing event was a doctor's daughter known to her rebel compatriots as La Paloma (The Dove). http://celiasanchez.org/
I find it ironic that my email this morning features a sad story of Colleen LaRose, an American woman whom the DoubleSpeak Media in the USA are calling "Jihad Jane". Jihad, an Arabic word whose emphasis is on "inner struggle" in an Islamic religious context; while struggle is called "lucha" in political contexts in Latin America; has little to no context in the USA because instead of spiritual, moral and political struggle the people have propaganda, illusion and distraction. Likely an invention of one or another US agencies this latest media obsession will serve up the idea of "homegrown terrorism" to the brainwashed public-giving them the reason for which the only real totalitarian government in existence needs more money for surveillance and not healthcare and jobs. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24976.htm
Equally ironic in the news at the airport is the report on the high rates of pregnant women dying in the USA with black women, once again, dying at higher rates than white women. Perhaps this so called super power should look towards Cuba to throw off its imperialist tyranny once and for all and provide the kind of health care that Cuba provides. What would it take for the US, at the very least, to commit to adherence of constitutional rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech and permit real multi-party elections?
What would it take for a new US government to implement economic and political changes that would bring democratization to the USA? How about we establish a "Free USA" commission? These are some of my thoughts as I leave to visit the Cuban people, who despite over fifty years of economic terrorism imposed by the USA, are not only surviving the hardships but are finding ways to maintain their sovereignty and self-determination for social justice in the face of globalization.
Viva Cuba!
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Lessons Learned By June C. Terpstra
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I have recently been called to answer the question of with whom, when and where to align oneself as a warrior for social justice. These questions come up regularly in my teaching classes about resistance and revolution in a Justice Studies department in the USA. However, a more troubling and persistent call also comes from relationships with family members, neighbors and colleagues.
For some time now, a growing number of people, whether they call themselves right wingers, left wingers, Republicans, Democrats, liberals, conservatives, moderates, independents or libertarians, are vocalizing their anger and the need to resist the system which creates the political and material conditions of their lives. Many of these people who did not agree with resistance or revolutionary discourse in the past are articulating agreement with notions of rebellion and revolt now. But revolt and rebellion for what purpose? Self-interest? Survival? A Judaeo-Christian theocracy? A new and improved capitalist system in "populist guise? A return to white supremacist Protestant screeds of master/slave work ethic, replete with racism and sexism? To what extent are they accompanied with an extreme fear and hatred of the poor and a self-loathing in the middle and working class? All of these themes are prominent in the popular discourse of the media, entertainment, faux news and radio ranting spheres. These programmed narratives also manifest in student's reflections in the classroom, relatives' blogs and friends' Facebook, Twitter and Digg spaces.
While the predictions of and possibilities for resistance are more concrete today as more people rise-up to fight the oppressive political and economic conditions that are worsening all over the globe, many of the people who rise up do not want freedom for everyone. In fact, like their American forefathers whose white supremacist and patriarchal ideologies of freedom were born in the blood of genocides while perpetually sinking into deeper debt slavery to a handful of bankers they hunger for a narcissistic dream of white male capitalist entitlement to be consummated.
What then does the student of social justice, liberation, self-determination and freedom have to do with people who do not want a world where the political and material conditions of freedom are secured for everyone? Let us be clear. We cannot "agree to disagree". We must disagree and recognize that the fight for liberation from exploitation, resistance to injustice, and freedom to be a self-determining human being is on, on many fronts with many enemies.
History teaches that a fundamental rule of social justice is to work for a world where the political and material conditions of freedom are secured for everyone. By their nature capitalism, imperialism, fascism, totalitarianism, militarism, globalism, patriarchy and organized religions structure inequalities economically and socially deprive and divide people on the basis of class, sex, race, and creed. Under these systems there is freedom for some people: freedom for capitalists, "Americans", "Brits", Christians, Zionist Jews, select whites, upper-class men and women of acceptable creeds and colors, but definitely not freedom for all people everywhere. That was never the intent of their framers.
The lesson should not have to be learned over and over. When a resistance group or revolution does not adhere to this fundamental principle to work for a world where the political and material conditions of freedom are secured for everyone, the people will continue to suffer injustice, inequality, exploitation and oppression. Another major lesson learned is this: the structuring of freedom into a new society is no easy task and nothing can be proscribed
(especially not by Euro-American Judeo-Christian imperialists and their military forces). The conditions for freedom are unique to each locale and culture and must be decided by the people concerned. This is the essence of freedom, involving self-determination and responsibility for the choices that are made and acted upon.
Many revolutions and resistance movements ultimately failed in their goals for freedom in this context and most of these movements excluded groups of people on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity and creed. The French Revolution prioritized the middle class and ultimately rejected the poor, the working classes and the women who fought for the revolution. The Russian Revolution attempted to rectify some of the wrongs against the workers, peasants and even women but still hated certain ethnic groups while re-instating a new version of imperialism and the old stratified class system. America wound up amplifying the Imperialist brutality and extending the world domination practiced by its one-time colonial master Britain, creating an entity founded on and sustained with the genocides against a large number of peoples and nations, beginning with the Red Indians and the Black slaves. Additionally, many global nationalist and independence movements, past and present, mistreat and abuse women, certain ethnic tribes and people of various religious creeds, social milieus and cultural backgrounds.
Thus, we must distinguish ethical from unethical liberatory projects. It is very clear; if they are not for the freedom of all people than we do not support the work, group, organization, reform, resistance or revolutionary project. For the record, all of these projects must recognize and include the freedom of women. Let us affirm that the goal of participation in any work, project, art, reform, resistance and revolution is to end oppression in mutual recognition of each other as free human beings with the right to self-determination.
What are the principles of revolutionary relationships? Certainly, this recognition of each other as free and equal human beings is one fundamental principle. Revolutionary relationships are mediated through our common commitment to shared goals and values of a world that is structured to foster political and material freedom. If the goals and values of a group are to rid a nation of invaders, occupiers and despots it necessarily follows that men and women must support each others' projects as equal self-determining human beings rather than determined beings based on creed, culture and gender. Women and men of all creeds and cultures are equally qualified to become guerrillas and guardians against injustice. The standards of equality, courage, strength and fortitude cannot be based on the male body, the "American" entity, the "Christian spirit" or the capitalist system.
As women, indigenous, poor, black, brown, red, occupied and colonized, all of our identities must be central to liberation struggles. When one's identity houses multiple or all of those constructs there stands before us a well informed individual with countless contributions to make to the struggle. The struggle shapes our commitment to the recognition of freedom at every stage be it mobilization, the war itself, or postwar political and material relations. In the past a blind compliance and obedience was fostered by many movements under the guise of supporting the revolution for the independence or the nationalist struggle. Inherent racism, sexism and ethno-centrism were embedded and injurious to many in the struggles. This was and is a grave error in liberation struggles as no person by virtue of their race, class, sex, age, ethnicity, religion, or orientation is inessential or secondary in liberation struggles.
How then do we transcend isolation to create a community and network of allies across our families, neighborhoods, communities, nations and world? We must be clear that evil resides in the denial of freedom. We are responsible for ensuring the existence of the conditions of freedom for all the people: the women, the aged, the poor, the invaded, the occupied, the exploited, and the people of the world. We must learn our lessons from the past. My freedom is dependent on yours and yours is dependent on mine. This is the inescapable human bond.
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Your Most Powerful Self
January 4, 2010
June C. Terpstra
I had a teacher who often asked her students to envision our most powerful selves. My response at the time was that we would be killed if we lived being our most powerful selves. History proves the point, does it not? Our fears, rage, and disappointments keep us from being our most powerful selves. Yet, the alternatives of the work-consumption cycles numb us, dumb us and rob of us our spirit, passion and life. Servitude for safety sucks.
What a state of freedom it would be to experience the conscious and deliberate letting go of the fears, the defenses, and the complex armor in which we are embedded? I have that vision of me as powerful now: I see myself wearing a moral vest that keeps me clear. I see myself hearing my inner voice of wisdom guiding my choices. I am excited to be an elder that fights oppression with humor, grace, understanding and love for comrades and allies. I have a resolute knowledge of who are the enemies of life and love, social justice and planetary well being and understand the extent to which I must understand this enemy. The inner voices of doubt and loathing will be permanently replaced with organic critique, music, dance, art, literature and philosophies inspired and open to expanding my understanding of how to end injustice. I refuse to be distracted. I will no longer be disappointed. I seek no longer to be sucked
into the vortex of addictions. My intellect and intelligence are expanding and growing every second. I become a brilliant force for goodness!
This state of liberation of which I dream means that I know with whom, where and when to expend energy for justice. I build and find the cracks to fix, I travel on paths new and old, I practice because perfection is an ideal, I play to heal, I laugh at my getting up and falling down again and again, I love and learn, I self-determine in relation to the humane and honorable ways to be in the universe. I fight all the ways in myself and others in which we allow ourselves to be abused, tricked, manipulated, invaded, and occupied, internally or externally. I learn and maintain the skills of the resistance fighter, the revolutionary, the teacher, the lover, the friend, the mother, the grand-mother, the artist and I pass them on with delight and patience. This is my vision.
I may live in the empire but I am not of the empire.
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FOURTH OF JULY
By Husayn Al-Kurdi and June C. Terpstra
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INTRODUCTION
Americans are programmed to be an ignorant and arrogant people whose culture is mainly derived from three key factors: money, media, and an ignorant, violent, racist version of Christianity. No adequate understanding of American culture and cultural celebrations such as the Fourth of July is possible without first examining these three major elements and the pervading impact they have had on the people.
Did you ever notice how most major USA holidays celebrate genocides and holocausts? The first official Thanksgiving Day celebrated the massacre of native American men, women and children during one of their religious ceremonies.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=49097
The Indigenous Holocaust
On yet another U.S.A. manufactured “holiday,” where schools close to honor the savage conquistador, Christopher Columbus, who ushered into history the holocaust of approximately 11 million native North American “Indians,” I propose a mandate for indigenous holocaust education, K-12. Like the new federal legislation introduced in Congress to mandate education of the Jewish holocaust, I also propose we replace not only senior citizen arts and crafts but pre-school arts and crafts with education workshops developed to examine the denial of Indian genocide, the denial of African Diaspora genocide, past and present and the genocide occurring in Palestine today.
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| Barbarism By Dr. June C. Terpstra and Professor Husayn Al-Kurdi |
U.S. President George W. Bush recently stated that he would be remembered for liberating 50 million people from the clutches of barbaric regimes. Bush represents a lineage of liars whose expert propaganda turns truth on its hinder for the sake of promoting the power interests which they serve.
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Hollow women of the hegemon
By June Terpstra
Visible token women leaders clucking sanctimoniously over “women’s rights” as bombs are being dropped on their “sisters” are examples of Western feminist “success” within the hegemon; women such as Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Mar 10, 2008, 00:39
Reform, resistance and revolution
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
I invite all allies to act now to stop the war and end imperialism. Many of us have been discussing and organizing online and offline for a long time.
May 30, 2007, 00:18
Arrested
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
On Thursday evening, March 8, International Women’s Day, I was arrested by Evanston police. This occurrence came on the heels of a controversial article I wrote for which I received hate mail and death threats.
Apr 17, 2007, 01:34
What Dick really means . . . Neocon terrorists have ambitions of empire, says Cheney
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
The US War of Terror’s ultimate aim is to establish “a stronghold for the New World Order, covering a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way to Indonesia -- and it wouldn’t stop there,” US Vice President Dick Cheney warned yesterday. He said the war of terror ”had ambitions of empire.”
Mar 6, 2007, 01:30
“Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
The tired old slogan “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” is being parroted once again by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Feb 21, 2007, 01:17
Killers in the Classroom
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours in Iraq told me that they had "sacrificed" by “serving” in Iraq so that I could enjoy the freedom to teach in the USA. Parroting their master’s slogan about “fighting over there so we don’t have to fight over here”, these students proudly proclaimed that they terrorized and killed defenseless Iraqis. They intimated that their Arab victims are nothing more to them than collateral damage, incidental to their receipt of some money and an education.
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http://revver.com/video/601236/irrelevant-election-delusion-begins-fkn010408/
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