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A University of California at Berkeley lecturer speaking at an
anti-war rally Saturday called for a Palestinian-style intifada, or
uprising, against the United States in response to American actions in
the Middle East.

Hatem Bazian, a native Palestinian with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies,
stirred up the San Francisco crowd, asking three times, to resounding
affirmations, "Are you angry?"


U.C. Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian

The comments at the outdoor rally held at United Nation's Plaza were
caught on a digital camera's movie format by a reader of the popular
weblog Little Green Footballs.

An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people attended the "emergency" action
organized by the radical anti-war group International A.N.S.W.E.R. in
response to the increased fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

The International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition is an umbrella group tied to
the World Workers Party, a Marxist organization that supports
authoritarian regimes and communist dictatorships.

The lecturer in Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies
Departments continued:


"Well, we've been watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching
an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How
come we don't have an intifada in this country?
Because it seem[s] to me, that we are comfortable in where we are,
watching CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and all these mainstream ... giving us a
window to the world while the world is being managed from Washington,
from New York, from every other place in here in San Francisco:
Chevron, Bechtel, [Carlyle?] Group, Halliburton; every one of those
lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving individuals are in our country
and we're sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being
bombed, and it's about time that we have an intifada in this country
that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here.

And we know every – They're gonna say some Palestinian being too
radical – well, you haven't seen radicalism yet!"

On his website, Bazian says he teaches courses on Islam, Islamic law,
Sufisim, Arabic, and politics of the Middle East at U.C. Berkeley as
well as at San Francisco State University, Berkeley Graduate
Theological Union and Diablo Valley College.

He also provides "guidance to the community on issues pertaining to
Islam and Muslims in the Bay Area."

Bazim, his website says, was chairman of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate
Assembly and from 1995-1999 was coordinator of the Graduate Minority
Students Project of the Graduate Assembly, "through which he
spearheaded statewide efforts to defeat proposition 209," which sought
to eliminate affirmative action programs in California.

He is co-host and assistant producer of the radio program "Islam
Today" in the Bay Area and was a translation consultant for the San
Francisco Chronicle on stories relating to Islam, Muslims and world
politics.

Vietnam will be 'child's play'

At the rally Saturday, Bazian said the Vietnam War will be regarded as
"child's play" compared to the U.S. experience in Iraq:


"And the people in Iraq understand who's the foreigner in the country.
It's not the Arabs who are coming to help. Even if more Arabs who come
to help, they understand who's helping and who's opposing them. The –
it took the British three years to unite the Iraqis against them. And
it took less than a year for the – for the Bush administration to
unite all the Iraqis. And they need to understand: what took place in
Vietnam will be child's play to what will take place in Iraq ... ."
A Berkeley student at the rally expressed support for Iraqi attacks on
U.S. troops, charging "the occupation is a source of tremendous
violence against Iraqis."


"In light of that, you know, I think we've got to support the
resistance; we've got to say that we support attacks against the
occupying forces," he said. 'So I mean – and you can imagine what kind
of an inspiring thing that is for people in Palestine, for people in
Bolivia, for people in Argentina, Colombia, all over the world, facing
down the barrel of a US-supplied gun. Seeing the people of Iraq fight
back, that's what we need."
An unidentified speaker encouraged attacks on U.S. troops worldwide:


"We stand here – we stand here recognizing that the war on Iraq is
illegal, that the war on Iraq is illegal, and that resistance, that
resistance against this war is protected by international law. It is
legitimate, and that we – and we in this movement support the
resistance against American imperialism by any means necessary."

ACTION ALERT: DEFEND FREE SPEECH
STOP THE ATTACKS ON DR. HATEM BAZIAN!

Dr. Hatem Bazian, a highly respected lecturer at the University of
California, Berkeley in the Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies
Departments, is being victimized by a mean-spirited national
right-wing campaign. His just defense of the Palestinian people and
his call to end war and suffering of all in Iraq are being maliciously
portrayed as "incitement of violence and sedition."

Capitalizing on the vicious anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate fest that
is escalating in the U.S. as the occupation in Iraq erupts, reaching
critical stages, right-wing and racist forces are engaged in attacks
designed to seriously jeopardize the well-being of Arab- and
Muslim-Americans - particularly outspoken community leaders, prominent
activists and critical scholars - in an attempt to completely silence
dissent against the violence of occupation. Behind it all is the
racist belief that critical speech and the Bill of Rights come to a
screeching halt at the doorstep of Arab- and Muslim-American homes,
thus falsely positioning them as conspirators within. Popular
statements such as "we need regime change," that are being made daily
by many all the way from John Kerry to progressive activists, are
being twisted and presented as "sedition" and "treason" in a
McCarthy-style purge.

Although Arab- and Muslim-Americans are particularly targeted and
scapegoated, the attack on the Bill of Rights and the right to dissent
is incrementally affecting all sectors without exception. The intent
is to create a fully compliant population, criminalize opposition, and
expand the political reach of an ideological right-wing extreme.

Dr. Bazian has been receiving livid hate mail; his work at the
University is being challenged; and extremist elements are threatening
his and his family's well-being. Like millions of Americans and people
around the globe, Dr. Bazian has been an articulate and outspoken
critic of U.S. foreign policy - calling for a U.S. that is at peace
with itself and with nations around the world on the basis of equality
and liberty for all.

Hatem was a prominent student leader at San Francisco State University
during the eighties and later at UC Berkeley in the nineties - both
are institutions best known for their legacy of the free speech and
anti-war movements. During his student years, he fully championed the
rights of disenfranchised communities, people of color, supported
ethnic, labor and gender studies, and worked to organize an effective
U.S. student movement on a national scale in opposition to both NAFTA
and GATT. Hatem served as Chair of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate
Assembly, and from 1995-1999 was coordinator of the Graduate Minority
Students Project of the Graduate Assembly, through which he
spearheaded statewide efforts to defeat Proposition 209, a 1996
California-wide anti-affirmative action proposition. Bazian was also
active in the anti-Apartheid struggle and Central American solidarity
movements. In 1990, Hatem was the Chair of the National People of
Color Student Coalition and executive member of the Board of the
United States Student Association.

We ask you to take a stand in clear support of free speech and against
the racist criminalization of Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans and all
people standing against war and occupation. The escalation of rhetoric
by President Bush in conjunction with the increase in military force
and attacks on the Iraqi people will likely give yet another green
light for further anti-Arab and anti-Muslim backlash. We need to take
a strong stand now!

Please write to the president of the University of California,
Berkeley, at the following address to ask for protection and support
for Dr. Hatem Bazian:

Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl
Office of the Chancellor
200 California Hall #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Telephone: (510) 642-7464


--------------------------

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A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.InternationalANSWER.org

New York 212-633-6646
Washington 202-544-3389
Los Angeles 213-487-2368
San Francisco 415-821-6545

(Greg Butterfield) wrote in message om...
ACTION ALERT: DEFEND FREE SPEECH
STOP THE ATTACKS ON DR. HATEM BAZIAN!

Dr. Hatem Bazian, a highly respected lecturer at the University of
California, Berkeley in the Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies
Departments, is being victimized by a mean-spirited national
right-wing campaign. His just defense of the Palestinian people and
his call to end war and suffering of all in Iraq are being maliciously
portrayed as "incitement of violence and sedition."



Got news for ya, Charlie, it was MOSLEMS who did the attacking on 9/11.

Have you forgotten?

Christopher Robin, Moderator

"Greg Butterfield" wrote in message
m...
ACTION ALERT: DEFEND FREE SPEECH
STOP THE ATTACKS ON DR. HATEM BAZIAN!

Dr. Hatem Bazian, a highly respected lecturer at the University of
California, Berkeley in the Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies
Departments, is being victimized by a mean-spirited national
right-wing campaign. His just defense of the Palestinian people and
his call to end war and suffering of all in Iraq are being maliciously
portrayed as "incitement of violence and sedition."

Capitalizing on the vicious anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate fest that
is escalating in the U.S. as the occupation in Iraq erupts, reaching
critical stages, right-wing and racist forces are engaged in attacks
designed to seriously jeopardize the well-being of Arab- and
Muslim-Americans - particularly outspoken community leaders, prominent
activists and critical scholars - in an attempt to completely silence
dissent against the violence of occupation. Behind it all is the
racist belief that critical speech and the Bill of Rights come to a
screeching halt at the doorstep of Arab- and Muslim-American homes,
thus falsely positioning them as conspirators within. Popular
statements such as "we need regime change," that are being made daily
by many all the way from John Kerry to progressive activists, are
being twisted and presented as "sedition" and "treason" in a
McCarthy-style purge.

Although Arab- and Muslim-Americans are particularly targeted and
scapegoated, the attack on the Bill of Rights and the right to dissent
is incrementally affecting all sectors without exception. The intent
is to create a fully compliant population, criminalize opposition, and
expand the political reach of an ideological right-wing extreme.

Dr. Bazian has been receiving livid hate mail; his work at the
University is being challenged; and extremist elements are threatening
his and his family's well-being. Like millions of Americans and people
around the globe, Dr. Bazian has been an articulate and outspoken
critic of U.S. foreign policy - calling for a U.S. that is at peace
with itself and with nations around the world on the basis of equality
and liberty for all.

Hatem was a prominent student leader at San Francisco State University
during the eighties and later at UC Berkeley in the nineties - both
are institutions best known for their legacy of the free speech and
anti-war movements. During his student years, he fully championed the
rights of disenfranchised communities, people of color, supported
ethnic, labor and gender studies, and worked to organize an effective
U.S. student movement on a national scale in opposition to both NAFTA
and GATT. Hatem served as Chair of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate
Assembly, and from 1995-1999 was coordinator of the Graduate Minority
Students Project of the Graduate Assembly, through which he
spearheaded statewide efforts to defeat Proposition 209, a 1996
California-wide anti-affirmative action proposition. Bazian was also
active in the anti-Apartheid struggle and Central American solidarity
movements. In 1990, Hatem was the Chair of the National People of
Color Student Coalition and executive member of the Board of the
United States Student Association.

We ask you to take a stand in clear support of free speech and against
the racist criminalization of Arab-Americans, Muslim-Americans and all
people standing against war and occupation. The escalation of rhetoric
by President Bush in conjunction with the increase in military force
and attacks on the Iraqi people will likely give yet another green
light for further anti-Arab and anti-Muslim backlash. We need to take
a strong stand now!

Please write to the president of the University of California,
Berkeley, at the following address to ask for protection and support
for Dr. Hatem Bazian:

Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl
Office of the Chancellor
200 California Hall #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Telephone: (510) 642-7464


--------------------------

Email circulated by:
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.InternationalANSWER.org

New York 212-633-6646
Washington 202-544-3389
Los Angeles 213-487-2368
San Francisco 415-821-6545

The piece of crap, should already be fired, and if not a citizen, be on the
plane out of the country!!! HE called for Jihad and killing American
soldiers.
Bill

"Calif Bill" wrote in message news:b6Kfc.12438
The piece of crap, should already be fired, and if not a citizen, be on the
plane out of the country!!! HE called for Jihad and killing American
soldiers.
Bill

Hmm, what about Bush, he called for American soldiers to be killed,
also. And he succeeded!

"basskisser" wrote in message
om...
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
news:b6Kfc.12438
The piece of crap, should already be fired, and if not a citizen, be on
the
plane out of the country!!! HE called for Jihad and killing American
soldiers.
Bill

Hmm, what about Bush, he called for American soldiers to be killed,
also. And he succeeded!

I think his request was more along Gen. Patton's statement. Your job is not
to die for your country, it is to make the other poor ******* die for his
country.