Oct 26 2007
Weekly Digest – 10/26/07
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This Week on Uprising:
*Academics Respond to the Pro-Israel Lobby
*Food Sovereignty and Participatory Democracy in Venezuela
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Academics Respond to the Pro-Israel Lobby
GUEST: Dr. Mehrene Larudee of the International Studies Program at DePaul University
The week of October 22 through October 26 concluded what was deemed by right wing organizers as “Islamo-Facism Awareness Week.” Organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz, the plea called for nationwide campus mobilizations and featured speakers such as Ann Coulter. The week targeted women’s studies departments and campus centers for what organizer claim is their silence on the misogyny of Islam. Phyliss Bennis of Foreign Policy in Focus, in deconstructing “Islamo-Facism Awareness Week,” pinpoints the objective in mobilizing Christian and Jewish Zionists. She cites the example of the newest “Pro-Israeli’ lobby, “Christians United for Israel,” which decided in a conference over the summer to wholeheartedly back “Islamo-Facism Awareness Week.” Prior to the David Horowitz led campaign, a group of scholars, Jews and non-Jews, came together on the campus of the University of Chicago for a conference “In Defense of Academic Freedom.” Though ideologically varied, participants converged and discussed the issue of America’s universities as the last bastion of criticisms of the Israeli government. The following is a speech by conference participant, Dr Mehrene Larudee of the International Studies Program at DePaul University. Special thanks to Mansoor Sabbagh of Global Voices for Justice for the recording.
For more information, visit www.academicfreedomchicago.org/?q=node/32
Food Sovereignty and Participatory Democracy in Venezuela
GUEST: Miguel Angel Nunez, Nunez, advisor to the Venezuelan Presidential Office on Agro-Environmental issues and the former coordinator of the Latin American Agricological Movement
Miguel Angel Nunez is an advisor to the Venezuelan Presidential Office on Agro-Environmental issues and the former coordinator of the Latin American Agricological Movement. He was recently in the United States, and sat down in our studios, to talk about the food revolution as a part of Venezuela’s evolving participatory democracy. Among other things, we discussed the green revolution and its legacies, farmer’s knowledge and how it can be incorporated into new models, and bio-fuels. Nunez began by explaining his desire to make food an issue within Venezuela’s current political process.
Uprising’s Subversive Thought for the Day
“Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.” — Vandana Shiva
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