Dear UAT signer,

One of the authors of the statement 'Communties United Against Terror', Alan Johnson, has launched a new free online review of books. Its called Democratiya and you can check it out at http://www.democratiya.com/

In the first issue you will find an interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain, the author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World.

Please consider sending a note about Democratiya to your own friends and email lists. Many thanks.

Engage is proud to announce its brand new website and web address.  Please bookmark it now (before you forget).  If you go to the FORUM tab on the new site, you will find the familiar ‘blog’ – with fast moving news, analysis and discussion.

 

Engage was set up to oppose the campaign to boycott Israeli artists, musicians, writers, researchers and teachers because of the actions of their government.  We oppose the worldview that sees Israel and Jews as being central to some kind of global imperialist conspiracy.

 

Nearly all contemporary Jew-hating uses the language of anti-Zionism. This is certainly true of left and liberal antisemitism.  Often well-meaning anti-racists are unable spot the antisemitism of their own politics because they harbour no anti-Semitic intent themselves.  But as all decent anti-racists understand in other contexts, organisations and ideas can be racist whether or not the individuals concerned are aware of this fact.  Antisemitism is the only racism that is below the radar of contemporary anti-racists.

·         Engage has had enough of people who label Jews as racists or Nazis because they say that Israel has the right to exist.

·         Engage has had enough of people who think that it’s quite understandable to bomb a bus in Tel Aviv but a terrible crime in London.

Engage does not take sides in the conflict between Israel and Palestine: we want to see a just peace agreement.  We support both Israelis and Palestinians who stand against the racist demonization of the other.

The following places in 14 countries will have demonstrations or other Haiti solidarity events on or around September 30, 2005, as part of an international campaign in solidarity with the Haitian people. This includes three countries in Africa, two in Europe, two in North America and seven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

1.   San Francisco -- Rally & picket at Federal Bldg, 450 Golden Gate,SF -- Friday 9/30 at 8:00 a.m.
2.   Miami -- Demonstration 9/30 at 11 a.m. at the Brazilian consulate, 80 SW 8th St. [Note: the brutal UN military force in Haiti, responsible for July 6th massacre in Cite Soleil, is commanded by a Brazilian general.]
3.   Durban, South Africa
4.   Sao Paulo, Brazil
5.   Kinshasa, Congo
6.   Santiago, Chile
7.   Montreal -- Demonstration at US consulate on 9/30 from Noon to 3 pm. Also, on Saturday, Oct 1st,  at 7 pm, showing of the Katherine Kean film "Rezistans" at 2651 Cremazie Est (corner 2nd ave)
8.   Washington, DC -- Demonstration and photo exhibit in front of Haitian embassy on Massachusetts Ave, from 10 am to 1 pm on 9/30
9.  New York City -- Patizan Jezikri will hold a mass starting at 9 am on Saturday, Oct 1st at Holy Innocent Church in Brooklyn (Beverly Rd & East 17th).
Following the mass there will be a march sponsored by Committee against Genocide in Haiti, from 11am to3 pm. The march will take Beverly Rd to Flatbush ave to Church ave, down Nostrand to rally at Nostrand and Foster Avenues.
10. Guadeloupe
11.  Benin, West Africa
12.  Dominican Republic
13.  Dublin, Ireland  -- Demonstration at 6 pm on 9/30
14.  Vancouver -- Demonstration from 5 to 6 pm on 9/30 at Main Library, 350 W.Georgia St, downtown Vancouver
Also at 8:45pm on 9/30, there will be a showing of the Nicolas Rossier film "Aristide and the Endless Revolution" at Granville 5 cinema, Granville Street, as part of the Vancouver Intl Film Festival.
15. Brasilia, Brazil
16.  San Jose, Costa Rica
17.  Boston -- Picket at the Haitian Consulate, 545 Boylston St., Copley Sq., 6-7:30 pm on 9/30.
18.  Newark, NJ - "Speak Out for Haiti" at Federal Building, 970 Broad St., Noon-1 pm on 9/30.
19.  Paris, France
20.  Los Angeles -- Rally & picket at the Brazilian consulate, 8484 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills -- 9/30 at noon
21.  Ottawa, Canada
22. Philadelphia
23.  San Jose, Calif. -- Two protests on 9/30. Lunchtime protest 1130am-1 pm at French Consulate, 2nd Street & Santa Clara, to protest the French role in the 2004 coup...Afternoon protest 4:30-6 pm at Federal Bldg, 2nd Street near San Carlos.
24.  Toronto -- Public meeting and film showing on 9/30....Haiti workshop at Youth Action Conference on 9/30
25.  Martinique
26.  Dominica
27.  Northampton, Mass.
28.  Minneapolis/St. Paul
29.  Charlottetown, Canada -- Public meeting on Sept 29 at 2:30 pm, UPEI, Irving Theatre
30.  Hayward, California
31.  Portland, Oregon -- Film showing of Kevin Pina film "Haiti: Harvest of Hope" at People's Food Cooperative, 3029 SE 21st Avenue, on Sept. 28 at 7 pm....On 9/30 Portland Haiti activists will conduct a "call-in", "fax blast" and "email blast" to contact US officials, MINUSTAH (UN) and Haitian government officials -- "calling for a end to political persecution, the return of Haiti's legitimate elected officials, release of all political prisoners, and for an end to the UN's role in supporting the illegal Interim Government. These things must happen before elections can take place."
32.  Enterprise, Oregon
33.  Fredericton (New Brunswick, Canada) -- Public meeting on Sept 27, at 7 pm, Tilley Hall, UNB
34.  Halifax (Nova Scotia) -- Public meeting on 9/30 at 7 pm, Dalhousie University, Weldon Law Bldg
35.  Tatamagouche (Nova Scotia) -- Screening of Kevin Pina film, "Haiti: the Untold Story" on Oct. 2, at 3:30 pm.
36. New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) -- Public meeting at New Glasgow library, Oct. 3 at noon
37.  Antigonish (Nova Scotia) -- Public meeting at the Coady Institute on Oct. 3 at 7 pm
38.  Detroit -- On 9/30, Haiti solidarity activists will conduct an all-day "call-a-thon" demanding an end to the persecution of pro-democracy activists in Haiti and freedom for all political prisoners, as well as for an independent investigation into ongoing human rights violations by the coup regime and its backers. At Wayne State University on 9/30 students will collect donations to send to women in the popular neighborhoods who have been victims of sexual or physical assault since the 2004 coup.

Stop the Massacres of the Poor by UN troops, Haitian National Police and paramilitary mercenaries under police control

Restore the Democratically Elected Government of President Aristide

Free Father Jean-Juste and all the more than 1000 Political Prisoners in Haiti’s jails

End the Brutal US/UN Occupation – Restore Haiti’s Sovereignty

Open an independent inquiry into the February 29, 2004 coup and forced removal of President Aristide -- including the role of the US, France and Canada.