Posted on 12/19/2003 2:56:22 AM PST by kattracks
On Dec. 4th, 2003 the “Wheels of Justice Tour” appeared during school hours on the grounds of Ukiah High School in Northern California. What was this tour? It was the PLO, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and other leftist groups such as International Answer packaged to teach your 15 year-old child that the Israel must be dismantled and the US must get out of Iraq to aid the comeback of Saddam Hussein. Passing themselves off as objective “peace” advocates, the tour group spoke at Ukiah High to three class sessions during school hours and had their bus, as a sort of rolling museum, on school grounds all day for the students to look at.“The bus is really a mobile classroom”, says Ceylon Mooney, the tour’s national coordinator. “It comes complete with teachers (italics mine) and a wide range of instructional materials: videos, photographs, essays, fact sheets, etc”.[1]
Teachers? Fact sheets? When I first learned of this event I contacted Ukiah High School Principal Phil Gary to ask him if he knew just what he was exposing his students to during school hours. On the school’s website Gary lists as the “greatest single asset” of Ukiah High being its “quality teachers”.[2] Yet Principal Gary expressed total ignorance of the groups sponsoring the tour. When I asked him if he knew the ISM is led by the PLO and openly supports armed resistance and works to aid terrorists in the Middle East, he professed ignorance of his visiting lecturers.3 After I gave him a synopsis of just who was appearing and the usual content of their presentation, the principal called it “freedom of speech”.
Freedom of speech is fine, but not freedom to libel and lie with the intent of spreading sedition among US high school children against the US and its democratic allies. Nor to indoctrinate them with those lies on the taxpayer’s dime.
Voices In The Wilderness, which runs the tour, is yet another leftist front group created by the militant Islamists of the PLO allied with anti-globalists who seek the overthrow of the US government and capitalism. 4 The group really represents the goals of and even accepts donations by checks made out to Al Awda , a.k.a. The Palestine Right To Return Committee (PRRC) and allies itself with International Answer and the International Action Center, Ramsey Clark’s outfits.5 Al Awda means “the Return” in Arabic and is really a front for the PLO that advocates unconditionally that 5 million Palestinians be allowed to move inside Israel displacing the Jewish population and dismantling the Jewish state. The Texas chapter used to have a website extolling the glory of suicide bombers. 6The other groups just want the US out of Iraq to enable the comeback of Saddam Hussein. (Happily, that won’t happen with the announcement of Hussein’s capture as this article went to press). Ramsey Clark was Saddam Hussein’s personal attorney and represented Iraq prior to the war. The PLO has always been the dictator
Hussein’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Rounding out this tour’s sponsors is the Middle East Children’s Alliance in Berkeley, run by Barbara Lubin.7 Her group has yet to provide any aid to Middle East Israeli children maimed for life by suicide bombers and terrorist attacks. She plies her “charity” mainly in Gaza, Hamas country. It never ceases to amaze me how many Arab “charities” have been closed down to date when it was learned they really are fronts for funding terrorism.
Her group advocates the dismantling of Israel also and opposes US forces in Iraq.
Half the presentation was given over to Lauren Anzaldo of the International Solidarity Movement which is “Palestinian-led” per its own admission and whose leadership, despite claiming to be nonviolent, endorses violence as acceptable to destroy Israel “by any means necessary” on its website.8
Which is exactly what this tour did. Ms. Anzaldo, speaking as an experienced ISM volunteer, told various classes of 12th graders that Israeli soldiers shoot into schools of children like themselves as normal procedure. “Soldiers come in the middle of the night and shoot at schools—during the day too”.9 On earlier occasions she has told stories that the Israeli army sprays DDT into Palestinian homes as part of a deliberate Israeli plan to promote Palestinian birth defects.10 Of course, Ms. Anzaldo, who calls herself an “anarcha-feminist” and has no teaching degree or educational qualifications but was allowed to address students as if she was speaking facts, described atrocities that always began with “Somebody told me”… despite her appearing as someone who was relating real experiences as an ISM volunteer in the West Bank. This is usually how the ISM and their affiliates tell stories of made up Israeli and American “abuses” of civilian populations.
Her co-speaker was John Farrell, affiliated with International Answer, who told of how American troops routinely commit atrocities on Iraqi civilians.11 He also related the canard that Iraqi children are experiencing birth defects due to the uranium tipped shells used by the US in the 1991 Gulf War. That propaganda story was put out by Hussein’s propaganda ministries before the current war began, and the real truth is Iraqi children with birth defects are the result of Saddam Hussein gassing their villages.
I interviewed the bus tour on their cellphone where Ms. Anzaldo, who also bills herself as a nonviolent “peace” advocate, told me how she considered suicide bombers as “martyrs”. “This is an armed struggle situation when someone seeks to colonize another country, armed resistance is acceptable”. She continued, “I support the people’s right to armed struggle”. When I asked her if Israelis have a legitimate fear of being murdered she forgot herself for a moment and said, “the Jews have no rights…Oops, I mean the Zionists”.
“Oops” indeed.
Despite the tour’s claim that they represent all points of view on any type of agreement to seek “peace” in the region, she stated she supports only a one state solution, that pushed by Al Awda, (The Return in Arabic) the front group for the PLO. In other words, the dismantling of Israel to create an Arab-Muslim majority dictatorship by flooding Israel’s 1948 borders with Arabs to displace the Jewish majority demographically is the aim, and packaging it as a “peace” group seeking to promote human rights is just a ploy. Al Awda offers no compromises on its website and clearly is behind the tour.
Ms. Anzaldo, also calls herself an “anarcha-feminist”, which she defines as an “objection to the oppression of women” but doesn’t mind running around lying for the Palestinian Authority where over 40 “honor killings” of women occurred this past year. That’s when a male family member murders a female member for losing her virginity, even if she was raped . She explained it wasn’t her “business to interfere with their religion or culture”.
But interfering with Israelis besieged by suicide bombers or smearing American soldiers in Iraq are another story. She explained, “we should focus on things the American military does such as experiments with poisons on our own people (sic)”.
This is a guest teacher or even a lecturer in the view of Ukiah High School?
She did admit that Yasser Arafat steals from of his own people but hedged her comment by continuing, “ Just like George Bush is an ***hole”. She crowed that the Ukiah High Students “were really taken with what we told them, really shocked with what we said”.
They told her they “never hear such things when they get the mainstream point of view”. Could that be because much of what she “teaches” is not true and professional news sources verify their stories with sources, dates and facts whenever possible?
I'd be willing to wager 99.9% of Americans would strongly protest having American high school students indoctrinated into Islamic terrorism.
(On public property, public buidlings, paid for by tax payers. No ten commandments - no Islamic terrorism brainwashing either!)
...every time his shoulder aches. :^)
(I'm a gun guy, but .308 is not my lucky number.)
Yet Principal Gary expressed total ignorance of the groups sponsoring the tour.
Right. Not particularly hard to find, look at their website. Michael Jackson on child rearing next. If we take him at his word, he’s incompetent, and should be looking for another job.
Nonviolent education and action against war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine for justice and universal human rights
Members of Voices in the Wilderness, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Middle East Children's Alliance, and affiliates of the International Solidarity Movement take to the road in a colorfully decorated full-size school bus for the Wheels of Justice Tour. Starting in mid-August 2003, this tour will canvass the western United Sates to challenge and educate North Americans on the occupation of Palestine and Iraq.
Having seen and lived with war, terror and occupation in Iraq and Palestine, participants in the Wheels of Justice offer first-hand experience irrespective of partisan politics and sound bite sloganeering. To build upon the growing domestic opposition to war against Iraq and occupation of Palestine, the Wheels of Justice Tour will cover the United States with education, outreach, training, active non-violent resistance, and community-building. The first leg, which covers the western United States, begins August 13 in Green Bay and ends in California late December.
This leg of the tour starts in August in the Midwest, goes to West Coast in the Fall, then comes to a stop in California late December. We resume the tour after the New Year and continue on through the southwest, into the Deep South, and eventually up the east coast and into Canada.
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Lauren Anzaldo
Lauren Anzaldo (on tour dec 1-15), a 24-year-old resident of Pensacola, Florida, spent two months this summer living and working in Jenin, Occupied Palestine (West Bank). While she was there, she taught English as a second language to elementary-school students at a summer camp and to employees of Physicians without Borders. She also volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and international activists committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine and to raising worldwide awareness about the conflict (www.palsolidarity.org).
Now Lauren is embarking on a speaking tour to share the truth about the Israeli occupation. She will discuss her experiences in Palestine: meeting and getting to know families, talking to people about their struggles, participating in direct action, monitoring human rights abuses and enduring an Israeli military invasion of the city of Jenin and days of Israeli-imposed house arrest.
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Speaking of "DU," who is funding "Wheels of Justice?"
I smell Saudi money.
...simply because it represents pro-terrorists indoctrinating America's children to hate their country and advocating the slaughter of Americans and Jews.
Article Last Updated: Friday, December 05, 2003 - 8:18:33 AM PST
Wheels of Justice
Activists share Mideast experiences at Ukiah High
By LAURA CLARK/The Daily Journal
"Break the cycle of violence" and other anti-war messages were painted amongst doves on a rainbow-colored school bus parked at Ukiah High School Thursday afternoon.
Images of wounded, suffering children and piles of rubble where once stood buildings, were also pasted on some of the windows of the former big yellow bus, nowadays used to transport guest speakers around the country on "The Wheels of Justice Tour."
Speakers on the tour include members of Voices in the Wilderness, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Middle East Children's Alliance, and affiliates of the International Solidarity Movement.
The current tour began in August in Illinois and will be in California another six weeks, and then will head across the southern part of the country.
Ukiah High School students were able to visit the bus during their lunch break and after school. The speakers also gave presentations in some of the classrooms. [***snip***]
Remainder of bilge here.
Trustees hear debate over DHS speakers
By Jeff Hudson/Enterprise staff writer
The Davis Board of Education got an earful of commentary Thursday evening, as a dozen speakers came to the microphone to discuss the cancellation on Monday of a planned appearance by the Wheels of Justice organization.
Davis High School history and social studies teacher Don Winters had planned to have speakers from the roving Wheels of Justice bus - which is conducting a 16-state tour - give 30-minute presentations in about 10 classrooms over a five-hour period.
On its Web site (www.justicewheels.org), the organization describes itself as offering "nonviolent education and action against war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine for justice and universal human rights."
However, Davis High School Principal Mike Cawley canceled the invitation to speak after Rabbi Greg Wolfe of Congregation Bet Haverim and several community members voiced concerns that Wheels of Justice gives a one-sided presentation, citing language on the group's Web site referencing Israeli "death squads" and "apartheid laws."
Cawley said he would have needed more time to bring in a second speaker representing a different viewpoint to give students a more balanced presentation.
Superintendent David Murphy began Thursday's discussion by passing out copies of the district's policy about speakers, adopted in 1983, which Murphy promised to update.
Numerous speakers criticized the decision to cancel the Wheels of Justice presentation. Hamza El-Nakhal of the Islamic Center of Davis told the trustees, "I've been invited to the high school many times (to speak about Palestinian issues)," adding that he's unhappy that the touring speakers were not allowed to talk to students.
"Sometimes it seems that when certain members of the community affect a decision at the high school, we cannot help but feel we are marginalized, second-class citizens, less important," El-Nakhal said. "It shouldn't be that way."
Parent and peace activist Cindy Litman, who is Jewish, said she is "disappointed," adding that "I think that teachers need to be apprenticing young people to be thoughtful (when it comes to dealing with complex issues like the Middle East), and the way we do that is by inviting just the kind of speakers who were closed out of our schools the other day."
Dean Johansen, parent and member of the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke of his "outrage" that the Wheels of Justice presentation had been canceled, and called on the school board to schedule an agenda item for the Jan. 8 meeting to discuss the issue.
Newly seated trustee Jim Provenza echoed that sentiment, and asked that the question be put on the agenda for the first school board meeting in January.
James Schwab, a 1997 graduate of Davis High who also is active in the ACLU, said, "In our community, where hate among students is a major concern, we must not close them off from an alternative point of view."
However, parent Nancy Lazarus, also an ACLU member, said, "If Wheels of Justice wants to speak in Davis, they can rent a hall, and those who want can attend. I must question the motivation of Winters, who would use his position as teacher to advance their agenda."
Lazarus described Winters' offer of an alternative assignment for students who objected to Wheels of Justices as "disingenuous at best" because "the teacher is in a position of power. Winters' action is was an abuse of this power."
Student Kira Savag-Sangwan, however, said she was "outraged that the invitation was arbitrarily revoked because of the objections of a few. I attended (Wheels of Justice's) presentation in Sacramento. They give not just the Palestinian side, but the peace side. ... (High school students) need to discuss issues that are controversial, if we are expected to become responsible voters."
Norb Kumagai referenced the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, saying, "60 years ago, someone who resembled me would have been considered the voice of terror. ... I encourage you to expand your horizons."
Mariko Yamada, parent and Yolo County supervisor, called for "a clear process by which outside speakers are brought to schools (and) who has input. ... (We have) a dusty old policy that needs to be looked at after 20 years."
Parent Robin Wiener asked that the trustees "look at things like classroom requirements (for events) that students need to attend, versus after-school assemblies. I'm aware that there is some word out there that Wheels of Justice has been invited back in January to speak at the high school. So we need to deal with this sooner rather than later."
Fred Buderi, who comes from Palestinian heritage, said, "I'm glad to hear that (Wheels of Justice) may be coming back; I think it would be a very valuable learning experience."
And Winters spoke, saying, "I don't know if I need a name tag or a target." He added, "I want to assure you that we are moving ahead with a balanced program (for students at the high school), and I will be meeting with members of the Jewish community tomorrow."
- Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise.net
Friday, December 19, 2003
Instead of learning how George Washington could not tell a lie and admitted chopping down a cherry tree, kids learn that Washington was Whitey who had sex with his slaves.
The message to Social Studies & Civics as taught in schools today, "you're either a white guy with a job, or you're a victim of the white guys with jobs"
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