Hadi Jawad is a cynical and cruel exploiter of a grieving woman's hysteria, IMHO. I hope that as she comes to terms with her son's death, she gets a grip on reality as well...
Hadi Jawad, spokseman for the Crawford Peace House helping Cindy Sheehan and supports with food and water during their protest, said today that is was a 'changing and fluid situation right now' with authorities keeping a close eye on the group and warning them about possible tresspassing violations.
Anyone got a background check on this guy???
I first read this as "changing fluid situation" and thought, "Ewww...what does that mean??"
Hadi Jawad, need I say more. If it looks like a moo, and talks like a moo, and stands with people like this... then it must be a moo.
Radical Encuentro
2002 encuentro event: at Wolf Farm, owned by John L. Wolf, aka "Johnny Wolf", a set designer, Quaker, and co-founder with Hadi Jawad (see below) of the Coalition in Solidarity with the People of Iraq. Wolf's wife Vicki is a yoga instructor in Dallas.
Description: Radical training camp organization putting on occasional events using all-volunteer labor with activities located on private property, then proceeding to perform at orchestrated protest demonstrations in urban areas.
May 2002 session program, from their website:
Themes include past & present struggles, future issues, and hands on training for taking action to make change happen. Each workshop will be 2 hours long.
Past & Present Struggles
Women in the Zapatista Struggle (Melissa, Monkeywrench Collective)
Animal Rights & Ecology (Dr. Steve Best, Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Texas El Paso)
Women in the Black Panther Movement (Althea Francois, former leader in New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party, later key member of Central Committee in Oakland, CA)
Exposing Corporate Greed (David Cobb, Texas Green Party; P.O.C.L.A.D., former corporate lawyer)
Indigenous Rights (Nelly Ramirez, La Raza Unida; Reuben, Mexika Eagle Society)
Political Prisoners (Chris Plummer, recently released Anarchist political prisoner; Reckless, Austin Anarchist Black Cross; chickpea)
Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement (Gloria Rubac and Njeri Shakur)
Iraq: the sanctions & oil (Hadi Jawad, secretary of the American Muslim Alliance; Coalition in Solidarity with the People of Iraq)
ExxonMobil teach-in (impacted community representatives, PressurePoint, GreenPeace, Human Rights Campaign, and more)
Non-Violence: History and Tactics (Lisa Fithian)
Future Issues Anti-oppression and anti-racism (Cathy Berry, Satya, Ruckus Society)
Media Activism (Tish Stringer, Houston Indymedia Center)
Green Party: Keeping it Radical & Diversifying (Karla Aguilar & Joleen Garcia, Campus Greens)
Anarchist Movement Building (Ernesto Aguilar, Houston ABC)
Indigenous Rights (panel discussion: Tristan, American Indian Movement Houston chapter and more)
Vision and how we might get there (Anne Tagonist, Khalil)
Hands on Training Basic Climbing (Tracy Hayes, Texas Drug Policy Reform Movement; Cesar Maxit, UPROAR; Satya, Ruckus Society)
Conflict Resolution (Theresa, Austin Copwatch)
Consensus-based Decision Making/Facilitation (TBA)
Media Training (TBA)
Art & Puppets (Cesar Maxit, Uproar; Gabriel Delgado, Houston Art Car Museum; Rhizome Collective)
Silk-Screening T-shirts (Chicano/a)
Permaculture/Sustainable Revolution (Skotty & Vicki, Rhyzome Collective)
Direct Action (Cathie Berrey, Satya, Ruckus Society)
These topics are subject to change as planning for the camp continues.
Our invited keynote speakers are: Dr. Rania Masri with Peace Action and Southern Exposure speaking on "Middle East: womens' struggles, militariziation, and oil" and Susanna Almanza with PODER (People Organized in Defense of Earths Resources / Pueblo Organizado en Defensa de la Tierra y sus Recursos) speaking on "corporate power vs. people in low income neighborhoods."
Some of the groups we have contacted to facilitate workshops, participate or speak so far are: North Texas Independent Media Center, POCLAD, UPROAR, Chicano/a, Campus Greens, Houston Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), Dallas ABC, Austin ABC, Coalition to Free the Angola 3,PODER, Rhyzome Collective, I.W.W., Biosquat, Houston American Indian Movement, African United Front, Mexia Eagle Society, Human Rights Campaign, Dallas Gay Lesbian Alliance, Monkeywrench collective, Pressure Point, Ruckus Society, Human Rights Campaign, former members of the Black Panther Party, Peace Action.
Hadi Jawad is a cynical and cruel exploiter of a grieving woman's hysteria, IMHO. I hope that as she comes to terms with her son's death, she gets a grip on reality as well...
Hadi Jawad:
Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iraq (CISPI) Founded before the war.
Dallas Peace Center
Dallas Coalition Against War in Iraq
Crawford Peace House (http://www.crawfordpeacehouse.org/)
secretary of the American Muslim Alliance (http://www.amaweb.org/)
Big Time anti Semite/Israel.
Anyone got a background check on this guy???
(snip)
Dallas Peace Times
Dec. 2001-Jan. 2002
The right to fresh water is inalienable
Iraq Water Project making an impact
by Hadi Jawad
As the war machinery of the U.S. and U.K. came back to life once again and rained death and destruction on the civilian population of Afghanistan, statements emanated from the White House claiming, "we do not have a problem with the Afghan people but the leadership," echoing the administration of the elder Bush, who a decade ago had expressed similar sentiments saying, "our quarrel was not with the Iraqi people but with the leadership."
Yet efforts to eradicate well-entrenched leadership there yield collateral damage of colossal proportions: ruined economies, massive unemployment, extremes of poverty, destroyed infrastructure, crippled health care systems; terminally ill, the extreme elderly, children under five, the most vulnerable segments of any society, killed by the thousands—all this in the name of protecting freedom and democracy.
The task in front of those of us in the peace and justice movement is daunting. We must join hands together in support and encouragement to undo some of the destruction that U.S. policy delivers to those who dare to challenge its national interest. One example of coming together happened in Dallas last spring with the founding of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of Iraq (CISPI) by Dr. Frank Mabee, renowned peace activist Johnny Wolf and this author. CISPI’s charter says that it seeks to educate people about the rights of the Iraqi people under the UN Declaration of Human Rights, including the right to clean drinking water, medical care and education, not to mention the right not to be bombed incessantly for the past 11 years.
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