Racism & Islamophobia at Cal - How Should We Respond?
Hatem Bazian & speakers from BSTW, SJP & MSA
Tuesday Dec 2nd
7pm
141 Gianinni, UCB
Arabs and Muslim students at Cal have been the subject of a string of racist & Islamophobic incidents at UCB this semester, culminating in a violent assault on three Palestinian students two weeks ago. And following the election of Barack Obama, racism against African-Americans and other minorities has increased sharply nationwide. Come to a teach-in on racism and Islamophobia next Tuesday, December 2nd to hear more about these attacks, the link to US foreign policy in the Middle East and how we can organize to fight back.
Organized by Berkeley Stop the War, Students for Justice in Palestine & the Muslim Students Association
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) Statement on Berkeley Hate Crimes
CAN Statement on Berkeley Hate Crimes
For immediate circulation:
At around 6pm last Thursday (11/13), three Palestinian students (1 male, 2 female) were beaten up on the UC Berkeley campus by members of a right-wing Zionist group, the Zionist Freedom Alliance. A second incident occurred the following night in which another Palestinian student was attacked by unknown assailants on campus. For SJP's statement on the attacks see -
http://calsjp.org/2008/11/14/blog/sjp-statement-on-violent-anti-palestinian-atta\
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The Campus Antiwar Network condemns unreservedly this despicable act of racist violence and wishes to express its complete and unwavering solidarity with the members of Students for Justice in Palestine, and all Arab and Muslim students both on and off the UCB campus. We also echo SJP's call to the campus administration to investigate the incident immediately and bring those responsible to justice.
We call on all students, at Cal and elsewhere, to come together to combat racism and Islamophobia however and whenever it rears its head. Arab and Muslim students are particularly vulnerable to bigotry and racism at this time of imperialist war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, and we must stand with them against those who seek to use violence and prejudice to divide students against one another on racial/ethnic lines.
In solidarity,
CAN
For immediate circulation:
At around 6pm last Thursday (11/13), three Palestinian students (1 male, 2 female) were beaten up on the UC Berkeley campus by members of a right-wing Zionist group, the Zionist Freedom Alliance. A second incident occurred the following night in which another Palestinian student was attacked by unknown assailants on campus. For SJP's statement on the attacks see -
http://calsjp.org/2008/11/14/
ck-on-campus
The Campus Antiwar Network condemns unreservedly this despicable act of racist violence and wishes to express its complete and unwavering solidarity with the members of Students for Justice in Palestine, and all Arab and Muslim students both on and off the UCB campus. We also echo SJP's call to the campus administration to investigate the incident immediately and bring those responsible to justice.
We call on all students, at Cal and elsewhere, to come together to combat racism and Islamophobia however and whenever it rears its head. Arab and Muslim students are particularly vulnerable to bigotry and racism at this time of imperialist war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, and we must stand with them against those who seek to use violence and prejudice to divide students against one another on racial/ethnic lines.
In solidarity,
CAN
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