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NOVANEWS PLEASE CIRCULATE ***  To non-Israelis:  You may change the letter accordingly , and please send your protest too*** Dweezil's manager/PR handler is Chris Hewlett. He should be sent the letter and possibly alerted by telephone to give a sense of urgency to the demand: chris@chrishewlett.com Telephone: +44 (0) 208 348 6767 Mobile: +44 (0) 7966 491 786 This is the email for the Zappa Family Trust: munchkinmusic@zappa.com Dweezil's community page (he personally responds to comments on his blog posts and allowers users to register and communicate with one another): http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/ Dweezil's FB fan page (he also has a personal page): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dweezil-Zappa/112594525422850?ref=ts Zappa family trust forum, a place for posting the letter: h...

NOVANEWS CLICK HERE to send a letter to UC San Diego senators. DIVEST FROM THE OCCUPATION. Share this alert:     Dear SAMMI, In just a few days, nearly 6,000 people have signed the statement in support of the students pushing for divestment at UC Berkeley, and we will make sure you are represented in that room with the students and senators. It has been just thrilling to see names pouring in from all over the country and even the world. Each of you taking the time to tell the courageous students of UC Berkeley, "We stand with you, we are here for you, and we believe in you." Each of you saying that divestment from the occupation is the right thing, the moral thing, the loving thing and the just thing to do. And now we are asking you to take a moment on behalf...

NOVANEWS PLEASE DON'T VOTE FOR TORY By: Sammi Ibrahem DAVID CAMERON: * 'Confirmed that a Tory government would ban the virulently anti-Zionist groups' ?? * Defending the 'principle' of academic freedom he said ' That means making clear university authorities and student unions that they are vulnerable to influence from extremists or show they are willing to promote hatred, just as they would in relation to any other suspected crime. ?? * About the Goldstone Report on Gaza Human Rights abuse he confirmed that a conservative government would have VOTED AGAINST THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL RESOLUTION on the report.' * He defended Nazi polish MEP Michal Kaminiski, leader of the European Conservative and Reformists group, of which the Tories are members. * About the arrest of WAR CRIMINALS. He S...

NOVANEWS Please circulate widely! From: "BOYCOTT! - Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within" comes this open letter to Margaret Atwood, urging her to embrace the boycott principles and reject the prize offered her. To learn more about the Israeli group initiating this letter, visit http://boycottisrael.info/node/2 Racheli. Margaret Atwood, Say NO to Prizes from the Israeli Apartheid! OPEN LETTER March 30, 2010 Dear Margaret Atwood, We are Israeli citizens and residents, Jews and Palestinians, who are committed to the Palestinian struggle for justice and freedom. We heard with dismay that you are set to attend this spring an apartheid-complicit[1] Tel Aviv University's symposium, where you are to receive a prize. We urge you to heed the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli ac...

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NOVANEWS Day of Action this Saturday in Chelmsley Wood On Saturday 27th March. Meet for 10.30am in the Car park in Meriden Park off Moorend Avenue, B37 for leafleting. http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.483538,-1.734746&spn=0.00639,0.013754&z=16ttp:// The BNP’s Councillor for Chelmsley Wood is up for re-election on 6th May. Join with us to stop him being re-elected. The BNP is a fascist and racist organisation whose only aim is to create division between people and communities. The election of a BNP Councillor has created an environment for hate and fear. In Chemsley Wood, as in other wards where the BNP has been successful, there has been a doubling of the number of reported racist incidents (The Guardian 15th January 2010). In 2008, the BNP ran a racist and anti-muslim campaign in ...

NOVANEWS Columbia Journalism Review mentions the ever-growing losses of the Murdoch empire. When Rupert finally meets his maker, his so-called empire will certainly change greatly. The arrogance of his current editors will dissipate very quickly. The poor dears: What lengths will Rupert Murdoch go to support his newspapers? Last year, The Wall Street Journal lost $80 million. The New York Post lost an estimated $70 million. And we find out today that The Times of London and Sunday Times lost a staggering $132 million last year. Four papers, $282 million in losses. While in the short-term we’re glad such largesse is keeping journalists in jobs, such losses aren’t sustainable for long. See: www.cjr.org

NOVANEWS http://theonlydemocracy.org/2010/03/declaration-of-human-rights-too-problematic-for-israeli-schoolchildren/ Declaration of Human Rights Too “Problematic” for Israeli Schoolchildren In a related post, below, we learned about the militarization of education for Israeli children, including homework sheets filled with sketches of tanks and other weaponry as a method of learning to count and be indoctrinated at the same time. Now we learn that the same Israeli Department of Education which promoted the militarization of schools has taken quick action to keep certain rights enumerated in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights from troubling the minds of settler children. The Ariel municipality had bought as gifts for kindergarten children in the settlements hundreds of copies of...

NOVANEWS With friends like Israel’s rightwing government and its agents in the U.S., who needs enemies? From Forbes: New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and circulated classified government information provided in strict confidence by US industry and worker groups opposed to AIPAC sponsored economic legislation. The 50 pages now available as portable document files (PDF) include: FBI reports of Israelis circulating classified documents in the US Congress, “compromising” the authority of the U.S. President. http:/...

NOVANEWS What follows is an excerpt from a long piece in the Jewish Journal of LA that demonstrates how there is really no line between AIPAC and most pro-Israel Jewish members of Congress, even liberal ones. Noticeably absent from this meeting between AIPAC lobbyists and the powerful California delegation was Bob Filner from Chula Vista who has taken a number of votes that went against the AIPAC line, including HR 867 which condemned the Goldstone Report (and who spoke honestly about the lobby’s financial leverage at J Street last fall). Frankly, I think these members of Congress who are pushing for a confrontation with Iran are courting political suicide and maybe worse. Should they get their way and Iran is attacked either by Israel or the US, this time the finger of not just the Mearsh...