Archive for February, 2007

11 Feb

IMMIGRATION ISSUES AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Bangor Room, Memorial Union, UMaine, Orono. A panel of University of Maine students who are members of the Student Heritage Alliance Center (SHAC.). (Part of Human Rights Awareness Week.) Part of the Spring 2007 Socialist and Marxist Studies Series (Controversy Series) Sponsored by Marxist-Socialist Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. Co-sponsored by Maine Peace Action Comm. […]

11 Feb

From Chiapas to Orono: Women’s Rights as Human Rights

With Sarah Bigney, Ashley Miller, and Tiffany Warzecha; Women in the Curriculum/ Women’s Studies Lunch Series, 12:15- 1:30, Bangor Rm., Memorial Union, University of Maine; call Angela Olson, 581-1228

08 Feb

A Stand Against the Iraq War: Watada Court-martial Trial

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607watada.shtml
Truthout is reporting from the Watada court-martial throughout the coming week with a legal expert and courtroom artist inside and a film crew on the outside to bring you extensive coverage.

07 Feb

Leaked tape shows fatal US attack on British convoy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2006879,00.html
A cockpit videotape from a US plane that attacked a British convoy in Iraq, killing a soldier, appears to show a catalogue of errors leading up to the strike. A transcript of the tape, which leaked today, records the US pilot and another on the same mission swearing and possibly weeping after they realise […]

06 Feb

Children of war: the generation traumatised by violence in Iraq

Growing up in a war zone takes its toll as young play games of murder and mayhem
Michael Howard in Baghdad
Tuesday February 6, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2006738,00.html
…In a rare study published last week, the Association of Iraqi Psychologists (API) said the violence had affected millions of children, raising serious concerns for future generations.