10/13/06 Update: 4 students are on hunger strike.

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From: The Gallaudet Students, Subject: Campus Lock-Down
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:58:53 -0700 (PDT)

Letter to Campus Community:
Until further notice, Gallaudet University is closed and all gates are blocked. This includes MSSD and KDES and this letter is out of courtesy to communicate with them. Students who need to leave or enter the campus will be allowed to. For more information, meet the students at the front gates.

Gallaudet Protests: from kendall green || Gallaudet U FSSA Coalition: What Is the Protest About || Play by the rules, You lose || SignCasts

Today, the IWW led a protest at the Mexican Embassy demanding that Fox and Calderon cease and desist any harassment of the striking teachers who have occupied Oaxaca for the past several months.

With much regret and great personal disappointment, I am sad to announce that I must discontinue publication of The Common Denominator.

Archives for thecommondenominator.com

Inspired by the occasion of the mass layoffs at Ford Motor Company. I guess it really does mean "Found On Road Dead", huh?

"Rarely since the Second World War has a people been so vilified as the Palestinians," comments Robert Fisk, a longtime foreign correspondent for the London-based daily Independent. "And rarely has a people been so frequently excused and placated as the Israelis." Fisk is asking his colleagues to search their consciences: "Our gutlessness, our refusal to tell the truth, our fear of being slandered as 'anti-Semites' — the most loathsome of libels against any journalist — means that we are aiding and abetting terrible deeds in the Middle East."

Read complete article here: www.alternet.org/columnists/story/10786/

On October 5th, hundreds descended on Lafayette park to declare the White House a crime scene, stretching yellow crime scene tape halfway around the compound after an afternoon of music and speeches.
Audio || Photos

At a time of wars, (a war of ideas fueling military wars in Asia and a war against civil rights, freedom and US's Constitution), we need to better strategize our media sayd Chip Brelet, a senior researcher at PRA-Public Research Associates... Ryme Katkhouda of the dcradiocoop.org has more...

In Beyond Chutzpah I argued that across the political spectrum historians have now reached a broad consensus on the Israel-Palestine conflict's origins. A recent study strikingly confirms this thesis. Shlomo Ben-Ami was Israel's Foreign Minister and key Israeli negotiator at the Camp David and Taba meetings in 2000-1. In his new book, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy (Oxford: 2006), Ben-Ami covers a lot of the same ground as my own Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso: 2003). Video of Ben Ami on Future of the Peace Process

Citizens Declare Peace; Hundreds Arrested, From Sept 21-28 www.resistancemedia.org

On Sept. 27, 2006, two leading experts on Human Rights spoke at the Palestine Center, in Washington, D.C. Curt Goering of Amnesty International, said Israel’s massive bombing campaign in Lebanon, including dropping more than a million cluster bombs, was a “war crime.” His group is pressing the UN for a full inquiry. Joe Stork of Human Rights Watch called the Israelis’ destruction of Gaza’s only electric power generating plant a “war crime.”