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And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief
- Ben Franklin
Twenty years ago Wharton professor and lawyer Jordan L. Peiper was jailed on contempt for failing to account for $50,000 missing from a client’s trust fund. At the
time I was his client and a 33 year-old student at the Wharton Evening School in Philadelphia.
The incident is described on page eighty of Malice Aforethought, How Lawyers Use Our Secret Rules To Get Rich, Get Sex, Get Even...And Get Away With It, an exposé of the legal profession by attorney David W. Marston.
Jordan lectured at Penn from 1973 through 1989. He was a popular instructor, enjoyed teaching, and was a nice guy. It is still hard for me to believe that Jordan would do anything wrong. The last
time I saw Jordan he was incarcerated at a minimum security facility near West Philadelphia. He was disbarred in 1990.
At the time I thought lawyer misconduct was rare. Then I moved to Florida after closing my car business in Pennsylvania. Florida seems to have more than its share of
crooked lawyers.
A story in the St. Pete Times reported that attorney Dennis Correa stole $900,000 from a number of senior citizens. Correa was convicted and received probation. The outrageous twist was his next job, teaching ethics at St. Petersburg Junior College. The Times reported that Correa was part of a program called "ROPE", for Restoration of Professional Ethics. Correa was the second ROPE participant; the first was a lawyer too. All this came to my attention while I was a student in the school’s legal assisting program.
Hillsborough County Florida, the 13th Judicial Circuit, has had its share of scandal. The state attorney committed suicide over gambling debts. A grand jury found a judge had sex in chambers with a bailiff while court was held in the next room. Another judge had an affair with an employee of the clerk's office. A judge who spoke out about wrongdoing was defamed by critics. The judge, Gregory Holder, spent over a million dollars clearing his name. The State of Florida recently reimbursed him $70,000.
Ten years ago a law firm employed me to serve as a class action representative in litigation against so-called "payday lenders". In the end my own lawyers’ behavior turned out worse than that of the payday lenders. Subsequent attempts at justice, through The Florida Bar and the courts, only revealed further inadequacies in the justice system.
This website was started in response to breakdowns in the justice system. It is an attempt to turn lemons into lemonade. As an entrepreneur my approach is market driven where appropriate. Internet
based legal service companies have been around for awhile, but my idea - a work in progress - is different because it seeks to reduce the inefficiencies inherent in the legal system through the free
market. This justice network is also engaged in advocacy, education, and news gathering and dissemination.
Sincerely,
Neil J. Gillespie
8092 SW 115th Loop
Ocala, Florida 34481
(352) 854-7807
Graduation Day May 21, 1989, Wharton School, Evening Division, ABA. After my law professor and lawyer was jailed and disbarred, and alum Michael Milken went to prison, I changed majors and earned a BA from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
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The Justice Network is engaged in advocacy, education, news gathering and dissemination, helping people fight injustice, and reducing inefficiencies in the legal system through the private sector.
Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research or poll or the 'filing of friend of the court briefs'. Lobbying (often by Lobby groups) is a form of advocacy where a direct approach is made to legislators on an issue which plays a significant role in modern politics.
Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind,
character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by
which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.
News Gathering and Dissemination. News is the communication of
information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
Reducing inefficiencies in the legal system through the free market or private sector. A free market is a market without economic intervention and regulation by government except to outlaw and prosecute
force or fraud. It is the opposite of a controlled market, where the government regulates how the means of production, goods, and services are used, priced, or distributed.
Poverty. When the powerful take everything worth having, little is left to trickle down.
Joseph Wharton (1826-1909)Joseph Wharton was a man of wealth who, like many of the nabobs of his time, was also a philanthropist and a supporter of causes - in his case education and a
protective high tariff. He was born in Philadelphia, a descendant of a Thomas Wharton who came to America in the late 1600's.
He was barely in his twenties when he became engaged in metallurgy, one of his primary interests. This led to a company for the first commercially successful production of spelter - a crude metallic
zinc - in America.
In 1860 he built in Bethlehem, Pa. a spelter works of 16 Belgian furnaces, in which for the first time silicate of zinc was reduced to metal on a large scale. He introduced anthracite instead of
bituminous coal for reducing the zinc in retorts made from American clay. The spelter was of superior quality and profitable, firmly establishing this industry in the U.S.
In 1873, he acquired some abandoned nickel ore deposits in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Country and established a plant for the production of metallic nickel and copper alloys. He was the first to make a
pure malleable nickel that could be worked like iron and to use it to make magnets and compasses and countless other articles. His nickel was heralded for its purity and uniformity; for a number of
years he produced one-sixth of the entire world output.
Along the way, in the late 1850's, he became a founder of an iron company that became the Bethlehem Iron Corporation and, in time, the giant Bethlehem Steel Company. He also had interests in pig iron
furnaces, railroads, coal mines and coke plants.
Joseph Wharton gave large sums of money for educational advancement, and the Wharton School was not his first notable venture. He was one of the founders of Swarthmore College, which came into being
in 1864 and was one of the earliest co-educational institutions in the country. He headed the school's board of managers for more than a quarter of a century, helped set up its scientific laboratory
and, on his own, set up a chair of history and political economy. This may have been the seed for his second major educational contribution.
In 1881, he gave the University of Pennsylvania a gift of $100,000, subsequently increased to $500,000, for the establishment of a school offering young men "an adequate education in the principles
underlying successful civil government, and a training suitable for those intending to engage in business or to undertake the management of property. "
The Wharton School of Finance and Political Economy established under the terms of the gift was the first of its kind to be part of an educational institution anywhere in the world. It launched a new
educational discipline that today draws many of the most gifted young men and women in the nation.
There were only 13 students in Wharton's first class, and not many more than 100 after a decade. The education they got was far different from the management education of today. Joseph Wharton
believed that the classic languages and major foreign tongues provided a solid footing for learning, so the students learned Latin as well as French and German.
The chief business courses were bookkeeping, drawing up contracts, commercial law, trust management and banking "routine." The typewriter was not yet a common business tool, so one of the principal
courses was penmanship to make sure that what the students learned could be applied with a readable hand.
At the turn of the century, in 1898, came the world's second and third business schools, set up by the University of California and the University of Chicago. By 1901, they were joined by business
schools at the University of Wisconsin, Dartmouth and New York University. The Harvard Business School was established in 1908. By then, business education, both at the undergraduate and graduate
levels, was well on its way to becoming an important component of American education.
Joseph Wharton on Wikipedia
Joseph Wharton was not a free-trader, and lobbied for tariffs to protect his nickel business. Read more in the biography "Joseph Wharton: Quaker Industrial Pioneer" By Willard Ross Yates
Ben Franklin, Penn's founder
Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the classics and theology. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating multiple 'faculties' (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution.
Wharton Alumni - 125 Influential People and Ideas
Wharton Alumni Magazine 125 Influential People and Ideas. Since its founding, the School has graduated nearly 100,000 business leaders, individuals who have elevated disciplines, developed economic models, influenced capital markets, spread prosperity, and built companies. Together, these stories create a picture of the diversity, sweep, impact, and influence of Wharton over the past 125 years. Read more here
Katherine Austin Fitts, WG78
Katherine Austin Fitts
Solari.com blog
Catherine Austin Fitts' understanding of the global financial system and the inner workings of the Wall Street-Washington axis are unparalleled. Catherine earned a MBA from Wharton (WG78) and is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner. Catherine was one
of the first to warn of an approaching housing bubble. Her prediction that a 'strong dollar policy' would ultimately lead to a weakened federal credit is currently being proven correct.
Narco-Dollars For Dummies How The Money Works In The Illicit Drug Trade by Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts on Wikipedia
Frances Perkins, Force Behind The Social Security Act
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins
Force Behind The Social Security Act
Attended Wharton 1918-1919
Perkins helped establish unemployment compensation, the minimum wage, abolition of child labor, the creation of a federal employment service, and the Social Security Act
A staunch protector of workers’ rights, Frances Perkins became America’s first female cabinet member as Secretary of Labor. Perkins was a trailblazer, working with
President Franklin D. Roosevelt to design many New Deal initiatives, including the act that established the Social Security system in 1935.
Born in 1882 in Boston, Perkins learned to be assertive in a so-called man’s world while attending the predominantly male Worcester Classical High School. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College
in 1902, Perkins worked for several social-service groups.
By 1910 Perkins moved to New York City to continue her studies at Columbia. The next year she witnessed the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The exits were locked, the conditions
deplorable, and 146 young female garment workers died, many jumping to their deaths in an attempt to escape the flames.
The scene deeply affected her, galvanizing her as a labor and women’s rights activist. In 1918 she began her years of study in economics and sociology at Wharton. While in Philadelphia, she
participated in the women’s suffrage movement and gave fervent street-corner speeches while helping poor immigrant girls.
She became New York’s Industrial Commissioner when Roosevelt became governor in 1929. Later elected president, he called her again to be Secretary of Labor in 1933. She was instrumental in changing
women’s work conditions, and established labor laws and innovation now taken for granted: unemployment compensation, the minimum wage, abolition of child labor, the creation of a federal employment
service, and "old-age insurance" — created through the Social Security Act of 1935.
Although she encountered sexism as she rose through the ranks (for example, defending in court her right to keep her maiden name after her marriage) Perkins received remarkable support from Roosevelt
for her initiatives. She served as labor secretary for a record-holding 12 years. She died in 1965.
The blog of the Frances Perkins Center
Frances Perkins on Wikipedia
Scott Nearing, Wharton Professor
Scott Nearing
Scott Nearing
Wharton Professor
A Radical Who Laid The Groundwork for the Tenure System
"If I am rich and you are poor," Nearing wrote, "both of us are corrupted by inequality."
Also see The Good Life Center at Forest Farm
The tenure system allows established professors to pursue research topics without worrying where their results take them. But this system exists, in part, because of
one Wharton professor who was found to have gone "too far."
Scott Nearing was brilliant, without doubt, influencing generations over his century-long life by advocating what he believed to be a back-to-nature lifestyle of economic and social purity. "If I am
rich and you are poor," Nearing wrote, "both of us are corrupted by inequality."
Nearing matriculated to Penn in 1901, where he was influenced by Simon Nelson Patten, the great progressive economist and
director of Wharton School from 1896 to 1912. Nearing earned a doctorate in economics in 1909, began teaching sociology at Wharton, and became immersed in progressive social causes in
Philadelphia.
Nearing soon became one of the "Wharton Eight," a group of faculty who believed that they "should make a contribution not only to our students and the University but also to the society at large," in
Nearing’s words. Patten described Nearing as one of Penn’s "most effective men, a man of extraordinary ability, of superlative popularity and a man who, to my mind, exerted the greatest moral force
for good in the University." He also noted that Nearing "had the largest class in the University — there were 400 in his class — and no one could have done his work better."
Thus Nearing was shocked in 1915 when he was the only assistant professor with a favorable recommendation from the faculty not to be rehired.
His outspoken views against child labor and other progressive causes had run afoul of Penn’s trustees, who thought he was a dangerous influence on his many followers.
"I do not believe in muzzling any member of the faculty," said the University Provost. "I do believe, however, that no man may go too far."
Nearing won litigation concerning his dismissal, giving a significant victory to academic freedom — one step toward the creation of the tenure system.
By 1917 Nearing was fired from the University of Toledo as an administrator and professor due to his opposition to America’s World War I involvement. In March 1918 he was indicted, but later
exonerated by the federal government via the Espionage Act for his antiwar writing. In the 1920s he joined the Communist party until he was expelled from that organization for being too radically
independent.
Nearing later espoused a simple lifestyle of abstaining from products and economic practices that he believed hurt society. Among his 50 books was the classic Living the Good Life, co-authored with
his wife Helen in 1954 and republished in 1970, inspiring the countercultural movement of the time. Nearing died in 1983 shortly after his 100th birthday.
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
"Helen and Scott Nearing are the great-grandparents of the back-to-the-land movement, having abandoned the city in 1932 for a rural life based on self-reliance, good health, and a minimum of cash...Fascinating, timely, and wholly useful, a mix of the Nearings' challenging philosophy and expert counsel on practical skills."--Washington Post Book World. Scott Nearing on Wikipedia
Richard R Wright, Educator, Banker, Civil Rights Leader
Richard Robert Wright Sr., WEv'21
Educator, Banker, Civil Rights Leader
Born into slavery, Wharton Alum
When retired Union Civil War soldier, General Oliver Otis Howard, visited an Atlanta classroom, a school boy named Richard Robert Wright told him to pass a potent
message to curious Northerners. "Sir, tell them we are rising," he insisted. Born a slave in 1855 near Dalton, GA, young Wright had just finished a 200-mile trek with his mother to the abandoned
railway-car schoolhouse to meet the general.
Those words served as Wright’s lifelong motto. He would commence "rising" and become a trailblazing black intellectual, military officer, educator, politician, civil rights advocate, and bank
entrepreneur following his education at some of the most elite U.S. colleges, attending Wharton at age 67.
Opening a bank was a retirement career for Wright. He had already founded and led Savannah State College from 1891 to 1921. Moving to Philadelphia in 1921 he opened the Citizens and Southern Bank and
Trust Company, the only Northern black-owned bank at the time. Thanks to his late-life Wharton training, the young bank withstood the Depression and had assets of $5.5 million when it was sold in
1957, a decade after Wright’s death.
In his youth, Wright was a major in the Spanish-American War and the first black to serve as Army paymaster. Throughout his life, he inspired others to great heights by initiating a black
intelligentsia movement. Wright’s son, Richard Robert Wright Jr., was one of the first blacks to earn a PhD at Penn in sociology, a president of Wilberforce University, and a leading theologian in
the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Wright Jr.’s daughter, Ruth Wright Hayre, became a legendary educator and Philadelphia school board president after earning a doctorate from Penn, joining her
father as the University’s first black father and daughter doctoral recipients.
"I became familiar with Major Wright by my association with Dr. Hayre," said Penn graduate and U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah, an admirer of Wright. "He was a tenacious activist who spent a great
amount of time rising above matters that would have deterred others."
One of Wright’s legacies is National Freedom Day, February 1, a holiday Wright initiated to recognize the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment, freeing all U.S. slaves. The holiday
was established by a proclamation by President Harry Truman, and continues as the first day of Black History Month.
Richard R. Wright on Wikipedia
Charles M Fink, Wharton 1930, Penn Law 1933
Mr. Charles M. Fink
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man
—Benjamin Franklin
Mr. Charles M. Fink, Esq., was a lawyer and an honest man worthy of Ben Franklin’s quote. Charlie Fink put his client’s interest ahead of his own. He was confident,
knowledgeable, and had a commanding courtroom presence. Mr. Fink created value for his clients. He help me and my fledgling business in the early 1980's.
For many years Mr. Fink practiced criminal, business and general law with his son, Richard R. Fink, from a small building on busy US Route 13 in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Richard Fink also served as a
Public Defender of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1984 Charles and Richard were sworn in together before the Supreme Court of the United States. Charles passed away in 1986. Today Richard Fink is in
private practice in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Charles Fink graduated from the Wharton School in 1930, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School class of 1933. He was a member of the crew squad and the Sigma
Alpha Mu fraternity.
William W. Hindman, Jr., Wharton 1939
Bill Hindman, 1917-2006William W. Hindman Jr. "Bill" was born in Wilkinsburg, Pa. He was a descendent of
Thomas Stone, whose signature appears right below John Hancock's on the Declaration of Independence. Bill was a graduate of the Wharton School Class of 1939. Bill lived in Richmond, Virginia
where he was the Grand National Secretary for Sigma-Phi Epsilon for 10 years. Bill moved to St. Petersburg in 1990. He was a member of the S.A.R. (Sons of the American Revolution) and lifetime member
of the Moose. Bill was a good friend.
Bill was instrumental in the growth of Sigma-Phi Epsilon. In 1944 at the age of 26, Brother Hindman assumed the role of Grand Secretary of the young Fraternity. Under his direction Sigma Phi Epsilon
added 51 chapters to its rolls, the greatest expansion to date. He capitalized on the influx of G.I.s attending college by opening chapters on campuses with booming enrollment. The strategy paid off.
Sigma Phi Epsilon grew from 70 chapters to 134, establishing it as a large national Fraternity. After leaving the staff in 1957, the position of Grand Secretary was restructured and became the
position of Executive Director.
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The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Evergreen State College is an accredited public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. It is located in Olympia, Washington, USA. Founded in 1967,
Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college. Faculty issue narrative evaluations of students' work rather than grades, and Evergreen organizes most studies into largely
interdisciplinary classes that generally constitute a full-time course load. Read more here
Evergreen offers a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Bachelor of Science, Master of Environmental Studies, Master of Public Administration, Master of Education, and Master in Teaching. In 2009, there were 4,696 students, 4,364 of whom were undergraduates, and 243 faculty members. The Evergreen State College has had a large influence on the culture and economy of Olympia as well as its surrounding areas. Read more here
Rachel Corrie on Wikipedia
Rachel CorrieRachel Corrie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was crushed to death in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces
(IDF) bulldozer when she was kneeling in front of a local Palestinian's home, thus acting as a human shield, attempting to prevent IDF forces from demolishing the home. The IDF stated that the death
was due to the restricted angle of view of the IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer driver, while ISM eyewitnesses said "there was nothing to obscure the driver's view." A student at The Evergreen State College, she had taken a year off to travel to the Gaza Strip during
the Second Intifada. Read more here
ISM and other eyewitness accounts
Rachel Corrie in the aftermathJoe Carr, an American ISM activist in Gaza, gave the following account in an affidavit recorded and published by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR):
Still wearing her fluorescent jacket, she knelt down at least 15 meters in front of the bulldozer, and began waving her arms and shouting, just as activists had successfully done dozens of times that
day... When it got so close that it was moving the earth beneath her, she climbed onto the pile of rubble being pushed by the bulldozer... Her head and upper torso were above the bulldozer’s blade,
and the bulldozer operator and co-operator could clearly see her. Despite this, the operator continued forward, which caused her to fall back, out of view of the diver. [sic] He continued forward,
and she tried to scoot back, but was quickly pulled underneath the bulldozer. We ran towards him, and waved our arms and shouted; one activist with the megaphone. But the bulldozer operator continued
forward, until Rachel was all the way underneath the central section of the bulldozer. Read more here
Rachel Corrie - Interview
Rachel Corrie - Interview, watch on YouTube
Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie, Author
From Publishers Weekly: In 2003, while attempting to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza Strip, 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie was killed by an armored Caterpillar D-9
bulldozer operated by a member of the Israel Defense Forces. This collection of her journal entries opens a window on the maturation of a young woman seeking to make the world a better place through
social activism. The essays, poetry and drawings reveal Corrie going through the routine pangs of growing up, the development of her social consciousness and her love of language. Two events
broadened Corrie's perspective beyond her childhood home of Olympia, Wash. A 1995 student exchange trip to Russia and the repercussions of 9/11 were formative events accelerating her desire to help
those she felt were harmed by U. S foreign policy. Following Corrie's death, the British newspaper the Guardian published her e-mail accounts of what she'd witnessed in Gaza. This collection of
essays, while uneven, contains thought-provoking ideas. Read more here
The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Rachel Corrie was killed in the Gaza Strip in Palestine on March 16, 2003, trying to prevent the demolition of the home of a Palestinian family (a pharmacist,
accountant, their wives, and five young children). The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice was established by members of Rachel’s family and community to continue the kind of work that she
began and hoped to accomplish. Read more here
Rachel Corrie Memorial Website
Rachel, A film by Simone Bitton
Drawing, Rachel v D-9Rachel, A film by Simone Bitton
Women Make Movies
Films by and about Women
France/Belgium, 2009, 100 minutes, Color, DVD, French, Hebrew, Arabic, English subtitles
RACHEL is a startlingly rigorous, fascinating and deeply moving investigatory documentary that examines the death of peace activist and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie,
who was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. A few weeks after her little-reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military police concluded that Corrie died in an accident.
Simone Bitton (WALL), an award-winning documentary filmmaker who is a citizen of both France and Israel, has crafted a dispassionate but devastating essay investigating the circumstances of Rachel
Corrie’s death—including astounding eyewitness testimony from activists, soldiers, Israeli Defense Force army spokespersons and physicians, as well as insights from Corrie’s parents, mentors and
diaries. Read more here
In assembling a thorough and candid account of the event, using both visual and narrative evidence, Bitton’s quietly persistent questioning manages to accomplish what the inadequate legal proceedings
and the overheated press coverage did not: an unflinching examination that refuses to exculpate or equivocate. By aligning her filmmaking methodology with the ISM’s guidelines to state only objective
and concrete details without placing judgment, Bitton examines the circumstances surrounding the unresolved case of Corrie's death. The film begins like a classic documentary, but soon develops,
transcending its subject and establishing a candid new visual approach for bearing witness. With understated cinematic techniques, Bitton captures the spirit of Rachel's youth, idealism, and
political commitment amidst sweeping landscapes of Gaza and a portrait of daily life under ever-present military aggression. Read more here
Rachel, A film by Simone Bitton, 2009, 100 minutes, Color, DVD, France/Belgium, French, Hebrew, Arabic, English subtitles. Courtesy of Women Make Movies, www.wmm.com.
Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie with her Palestinian host family
TESC Divest
TESC Divest
What is divestment? Divestment is taking social responsibility for one’s financial investments. When we invest money in corporations that engage in or profit from human
rights abuses, unethical labor practices, and environmental destruction, we are both enabling and supporting those crimes. As stakeholders, we are complicit.
By dis-investing, or divesting, from such companies, we take a stance against unethical practices. We send a message to lawbreakers and human rights abusers that their unethical practices will not be
tolerated and will not be supported. Divestment punishes unethical corporate profiteering and forces corporations to become more accountable for their actions.
What’s wrong with Caterpillar? TESC Divest
What’s wrong with Caterpillar?
TESC Divest
Although it’s easy to associate Caterpillar (CAT) with bright yellow construction equipment operated by Bob the Builder and his shiny yellow hard hat, this is not what we are calling into account.
The Caterpillar Corporation that we’re calling out is the corporation that sells military goods used to perpetuate human rights abuses and war crimes. Caterpillar D9 and D10 bulldozers are
manufactured to military specifications and sold to Israel through the Foreign Military Financing program, which oversees US military sales to Israel. These sales are actually purchased through US
taxpayer money and given to Israel.
TESC Divest from Chance Kroll on Vimeo.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Name is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman, who directed it, and journalist Katharine Viner. Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 –
March 16, 2003) was an American Evergreen State College student and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. She was killed by
a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during a protest against the destruction of Palestinian homes by the IDF in the Gaza Strip. The details of the events
surrounding Corrie's death, as she stood between an Israeli bulldozer and a Palestinian home, are disputed. While an Israeli military investigation ruled the death at its own hands to be "an
accident," eyewitnesses maintain that Corrie was run over deliberately. Read more here
CNN: Parents demand Israeli answers
MV Rachel Corrie
MV Rachel Corrie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MV Rachel Corrie is a 499 GT coaster owned and operated by the Free Gaza Movement. The ship is named in honour of Rachel Corrie, a former member of the International Solidarity Movement. It was
originally called Carsten, it has also carried the names Norasia Attika, Manya and more recently Linda. In June 2010 the vessel was intercepted by Israeli Defence Forces while attempting to break the
Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and to deliver humanitarian aid. Read more here
Washington Report On Middle Eastern Affairs
Washington Report On Middle Eastern Affairs
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 100-page magazine published 9 times per year in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the
Middle East and U.S. policy in that region.
The Washington Report is published by the American Educational Trust (AET), a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC by retired U.S. foreign service
officers to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states.
AET's Foreign Policy Committee has included former U.S. ambassadors, government officials, and members of Congress, including the late Democratic Senator J. William
Fulbright, and Republican Senator Charles Percy, both former chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Members of AET's Board of Directors and advisory committees receive no fees for their
services. Read more here
The Mideast in the Midwest
The Mideast in the Midwest
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2004, pages 38-39
by Betsy Mayfield
Rachel Corrie’s Iowa Family Seeks "Thorough, Credible" Investigation Into Her Death
HEARING ABOUT Rachel Corrie, bulldozed to death on March 16, 2003 by an Israeli military conscript, I was horrified and saddened—just as I’d been on hearing about other
deaths in Gaza, the West Bank or Israel. Rachel’s story kept me awake nights. Some friends of Israel haven’t wanted Americans to hear about her death, however. "Just say, "Every life is equally
precious.’ That’s enough!" they’d tell me.
Although Rachel Corrie was from Olympia, Washington, her aunts and uncles live in Iowa. The Iowa Brodersen family includes three sisters and one brother of Rachel’s
mother, Rachel’s grandmother, plus extended family members. Since Rachel was killed, I have marveled watching them seek answers in what has been, for this farm family, a solemn one-step-at-a-time
experience. Explained Cheryl Brodersen, Rachel’s aunt, "We’re on this quest because we believe that it is in our family’s, America’s and Israel’s interest to seek truth and justice. We believe in
focusing on facts rather than innuendo, half-truths or untruths. We seek definition. What is a "thorough, credible, transparent’ investigation? Will the United States government accept anything
less?" Read more here
Washington Report On Middle Eastern Affairs From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (also known as The Washington Report and WRMEA) magazine, published nine times per year in Washington, D.C., focuses on
"news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region." The New York Times has characterized it as "critical of United States policies in the Middle East." In 2005 USA
Today called it "a non-partisan publication that has been critical of Bush's policies. Read more
here
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER is an archive of articles and book excerpts that seek to tell the truth
about American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, transnational corporations, global trade and financial institutions, and the
corporate media, on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World, and in the developed world.
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER also provides information and links to aid international
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