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This speech was given on March 2, 2010, to a meeting of students at the University of Waterloo in Canada, held as part of the Israeli Apartheid Week. She, a holocaust survivor, is a member of Not in Our Name: Jewish Voices Against Zionism and of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto.
Michael Keefer has compiled a timely and effective handbook for all those resisting attacks on free speech regarding the Israeli government's crimes against Palestine.
In Canada, Holocaust Memorial Day has been established by Heritage Canada to be on April 11. It is a good opportunity to review what we learn from the Holocaust experience and how we apply these lessons to the troubled situation in the Middle East.
In a 1963 address, U.S. President Kennedy said, "As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats".
Your brain is who you are. A constellation of past experiences, hopes, dreams, and knowledge, receiving input from the outside world through your senses, and simultaneously changing that very world through your interactions. It is thus shaped by, but yet shapes the world around it. It is constantly changing with every second, as every experience you have alters is physical and chemical structure. It is as mysterious to the neuroscientist as to average individual. Scientists refer to as the most complex thing in the universe, thus currently defying definition, and a scientific language to describe what it does.
YANGON, Myanmar - The local authorities in the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing during earlier sectarian violence.
Global Warming
There won’t be much to celebrate this Canada Day 09. We have lost 119 young Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan since 2002. More Canadians are out of work than a year ago. Individual rights have been greatly compromised since 9/11. The cost of post-secondary education is too high for many Canadians. Health care is slowly and quietly being given over to the private sector.
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM?
Genetically modified organisms (GMO's) were on the table, so to speak.
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