[asset|aid=533|format=image|formatter=asset|width=256|height=544|align=right|resizable=true]
Inside:

     - Iranian Students Protest President Ahmadinejad

     - South African Students Protest Tuition Hike, Are Met With Rubber Bullets

     - Israeli Blockade Stops Students from Leaving Gaza for School

     - Another Student Union Signs Onto the ASSÉ Strike Plan

[asset|aid=532|format=image|formatter=asset|width=256|height=544|align=right|resizable=true]
Inside:

- Iranian Students Protest President Ahmadinejad


- South African Students Protest Tuition Hike, Are Met With Rubber Bullets


- Israeli Blockade Stops Students from Leaving Gaza for School
 


- Another Student Union Signs Onto the ASSÉ Strike Plan

[asset|aid=306|format=image|formatter=asset|width=256|height=193|align=right|resizable=true]

Show your support to the women in Iran!

Reprint:

Feminist Daily News Wire

March 9, 2007

More Women's Rights Activities in Iran

Women's rights activists in Iran participated in protests yesterday commemorating International Women's Day, despite recent detainments of Iranian feminists. News sources are offering conflicting reports of yesterday's activities. The Los Angeles Times reports that about 50 peaceful protestors were "quickly confronted and overwhelmed by riot police, including dozens of young female officers wearing bright green uniforms with red stripes." Eight women and two men were reportedly arrested, and several protestors sustained beatings, according to the Los Angeles Times. Reuters and the Inter Press Service, however, report that several hundred activists attended the protest outside of the Iranian parliament and were attacked by police, though no one was seriously hurt nor arrested.

[asset|aid=181|format=image|formatter=asset|width=220|height=160|align=right|resizable=true]

Today Iran is hosting the second day of her Holocaust denial conference in Teheran. The conference is attended by 67 participants from 30 countries around the world including a former Ku Klux Klan leader. This conference is strongly controversial and is criticized from many places. However I believe that one very important aspect was never addressed. Why is there a need for denial of destruction of life?

The holocaust is not the only large human destruction of life that is being denied. The Armenian Genocide conducted by the republic of Turkey, is not completely acknowledged. The Rwandan Genocide which the world viewed from far without any interference for a very long time. And the ongoing armed conflict in Darfur which is not yet formally described as genocide. Is this a new pattern that our world is adopting? Are we trying to avoid taking responsibility?

2003

• February 5, Colin Powell presents evidence to the UN Security Council that he says proves Iraq has concealed and continued to develop weapons of mass destruction.
• On March 7, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports that their investigations in Iraq have uncovered no evidence of Iraq having resumed their nuclear program. Reports of Iraq purchasing uranium from Niger are unfounded and the aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq which the US cited as evidence of revived centrifuge production are deemed unfit for that purpose.
• On March 17, President Bush addresses the nation stating that there is "no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
• In the same speech, Bush addresses the Iraqi people, telling them, "If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you." Bush re-assures the Iraqis that the US will take care of their needs, rid the country of poison factories, executions of dissidents and "torture chambers and rape rooms."
• March 19, the US invades Iraq.

2006

• Powell refers to his speech before the security council as being a "blot" on his record.

More after the fold...