BLUE STATE DIGITAL are the campaign managers responsible for the astounding Obama electoral victory. At least this is how they like to view themselves, as a "digital strategy and technology firm" that specializes in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, and constituency development. Th...
Medialternatives
Reaching out from the Global South
Activism - Page 40
Israel solution – a binational state or two-state divorce?
FOR years the tragic conflict between those who want Israel to be replaced by an Arab state from the Jordan to the sea; those who want a greater Israel to include the ancient sites of Judea and Samaria; those who demand that Israel retreat to the 1967 borders (which could mean giving up Jerusalem...
SRC politics and BDS extremists
TWO incidents involving campus politics in South Africa need some explanation. The first involved the Durban University of Technology (DUT). Last week its SRC chair was calling for all Jews to be deregistered and in particular, those Jews who support Israel. This week, the SRC was issuing a retra...
Pig Wars, Woolworths, BDS
FIRST there were the fatwas and pronouncements by Islamic scholars on the status of Woolworths in the global BDS movement. Then well-heeled young Muslim students staged a bizarre flash-mob event, consisting of coordinated dance and movement while shouting Pro-Palestinian slogans. Then the combine...
Voicing Marikana – Artists Speak
Stop the War
THE war being fought by adults against children in the Middle East must stop. The war being waged by religious extremists against Secularism must come to an end. The bombing of civilians in Gaza and targeting of settlements in Israel must cease. The destruction of antiquities in the region, the l...
