Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Heather Wokusch | YellowTimes | 16 February 2004 If the first casualty of war is truth, then the War on Terror has dealt a body blow to those trying to get at the bottom of the story: journalists. The press watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has noted a sharp jump in attacks on journalists
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) NUJ | 19 February 2004 “…we also have a duty to defend the rights of our members, including the fundamental right to trade union representation within the framework of the established and agreed procedures.” The National Union of Journalists has always strongly defended the BBC as a public service broadcaster, and will continue to
» Read moreJournal: inTRAlinea Editor(s): Juan José Martínez Sierra & Beatriz Cerezo Merchán Publisher: http://www.intralinea.org/news/item/cfp_building_bridges_between_film_studies_and_translation_studies Length of Proposals & Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2015. Deadline for submission of abstracts (300 words) Descriptive Summary: Articles can be submitted in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Audiovisual Translation has become a recognized disciplinary area in the last 15-20 years, while the origin of Film Studies
» Read moreMona Baker is interviewed in Florianopolis, Brazil, 3 June 2011 With Professors María Lúcia Vasconcelos and Lincoln Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
» Read more“Be it Resolved”: Full Text of the Proposed AAA Boycott Resolution Posted on October 21, 2015 by anthroboycott Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions has submitted a boycott resolution to the American Anthropological Association (AAA) for consideration at the upcoming Annual Meeting in Denver. The resolution endorses the Palestinian civil society call to boycott Israeli academic institutions until they take concrete steps to end their
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Times Higher Education Supplement | 23 June 2006 Israeli scholars have either collaborated in the occupation or turned a blind eye. They deserve a boycott, argues Lisa Taraki Although Menahem Milson’s career path and mine have been on a collision course, we have never met. In 1976, I joined Birzeit University
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hugh Muir | The Guardian | 26 May 2007 Leading British architects have accused their counterparts in Israel of complicity in schemes that contribute to the “social, political and economic oppression of Palestinians”. The architects, including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Royal Institute of British Architects president Jack Pringle and president-elect Sunand Prasad,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dalya Markovich | Haaretz | 15 July 2005 “Akademia besviva mishtana” (“Academia in a Changing Environment: Higher Education Policy in Israel, 1952-2004) by Ami Volansky, Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Shmuel Neeman Institute, 422 pages, NIS 88 University students are a minority group in Israel. But compared to students in other countries on an economic par
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Ratner | Haaretz | 17 May 2005 Several dozen Jewish and Arab students protested Tuesday morning at Haifa University against an academic conference titled “The Demographic Problem and Israel’s Demographic Policies” that they described as racist. The students, prevented by campus security personnel from entering the auditorium where the conference was being held,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Smadar Lavie (article 1), Andre Levy (article 2) | Anthropology Newsletter, page 9 & page 10 | January 2005 In March three registered NGOs, Ahoti (Sistah, Hebrew), Israel’s feminists-of-color movement; the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow; and Mossawa, the Advocacy Center for the Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel, filed an official complaint to Israel’s State Comptroller against
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