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Video Clips (NLN on YouTube)
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Naomi Wolf Speaks (Part 1 of 6)
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Part 2 of 6
Part 3 of 6
Part 4 of 6
Part 5 of 6
Part 6 of 6
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Rashid Khalidi Speaks (Part 1 of 4)
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Part 2 of 4
Part 3 of 4
Part 4 of 4
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Brooklyn Law School was the venue for the forum.
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Marjorie Cohn
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Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild
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MC Cohn introduced the speakers
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Naomi Wolf
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Naomi Wolf: third wave feminist and author
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Wolf is the author of:
- The Beauty Myth (1990)
- Fire with Fire (1994)
- Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (1998)
- Misconceptions (2001)
- The Tree House (2005)
- The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (2007)
- Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries (2008)
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Wolf has argued there are ten steps necessary for replacing democracy with fascism:
- Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy, e.g. Al-Qaeda.
- Create secret prisons where torture takes place, e.g. Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and CIA Black Sites.
- Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens, e.g. Blackwater.
- Set up an internal surveillance system, e.g. the Joint Terrorism Task Force / "Homeland" Security.
- Harass citizens' groups, e.g. domestic spying such as that seen during the 2004/2008 RNCs.
- Engage in arbitrary detention and release, including "extraordinary rendition".
- Target key individuals.
- Control the press: "embed" corporate media reporters and tear gas and arrest independent journalists.
- Treat all political dissidents as traitors, e.g. the "anti-American" slur, a modern McCarthyism.
- Suspend the rule of law - using the military for "crowd control". *
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* For more information on Naomi Wolf, see her Wikipedia Biography
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Tom Siracuse, of Veterans For Peace and the Green Party, asks Wolf a question
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Rashid Khalidi
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Rashid Khalidi: Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University
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Khalidi is the author/editor of seven books on the Middle East:
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, Beacon Press, 2006.
- Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004.
- Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 1997.
- The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
- Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
- Palestine and the Gulf (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
- British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980.
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Khalidi spoke about "The Current Situation In Gaza"
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Wikipedia Biography of Rashid Khalidi
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David Gespass
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David Gespass is president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild
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Gespass is co-chair of the NLG International Committee
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