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Both Santa Clara University and Loyola Marymount University have been told by the Department of Health and Human Services that they must provide health insurance coverage for abortions, which the schools say it goes against their religious conscience.
This sounds like PC culture running amok, doesn’t it?
Attendees were able to meet representatives from more than 50 companies, including Amazon, NBC Universal, and Target. Anyone could attend, but the event was hosted especially for the transgender community, according to The Los Angeles Daily News.
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The job fair was a program of the City of Los Angeles’ Workforce Development Board. Financial support came from the city and Title I of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity (WIOA) Act, a law meant to support job seekers with disabilities.
The Workforce Development Board billed the event as “a unique job fair focused on connecting transgender job seekers with employment opportunities in Los Angeles and surrounding communities.”
From Campus Reform:
The San Diego Community College District announced Wednesday that it plans to cover the cost of college for over 200 students, costing local taxpayers at least $215,000 annually.
“The free community college movement has officially arrived in San Diego with the selection of the first students to participate in the San Diego Promise,” a Wednesday press release stated. “A pilot program of the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), the San Diego Promise will cover the costs of enrollment fees and provide book grants for 201 incoming freshmen at City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges during the 2016-17 academic year.”
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But safe spaces and trigger warnings! Downplaying anti-Semitism appears to be the message from California administrators.
Wow, they are actually investigating it? It’s surprising that the local district attorney is actually looking into it, since anti-Semitism appears to be buried in the news cycle.
A local District Attorney’s office is now investigating the University of California, Irvine’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter over its hostile takeover of a Jewish event on campus in May.
Campus Reform had initially reported the story that a group of Jewish students at UCI was effectively held hostage by an aggressive mob purportedly consisting of anti-Israel students organized by SJP, who surrounded the Jewish students as they chanted “Intifada, Intifada, long live the Intifada.”
In response, 36 local and national Jewish and civil rights advocacy groups sent an open letter to UCI’s administration condemning the incident as just the latest in a “long-standing and pervasive problem of anti-Semitic anti-Zionism that has incited hatred of Jews and acts of aggression and violence against Jewish and pro-Israel students.”
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You can’t make this up, which is really sad and disappointing:
Cuyamaca College senior officials appear to have devised the idea of inviting Omali Yeshitela and facilitated his appearance at its “Diversity Dialogues” program at every step.
Born Joseph Waller in Florida, Yeshitela is the chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party and founder of the Florida-based Uhuru Movement, which promotes “African internationalism” and justifies terrorism against Western targets…
…At a news conference Friday – planned before Thursday night’s sniper attacks that killed five police officers at a Dallas march against recent killings of black men by police – Yeshitela said the Uhuru movement was not “crying for the police in Dallas” because “we don’t have any more tears.”
Campus Reform has the latest:
The University of South Carolina will now offer a new LGBTQ Peer Mentoring Program that caters to incoming freshman and transfer students.
USC’s Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) announced the program this week, according to The Daily Gamecock, saying it will provide mentorship opportunities for LGBTQ students to help smooth their transition from high school into college.
The program is peer-based and offers “opportunities to meet other first-year students who identify on the LGBTQ spectrum through socials with mentees and mentors as well as events that will help students adjust to their new academic and social atmosphere.”
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The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund defended employee Gigi Kurz, who was suspended because some in the Loyola Marymount University’s LGBT community complained about her traditional marriage and family views that offended them.
The anti-Semitism evident in e-mails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which WikLeaks obtained, might not surprise so many if they knew how prevalent that attitude is on American college campuses.
The AMCHA Initiative housed at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has, for the second year in a row, tallied up the actions against Jewish students at 100 colleges and universities and found them substantially on the rise in just the first six months of this year. Moreover, AMCHA found a link between this trend and the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) aimed at the state of Israel.
So far this year, AMCHA’s researchers learned that:
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From Campus Reform:
Guillaume Kosmala begins his latest op-ed for The Daily Bruin by noting that millennials lean further left than any other generation, especially in his home town, where 80 percent of likely voters were Bernie supporters.
As a result, Kosmala thinks most millennials are likely pessimistic over the nomination of Clinton, who he thinks falls short of many progressive standards.
Religious colleges are now temporarily spared in California from potential lawsuits, which could’ve been made possible had a specific provision of a proposed bill had been kept in the bill:
Following heavy opposition from a broad coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim college leaders, as well as legal scholars and others across the ideological spectrum, a state senator has promised to pull the most objectionable provision from his college antidiscrimination bill.
But religious leaders and advocacy groups are calling for continued vigilance in the next legislative session, when the loathed provision might make a return.
SB 1146 will leave “suspense” Thursday and be voted on by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, followed by full Senate consideration next week if approved Thursday, according to an earlier email update from Biola University, a leader in opposition to the bill.
Colleges and universities are forever feeling shortchanged by taxpayers. They needn’t worry.
For one thing, they are far richer than those of us who actually pay federal levies. For another, academia has succeeded in securing millions for what look like panel discussions at the Modern Language Association.
“The National Institutes of Health has spent more on exercise programs for refugees, anti-tobacco video games, weight-loss programs for truckers, and studies on gay hook up apps than it has to fight the Zika virus,” Elizabeth Harrington reported in the Washington Free Beacon on August 8, 2016. And a good chunk of that largesse went to universities.
For example:
FIRE filed a public records request regarding the university’s moratorium and was critical of the university’s lack of transparency on why it denied student group applications, which included at least one pro-gun rights group and one pro-life group (among a total of 24 groups who saw their applications denied).
Usually university officials go into overdrive to solve a reported hate crime. Apparently they become more deliberate when the alleged victim is a Jewish student.
“On Thursday, the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct announced that it had concluded a three-month investigation into an aggressive and disruptive incident on the UCI campus last May,” the Louis D. Brandeis Center reported on August 22, 2016. “The incident involved an anti-Israel mob that disrupted a small event held by a Jewish student group on campus.”
“The angry mob of about 50 students blocked the entrances and exits while loudly chanting angry, anti-Israel, anti-police, and pro-Palestinian sentiments that promoted violence, anti-Semitism, and hate. One Jewish student, Eliana Kopley, attempted to get away, but was chased and hounded by members of the angry mob, forcing her to hide in a kitchen while a UCI staff member protected her.”
The Brandeis Center represents Ms. Kopley, a student at the University of California at Irvine.
“According to last week’s announcement, the student group Students for Justice in Palestine (‘SJP’) is responsible for violation of the UCI Code of Conduct’s provision prohibiting ‘Obstruction or disruption of teaching, research, administration, disciplinary procedures, or other University activities,’” the Brandeis Center reports. “As for sanctions, SJP was issued a written warning, effective immediately and continuing until March 29, 2017.”
“SJP must also host an educational program by November 18, 2016.” LDB President and General Counsel Kenneth L. Marcus stated, “I am disappointed in the outcome, which fails to hold SJP accountable for the harassment and physical intimidation of Eliana Kopley – or to even acknowledge that anything happened to her that night.”
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Spending $200,000 just to get their chancellor (who is resigning, by the way) to get speaking opportunities at the Davos forum and TED Talks…seems a bit extravagant.
Just two days after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said he was resigning, The San Francisco Chronicle published documents showing the school has spent more than $200,000 in barely a year to boost Dirks’ profile:
It was in July 2015 that the campus hired Williamsworks, a Seattle consulting firm, to identify “fruitful domestic and international opportunities” for Dirks, such as TED talks, the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and “elite media opportunities,” according to documents obtained by The Chronicle. …
So much for racial equality and inclusion, no?
California State University Fresno recently held a three-day student retreat for black students that aimed to foster inclusion and help incoming African American students adjust to college life and get involved in the campus community.
The inaugural “Harambee Student Retreat,” which took place Aug.14 through Aug 17, was free to participating students, who enjoyed housing, meals, workshops and activities meant to help aid in the “successful transition of incoming African American/Black students to Fresno State,” the university’s website states.
According to the AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates and reports on anti-Semitism at American universities, there was “an alarming spike” in acts of anti-Semitism on America’s college campuses during the first half of 2016, and that spike was especially high at schools where there were groups like the SPJ [Students for Justice in Palestine].
The [boycott, divestment and sanctions] BDS movement is a radical, left-wing movement spouting inflammatory rhetoric, asserting that the Israelis are little more than modern Nazis or take after the South African apartheid movement. Because there is a big bad donor and a conservative activist group in [Los Angeles Times reporter Teresa]Watanabe’s story, the L.A. Times can cast the BDS activists as afraid of the media spotlight. Yet it is these activists who call for, and receive, media attention on behalf of their cause.
A common theme of Watanabe’s report, as well as the Guardian and Al Jazeera reports, was to propagate BDS claims about the horrific acts of Israelis.
UCLA student Robert Gardner told [Los Angeles Times reporter Teresa]Watanabe that he “concluded that both Palestinians and African Americans suffered from ‘racialized state violence’ and ‘mass incarceration.’ Segregated housing in Israel…reminded him of Jim Crow laws.”
But Watanabe missed a much bigger story going on at the University of California, at both UCLA, where the administration is backing the loathsome BDS movement, and Berkeley, where a new course is “publicly announcing that its goal is to explore how Israel might be destroyed.”
California legislators are pushing back. The California state legislature has sent an anti-BDS bill to Governor Jerry Brown to sign which would require “companies” working with the state “to certify that they do not violate California civil rights laws in boycotting a foreign country,” particularly Israel.
One must also ask another question of the Guardian, LA Times and Al Jazeera. Where are the descriptions of how the Palestinians continue to attack Israelis, using deadly tunnels or rockets aimed at Israeli citizens? In the zeal to cover the BDS movement sympathetically, these journalists have forgotten that the Israelis have repeatedly tried to ensure the Palestinians have a homeland—but that Hamas refuses to acknowledge Israel’s existence as a state and continues to attack. And the so-called moderate Palestinian Authority appears to be losing its grip on the West Bank to the openly genocidal Hamas.
Yet members of the BDS movement characterize themselves as “anti-oppression and anti-racism,” according to The Guardian. This is backward: it is Israel, not the terror group Hamas, who seeks peace. Reporting on the BDS movement should acknowledge the other side, the plight of Israelis, instead of focusing on tarring pro-Israel donors.
Roger Aronoff is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. He can be contacted at roger.aronoff@aim.org. This column is excerpted from an article he wrote for AIM.
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Looks like College Republicans at Cal-Berkeley are being singled out by anti-Trump college students who don’t appreciate free speech.
Protesters then ripped the Trump cutout after telling the College Republicans that they “couldn’t have that [Trump cutout] here; it represents hate,” and that they “don’t understand how any Latino could vote for Trump; he will disrupt the community because he will deport families.”
Former top communist, college professor and “Black Power” advocate Angela Davis has picked a new cause on the road to liberation—animal rights.
In a major speech in black-ruled South Africa, at the 17th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, she said animals were “sentient beings who endure pain and torture as they are transformed into food for profit, food that generates disease in humans whose poverty compels them to rely on McDonald’s and KFC for nourishment.”
Hence, people who like fast food are both victims and exploiters in the capitalist system.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which places the rights of animals above human needs, was ecstatic. “Best known as a longtime human-rights activist, Davis is also a committed vegan, and she made sure to highlight the connection among all forms of exploitation and oppression in her keynote address,” the animal rights group said.
Davis’s image will adorn the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens on September 24 in Washington, D.C.
The history exhibit at the new black museum “starts moving at a breathless but measurable clip, hero by hero—Angela Davis, Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Anita Hill—and movement by movement, from Black Is Beautiful, to Black Panthers, to Black Lives Matter,” reports The New York Times.
Anita Hill was the “hero” professor whose false charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas were rejected when the Senate confirmed the black conservative to the court.
Liberals don’t like to hear it, but Barbara Jordan, a former member of Congress, favored greater limitations on immigration into the United States.
Davis, who served the interests of the old Soviet Union and received the Lenin Peace Prize, once beat a murder rap and now makes tens of thousands of dollars on the college lecture circuit. Her emergence as a poster girl for PETA suggests that her Marxism has developed to the point where she thinks humans are oppressors of animals, and that chickens and cows are special interests worthy of government protection.
The Davis speech was delivered at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and received a standing ovation. She praised the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, who concealed his membership in the South African Communist Party, which now rules South Africa through a coalition government.
Turning her attention to the U.S, she hailed Black Muslim boxer Muhammad Ali for refusing induction into the U.S. Armed Forces and praised NFL back-up quarterback Colin Kaepernick for protesting the “militaristic” U.S. national anthem.
On the road to her own personal liberation, Davis was a candidate for vice president on the ticket of the Communist Party USA. Later, she came out as a lesbian. Now she’s joined the cause of animal liberation.
Commenting on current events back in the U.S., she said that Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump was “trafficking with the white rage that is a product of the growing inequalities generated by global capitalism.” She said white people are upset because they perceive that “people of color” have taken their jobs and positions in society.
Now a Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, she has said nothing about the black genocide of abortion in the United States, or the death toll from global communism that now tops 100 million.
“Her communism was forged at her New York high school and strengthened at Brandeis University, where she was mentored by German philosopher Herbert Marcuse,” noted Adekeye Adebajo, a figure in South Africa, in a sympathetic report on her speech.
Marcuse, a Brandeis professor, was an expert in Critical Theory, also known as Cultural Marxism, which was popularized in academia by the so-called Frankfurt School. This subversive approach to “education” is common at most state-funded universities in the U.S. that turn out students who specialize in women’s and queer studies.
In South Africa, Davis’s attacks on capitalism generated wild applause. She also attacked the government of Israel, noting that Black Lives Matter in the U.S. has joined in “solidarity” with Palestinians through involvement in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) economic warfare campaign against Israel.
Here, one of her favorite causes, at least until animal rights emerged on her agenda, was the abolition of prisons, on the grounds that criminals are victims of capitalism.
She talked about this in South Africa as well, saying that “trans-women of color” in the U.S. have added to the discussion of the abolition, not only of prisons, but policing.
Her work through an organization called Critical Resistance has been financially supported by the Open Society Foundations of billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros.
Ironically, Soros, a major financial backer of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, insists that he established the Open Society Foundations “to help countries make the transition from communism” into an “open society.”
But it appears that he uses people like Angela Davis (or they use him) to force the United States to transition to a dysfunctional and morally bankrupt Marxist state.
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org
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This is all due to a black student confronting a white student over having dreadlocks. Really?
San Francisco State University has revealed plans to establish “Afro-themed” floors in residence halls following a confrontation between students last year over “cultural appropriation.”
According to CBS San Francisco, school administrators are in the early stages of their plan to create living communities tailored specifically to African American students, which is apparently a response to demands from the Black Student Union for increased inclusivity, as well as the growing influence of the Black Lives Matter movement on college campuses.
