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A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
Bryan Rogers
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Eric D. Weitz performs what amounts to a living autopsy on the history and health of the nation-state dating back nearly two hundred years.
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz, Princeton University Press
"To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. Above all, to watch." –Arundhati Roy
Right out the gate, I'm willing to admit I know very little about the National Hockey League. My interest in it? Practically non-existent. About psychology, however, I know a good deal more, owing mostly to a personal, near-clinical interest in my own. At this point, legitimate questions may have emerged: "Okay, but. Who's asking, and what's it got to do with this 500-page academic work on human rights and its relation to the rise of the modern nation-state as the predominant mode of human organization?"
To which I might say: "Well, fair enough." You're right: this isn't a review of "Canada's national pastime"— a relatively modern phrase which 250 years ago would have rung hollow on most podiums, and which today would most likely prompt heated debate as regards the "Canada" and the "pastime" in question.
It is nevertheless quite useful to call one's attention to something about which we know very little through the lens of some other thing about which we know comparatively a lot more. City College of New York historian Eric D. Weitz invites us to perform a similar sort of epistemic and empathic transference, from well-known objects to lesser-known ones. And as any historian worth their weight knows punishingly well, one must keep on reading to uncover, and eventually to apprehend, the Truth in the records, official and otherwise—without of course relying on oversimplification of the complex, and vice versa.
Mr. Weitz is fully worthy of his weight in this often-crowded class. His deftly researched and brilliantly argued A World Divided has admittedly very little to say about the sport of hockey, and although one can trace the name of William James buried in a colossal index—between Andrew Jackson and Japan!—no legitimate journal of psychology would let it past the gates (Canada, by way of curiosity, didn't even make Weitz's final cut, though no doubt has contributed handsomely both to the development and to the systematic violation of all sorts of rights). But hockey, psychology, and most the psychology of hockey may well prove apropos.
Mr. Weitz performs what amounts to a living autopsy on the history and health of the nation-state dating back nearly two hundred years. Exhaustive and meticulously dissected with a steady hand, even scalpel, a seasoned professor at New York's City College scans the body, theory, and practice of a peculiar yet increasingly society-sculpting innovation of the modern era: rights for each and every Sapien the globe over. Shoot, you don't even lose them when you visit the International Space Station, so this is kind of a big deal. The declarations announcing and enshrining said rights also went big, namely with one of its greatest hits, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, signed and ratified by any country hoping to secure a legitimate stool at the family pub of Nations (and for IMF loans!).
Keep in mind that these were not mere suggestions of rights, but rather loud fists against the bar clamoring for an audience, praying at times for protection against hostile and murderous forces within. Weitz's seriously footnoted and highly nuanced critique of this modern struggle for human rights in the age of the nation-state has no apparent agenda to denigrate the idea of rights, nor the lofty and usually wholly inadequate attempts at enforcement by the regional and global bodies tasked with their implementation, but rather a genuine effort to call a spade a spade.
That is, there is nothing really stopping a nation-state player from taking a proverbial hockey stick to the face of another, and the sanction of the penalty box—or even being suspended from participation for a game or two, or a generation or so—does nothing to remove or help soothe the scar from the face of the assaulted party. That the game has written rules does not mean that they are not routinely violated; does not mean that those rules do not at times functionally serve as a cloak of civility in a what has historically been something quite akin to a blood sport in which the "enforcers"—with little actual finesse in the finer strategy and skill of the game, mind you—are retained for purposes of physical violence alone, in which missing teeth were once a mark of pride that you were a veteran of the sport.
Our collective need for teeth in this respect is not only a response to having had countless teeth kicked in over the last century and a half, but also, and even in the mental cafeteria of human ideas, our survival requires of us a healthy set and a solid jaw to make a meal of most anything. This game of human rights—with its lofty rhetoric and too few triumphs; its staged choreography of good behavior and the taking of "measurable steps"—means that, if you're one of the "losers" out there (think Armenians, Native Americans, Jews then Palestinians, the Rohingya or the Uighurs) your legitimate fears of persecution will likely receive little more than wrist slaps and sanctions. This, all too often, is how this particular game of hockey is being played the globe over.
Much as I drool at and admire the raw athleticism and insane discipline the Olympics flaunt and represent, so too when it comes to the games that nations play. And unless we all manage to pull off another Miracle on Ice, it seems we stand practically zero chance at overcoming the odds and lengths of our inhumanity. In other words, either we're all in the penalty box together or we're not. And should we muster up the courage and coordination for the nearly 70 million human persons adrift in a human-made sea of statelessness, and for the scores of others internally forgotten and displaced, we'll likely derive little pleasure if it was borne from nothing resembling a collective intent to overcome ourselves. I suppose in that sense, it would indeed be a Miracle, prolly "on Flames" though to be honest!
In true Arundhati Roy fashion, Eric D. Weitz refuses to let his mind or his pen simplify what is complicated, or to complicate what is simple. Above all else, he enjoins us to do what comes rather hard to any human when confronted with the external evidence of some primordial, though certainly surmountable, tendency towards excessive and extreme violence; a violence which we, since a few democratic revolutions back, have been dressing up in articled and pretty language.
Unfortunately, it's not that we don't mean it when we say it, when we draft, sign, and ratify these beautiful and, in moments, gravity-defying slapshots at the crossbeams of justice and equanimity. It's just that, unless we mean it much more, and much more often, you get the sense upon finishing Mr. Weitz extraordinary read, that we can't help sometimes but to spread the sorrow and slaughter until, like a Jack Gilbert poem, it's everywhere.
According to insiders with access, Bryan Rogers spends far too much time reading far too many books covering far too many, ultimately fruitless, subject matters. And gods only know how many he actually finishes. According to Mr. Rogers, the newest sales specialist at the Porchlight Book Company? There is no problem. Over the decades, the books read - and those left partially or totally unread - have served multiple purposes, soothed various illnesses, and cured countless bouts of self-pity and -doubt, a habit quite common among what Mr. Rogers' wife refers to as his "Cry Baby Cancer" tendencies. So be it. There's a book for solving that dilemma, he's sure of it. And once he's read it, or at least most of it, odds are you'll find a thoughtful, well-footnoted review on this here blog page. Mr. Rogers has been to school, has been schooled, has occasionally himself schooled, and is by far and away most interested in the most general school there is: that of Life. On that count, he is currently living his with one lovely spouse, two lively children, three mostly obedient reptiles, and four...forgot what four was for. Well, there'll be more...
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T.I. Discusses Cooler Relationship With Iggy Azalea
Azalea: "The first I've heard of us having an 'issue' is via a radio interview."
By Elias Leight
T.I. stopped by New York's Hot 97 yesterday in order to promote his new EP, Da Nic, but the conversation rapidly turned to his relationship with Iggy Azalea. When asked about their connection, T.I. acknowledged that it had cooled somewhat and that the two hadn't talked recently. (Representatives for T.I. and Iggy Azalea did not immediately return a request for comment.)
But the MC also defended Azalea's behavior. "She had a lot thrown at her at one time," he noted. "Any human being anywhere gonna have a hard time adjusting [to that]...It's very difficult to be the new kid and the butt of the jokes," T.I. added. "[Azalea's success] came at a time where culturally in this nation—she's not from here—we were looking for somewhere to place some pent-up aggression. They just kind of got it for no reason in some cases. Some they brought upon themselves. In some cases, it was the easiest place to put some pent-up aggression."
Read Next: Young Thug and T.I. link up on "Ring"
According to T.I., his relationship with Azalea became more complicated after he stepped in to defuse the Twitter skirmish between her and Q-Tip. "I kind of had smoothed it over," the MC told Ebro and co. "Everything was cool, and then they kind of came back and undid what I had just accomplished. I'ma be all the way real, I'm a loyal partner. If I rock with you, I'm gon' rock with you. Right, wrong, we gonna discuss that in the car—we're gonna get out of here right now though. That's just how I am. Right now, I'm gonna block the bullets. Now go. And when I say go, go! Don't stand around and talk while I'm blocking bullets. You slowing me down! I really do feel that they just needed a little more time to adjust, which I feel they can do. They have the talent, they have the charisma, they have everything."
When pressed T.I. defined "they" as "the world of Iggy Azalea." He continued: "She is the nucleus, but there are a lot of other people around, including myself, that keep the machine working. I feel like they have all the tools necessary to overcome and evolve beyond this situation or those situations."
Azalea got on Twitter this afternoon to respond to T.I.'s comments. She noted that she's still signed to his label, and added that "the first I've heard of us having an 'issue' is via a radio interview."
"He seems to think there's nothing wrong with what he said," she continued. "Everybody else seems to disagree. I'm sure tip will publicly clarify what he meant when he feels he has the right platform to do so."
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Heres the deal, I am still signed to @tip and do business with him. The first ive heard of us having an "issue" is via a radio interview.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) September 17, 2015
He seems to think theres nothing wrong with what he said, everybody else seems to disagree.
Im sure tip will publicly clarify what he meant when he feels he has the right platform to do so and other than that, im chillin.
have a great day guys. :-)
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A BDS Movement That Works
by Barbara Harvey
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2012 issue of Against the Current.
IN 2005, 173 Palestinian civil society organizations and 71 members of parliament, political parties, and unions in Jordan united to issue a powerful nongovernmental call for global nonviolent resistance to occupation through acts of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.(1) They had three goals: an end to occupation and return to the pre-1967 Green Line, equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and recognition of the Palestinian right of return.
The strongly united 2005 Palestinian civil society call for BDS electrified progressives around the world. European activists responded strongly, but in the United States, where the mainstream news media have tended to voluntarily censor undistorted news reports about Israel's ever-widening theft of Palestinian lands, public consciousness was generally absent, while sympathy for the Jewish legacy of trauma from the Holocaust remained the dominant theme.
It's time to reassess: Where is the U.S. BDS movement now? The answer is that, while it still lags behind the BDS movements in Europe, Australia and elsewhere, it's catching up fast, on campuses across the country and in local communities, as a genuinely grassroots movement led by focused, smart, strategic young Arab Americans — with the generous, if unintended assistance of Bibi Netanyahu, whose unashamed racism and crudeness has stunned the world, leaving Israel's defenders without a credible spin on his words and actions.
The BDS movement encourages progressive activists on many fronts to set aside differences and instead focus on common goals: to ensure the rights of Palestinians, as affirmations of the rights of all people, to adequate and uncontaminated water; to belong to a country; to get an education; to be protected from languishing in prison for years without trial or knowing why; to farm the land that has belonged to their families for centuries; to freedom and dignity.
The results have been stunning early victories for this country's young BDS movement — in large measure a testament to the years of movement work in Europe and to the chilling confirmations repeatedly given by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for the movement's accusations of Israeli racism and the cruelty of life for Palestinians who live under Israeli occupation. But these successes would have been unattainable without the wisdom and maturity of young movement leaders who have, in the best spirit of the World Social Forum, consistently put shared goals above political differences and worked democratically and collaboratively, without ego hang-ups, to achieve shared goals.
This article focuses on the story of one U.S. BDS campaign: the campaign to persuade TIAA-CREF to divest from the Occupation. In a testament to the determination of the BDS movement to cross organizational and interest group lines and stay focused on shared goals, and to Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as the campaign's creator, the campaign — now known as "We Divest" — now also includes American Friends Service Committee, Grassroots International, Adalah-New York, the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation, and the U.S. Palestine Community Network.
Since the campaign's launch in June 2010, it has provided a big tent for all sorts of local activism against shared target companies — Caterpillar, Veolia, Hewlett Packard, Elbit, Motorola Solutions, and Northrup Grumman. These local campaigns have recognized that they all benefit by working collaboratively, with shared resources, sophisticated tactical guidance, training for local activists, and rich opportunities for local coalition work provided by We Divest.
The TIAA-CREF Campaign
On a lovely day in July 2011, activists and allies of Jewish Voice for Peace converged on an idyllic country setting outside Charlotte, North Carolina. This is the immaculately manicured country home of the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association-College Retirement Equity Fund (TIAA-CREF), the partly non-profit and partly for-profit retirement and investment mutual fund manager.
Activists were there for the annual CREF shareholder meeting. They had attended and demonstrated at the prior year's shareholder meeting in New York City at TIAA-CREF headquarters, where shareholder meetings were usually held. These members and supporters of JVP shared a commitment to its campaign, launched in June 2010, to persuade TIAA-CREF to divest across all of its accounts from all companies around the world that profit from or help to maintain Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
As of March 2012, TIAA-CREF managed $487 billion for more than 3.7 million people working in academia, medicine, culture, government, and research.(2) A promising focus for activism, its primary clients are colleges and universities, where student movements for justice for Palestinians had already started and could benefit from a shared organizing focus. By highlighting commonly held investments as targets for TIAA-CREF divestment, the campaign provided a big tent for activism that could be coordinated with boycott and other divestment campaigns around the country.
TIAA-CREF itself is a globally admired financial services manager, a leader whose actions are likely to be noted and followed elsewhere in the investment world. Its 3.7 million clients tend to be community leaders, opinion shapers, and more socially committed and progressive than the general population.
TIAA-CREF was in fact a leader in the creation of socially responsible investing (SRI), offering its participants the option to invest in companies complying with the United Nation's CESG investment principles (Companies committed to Environmental, Social, and Governance good practices). Importantly, the campaign does not ask participants in TIAA-CREF to divest their own accounts from TIAA-CREF, but instead asks the company to divest its holdings from Israel's occupation.
The 2010 activism at the shareholder meeting in New York had been a huge success. A dozen activists having credentials to attend the meeting had asked embarrassing questions of TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson, face-to-face, that so powerfully confronted the company on its refusal to divest from the Israeli occupation that one after another of the other shareholders present at that meeting — strangers to the still fledgling national divestment campaign — had risen to join the voices challenging the absence of moral judgment in the company's investment decisions.
The Q & A period at the 2010 meeting began and ended on a single theme: that it was wrong for an Andrew Carnegie company whose motto was "Financial Services for the Greater Good" to leave teachers, professors, researchers and nonprofit employees no choice but to retire in part on the profits from a military occupation that violates both human rights and international law. For nearly three hours, the CEO of a Fortune Top 50 company politely listened to a stream of complaints about the ethics of his otherwise well-managed company.
What "Delegitimizes" Israel?
Four months later, in November 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a large audience in New Orleans at the Jewish Federation's annual assembly, railing against the "delegitimization" of Israel by alleged anti-Semites and self-hating Jews. A young JVP college student stood up in the midst of the audience and yelled to the stunned prime minister and crowd, "The siege of Gaza delegitimizes Israel!"
It was the highest profile "mic checking" action of the new U.S. BDS movement. A few moments later, after the audience and speaker collected themselves, another young activist stood up and yelled, "The Occupation delegitimizes Israel!" A total of five activists disrupted Netanyahu's "delegitimization" speech to the Jewish Federation assembly, with the audience becoming more enraged with each one.
Other slogans were: "The settlements delegitimize Israel," "The Loyalty Oath delegitimizes Israel," and "Silencing dissent delegitimizes Israel!" [The "Loyalty Oath" is a proposed requirement for Arab citizens of Israel to swear allegiance to the country as the "Jewish state" — ed.]
The final protestor, a slight young woman, was greeted with a roar of outrage and assaulted from behind by a man who grabbed her in a stranglehold. In less than one well-conceived minute of total protest time, the moral bankruptcy of Israel's "delegitimization" campaign had been exposed.(3)
Determined not to let protesters take over its 2011 shareholder meeting or humiliate the company on the sidewalks of New York, TIAA-CREF moved its 2011 CREF meeting to Charlotte, North Carolina. Similarly determined JVPers followed TIAA-CREF to North Carolina, attending the 2011 meeting in about three times the number of those who had attended the 2010 meeting. They were met by a small army of private security guards, who apparently had been instructed to never let these perceived terrorists out of sight; guards followed them even into bathrooms.
Again in 2011, campaign activists dominated the shareholder meeting. On the day preceding the meeting, the Charlotte Observer printed an op-ed by retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, supporting the goals of the campaign and explicitly drawing the parallel between the Israeli occupation and South African apartheid.(4)
Activists around the country held coordinated, "You can run, but you can't hide" demonstrations against TIAA-CREF's decision to flee NYC for its shareholder meeting and demanding divestment from Caterpillar.
Less than two months later, in September 2011, CEO Roger Ferguson gave a presentation on retirement issues to a packed auditorium at Wayne State University, in Detroit. Activists from 13 student, faith-based and other progressive organizations distributed a joint statement to attendees, stating in part:
"We come from many different walks of life, but we stand in solidarity with one another on this issue and with the national campaign to persuade TIAA-CREF to divest from Israel's Occupation. As a largely non-profit company that solicits customers under the proud motto, 'Financial Services for the Greater Good,' TIAA-CREF must honor its commitment. We are all seriously committed to the greater good, and we will not rest until TIAA-CREF stops investing in the Israeli occupation."
Campaign activists, in this public forum, again controlled the discussion, converting the post-presentation Q & A into an indictment of the company's investments in serious human rights violations.
A Campaign Victory!
Eight months later, between May and June 2012, TIAA-CREF completely divested its SRI accounts from ownership of nearly $73 million in Caterpillar. Caterpillar manufactures D-9 bulldozers and sells them to Israel to be armor-plated, weaponized, and used to demolish civilian homes and build settlements in the West Bank, all of which violate the Fourth Geneva Convention's prohibition against the expropriation of any occupied territory by any occupying power. These are the bulldozers that killed International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie, as she stood in 2003 between such a bulldozer and a civilian home in Gaza, trying to save another family from homelessness.
TIAA-CREF's public statement was that the action reflected simply the decision by its SRI screening company, Morgan Stanley Capital Investment (MSCI), to "delist" Caterpillar as an acceptable socially responsible investment. MSCI is the largest such company, providing investment screening services to 6,200 investment firms, including TIAA-CREF. All companies that retain MSCI to screen their SRI accounts should now be following suit. This is the advice that they pay MSCI to give them.
A month before TIAA-CREF's action, Friends Fiduciary Corporation, serving more than 250 Quaker Friends meetings, schools, organizations, trusts and endowments, became the first U.S. company to divest from Caterpillar, selling $900,000 in holdings. On September 26, 2012, Friends Fiduciary announced its further divestment from Hewlett Packard, because it provides IT consulting services to the Israeli Navy, and Veolia Environnement, the largest water privatization company in the world and the supplier of discriminatory water resources to Israeli West Bank settlements.
MSCI explained its decision to delist Caterpillar as having been "initiated following a controversial lockout and plant closing at the company's London, Ontario, locomotive plant."(5) (Indeed, this unionized plant was closed and the work moved to a nonunion facility in Indiana.) A senior MSCI official acknowledged, however, that Caterpillar's sales to Israel had been "a factor" in the delisting decision, since its rating had already been dropped to borderline status as a result of its sale of D-9 bulldozers to Israel for use in demolishing homes and building West Bank settlements.(6)
By the time of MSCI's announcement, the TIAA-CREF divestment campaign had educated MSCI about Caterpillar's unsuitability for socially responsible investing. The TIAA-CREF divestment campaign leaders are confident that the campaign played a key role, perhaps the key role, in MSCI's decision to delist Caterpillar, and CEO Roger Ferguson conceded as much in an unguarded moment of dialogue at the 2012 shareholder meeting.
TIAA-CREF still has a long way to go before it is divested from the Israeli occupation. It still owns about $900,000,000 in Caterpillar, in its non-SRI accounts, for example. Its SRI accounts still own equities in Veolia, Motorola and Hewlett Packard — all of which earn profits from sales of equipment to Israel that is directly used to subjugate the Palestinian people.
But with the actions of MSCI and TIAA-CREF, U.S. divestment from the Israeli occupation took a giant step toward becoming mainstream. It is only a matter of time, for example, before Veolia will be divested.
The Heat on Veolia
Veolia flunks every single prong of the "environment, social, and governance" (ESG) standards that define companies suitable for SRI. Veolia will be saved from divestment only if it initiates prophylactic action in shedding the last of its business dealings with the Israeli occupation before it shares Caterpillar's "delisted" fate.
Veolia has already sold its landfill operation for West Bank settlements, which literally turned Palestinian land near Israeli settlements into garbage pits; it has sold its interest in building the entirely illegal light rail system that connects West Bank settlements to Jerusalem and Israel; it has finally found a purchaser — Israel's bus company, Egged — of its right to operate that light rail system, although a condition of the sale is that it must continue to operate the rail system until Egged employees have sufficient training to operate it themselves; and it has sold all but a couple of the bus lines that transport Israeli commuters from their homes in West Bank settlements to their jobs in Haifa and Tel Aviv, on apartheid-like roads that Palestinians cannot use.
Why is Veolia so determined to sell off its profitable Occupation business? The answer appears to be that the European divestment movement against Veolia has made it unprofitable for Veolia to engage in Occupation business, causing losses of many billions of dollars in lost contracts. In early October the investment grade of Veolia subsidiary, Veolia Environnement, was downgraded, making it a less attractive investment to all investors.
The downgrade provides a potent new argument to the BDS movement: that investing in businesses that profit from Israel's human rights and legal violations is becoming simply bad business. The French and U.S. subsidiaries, Veolia Environment (providing waste management services) and Veolia Transportation (which runs all of the airport Super Shuttle services and many bus and small van services for local governments around the country) will be prime targets of the BDS movement in the coming year.
TIAA-CREF's divestment from Caterpillar in all of its SRI accounts comes hard on the heels of increasing BDS activity and successes:
• Hot off the wires as we go to press is the news that several major U.S. churches have co-signed a letter to Congress demanding an end to unconditional military aid to Israel, and "immediate investigation into possible violations by Israel of the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act which respectively prohibit assistance to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations and limit the use of U.S. weapons to 'internal security' or 'legitimate self-defense.'"(7) This is the sort of stuff that millions of ordinary Americans will pay attention to: Their own churches have indicted Israel for human rights violations and colonialism.
• After devilishly clever procedural maneuvers by pro-Israel forces, which deprived delegates at both the United Methodist Church General Conference (May 2012) and the Presbyterian Church-USA General Assembly (July 2012) of opportunities to vote on the merits of resolution to divest from specified companies that profit from Israel's occupation, the Methodists adopted a strongly worded resolution condemning the settlements,(8) and the Presbyterians voted for "positive investment" in the occupied Palestinian territories, although there is no such thing.
By a unanimous vote in early June, the Arizona State University undergraduate student government unanimously passed a bill, submitted by its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, demanding that ASU divest from and blacklist companies that provide the Israeli army with weapons or militarized equipment or are complicit with the genocide against the people of Darfur. The bill named ten such companies, including Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, Alliant Tech Systems, Boeing, and United Technologies.(9)
• Similar divestment votes were adopted by student governments at Hampshire College in 2009, the University of Michigan Dearborn campus in 2010, Columbia University in 2011, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston in April 2012.(10) The Hampshire College trustees divested from Caterpillar, United Technologies, General Electric, ITT Corporation, Motorola and Terex, all companies that profit from supplying the Israeli military with equipment and services in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.(11)
• In July 2010, the 22,000-member Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, Washington, the home of Rachel Corrie, became the first U.S. business to implement a boycott of Israeli products. Sixteen past and current board members were individually sued on procedural and other theories, in a lawsuit that was reportedly filed with the backing of StandWithUs, a right-wing Zionist organization that is being funded, in part, by a $6 million fund created by the Israel Action Network, a consortium created to crush the U.S. BDS movement.(12)
A pro bono team put together by a National Lawyers Guild working group created to provide legal advice to BDS activists and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an anti-harassment defense and won dismissal with statutory damages of $160,000 ($10,000 for each named defendant) and attorney fees.
• At the June 2012 Caterpillar shareholder meeting, Gabe Schivone, a student in Tucson, Arizona, stood at the microphone for JVP and other religious organizations to lambast Caterpillar for targeting only Iran for instructions to its dealers to boycott direct and indirect sales of bulldozers.
Instead, he argued, shareholders should endorse a resolution calling for a broad human rights policy: "Without a general policy… we're vulnerable to the charge of hypocrisy. For example, Israel has a far worse human rights record than Iran and is engaged in its 45th year of military occupation and settlement of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem and crucially uses armies of our bulldozers to do it." The resolution was not adopted, but it did win support from about 20% of shareholders, a strong showing for a shareholder resolution.
By July 2012, the time of the third CREF shareholder meeting in the divestment campaign's history, TIAA-CREF had accepted the judgment that Caterpillar was not an appropriate subject for socially responsible investing and removed it from its SRI accounts.
It had given up hope of being able to run away from campaign activists and moved its meeting back to Manhattan, where there was a huge rally in front of the headquarters building, showing support for the campaign — with some deeply appreciated solidarity from the Killer Coke campaign and a group demanding health care reform.
More importantly, one campus after another has seen the birth of its own Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, and even Brandeis has its own student JVP chapter. NYU's SJP chapter has created an excellent handbook for other chapters and its own successors to mount campus We Divest campaigns.
Most importantly, the unspoken censorship of criticism of Israeli policies and practices is crumbling under the persistent and well-framed objections of focused students and radical rabbis.
[You can learn more about the campaign at www.wedivest.org.]
www.bdsmovement.net/call.
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http://www.tiaa?cref.org/public/about/index.html.
Although an attempt was made to choke one of them, none of the JVP protesters was prosecuted or sued. Muslim student mic-checkers at the University of California at Irvine fared less well. All 10 of them, plus another who led a rally outside the hall, were criminally prosecuted for "conspiring" to disrupt a public meeting — a presentation by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren — and for actually disrupting it, even though the real disruption was caused by the sustained and petulant overreactions by Oren and the audience. They were convicted by an Orange County jury, and their appeal is currently pending.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/07/17/2459590/tiaa-cref-should-hear-us-divest.html#ixzz1SOdiHGJJ.
http://www.msci.com/insights/responsible_investing/qa_removal_of_caterpillar_from_several_msci_esg_indices.html.
"The sale of Caterpillar tractors to Israel was a factor, but not the determining one, in the delisting of the company from an influential index that prioritizes good governance and human rights." Ron Kampeas, "Israel cited in Caterpillar's delisting from influential investment index." JTA (June 22, 2012), at http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/06/22/3098921/israel-cited-as-one-of-several-factors-in-caterpillars-delisting.
http://blogs.elca.org/peacenotwalls/files/2012/10/12oct5letteraboutaid.pdf.
The resolution urged the U.S. government to "end all military aid to the region and called on all nations to prohibit any financial support by individuals or organizations for the construction and maintenance of settlements and the import of products made by companies in Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.
http://sjpalestine.com/?p=623.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/umass?boston?student?senate?passes?resolution?calling?for?divestment?from?boeing?8954#.T84aZtVYuSp.
http://electronicintifada.net/content/hampshire?college?first?us?divest?israel/932.
http://israelactionnetwork.org/hot.
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Puglin. wrote: Yeah, I added accus as a buddy and then he vanished .
Lol, maybe I scared him away .
Check out my post about clan NMR, maybe you can join...?
Welcome back! Good to see some of the older players making a comeback.
well im in a come-back also, as far ive seen there are only like 3-7 players playing giants at a time, it isnt so active yet. maybe if the developers put the game back in the stores?
uhu exploderman gigasize has an expire date so the file will dissapaer soon.
so what shut we do?
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Welcome, what a summer we have had. So hot and almost unbearable.
I have made a few more new designs that are still true to the theme of classic and timeless design. I have a few more beautiful designs coming, but due to the hot weather I just didn't feel like creating much.
I hope you are all well and this year brings you good health and happiness.
This bracelet looks so good , I am going to make another one in real gold.
Fresh water and Swarovski pearl link bracelets . Left bracelets has sterling silver beads.
Code - Jan2019- Bra01 &02 $55 and $50.00 respectively.
Welcome To ZaniL Design Handmade Elegant Jewellery.
I am having a Sale and giving you discount of 20% off the listed price for the next 2 months, ending 30th June.
I am doing the Collector Pumpkin Festival and a few other markets so if you see something you like be sure to send me an email as I will not be making the same design. The 20% discount allows me to offer you a great handmade price , while at the same time giving my headspace permission to create more .
Also as my other passion of gardening ( click here for my Gardening Blog) seems to commanding a great deal of my time and I am not making as much , although I am making time to offer repair services. By continuing to offer a repair service , I am still able to create some new and interesting designs using beads that I have, as I am keen to make use of the beads I have been stashing.
So have a look and see if you can grab a bargain.
Thanks for buying Australian and Handmade.
Thanks for visiting. If you have been wondering why it has taken so long to do another update, its because our computer was zapped during a storm and the USB ports that load the photos stopped working. We can't fix them and have to buy a new computer.
As I do not like to just throw things away and add to the ever increasing rubbish that goes to land fill I am continuing to get use out of the computer which has lost the memory ports, USB and touch screen functionality.
This problem with not being able to upload picture has been a constant frustration, but where there is a will there is a way and today I have found it. Hooray . It takes longer but at least I can now upload some photos and that is saying something from a person who hates computers. I worked it out and now I feel great.
Send me email if you want to enquire.
I have made just a few items this month, its been so hot that I have spent quite a bit of time watering all the garden plants so I would not lose everything . I think I'll get a good harvest form the cucumbers and tomatoes at least. I have been having salads every single day.
Interested in any of my designs? please make a reasonable offer. I have had lots of people looking so if you are interested please drop me an email. Please think if you had made these items, what would you like to be paid, taking into account the quality and your time and that they were made in Australia. Buy Australian and support your local area, it doesn't have to be my things your buying, it can be local produce, local markets, a local butcher etc.
Make a reasonable offer . Fresh water Pearls.
Happy New Year to you all and best wishes for a year blessed with good health and happiness and fulfilment in what ever job you do. I hope you had a good break and are relaxed to tackle another year. I didn't really make any resolutions, but will be trying take time for myself this year and not rush around too much as I want to smell the roses this year.
Thanks for stopping by and browsing. I made these designs just before Christmas , but got too busy to post them. Thanks also if you go ahead that further step and purchase from my blog. You know I made and designed these items, so all the money stays in Australia as I also go and buy from other Australian business at markets and shop at the local markets for vegetables.
Also I have decided that after many years of producing this wonderful jewellery, I am turning it back into a hobby so I can enjoy it more. It will still be unique and still affordable , but there is no huge money to be made unless you are importing the designs for an indecent wage for whoever the poor person is making it and Australia handmade jewellery just can't compete, so please continue to support my hobby if you so wish and thank you for buying handmade. Just remember you always get what you pay for.
Now for the exciting part I have a new idea . These new designs you can make an offer and if it is a reasonable offer I will accept and post you the item after it has been paid for . Registered postage of $12.00 applies and $15.00 for 3 or more items. Please consider above before making any offers. Thanks.
Have a great month and hopefully I'll be able to make some more new designs .
Welcome to ZaniL Design Elegant Australian Made Jewellery.
Hello everyone, Wow its almost Christmas again, it comes around so quickly every year because we are so busy all the time and never seem to stop. Well that's my theory and what seems to be happening in my part of the world. I am going to try to take more time slowing down next year. Easier said than done, but will at least have a go at it.
I have made some fantastic new pieces that will make unique gifts that will surely be treasured for years to come by who ever is the lucky recipient. I have also decided to be generous and offer some discounts to encourage you to support Australian made artists. Your support is greatly appreciated and so important so I am glad I will be able to give back to you all.
Buy 3 items and get the fourth item free.
NOV16-E007 , I have multiple of these, these are a best seller. Also can be made in gold findings.
Happy shopping and hurry, only one item of each once sold all gone.


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The Moscow Bombings
March 29, 2010 Topic: EconomicsEconomic DevelopmentTerrorismSecurity Region: RussiaEurasia Tags: BeslanBlack SeaDiplomacyHeads Of StateSecond Chechen War
The attacks are a major test for Medvedev. If he doesn't handle things well, Putin might be strengthened and the reset put in danger.
by Paul J. Saunders
President Barack Obama was right to issue a rapid condemnation of the Moscow metro bombings, extend sympathy to the victims, and express American solidarity "in opposition to violent extremism and heinous terrorist attacks." When terrorists kill civilians, it is the only appropriate response. Nevertheless, as time passes, Americans would also do well to reflect on the implications of the attacks for Russia, U.S.-Russian relations and American foreign policy.
First, Russia. When combined with a deadly November 2009 train bombing, the new attacks make clear that violent Chechen extremists aim to export their violent insurgency beyond the North Caucasus. They appear to prefer high-profile targets associated with components of Russia's elite: the November attack derailed the Nevsky Express, a luxury express train between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the latest explosions took place in metro stations serving the headquarters of the Federal Security Service and RIA-Novosti, the state press agency.
The fact that the terrorists succeeded twice within six months suggests that Russia remains less stable and predictable than those outside the country often think. When combined with an economic beating inflicted by the global financial crisis and with growing, but still modest, public protests, Russia's terrorism problem makes it difficult to cling to straight-line projections for the country's political and economic future. When combined with the surprisingly poor performance of Russian athletes at the Vancouver Olympics, the attacks suggest that Russia may no longer live up to Cold War stereotypes many still hold; in other words, what is true for winter sports may well be true for the difficult work of gathering intelligence too and Russia is probably not quite the police state that many believe. With all of this in mind, the risk of a "non-linear event"-bland, bureaucratic language to describe something sudden and shocking that changes Russia's course-appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
If Russians themselves come to believe this-and it seems that some already do-it could have important consequences for Russian politics, especially in the complex and delicate relationship between President Dmitri Medvedev and his not-so-subordinate subordinate, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Notwithstanding his methods, and some internal criticism, Putin received wide public credit in Russia for stabilizing the Caucasus and the country during his time as president. Whether the region was as stable as some believed, and whether giving a free hand to the ruthless and corrupt Ramzan Kadyrov was either effective in the long run or moral, Russians saw Putin as ending the war.
In fact, in a strategic sense, some Russians see the attacks as a sign of the Chechen extremists' weakness. From this perspective, the attacks are the last desperate acts of an insurgency that is suffering under increasingly effective Russian operations against their leadership and organizations and can no longer mount meaningful military operations in Chechnya. Nevertheless, whether the attacks reflect weakness or new capabilities, they will be a major test for Medvedev, something that in the eyes of many may determine whether he is a fit successor to Putin or, alternatively, whether Russia "needs" Putin to return to the presidency.
The Medvedev-Putin dynamic can in turn shape U.S.-Russian relations, as the "reset" is much more Medvedev's project than Putin's, and will be interesting to watch in the coming days and weeks. Closer to home, the American reaction to terrorism in Russia will also shape the U.S.-Russian relationship-and this is one reason that President Obama's statement on the attacks was important. It was an unambiguous denunciation of the attacks that did not in any way refer to "legitimate grievances," "root causes," or other justifications for violence against civilians.
Some are naturally tempted to blame Moscow for the attacks because of its handling of Chechnya and the Caucasus, which has been extremely poor and, as President Medvedev himself has admitted, has contributed to corruption, lawlessness, unemployment and hopelessness. All of these factors make terrorism more likely, but blaming the attacks on Moscow is a mistake for three reasons. First, and most important, is the moral argument that the metro bombings deliberately targeted civilians and were designed to maximize casualties. There is no justification whatsoever for this kind of attack. Terrorism may be facilitated by problems like those in Chechnya, but it is caused by people who decide to kill civilians.
Second, more practically, blaming the victim rather than the criminal will totally undermine any American efforts to work with Russia to combat terrorism, including in Afghanistan, where Russian intelligence information could save American lives and help the United States to stabilize the country. Without equating the scale of the attacks, Russians will remember who says what today, they way that Americans remember who said what on September 11 and 12, 2001.
Finally, more broadly, one of the most important steps in choking off international terrorism is preventing terrorists from receiving support or tolerance from other states. At minimum, this requires that states universally condemn terrorism when it occurs rather than trying to balance sympathy for the victims against sympathy for the grievances of the Palestinians, the Basques, the IRA, or whomever else. Few people become terrorists without having grievances, some of which may even be legitimate. But however justifiable their complaints may be, their actions merit only disgust.
Ultimately, perhaps the greatest significance of the Moscow attacks lies in the way that they challenge our assumptions. Hopefully, Americans and their leaders will review not only what they think they know about Russia and terrorism, but what they believe about our own vulnerabilities. Then we will be better prepared to avoid a subway or train bombing in Washington, New York, Chicago, or another major U.S. city.
Paul J. Saunders is Executive Director of The Nixon Center. He served in the State Department from 2003 to 2005.


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Getting Creative for your Coffee: Julius Meinl's #paywithapoem initiative
Tuesday, 13 March, 2018
Getting creative for your coffee
Could you string some sentences into a stanza and set your creativity free for a cup of coffee? On the 21st of March every year, Julius Meinl changes the currency in hundreds of coffeehouses around the world – inviting people to pay with a handwritten poem on World Poetry Day.
The global coffee roaster and ambassador of Viennese coffeehouse culture has championed the cause of coffee, tea, and creativity, and this is the fifth year of their #PayWithAPoem initiative. So, what's behind it all? What inspired this blend of beverages and bards?
Coffeehouse culture
Julius Meinl is synonymous with Viennese coffeehouse culture – established in 1862, the company was the first professional roaster in Europe and has been a premium purveyor of gourmet coffee, tea and fruit preserves for more than 150 years. Rooted in Viennese coffeehouse tradition, it's this respect for culture that led Julius Meinl down the poetry path…
"It is a place where all sorts of individuals meet to discuss their dreams, to reflect on their thoughts, to share their ideas, to compose masterpieces, to read or just to quietly sit and watch our colourful life happen. With one single cup of coffee, which traditionally comes served on a silver tray with a glass of water, one is entitled to linger in the coffeehouse for hours and hours, even without ordering anything else, making you feel at home. It is here, in this amazing institution full of history, emotions and life, where poetry comes to life." – Meinl Coffee
Poetry in a cup
Julius Meinl prides itself on being a champion of this culture of creativity, with coffee and tea as a source of inspiration. If you've always suspected that coffee is the fuel that feeds your creative fire, here's your validation. On World Poetry Day in 2017 over 100,000 coffee drinkers in 37 countries around the world paid for their coffee with a poem at participating cafés and coffeehouses.
The coffee roaster believes that poetry contributes to building a better world by increasing positivity through creativity. We might not be able to pay with a poem in South Africa yet, but that's no reason not to sit down with a cup of coffee, put pen to paper, and see what happens. With the right barista, their poetry in a cup could become your poetry on a page…


Derek found himself sitting on the back passenger seat of a helicopter. Just beside him was Erin's mother.
Although told that he met her when he was younger, it didn't help that his memory loss made him incapable of remembering any parts of his childhood.
He did feel a bit of rage coming out from chest, but he has yet to really know why.
All he sees in front of him was an older version of Erin. They both have the same almond eyes, the high cheekbones, and same small, slender frame and even the same sharp shoulders. He could certainly tell where Erin got her features from, but unlike Erin, this woman harbors unspeakable secrets, a cold glare, and a deadly tongue.
"It seems you don't remember me after all," Irina spoke without turning in his direction. "Have you not recovered all your memory?"
"And yet you came here to London along with a woman that you can't quite recall," she raised an eyebrow. "I didn't think you could be so trusting, Dr. Matthews."
"I'm not very trusting of other people at all, ma'am."
Derek looked out the window, measuring the altitude of the airmobile. If he jumped out now, he would certainly die in a heartbeat. To quickly agree to ride alongside this woman provided him discomfort, but she wasn't just a woman, she was the other key player in their twisted life story.
He needed answers, and to get those answers means he had to do something drastic. Even something deadly.
"Erin wanted nothing to do with me. I did all the chasing," he breathed in relief.
"Your daughter gave up after realizing how exhausting it was to run away from a persistent large man with amnesia."
"I'd like to think its fate that we're all here."
Irina turned her head back to the front. "Then I guess it's fate that we're on our way to meet with your half-brother. He knows where his grandfather is, and he said he'll tell us only after he sees you."
Derek didn't see that coming. Gary Dean of Dean Industries, the same man he met in the party and possibly before that - he wants to see him.
"Does he know?" He asked Irina, and she shrugged her shoulders slightly.
"That boy, oh that boy," Irina shook her head, making a 'tsk' sound.
"He might actually be a lot smarter than he appears. I underestimated him."
Ten minutes later, the chopper made its landing on a helipad of an exquisite skyscraper. The building was surrounded with shiny blue glass, secured by ten different metal barriers and extension buildings.
Derek wasn't stupid. He knew exactly where he was.
"Dean Industries' Hotel Headquarters," Derek stated as he stepped out. "How do we know we're safe here?"
Derek's uncertainty was met by a man with ash blonde hair and green eyes. He stood beside the door all alone, with his hands clenched in front of him.
"Like a true heir," Irina said to herself.
Gary held his hand to Derek. "We met before. My name is Gary Dean."
"I seem to be your younger brother."
Gary led the group to a small conference room on the 26th floor.
"Nobody in here is aware of your existence. I told them you were my VIP's, and only I can assist you."
They sat on a wide mahogany table, each seat equipped with soft black cushions.
Derek recognized the same layout from the hospital - a VIP conference room where the millionaires sit to discuss where they can put their money to some use.
They all sat quietly, five in all, before Gary stood up once again.
"Let's cut to the chase. I'll give you all my support, as the current heir of this family. You can use my people, my power, and my money - all of it. Use it to your advantage, and get rid of my grandfather."
"Why exactly are you so eager to get rid of him?"
It was Irina who voiced Derek's own concerns. It was already pre-determined that his seat as the successor of the Dean empire was absolute, everyone knew that. But to suddenly decide to provide the tools for eliminating his own kin was surprising.
Irina's reasons, Derek understood, but Gary's?
Gary dropped four folders on the table, and Irina's people took to her.
Derek took a peak to see what they were - secret reports of embezzlement scandals, account statements, news reports of collapsing mines in Mexico and the Philippines, printed copies of conversations regarding corrupting other companies, and multiple kill orders.
Then a black list: a list of people who Michael Dean wanted dead.
Gary's name was written on it.
Even Irina was taken aback. Derek saw her forehead furrow, and her eyes were leering on the files.
"These are all the evidence I have on him - corrupt, embezzlement, and betrayal. It was all for his own desire of self-satisfaction. I was digging through all of this when I found out about my father's first wife, Elena Watson."
Gary's eyes pierced through in Derek's direction.
"I would have never thought that Dr. Matthews would be my father's first child. My older brother, Andrew."
"Please call me Derek, Andrew is not my name."
Gary nodded. " Well, Derek. Through my connections I found out about you and your relation to the Invisible Guardians, including its founder," he the nodded to Irina's direction.
"As you can see, I cannot dirty my own hands. My grandfather has realized that I am not about to lean into his hand, and he has already found himself another successor. He had been trying to wipe me out for months now."
Gary took a sip of water, placing it down before folding his hands on the table.
"I thought that since we both have the same goal, we could form ourselves a partnership. If you do this, I will personally grant you anything you want."
Irina closed the folder, and piled it in front of her. "So where is he?"
"He's in the southwest of here, 75 miles away." Gary said in one breath. "He has more men than you can count. Everyone with authority, he has in his bloody fingers."
"Southampton, huh." Irina nodded. "Just as I thought. Sezky was right." She closed the folder and got up from her seat, when she suddenly turned her attention back to Gary.
"But before that, let me ask you one more question," she looked at him, tilting her head slightly like a teasing teenager.
"You have a more personal reason for doing this, do you not?"
Derek turned to Irina, who was smiling as if she had just caught a man's lie. However, Gary's stance didn't change, and neither did his expression.
He smiled back at Irina, catching her off guard.
Irina laughed this time. "Oh, how lucky she is."
She stood up, handing the files to her people.
Derek wanted to get up, but Irina mouthed the words "stay," so he sat back down.
"We will wait for you up there," she said. "Ten minutes."
They closed the door, leaving Derek and Gary together.
Gary hadn't moved, so Derek was unsure of whether he really should stay.
"So what do you want to do now?"
Gary spoke more softly this time. "Do you want to get your real identity back? Share of the wealth? Do you want my fa-," he shook his head, "our father, to know about your existence? Or do you want to compete with me for the position?"
"I don't want any of that," Derek replied. "I've established my life as Derek Matthews, and even my adoptive parents have brought me up well. My profession as a doctor, no, as chief, has granted me enough authority and all the money I want so I've never had to be frugal, and..."
Derek looked at the man in front of him. He wasn't stupid enough to realize that his younger brother had fallen for her as well. His actions at the party had made Derek believe they were together, and that didn't sit well with him even then.
"I'll never give her up," Derek told him sternly, "not while I'm still breathing."
"Then get you damn head straight as fast as you can," Gary said to him, "It's not the time for you to be losing your mind."
Derek closed his eyes for a minute. To finally speak with his brother was certainly a happy occasion, but their situation isn't exactly very enjoyable.
He had decided to ask this man a favor. A favor that could, in the end, ruin Derek.
But this wasn't his game now. It's not an operation, where he can easily see where it could go. It was a risky game, but one worth trying.
If it was for her, he will do anything. Even if he wasn't in the picture, even then.
"I will get rid of anything that could ever relate me to the Dean family," Derek stated, and this caught Gary's attention. "I will never tell your father about my real identity, nor will I want any of the family's power or share of authority."
Derek's hands turned into tight fists, and his eyes were turning red.
He lifted his head to continue, and he did so with one hell of a pitiful smile.
What do you think he asked for, in exchange of his rightful position in the Dean's empire?,Comment below!
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In this fast-paced, modern age of processed foods, working round the clock and hectic schedules, making the necessary lifestyle and dietary choices to support your ideal weight can be a real challenge. Few of us eat what can truly be called an "optimal diet" every day, and everyone is tempted at some point by fast foods, bigger portion sizes and convenient snacks. The fact is, we are also leading more sedentary lifestyles; sitting behind a desk all day and then in front of the TV at night, which only makes the battle harder.
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Experienced New Jersey ADR Mediations Lawyer Works to Secure Fair Settlements on Behalf of Clients
Being involved in a legal case can induce a lot of stress and anxiety over the time, expense, and uncertainty of resolving the case in court. Trying to resolve the case before going to court or to trial can prove incredibly difficult due to the emotional and financial investment that parties may have in a case. Negotiating a settlement or resolution may seem impossible due to animosity between the parties or an inability to see eye-to-eye. For that reason, many parties involved in a legal claim or dispute will seek to try to resolve their legal dispute in mediation. Mediation at its core is a type of settlement negotiation that involves the services of a neutral third party. If you are going to mediation in your legal or dispute or if you think a mediation might help you efficiently and effectively achieve a resolution in your case, turn to a qualified New Jersey ADR mediations lawyer from Lombardi and Lombardi, P.A. for help.
Our firm's ADR mediation practice, led by a former judge with decades of judicial and mediation experience, has the skills and resources needed to advocate for your rights and interests in mediation and help you pursue a fair and favorable outcome to your claim or dispute.
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Mediation is one of the most commonly used forms of alternative dispute resolution in New Jersey. Mediation is used in many different kinds of legal claims and disputes, including personal injury claims, employment and labor law cases, and contract disputes. Mediation is often preferred over other types of ADR due to its lower costs and the fact that the parties to the claim or dispute remain in full control of the outcome.
Mediation is a meeting between the parties in a legal case that is facilitated by a neutral third party called a mediator. Mediations are considered non-binding, as the parties are not required to reach a resolution in the mediation, nor can the mediator force the parties to settle or otherwise render a decision in the case. Thus, unlike arbitration or trial where a third party decides the outcome of the parties' dispute, in a mediation, the parties get to decide what a settlement or resolution looks like.
During the mediation, the mediator will hear each party's side of the story along with their evidence and legal arguments. The role of the mediator includes:
Identifying areas of dispute and areas of agreement between the parties.
Providing a neutral evaluation to each party of the strengths and weaknesses of their legal claims or arguments.
Proposing compromises or resolutions to various outstanding disputes.
The mediator helps the parties to negotiate a settlement in the case. Mediation may take place over one or more days, with daily sessions lasting several hours. If the parties have not reached a settlement at the end of the scheduled mediation, they may choose to continue the mediation if they believe further efforts will achieve a settlement or resolution, or they may choose to pursue other forms of ADR or to go to litigation.
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Although mediation may seem like an ideal way to achieve a settlement or resolution, you may not know what the process is like or whether mediation is right for your claim or dispute. A New Jersey ADR mediations lawyer from Lombardi and Lombardi, P.A. can offer you straightforward advice and legal counsel so that you understand the process and decide whether mediation might be right to help you achieve a fair and favorable settlement or resolution to your legal claim or dispute.
Our experienced attorneys can help prepare you for a mediation so that you know what to expect, including whether you'll be asked to speak at the mediation session. Although we recognize that mediation is an opportunity for you to secure a settlement or resolution in your case, we will always look out for your best interests during the proceedings. We'll help you to determine whether any proposed settlements at the mediation provide you with a fair and favorable outcome. We make sure that mediation serves its intended purpose of putting you in control of the outcome.
Contact Us Today for a Free Case Review to Learn Why Having a Knowledgeable New Jersey ADR Mediations Lawyer on Your Side Can Make the Difference in Securing a Favorable Outcome in Your Case
Call or contact Lombardi and Lombardi, P.A. today for a free, no-obligation consultation to speak with an experienced New Jersey ADR mediations lawyer about whether mediation might be the right option to help you obtain a fair and favorable outcome in your legal claim or dispute.
Frequently Asked Questions about ADR Mediation in New Jersey
FAQ: Do we have to reach a settlement in mediation?
No. The parties are not obligated to reach a settlement in a mediation, and the mediator has no power to require the parties to reach a settlement or issue a decision that is binding on the parties. Although parties may be ordered by the court to participate in mediation prior to going to trial in a legal dispute, there is no obligation that they reach a settlement so long as they participate in the meditation in good faith.
FAQ: What happens if a mediation doesn't result in a settlement agreement?
If a mediation session ends without the parties having reached a settlement, the mediator may suggest that the parties participate in additional mediation sessions if the mediator believes the parties are making progress towards a settlement. The parties may also continue informal negotiations towards a settlement based on the progress achieved in a mediation. Parties may choose to engage in another form of alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration. Or, parties may decide to ultimately resolve their dispute at trial.


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You have had a long day at work. Preparing dinner is the last thing on your mind, but you don't have to worry. After pulling into your garage, you open your freezer. You choose from its well stocked selection: four gourmet filet mignons; one steamer pack of fresh, organic asparagus; one steamer pack of organic sweet corn; and a pack of organic wild blueberries for desert. Within 45 minutes your family is sitting down to a fine restaurant meal right in your own home. You are content knowing you are feeding your family all-natural, GMO-free, hormone-free, steroid-free food.
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An assistant high school football coach and former varsity star in the Hudson Valley has been charged with sending indecent material to minors after allegedly sending explicit text messages.
Justin Kaffenberger is the assistant football coach of the Monroe-Woodbury junior varsity football team.
State Police arrested Kaffenberger, a Monroe resident, on Wednesday, Sept. 19 and charged him with disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree (a Class D felony) and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child (a Class A misdemeanor). The two victims were under the age of 17, state police said.
Kaffenberger is being accused of sending naked pictures of himself to one of the victims, a 15-year-old girl, and asking her to perform sexual acts on him, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said.
He was arraigned in the Town of Woodbury Court and remanded to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $7,500 cash/$15,000 bond.
The Monroe-Woodbury School District is cooperating with the police in the ongoing investigation.
Anyone with information regarding the situation is asked to contact the State Police Monroe Bureau of Criminal Investigation at (845) 782-8311.
A 2013 graduate of Monroe-Woodbury, Kaffenberg was a three-year varsity football standout, playing quarterback, wide receiver and punter and serving as team captain as a senior.
He was named Class AA back of the year and top wide receiver in the Hudson Valley his senior year.
He went on to play defensive back at Stonehill College, a Division II program in Easton, Massachusetts.


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What should happen to a nurse charged with failing to ensure that a patient was promptly reviewed?
A case study showing an example of a nurse who was charged with contributing to a reduction in a patient's chance of survival and how their case was brought before a fitness to practise panel
The charges
Nurse A was charged with failing to ensure that Patient A was promptly reviewed by medical staff when she knew or, alternatively, should have known that the patient had a high National Early Warning Score (NEWS). It was alleged that this contributed to a reduction in patient A's chance of survival; and that at or around 5:15am, she left the ward unattended by a nurse for approximately five minutes. She did not complete an incident form following Patient A's death.
The charges arose while Nurse A was employed as a nurse by an NHS trust in Hertfordshire.
Nurse A was working in the obstetrics and gynaecology department and had returned to work following a week of annual leave. Patient A was admitted to A&E from the care home in which she lived and had complex care needs. Patient A was reviewed by a doctor at 5pm for a prescription of intravenous fluids and a NEWS of 6 was recorded.
Ms 2 took Patient A's observations at around 9:20pm and was unable to obtain a blood pressure (BP) reading. She made an entry on the NEWS chart indicating this. Ms 2 said that she informed Nurse A and Nurse B that she had been unable to take Patient A's BP. Nurse B took Patient A's observations at midnight, escorted her to bed and commenced oxygen therapy. She recorded observations (including BP) in the nursing continuation notes. Nurse B also checked Patient A's BP at 00:30 and made a record in the notes. Nurse B said that she bleeped the doctor at this time, however, the record of bleeps made did not support this.
By 5am, Patient A was cold and clammy with low BP. A doctor was called and observations conducted at 5.45am. While the doctor was attending to Patient A, she suffered a cardiac arrest. Resuscitation was unsuccessful and Patient A was pronounced dead at 6.30am.
At the hearing
Nurse A admitted the third and fourth charges and these charges were found proved by way of admission. The panel found the first charge to be proved. The panel noted that Nurse A was in charge of the ward.
The allocation of this role was agreed by the night nurses on a shift by shift basis; she was the more experienced of the two nurses on shift and had worked on the ward for over 28 years. The panel was informed that neither registered nurse was allocated specific patients; there were 16 patients on the ward that night and both nurses had a responsibility for all those patients.
Ms 2 stated in her written evidence that she had informed Nurse A and Nurse B that she had been unable to take a BP reading from Patient A at 9.30pm. She stated that both Nurse A and Nurse B were standing at the nurses' station at the time. Nurse B responded and said she would find a manual BP device. In Ms 2's oral evidence she stated that she told both nurses of her other concerns about Patient A. Nurse B could not recall her saying anything other than that she had been unable to take a BP reading, and there was no other evidence of Ms 2 raising concerns about Patient A's condition at this time in her written evidence. Nurse A stated that she could not recall this conversation, and even if she had heard it, Nurse B had indicated she would deal with it and, the matter would not concern her.
The panel determined that Patient A's low BP and the unanswered bleep to the medical team should have raised concern.
Results of the fitness-to-practise panel
The ftp panel can impose four different sanctions:
Not impaired: the panel finds that the registrants's fitness to practise is not impaired; therefore they can continue to practise
Caution: the nurse or midwife is cautioned for their behaviour, but is allowed to practise without restriction
Conditions of practice: this will prevent a registrant from carrying out certain types of work or working in a particular setting, it may require them to attend occupational health or do retraining. The order can be applied for up to three years and must be reviewed by an FTP panel again before expiry
Suspension: the nurse or midwife will be suspended from practice for a period of initially not longer than one year, but this can be extended after review by an FTP panel
Striking off: a nurse or midwife is removed from the register and not allowed to practise in the UK. The nurse or midwife must apply to be readmitted to the register
Share what you believe is the right action for the NMC panel to take below and then find out what they decided: Final panel decision and reasons
What should happen to a nurse who copied other nurses' work, trying to pass it off as their own?
This case study gives an example of a nurse charged with trying to deceive a university by copying a fellow advanced diploma student's work and training certificates to submit them as their own
What should happen to a nurse who used a member of her own family as a night-sitter?
A nurse who arranged for a unregistered family member to provide services as a night-sitter faced the Nursing and Midwifery Council's fitness to practise panel
Final panel decision: What should happen to a nurse who copied other nurses' work, trying to pass it off as their own?
Find out how the NMC panel acted in this case. Not yet read the case? Read the charge and background here
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12 July 2019Jo Stephenson
A mother whose son suffered "hideous" abuse at the hands of nursing staff is working with the professional regulator to help it improve the way it handles cases involving people with learning disabilities.
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The ICPA's Practice Evolution Conference will be held in both London and Manchester.
This venue in Manchester's Piccadilly district is at the centre of a transport hub within easy access of mainline and tram stations (in fact the tram stops right outside our door!).
Situated across the 8th floor with fantastic views over the city and an abundance of natural light.
15 rooms of various sizes including a self contained event wing along with other smaller rooms and suites ideal for meeting and training events.
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An association software contract isn't easy reading. However, if you dedicate attention and time to reviewing a contract before you sign, you'll have peace of mind from knowing you're making an informed choice and a good business decision.
My previous post in this series focused on 5 questions to answer before signing a software contract. Let's dig deeper into some sections of the contract that usually need extra clarity and consideration.
Don't assume anything. If something isn't explicitly mentioned in the contract, the vendor won't be responsible for providing it. Insist they change the contract language to address your critical concerns.
Pause before signing. Don't rush into things. Take time to review every section of the contract and ask for clarification where necessary.
Know what type of software you're being promised.
Are you signing a contract for a traditional software purchase or a cloud licensing and delivery subscription? Traditionally, software has been sold as a product. The software was installed on premise, that is, on your association's server and/or desktops. You owned the license(s) in perpetuity.
You can still purchase software in this way, but often an organization wants the software hosted off-premise by the vendor or a third-party. In this case, in addition to purchasing the software up front, you also pay a monthly hosting fee.
In the association technology market, increasingly the trend is going toward a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, a subscription licensing and delivery model. You have access to the software only for the terms of your contract with the vendor. The software is hosted off-premise by the vendor or a third-party. Hosting, maintenance, updates, and support are typically bundled as part of your monthly fee.
Pay attention to these tricky areas of the contract.
Make sure you're getting what you're expecting. Does the contract completely match up with the vendor's proposal and sales promises? Make no assumptions unless you see it in black and white.
Change orders. Look for language saying that when changes to scope arise, the vendor will create a written change order for your review and written approval before proceeding with any work. The change order should clearly define its scope as well as any impacts to the project's overall timing and costs.
Acceptance criteria. The contract must stipulate, and both parties must be in agreement on, what is to be delivered (scope) and how you will both determine that the vendor is delivering the scope (acceptance criteria).
Expenses. The contract should make it clear that any vendor expenses (such as travel expenses, as in the example below) comply with your organization's policies.
Expenses must be reasonable, for example, coach airfare.
The vendor must track expenses.
The vendor must submit expenses for your review upon request. You could also add language to the contract requiring any expense over X dollar amount requires your prior written approval.
Project personnel. You should have the ability to review and approve key vendor personnel assigned to your project. Look for a clause stating that you can deem personnel unsuitable and the vendor will replace them.
Costs. Are they correct? If someone unfamiliar with the project picked up the contract would they understand what you're purchasing and the costs?
Are payments tied to project milestones or dates? Ideally, you want to tie payments to project-deliverable dates, for example, 15% upon completion of end-user training.
Is payment fixed, not-to-exceed, or based on time and materials?
Are the invoice terms for 15 or 30 days, sometimes referred to as net 15 or net 30? When a vendor mails an invoice (instead of emailing it) be sure the trigger for paying the invoice is based on your receipt of the invoice, not the invoice date.
What is the procedure for dispute resolution if you see an error on the invoice? What amount of time do you have for raising an invoice concern?
Data. When your data is stored on servers not in your control, for example, servers hosted by your SaaS vendor, you need to inquire about (and get in writing) the host's backup policy. How often do they back up your data and are they incremental or full backups? How often will they test and restore data? Make sure their recovery time objectives are defined in the contract.
Don't be surprised to see more than one contract.
In the past, you typically signed one contract for the software and related services. Now, however, most vendors provide a Master Service Agreement that covers warranties, confidentiality, intellectual property ownership, payment terms, indemnification, dispute resolution, governing law, and other general terms; as well as separate Statements of Work (SOW) that address licensing, hosting, support, service-level agreement (SLA), and implementation services. You could have even more contracts if you're working with a separate company as your implementation partner.
TIP: When possible, have a design study services contract that's separate from the implementation services contract.
Your vendor may use a different term for this phase of the project, for example, instead of calling it the "design study" phase, they may call it the "discovery," "requirements analysis," or "system requirements analysis" phase.
Having a separate design study services contract will ensure you and the vendor establish clear expectations as to the specific scope of the implementation project and costs before you agree to purchase the licenses and contract for all of the implementation services that may have been identified in the sales proposal.
This approach also provides an extra level of protection. For example, imagine if the design study phase is completed and you find out the project costs are 150% over what you had budgeted based on the sales phase.
Some vendors don't offer a separate design study services contract but it doesn't hurt to ask. If you can't get a separate contract, insert language in the contract permitting you to terminate after the design study phase without further obligation.
My next (and last) post in this series will cover the delivery and acceptance phases of the project.


Please note that the deadline for applications to participate in this hackathon was 23 March 2016.
This is an opportunity for enthusiastic coders, front-end developers, UI designers, hackers, network operators and others to work together with RIPE Atlas developers to improve RIPE Atlas for all users. The goal of this hackathon is to improve or come up with entirely new ways to interface with RIPE Atlas. This includes everything from dashboards, alerts and plug-ins for existing monitoring systems to novel graphical user interfaces (GUI), improvements to the command-line clients (CLI) and algorithmic analysis of data patterns - or something completely different.
Small teams will work with RIPE Atlas developers and can choose to either work on furthering existing ideas developed by the RIPE Atlas team and community, or entirely new projects. At the end of the two-day event, we aim to have completed interfaces or working prototypes.
Participants will work together in teams to further develop their ideas, culminating in short presentations to the jury on Sunday afternoon and a social event to announce the winning teams and celebrate everyone's participation. Food and drinks will be provided throughout the weekend.
All source code developed during the hackathon will be publicly licensed and available on GitHub, and available for the entire community to use.
If you believe you might be eligible for travel funding, please state this (including the reason why) in the application form. A limited number of successful applicants will be able to receive funding of €500, or €1,000 for those from developing countries. The jury will make final decisions about who will receive funding and how much they will receive.
The deadline for applications is 23 March 2016. A jury will review the applications and will make final selections about successful participants and travel funding for those applicants. All applicants will be informed about their application status by 30 March.
We are very grateful to Comcast for their generous support of this event.
Comcast Cable is one of the U.S.'s largest high-speed Internet, video, and phone providers to residential customers under the Xfinity brand. Comcast's Innovation Fund provides grants for novel technical research as well as development of open source software, and in 2016 is focusing more investment in Internet measurement.
We look forward to working with you during the RIPE Atlas in Copenhagen hackathon and are excited to see what you come up with! Before you head to Copenhagen, here's some information that might be useful. Let us know if you have any questions at mcb@ripe.net.