Dr. Cornel West spoke at Stanford University on Thursday, February 12 at 6:30 PM at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. The event was free and open to the public, and consisted of a lecture by Dr. West followed by a question-and-answer period with a graduate student in the School of Education and a visiting scholar from the University of Pennsylvania. In his lecture, Dr. West asked questions of the audience drawn from the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, like how shall integrity face oppression? What does decency do in the face of insult? In his answers, Dr.
It seems that Israel has comitted yet another human rights violation in Gaza. As usual there has been no coverage of this incident by mainstream media outlets. 'Brigadier Gerneral Said Al-Saudi, chief of the civil defence agency in Gaza, told Al Jazeera: "Israel opened water dams, without warning, last night, causing serious damage to Gazan villages near the border.