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...colleagues who shared a common purpose. They were actors in the Palestine Street Theater Group, sponsored by Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/Palestine and the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights. They re-enacted a scene typical of life in the Occupied Territories to spread awareness about the daily plight of ordinary Palestinians under Israeli military rule...
...Call me a fan, but Bono stands out. In the past three years, in talking to politicians, aid workers, activists and United Nations and development-bank officials, I have never heard a single suggestion that the U2 singer was involved with the plight of the world's poor for anything other than genuine concern. In part that's because he has convinced the professionals that he does his homework. It's one thing to hear celebrities talk about "doing something" for a cause. It's quite another to hear a rock star give a lecture on "HIPC conditionality," the terms...
...Look at the PR efforts of the rival "brand" - al Qaeda. Bin Laden's propaganda screeds are almost always built around the plight of ordinary Palestinians and Iraqis, for whose suffering most of the Muslim world holds the U.S. at least partly responsible. Bin Laden also loves to harp on U.S. support for corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. It's a cynical ad campaign, of course. Bin Laden has done nothing to help either the Palestinians or the Iraqis, and he's nothing if not another high-born authoritarian himself. But think of it as negative advertising...
...because like the slaves, the ancient Israelites of the Bible had been oppressed, analogies between slaves’ plight and that of the Israelites became a prevalent theme in Negro spirituals. For instance, the spiritual, “Go Down Moses” directly appealed to this similarity of experience...
...Before they launch hasty trademark fights, countries should consider America's plight. Though it is winning its battle with the Vietnamese, the U.S. has lost ground elsewhere in the trademarking war. Congress's catfish vote forced the U.S. trade representative to drop opposition to a similar ban in Europe that allows only North Atlantic sardines to be sold as herring...