:Lenni Brenner - 09-24-09 Air date

Lenni Brenner - 09-24-09 Air date http://www.smithbowen.net/linfame/brenner/
Lenni Brenner...
...was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. He became an atheist at 10, and a left political activist at 15, in 1952. His involvement with the Black civil rights movement began on his first day in the organized left, when he met James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality, later the organizer of the "freedom rides" of the early 60s. He was active in the mid 50s with Bayard Rustin, later the organizer of Martin Luther King's 1963 "I had a dream" March on Washington.

He was arrested 3 times during civil rights sit-ins in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent 39 months in prison when a court revoked his probation for marijuana possession, because of his activities during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement at the University of California in 1964.

Immediately on imprisonment, he spent 4 days in intense discussion with Huey Newton, later founder of the Black Panther Party, who he encountered in the court holding tank. Subsequently, upon release, he worked with Kathy Cleaver. More recently, in the 90s, he and Panther cofounder Bobby Seale defended their activities during the 60s on Morton Downey's TV show.

He was an antiwar activist from the 1st days of the Vietnam war, speaking frequently at rallies in the Bay Area. In 1963 he organized the Committee for Narcotic Reform in Berkeley. In 1968 he co-founded the National Association for Irish Justice, the American affiliate of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

He worked with Kwame Ture (AKA Stokely Carmichael), the legendary "Black Power" leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in the Committee against Zionism and Racism, from 1985 until Ture's death in 1998.

Brenner is the author of 4 books: * Zionism in the Age of the Dictators * The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir * Jews in America Today * The Lesser Evil, a study of the Democratic Party

His books have been favorably reviewed in 11 languages by prominent publications, including the London Times, The London Review of Books, Moscow's Izvestia and the Jerusalem Post.

He has written over 100 articles for many publications, including New York's Amsterdam News, the Anderson Valley Advertiser, The Atlanta Constitution, CounterPunch, The Jewish Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East Policy, Middle East International, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The New Statesman of London, Al-Fajr in Jerusalem and Dublin's United Irishman.

In 2002 he edited 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis, which contains complete translations of many of the documents quoted in Zionism in the Age of the Dictators and The Iron Wall.

In 2004 he edited Jefferson & Madison On Separation of Church and State: Writings on Religion and Secularism.

Some of Lenni Brenner's writings online

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[ministryofsumthing]

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[hypnofan35]

Here's a "philisophical" question: Why is it when two "healthy creatures" when forced to fight will not decide they don't really have a reason. The flying bullets and exploding bombs seem to become "all the reason you would ever need" to continue. It is like a status fighting thing. Just the conditions of war make further war seem "necessary". What if you made the leaders duke it out until they dropped to the ground in total exhaustion? Would that work? No, it would mess up politicking!

[hypnofan35]

The devil must be "a gamer" and not a puzzler. The only thing the devil needs or wants to know is how to cheat and defeat using popular rules and laws for personal benefit.. The devil will even change laws to favor them individually. You might say the group called Republicans pretty much act like a mob of mini Satans. Their motto should be all lies anytime anywhere, because ownership and power is all. Boehner has dead eyes.

[hypnofan35]

The devil is normally depicted as a king-ping type, and/or a degenerate selfish individual that is only rewarded by shiney objects and the ability to torpedo "other devils" on the way to becoming demi devils themselves. You have to have the objective rewards, and lust for the same to have even imagine a devil. Satan wants to sate himself with ever more reward of stuff, status, and attention with "winning". You cannot defeat that, because the attributes include muder by group backstabbing.

[hypnofan35]

No one ever talks about why the United States is in Afghanistan. They say there is a war and it seems to amount to killing Afghanis, and enslaving the agriculture. Does anyone know another reason? i say the US makes a surge away from Afghanistan. Give them a little while and they will be able to run their own poppy trafficking. i hope they know that heroin is a deadly and devistatingly addictive drug. Tell us our gov is not allowing someone to profit from heroin trafficking.

[hypnofan35]

There is some kind of Trojan horse of a policy. i think a president's life is always in danger from a variety of "big time scam and racket artists" who like to stay in the shadows. ie, the Kennedys. Sometimes the methodology of big time crime is 'to hurt' someone in the way of their plans. In Afghanistan the poppy harvest has "expanded dramatically" since the beginning. It's like the illegal franchise of a lifetime or history. There's monumental historical crime at the top.