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Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fgNDI-Bsg - Amith On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Abourezk was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives, and > served from 1971 to 1973. He then was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he > served until 1979. > > As a senator, he criticized the Office of Public Safety (OPS), a U.S. > agency linked to the USAID and the CIA that provided training to foreign > police forces. He also was instrumental in the creation of both the > American Indian Policy Review Commission and the Select Committee on Indian > Affairs. He chaired the Policy Review Commission the entire time it > existed, and then took the gavel as chair of the Indian Affairs Committee > from its creation in 1977 to 1979, when he retired. Abourezk was an early > supporter of a National initiative and with fellow Senator Mark O. Hatfield > (R-OR) introduced an amendment allowing more direct democracy. However, > this initiative failed. > > In 1974, TIME magazine named Senator Abourezk one of the 200 Faces for the > Future.[2] > > In 1978, Abourezk chose not to run for re-election and was succeeded by > Republican Larry Pressler, with whom he has had a long-running feud that > has lasted until the present day.[3] > > Advocacy > Following his retirement in 1980, Abourezk founded the American-Arab > Anti-Discrimination Committee, a grassroots civil rights organization. In > 1989, he wrote Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. > Senate (ISBN 1-55652-066-2) and he is the co-author—along with Hyman > Bookbinder of Through Different Eyes: Two Leading Americans — a Jew and an > Arab — Debate U. S. Policy in the Middle East (ISBN 0917561392) > > Abourezk now works as a lawyer and writer in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. > > Huffington Post writer James Zogby praised Abourezk as a "bold and > coureagous former Senator" for protesting to the FBI after the ABSCAM > operation and calling all Arab-Americans to "reclaim the right to defend > and define their heritage."[4] > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abourezk > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
