“And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?”

— Ward Churchill

Discussion at the Seattle Independent Media Center http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=7592&nav=&, August 10, 2003

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