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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to Pick Up a Flight Attendant



How to Pick Up a Flight Attendant originally appeared on Conde Nast Traveler February 12, 2014

I’ve been a flight attendant for a major U.S. carrier for more than 15 years, so if there’s one thing I know besides uncomfortable seats and bad food, it’s men. Really it’s people. That said, I met my husband somewhere over Illinois on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. These days the skies aren’t quite as friendly as they once were. No joke—it’s probably easier to pick up a fully loaded beverage cart than it is a flight attendant today, which is why I offer the following tips


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1. MAKE EYE CONTACT.. And say hello! It’s shocking how many people don’t return my greeting, let alone my gaze, when I say good morning during boarding at the aircraft door. Often I feel like I’m talking to myself. Sometimes I’ll even answer my own questions. This is why passengers who are kind, courteous, and say “please” and “thank you” really stand out.

2. DON’T SHOW ME YOUR BAG TAG. If you have to tell me your frequent flier status, you’re probably doing something wrong. Listen, everyone has status. Everybody’s important. It’s why the airlines had to create another top-tier frequent-flier level to separate the million milers from the three-million milers. Differentiate yourself from the masses. Compliment me.

3. HELP A PASSENGER. Nothing catches my eye more than somebody who goes out of their way to help another passenger, especially when it comes to getting overstuffed bags into the bin. Right away I know this is a good person, a person who helps their fellow man without expecting anything in return. Extra wine, water, pretzels for them.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Statement of Support from the US Palestinian Community Network



Pernyataan Dukungan dari Jaringan Masyarakat Palestina AS
The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) congratulates IJAN for convening the first national gathering of Anti-Zionist Jews in the United States. This is a momentous and historic achievement! We offer our unequivocal and strongest support for this Assembly Against Racism and Israeli Apartheid, its leadership, and organizers. You are unwavering allies in struggle, and indefatigable brothers and sisters in solidarity. Together, we will overcome Zionism, decolonize Palestine, and make another world possible. L’kheirut! (To liberty)!
Jaringan Masyarakat Palestina AS (USPCN) mengucapkan selamat kepada IJAN untuk mengadakan pertemuan nasional pertama Yahudi Anti-Zionis di Amerika Serikat. Ini merupakan prestasi penting dan pencapaian bersejarah! Kami menawarkan dukungan kami yang tegas dan sangat kuat untuk Pertemuan Perlawanan Rasisme dan Apartheid Israel, kepemimpinannya dan penyelenggaranya. Anda sekutu kuat kami dalam perjuangan, dan saudara-saudari yang tak kenal lelah dalam solidaritas. Bersama, kita akan mengatasi Zionisme, mendekolonisasi Palestina, dan membuat dunia yang lain menjadi ada. L’kheirut! (Untuk kebebasan)!
Gimana pendapat Kompasianer ? Sangat menjanjikan bukan ?

Skedul Dan Kegiatan
US Assembly of Jews: Confronting Racism & Israeli Apartheid
AGENDA
Saturday, June 19, 5pm on Welcome and Opening Program
5-6pmWelcome Address and Who’s in the Room
MC: Shoshana Vogel
Introductory Remarks: Barbara Lubin
Welcome Address: Mich Levy
6-8pmOpening Panel: State of the Movement
Moderators: Mich Levy and Barbara Lubin
  • The Role of Jewish anti-Zionist Organizing as part of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, anti-Racist and anti-Imperialist Struggles in the US (Sara Kershnar)
  • The Role of anti-Zionist Jewish Organizing in Support of Palestinian grassroots Movement in the US (Andrew Dalack)
  • Solidarity and Joint Struggle with anti-Racist, anti-Colonial and anti-Imperialist Movements within the US (Kali Akuno)
  • Gender Justice and anti-Colonial Resistance: Centering Justice, Confronting Racism (Rabab Abdulhadi)
  • The State of the Movement: What it Takes to Organize as anti-Zionist Jews Internationally and in the US (Selma James)
  • Questions and Responses
8:00-8:30pmOpening Statements
8:30–9:30pmHavdalah : An inclusive ritual marking the ushering in of our work together at the Assembly and the USSF
9:30pm onThe Shondes, other performers and DJ
Sunday, June 20 The Political Moment and anti-Zionist Strategies
8:30-9amMorning coffee and registration re-opens
9am-1:15pmConcurrent Workshops
9-11amWorkshop Session 1
  • Contemporary Jewish anti-Zionism: Placing it in History — International Institute Classroom 1
  • Deepening our anti-Zionist Practice: Transforming Legacies of Trauma, Drawing from Legacies of Resistance (Part I) — International Institute Hall of Nations
  • Queer and Feminist Politics, and Jewish Opposition to Zionism — International Institute Classroom 2
  • Roots and Resistance: Incorporating Lessons from anti-Racism into anti-Zionist Organizing For Collective Liberation— International Institute American Room
11-11:15amBREAK
11:15-1:15pmWorkshop Session 2
  • Deepening our anti-Zionist Practice: Transforming Legacies of Trauma, Drawing from Legacies of Resistance (Part II) — International Institute Hall of Nations
  • Reclaiming Ashkenazi Cultural Spaces from a Zionist Agenda: Questions & Possibilities — International Institute Classroom 2
  • Zionist Liberalism: A Strategic Approach — International Institute Classroom 1
  • The Aryan Within: The Place of Whiteness in Zionism and anti-Whiteness in anti-Zionism — International Institute American Room
1:15-2:30 pmLUNCH: Keynote by Dr. Haidar Eid
One Democratic State Group, Gaza
2:30-4:30 pmMajor Session 1: What is the political moment?
Moderators: Selma James and Sara Kershnar
  • State of Palestine and the Region—Zionism, Imperialism and Resistance (Ziad Abbas)
  • Cracks in the Edifice of Zionism (Gabriel Ash)
  • Confronting Islamophobia, Defending Targeted Communities (Fahd Ahmed)
  • Locating Jewish anti-Zionism in the anti-Zionist landscape and in History (Michel Shehadeh)
  • Confronting Zionism as Part of the anti-Capitalist Movement (Daniel Ullman)
4:30-6:30pmDinner and Regional meetings: What are the implications of the political moment for our organizing?
Each region is asked to identify facilitator and documenter and bring group notes to synthesis spot following session.
6:30-9pmMajor Session 2: Entry Points and Strategies for US Accountability
Moderator: Jesse Benjamin
  • Israel’s Role in US Imperialism and Directions for Intervention (Rebecca Tumposky)
  • Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (Flo Razowsky)
  • Strategic Defense Against Backlash (Allison Deger)
  • Framing the Issue and Impacting Public Opinion (Danny Muller)
Followed by Small Group Strategy Sessions
9:30pm onFilm: Impunity, silk screening and adhoc meetings
Monday, June 21 Campaigns and Areas of Work
8:30–9amMorning coffee
9am-1:15pmConcurrent Workshops
9-11amWorkshop Session 3
  • Betrayed by Zionism: Working Class and Labor Struggles — International Institute American Room, Section 1
  • Coming out Publicly as an anti-Zionist Jew — International Institute Classroom 2
  • Counter-Hasbara: Creating Effective anti-Zionist Messages— WSU Student Center Room 283
  • Dealing with Opposition: Backlash and Defense — WSU Student Center Room 261A
  • Feminist Solidarity: Problems and Possibilities — WSU Student Center Room 29
  • Islamophobia and the Jewish Location — International Institute Hall of Nations
  • Klezmer Musicians Against the Wall — WSU Student Center Room 261 B
  • Sharing and Developing Our Best Practices: anti-Zionist Workshops and Education — International Institute American Room, Section 2
  • The Prison Industrial Complex — International Institute Classroom 1
11-11:15amBREAK
11:15-1:15pmWorkshop Session 4
  • Canada: Zionism, Islamophobia and the New McCarthyism— International Institute Hall of Nations
  • Christian Hegemony, Christian Zionism and their Relevance to Working for a Free Palestine — WSU Student Center Room 261B
  • Environmental Justice and anti-Zionist organizing: The Path to Climate Security Passes Through Gaza — WSU Student Center Room 261A
  • Jewish Anti-Zionist Participation in Local BDS Campaigns — WSU Student Center Room 29
  • Jewish Anti-Zionist Spiritual Reclamation and Political Organizing — International Institute Classroom 1
  • Pan-African/Palestine Solidarity — International Institute American Room
  • Using Media to Strengthen Social Movements — International Institute Classroom 2
1:15-2:30pmLunch
2:30-5:30pmMajor Session 3: Campaigns and Areas of Work
Moderator: Eric Romann
  • Challenging Zionist Institutions: the Case Against the Jewish National Fund (Legal Activist)
  • Anti-Zionist Jewish Theory, Discourse and Popular Education (Brooke Lober)
  • Cultural Jamming for BDS (Dunya Alwan)
  • Small Group sessions: Areas of Work
  • Building the JNF Campaign in the United States (Miriam Marton)
  • Reclaiming and Building anti-Zionist Jewish Culture, Community and Spirituality (Deborah Rosenstein and Jonah Aline Daniel)
  • Direct Solidarity and Supporting Infrastructure Development in Palestine (Barbara Lubin and Ziad Abbas)
  • Campus-Based Organizing: Student, Staff and Faculty Activism (Jesse Benjamin, Perry Bellow-Handelman and Ilana Rossoff)
  • Anti-Zionist Jewish Voice, Theory, Discourse and Popular Education (Brooke Lober)
  • Labor Organizing in Support of BDS (Sam Weinstein)
  • Culture Jamming for BDS (Dunya Alwan)
5:30–8pmBreak and Dinner: Sector and issue-based organizing meetings
  • IJAN Student: Campus-Based Organizing and BDS
  • IJAN Labor: Organizing Labor Forces in Support of Palestine
  • IJAN Academic: Idea Development, Dissemination & Defense
  • Jews of Color
  • ð IJAN Spiritual/Cultural Reclamation: Personal and Political Transformation
  • Self-organized meetings
Each group is asked to identify facilitator and documenter and bring group notes to synthesis spot following session.
8pm onFilm: Matzpen, Open Mic and Open Time
Tuesday, June 22 Where to from Here?
10am–1pmClosing Session: Vision and Movement Building for anti-Zionist Jewish Organizing: Where are we going?
1pm onBreak down and preparation for participation of anti-Zionist delegation in US Social Forum opening march
Yang menarik dari skedul kegiatan pertemuan mereka adalah dibahasnya mengenai Islamophobia.
Salut ! Kelihatan ada kesungguh-sungguhan untuk menyelesaikan semua permasalahan terkait dengan masalah Zionis dan kolonialisasi Palestina.
Alangkah indahnya kalau ada Kompasianer di Detroit dan sekitarnya yang mau dan sempat untuk mengikutinya.. Lalu membuat reportase untuk kita.. ;)
Penutup
Sekali lagi, masalah Israel-Palestina bukanlah masalah agama entah itu Islam, Kristen maupun Judaism. Ini masalah pemerintahan Israel yang dikuasai zionist.
Ibaratnya Jerman dimasa lalu dikuasai Nazi. Maka kita tidak bisa memukulrata bahwa semua rakyat jerman itu jahat tetapi kita semua tahu bahwa sumber permasalahannya ada pada Nazi yang memerintah Jerman pada saat itu. Begitulah mungkin kondisi Israel sekarang.
Itu pendapat subyektif saya ;)
You decide Folks !
Salam Kompasiana
(We don’t have to be a nazi or a revisionist or a Jew-hater to be critical of Israel)

Sumber:
  1. http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org/