A national week against homophobia began Tuesday in Havana with an opening of an art exhibition and a series of films on the subject that runs through Monday at the Cuba Pavilion in Havana. Among the activities planed in Havana are debates and discussions at the Cuban Association of Writers and Artists (UNEAC) headquarters (Friday, [...]
In this music video, rapper Swindoe guides a group of undocumented immigrants across the Arizona/Mexico border as the group look to outsmart the Border Patrol. [youtube YJgHw0NR0xY]
On May 7th, 2010 immigration enforcement raided Dufferin Grove Mall in Toronto’s west end in a first in a series of attacks. No One Is Illegal – Toronto has reasons to believe that these raids will continue and extend in to the St. Clair Area. Over two dozen persons found to be without ?adequate documentation? [...]
A California coalition calls on DHS Secretary Napolitano to end Arizona-style immigration enforcement programs that lead to racial profiling and the violation of due process rights in area communities. The group targets neighborhood raids, empowering of local police to enforce immigration laws. Following a march to protest the discriminatory immigration enforcement policies of the Department [...]
Durga Sob was just 10 when she realized she was from the Dalit, or ‘untouchable’, class of Nepal: ‘I drank from a water pot that other people used, and by sharing this water, I’d made it ‘unclean’. I was screamed at and chased away. I told my mother and she said: “God made us Dalit, [...]
The 5th U.S. Agent Orange Justice Tour April 14 – May 16, 2010 Coming to Los Angeles, Washington State, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco Join Pham The Minh and Nguyen Thi Hien, direct from Vietnam! Hear their personal stories & learn about the legacy of Agent Orange! Today, millions of Vietnamese suffer [...]
I look at their faces, I see reflection and masks that sometimes repeat my own in a strange cyclic pattern of power. Because in here, I am but a wage-slave, condemn sweating and hurting for eight bucks an hour, forced to smile and accept condescend behavior from the all-smiling, ever merry elite of the capital. [...]
We live in a world where people suffer from hunger, homelessness, and preventable diseases, (and that’s in America where the majority Imperial booty resides, I mean booty as a double entendre), but yet instill we can still find time to go to professional sporting events. I’ve always been amazed at how people of color, without [...]
Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste” has been making the rounds of late. In the essay, based on her book of the same name, Alexander makes two key posits: that the United States has “a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth [...]
By Biodun Jeyifo Some Recurrent Themes on the Challenges of an African Cultural Modernity I start with the contention that if we are to derive much-needed illumination from the literature and critical thought of Africa of the last half a century with regard to the profound crises engendered by arrested decolonization in the postindependence period, [...]
I just wanted to feature this article that was written by Sikivu Hutchinson (posted on Black Agenda Report 05/04/2010), discussing how a certain sector of punk chump Negro communities think they are off the hook from the brutality of American Imperialism because our brown brothers and sisters are catching heat in the news at this [...]
Released May 7, 2010 by Uhuru News
Film And Discussion Sunday May 9 @ 1:30 p.m. Cinema Room 1800 SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings, Vancouver Join us for a film screening of the acclaimed film Lal Salaam, a fictional account based on the ongoing social, political, and economic realities that are affecting Adivasis (“tribal people”) and fueling Naxalite movements. Cast includes [...]
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Check out an interview with Shannon Rivers, Akimel O’Odham on migration and immigration from the perspective of the Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples of the O’Odham Nations Territories. Referencing the Catholic Church scandals, Beyond White Guilt writes about “What does Solidarity look like for White Allies?” The Zapatista movement is engaged in several land [...]
Interview on Al Jazeera’s Faultlines, the author and activist Arundhati Roy speaks on international politics. [youtube gnTS9gHCZoI]
University of Puerto Rico’s students have been on strike for two weeks, resisting attempts by the pro-statehood administration of the colony to slash the budget by $100 million; raise tuition; eliminate or limit the tuition waiver program; and potentially privatize the university system. The students enjoy the support of virtually the entire society- unions, including [...]
Delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held on October 24-27, 1991, in Washington DC, drafted and adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice. Since then, The Principles have served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice. PREAMBLE WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this [...]
[youtube CsA2CqS5twQ] On May Day, international workers’ day, a huge demonstration of between 500,000-1 million people took place in Kathmandu. Called by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), people came from all over Nepal to make their voices heard. It was the largest demonstration since the fall of the centuries-old monarchy and was the [...]
Language is the tool we use to frame our thoughts and thought processes. Every time we use, or tolerate the use around us of the terms “illegal” and “illegal alien” we are allowing white American nationalists, white racists, to speak from our mouths. That can’t lead to anyplace good. It’s been said before, but some [...]
RT @pocorganize: Reported Minnesota Militia Member Arrested in Terror Plot http://t.co/fLdbwyiiMp #connecttheleft #uniteblue #unifiedleft
Reported Minnesota Militia Member Arrested in Terror Plot http://t.co/fLdbwyiiMp #connecttheleft #uniteblue #unifiedleft
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