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Archive for August, 2010
Newburgh Four Trial Update
The trial for the Newburgh 4 trial began this past week. The FBI confidential informant is expected to testify on Monday, and possibly Tuesday. According to those who attended the first few days, the trial is quite interesting and the Judge is very fair. The trial is at 500 Pearl Street, NYC, Courtroom 14C, Mondays [...]
Political Economy And Hollywood Propaganda!
Every aspect of mainstream society fuels the death machine of this bourgeois political economy, and movies are no different. Checkout this interview with Matthew Alford author of “Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy”, conducted by New Left Project. Be on the looked out for the next episode of The People Of Color Organize’s podcast [...]
Afro-Colombian Community Faces Eviction To Make Way For Gold Exploration
An Afro-descendant community in northern Colombia is in danger of being displaced to make way for gold exploration, according to reports from Washington-based advocacy organizations. The community at La Toma, in northern Cauca, faces eviction in accordance with a permit for mining exploration ceded by the Colombian government to a private individual in 2000. The [...]
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas [review]
In his film South of the Border, Oliver Stone dreamed of the potential for the progressive movements taking hold in Central and South America to visit U.S. shores. This idea may be far fetched, but it is optimistic. One has to keep in mind that it is a country’s often middle and upper classes, generally [...]
Civil Society Watchdogs Crucial in New Global Order
MONTREAL, Canada, Aug 23, 2010 (IPS) – Six hundred delegates from more than 80 countries flocked to Montreal Aug. 20-23 for the CIVICUS World Assembly in search of innovative ways to approach global challenges like poverty and climate change. An international alliance of about 1,000 civil society organisations, CIVICUS concentrates its efforts on strengthening citizen [...]
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Seen From Baltimore to Arizona
Record-breaking high temperatures have been the norm this summer in the United States and other countries. But for Latinos, it’s been even hotter than the thermometer suggests, with one after another targeted for hate crimes around the country. Here’s a sampling of recent incidents: Early last Saturday in Baltimore, Martin Rayez, 51, was beaten to [...]
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
Dr. David Brion Davis discusses American and British Slave Trade Abolition as the keynote speaker at an Emory University conference, “Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and the Bicentennial of the End of the Slave Trade, 1808-2008,” on December 5, 2008. Davis presents political, ideological, religious, and economic factors that led to the abolition of [...]
10 Ways to Fight the Deporting of Refugees
Join No One is Illegal to call for the immediate release of detained Tamil asylum seekers, and an end to racist and restrictive refugee policies. Justice, Freedom, and Status for All! Surviving a dangerous journey, 500 Tamil refugees, including women and children, arrived in BC after fleeing war and persecution in Sri Lanka. When the [...]
Shameful Behaviour: The Canadian State and Tamil Refugees
Once again, the approach of a ship carrying refugees has been met by racist hostility and unfounded accusations of terrorism. The arrival of the MV Sun Sea to the shores of Vancouver Island has seen an outpouring of explicitly racist, anti-immigrant discourse throughout Canada. In a country which would like to consider itself a champion [...]
Indocumentalismo Manifesto: An Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity
Emerging socio-political ideology Political ideology is a certain set of ideals, principles or doctrines of a social movement, class or group of people that explain how society works, offers a vision of how society should be different, and proposes certain methods of achieving that vision. We know of political ideologies such as anarchism, socialism, communism, [...]
Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power [review]
“What do you read for fun” is indubitably one of those questions for which answers are reserved for fiction writing, Garfield and celebrity gossip magazines. Fun. Harmless a word, though loaded with assumptions. How fiction ended up among cartoons and whispering about pop stars in the kingdom of frolic is largely the purview of large [...]
Asian American Anti-imperialist Newspaper Archive Online
The newspaper of Yellow Seeds, an Asian American anti-imperialist organization focused on the Asian American community and Chinatown neighborhood in Philadelphia during the 1970s, is online now. From the organization’s description: Yellow Seeds aligns itself with the liberation struggles of all people all over the world against all forms of imperialism and colonialism. Here in [...]
The Hate That Hate Produced Mixtape! The Re-Release!
At a time when music is at an all time high for being cliché, boring, and just plain fucking bourgeois, The Hate That Hate Produced Mixtape!, is a breath of fresh air that is badly needed. Put together by the good folks at VoxUnion, this mixtape not only gets you thinking but it also goes [...]
Pacifying Resistance
To see more clips from the upcoming documentary Endciv and to support the project click here. And FUCK NONVIOLENCE as static “principled” stance as a opposed to one of many tatics for liberation.
The Tradition Of Black August!
August 1619 – Arrival of first African slaves in 13 colonies August 21, 1791 – Haiti slave uprising for independence August 30, 1800 – Gabriel Prosser’s slave revolt discovered August 21, 1831 – Nat Turner’s slave rebellion August 1850 – Underground Railroad August 17, 1887 – Birth of Marcus Garvey August 24, 1943 – [...]
Support Outlaws In The Fort!
Start: 08/20/2010 19:30 Timezone: Canada/Eastern Outlaws at the Fort: Stimulator, Gord Hill, Ursula, Okibi, Star, BlankSpace A night full of love and rage! Date: August 20 Time: 7:30 PST Location: Fort Street Cafe (742 Fort Street – Victoria, BC) Presenting the most radical party of the summer. Pay-what-you-can benefit for G20 and forest action legal [...]
Capitalist Crisis and the Potential for Radical Renewal
Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch all teach political economy at York University in Toronto and are the authors of In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, published by PM Press. Panitch and Albo are co-editors of the Socialist Register, while Gindin for many years was research director of [...]
