The radical left has to get its shit together, you don’t have to tell me twice.Folks are angry, fed up and most of all confused. In the place of coherent strategies and bold leadership we have dead theories,incoherence and a lack of vision to move hearts and minds. Many of us have given up and [...]
Class is oftentimes as much about self-identification as it is about actual ceremony and recognition from others. How one sees oneself in the class order is intoxicating for some people. Working class people perceiving themselves to be middle class presents itself in phenomena such as workers fighting against organizations to represent their interests, or in [...]
If Brazilian voters elect a woman president next month, what might have appeared to be isolated developments in Chile and Argentina would start to look more like a trend in the southern countries of South America. On Oct. 3 Brazil could become the third country in the subregion to elect a woman president within the [...]
From September 10 through 12, a year after gathering in Atlanta, Georgia to discuss how to combine forces on a national level to build and inspire a transformative movement to change land and property relations in the US, the organizations of the Land and Housing Action Group (LHAG) – the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, Malcolm X [...]
On September 5th, 2010, Manuel Jamines was murdered by cops. LAPD Rampart Division police gunned him down, in broad daylight and in cold blood, at the corner of 6th and Union Ave in Pico-Union, a working class neighborhood in LA known for its Guatemalan and indigenous population. Manuel was a 37-year-old indigenous man from Guatemala [...]
Join The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 for a special UNITY BRUNCH for the Cuban 5. Sunday, September 26, 2010, 1 p.m. CSS 105 E. 22nd St. 4th FL Conference Room Take the 6 train to E. 23rd St.
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Black bloggers Wednesday hosted an online event called No Wedding No Womb. Set for the 148th anniversary of The Emancipation Proclamation, No Wedding No Womb was to draw attention to unplanned pregnancies among African American single women. Listening to NPR’s Tell Me More, however, the focus became a lot clearer: increasing marriages and reducing out-of-wedlock births, not by [...]
I just had to share this video from phenomenal rapper (checkout his video where he answers his critics if he can really spit grimmie!) and political activist, Lowkey entitled Terrorist. I can recall growing up when Rocky had to beat the Russian, and Rambo had to kill anything that moved like a communist; now it’s [...]
“ Like the palm tree, Haitian women bend in the storm but do not break” – from a Haitian women’s song Heard much about post-quake Haiti recently? What about the voices of Haitian women? A women’s delegation from SF WILPF and Haiti Action Committee recently visited Haiti. Their purpose was to hear directly from Haitian [...]
A mining company and a federal agency agreed to spend about $2.5 million on efforts to clean up two uranium-contaminated sites on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, where tribal leaders have pressed the government for years to take action. The projects at both locations represent incremental progress in a decades-long attempt to repair the environmental [...]
On Saturday June 12th, a hundred anti-racist and democratic-minded folks descended on the south gate of the Texas State Capitol, protesting a rally held by supporters of Arizona’s SB 1070 and who want to enact a similar law in Texas. Supporters numbered around 200-250 and were made up of Republicans, Tea Party folks, Texas Nationalists, [...]
Enduring racial disparities in hiring and employment have become a subject of debate amid the economic downturn. The problem with so many of these debates is that the dialogue more often than not tends toward an outcome focused on supporting the economic framework. Language tends toward creating opportunities for the powerless to understand how to [...]
The Whittier Parents’ Committee is staging a sit-in to fight against the demolition of the Whittier Dual Language School’s field house (la Casita), in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. The sit-in has been widely reported as the struggle of a community against the blind austerity cuts instituted by a cash-strapped school board. But in fact [...]
Podcast (ikonoklast): Play in new window | Download Due to technical difficulties, IKONOKLAST SPEAKS! episode on political economy downloaded to iTunes and to the site in a truncated version. We apologize for the inconvenience, and now have the show available in its entirety. ENJOY! In this episode of Ikonoklast Speaks!, The Ikonoklast discusses political economy, [...]
President Evo Morales will speak Monday, Sept. 20, at the Kaye Playhouse of Hunter College. The facility is located at East 68th Street (North Side), between Park and Lexington Avenues. Doors open at 12:30. Speech starts around 1:15. A brief question-and-answer session will follow. Bolivian president Evo Morales is vying with the leader of Venezuela, [...]
From 1980 to 1992, the Central American country of El Salvador was embroiled in a civil war between the military-led government and the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional. The United States supported the Salvadoran government under the guise of anti-Communism and, according to many human rights groups, lent aid to paramilitary death squads [...]
People Of Color Organize! is a website that launched in late March 2010. It is focused on community organizing, theory, activism and struggle led by people of color globally. We need help increasing the number of posts, and providing a space for the information on the site. From the site’s description, “People Of Color Organize! [...]
Current immigration debates have raised important points around popular conceptions of opportunity and ways of mobilizing people. Examples such as the DREAM Act campaign and diverse efforts to address how communities and law enforcement engage monolingual immigrant cross sections have inspired new generations as well as veteran activists to become politically involved. What shape such [...]
RT @pocorganize: Fall From Grace: The Euro-Amerikan Struggle Against the Federal Government http://t.co/v1tePeppG9 #racism #connecttheleft #uniteblue
Fall From Grace: The Euro-Amerikan Struggle Against the Federal Government http://t.co/v1tePeppG9 #racism #connecttheleft #uniteblue
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