In recent weeks the centre of the unstable and diverse social ferment that has been bubbling and boiling at the base of South African society since at least 2004 has shifted to Cape Town. People have often remarked that the conflict on the slopes of the Sentinel in Hout Bay, in which four people lost [...]
2011 is an election year in Guatemala: this is a critical time for international human rights observers to be present. An upcoming January training in the Bay Area, California will be a training for the year, with placements available throughout 2011. The deadline for applications is October 31; if you or someone you know would like [...]
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PACT (Pan Asian Community Together) will be shooting 3 different targeted PSAs next Saturday, October 30, 2010 or Sunday October 30, 2010 from 10 to 5pm in either Los Angeles, CA; or North Hollywood, CA. Focus 1: Preventing gay suicide—APIs for The Trevor Project (“It Gets Better”) Focus 2: Stop Anti-Asian Violence Focus 3: Get [...]
Wanted to hit you all up with a brief quote from psychiatrist, writer, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon; Fanon makes it plain that Imperialism doesn’t sleep. This is dedicated to all you out there who thought the right to vote was the only struggle colonized people fought for, and those who feel that nonviolence is [...]
From Canadian activists: Over the last several months several local Tri-City (Kitchener-Waterloo & Cambridge, Ontario) comrades and I have been in discussions to create a new leftist and activist organization. That goal is now close to fruition, and only awaits official sanction from the University of Waterloo Federation of Students. So with this post I [...]
Having been virtually blind since birth, I have had a lifelong morbid curiosity about those willing to write about their disabilities and illnesses. As Eniko Badillo says in the sublime essay “Black Cloud,” featured in Sick: A Compilation Zine on Physical Illness (Microcosm Publishing, 2010), a natural desire is to be secretive about our struggles [...]
Election times are among us, the signs are everywhere, if you let the politicians tell it apocalypse is upon us. One very interesting (pissed me off) election flyer I received in the mail had on one side pictures of various Tea Party rallies with virulent racist imagery and then on the flip side of the [...]
The NAACP recently released a Special Report on Tea Party Nationalism, which addresses the overlap and interconnectedness between white nationalist hate groups and the various Tea Party groups that are sprouting like bad weeds across the U.S. As if to highlight this connection, David Duke, former KKK leader, early Internet adopter for the cause of [...]
Abahlali baseMjondolo (Zulu: Shack Dwellers) addresses criticism from the South African Communist Party. As Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape we have noted the statement by the South African Communist Party that declares that blockading public roads is “anarchy and reactionary.” If road blockades are anarchistic and reactionary then it is clear that anarchy and [...]
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More than a few writers ask regularly, in the era of massive layoffs, foreclosures, bigotry and the widening gulf between rich and poor, why North America is seeing more right-wing populism in the form of the Tea Party movement than left-leaning activism. The answers for this are complicated. Not the least of these answers, the [...]
On October 8, Bolivian President Evo Morales signed the “Law against Racism and all Forms of Discrimination” (O45) into effect. Despite protests from journalists across the country, the Bolivian Legislative Assembly passed the law without modifying contested articles 16 and 23, which outline potential penalties for members of the media who publish racist or discriminatory [...]
At the end of the afternoon of May 27, a mass demonstration marched into the Place de la Bastille in Paris. The march itself represented what can now be viewed as a low point in the national union mobilizations to challenge the proposed weakening of France’s public pension regime and other reactionary responses of Nicholas [...]
While I was reading an article written by Paul Street in an addition of Black Agenda Report (BAR), I was struck by the extreme race nationalism conveyed by a commentator on his article entitled “Is Barack Obama Bad for Racial Justice”. The commentator went by the name of “Asar”, and made comments thinly directed at [...]
I was looking at my friend’s Facebook page with her and I saw that one of her cousins posted “Everyone needs to vote. This is the most important of all elections. Obama has almost fulfilled his dream for us, we can’t let the Republicans have any ground!” Oh my god (that doesn’t exist), but have [...]
Whether it is penning an indictment of civilization or asking questions aimed at inciting radical transformation, Derrick Jensen has emerged as one of the most prominent voices calling for revolutionary change. In Endgame, his best known book, Jensen argued against the spectacle of society. In Resistance Against Empire (Flashpoint/PM Press, 2010), he brings together researchers, [...]
Bonita Lawrence talks racism, cultural genocide, indigenous identity and aboriginal policy in Canada. [vimeo 6211711]
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