As many who have been following this case know, the trial of John Graham, a native from the Yukon in Canada, for the murder in the 1970s his friend and comrade in the American Indian Movement (AIM), Anna Mae Aquash began yesterday. The real intentions though of this so called “trial” has to be understood [...]
Maysles Cinema Presents A Black Panther Party Film Festival Wednesday, December 8-Monday, December 13 The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) exploded onto the scene in October 15, 1966. The party, founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, was originally created to protect people in the inner-city, particularly African-Americans, [...]
This is an article about little known case of two African women from Mississippi who have been imprisoned with ridiculous two life sentences for alledgely stealing $11. It previously appeared in Richard Prince’s Journal-isms, a publication of the Maynard Institute. [1]. Please pass this along so people will know and visit the website on the post picture to support [...]
On Friday Oct. 29, 2010, the Canadian government announced the end of (by lack of funding) the Sisters in Spirit (SIS) program — disappearing the program just as women disappear — to the point that not even the name or logo of Sisters in Spirit may be used. The announcement was dumped into the Friday afternoon [...]
In various publications on the internet we can register a serious preoccupation about the future of the Bolivarian Revolution and socialism on a global scale. Allow us to summarize our views expressed with relation to human emancipation across the past decade. Let us begin with the philosophic, emancipatory sublime. The ancient Greek materialist philosopher Heraclitus [...]
Free Leonard Peltier: Hip Hop’s Contribution to the Freedom Campaign. This album, put together to support the Leonard Peltier Freedom Campaign, features some of contemporary rap’s best and brightest political voices, including M1, Immortal Technique, T-K.A.S.H., Talib Kweli and 2Mex. Leonard has been incarcerated in Federal Prison for the 1975 shooting death of two FBI agents [...]
Something for the Thankstaking weekend. I’ve put together this timeline from a variety of sources. Indigenous Resistance, 1960s-Present When most settlers think back to the conquest of the territory that now makes the United States and Canada, most of them think that the end of the so-called “Indian Wars” as the end of it, officially [...]
While sitting at work today, I erroneously received a chain email from my co-worker. Usually, I stay away from social commentary at the work place because so many people of color have reactionary and accomodationist ideology. However, sometimes you can’t stay silent when something crosses your path with so many glaring contradictions. The email erroneously assumes that back biting and [...]
Every schoolchild in the U.S. has been taught that the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony invited the local Indians to a major harvest feast after surviving their first bitter year in New England. But the real history of Thanksgiving is a story of the murder of indigenous people and the theft of their land by [...]
With a black president leading the charge to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and social security in the name of “deficit reduction,” what is there left of black politics? What is the relevance of so-called black leaders in the Democratic party, and the remains of our historic civil rights organizations? The masters of corporate media proclaim that [...]
Inspired by the revolutionary anti-colonial movements of the Third World and the Black Power movement in the US, Métis* activist Howard Adams became a leader of the Red Power movement in Canada in the 1960s. His 1975 (1989 2nd ed.) book Prison of Grass: Canada From a Native Point of View, is a path breaking retelling [...]
Since Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, we have seen his beatification in the conservative-liberal media, presenting him as a fighter for human rights worldwide and especially in Latin America. In one press report after another, he is hailed as the great defender of human rights and freedom. But Mario [...]
The first barricade looked harmless enough. Foot-long rocks piled next to each other in a line. But as the bus driver slowed down, flying rocks landed in the street – thrown by youths crouching in the bushes up the hill. “We don’t really have a country! The police don’t do anything!” a nun sitting across [...]
A Reuters report on efforts to restructure Bolivian society. La Paz – Bolivia’s leftist government said on Tuesday it had agreed a bill to nationalize the country’s pension system and lower the retirement age to 58. The ambitious pensions reform bill, which would dismantle the two private retirement funds that have administered the system for [...]
Please Rowland Túpac Keshena as a contributor to People Of Color Organize! Rowland Túpac Keshena hosts one of the web’s best blogs, The Speed of Dreams. It chronicles indigenous resistance, revolutionary politics and much more. From the site’s description: The purpose of this site is the promotion of struggles against oppression around the world. It does this [...]
At 7 p.m. on Saturday join hundreds of Latino Leaders, Dignitaries in a tribute to the heroic Puerto Rican freedom fighter Lolita Lebron at Hunter College, West Building, Lecture Hall/7th Floor, 68th Street & Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. A tribute to one of Puerto Rico’s and Latin America’s most revered, almost mystical, political female [...]
Ok so I’m watching the news, a “left” leaning news affiliate at that, and I thought to myself about the paradigm of how Western media present criticism to the war in Afghanistan is so disgustingly egocentric. The perspective is shaped from how America is in some sort of way losing its innocence from participating in this war. It’s [...]
This past July marked the 20th anniversary of one of the most important events in the history Indian peoples resistance to colonialism in Anówara, the beginning of the rebellion of Kanien’kehaka people near the town of Oka. This event was one of the formative events of my life, and indeed for a whole generation of [...]
Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the 2009 book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press). Law’s essay “Sick of the Abuse: Feminist Responses to Sexual Assault, Battering, and Self Defense,” is featured in the new book, entitled “The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism,” edited by Dan [...]
RT @pocorganize: Guantánamo Prisoner's Memoirs Offer Rare First-Person Account of Torture http://t.co/949PrPuWQW #connecttheleft #unifiedleft #poc #racism
Guantánamo Prisoner's Memoirs Offer Rare First-Person Account of Torture http://t.co/949PrPuWQW #connecttheleft #unifiedleft #poc #racism
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