Saturday Radical Culture: Kimberle Crenshaw Speaking in Support of Affirmative Action and “Women And People Of Color”
[youtube oGivv_ZKFkM] Kim Crenshaw offers her view on the importance of Affirmative Action.
Archive for April, 2011
Saturday Radical Culture!
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Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland
Manning Marable’s rendition of Malcolm X’s life should be read very carefully, so as not to confuse Malcolm’s evolving worldview with the late Columbia University professor’s left-reformist politics. “Marable tries to convince us that Malcolm must have contemplated a reformist political path in his mind, if not in practice.” The author’s mission is to discredit [...]
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project
“Solidarity requires that one enter into the situation of those with whom one is in solidarity, it is a radical posture.”— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Roberto Arenas is a small tseltal(1) community of twenty-three subsistence farmer families located in the Chiapas Lacandon Rainforest, a six hour drive from the nearest major commercial [...]
Toronto May Day Indigenous/Anti-Colonial/Anti-Authoritarian Contingent
May Day Indigenous/Anti-Colonial Contingent (Castellano Abajo) The WCCC is calling out to all anti-colonial, indigenous and anti-authoritarian allies to join us for the No One is Illegal May Day of Rally for Status for ALL! MAY 1st – Corner of Queen St. West & Jameson @ 1PM We Rise Up in Resistance: Resistance to Oblivion, [...]
Mexico: Security Law Will Allow President to Use Military Against Movements
Mexico’s House of Deputies has brought the country to the cusp of a police state. The reform to the National Security Law now before the lower house would grant sweeping military powers to the executive and limit congressional oversight of domestic military activity. It would grant President Felipe Calderón the ability to effectively declare states [...]
Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson On IKONOKLAST SPEAKS!
Podcast (ikonoklast): Play in new window | Download Are religious institutions in the Black community stifling dialogue and activism in the fight for human rights, civil rights, and economic justice? Why have there been an increasing number of Black atheists, humanists, and freethinkers over the decade? What are some of the issues many Black atheists [...]
Decolonizing Antiracism
This is an important, if somewhat academic, article by Canadian Native activist-scholar Bonita Lawrence and Canadian-Indian scholar of race and gender Enakshi Dua examining the ways in which indigenous people, indigeneity and the fact of ongoing settler colonialism and anti-colonial struggles has been conspicuously absent or put in a secondary position in Canadian (and U.S.) [...]
This May Day, Immigration Debate Must Get More Real, Radical and Honest
This weekend, cities across the United States will rally in support of a range of demands for immigrant justice. What is necessary is a push by movements concerned about immigrants’ rights toward a different approach to these issues.
More on the “10 Conversations On Racism I’m Sick Of Having With White People”
Much love to Neo_Prodigy, author of the “10 Conversations” piece, for responding to some of the crazier comments the piece has drawn. Of note: Many of the comments were wonderful, informative, thought-provoking and I appreciated reading them. Some of the others however……I’ve known white conservatives who didn’t engage in the level of racefail that these [...]
More Black Men in U.S. Prison System Than Enslaved in 1850
“More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting presentation. Alexander, currently a law [...]
Egypt: Amid Military Repression and Dashed Hopes, Fighting for A Liberated Future
In case you missed it, Al Jazeera’ Riz Khan talks with Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek about the future of Egyptian politics. [youtube 29NffzEh2b0]
A MESSAGE FROM AN EDITOR TO RACIST WHITES: IF YOU CAN’T TAKE THE TRUTH THEN STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM US NIGGERS!!!
In response to the most popular blog post we have ever had, 10 Conversations On Racism I’m Sick Of Having With White People; I would just like to say to all those arrogant white folks stay away from this site. We here at this site have been producing very valuable and insightful information about Africans, [...]
From Rowland: A New Name and a New Legacy to Live Up To
This was first posted by myself over on my personal site, but it is relevant to my work here as part of the POCO! Team as well, so I am re-blogging it here! The other night in a ceremony with my cousin, a fellow Menominee Indian and veteran of the American Indian Movement and Menominee [...]
Message from an Editor: Mass Black Death, Individual White Feelings
This is a photo of 26 year old Frederick Jermaine Carter, an African who was lynched in 2010 whereby the state authorities claimed it was suicide. They claim this brother went to a white neighborhood and hung himself, now does that make sense! I think not! State violence manifest itself in many ways, from blatant lynching (in [...]
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark: What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks
This can’t end well. But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, they begin to feed on themselves, to suck their own blood, to hollow themselves out. Sooner or later, they find themselves, as in our case, economically stressed and militarily extended in [...]
Please Remember: I Am Not Here to Educate You
I have been known to utter this from time to time. Rage. RAGE! That’s usually the underlying emotion behind the utterance. But then I remember. Not everyone is a native English speaker. Or, in my very particular case, not everyone who speaks English knows how to relate the ideas to Dutch (the language of the [...]
Saturday Radical Culture: Guante’s Confessions of a White Rapper
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Watershed: Break the Silence in the Congo
Podcast (watershed): Play in new window | Download On this episode Zari interviews Mr. Kambale Musavuli with Friends of the Congo (FOTC). The FOTC was established at the behest of Congolese human rights and grassroots institutions in 2004, to work together to bring about peaceful and lasting change in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly [...]
10 Conversations On Racism I’m Sick Of Having With White People
Note from a site editor: As of today (12/18/11), comments are closed on this piece. It’s simply gotten too tiresome to moderate subtly as well as overtly racist, anti-Black “go back to Africa/Black people are prejudiced/we’re all one race/your tone isn’t nice so I won’t hear your point/only Black people complain [so there's no racism], etc.” comments. [...]
