On Wednesday, April 4, at 7:00 p.m, a community based event located in Saint Paul, MN is intended to create awareness and education about violence toward Women of Color. Very little news, research, and community outrage occurs when Women of Color are survivors of violence or die at the hands of domestic, institutional, and community [...]
International Women’s Month is a special time to celebrate the lives of women whose lives have bettered humanity and have advanced the causes of peace, social justice and the cause of working people. The early women’s rights advocates were also fighters against slavery, for the betterment of the working classes, and for the freedom of [...]
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is one of Canada’s National Aboriginal organizations and is generally viewed as the national voice representing Aboriginal women in Canada. It spoke on the recent Canadian court ruling: The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is disappointed with the Ontario Court of Appeal Decision, which declared the Criminal [...]
Join the Moratorium Now! Coalition, Take Back the Land, the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, Oregon’s Project REconomy, the Bail out the People Movement, North Carolina FIST, Occupy Detroit and other community organizations and activists from across the U.S. at a National Conference to Fight Foreclosures. Share experiences with direct actions stopping foreclosures and evictions and confronting [...]
Over the past week, news headlines, talk shows and internet traffic have been filled with commentary on the shooting death of 14-year-old Trayvon Martin. Martin was shot by Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman has claimed self defense, but there is strong evidence from witnesses and a 911 recording that Martin was profiled and [...]
Brother Ken Ford was convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 based on false government charges that he was attempting to sell classified information regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to a foreign diplomat. The US government used lies, black women, and all the power of the state to convict this brother and throw [...]
Anti-immigrant politicians are going on the offensive against one of Canada’s most outspoken immigrant rights organizations. NOII’s (and POCO contributor) Harsha Walia is quoted here. Originally from rabble.ca. Joint release from No One Is Illegal – Toronto and No One Is Illegal – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Canada, Turtle Island – Immigrant and refugee rights groups [...]
Once again another young Black man has been shot and killed, under highly questionable circumstances, by a representative of law enforcement. Also once again, African Americans and our allies fear that justice will not be served on the perpetrator. Unfortunately, this fear is neither imagined nor an overreaction; it is grounded in concrete reality. That [...]
The following statement was issued after today’s Canadian court ruling in support of prostitution. People Of Color Organize! has posted abolitionist writings on this subject previously, as the exploitation of women of color in the prostitution industry is inextricably related to capital, profiteering, colonialism, globalization and human trafficking. As a feminist anti-violence organization, Women Against [...]
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The senseless murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black youth in Sanford, Florida, who was shot by George Zimmerman, a white man driven by racism and protected by an unjust “Stand Your Ground” law, is a crime against humanity and violation of human rights. The refusal of the Sanford police department to [...]
We feature the work of ex-Black Panther and political prisoner Wopashitwe Mondo Eyen we Langa (formerly known as David Rice). From the bio, “He was born in Omaha in 1949, graduated from Creighton Preparatory School and took courses at Creighton University. He wrote for the local underground paper, Buffalo Chip, from 1969 to 1970 and [...]
It’s no exaggeration to say that American Indian women are missing from most media coverage, history books and classroom discussions. But at least journalism students, instructors and state educators in Nebraska are doing something to help end America’s ignorance of Native women and the contributions they make to their communities, their tribes and to the [...]
At a recent panel discussion on the Occupy movement, a left-leaning professor from New York Universityspeculated that identity politics – the prioritizing of issues of race and gender in movements for justice – could be a plot funded by the CIA to undermine activism. While most commentators do not go this far, the idea that activists [...]
Dr. Jared Ball sat down with People Of Color Organize Editor Ikonoklast, at The Left Forum held at Pace University in New York City, March 17, 2012. Among some the topics that were discussed, were Dr. Ball’s upcoming book A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X (to be released May 2012), Liberals, Internal [...]
I came out late. Growing up as an Afro-West Indian boy in Western Europe always had me very aware that I am black since childhood but I never had to “come out” as a black person. People around me, from my peers and classmates (by their questions about my skincolour), the parents of the boys [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has approved family-based visa petitions for 112,000 Haitians who nevertheless remain on a wait list of about 3 to 11 years in Haiti, where many may not survive. DHS should promptly reunite these families beginning with the most vulnerable or deserving, like 15,000 minor children and spouses of permanent residents [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download On this episode of the People Of Color Organize! Podcast we present one of our most venerated radical scholars, Dr. Frank B. Wilderson III. Dr. Wilderson was the keynote speaker for the Abriendo Brecha Activist Scholarship Conference IX at The University of Texas at Austin Friday, February [...]
I had a great conversation with a fellow organizer that I truly respect and this topic came up. I’d like it to be part of a continuing dialogue on activist burnout. But why…you say. So many times, we spend so much time building the dream that we have envisioned that more often then not it [...]
The following are notes from the 2012 Left Forum People Of Color Organize! presentation on “Anarchist Descriptions and Analyses of Capitalism,” a panel focused on analyses of capitalism and how those relate to the contemporary crisis and concomitant opposition movements. There was particular attention to how the economy intersects with other forms of oppression and [...]
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