Rethinking The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, As A White Liberal Consumer Product!
Dr. Greg Thomas provides a much needed radical critique of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow. . .
Archive for April, 2012
From Arizona: Repression and the Attack on Mexican Culture
A People Of Color Organize! correspondent recently spent four days on the U.S.-Mexico border, engaging in solidarity work, and connects the struggle over immigrants’ rights with the repression going on both in Arizona and all over the country. There have been 71 reported deaths on the US-Mexican border in Arizona since October 1, 2011 (1). [...]
Akala Spitting The Truth On Grime Daily! [Saturday #Culture]
Akala Spitting The Truth On Grime Daily!
“Nobody Cared, Nobody Did Anything:” The Normalization of Violence Against Indigenous Women [#Feminist Friday]
In the summer of 2004, while working as a producer for CBC News Sunday, I undertook a road trip to research Traces of Missing Women. My intent was to gather memories of Indigenous women who had been murdered or disappeared and create a video collage of images and words spoken by mothers, daughters, aunties, sisters and other [...]
Anti-Oppression for Who?
What purpose does anti-oppression training and workshops serve for those that attend? I recently attended an anti-oppression workshop that was delivered by three self-identified women and genderqueer people of colour that used innovative methods of exploring the effects of colonialism on entire communities, nations, lands and peoples. Participants consisted of people from different racial groups, [...]
POCO Podcast: More Left Forum, Plus Social Media Love
Podcast: Play in new window | Download People Of Color Organize! continues its recordings from the 2012 Left Forum, plus gives shoutouts to our many friends showing up love and solidarity via Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. Left Forum 2012 speeches this edition feature M1 of Dead Prez, Tanzeem Shaneela of Take Back the Bronx and [...]
African Liberation vs. The White Left
My history as an organizer went from being an unofficial member of the International Socialist Organization to President of the United Socialist Movement of the Americas- Buffalo Chapter to the President of Fight the Power UB. That history has been one of narrowing the struggles I fight and one I stand by fully. As many of you have seen, [...]
The Master’s Tools…
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Audre Lorde- Sister Outsider I got into a discussion about race and class and a question was posed- in this society, are we enslaved mentally according to race and/or class? I took this to mean- does race and class dictate our “social mobility”. Does it confine [...]
Vietnam: American Holocaust [Saturday #Culture]
Louis Proyect writes, “I read this and smile. When I reflect on the deeply evil deeds of the men running the American government during the Vietnam War, anybody being described as “public enemy number one” deserves a badge of honor. Like the young people in Germany who formed the White Rose resistance to Hitler during [...]
Care Work and the Power of Women: An Interview with Selma James [#Feminist Friday]
In their 1972 pamphlet The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa presented an original and influential analysis of “unwaged work.” This concept, which identified the care work that women do in the home as an essential element of the reproduction of capitalism, opened the door to powerful [...]
April 19: Day to Stop Mass Incarceration
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network has called for a National Day of Action to Stop Mass Incarceration on Thursday, April 19th. These national actions has everything to do with, and joins with, the upsurge associated with this “Trayvon Martin moment.” On April 19th everyone who is concerned about injustice will join in saying — NO [...]
POCO Podcast: Ajamu Baraka on Trayvon Martin, Race, Class and Movements
Podcast: Play in new window | Download With the recent arrest of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin, questions about movements, class, social media and criminal justice have become more prominent. Why did this struggle generate so much attention? What were the strategic successes and mistakes? And where does the pursuit of justice, [...]
VIDEO Series (Final Part) Gloria Ford
Final segment featuring the Ford family calling for justice. Please continue to dialogue and send emails of information and support directly to Ken Ford and his family at kford1091@gmail.com. Or feel free to email me, Zari, at zarisundiata@peopleofcolororganize.com and I will pass your message, information or support. [youtube LV2R2JOVKZU]
Fight Education Privitization: NY Actions
The Rank And File Coalition is calling for New York actions in defense of education. This announcement was shared. Based in part on a growing sense that the UFT is not doing enough to fight school closings, chapter leaders, delegates and members from seven of the 33 closing schools have called a rally to be [...]
April 24, 2012-OCCUPY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND END MASS INCARCERATION!
On April 24, 2012, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 58th birthday, we will gather at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C and amplify our formal request that Attorney General Eric Holder meet with a delegation to discuss police corruption and civil rights violations. Join Danny Glover, Frances Fox Piven, Norman Finkelstein, and M1 of Dead Prez and [...]
March and Rally in Caledonia on April 28th for Indigenous Land Rights
We wish to extend greetings to our neighbours, to our Onkwehonwe (native) and non-native allies, and to all our brothers and sisters across Turtle Island. In the spirit of our Ancestors and the Kainerakowa, the Great Peace, We, Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, invite you to join us on April [...]
Reportback: Tucson Take Back the Night
On Tuesday April 10th, I went to the parking lot of Time Market in Tucson, Arizona for a community Take Back The Night march against sexual assault and violence. When the first handful of people with signs and a banner gathered, I approached. I was a little stressed out and disappointed that I was the [...]
Support a New Film on Machteros’ Filiberto Ojeda Ríos [Saturday #Culture]
A documentary on the life of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, the late co-founder and leader of Puerto Rico’s Macheteros, is seeking financial support. More information: “Filiberto is a feature-length documentary about Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and his family to live a clandestine life of armed revolutionary. Filiberto Ojeda becomes a strategic leader [...]
The Difference Between Huffing Dong and Flipping Burgers [#Feminist Friday]
Pieces on the impact of pornography and prostitution on communities of color have been a part of an anti-capitalist analysis at People Of Color Organize! for quite awhile. From issues such as human trafficking in Third World women to the sex industry’s anti-woman, anti-feminist pretensions that should be fought against, these matters require continuous examination. [...]
U.S. Energy Imperialism and the South China Sea
Over the past decade, Sino-American tensions have been increasing on all energy fronts, including the South China Sea (SCS)
