Archive for August, 2012

When the Left Apologizes for Assange [#Feminist Friday]

When the whole scandal recently flared up again, I said I wasn’t going to talk about Assange. After numerous Facebook arguments with people on all sides, I said I wasn’t going to talk about Assange. After being screamed at for daring not to flock down to the Ecuador embassy in uncritical support of an alleged [...]

Portland, OR: Solidarity with Grand Jury Resistors

A rally will be held in front of the Federal Court House (1000 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, Oregon) on August 30th to stand in solidarity with grand jury resistors. The rally will begin at 12:30pm and will last until 3:30. A federal grand jury has convened and already 4 people in the Pacific Northwest have [...]

Exposing the Music of White Racist Hate

Wade Michael Page was, among other things, a musician. The man who, on August 5, stormed into a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee, Wis., and opened fire, killing six worshippers and wounding several others, was the singer of a hardcore band called End Apathy. Rough and aggressive, with a clear “fuck all authority” theme running through [...]

Today: Immigrant Youth March on RNC

Undocumented youth from the Latino community from across the state of Florida will organize hand-in-hand with African American leaders for a large scale march at the Republican National Convention to remind candidates and elected officials that their anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric will not dissuade African-Americans and Latinos from flexing their political muscle despite the fraudulent [...]

People of Color Organize Fund Drive starts September 10th, 2012!

People of Color Organize is launching a Fund Drive on Indiegogo in September to expand our site!  We are expanding to provide more benefits to you, the readers, listeners, and viewers of our site.  We have some great Perks lined up and some surprises for everyone during the drive.  Be on the lookout for more [...]

Los Angeles: Support Unionized Washeros This Week

Join us in getting your car washed from Monday, August 27 to Thursday, August 30 – and make history! You will be one of the only people in the nation to get your car washed by unionized workers. After years of struggle, workers (know as Car Washeros) have secured the only three union car wash [...]

Today: Burn Your Bills and Debts

From birth, we’ve been told that in order to achieve success, we have to get into debt. We take out huge mortgages and student loans under the assumption that doing so will allow us to achieve the American Dream. We buy things we can’t afford and work jobs we don’t want, striving towards promises of [...]

Pussy Riot: Whose Freedom, Whose Riot? [#Feminist Friday]

Recently there has been lots of noise around the arrest of three members of Pussy Riot, a Russian anarchist female punk band. The media almost unequivocally represented them as the modern heroines of our time, fighting for freedom, democracy, sexual liberation and peace against a dark and ruthless dictatorship (articles are to be found in [...]

POCO Podcast: Organizing Against the RNC in Florida

Podcast: Play in new window | Download The Republican National Convention is coming to Tampa, Florida next week, and a constellation of groups are coming out to protest the GOP and its positions, from abortion rights to immigration. This edition of the podcast, Jared Hamil, spokesperson for the Coalition to March on the RNC, talks [...]

Today: Deadline for Wall Street South Solidarity Zine

This September thousands of people will come to Charlotte, NC to join Coalition to March on Wall Street South for the community mobilization to raise the issues impacting low-income communities, the ongoing environmental devastation, and opposition to policies that puts funding for war, incarceration, and deportations above meeting people’s needs. Our coalition is made up [...]

Denver: August 21st: All in the Streets Against the Police

On July 31, metro area police murdered yet another unarmed person. 22 year old Kevin Ryberg was shot multiple times while being held in the back of a Denver police cruiser while it was en route to the District 2 police station in Northeast Denver. Ryberg is alleged to have assaulted the officer driving the [...]

For a National March in Mexico City to Invalidate the Fraudulent Presidential Election

On June 23, 2012, we met in Mexico City. Our meeting brought together workers and youth from different sectors and from different unions. The majority of the attendees — many of whom were activists or sympathizers of the Workers’ and People’s Political Organization (OPT), an organization founded at the initiative of the Mexican Electrical Workers’ [...]

How Obama Created Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan is suddenly a household name after becoming Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate. Before that, Ryan had only become right-wing leadership material in the last year, based on his proposed national budget that hacks away at the core of many national social programs, including Medicare. Obama did What Reagan Dared Not No one [...]

Saturday Radical Culture: NATE & CYCLONIOUS – AYE LAMMA

NATE & CYCLONIOUS – AYE LAMMA

West Keeps Targeting Hugo Chavez

Since taking office in February 1999, Chavez has been Washington’s number one Latin American enemy. He worries US officials for good reason. He’s a powerful threat. He represents a good example. Venezuela’s social democracy shames America’s. Bolivarianism works. So does its political system. Elections are open, free and fair. US electoral politics lack legitimacy. Democracy [...]

Forum on Solidarity with Chicago teachers

A discussion featuring a presentation by a Chicago Teachers Union member happens Thursday, August 23, at 6:30 p.m. at The Murphy Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, between 5th and 6th avenues, 18th Floor, Room C/D, NYC. Public schools, teachers and their unions are under attack throughout the country. The drive to privatize our public schools [...]

Wisconsin Shooting Reveals Connections Between U.S. Military and Fascist Groups

A critical element, which has been virtually ignored in all the media coverage of last Sunday’s massacre at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin is the close connections between the US Armed Forces and various fascistic and white supremacist organizations. Wade Michael Page, a neo-Nazi and former US Army service member, murdered six people and critically [...]

Deferred Action Session for Immigrant Youth

The New York Immigration Coalition will provide several informational sessions on President Obama’s June 15th announcement about Deferred Action for certain young people who were brought into the United States through no fault of their own. Come get the latest news on Deferred Action. Learn what Deferred Action is and who is eligible for it [...]

Why Today’s Radicals Must Read Marx’s Das Kapital

The relevance of Marx’s Das Kapital to the modern capitalist world is once again getting a hearing. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the opening up of China to international capitalism, the political and economic elites declared that a new economic paradigm had arrived, bringing with it undreamt promises of wealth and consumer [...]

Building a Mass Movement: Save the Planet, Fight Racism and White Supremacy

Until we confront all forms of racism, until whites confront their white skin privilege, nothing we do is ever going to be truly revolutionary or even progressive.