Rezwan Ferdaus, a young Muslim man from Ashland, MA, needs your support! After being entrapped by an FBI informant, Rezwan was arrested on September 28th, 2011 on charges including attempting to provide material support to terrorists and attempting to damage and destroy federal buildings by means of an explosive. He has been in solitary confinement [...]
In the first six months of 2012, one Black person every 36 hours was executed in the United States. Since January 1, 2012, police and a much smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes have murdered at least 140 Black women, men and children. This epidemic constitutes an egregious human rights crisis that the [...]
We are very glad to finally get this issue out, in Fall 2012. I know a lot of readers, friends and activists have been wondering what happened to 4strugglemag? This is the first issue we are putting out in 2012. It is a combined Summer and Fall issue. Normally 4sm comes out three times a [...]
Join us for a panel of family members from the East and West Coasts who have lost loved ones to police brutality, as they tell stories of their struggles for justice and strategize on taking action within our communities, to confront police terror and hold them accountable for brutality and racist murder. SPEAKERS: ·Ramona Africa, [...]
SpeakSudan’s first publication aims to reach out and form a collective voice of opinions, dissenting or not, on East African youth and allies in diaspora. It is an effort to find commonality amongst a large, diverse and tremendously talented group of people. We will attempt to provide a space, physical and emotional to dissect, understand [...]
Zak Cope is the author of Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism, which was just published this past August by Kersplebedeb Press as part of their recently launched Kalikot series. The book “charts the history of the ‘labour aristocracy’ in the capitalist world system, from its roots [...]
Many contemporary feminist projects attempt to subvert the male gaze by “bearing witness” to female trauma through visual representation. Yet these projects have tended to be under-theorized. Since visual images invoke the spectator’s experience of unmediated access to the inner world of the subject, the evocative power of photographic images may readily reproduce forms of [...]
Norma Guillard joined the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign (the Campaign) when she was 15 years old. A social psychologist from Santiago de Cuba, she is one of the first Cuban women of her generation to call herself a feminist. She primarily works on the issues of gender, race, sexual orientation and issues of diversity and [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download We are in the final days of our first big fund drive, and it has been tough. Some final thoughts, a little Richard Wolff and more. Check it out!
The so-called `Arab Spring` started [was] a genuine popular uprising but has been hijacked gradually. It has had different developments and consequences in different African and Arab countries. Why is the situation developing the way it is in Libya? Why was NATO so eager to intervene in Libya while it is very reluctant to do [...]
Mass Community Meeting Nov 10th 3-6 PM. Life Enrichment Bookstore, 5023 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, Washington. This will be the first public strategizing meeting around deportation and mass incarceration by the group, Who You Callin’ Illegal? We are coming together to support our comrade Dede’s fight against her deportation. Dede is a community organizer and mother [...]
I lost count long ago of how often I heard white activists call critiques of white supremacy in movements and society little more than diversions from ‘real’ issues. It’s as if there’s an expectation that patriarchy, white supremacy and other oppressions are to be ignored for the sake of ‘unity.’ Such a refrain is one [...]
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting against discriminatory policing practices — like stop and frisk — in New York and beyond for many years. We’ve brought you data documenting the skyrocketing numbers of stops and racial disparities. This summer we brought you the stories behind the numbers, sharing the experiences of those [...]
The New York City Council has announced two hearings on the NYPD’s use of stop, question and frisk.We encourage all those concerned about ending discriminatory and abusive policing by the NYPD to attend and make your voice heard! NYC Council Civil Rights Committee Hearing BROOKLYN: [Tuesday] October 23, 2012 from 6:00 PM Brooklyn College Student Center [...]
The social sciences as they have developed in the western world has it as it’s goal to develop, catalog, understand, and organize human behavior. Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Communications, and all the other social sciences seek to make sense of the social world human beings have created for themselves over the past million [...]
Arch City ARA is pleased to announce that we will be holding the Anti-Racist Action Network’s 18th annual conference this year in our hometown of Columbus, Ohio during October 12th-15th. This year’s conference is especially important to us because it marks a return to the city where the first official ARA conference took place in [...]
The three singers of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in a penal colony on charges of “hooliganism due to religious hatred” have met with a groundswell of support from Western politicians and media. The philosophy student Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (22), Greenpeace campaigner Mary Aljochina (24) and the programmer Jelena Samutsewich (30) [...]
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Bayard Rustin, and many are celebrating his legacy. The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, has coordinated centennial activities in recognition of the ground-breaking work of Rustin as [...]
Racism is definitely not a “new fruit” in Greek society and not a unique phenomenon to this country. I have witnessed it with my own eyes as it manifested throughout the years I was living there so I can share with you a little knowledge of how it ripens. In Greece being different is not [...]
On Thursday, September 27th, CAAAV joined hundreds of others outside of City Hall in the Rally for NYPD Accountability and Community Safety! CAAAV is a part of the Communities united for Police Reform (CPR) campaign, which is composed of over 50 member and supporter organizations working to end discriminatory policing practices in New York City. [...]
RT @pocorganize: Fall From Grace: The Euro-Amerikan Struggle Against the Federal Government http://t.co/v1tePeppG9 #racism #connecttheleft #uniteblue
Fall From Grace: The Euro-Amerikan Struggle Against the Federal Government http://t.co/v1tePeppG9 #racism #connecttheleft #uniteblue
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