Archive for October, 2012

Boston: Rezwan Ferdaus Sentencing

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 [...]

Action Blast: Stop the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People Contact President Obama and the Department of Justice Now

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 [...]

New Issue of 4StruggleMag is Out

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 [...]

NYC: Families & Communities Victimized by Police Brutality

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 Callout to Youth [Saturday #Culture]

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 [...]

Understanding and Changing: A Discussion with Zak Cope, Author of Divided World, Divided Class, on the Stratification of Labor Under Global Capitalism

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 [...]

Tonight: Moving Images: Documenting the Lives of Women Migrants

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 [...]

Conversation on Maestra! The Cuban Literacy Campaign

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 [...]

POCO Podcast: Last Days of Fund Drive

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!

NYC: African Awakening – Revolution and Counter Revolution: Lessons from Libya

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 [...]

Who You Callin’ Illegal?: Stop Dede’s Deportation [#Feminist Friday]

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 [...]

Come Clean: The Left’s Unity Line and How It Upholds Oppression

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 [...]

CCR Organizes to Share Stories of People Stopped by the NYPD

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 [...]

Today: Hearings on Stop and Frisk, NYC

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 [...]

Oppression Bias and Why It Sucks to be a Black Sociologist

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 [...]

Ohio: Anti-Racist Action National Gathering

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 [...]

Why Western Politicians Support Pussy Riot [#Feminist Friday]

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) [...]

NYC: Resisting Racism and Militarism: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin

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 [...]

Nightmare Life: Migrants’ Tales from the ‘New’ Greece

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 [...]

Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Active Against NYPD Misconduct

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. [...]