The International Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement Presents… AFRICAN COMMUNITY CONVENTION 2013 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2013 1:00PM – 5:00PM @ THE ALANON CLUB 384 SEVENTH AVENUE (7th Avenue/7th Street) NEWARK, NEW JERSEY CONVENTION PANELS/WORKSHOPS INCLUDE PROTECT, DEFEND AND ORGANIZE THE AFRICAN WOMAN! – What do “womens rights” mean in a system of slavery [...]
On Dec. 31, outgoing North Carolina governor, Beverly Perdue, pardoned The Wilmington 10 – Rev. Benjamin Chavis, Connie Tindall, Marvin Patrick, Wayne Moore, Reginald Epps, Jerry Jacobs, James McKoy, Willie Earl Vereen, William Wright, Jr. and Ann Shepard – who had sentences ranging from 15 to 34 years following their convictions in 1972. Thankfully, a [...]
For the last couple of years social justice advocates have loudly sung the praises of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration the Age of Colorblindness, which has garnered a huge following and spawned an allegedly new designation for racial inequity in the United States. However, former champions of the book and those [...]
Can You Help Keep Noche Diaz from Getting Locked up Because He Observed the NYPD Beating Jeffeth James? March 12, 2012 , in late afternoon at the corner of Westchester & Boynton, Noche Diaz saw NYPD beating Jeffeth James, right, in the street as they pulled him out of his car. NYPD beat Jeff so [...]
Starting Sunday January 27th,11:00am, Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South) will be hosting a series of Native American Testimonies on the last Sunday of every month, as part of the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign. The first guest speakers will offer poetry and information on the campaign. Bios Firewolf Bizahaloni-Wong is Diné (Navajo & [...]
Join musical artists Amai Kuda, lal, Brixia Bloodbeard, and Sonny B as they embark on a journey making stops in Windsor, Maynoooth, London, Sudbury and more sharing their messages of social justice, anti oppression and personal stories. The Red Caravan tour is supported by the R3 Collective. We are group of queer, Indigenous and racialized [...]
We hold the power to bring an end to sexual violence. Every single gain, every single right we as women have today is the result of struggle. We have to fight back. The status quo must go! In the United States, 1.3 million women are raped every year. One in every four women experience severe [...]
On September 24, 2010, the FBI raided anti-war and international solidarity activists’ homes, eventually serving 23 subpoenas to a grand jury in Chicago, investigating “material support for terrorism.” Grand juries are secret courts with no judge; no lawyer for the subpoenaed, and the person in charge is the prosecutor. All 23 activists invoked their constitutional [...]
The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York is calling all progressive and revolutionary forces in the city to defend the Bolivarian Revolution this coming January 23 in front of the Consulate of Venezuela in New York City, 7 East 51st St. btw 5th & Madison Aves. Those who in April 2002 attacked the Bolivarian [...]
Alliance for Global Justice is responding to the Call for Emergency National Days Actions for Venezuela, Jan. 20-26 by organizing this teach-in and dialogue on Friday, Jan. 25. Friday January 25, 2012 6:00-8:00 pm Jon Miles/George Petit Room Pima County Housing Office 801 W Congress, Tucson For more info: 520-243-0381. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ health [...]
Join New Yorkers when Valerie Jones tells the story of her courageous sister, Veronica Jones. Veronica was a witness who falsely testified at the 1982 trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Fourteen years later she came forward in court risking heavy charges to right this wrong. For taking this stand the state arrested her right out of [...]
Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity informing the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991. I offer this short analysis of the historical context that led [...]
The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee and the 1199 SEIU Activists present the 17th Annual Dinner Tribute to the Families of our Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War: Transforming Solidarity: Working Together to End Political Imprisonment & Mass Imprisonment! Saturday, January 19, 2013 3pm to 7pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, 1199 Union HQ 310 [...]
The patriarchal root of control over women is seen in human trafficking, domestic violence, prostitution, pornography, rape and sexual assault, street harassment, femicide and the entire panoply of gender abuse that afflicts us. Perhaps nowhere is it seen more clearly than in the effort to control women’s inalienable reproductive rights. Abortion and birth control are [...]
From the Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo, we greet the release of the 14 male and female prisoners from the North Prison and from Santa Maria Prison, as a first step in the struggle for their unconditional freedom. This is a result of the national and international mobilization of social organizations, collectives, human rights, [...]
Many people have no understanding of how strong a spiritual person you are. When the UN Special Rapporteur came to your community, he had tears rolling down his cheeks as he listened to the children of Onion Lake singing in Cree. At another time, I also witnessed the Onion Lake students singing and for me [...]
Indigenous activists are increasingly under surveillance as they manifest critical leadership in confronting 21st century disasters. What can we, in the concrete jungle, learn about *a sacred connection to land*? How will this help us in all of our struggles from fighting fracking to immigrant justice? Please join us for an evening of song, food, [...]
Students of Colour Montreal (SoCM) honours and respects the Idle No More movement as part of the continuing 500 years of resistance by Indigenous peoples in the colonized Americas. Further, SoCM stands in solidarity with Chief Theresa Spence, Emil Bell and other fasting Elders, honouring the validity of their tactics and demands. Communities of colour [...]
What`s it like to grow up during war? To be a victim of violence or exiled from your homeland, culture, family, and even your own memories? As a teenager, Elisabeth Breslav (columnist and feature writer for The Villager) survived the Hunger Winter in Nazi-occupied Holland. Marnie Mueller (author of three novels) was born in a [...]
After performing to over 5000 people throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, Crime Against Humanity returns to New York. Crime Against Humanity is a play based on the real life experiences of fourteen Puerto Rican political prisoners who spent more than two decades in prisons for seditious conspiracy- one of whom are still incarcerated. The [...]
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