This is an urgent call for more active international solidarity actions with people who are fighting for their democratic rights in all cities and towns of Turkey. Prime Minister Erdogan and his government are attacking people who are trying to voice their democratic demands in all city squares, with tear gas, water cannons, other despotic [...]
The British government’s offer of monetary compensation of £20 million to over 5,000 living Kenyan survivors of systematic torture during the Mau Mau anti-colonial revolt is a historic reckoning with an ugly past. Instead of bringing the sordid chapter of crimes committed against nationalist movements to closure, this settlement is bound to trigger other claims [...]
On June 14th 2012, Shantel Davis, a 23 year-old African American woman was brutally shot and killed by narcotics Detective Philip Atkins. Shantel Davis was born on May 26th, 1989 at Kings County Hospital. Shantel was a loving and respectable young woman who loved life and enjoyed her own to the fullest. She had a [...]
Come join human rights advocates, LIFT Houston, Grassroots Organizing, TX United For Families, and MoveOn members, as we join together and travel to Livingston for the Fathers’ Day Vigil-protesting one of the worst ICE prisons in the country right here in our own backyard. Let’s show our solidarity with the fathers behind bars as we [...]
A brief Preface by Matt Meyer, an anti-imperialist activist and author, outlines and explains how the rest of the book is put together. The Foreward is by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu who begins by describing the effects of colonialism in Africa, then the South African struggle. He goes on to describe how Puerto Rico continues [...]
This year’s conference is being worked on in collaboration with the Raza Press and Media Association, that will display an exhibition on the work of lifelong activist, teacher, revolutionary and founder of the CMPP, Ernesto Bustillos, who passed away March 26, 2012, in San Diego, CalifasAztlán. For four decades Ernesto Bustillos fought for a Revolutionary [...]
On May 2, the FBI increased its bounty for the capture of Assata Shakur from $1 million to $2 million and included her on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, the first time that a woman has ever appeared on the list. A Black Panther Party and member of the Black Liberation Army, Assata was [...]
A passionate Mumia supporter has scheduled a TUGG showing of “MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary” at the– Magic Johnson AMC 9 in Harlem for Tuesday June 4 at 7:30PM We want to support this grassroots effort because it’s vitally important that this event happens and happens in a big way in Harlem, especially in light of [...]
Racism Inside White Radical Social Change Groups by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, self published in October 2011 It’s hard to write a review of a book I agree with so much. Usually when I’m taking notes on a book I can start to just write a few sentences summarizing what any given chapter is about. This one [...]
Join a panel of police brutality victims along with family members from coast to coast who have lost loved ones to police violence. Hear their stories of 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, [...]
He could have used the same reasons of those who very soon decided to plead guilty and cooperate with the authorities. After long years of separation, he already had at his side Olga and Irmita, and had been able to enjoy for just four months the newborn Ivette. What to do? Cling to the principles, [...]
Eddie Conway, like so many other victims of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), is a former leader of the Baltimore Black Panther Party and was targeted for his political and social activism and work in the community. He has been imprisoned for over 40 years The Cuban 5 are Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Ramón Labañino, Rene [...]
1 – Raymond Kelly…New York Police Commissioner. His Stop and Frisk program has been sheer terror for the over one million people detained..Over 90% are Black and Brown… Less than 10% have been found in violation of any crime..NY just recently did its 5 millionth Stop and Frisk. It was also just recently revealed that [...]
Lenny Foster will speak on Native American Spirituality, the Prison System, Environmental Issues Affecting Native Lands and Native American Prisoner of War Leonard Peltier Friday, May 24, 2013 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Casa de las Américas 182 E. 111th St. (btwn. Lex. Ave. and 3rd Ave.) Reception from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Light Refreshments [...]
Forty years ago Assata Olugbala Shakur, long a subject of the FBI’s infamous Counter Intelligence Program due to her elevated political consciousness and formidable organizing skill, was targeted for assassination by NJ State Troopers. They shot her twice while her hands were raised above her head. “I was left on the ground to die, and [...]
It is now official! The Campaign to Elect Chokwe Lumumba won the runoff election tonight! This is a significant victory and testament to the years of community organizing put in by the New Afrikan Peoples Organization, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the People’s Assembly and the broad array of progressive forces we’re allied with in [...]
Join us for a panel discussion on imprisonment and resistance featuring Sahar Francis, director of the Ramallah-based prisoners’ rights organization Addameer (Arabic for “conscience”), in conversation with Leili Kashani (CCR), Victoria Law (author of Resistance Behind Bars), and Asoo (Havaar). Darryl Li (Columbia University Committee on Global Thought) will moderate. This timely panel takes place [...]
A new online ‘zine also in print by young women of color in Tucson is online now:
The September 2012 strike of 26,000-plus Chicago teachers — organized by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) — was undeniably one of the most significant labor struggles in decades. What was at stake was not only the working conditions of Chicago teachers but also their job security and preservation of their union. Moreover, the teachers were [...]
Reading the Forward by journalist Christiane Amanpour and the Introduction by editor Minky Worden, I was concerned by what struck me as a very bourgeois perspective from both, and worried that there was some border line Arab bashing in the Intro. But even in the midst of what I was worried about as potential Arab [...]
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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