About

People Of Color Organize! is a website journal and media source produced  by organizers supporting critical thinking, strategic work and direct action for social, racial, and economic justice. The website features debates, events, and trends within and emanating from the revolutionary left on matters of race, national oppression and self determination efforts. While unapologetically left in orientation, People Of Color Organize! is non-sectarian and offers a diversity of viewpoints from many movements.

Editorial Focus

People of Color Organize! is for all readers interested in people of color and our/their activism, community organizing, theory and perspectives.  In addition to the primary contributors, we have many groups, individual activists, and concerned citizens of the world who post articles, comments, and revolutionary events.  New contributors are always welcome and can go to the contact button to get in touch with our editor to get started.  Comments are also welcomed, so long as they are respectful to others and focus on ideas, not personalities or sectarian debates.

Disclaimer

One major thing that should be noted is that the views and opinions presented on this blog are those of the authors of the articles or comments in question. They should not necessarily be taken as representing the editors’ own views. Posting an article, website link, blog, etc. here does not imply endorsement. The items that are posted simply meet one standard: they of interest and potential value to revolutionary minded and critically thinking people. This site relies on the critical faculties of its readership to discern and uncover the validity of facts and arguments posted here.

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Editors

Ernesto

Ernesto is Texas based, community organizer best known for founding Anarchist People of Color. Today, he works with a variety of initiatives.

Ikonoklast

Ikonoklast is an African Internationalist, writer, leftist comedian and our very own Podcasting man from Texas.  He contributes to the site with the understanding that endeavors taken on by individuals in isolation from the masses is doomed to fail.  As a result, he brings hard hitting writings, pieces, and podcasts in an effort to educate and inform the masses with a hard hitting sense of humor and wit.   Ikonoklast loves playing the guitar, lifting weights, and reading.  Musically, he loves Radiohead, Tupac, TV On The Radio, Nirvana, Immortial Technique, Lowkey, Public Enemy, Dead Prez, and many more.  In his own words….”Basically I love creativity and media that I believe can lead us to a society free of oppression.  I’m not an idealist, I know music can’t free the oppressed masses within itself, but music is a sonic reflection of the objective material world and can be translated by artists into something that lends itself as the voice of the listener”.  His favorite authors are Franz Fanon, Frank B. Wilderson, Derrick Jensen, and Kwame Nkrumah to name a few.

Zari Sundiata

Zari Sundiata is an African Internationalist, writer and organizer from Texas.  She has worked in a variety of initiatives including policy making, event planning, and holding various offices for a grassroots organization which promoted self-determination for all African people.  She joins POCO with a desire to make independent media available to the masses so the people can have access to real information and make wise decisions in these uncertain times.  Her interests include working out, reading, music, and independent media.  When asked about the importance of independent media Zari explains…”There are so many distractions in mainstream media, and usually what passes for news is a litany of sports statistics and high speed car chases.  People need to know the news on the ground, from the people’s perspective.  We can’t keep blaming our children for their lack of knowledge, when there are adults who don’t understand the Electoral College.”

Advisory Committee

Enaemaehkiw Túpac Keshena

Enaemaehkiw is the host of the website The Speed of Dreams. He is an indigenous activist and political organizer based in the south west of Ontario, Canada. He looks to the experiences of the Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese and Cuban revolutions, Third World struggles from Africa to India to the Philippines, and the renewed wave of revolutionary movements in Latin America, particularly the Bolivarian revolution now unfolding in Venezuela. He also upholds and draws great inspiration from the many militant confrontations between the colonial state and capitalist interests with indigenous peoples, especially within the last 20 years since the rebellion at Oka, including Chiapas, Gustasfen Lake, Ipperwash, Akwesasne, Caledonia, Tyendinaga, Grassy Narrows, Barriere Lake, Lubicon Lake, and Baker Lake.

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Kom’boa is a former Black Panther Party member and political prisoner who authored Anarchism and the Black Revolution. He co-founded the first Black anarchist formation, the now defunct Black Autonomy International, and has been active on a variety of fronts.

Expectations

Interested in being involved?

Contributors are writers focus on original content, development or expansion of what we do. Volunteers help with various content, fundraising and technical projects.

Editors are expected to coordinate at least 2-3 major projects per week and financially contribute to overall efforts.  Examples of major projects includes content (collection/posting), podcasts, comment management (encouraging, directing, and moderating), and technical development and promotions.  Please note that this list is not all inclusive, ideas of other projects are welcomed.

The qualities of an editor and contributor are as follows:

• Consistent and communicative
• Writing in ways consistent with the POCO comments policy
• Moderate technical capability
• Can articulate anti-imperialist positions in a clear manner
• Can avoid propagating personal views in making judgments for the site
• Basic understanding of political elements conveyed on the site

Content Policy

Content should focus primarily on the following

• Race and radical/progressive politics, mostly theory and action
• Actions and theory promoted by and including people of color
• Perspectives on hot issues related to the first two points

Again this list is not all inclusive.  POCO’s intention is to bring a balance in terms of domestic and international reporting on these matters.  We welcome contributors who can provide information regarding happenings on the ground in places like the U.S and Canada.

About Blogroll and Other Sites

The Blogroll is our gesture of appreciation to sites that link back to us. If your blog or site links to us and you wish to be listed in our Blogroll, please use our contact form. We reserve the right not to include sites, but we try to include all who link here. If you see your site linked and don’t want to be included, please get in touch.

Other Sites lists websites of interest.

Finally

We post a diversity of topics and videos several times a week and donations are accepted primarily to support the blog space and staff.  We hope you make this site your information hub to keep your pulse to the people!  Thank you for visiting!