A New York Magazine cover story (October 30, 2011) recently proclaimed the ‘Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto’ through feminist blogs. In the article, 20-something feminist blogger, Shelby Knox, described the blogs as her generations’ “version of consciousness-raising groups.” The emergence of digital media, and particularly blogs, represents a crucial new force for civic participation that [...]
Is Art merely a reflection of the ideology of the ruling power elite? Can Art function as a reservoir of cultural resistance against established power? Is the meaning of Art found exclusively in the totality of its relation to the means of production? Is there an autonomous aspect to Art which might help pierce through [...]
Barnard College welcomes Ziba Mir-Hosseini of the University of London’s Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law. Mir-Hosseini will examine the growing confrontation between political Islam and Islamic feminism, as well as the rise of a new activism that challenges patriarchal interpretations of religious texts. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, “The Potential & Promise of Feminist Voices in [...]
Few books have been as influential in understanding African impoverishment as this groundbreaking analysis. Rodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major responsibility for impoverishing Africa. They have been joined in this exploitation by agents or unwitting accomplices both in the North and in Africa. With oppression and liberation [...]
Help end stop and frisk and police violence! Learn to exercise your right to monitor and document police misconduct and abuse! Justice Committee Cop Watch Training Thurs. Sept. 6, 6:30-8:30pm The Bronx Defenders Office, 860 Courtlandt Ave., Bronx (B, D or 4 to 161 St.-Yankee Stadium, 2 to 3rd Ave-149 St. or Bx6 bus) To [...]
The Continental Day of Action for the Withdrawal of UN Troops From Haiti — a proposal first launched at the Continental Rally that brought together more than 600 people at the chambers of the Sao Paulo City Council in November 2011 — was a victory in the fight for the Haitian people’s sovereignty, with events [...]
A rally will be held in front of the Federal Court House (1000 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, Oregon) on August 30th to stand in solidarity with grand jury resistors. The rally will begin at 12:30pm and will last until 3:30. A federal grand jury has convened and already 4 people in the Pacific Northwest have [...]
This article was first published in “The Feminist Wire” online on April 26th, 2012 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. This is Part 4 of a four part article. The introduction to the series was originally published May 18th, 2012, on People of Color Organize! site for your convenience. The selected cases in Parts 1, 2, and [...]
This article was first published in “The Feminist Wire” online on April 24th, 2012 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. This is Part 2 of a four part article. The introduction to the series was originally published May 18th, 2012, on People of Color Organize! site for your convenience. Nafissatou Diallo There was a time when an [...]
This article was first published in “The Feminist Wire” online on April 23rd, 2012 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. The title of this four part article is a metaphorical nod to the legendary jazz singer, songwriter, actor, and activist Abbey Lincoln (also known as Aminata Moseka) whose essay, “Who Will Revere The Black Woman?” is featured [...]
One of our regular contributors compiles each month’s birthdays of political prisoners of color. Check out May’s dates and send a card to our comrades! William Phillips Africa AM4984 SCI Dallas Follies Rd., Drawer K Dallas, PA 18612 May 12, 1956 http://www.onamove.com Alvaro Luna Hernandez #255735 Hughes Unit Rt. 2, Box 4400 Gatesville, TX 76596 [...]
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement recently called on the Obama administration to commit to the development of a national plan of action on racial justice, in light of the Trayvon Martin case. This is an important and necessary call, and an example of how to use human rights processes and discourse to demand accountability for [...]
A People Of Color Organize! correspondent recently spent four days on the U.S.-Mexico border, engaging in solidarity work, and connects the struggle over immigrants’ rights with the repression going on both in Arizona and all over the country. There have been 71 reported deaths on the US-Mexican border in Arizona since October 1, 2011 (1). [...]
What purpose does anti-oppression training and workshops serve for those that attend? I recently attended an anti-oppression workshop that was delivered by three self-identified women and genderqueer people of colour that used innovative methods of exploring the effects of colonialism on entire communities, nations, lands and peoples. Participants consisted of people from different racial groups, [...]
My history as an organizer went from being an unofficial member of the International Socialist Organization to President of the United Socialist Movement of the Americas- Buffalo Chapter to the President of Fight the Power UB. That history has been one of narrowing the struggles I fight and one I stand by fully. As many of you have seen, [...]
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Audre Lorde- Sister Outsider I got into a discussion about race and class and a question was posed- in this society, are we enslaved mentally according to race and/or class? I took this to mean- does race and class dictate our “social mobility”. Does it confine [...]
On Tuesday April 10th, I went to the parking lot of Time Market in Tucson, Arizona for a community Take Back The Night march against sexual assault and violence. When the first handful of people with signs and a banner gathered, I approached. I was a little stressed out and disappointed that I was the [...]
New York City’s Ignite Collective relates issues with the mobilization around the Trayvon Martin killing. On National Oppression of New Afrika The murder of Trayvon Martin is yet another life taken from us in the past few years that reminds us of the continued white supremacist oppression of New Afrikan people. It is also a watershed [...]
The proceeds of this song, now available on iTunes, will go toward the Martin family. [youtube tx34U9Yg_ic]
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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