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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 [...]

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 [...]

Ziba Mir-Hosseini Speaks on Islamic Feminism

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 [...]

Lecture: Bombay`s Stigmatized Dalits

Stigma, Precarity & the Everyday Life of Outcaste Labor: A lecture by Anupama Rao happens Monday, November 12, at 12 noon. What forms of critical thought and cultural production occur when stigmatized life and the social experience of labor intersect in 20th-century Bombay? In her latest project, Barnard College Associate Professor of History Anupama Rao [...]

A Statement of Indigenous Solidarity for Arctic Protection

A group of 30 Indigenous representatives have issued a joint statement opposing offshore Arctic oil drilling and demanding that governments consult with them for rights to drill on their traditional lands. The joint statement, which further calls solidarity from all Arctic Indigenous Peoples, follows the international conference ?Arctic Oil: Exploring the Impacts on Indigenous Communities?, [...]

WEEK 2 OF FUND DRIVE! HAKI R. MADHUBUTI EXCERPTS!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download We encourage everyone to donate this week to make our fund drive a success.  This week we feature excerpts from an interview our editor Ernesto did with Haki R. Madhubuti, founder of Third World Press, at The Left Forum.  His interview is very inspiring and highlights the importance [...]

2012 POCO! FUND DRIVE FILM!

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FUND DRIVE LAUNCH TODAY! FREE EXCERPTS FROM PERKS!

2012 Fund Drive launch! On the first episode of the 2012 Fund Drive podcast, we feature excerpts from Bertha Lewis and Reverend Edward Pinkney

Download 2012 Fund Drive Exclusive Audio Intervew Biographies!

On September 10, 2012, we go live with our 2012 Fund Drive, until then, download this PDF of the biographies of voices featured on the CDs you can receive for your donation.

People of Color Organize Fund Drive starts September 10th, 2012!

People of Color Organize is launching a Fund Drive on Indiegogo in September to expand our site!  We are expanding to provide more benefits to you, the readers, listeners, and viewers of our site.  We have some great Perks lined up and some surprises for everyone during the drive.  Be on the lookout for more [...]

Saturday Radical Culture: NATE & CYCLONIOUS – AYE LAMMA

NATE & CYCLONIOUS – AYE LAMMA

Building a Mass Movement: Save the Planet, Fight Racism and White Supremacy

Until we confront all forms of racism, until whites confront their white skin privilege, nothing we do is ever going to be truly revolutionary or even progressive.

Saturday Radical Culture: Big Cakes-Gonna Be A Change

Big Cakes new video, Gonna Be A Change

Letter Writing Dinner In Harlem

An event tomorrow welcomes your involvement for political prisoners: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 7:00pm – 9:00pm SHARP! The Guillermo Morales- Assata Shakur Center @ City College Of New York NAC – Building: Room 3-201 W.138th Street (Bet. Amsterdam & Convent Avenues) Info. Contact- Bro. Shep: (212) 650-5008 or Panthershepcat@aol.com August Dinner Schedule (Doors Open At [...]

SF: USLAW Fundraiser July 23

USLAW is holding a reception fundraiser at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Union Square, San Francisco on the eve of the California Federation of Labor’s Biennial Convention Monday, July 23, 2012 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. At this event, we will honor Michael Eisenscher, National Coordinator of USLAW. Michael has spent a half [...]

UPDATE! Every 36 Hours! Extra-Judicial Killings of Black Women and Men: A New Report!

Every 36 hours in the United States one Black woman, man or child is killed by police, and by a smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes.

POCO! PODCAST: Former NSA Analyst Speaks On Being Convicted Of Violating The Espionage Act of 1917 & PM Press Founder On Occupy Wallstreet!

Zari Sundiata interviews former NSA Analyst Ken Ford, about his conviction of violating The Espionage Act of 1917; and The Ikonoklast interviews PM Press founder Ramsey Kanaan.

A Story in Two Parts, With An Ending Yet To Be Written

An exploration of culture and development.

Who Will Revere US? (Black LGTBQ People, Straight Women, and Girls) – Part 4 [#Feminist Friday]

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 [...]