Violence against women has taken many different forms. One form that gravely threatens the lives and status of the women in a world scale is the trafficking of woman. This trade in women’s bodies has the following particularities: (1) Despite its very long history, in recent decades it has greatly increased in most countries of the [...]
As the Navajo Nation Council prepares to vote this week on approving $2.3 million to continue paying a law firm and other consultants to look into the risks of buying BHP Billiton Navajo Mine, Navajo community members with Diné C.A.R.E called the expenditure “needless and wasteful” given the well-known risks and liabilities associated with the [...]
In the highest of honour I will remember Splitting the Sky who died suddenly March 13 2013 in Adam’s Lake, BC. Splitting the Sky, also know as John Boncore, his colonial name, aged 61, was one of the most fierce, uncompromising, warriors I have ever met. He was fighting the pipeline in northern BC at [...]
A nationwide, month-long campaign of counter-drone teach-ins, rallies and protest, called “April Days of Action” by its organizers, will challenge the escalated use of drones for targeted assassination by the Obama Administration as well as domestic surveillance by police agencies around the United States. The actions will call for a total halt to drone killing [...]
National Book Tour 2013 for Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz happens Friday, April 5, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. at Anderson Hall, Room 7, Temple University. 1114 W. Pollett Walk (N. 11th Street & W. Berks Street) Philadelphia, PA Speakers: Theresa Shoatz, Daughter of Russell Maroon Shoatz Quincy Saul, Co-Editor of [...]
Recently there appeared a piece by Ba Jin of the Fire Next Time Collective, a group which works close to mass activity in the Bronx and a newly emerging radical formation. While we respect the work of these comrades and are encouraged by their existence and activity as fellow travelers in struggle, this piece displays [...]
On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs (co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia) will deliver a keynote address at the Faculty Women of Color in Academia conference at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. “A path-breaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and [...]
Having killed thousands of people through U.S. drone strikes in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, the U.S. government is now putting all of Africa in the crosshairs. The Pentagon is establishing a drone base headquarters in Niger and a network of drone bases throughout the continent. In late December 2012, [...]
The Ku Klux Klan was founded as a racist terrorist organization in the 1860’s after the civil war crushed the pro-slavery Southern Confederate States of America. It was led by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and Confederate civil war general. The Klan, through a series of “night-riding” attacks murdered tens of thousands of Black [...]
“Eyes of the Rainbow” deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she has lived for close to 15 years. In it we visit with Assata in Havana and she tells us about her history and [...]
Native people from the Lummi Nation (near Bellingham, WA) are trying to stop a huge coal terminal from being built on their ancestral land at Cherry Point. The Lummi have lived on this land for 175 generations. This coal terminal would desecrate Lummi burial grounds, destroy their fisheries and could cause permanent damage to the air, [...]
Genocidal warfare is still being waged against the traditional and full-blood Lakota people, and to end it, we need your attention and support right now! The Lakota Solidarity Project with the Lakota Cante Tenza Okolakiciye (Strong Heart Warriors) are issuing an International Call To Action for both Native and non-native Warriors, Activists, Artists, Culture-Jammers, Organizers, [...]
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stayed the April 23, 2013, Pennsylvania execution of Borgela Philistin, Jr. March 1, 2013 Borgela Philistin, Jr., also known as Bortela Philisten, is scheduled to be executed at 7 pm EDT, on April 23, 2013, at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview, in Bellefonte, [...]
Congressman Joseph Crowley, a consistent supporter of job-killing ,environment destroying free trade agreements, is holding his annual birthday fundraiser to rake in corporate cash from the companies who want to ensure that he will continue pushing free trade agreements that endanger our jobs, our health, and our environment. Join TradeJustice to expose Crowley’s past free [...]
House Bill 1456, a so-called “fetal-heartbeat” bill that passed in North Dakota’s legislature on March 15 , is the latest and by far the most extreme in a series of attacks on our right to abortion. This law seeks to ban abortion for women in North Dakota as early as six weeks – effectively stripping the [...]
“Move Your Money,” a forum on transferring one’s bank account from a large commercial bank to a nonprofit credit union, will be held on Monday, March18, at the Mapleton Conference Center at 7pm located at Good Counsel, 52 North Broadway in White Plains. The 2008 economic crisis, precipitated by the risky and predatory lending practices [...]
The Hunter/Queens branch of the International Socialist Organization encourages all opponents of racial profiling and police brutality to support the family of Ramarley Graham, Tuesday March 19, when they will be attending the next court date of Richard Haste, the police officer who kill the unarmed 18yr old in the bathroom of his own home, [...]
Need we say more. The one and only Bambu drops a free EP project on the masses. From the page, “Track number 15 on …one rifle per family. was produced by Karman, a high school youth who honed his skills as a student of Sessions LA – a youth and student workshop series that DJ [...]
Examining the social, political and economic realities of gender, as well as the liberatory possibilities of militant resistance to gender based oppression, WPIRG’s 2013 School of Public Interest will focus on the theme of (en)gendering resistance. A purposeful play on words, the conference theme is intended to encompass reflections on the lived experience of gender, [...]
The goal of this event is to promote movement building with a focus on prisoners. Each movement has prisoners in common and we value our prisoners voices. When we build bridges with each other our movements get stronger. We can create a culture of resistance that is supportive and ultimately more powerful together. Thursday March [...]
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