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Review: Hamas: From Resistance to Government by Paola Caridi [Saturday #Culture]

Acknowledgments, a Foreword and Emotional Prologue  give you a basis for understanding where Caridi is coming from, especially as student of Paolo Spriano, historian of the Italian Communist and participant in the Italian armed Resistance to Nazism and Fascism during World War II (WWII), and an Italian living in the Middle East. In the first chapter [...]

Gaza Ceasefire Deal Shows Palestinians’ Will to Resist

A ceasefire agreement between the Hamas-led Palestinian government in Gaza and Israel was announced today, Nov. 21, in Cairo by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr. Clinton made an emergency trip to the Middle East with the aim of brokering a truce, a clear sign of the Obama [...]

The Azanian Uprising: Challenging the Hegemony of the ANC and Completing the Azanian Revolution

Azania, better known to most as South Africa, is afire with worker resistance and social unrest.  Since August, hundreds of thousands of workers, the unemployed, and their allies have engaged in a pitched battle against the forces of transnational capital, particularly those concentrated in the mineral extraction industries, and the African National Congress (ANC) government [...]

Keep Applying the Pressure – Demand Obama Stop the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People

Now that Barack Obama has been reelected President of the United States of America, it is imperative that the racial justice movement hold him and his administration accountable for the extrajudicial killing of Black and oppressed people throughout the country. The Obama administration must assert its authority over the various law enforcement entities throughout the [...]

POC Zine Project on Poverty [Saturday #Culture]

The goal of this zine series is to share relevant and timely information about how to survive and thrive with little or no money. It will also be a resource for those who are newly homeless or in danger of facing homelessness. The publication will connect people, share resources and provide real stories from people [...]

Flagstaff & Northern Arizona Land Struggles

One of the reasons I first came to Flagstaff, Arizona was to teach card weaving, an ancient form of technology for weaving straps, at the Taala Hooghan Infoshop, an indigenous founded collective resource center. I have been hanging around Infoshops on and off since November of 2002, and have tried to find them as I [...]

Against Left and Right: Bourgeois Democracy and Our Tasks

The November presidential elections have spawned a multitude of reactions from both the so-called Marxist ‘Left’ and the strains of post-Anarchism and autonomism emerging from the self-liquidation of the Occupy movement. Positions range from an inside-outside strategy which calls to “vote against Romney” while simultaneously building a left pole both inside and outside Democratic Party, [...]

Boston: Rezwan Ferdaus Sentencing

Rezwan Ferdaus, a young Muslim man from Ashland, MA, needs your support! After being entrapped by an FBI informant, Rezwan was arrested on September 28th, 2011 on charges including attempting to provide material support to terrorists and attempting to damage and destroy federal buildings by means of an explosive. He has been in solitary confinement [...]

New Issue of 4StruggleMag is Out

We are very glad to finally get this issue out, in Fall 2012. I know a lot of readers, friends and activists have been wondering what happened to 4strugglemag? This is the first issue we are putting out in 2012. It is a combined Summer and Fall issue. Normally 4sm comes out three times a [...]

NYC: Families & Communities Victimized by Police Brutality

Join us for a panel of family members from the East and West Coasts who have lost loved ones to police brutality, as they tell stories of their 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, [...]

SpeakSudan Callout to Youth [Saturday #Culture]

SpeakSudan’s first publication aims to reach out and form a collective voice of opinions, dissenting or not, on East African youth and allies in diaspora. It is an effort to find commonality amongst a large, diverse and tremendously talented group of people. We will attempt to provide a space, physical and emotional to dissect, understand [...]

Conversation on Maestra! The Cuban Literacy Campaign

Norma Guillard joined the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign (the Campaign) when she was 15 years old. A social psychologist from Santiago de Cuba, she is one of the first Cuban women of her generation to call herself a feminist. She primarily works on the issues of gender, race, sexual orientation and issues of diversity and [...]

POCO Podcast: Last Days of Fund Drive

Podcast: Play in new window | Download We are in the final days of our first big fund drive, and it has been tough. Some final thoughts, a little Richard Wolff and more. Check it out!

NYC: African Awakening – Revolution and Counter Revolution: Lessons from Libya

The so-called `Arab Spring` started [was] a genuine popular uprising but has been hijacked gradually. It has had different developments and consequences in different African and Arab countries. Why is the situation developing the way it is in Libya? Why was NATO so eager to intervene in Libya while it is very reluctant to do [...]

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 [...]

Come Clean: The Left’s Unity Line and How It Upholds Oppression

I lost count long ago of how often I heard white activists call critiques of white supremacy in movements and society little more than diversions from ‘real’ issues. It’s as if there’s an expectation that patriarchy, white supremacy and other oppressions are to be ignored for the sake of ‘unity.’ Such a refrain is one [...]

CCR Organizes to Share Stories of People Stopped by the NYPD

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting against discriminatory policing practices — like stop and frisk —  in New York and beyond for many years. We’ve brought you data documenting the skyrocketing numbers of stops and racial disparities.  This summer we brought you the stories behind the numbers, sharing the experiences of those [...]

Today: Hearings on Stop and Frisk, NYC

The New York City Council has announced two hearings on the NYPD’s use of stop, question and frisk.We encourage all those concerned about ending discriminatory and abusive policing by the NYPD to attend and make your voice heard! NYC Council Civil Rights Committee Hearing BROOKLYN: [Tuesday] October 23, 2012 from 6:00 PM Brooklyn College Student Center [...]

Oppression Bias and Why It Sucks to be a Black Sociologist

The social sciences as they have developed in the western world has it as it’s goal to develop, catalog, understand, and organize human behavior. Sociology, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Communications, and all the other social sciences seek to make sense of the social world human beings have created for themselves over the past million [...]

Ohio: Anti-Racist Action National Gathering

Arch City ARA is pleased to announce that we will be holding the Anti-Racist Action Network’s 18th annual conference this year in our hometown of Columbus, Ohio during October 12th-15th. This year’s conference is especially important to us because it marks a return to the city where the first official ARA conference took place in [...]