Tag Archives: tea party movement

White Nationalism and the Tea Party

The NAACP recently released a Special Report on Tea Party Nationalism, which addresses the overlap and interconnectedness between white nationalist hate groups and the various Tea Party groups that are sprouting like bad weeds across the U.S.    As if to highlight this connection, David Duke, former KKK leader, early Internet adopter for the cause of [...]

CA: People of Color Confront Sarah Palin & Tea Party

The CSU, Stanislaus community rejects Sarah Palin and her Tea Party! We are a community of workers, immigrants and people of color who have been historically silenced and pushed aside by the right-wing elite that dominates our Central Valley. We will be silent no more! We urge our brothers and sisters throughout California to support [...]

Carpet Bombing the Counterinsurgency… All Day, Everyday

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Saying No to the Gang Injunction is a new California-based video blog about the impacts of a proposed gang injunction on people of color in the community. Originally spotted at the Ella Baker blog. Racialicious presents an important investigation of racism and ‘new journalism’ online. Keep It Trill speaks up against fascist campaigns against those of [...]

Five Things Radicals & the Left Should Do in the Face of Tea Parties

By brotherkomrade Before I start this I want to get something straight away: I hold the position that confronting the Right-Wing tendency we see today on the streets known as Tea Partiers is in no way the same as support for Barack Obama and the ruling class party we know as the Democrats. Tea Partiers [...]

Left Behind: A Critique of The White Left

Ahhh, The White Left……. today I feel like discussing threats to People of Color that aren’t Right (pun intended).  I couldn’t get Ernesto’s article, Overtures to Tea Party: Smart Politics or Hitler-Stalin Pact?, out of my head; so I decided to do more research into what has been characterized as “The Left”, and what it [...]

Denver Rebels to Tea Party: “You Stole This Land!”

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The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement has always been in the lead of militantly opposing the most reactionary aspects of Amerikan society while bringing to bear larger contradictions. This was certainly the case during the ‘Tea-Party Tax Day Protest’ and concurrent ‘Tea Party Against Amnesty,’ held at the Colorado State Capitol on April 15th, 2010. RAIM was [...]

Overtures to Tea Party: Smart Politics or a Hitler-Stalin Pact?

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CodePink’s Medea Benjamin recently stirred up controversy by offering an “olive branch” to tea party movement activists. Benjamin’s editorial reads, “We are not naïve to think that it would be easy for the Tea Party and the peace movement to work together… But building peace means reaching out to the other side and trying to find [...]

Seeking Ways to Engage and Oppose the Tea Party Movement

By Phoenix Insurgent, Phoenix Class War Council It’s been quite interesting to see the reactionary right go haywire over the recent call to “crash the tea parties.” Reading their blogs, one can literally track the echo chamber effect in real time. One wing nut on the information superhighway characterizes the anarchists without proof as stooges [...]

Whites, Racism, Class & the Tea Party Movement

Forwarding this piece for discussion. While Epstein makes valid remarks in some respects, but leaves many open spots. For instance, to argue that whites are affected by any number of issues avoids a central question the New Left to now tussles with: what are the boundaries of white working class awareness and solidarity? Though surely [...]

Shots Across the Cultural & Political Bow

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What Tami Said has written about Jill Scott’s recent Essence magazine article on interracial relationships and the maginalization of Black women’s voices and beauty. The Scott piece “has everything to do with the story of African-descended peoples in America. More specifically, it has to do with the history and present of black women in America. [...]