Tag Archives: white left

Apr201224

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African Liberation vs. The White Left

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, [...]

Jun201015

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People of Color, Class, Diversity & the White Left

By Victoria Law My great-grandfather was the type of man who refused to get out of bed unless there was breakfast waiting for him. Since he wouldn’t get out of bed to go and work, there was never any breakfast waiting for him. It was a cycle that did nothing to alleviate the family’s poverty. [...]

May201016

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Gentrification and the White Left

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By Umar ben-Ivan Lee Yesterday before work I read a copy of Metro which is a new yuppie oriented publication aimed at the Sex in the City/I waste my daddy’s money in Manhattan crowd. It is one of those publications you only read when you are bored on the subway or like me bored waiting [...]

Apr201022

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More Funk the War: “Play Acting ‘Resistance’”

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For those who were following one of our popular posts on Funk the War and people of color, a visit of the debate going on at Upset the Setup, a new comment highlighting tactics: It doesn’t appear that FTW has taken any lessons from Miami 2003 and scores of other white-led protest blunders that have [...]

Apr201020

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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 [...]