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Swanson: Top 10 Misconceptions About Charlottesville
The military and militarized police are not here to protect you
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Blazak: Fascists Fall for Trump
There will be casualties along the way as the 2017 alt-right versions of those 1980s skinheads believe they’ve got their strong leader. That’s why Americans cannot be silent or still
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Contributors: The Combahee River Collective statement
A 1977 statement by a black feminist group which is widely considered a foundational text of the 'intersectional' approach to identity politics, which emphasises multiple, simultaneous forms of oppression
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Meadows-Fernandez: Toxic Masculinity
Negative remarks about the male romper trend can harm black male identity development
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Hodges: The Upriver Causes of our Immigration and Refugee Crisis
For decades now, congress has failed to find a way...
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Chomsky: Making Sense of the Deportation Debate
How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies
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Swanson: How U.S. Race Laws Inspired Nazis
James Q. Whitman’s new book is called Hitler’s American Model:...
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Yee: Targeting Southern ‘sanctuary cities’
Local elected officials are wary that even expressing a friendly tone towards immigrants could make them a target
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Timmons: Trump’s Wall at Nixon’s Border
How Richard Nixon’s Operation Intercept laid the foundation for decades of U.S.-Mexico border policy, including Donald Trump’s wall
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Falk: Is Israel an Apartheid State?
[Prefatory Note: This post was originally published on March 22,...
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The motivation behind the attacks on Indian Americans is a combination of seeing South Asians as terrorists and Indians as usurpers of high-tech jobs
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Aja: How Immigrants Became Criminals
Supporters of immigrant rights must unequivocally reject weakened rights and racially disparate sentencing for non-citizens with criminal records
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Maass: For Donald Trump, a Terror Attack Will Be an Opportunity Not a Curse
Trump’s eagerness to exploit only a particular type of terror attack — by Muslims — was reflected in his selective reaction to two incidents in his first month in office
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Falk: Israel’s Responsibility for Apartheid
[Prefatory Note: Below is the text of a report co-authored...
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Barber: Addressing racist hate speech in schools
Studies have found that struggling to adapt to racist environments can also be harmful to students' health — and even deadly
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There is more at work here than getting rid of Trump, there is a need to eliminate a system in which democracy is equated with capitalism, a system driven almost exclusively by financial interests
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Cole: Why the UN branded Israel an Apartheid state
A shouting match has been provoked this week by the...
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The UN report argues that Israel is a ‘racial regime’ because its institutions are premised on maintaining a Jewish nation by techniques of suppression and expulsion
ZMag Culture/Race
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Windham: Working Class Feminism
Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
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Grossman: Fusing Identity and Class Politics in “Trumpland”
We should begin to ask ourselves: if we lived in Europe during the rise of fascism in the 1920s or early 1930s, what would we actually do to stop it?
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Barber II: Why We Are Protesting in Charlotte
Instead, let’s look again at the vast, diverse majority of the protesters. This is what democracy looks like. We cannot let politicians use the protests as an excuse to back reactionary “law and order” measures. Instead, we must march and vote together for policies that will lift up the whole and ensure the justice that makes true peace possible.
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Barber: Why It’s Possible to Reject the Klan and Still Support Racism
We can neither forgive nor ignore the way 400 years of white supremacy have been naively reduced to whether a candidate will disavow the support of a hate group leader. Racism lives on in policies that perpetuate racial disparities, with or without the KKK.
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Piascik: The Northern Student Movement
Tens of thousands of young Americans were inspired by the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina and spread throughout the South. NSM Students at Yale University were no exception and some of them got together in the Fall of 1961 to form the NSM.
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Isaacs: Hurricane Sandy Is Still Drowning The Poor
It is a few months short of three years since Hurricane Sandy barreled down on NYC. The flooded subways have new barriers. The submerged hospital generators are back in order. The boardwalks along the shore are up and trod by beachgoers once again. But what of the thousands of poor renters, most on public assistance, who lost their homes that day? I don’t know all their stories. I only know one intimately, and it is not a happy story.
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Greenberg: Race Curriculum Controversy
In 2001, I was hired to help open the Center School, a small school in Seattle Public Schools, and I began teaching the Race Unit in 2002. Drawing in part from a district-wide training on racism called Courageous Conversations, the Race Unit established safe norms for racial dialogue
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Isaacs: From Baltimore to Palestine
The increasingly militarized attacks on rebellious neighborhoods in the U.S. seem more and more like armed forces brought to bear on Palestinians in the Middle East.
Culture/Race Audio
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Morello: Tom Morello Protest Song “Marching on Ferguson”
"100% of the profits from 'Marching On Ferguson' will support defending the protestors in the Ferguson area who have faced attacks, wrongful arrest, and violence from the police"
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Achcar: Egypt’s Brotherhood, ready for the political arena?
In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, George Miller talks...
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Trigona: Argentina’s indigenous continue to struggle as country marks bi-centennial
Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of a revolution that paved the...
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Scahill: Blackwater and Moving Beyond Obama
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for...
Culture/Race Video
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Windham: Working Class Feminism
Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
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Grossman: Fusing Identity and Class Politics in “Trumpland”
We should begin to ask ourselves: if we lived in Europe during the rise of fascism in the 1920s or early 1930s, what would we actually do to stop it?
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Barber II: Why We Are Protesting in Charlotte
Instead, let’s look again at the vast, diverse majority of the protesters. This is what democracy looks like. We cannot let politicians use the protests as an excuse to back reactionary “law and order” measures. Instead, we must march and vote together for policies that will lift up the whole and ensure the justice that makes true peace possible.
Blogs
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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Kearns: What does it mean to say rap music causes riots?
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
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Peterson: Gangsta Rap-A Social Perspective
Gangsta Rap- A Social Perspective Over a span of three...
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Ortiz: Distinguished Boricuas II
This is the second installment of Distinguished Boricuas. In these...
Culture/Race Books
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: African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
About the Book As African societies come to live more...
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: South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked...