Syndication Date: Wed, 2009-07-15
By Will Potter - June 17th, 2009
Criminalizing books has no place in a democracy. Make no mistake, that’s what this is about: criminalizing dissent. The government isn’t burning the books, and it isn’t saying it is illegal to own them, but prosecutors are saying that if you *do* own them or “advocate” them it reflects negatively on your character.
Syndication Date: Mon, 2009-07-13
Monday, July 6, 2009
Finally, after years of unified resistance by the brothers and the building of massive support, California State prosecutors were forced to admit that they have insufficient evidence against the San Francisco 8.
Syndication Date: Sat, 2009-07-11
Friday, July 17, 2009 • 7–9:30 p.m.
Judson Memorial Church
Corner of West 4th St. & Thompson St, NYC
(Exact location inside Judson to be announced)
Music: WMD Poetry, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Others [...]
Syndication Date: Wed, 2009-07-08
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2009
Hamas faces a difficult choice between recognition and legitimacy. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
In a major policy speech on 25 June 2009, Khaled Meshal, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, tried to do what may be impossible: present the Islamist Palestinian resistance organization as a willing partner in a US-led [...]
Syndication Date: Wed, 2009-07-08
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2009
Israel’s housing minister called for strict segregation between the country’s Jewish and Arab populations last week as he unveiled plans to move large numbers of fundamentalist religious Jews to Israel’s north to prevent what he described as an “Arab takeover” of the region.
Ariel Atias said [...]
Syndication Date: Tue, 2009-07-07
Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 5 July 2009
Relatives of 17-year-old Hiyam Abu Ayish view her body in the morgue at Gaza’s al-Aqsa hospital a day after she was killed in an Israeli attack, 3 July 2009. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)
Thursday was as normal and quiet an afternoon as you get [...]
Syndication Date: Tue, 2009-07-07
June 29th, 2009 in United States Two-Spirits, People
NEW YORK – The NorthEast Two-Spirit Society (NE2SS) and Kris Hayashi, Executive Director of Audre Lorde Project were forcefully ejected from this year’s annual Heritage of Pride March in New York City yesterday.
Just before 2PM, Lieutenant [...]
Syndication Date: Wed, 2009-07-01
Syndication Date: Mon, 2009-06-29
Building a Non-Eurocentric Anarchism in Our Communities: Dialogue with Ashanti Alston
The following is an interview with Ashanti Alston Omowali, an African descent anarchist activist, who started his political militancy back in the ‘60s in the Black Panther Party. He was also a member of the Black Liberation Army, and because of his revolutionary activities spent [...]
Syndication Date: Fri, 2009-06-26
By Jessica Yee - June 25th, 2009
I am Native. And I’m pro-choice. Many people seem to think this is an oxymoron – but to me, it makes perfect sense. I have unraveled much of the oppression I was forced to swallow and internalize over the years, which obstructed my ability to wholly see that concepts of “choice” and having “options” in our sexual and reproductive lives are really not new things at all...First and second wave feminism did not “give” my people reproductive rights; in fact those of us in Native communities had them a long time ago.
Syndication Date: Fri, 2009-06-26
Cindy Von Quednow
Minutemen Do More Than “Secure” Borders, Also Kill Arizona Dad and Daughter
Earlier this month, nine-year-old Brisenia Flores and her young father Raul were shot and killed during the night in their home in the border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Three suspects allegedly forced themselves into the family’s home dressed as law enforcement officials, [...]
Syndication Date: Fri, 2009-06-26
White Supremacy in South Africa
Syndication Date: Thu, 2009-06-25
Senate Backs Apology for Slavery
Resolution Specifies That It Cannot Be Used in Reparations Cases
By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 19, 2009
The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday apologizing for slavery, making way for a joint congressional resolution and the latest attempt by the federal government to take responsibility for 2 1/2 centuries of
Syndication Date: Thu, 2009-06-25
{From the Meltdown list. Also see another report here:
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/wkrs-j20.shtml }
The following is a draft of a brief, bare-bones article I wrote after visiting the occupied Ssangyong Motors plant near Seoul on Tuesday the 16th.
Syndication Date: Thu, 2009-06-25
This is an excerpt from an essay by Joel Olson, a member of Bring The Ruckus, author of The Abolition of White Democracy, and a professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. A slightly revised version of this essay is included as a chapter in the new book Contemporary Anarchist Studies (Routledge 2009). A full [...]
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