Activism

Solidarity With Professor At Purdue For Palestinian Activism

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.usacbi.org Resist! Activism, Higher Education, Palestine

By Staff of USACBI - We, the undersigned, are deeply disturbed by the attempts to smear those advocating for Palestinians’ rights to racial equality and freedom from occupation with false charges of anti-Semitism. Professor Bill Mullen of Purdue University was recently the target of a vicious smear campaign that linked him to swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs found outside the American Studies department office at Purdue. Professor Mullen is an American Studies scholar who is nationally renowned for his leadership in the Palestine solidarity movement...

Building New ‘Nonviolent Cities’

March 15, 2016 Rev. John Dear, www.commondreams.org Create! Activism, Nonviolent Action

By Rev. John Dear for Common Dreams - Last year, I was invited to give a talk on peace in Carbondale, Illinois. I was surprised to discover that in recent years, activists from across Carbondale had come together with a broad vision of what their community could one day become—a nonviolent city. They wanted a new holistic approach to their work, with a positive vision for the future, so that over time, their community would be transformed into a culture of nonviolence. They created a coalition, a movement and a city-wide week of action and called it, “Nonviolent Carbondale.”

Climate Change And How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness

March 14, 2016 Dayton Martindale, www.inthesetimes.com Strategize! Activism, Climate Change

By Dayton Martindale for In These Times - In a dispatch from Paris for Harper’s, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit called the recent climate agreement negotiated there “miraculous and horrible.” This tension between the exciting and the awful, the transformative and the terrifying, motivates her book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Initially written in response to the Iraq War, the book will be re-released this month with a new section on climate change.

“Paddle On The Patuxent” Links Dominion With Disaster

March 14, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Activism, Dominion, Maryland

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - A small flotilla of activists in kayaks launched into the Patuxent River at Solomons, MD on March 13 in a demonstration of support for locals battling a liquefied natural gas facility under construction in their residential neighborhood. From the Thomas Johnson Bridge, 21 kayakers paddled by the pier where barges have delivered massive cargoes too big to transport to the Dominion Cove Point terminal over land. As they proceeded down the river’s broad, shallow channel toward the Chesapeake Bay, a police boat shadowed their movements.

For-Profit College Scam These Students Are Still Paying For

March 10, 2016 Sarah Jaffe, www.billmoyers.com Resist! Activism, Higher Education, Student Debt

By Sarah Jaffe for Moyers Company - She had been working since she was 16, but thought that an accounting degree would help her get a better job, one that paid more and maybe even offered her some additional flexibility. A friend of hers was taking classes at Florida Metropolitan University, a subsidiary of the massive Corinthian Colleges chain, and in 2005, Stevens signed up, taking out government-backed student loans to cover the costs of her program. I did what I was supposed to do, I went to school, I expected the Department of Education to protect me and let me know if the school was going to defraud me.”

Let’s All Commit Acts Of Citizen Journalism

March 6, 2016 Michael Nigro, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Activism, Mass Media, Media

By Michael Nigro for Huffington Post. Six corporate leviathans stand right on top of mainstream media's metaphorical garden hose, and by simply shifting their bloat about, control the flow of information that most Americans read, watch and hear. These giants' names are Viacom, CBS, Comcast, Newscorp, Disney and Time Warner. They were created in great part by, but with no thanks at all to, Bill Clinton, who deregulated the FCC, in 1996. In the simplest meme-worthy of terms, there are 1500 newspapers, 1100 magazines, 9000 radio stations, 1500 TV stations and 2400 publishers. This is how 90% of all information flows to us - via six corporate conduits. Of course this is not breaking news. Many have written extensively on this corporate consolidation, on how these six companies dictate which images hit our retinas and control what news is fit to print (or broadcast).

Threat To Free Speech: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation

February 23, 2016 Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman, www.theintercept.com Resist! Activism, BDS, Criminalization, Law, Palestine

By Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman for The Intercept - THE U.K. Government today announced that it is will be illegal for “local [city] councils, public bodies, and even some university student unions … to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products, or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.” Thus, any entities that support or participate in the global boycott of Israeli settlements will face “severe penalties.”

The Consequences For Eric Garner’s Videographer

February 15, 2016 Luna Olavarría Gallegos, www.indypendent.or Resist! Activism, NYPD, police brutality

By Luna Olavarría Gallegos for The Indypendent - “Yeah, I knew what I was recording, but I didn't think he was going to die.” This is how Ramsey Orta responds when I ask him what was going through his head when he shot the video of Eric Garner’s death. Orta tells me that just a week before, he had filmed a video of his friend getting beat up by the cops on the same Staten Island block where Garner was choked by Officer Daniel Pantaleo. It has been eighteen months since the world watched the scene unfold through Orta’s cellphone and just over a year since a grand jury declined to indict Officer Pantaleo, and still, Orta is not able to keep the incident in the past...

Newsletter – Celebrate Black Power

February 13, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Activism, Black History, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Justice, Environmental racism, Flint, Poverty, Racism, TPP, Water, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This month is Black History Month, first celebrated as Black History Week in 1926 as a result of the efforts of African-American historian, Carter Godwin Woodson. Goodwin picked a week in February because both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas were born on February 12 and 14, even though he believed that people needed to be educated about the multitude of African Americans who have contributed to history, as change comes from the bottom up. In recent years black history is being made by multitudes of people. Under the umbrella of Black Lives Matter multiple organizations have been created across the country and tens of thousands of people have taken action. Black history is alive as history is being created in our times. Let's celebrate it together.

For Black Lives Matter, MLK’s Kind Of Activism Isn’t Only Way

January 21, 2016 Harry Bruinius, www.csmonitor.com Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, Black Lives Matter (BLM), MLK

By Harry Bruinius for The Christian Science Monitor - NEW YORK — In years past, the civil rights mantle of Martin Luther King Jr. was taken up by other charismatic leaders, political figureheads such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton – each a skilled orator with roots in the black church, which in many ways is still the center of community life and politics for black Americans. But as the country remembers Dr. King on Monday, a new generation of activists is doing things differently. Many within the Black Lives Matter movement are uncomfortable with venerating any "great man" of the past, and they reject the idea that any dynamic figurehead should embody their struggle today.

How To Change The World In 3 Easy Steps

December 24, 2015 Nafeez Ahmed, www.medium.com Strategize! Activism, Creativity, Organizing

By Nafeez Ahmed for Medium - I often get asked by people about what they can do to change things, to change the world, when each of us is just one person, in the face of so much that we cannot even hope to control or influence. What can we do? Why bother, given our powerlessness? As we look back on the key events of 2015, and the processes that led to them, it would be all too easy to succumb to despair. Despite fighting the ‘war on terror’ for 14 years since 9/11, we’ve only succeeded in seeing terrorism accelerate, metastasising into the so-called ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria.

Reflections On The Power And Beauty Of Kayaktivism

November 21, 2015 Bill Moyer, www.backbonecampaign.org Strategize! Activism, Art

By Bill Moyer for Backbone Campaign - I co-founded and direct the Backbone Campaign and for the last 12 years have had the honor to work with an array of incredible people who practice what I call Artful Activism. They are autonomous, creative change agents, a sort of nonviolent guerrilla force with the improvisational sensibility of a free jazz ensemble. They are bold, innovative, skilled, smart and listening deeply to the world around them. Together, we are Team Backbone. Meetings are rare and somewhat scorned,but potlucks and parties are well attended. We prefer action. Whether using puppets, shining messages onto buildings, deploying a flash mob, a blockade, or a flying banner we strive to transform protests into cultural happenings to more effectively reach peoples minds and hearts.

Former Black Panther Uses ‘Bonus Years’ To Make Art

November 20, 2015 Krithika Varagur, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Activism, Art

Krithika Varagur for The Huffington Post - Fixers is a series from What's Working that profiles the people behind the most creative solutions to big problems. Jamal Joseph was just 15 when he joined the Black Panthers, though he fudged that number to 16, reasoning that it was a more plausible age for an activist. It was the famously incandescent year of 1968. On his first day at a Panthers meeting in New York, he met Afeni Shakur, future mother of Tupac. He was overfull of nervous energy and promised the room, "I will kill a white dude right now!

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