Nationalism

Protesters Vs. State Repression: Challenging Ruling Class Nationalism

February 21, 2017 Pierre Tristam, www.flaglerlive.com Resist! Nationalism, Protests, Repression, State Terror, State Violence

By Pierre Tristam for Flagler Live. for We surround ourselves with like-minded media, like-minded friends, like-minded believers and scream heresy at anything that transgresses our little world. We’re a nation of intellectual cowards, uncurious but for the reaffirming dogmas we know best. There’s so much of what we’re comfortable with anyway (every pretend marketplace of our own making is intellectual sugar), it’s easier to skip doubt. Making the effort to transgress is itself heresy. It’s what makes it so easy to live in alternate realities, and so dangerous: we’ve cozied up to extremes in our own way of looking at the world, and are now surprised that extremists are in charge. No wonder we look at protesters as the worst of heretics. But they may well be the last patriots. Freedom for the thought we agree with is as cheap as a Facebook click on the “like” button. “Freedom for the thought that we hate,” to quote Justice Holmes’s phrase—now that’s what separates Americans from thuggery.

Copiague Teachers Kneel During Pledge On Trump Inauguration Day

January 24, 2017 John Dundon, www.longislandpress.com Resist! Donald Trump, Nationalism, Patriotism, Protests

By John Dundon for Long Island Press - Two Copiague high school teachers kneeled in protest during the Pledge of Allegiance in class on Friday before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, sparking an internal investigation by school administrators, the Press has learned. The two teachers who took a knee during the morning announcements were identified as long-time social studies teachers, according to sources with knowledge of the protest. The incident outraged some in the community and is expected to be among the subjects discussed at the next Copiague school board meeting. “The district is aware of an incident that occurred Friday morning involving two high school staff members...

Right-Wing Watchlist Registering Professors Accused Of ‘Anti-American Values’

November 28, 2016 Zach Cartwright, www.usuncut.com Educate! Fascism, Higher Education, Nationalism, White Nationalism

By Zach Cartwright for US Uncut - Late senator Joseph McCarthy would be proud about a new list being circulated identifying professors espousing ‘anti-American’ values. The website ProfessorWatchlist.org seeks to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

White Nationalism Lives And All White People Need To Confront It

November 14, 2016 Staff, www.radfag.com Resist! Nationalism, White People

By Staff of Radical Faggot - Last Sunday afternoon, Joshua Beal was fatally shot by an off-duty sergeant with the Chicago Police Department in the South Side neighborhood of Mt. Greenwood. He was visiting from Indianapolis for the funeral of a cousin, and was actually killed while driving in the funeral procession. After the initial shooting, tensions quickly rose in the largely white, working class neighborhood–one which is home to many CPD families, and carries a long history of violent racism.

High School Students Join National Anthem Protests

October 28, 2016 Julia Jones, www.redflag.org.au Resist! Nationalism, Student Protests

By Julia Jones for Red Flag - A group of middle and high school students in Oakland, California, recently made international news when they joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest against racism and police violence in the United States. The students, members of the Oakland Unified School District’s Honour Band, knelt as they played the national anthem before a professional baseball game. The year 7 and 8 students spoke to Red Flag about their decision to “take the knee”.

Protest Started By Colin Kaepernick Spreads To High School Students

October 7, 2016 Julie Turkewitz, www.nytimes.com Resist! Athletes, Colin Kaepernick, Nationalism, Patriotism, Protests

By Julie Turkewitz for The New York Times - AURORA, Colo. — Vicqari Horton dropped a knee to the grass. The varsity choir piped out “The Star-Spangled Banner.” And in the bleachers at a sun-soaked football stadium here on Saturday, parents clenched their teeth in anger or raised their fists in support. “You can’t continue to slap people in the face and not expect them to stand up,” said Mr. Horton, a junior tight end at Aurora Central High School who is black and began kneeling during the national anthem at games in mid-September.

It’s Time To Stop Calling Black Protesters ‘Unpatriotic’

October 1, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Black Liberation, Nationalism

By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― A cell phone video filmed here last week captured two veterans facing off as police in riot gear chased protesters off the interstate, and encapsulated the fight over black “patriotism.” North Carolina’s largest city has been on edge since a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Scott on Sept. 20. Protesters flooded the city’s streets in the days after his death, demanding justice.

Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Is Working

September 19, 2016 Josh Levin, www.slate.com Educate! Athletes, Nationalism, Protests

By Josh Levin for Slate - On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs’ Marcus Peters held a black-gloved fist aloft during the national anthem, an homage to the 1968 black-power protest of John Carlos and Tommie Smith. Martellus Bennett and Devin McCourty of the New England Patriots raised their fists, too, and four members of the Miami Dolphins kneeled on the ground during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” withArian Foster saying after the game, “They say it’s not the time to do this. When is the time? It’s never the time in somebody else’s eye, because they’ll always feel like it’s good enough. And some people don’t.”

Historian Gerald Horne Explains Why No One Should Stand For National Anthem

September 7, 2016 Robert J. Barsocchini, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Nationalism, Symbolism

By Robert J. Barsocchini for Counter Punch - As Colin Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated for the US national anthem continues to highlight and provoke conversation about racism and oppression in the country, I asked attorney and Professor of African American studies at the University of Houston, Dr. Gerald Horne, for his reaction to some of the issues that have been brought to the fore. The 35 year-old who wrote the US national anthem, Francis Scott Key, appears to have been a remorseless enslaver and abuser of black people, a tireless pro-slavery activist, a religious fundamentalist, and a proponent of genocide and land theft.

Star-Spangled Bigotry: Hidden Racist History Of National Anthem

August 31, 2016 Jason Johnson, www.theroot.com Educate! Nationalism, Racism, US history

By Jason Johnson for The Root - Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can recite “America, F–k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.” “Yankee Doodle”? No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”? More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song. Most black folks don’t even know “the black national anthem.”

The Lie Of Patriotism

April 5, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Nationalism

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - BALTIMORE—When Rory Fanning, a burly veteran who served in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion and was deployed in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004, appeared at the Donald Trump rally in Chicago last month he was wearing the top half of his combat fatigues. As he moved through the crowd, dozens of Trump supporters shouted greetings such as “Welcome home, brother” and “Thank you for your service.” Then came the protest that shut down the rally. Fanning, one of the demonstrators, pulled out a flag that read “Vets Against Racism, War and Empire.”

Global Refugee Crisis Calls For A Culture Of Sharing

April 4, 2016 Rajesh Makwana, www.sharing.org Create! Europe, Nationalism, Refugees

By Rajesh Makwana for Share The World's Resources - The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism, which is likely to push the world further into social and political chaos in the months ahead. Razor-wire fences, detention centres, xenophobic rhetoric and political disarray; nothing illustrates the tendency of governments to aggressively pursue nationalistic interests more starkly than their inhumane response to refugees fleeing conflict and war.

The Deafening Silence: Magna Carta At 800

June 18, 2015 Pablo Julián Davis, www.interfluency.wordpress.com Educate! Great Britain, History, Nationalism

By Pablo Julián Davis in Interfluency - Today, June 15, 2015, marks an astonishing, almost inconceivable anniversary: 800 years since the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, and with it the foundational idea that there are limits upon the power of the sovereign. That our rulers must not be above the law. Apart from Biblical matters, commemorating events so far in the past is unknown to us. Within the lifetimes of a good part of the US population, we’ve seen a bicentennial (1976, Declaration of Independence), quadricentennial (2007, founding of Virginia), and quincentennial (1992, Columbus’s landing). Magna Carta is three centuries older than the oldest of those! Its age beggars the imagination.

Is Brazil Plan For Rainforests Environmental Protection Or Exploitation

May 20, 2015 Donna Bowater, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Brazil, Capitalism, Deforestation, Environment, Nationalism

The Brazilian rainforest could be effectively nationalised under a draft bill being considered by the country’s MPs. The proposed legislation would recognise the sovereignty of Brazil over the Amazon’s natural resources and set up a national Amazonian policy council with the aim of enshrining environmental protection and regulating economic activities in the rainforest. Should the law be passed, companies wanting to operate in the area would require approval from the new state entity in return for shares of the proceeds – in a similar way to that which oil exploration concessions are granted through state-controlled company Petrobras in return for royalties. The draft bill was put forward by Sergio Zveiter, a Social Democratic MP in Rio de Janeiro, and will go before a special commission created at the end of March.

Critical Issue: Future Of Global Governance, End Of The Nation State?

May 12, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.clearingthefogradio.org Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, Globalization, Nationalism

Clearing the FOG speaks with two guests from the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts – Boston about the current direction that global governance is taking. Senior fellow Harris Gleckman authored a response to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Redesign Initiative which was released in 2010. In brief, the direction proposed by the WEF would give a stronger role to multinational corporations and reduce the role of the nation-state. Maria Ivanova, co-director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability, will discuss governance systems with respect to environmental issues around the world that function well and those that do not. The future of global governance is the major question of the century. Maria Ivanova is an international relations and environmental policy scholar specializing in governance and sustainability. Her research and policy work focus on global environmental governance and the performance of international environmental institutions. She has worked on issues such as financing for the environment, US foreign environmental policy, and sustainability on campuses and in organizations.

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