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Why I Choose To Take A Stand — By Taking A Knee

September 4, 2018 Rich Whitney, Medium.com , ,
The national controversy over those who choose to protest racial injustice in America by placing one knee on the ground during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner doesn’t seem to be going away. The NFL announced a policy last May that any players who protest the anthem while on the field will be subject to discipline from the league. Here in Carbondale, Illinois, where I reside, Southern Illinois University — or, as I like to call it, Self-Impaling University — impaled itself once again by announcing a policy forbidding student athletes, cheerleaders and spirit members from engaging in “displays of activism” while in uniform. Thankfully, after a public outcry, the university quickly reversed itself. Last year, when three black cheerleaders at SIU bravely took a knee before an SIU football game, they were subjected to a sickening barrage of racist vitriol, including death threats, sexual assault threats, and being called the N-word.

Prison Strike Solidarity In Liberal, Progressive ‘Utopia’

September 2, 2018 Amani Sawari, Sawarimi.org. , , ,
Racists exist everywhere in this country because along with racism, it is comfortably maintained by our culture. The old white couple that I met during a demonstration were the nicest yet most offensive racists I’d ever met. Racism is like an invisible venom here, it penetrates deeper because you didn’t even think it would bite. I was approached by a couple during a noise demo outside of the King County Correctional Facility that had just exited the facility and were curious about why we were outside. They told us that they were missionaries that went in on a regular basis and volunteered to pray...

Ferguson Activist Says: “We Need More Than Change, We Need Revolution”

September 1, 2018 Lamont Lilly, Truthout.org , , ,
“When the cameras left, everybody forgot,” says Missouri-based Black radical organizer Tory Russell, talking about how quickly national attention turned away from Ferguson following the murder of Michael Brown by a police officer four years ago. But, he adds, activists in St. Louis and Ferguson “sure as hell haven’t forgotten” and have continued to push for justice and accountability since the murder. In this exclusive interview, Russell, co-founder of the St. Louis-based grassroots organization Hands Up United and co-creator of its community service initiative Books and Breakfast, offers an update on the ongoing efforts of Michael Brown’s family and other racial justice activists in the Ferguson/St. Louis area.

500th Anniversary Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade

September 1, 2018 David Keys, Independent.co.uk  , ,
Almost completely ignored by the modern world, this month marks the 500th anniversary of one of history’s most tragic and significant events – the birth of the Africa to America transatlantic slave trade. New discoveries are now revealing the details of the trade’s first horrific voyages. Exactly five centuries ago – on 18 August 1518 (28 August 1518, if they had been using our modern Gregorian calendar) – the King of Spain, Charles I, issued a charter authorising the transportation of slaves direct from Africa to the Americas. Up until that point (since at least 1510), African slaves had usually been transported to Spain or Portugal and had then been transhipped to the Caribbean. Charles’s decision to create a direct, more economically viable Africa to America slave trade fundamentally changed the nature and scale of this terrible human trafficking industry.

Spike Lee’s Film Makes Cop That Spied On Blacks Into Hero

August 31, 2018 Boots Riley, Blackagendareport.com , , ,
This contains spoilers, so read no further if you don’t want the film spoiled. This is not so much an aesthetic critique of the masterful craftwork of this film as it is a political critique of the content of and timing of the film. I also want to say, as I tweeted last week, that Spike Lee has been a huge influence on me. He’s the reason I went to film school so many years ago. He’s the first person I sent a demo tape of my music to when he had 40 Acres and a Mule Musicworks, and he has inspired me as a cultural critic as well. He never held his tongue about what he thought of Tyler Perry films or any other films that he happened to see and be displeased with. Spike doesn’t hold his tongue. Although I’m gonna lay out my disagreement, I hold him in highest respect as a filmmaker.

Why The Chicago ‘68 Convention Matters Today

August 23, 2018 Andy Thayer, Counterpunch.org , , , ,
The events around the 1968 Democratic Convention were a sharp turning point in U.S. politics. In full view of news cameras, Mayor Richard J. Daley let his police crack the heads of anti-war protesters in the streets of Chicago, as well as cameramen, other journalists and passersby. Inside the convention, he showed brazen contempt for the popular will by engineering the selection of a pro-war candidate who hadn’t won a single primary. Such blatant contempt for democracy alone would be reason enough to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic Convention. But the lessons to be learned from the events surrounding the 1968 convention and its aftermath are far more profound than that. For those who wanted wholesale change – from a society of greed and violence to one that values human beings – the Democratic Party’s actions were a gut-wrenching teachable moment.

Baltimore’s Girls Are Being Pushed Out Of Schools

August 19, 2018 Dr. Khalilah M. Harris, The Real News. , , ,
As the new school year approaches, The Real News Network will continue to explore the intersections of equity, race, and access to opportunities for quality, safe, and supportive public school environments. In early summer 2018, we attended a town hall event hosted in partnership with Not Without Black Women, the University of Maryland School of Law, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in advance of the release of the LDF’s new study Our Girls, Our Future. The two organizations held this discussion during Say Her Name Week 2018, a national week of action targeted at ending violence against all black women, girls, and femmes.

We Can’t Confront Fascism Without Addressing White Settler Colonialism

August 19, 2018 Jen Deerinwater, In These Times. , ,
The white supremacists didn't come to Washington, D.C. on August 12. They were already here, occupying the White House, capitol, Supreme Court and federal agencies. The white invasion brought white supremacy to Turtle Island, and people indigenous to this land have been suffering from it for more than 500 years. Washington, D.C. is the colonizer's capital—and the scourge of settler colonialism, and the racism and other ills it brought here, haven't been addressed by those in power. On August 12, 2017, white supremacist Jason Kessler's “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent and left many injured and one anti-racist activist, Heather Heyer, dead.

With First Potential Black Female Governor, Georgia Closing Seven Black Population Polling Districts

August 19, 2018 Sam Levine, Huffington Post. , ,
Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities. Randolph County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent black, with a little over 30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed closures discriminated against black voters.

One Year Later: Lessons from Charlottesville

August 15, 2018 Phil Wilayto, Popular Resistance   , ,
This Aug. 12 marked the one-year anniversary of the murderous “alt-right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. The mainstream media have been bursting with commentary, but almost all of it misses the most important lesson from that infamous event: that it was a tremendous victory. A year later, the national fascist movement is greatly weakened. It’s divided by infighting. It lacks an agreed-upon leader, let alone a program. This weekend in Charlottesville there were hundreds of anti-racists on the streets and virtually no fascists. The attempt to hold a rally in DC instead also failed miserably.

Unite The Right: Handful Of White Nationalists Given Extraordinary Police Protection

August 14, 2018 By Anne Meador and John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us , ,
Washington, DC — Thousands of counter-protesters came out in force on August 12 for what turned out to be an anti-climatic showing of white nationalists for a much-anticipated White House demonstration. Jason Kessler, the man who organized the disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. exactly a year ago, admitted Sunday’s event was a flop. Thousands of anti-hate counter-protesters completely overwhelmed the two dozen or so white nationalists who ultimately showed up for Unite the Right 2, as it was called. Pent-up rage and grief at the death of Heather Heyer and serious injury of several others at the hands of a white supremacist who deliberately drove into a crowd of anti-fascists in Charlottesville a year ago was unleashed on the small cadre who dared to show their faces in Washington.

Massive Anti-Racist Crowd Shows, Fringe-Reality Of Racists

August 12, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance , , ,
The Unite The Right Rally today, one year after the one in Charlottesville, can only be described as a complete flop. The racists were unable to fill a single train car and were dwarfed by police surrounding them and over ten thousand anti-racists, who gathered in various parts of Washington, DC. The Alt-Right racist movement has been exposed for what it is -- an unpopular, shrinking fringe movement that the national consensus finds despicable. In fact, counterprotesters outnumbered white nationalists by the hundreds at the DC rally — to the point that some counterprotesters left early because it was kind of boring.

Environmental Group Protests Systemic Racism

August 12, 2018 350 Loudoun.   , ,
Leesburg, VA (Aug. 12, 2018) - Loudoun residents and members of 350 Loudoun covered the Confederate statue on the courthouse lawn in Leesburg with a tarp this morning. The peaceful action was meant to protest the monument and call for its removal. It comes on the one year anniversary of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville that centered around a statue honoring Confederate general Robert E Lee. “The statue must be removed because it represents a shameful era in our history.  Failing to remove it perpetuates the past,” said Natalie Pien, one of the protesters and a member of 350 Loudoun. 

Anti Fascists To Confront White Nationalists In Washington DC

August 12, 2018 By John Zangas, DC Media Group ,
Washington DC: Over a thousand are expected to mobilize in a counter-demonstration against a White Nationalist rally outside the White House on Sunday. A White Nationalist rally organized by Jason Kessler is permitted to protest in Lafayette Park in the afternoon. National Park Service police also granted Answer Coalition and a broad base of social justice groups a permit to counter-protest in Lafayette Park at the North side of the park. Police are preparing for the possibility there will be confrontations by erecting barricades to keep groups apart by 100 feet.

How Do You Deal With White Supremacists?

August 7, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. , , ,
People in the United States have a long way to go to achieve the social and economic gains that other countries, such as the Nordic ones, have. The big question is – how do we make those gains? We discuss that with George Lakey, a lifelong activist, academic and movement strategist. On the one year anniversary of the Charlottesville rallies, we explore the question of how to confront the overt racism in the US and how to dis-empower white supremacists. We also cover current news and upcoming actions. Do you want to keep the conversation going? Join our Patreon community and you’ll receive
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