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International Movement Seeks Arms Embargo On Saudi Arabia

March 30, 2016 Murtaza Hussain, www.theintercept.com , ,
By Murtaza Hussain for The Intercept - A LAWSUIT FILED last week in Canada is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armored vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen. The suit, filed by University of Montreal constitutional law professor Daniel Turp, argues the vehicle sales to Saudi Arabia violate a number of Canadian laws, including regulations on the export of military equipment...

Black Liberation: Ghosts Of The Past, Potential Of The Future

March 28, 2016 Angela Y. Davis, www.truth-out.org , , , ,
By Angela Y. Davis for Truth Dig - Thank you so much and good evening everyone. First of all it is a pleasure and an honor to be here at Davidson College to help you celebrate Black History Month. I always welcome the opportunity to come to North Carolina because I spent a number of years of my own activist career doing work in this state. So first of all, let me say that Black History Month falls in the month of February, about which people used to complain because it's the shortest month of the year, but there are specific reasons, including the birthday of Frederick Douglass, why we observe Black history during this month.

Towards A New Anti-Capitalist Politics

March 8, 2016 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org , ,
Jerome Roos for ROAR Magazine - Humanity finds itself at an inflexion point. On the one hand, global capitalism is producing and aggravating a series of existential crises that may well undermine the very preconditions for a dignified human life—or any form of human life—on this planet. On the other, the only political force that could possibly do something to counter this inexorable drive towards catastrophe—the international left—has long since been run into the ground by a four-decade neoliberal offensive, leaving its social base fragmented and atomized, its organizational structures in tatters.

Awakening The Movement Of Movements

March 4, 2016 Rivera Sun, www.truth-out.org
By Rivera Sun for Speakout - As the crises we face intensify, so does the cry for the Movement of Movements to coalesce into one mass movement for change. But herein lies a seeming paradox: This revolution will not be organized under one umbrella - its diversity is part of its revolution. We are wandering in the woods, looking for the revolution of the Movement of Movements, not seeing the forest for the trees. The "Movement of Movements" is a phrase used to describe the current profusion of social justice movements sweeping the national and global social-political landscape.

Using Momentum To Build A Stronger Movement

March 3, 2016 George Lakey, www.wagingnonviolence.org ,
By George Lakey for Waging Nonviolence - We always looked forward to the annual visit of Saul Alinsky when I taught at a small graduate school. Alinsky was the terror of city hall bosses everywhere, and he told us colorful stories from his organizing experience. Ours was the Martin Luther King School of Social Change. The students could earn an M. A. in Social Change, which, when asked, I would explain stood for “Master’s in Agitation.” This was the late 1960s and most of our students were drawn from front-line communities where the struggles were hot.

How #BlackLivesMatter; #Ferguson Became Movement

March 1, 2016 Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark, www.cmsimpact.org , , , ,
By Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark for CMSI - IN 2014, A DEDICATED ACTIVIST MOVEMENT—Black Lives Matter (BLM)—ignited an urgent national conversation about police killings of unarmed Black citizens. Online tools have been anecdotally credited as critical in this effort, but researchers are only beginning to evaluate this claim. This research report examines the movement’s uses of online media in 2014 and 2015. To do so, we analyze three types of data: 40.8 million tweets, over 100,000 web links, and 40 interviews of BLM activists and allies. Most of the report is devoted to detailing our findings...

Angela Davis Talks Black Liberation, History & Contemporary Vision

February 27, 2016 Sheryl Huggins Salomon, www.ebony.com , ,
By Sheryl Huggins Salomon for Ebony - Fifty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the agenda and style of the legendary Black revolutionary organization remains relevant in today’s public discourse. An end to “police brutality and the murder of Black people,” central to the Black Lives Matter movement, was laid out in the Black Panthers’ 10-Point Platform five decades ago. Both acclaim and condemnation erupted when their iconic black berets made an appearance recently in Beyoncé’s half-time show performance during the Super Bowl.

Haiti Rises: A Time For Solidarity

February 26, 2016 Nia Imara and Robert Roth, www.blackagendareport.com ,
By Nia Imara and Robert Roth for Black Agenda Report - The voice of Haiti’s popular movement at this critical period in the country’s history has never been clearer. For the past several months, since the discredited legislative and presidential elections of last August and October, mass, vibrant protests for the right to a free and fair vote and against foreign intervention have been a relentless force, in the face of heavily-armed and well-financed adversaries and mounting repression. The influx of articles and editorials in recent weeks by leading U.S. media outlets depicts the situation in Haiti...

Make 2016 Year Of Environmental Justice: Celebrate Milestones

February 17, 2016 Robert Bullard, www.drrobertbullard.com ,
By Robert Bullard for Father of Environmental Justice - In 2014, the nation commemorated some important milestones in our historic march toward justice and equality for all Americans. We marked the 60th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision (May 17, 1954), 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, and 20th anniversary of Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898 signed by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1994.

Abby Martin Speaks To Cornel West About Black Radical Tradition

February 16, 2016 AbMartin, www.telesurtv.ne , ,
By Abby Martin for Tele Sur - Abby Martin explores the legacy of the Black radical tradition today in the latest episode of teleSUR's The Empire Files. Prominent radical social critic Cornel West said that Black History Month honors an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, internationalist tradition that fights for a truth that “is always to allow the suffering to speak no matter who is suffering.”

History Of State Repression Against Social Movements

February 16, 2016 Jared Ball, www.therealnews.com , ,
By Jared Ball for The Real News - Welcome, everyone, back to the Real News Network. I'm Jared Ball here in Baltimore. As we move into Black History Month, we wanted to sit down with our resident political prisoner and Black Panther Party producer and host here at the Real News, Marshall Eddie Conway, to talk a little bit about his life and work, and particularly about his book The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and the Counterintelligence Program.

Peace Nears In Colombia. Diverse Groups Asked For Solutions

February 10, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - A national forum on the end of the conflict will bring together victims, Afro-Colombians, women, and many more to brainstorm ideas for lasting peace. As Colombia edges closer to peace between the government and FARC guerrilla movement, diverse sectors of the country's society will have a chance to formally have their voices heard on the matter of peace and collectively pitch in to the final leg of the end-of-war process that’s been more than three years in the making.

Argentine Social Movements Strike Back Against Monsanto

February 9, 2016 Darío Aranda, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Darío Aranda, Translated by Nancy Piñeiro for Tele Sur - The biotechnology giant continues attempts to build its GMO seeds plant in Argentina, despite three years of unflinching popular opposition. The world’s largest GMO corporation never imagined that it would suffer one of its major setbacks in a small, rural town in central Argentina. Popular opposition, irregularities in the company’s environmental impact assessment, a protest blockade at the entry gate, and a court ruling stalled the construction of its seeds plant three years ago.

Today’s Causes: Powerful Tweets, Not Powerful Leaders

February 3, 2016 China Okasi, www.truthdig.com ,
By China Okasi for Truth Dig - When we think of early American protests, we think of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. During that historic demonstration, the colonists destroyed a large shipment of tea in a bid to end the British East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade, a move that led to the American Revolution and the colonies’ independence from Britain. We might also think of the legendary but unsuccessful 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Va.

Thousands In France Protest State Of Emergency

February 1, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Activists say the French government's crackdown on protests has done nothing to make the country safer. Thousands of people marched across France Saturday to protest the country's nearly three month old state of emergency. Rallies took place in around 70 cities, including the capital Paris, where organizers said more than 20,000 people took to the streets. Police put turnout at closer to 5000. Many protesters said the state of emergency had curbed civil rights while doing little to improve security.
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