Category: Anti-racist Organizing
← Older posts Newer posts →Untying the Knots: Marriage Equality and the Struggle for Civil Rights
While conservatives are coordinated in their assault on queers, people of color, women, low-income people, and immigrants, many of us under attack are divided, in part because we have learned and internalized the prejudice, mistrust, and hatred that the rightwing … Continue reading
Grounding Power: An Interview with Nrinder Nindy Kaur Nann
Nrinder Nindy Kaur Nann is fiercely dedicated to equality in her personal life, in her community based organizing and through her work in Ottawa, Ontario, as the National Representative on Youth Issues for the Canadian Labour Congress, the national umbrella … Continue reading
Intersections: Organizing All the Oppressed To End All Our Oppressions
What I hope to do in this presentation is to underscore a number of points that have already been made, to elaborate a bit on them, and to add a few new ones. The several points I wish to discuss … Continue reading
the healing journey as a site of resistance
“Addressing our individual and collective suffering, we will find ways to heal and recover that can be sustained, that can endure from generation to generation” (hooks, 1995, 145). I am real. I am a woman who, as a child, was … Continue reading
Beyond Welfare Queens: developing a race, class and gender analysis of Welfare and Welfare Reform
In 1996 the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act became law and dismantled the 61 year old program of federally guaranteed Aid to Families with Dependent Children or what is common referred to as welfare. The debate surrounding welfare reform … Continue reading
Confronting the Democratic National Convention and Working to Build a People’s Movement for Justice
Going to Los Angles for the Democratic Nation Convention was an amazing experience. The actions and events themselves were generally speaking, very powerful. More than the actions themselves, the questions about organizing, tactics, strategy, anti-racist practice and movement building have … Continue reading
Racism, sexism and Canadian immigration
Melca Salvador may be deported any day now. Her crime: giving birth to a son five years ago on Canadian soil. Her punishment: the impossible choice between an impoverished life for him in the Philippines, or leaving him with strangers … Continue reading
Advance Australia Fair?
“In history’s page let every stage Advance Australia Fair In joyful strains then let us sing Advance Australia Fair.” (Australian National Anthem) “Manifest destiny may lack its old grandeur of theft and blood – “lock the door” is what it … Continue reading
White Supremacy On My Mind: Learning To Undermine Racism
Growing up in California and coming of political age in the 90’s, race has been a central factor in my development as a person and as a radical. California elections have been the battle ground upon which fights over immigrant … Continue reading
The Proof of Whiteness: More than Skin Deep
Paper for the conference: ‘The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness’ at University of California, Berkeley (11-13 April 1997) Introduction Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are they washed in the blood of the lamb? As this traditional … Continue reading
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