Category: Anti-racist Organizing
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How do we use the Presidential election to not only advance our politics and build our organizations and movements, but also deliver a measurable blow to US imperialist power? This is the question I hear over and over again. Our … Continue reading
Not Showing Up: Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement
Courtesy of the March/April 2006 issue of the Nonviolent Activist. When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was … Continue reading
The Global Privileges of Whiteness
Whiteness is ownership of the earth. — W.E.B. Du Bois I use the term white supremacy … I intend a latitudinarian conception, one that encompasses de facto and de jure white privilege and refers more broadly to the European domination … Continue reading
Refusing to Surrender: John Brown and White Anti-Racist Struggle
A note to the reader: Framing the language in this article has been rather difficult. While intended for anyone interested in John Brown and anti-racist struggle, as a white anti-racist writing about another white anti-racist, I feel this article has … Continue reading
Discovering a Different Space of Resistance: Personal Reflections on Anti-Racist Organizing
In the summer of 2000, I was involved with a coalition that worked to mobilize andorganize a demonstration against the Organization of American States (OAS) when they held their meeting in Windsor, Canada. Included in the OAS’s portfolio is the … Continue reading
Challenging White Supremacy
For the past 10 years, the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop has provided the opportunity for activists in San Francisco to examine the history of white supremacy, its effects on communities of color and on white dominated movements for social change, … Continue reading
Fighting white supremacy from the inside
For three weeks last spring and six weeks last summer (2002), the Active Solidarity Collective (ASC) brought workshops about white supremacy and tools for dismantling it to white groups of social justice activists across the East Coast, and bits of … Continue reading
Whose ally? Thinking critically about anti-oppression ally organizing PART 2
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 closing words in defense of workshops So I’ve laid out here a critique of antiracist and antitransphobic ally organizing culture. You can take or leave it as you please. To try to diffuse some of the … Continue reading
Whose ally? Thinking critically about anti-oppression ally organizing PART 1
In the last couple weeks, we witnessed the largest single day of social action the world has ever seen. Tens of millions of people across the globe marched against the impending U.S. imperial assault on Iraq. Here in the U.S., … Continue reading
But We Don’t Have Leaders: Leadership Development and Anti Authoritarian Organizing
Leadership and leadership development can play important roles in moving forward with our commitment to equality in organizations, movements and society. Leadership development, as defined by organizer Dara Silverman, is working with others to build skills, analysis and confidence. Anti-authoritarian … Continue reading
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