Category: Anti-racist Organizing
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“O Havruta O Mituta” “Give Me Friendship Or Give Me Death” (Talmud Taanit, 23a) Countless Jews in the U.S. hate what the Israeli government and army are doing, support the rights of Palestinians, and want to speak out and take … Continue reading
A Time To Organize
Address to Midwest Meeting of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism March 27, 2004 Louisville, Kentucky I think this is a wonderful time to organize. I have heard people in the last few years say ‘Oh this is … Continue reading
The Work Is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community
Ok, white folks. I think it’s time for us to focus. We know a whole lot, y’all, but I don’t see us putting our knowledge to real use out there. I mean there’s a whole big movement going on in … Continue reading
The White Elephant in the Room: Race and Election 2004
The 2004 presidential contest was a warning shot across the bow of all progressives. While the president and the Republican pundits vastly overstate their “mandate,” progressives need to become clear on the motion of racial politics if we are to … Continue reading
How can we dance? A brief look at Post Left Anarchism
This essay appears in Post Colonial Anarchism: Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999-2004. Access the complete book here As far as I can tell the most recent calls for anarchists to leave their leftist associations … Continue reading
Identity Politics and Essentialism
This essay appears in Post Colonial Anarchism: Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999-2004. Access the complete book here Is anyone who has ever defined their political work through a social category historically associated with inferiority … Continue reading
Where was the Color in Seattle?: Looking for reasons why the Great Battle was so white.
This article was originally published in ColorLines (Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2000). “I was at the jail where a lot of protesters were being held and a big crowd of people was chanting ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like!’ … Continue reading
Globalism and Race at A16 in D.C.
This article was originally published in ColorLines (Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2000). Last year’s World Trade Organization (WTO) shutdown in Seattle was a historic moment for the growing U.S. movement against corporate globalization. However, the Seattle actions, dazzling as … Continue reading
Redefining Success: White Contradictions in the Anti-Globalization Movement
In the growing resistance to capitalism within the United States, many white activists consider Seattle as the ‘beginning of a movement’, and gauge anti-capitalist work using Seattle as the measuring stick. As the U.S. anti-globalization movement continues to build steam, … Continue reading
Combatting white supremacy in the anti-globalization movement
The anti-globalization movement has been vibrant in communities and organizations of color in the US and around the world for hundreds of years, and yet white supremacy was rampant in the movement against the WTO ministerial meetings in Seattle. In … Continue reading
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