Category: Anti-racist Organizing
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[The following is adapted from a presentation at the “From Protest to Resistance: a radical look at the FTAA” forum hosted by Anti-Racist Action. Toronto, January 25, 2001.] I’ve been asked to come here today to talk about the effects … Continue reading
Stick ’em up motherfucker! An anti-fascist perspective on the movements against global capitalism
On April 20-22, 2001, thousands of people will converge on Quebec City to oppose the Summit of the Americas, the so-called Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) and capitalism in general. Among them will be a strong contingent from … Continue reading
Anti-Racist Organizing: Reflecting on Lessons from Quebec City
“Parlez francais ici, hostie! Go back your country! Go back your country! C’est mon pays, pas ton pays.” [Translation: “Speak French here, &%$/*! Go back to your country! This is my country, not your country.”] These are the words a … Continue reading
Strategic Resistance Against Global Capitalism: lessons from a conference on strategy and anti-racism
“Our conversations are finally moving beyond anarchism 101”, he said. “It’s pretty exciting, isn’t it?” I responded. Facing challenging questions of radical political organizing was the goal of Strategic Resistance, a conference held August 3-5, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. … Continue reading
NGOs at World Conference Against Racism Target Globalization
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Many of the delegates attending the NGO forum of the World Conference Against Racism here in South Africa have been met with a big surprise. Most had been informed of the big controversy over including the … Continue reading
Doing things differently this time: Kananaskis G8 meeting and movement building
The next meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) is taking place in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, ‘canada’*. The previous G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy was the target of massive protests and intense police/state repression, in which 23 year old Carlo … Continue reading
Anti-Racism for Global Justice: An Activist Forum
Left Turn as a network, and later a magazine, was born out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests that took place in Seattle during the fall of 1999. In the aftermath of those protests, a long time Chicana activist … Continue reading
The White Collective (a blinding glimpse of the obvious)
I. White Individuals versus White Collective “Anti-racist” white people often implicitly locate ourselves and other white people as individuals. We do not locate ourselves as part of a collective entity whose purpose is to perpetuate the survival of white supremacy … Continue reading
Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation: An Interview with the Catalyst Project
On January 28th the Catalyst Project came to University of California, Santa Cruz to facilitate a day-long workshop titled, “Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation.” The workshop was designed as a way for white social justice activists, from a variety of organizations … Continue reading
Not Showing Up: Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement
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 asked specifically to address why more people most adversely affected … Continue reading
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