Author: SpencerMann
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About a year ago, I went to an event that featured two people, one Palestinian and one Israeli, who were both speaking about the continued occupation of Palestine. They displayed a map of the West Bank on an overhead projector … Continue reading
Building Movements For Collective Liberation (For The October 25th Mobilization)
How do we build broad-based, anti-racist, multiracial, feminist, class-conscious movements capable of challenging global capitalism and US imperialism? What can we learn from the largest anti-war mobilization in the history of the world that took place this past year? What … Continue reading
Justice, from Iraq to S.F.
MARCH 20, 2003: thousands of antiwar activists and organizers shut down downtown San Francisco to protest the invasion of Iraq. Sept. 16, 2003: many of the same people celebrated as a year and a half of hard work and organizing … Continue reading
Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement
Part I: Why “Anti-War” has to be “Anti-Racist” too As a speaker at a San Francisco anti-war rally last fall, I tried to emphasize the importance of seeing the threatened war on Iraq in terms of this country’s racism here … Continue reading
Canada for anti-imperialists
Based on a talk given to the ‘Nageh’ community group on June 11, 2004, in Toronto. The United States is engaging in a bloody occupation in Iraq; it overthrew the democratically-elected regime in Haiti and posted Marines in that country; … Continue reading
For a Democratic Vision to Fight Empire
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
War Times: History, Evaluation, Lessons, Future
War Times/Tiempo de Guerras, a nationwide, free, bilingual (Spanish and English), antiwar newspaper, produced 19 issues (distributing roughly 100,000 copies of each) between February 2002 and the suspension of publication in October 2004. Below the War Times/Tiempo de Guerras Organizing … Continue reading
The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians
We were like Custer. We were surrounded. -Sgt. James J. Riley explaining why he ordered surrender in an engagement in Nasiriyah, Iraq on March 23, 2003.[1] At the onset of the U.S. military invasion of Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd emotionally … 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
Justice and Survival: A Forum on Building Movements to Stop War
At the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington D.C. Catalyst Project brought together anti-war organizers to share their thinking on movement strategy. Max Elbaum, a former leader in Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s and a current … Continue reading
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