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Author: SpencerMann

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Bringing It All Back Home: Anti-globalisation Activism Cannot Ignore Colonial Realities

“We are faced with a two-fold challenge, to struggle as best we can to deal with the immediate consequences of globalisation. Secondly, and more difficult, to contextualise those problems within the 500-year-and-more history of the culture of colonisation.” – Moana … Continue reading

Statement of Leonard Peltier on the FTAA

Dear Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Supporters, I know many of you are already familiar with the FTAA, NAFTA, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. I know many of you are working hard to expose what these organizations and … Continue reading

Same Beast, New Name

In the long sad history of colonization in Indigenous America, only one side has been told consistently. The colonizer version is written and published for public consumption. Many of the lies have become so entrenched in the psyche of the … 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

Global Commons: But Where Is The Community?

It is everywhere these days, this idea of a global commons. It started with the environment, now it has spread to all sorts of other issues. It is an idyllic idea too – one humanity, one world, one nature. It … Continue reading

“Democracy” Can Never Take Root On Stolen Land

I keep seeing books, articles and correspondence which refer to a “post-colonial world”. Which world is that? Hand me a telescope. It doesn’t seem to be in this galaxy. Many of us liken the situation of Palestine to that of … 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

Our Home on Native Land

Canada is a country which prides itself on its efforts in ‘peace-building’, always taking care to distinguish its ‘peace-building’ efforts from similar efforts as claimed by its southern neighbour. Abroad, this peace-building translates into ‘supporting sustainable development in order to … Continue reading

New Wave / Old Wave: Aotearoa New Zealand’s Colonial Continuum

“Colonisation is colonisation, whatever new name we may like to give to it. Globalisation, free market, neoliberalism, profitability, capitalism, it is all fundamentally about colonisation. The privatization agenda in this country did not start with the 1984 Labour government or … 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

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