Author: SpencerMann
← Older posts Newer posts →Underbelly
I first saw the underbelly of Israel when I was 18-years-old. Walking down a dusty path between shacks fashioned out of corrugated metal and government-issued shipping crates, on a barren hill not 500 meters from Jerusalem’s largest dump at a … Continue reading
Resisting Displacement, North and South: Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles
(This piece is based on the process of forging links and building a movement of solidarity between immigrant/ refugee communities and the Kahniankehaka aka Mohawk community in the Occupied Territories of Montreal) In numerous and lengthy phone conversations and meetings … Continue reading
Heart of Darkness: A True Story
“If you could just fill out this form, the doctor will call you when she’s ready for you.” “OK.” It’s been years since she visited the gynecologist. She avoids medical attention at all costs, in a reverse-hypochondriac denial of her … 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
Don’t Call This Country “America” How the name was hijacked and why it matters today
If ever there was a time to break the habit of calling this country “America,” as if no other nations existed in this hemisphere, it is in the current era of Permanent War and arrogant empire-building. If ever there was … 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
Kanehsatake: Mohawk Warriors face Canadian-style colonialism
On May 20, 2004, people from all over the Ontario and Quebec will go to the Mohawk community of Kanehsatake to show their support for a peaceful resolution to a confrontation between heavily armed agents of the state and a … 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
Resistance Without Reservation!
As hundreds of thousands gather in New York to protest the Republican National Convention at the end of August, a smaller and less historic but perhaps more profound convergence will be taking place in the interior of British Columbia. More … Continue reading
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