Author: SpencerMann
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[This article was originally written as my regular commentary for ZNet. ZNet declined to publish it. It is published here without any changes. The article raises important questions about the direction of the “New Social Movements” from “Third World” perspectives.] … Continue reading
Stop the FTAA and White Paternalism
In the aftermath of the Seattle N30 protests four years ago, there was a lot of healthy discussion about the role that racism and white paternalism played in inhibiting effective organizing. While no one may have to write “Where was … Continue reading
Who Needs Ends When We’ve got Such Bitchin’ Means?
The years since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks have been an incredibly difficult time and context for radicals of any stripe to organize in. The situation has been that much more difficult for the global justice movement, emerging … 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
Developing a Power Analysis
A review of Towards Land, Work and Power: charting a path of resistance to U.S.-led imperialism By Jaron Browne, Marisa Franco, Jason Negron-Gonzales and Steve Williams Unite To Fight Press, San Francisco, 2006 (159 pages) What is the current state … 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
You Can’t Kill the Spirit: A Forum with Three Women Organizers from New Orleans
Catalyst Project organized a panel at this year’s National Conference on Organized Resistance, featuring Mayaba Liebenthal, Amber McZeal, and Maya Dempster, who discussed their lives and political work post-Katrina, in New Orleans and as evacuees, from the challenges of survivor … Continue reading
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