The Colours of Resistance Archive is a collection of analysis and tools for liberatory organizing and movement-building.

Author: SpencerMann

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Beyond the Whiteness – Global Capitalism and White Supremacy: thoughts on movement building and anti-racist organizing

One of the most exciting developments that has come out of the mass actions – in Seattle, Washington DC, Windsor, Canada, Philadelphia and Los Angeles – is the movement-wide discussion about racism, white supremacy and organizing strategies to build a … Continue reading

Activists of Color in the New Movement: Lessons From RNC Organizing

This article was first published in Freedom Road’s pamphlet, This Globe is OURS: Uniting the People against Imperialist Globalization. In recognition of the overwhelming whiteness of the new movement against imperialism that got its media debut last fall in Seattle, … Continue reading

Ain’t Gonna Let Segregation Turn Us ‘Round: Thoughts on Building an Interracial and Anti-Racist Student Movement

This article was originally published in WireTap Magazine and The Activist (November 3, 2000) In the summer following his junior year of college, together with nearly one thousand other Northern college students, Andy Goodman traveled to Mississippi to participate in … Continue reading

Anti-Racist Revolutions

Institutionalized Racism lives and breathes a healthy life here in the good old United States. If you’re white, like me, you can easily miss it even when it brushes your shoulder or screams in your ear. I wouldn’t have been … Continue reading

‘Forging a Movement on Shifting Ground’: reflections on anti-racism as a catalyst for global justice organizing

“It’s like coming home”, I thought as over 600 people converged at this year’s National Organizers Alliance (NOA) Gathering in Sonoma, California. NOA’s mission is “To advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice, and to support, challenge and … Continue reading

Still We Rise: conversations with organizers on building global justice movement and ending war

“We don’t have much time, we need to slow down.” The first time I heard this was at an antiwar coalition meeting shortly after the bombing of Afghanistan started. The African American organizer who said it was talking about the … Continue reading

Whiteness, Organizing, and Allies

[Note: This piece was written in response to an email debate among student anti-war organizers focusing on how the movement after Sept.11 was perpetuating racism.] First of all, I’d like to thank Chantel and the other organizers of color who … Continue reading

Leslie Feinberg’s Speech at the Al-Fatiha Retreat

Leslie Feinberg gave this speech at the Al-Fatiha international retreat in Washington DC in the spring of 2002. The community event featured Joo-Hyun Kang of the Audre Lorde Project and Surina Khan of the International Gay and Lesbian Task Force … Continue reading

Counting For Nothing: Reflections On The First Anniversary Of 9/11, September 11, 2002

“The media seems to be implying as if this was the first ever macabre happening in this world and no other atrocity has been seen before. From the projection of pain and grief by media one can assume that intensity … Continue reading

War Times Response to Open Letter on Racism in Antiwar Movement

Dear friends, We at War Times believe that the “Open Letter to Activists Concerning Racism in the Anti-War Movement” recently issued by New York City activists provides our movement with a great opportunity. Its specific examples of the racism problem … Continue reading

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