Category: On the Home Front
← Older postsBeyond Welfare Queens: developing a race, class and gender analysis of Welfare and Welfare Reform
In 1996 the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act became law and dismantled the 61 year old program of federally guaranteed Aid to Families with Dependent Children or what is common referred to as welfare. The debate surrounding welfare reform … Continue reading
Confronting the Democratic National Convention and Working to Build a People’s Movement for Justice
Going to Los Angles for the Democratic Nation Convention was an amazing experience. The actions and events themselves were generally speaking, very powerful. More than the actions themselves, the questions about organizing, tactics, strategy, anti-racist practice and movement building have … Continue reading
Racism, sexism and Canadian immigration
Melca Salvador may be deported any day now. Her crime: giving birth to a son five years ago on Canadian soil. Her punishment: the impossible choice between an impoverished life for him in the Philippines, or leaving him with strangers … Continue reading
People Get Ready! A Survival Handbook for Reality
[Authors’ Note: This is a work in progress. These are just some ideas we have been talking about and working on. They are not to be seen as a new paradigm or ideology, but are meant to spark some new … Continue reading
Playing With Children’s Lives A Tried and Tested Tactic for Australian Government
“I regard this as one of the most disturbing practices I’ve come across”, Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Philip Ruddock told media at the time. He was referring to an incident last 7 October which never … Continue reading
Advance Australia Fair?
“In history’s page let every stage Advance Australia Fair In joyful strains then let us sing Advance Australia Fair.” (Australian National Anthem) “Manifest destiny may lack its old grandeur of theft and blood – “lock the door” is what it … Continue reading
Lucky Country?
In 1788 down Sydney Cove, The first boat people land Said “sorry boys, our gain’s your loss, We’re gonna steal your land” (Kev Carmody, Thou Shalt Not Steal) Recent news about the Curtin and Port Hedland “Immigration Reception and Processing … Continue reading
Struggling Forward: Organizing as a building block for resistance
I have a tattoo on my back as a reminder of why I organize. It’s an image of a woman pushing a boulder up a hill. It’s also a reinterpretation of the myth of Sisyphus, who was forced to spend … Continue reading
Reading Trans-Health/Reading Race War: Trans health organizing and neocolonial capital
Thanks goes out to the organizers of Philadelphia’s 2nd Annual Trans Health Conference, especially Jaci Adams and Rick Feeley. Gratitude to Dean Spade for much of my analysis. And serious props to the girls working the streets, from San Salvador … Continue reading
Beyond Voting: anarchist organizing, electoral politics and developing strategy for liberation
Presidential elections are often the terrain on which radicals and anarchists debate the merits of electoral politics. This election season is no different. Social movements around the world and in the United States are declaring Bush’s defeat at the ballot … Continue reading
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