Topic: Kenyon Farrow
Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?
I was in Atlanta on business when I saw the Sunday, Feb. 29th edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that featured as its cover story the issue of gay marriage. Georgia is one of the states prepared to add some … Continue reading
Not Showing Up: Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement
Courtesy of the March/April 2006 issue of the Nonviolent Activist. 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 … Continue reading
Like Prisons? You’ll Love Globalization. Like Globalization? You’ll Love Prisons
The connections between the prison industrial complex and corporate globalization The past five years have seen a dramatic upswing in activism in the United States against the varied manifestations of both the prison industrial complex (PIC) and corporate globalization. This … 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
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