December 30, 2009
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From 1790 to 1952, only “white people” were eligible to become naturalized U.S. citizens. That fact alone explains why for most of our history, immigrants and their descendants fought to be considered white. Source: www.latimes.com Share
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Decolonial love is, as Bañales notes, about dialogue and translation within and among our movements. Unfortunately, when ethnicity is wielded as a weapon against others in the movement, when it breeds suspicion first and foremost, when it facilitates the authoritarian dismissal of all tactics with w… Source: www.reclamationsjour… Share
To highlight the coloniality of organizing around “the crisis” with regards to time, suddenly after September 24, there was a tidal wave of liberal discourse (clouded with socialist rhetoric) which claimed that “this movement is historic”; that these “new” (middle-class white) actors are “creating h… Source: www.reclamationsjour… Share
Today the Gaza Freedom Marchfragmented slightly when in the face of stern opposition from their fellows about 80 people headed off to Gaza on buses, the rest stayingin Cairo. We will work from Cairo to gain publicity for Palestinian oppression. Big deal we’re not in Gaza, it’s like being in Birmingh… Source: mondoweiss.net Share
Modernity is… riot police. They went to deliver a letter of support from Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts, says Ms. Benjamin, but instead were “dragged, pulled, and manhandled” on the pavement by Egyptian police. The group was then detained inside a pen made of metal fences. Benjamin got away and ultimately met with US [...]
This highway has told the whole story. They pave a road, expropriate Palestinian land and the High Court of Justice approves the expropriation, in its words, “provided that it is done for the sake of the local population.” Afterwards they prevent the “local population”… from using the road, and fina… Source: www.haaretz.com Share
December 28, 2009
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“I’ve never done this before, I don’t know how my body will react, but I’ll do whatever it takes,” 85-year-old Hedy Epstein told AFP. The American activist is a Holocaust survivor, the agency reported. Source: news.bbc.co.uk Share
The reality is that the discourse on radicalization and homegrown terrorism is fundamentally racist and Islamophobic. It is based on seeing Muslims as the “other” and viewing our actions through an “orientalist” lens which frames any Muslim’s questionable action as terrorism. Hence, a Muslim oversta… Great article by Reem! Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Share
December 27, 2009
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Don’t you know. Source: www.youtube.com Share
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Obama has pounded his chest at excessive executive compensation and the evil behavior of insurance corporations. And then he has given yet more of the public treasury and commons away to the privileged few, justifying the handouts and protection proffered to the rich and powerful as a noble expressi… Source: www.zcommunications.org Share
Up to 52 civilians killed in Nato attack in Helmand, Afghan president’s office says.
How regrettable. How unfortunate. Bombs away!
(Discussion)While anti-Semitism means, rightly, social death, Islamophobia might get you a television spot, a column in a newspaper, or academic tenure.
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The 400 richest families in America, who saw their wealth increase by some $400 billion during the Bush years, have now accumulated $1.27 trillion in wealth. Four hundred families! During the last fifteen years, while these enormously rich people became much richer their effective tax rates were sla…
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A six-year archive of classified military documents to be made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.
Shoot, you don’t need secret documents to tell you that… but viva WikiLeaks either way.
(Discussion)Israeli parliament passes first of three readings illegalizing boycott activism or advocacy
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But what we’re seeing today is just the unleashing of a long-incubated racism, both institutional and incidental. It doesn’t emanate from the Jewish component of Israeli nationhood. It is informed by the Eurocentric cornerstones of the country: the belief, expressed by Israel’s founding fathers and …
(Discussion)More then twice as many Oscar Grant protestors came out to the Walnut Creek Courthouse to show that nowhere in the bay area will attempts to justify the murder of Oscar Grant go unquestioned. While about a hundred supporters of Johannes Mehserle and law enforcement attended the rally, their numbe…
Racists for Mehserle
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In the US, anti-miscegenation laws were on the books until 1967, when the Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional. That was the same year that Israel began its occupation of Sabbar Kashur’s home in East Jerusalem. Since then, Israelis have fine-tuned their own obsession with racial purity. Only…
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