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Overcoming Race and Class Divides
I was asked to speak about identity politics and the history of the Combahee River Collective. I’m also going to discuss where the concept of intersectionality actually came from, because most people do not know that.
Overcoming Race and Class Divides
I was asked to speak about identity politics and the history of the Combahee River Collective. I’m also going to discuss where the concept of intersectionality actually came from, because most people do not know that.
Race and the War on Terror
I still remember watching the Twin Towers fall on 9/11. Emotionally, I was gutted. All I could think about was the tremendous amount of suffering and grief that the victims’ family members would endure for the rest of their lives. I participated in the grief of the country as well. But intellectually I also knew that my life as a Black immigrant was about to change for the worse. I knew that this country’s imperialist foreign policy was going to turn more murderous and that the recipients of that international violence would mostly be Black and Brown bodies.
Fighting Exclusion!
In the 2015 report entitled “Architecture of Segregation,” Century Foundation fellow Paul Jargowsky reported that
Fighting Exclusion!
In the 2015 report entitled “Architecture of Segregation,” Century Foundation fellow Paul Jargowsky reported that
Las Noticias—News From The Workers’ Center
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Commemoration of Palestine Land Day and the Great Return March
Every year on May 15, Palestinians and their allies around the world mark the Nakba, or "catastrophe" in Arabic, referring to the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland to establish the state of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, at least 750,000 out of 1.9 million Palestinians were forced to leave their homes in Palestine and become refugees. 2018 marks 70 years since the ongoing dispossession and ethnic cleansing of
The Struggle Continues
For many of us in
JROTC, Military Indoctrination and the Training of Mass Killers
Nikolas Cruz, the south Florida shooter, was enrolled in the Army’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program as a 9th grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Army taught Cruz to shoot lethal weapons at a very young and impressionable age.
SPC in Action
Upcoming Nakba Commemoration
The Justice for Palestine Committee has been mobilizing for the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the mass expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians between 1947-49). We will hold a rally on Tuesday, May 15, from 4-5 pm at the