This coming Tuesday will be a year since several hundred potential jurors appeared for jury selection for the 2nd degree murder trial of George Zimmerman. The process continued to actual selection and trial. On July 13, 2013, 6 women acquitted Zimmerman for killing unarmed 17-year old Trayvon Martin.
A student says that her substitute teacher duct taped her mouth shut. News 12 New Jersey reports.
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Earlier this morning, a video was posted onto Reddit showing a woman spewing incredibly racist statements towards a black man. The video shows the woman’s two children witnessing her rant, while the man sits calmly in his car recording her comments. …
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Trigger warning! Graphic video.
Two teenage girls’ bodies were discovered hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh. CNN’s Sumnima Udas reports.
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Click through for a great debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin.
HT Harsha Walia
Today in 2014 there is STILL massive segregation in the U.S. and there is STILL systemic racism and oppression. Any who are unsure about this can check Michele Alexander’s research on The New Jim Crow.
“Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.
Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.”
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“Given the devastating cultural, spiritual, economic, linguistic and political impacts of colonialism on Indigenous people in Canada, any serious attempt by non-natives at allying with Indigenous struggles must entail solidarity in the fight against colonization.
Non-natives must be able to position ourselves as active and integral participants in a decolonization movement for political liberation, social transformation, renewed cultural kinships and the development of an economic system that serves rather than threatens our collective life on this planet.
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A growing number of social movements are recognizing that Indigenous self-determination must become the foundation for all our broader social justice mobilizing.”
– Harsha Walia, from the article Decolonizing Together
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Colorado police have arrested a 19-year-old man and his girlfriend on suspicions of murdering his grandparents allegedly over inheritance money.
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After a series of raids, police made new arrests in the public stoning death of a pregnant Pakistani woman, bringing the total of people in custody to 12.
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