“On September 7th, nearly five hundred Chicagoans gathered together for If You Want Peace, Fight for Justice, an evening discussion with Angela Davis on gun violence, social justice activism and the work we must do to build a path forward. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television ”
Angela Davis starts around 10:00
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“In the wake of the #AsianPrivilege response hash-tag to #NotYourAsianSidekick and #BlackPowerYellowPeril, it appears as if (among other misguided ideas) there is a prevailing notion out there that, in contrast to other minorities, Asian Americans “lack a history of resistance” (or that we think we do), and that this invisibility and dearth of civil rights history actually confers upon the Asian American community a form of racial privilege.
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This booklet follows the ideas from the book The New Jim Crow with action. With stories, it teaches how to build groups, win campaigns, and grow a movement.
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Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America is a grassroots effort formed in the wake of the devastating mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. The Other Easter Egg Hunt PSA VIDEO: “How Many More Rounds?
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@RaniaKhalek For those of us who anti all oppression we often feel isolated b/c we are shunned by other groups.
— T. Brown (@TheBlackVoice) December 31, 2013
As 2013 comes to a close and Congress prepares to wind down, advocates are making a forceful push for immigration reform. From the Capitol to the National Mall, immigration activists turned out in large numbers to show support for comprehensive reform.
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CNN’s Piers Morgan talks to Mallika Sherawat about why she is so outspoken about women’s rights in India.
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In December 1964, Malcolm X gave a speech at Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. In one of his most famous statements, he told his audience,
“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing…[The oppressor] fighting you in the morning, fighting you in the noon, fighting you at night and fighting you all in between, and you still think it’s wrong to fight him back. Why? The press. The newspapers make you look wrong. As long as you take a beating, you’re all right. That’s the press. That’s the image-making press. That thing is dangerous if you don’t guard yourself against it.”
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Harsha Walia is a Vancouver (coast salish territories) based South Asian community activist organizing in various migrant justice, indigenous solidarity, and anti capitalist, anti colonial movements.
She is speaking at City is a Sweatshop on February 21st, 2009
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Since the start of the economic crisis, we’ve seen workplace raids, handouts to the rich, increased deportation, targeting of migrants and the shattering of social services. On May 2, join the fightback and insist that NO ONE, poor or undocumented, IS ILLEGAL!
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