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Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation This pamphlet - written by a group of people of color, women, and queers - is offered in deep solidarity with anyone committed to ending oppression and exploitation materially. It is a critique of dominant forms of identity-based activism in the Bay Area and beyond, from privilege theory to contemporary interpretations of the legacy of decolonization and national liberation struggles. The pamphlet addresses the institutional struggle over the meaning of antiracist politics, and in particular...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2012 11:29am PDT
The army sergeant and Lovelle Mixon: Mass killings, race and state power The army sergeant and Lovelle Mixon: Mass killings, race and state power...
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 12:30pm PDT
Inequality Through Soccer This article expresses how Racial Abuse is becoming more common and relates own experience to outside events to show its rise. While describing how efforts to decrease inequalities are being advertised through professional soccer and Anti Racist propaganda....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2012 1:13pm PDT
April 16 2012 Winnemem Tribe Demands Forest Service Respect for Native Women's Rights Vallejo, CA – Today members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe will challenge U.S.F.S. Regional Forester Randy Moore at his Vallejo office on the issue of protecting Indigenous Women from racial slurs and physical harm during their coming of age ceremonies. The Tribe is demanding that the Shasta-Trinity National Forest provide a four-day mandatory closure of a quarter mile stretch of the McCloud River during a coming of age ceremony for a teenage girl, which is planned for late June. The Tribe's pas...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 9:31am PDT
Lynch Law U.S.A.: State Defends Murderer of Trayvon Martin Outrage over the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin compounds daily as the killer remains free, facing no criminal charges for gunning down the unarmed black youth from Miami Gardens, Florida. On February 26, George Zimmerman, a white self-appointed captain of a "neighborhood watch" team in a gated community in the Orlando suburb of Sanford, shot Martin, a black high-school student, who was returning to the home in the development where he and his father were staying. Police and local prose...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 8:27pm PDT
Sign the Petition for Trayvon Martin: Arrest the Killer George Zimmerman The horror of racism in this backward country is again front and center with the 2/26/12 killing of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin, in Florida, by an obviously criminally insane self-appointed vigilante, George Zimmerman, who has not yet been arrested for obvious murder, and the lack of notification of next of kin of Martin's death until his relatives filed a Missing Person Report. Please sign the petition to the district attorney, attorney general, police chief and Attorney General Eri...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2012 2:46am PDT
Communiqué from Decolonize Oakland 3.18.12 "Following the rich tradition of people of color who have fought for self-determination, Decolonize Oakland aspires to win struggles for liberation by placing people of color, people with disabilities, people who are low income or working class, immigrants, gender non-conforming persons, women, and queers at the center of our collective struggle."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 7:56pm PDT
Hypocrite Of The Year Award: SF District Attorney, George Gascon In one of the tightest fields of the last few decades, former Police Chief and current SF District Attorney, George Gascon, wins the Hypocrite of the Year Award....
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 5:01pm PDT
Cannery on Yurok Reservation Planned: Funding Campaign Efforts are being coordinated to create food security and livelihood for families on the Yurok Reservation. The project involves building a cannery and food processing center. A Yurok family launched the funding campaign using a crowd funding platform. The funds raised will be used to build an FDA approved cannery in Weitchpec on the eastern edge of the Yurok Reservation. The funding campaign features the smoked wild salmon and the blackberry and huckleberry jelly and jam gift sets. These wil...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 6:12pm PDT
What the Azeris Don't Want to Admit about Khojalu Deconstructing the Azeri Propaganda War Against the Indigenous Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2012 1:43pm PST
More mistreatment of Australian Aborigines planned The Australian Labor government is planning more assaults on the rights of Aborigines. It plans to extend for another ten years onerous conditions on income quarantining, education, alcohol and land rights. And moves to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal land have advanced with a deal between government and opposition....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 5:15pm PST
From Black To African History Month African History Month will counter Euro-centrism with historical truth. As well, it is important to embrace our culture and take ownership of our ethnicity....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2012 1:35pm PST
A put-up job that boomeranged? Not for the blink of an eye were Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott so much as threatened, even less endangered, on the 26th of January by demonstrators from the 40th anniversary Aboriginal Embassy camp in Canberra. The only violence came from a young copper who punched and choke-gripped a young painted up Aboriginal man, a young Aboriginal woman, an SBS cameraman and I believe one other person standing harmlessly near the restaurant side exit through which clumsy security men rushed out Gingerall...
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 12:36pm PST
Vets Ask US Senator Feinstein to Introduce Companion Bill -“Majority of California US Representatives co-sponsor the equity bill for Filipino WW II vets, so our Senator has all the reasons to introduce senate companion bill to HR 210 now,” says Regalado Baldonado, 85, Commissioner, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Commission during general assembly meeting in preparation for National Day of Action January 18th.
More than 100 combined vets, widows, and advocates will troop Feinstein local offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco to air public demand...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 3:29am PST
On Jan. 18th Vets Ask US Senator Feinstein to Introduce Companion Bill -“Majority of California US Representatives co-sponsor the equity bill for Filipino WW II vets, so our Senator has all the reasons to introduce senate companion bill to HR 210 now,” says Regalado Baldonado, 85, Commissioner, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Commission during general assembly meeting in preparation for National Day of Action January 18th.
More than 100 combined vets, widows, and advocates will troop Feinstein local offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco to air public demand ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 11:58am PST
King's Day His dream been realized? Has that dream come true in your life? Has that dream been fulfilled? Or have our ideals and our aspirations fallen by the wayside?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:01am PST
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