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Tag Archives: African Americans
We march in Oakland for #NMOS14
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Reports of demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Oakland, Los Angeles. Read the report from Oakland: We march in Oakland for #NMOS14
NYC police murder Eric Garner
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Reports of demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Oakland, Los Angeles. Read the report from New York: NYC police murder Eric Garner
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Tagged African Americans, Bill de Blasio, Black liberation, chokehold, criminal injustice system, Daniel Pantaleo, Eric Garner, Ferguson Missouri, gentrification, Latinos, Michael Brown, Michael Gilbert, New York City, New York Police Department, NMOS14, NYPD, Police brutality, police killings, quality of life, racism, Staten Island, William Bratton
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Kansas City for Michael Brown
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Reports of demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Oakland, Los Angeles. Read the report of the Kansas City demonstration for Michael Brown: Kansas City for Michael Brown
Justice for Ezell Ford
LA demonstration for Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, and many others. Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Basho, Black liberation, California, criminal injustice system, Ezell Ford, Ferguson Missouri, Jackie Lacey, Latinos, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County sheriff, Michael Brown, NMOS14, Police brutality, police killings, Theresa Robinson
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From New York to Ferguson, stop killer cops!
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Reports of demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Oakland, Los Angeles. Read the Chicago report here: From New York to Ferguson, stop killer cops!
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Tagged African Americans, Aiyana Jones, Black liberation, Champaign Illinois, Chicago, Christopher Roupe, criminal injustice system, Detroit, Duanna Johnson, Eric Garner, Euharlee Georgia, Ferguson Missouri, Franklin Dmitryev, Kiwane Carrington, Latinos, Martin Luther King Jr, Memphis Tennessee, Michael Brown, New York City, NMOS14, Police brutality, police killings, Rekia Boyd
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Revolt and retrogression at home
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015: From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy. II. Revolt and retrogression at home. A. Women under attack. B. Many dimensions of revolt Continue reading
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Tagged abortion access, Affordable Care Act, African Americans, birth control, Charles Murray, Chicago, clinic escorts, Coming out of the Shadows, Contraception, criminal injustice system, domestic violence, feminism, Florida, food stamps, Health care, immigrant workers, International Women's Day, Kyle Tasker, labor, Living wage, low-wage workers, Marissa Alexander, Medicaid, Minimum wage, Moral Mondays, Paul Ryan, poverty, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, sexism, South Carolina, Truthful Tuesdays, undocumented workers, United States, women's liberation
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Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 1
Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 1. Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, Arab spring, Ariel Sharon, Arizona, Black liberation, Borderlands/La Frontera, capitalism, Cook County Hospital, Detroit, Egypt, Friends of the Southwest Museum, Gene Autry Museum, Gezi Park, Gloria Anzaldúa, Hamentashen, healthcare, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Jordan Davis, Latinos, Maidan, Medicaid, medicare, Mexican American studies, Michael Dunn, Middle East revolutions, Native Americans, News and Letters Committees, Obamacare, Occupy Boston, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Paradise Valley, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PTSD, racism, Russia, Sabra and Shatila, Southwest Museum, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syria, Tahrir Square, theocracy, Tucson, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen
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Queer Notes, March-April 2014
CeCe McDonald; Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Global Day of Action called by Solidarity Alliance in Nigeria. Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, Africa, African Americans, Arizona, CeCe McDonald, gay, George Zimmerman, Global Day of Action, heterosexism, homophobia, IDAHO, Jordan Davis, lgbt, LGBTQ rights, Michael Dunn, Minneapolis, Nigeria, queer liberation, racism, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Solidarity Alliance, transphobia, Trayvon Martin, Uganda, United States
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‘A Dreadful Deceit’ and unceasing rebellion
Jacqueline Jones’ new book, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America, is not a call to ignore effects of the concept of race in law and practice. She finds the definition of race repeatedly twisted to suit the needs of the ruling class and wielded as a tool for subjugation of Black and white labor alike. Continue reading
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Tagged 1949-50 coal miners’ general strike, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard, Black liberation, Charles Denby, Chrysler Mack, Detroit, Great Migration, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, Jacqueline Jones, labor, Lowndes County Alabama, News & Letters, racism, revolution, sharecropping, Simon P. Owens, slavery, strike, UAW, United States, wildcat strikes, workers, Workers Battle Automation
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