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Topic: racism

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Redefining Success: White Contradictions in the Anti-Globalization Movement

In the growing resistance to capitalism within the United States, many white activists consider Seattle as the ‘beginning of a movement’, and gauge anti-capitalist work using Seattle as the measuring stick. As the U.S. anti-globalization movement continues to build steam, … Continue reading

Combatting white supremacy in the anti-globalization movement

The anti-globalization movement has been vibrant in communities and organizations of color in the US and around the world for hundreds of years, and yet white supremacy was rampant in the movement against the WTO ministerial meetings in Seattle. In … Continue reading

Free trade, racial oppression, and how we can respond

[The following is adapted from a presentation at the “From Protest to Resistance: a radical look at the FTAA” forum hosted by Anti-Racist Action. Toronto, January 25, 2001.] I’ve been asked to come here today to talk about the effects … Continue reading

Anti-Racist Organizing: Reflecting on Lessons from Quebec City

“Parlez francais ici, hostie! Go back your country! Go back your country! C’est mon pays, pas ton pays.” [Translation: “Speak French here, &%$/*! Go back to your country! This is my country, not your country.”] These are the words a … Continue reading

NGOs at World Conference Against Racism Target Globalization

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Many of the delegates attending the NGO forum of the World Conference Against Racism here in South Africa have been met with a big surprise. Most had been informed of the big controversy over including the … Continue reading

The White Collective (a blinding glimpse of the obvious)

I. White Individuals versus White Collective “Anti-racist” white people often implicitly locate ourselves and other white people as individuals. We do not locate ourselves as part of a collective entity whose purpose is to perpetuate the survival of white supremacy … Continue reading

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