Topic: solidarity
Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization
North America’s state and corporate wealth is largely based on the subsidies provided by the theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Colonial conquest was designed to ensure forced displacement of Indigenous peoples from their territories, the destruction of autonomy and … Continue reading
What I Wish I Knew: My Own Goals for Anti-Racist Practice
These are some principles that I’ve developed for myself so that I can stay focused on actually doing anti-racist work, rather than thinking and talking about it a whole lot. These all come straight from lessons I’ve learned from my … Continue reading
We Organize With Love In Our Hearts: building an anti-war movement
I was getting ready to leave for DC. The mass mobilization was gaining momentum as the IMF/World Bank meetings approached at the end of the month. I was excited about heading out early to do ‘Anti-Racism for Global Justice’ workshops … Continue reading
Still We Rise: conversations with organizers on building global justice movement and ending war
“We don’t have much time, we need to slow down.” The first time I heard this was at an antiwar coalition meeting shortly after the bombing of Afghanistan started. The African American organizer who said it was talking about the … Continue reading
Counting For Nothing: Reflections On The First Anniversary Of 9/11, September 11, 2002
“The media seems to be implying as if this was the first ever macabre happening in this world and no other atrocity has been seen before. From the projection of pain and grief by media one can assume that intensity … Continue reading
Building Movements For Collective Liberation (For The October 25th Mobilization)
How do we build broad-based, anti-racist, multiracial, feminist, class-conscious movements capable of challenging global capitalism and US imperialism? What can we learn from the largest anti-war mobilization in the history of the world that took place this past year? What … Continue reading
Discovering a Different Space of Resistance: Personal Reflections on Anti-Racist Organizing
In the summer of 2000, I was involved with a coalition that worked to mobilize andorganize a demonstration against the Organization of American States (OAS) when they held their meeting in Windsor, Canada. Included in the OAS’s portfolio is the … Continue reading
Resisting Displacement, North and South: Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles
(This piece is based on the process of forging links and building a movement of solidarity between immigrant/ refugee communities and the Kahniankehaka aka Mohawk community in the Occupied Territories of Montreal) In numerous and lengthy phone conversations and meetings … Continue reading
How to strengthen the Palestine Solidarity Movement by making friends with Jews
“O Havruta O Mituta” “Give Me Friendship Or Give Me Death” (Talmud Taanit, 23a) Countless Jews in the U.S. hate what the Israeli government and army are doing, support the rights of Palestinians, and want to speak out and take … Continue reading
Identity Politics and Essentialism
This essay appears in Post Colonial Anarchism: Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999-2004. Access the complete book here Is anyone who has ever defined their political work through a social category historically associated with inferiority … Continue reading