Comments for People Of Color Organize!

Comment on Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin: A Study Guide by Alex

Alex — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:29:05 +0000

All the links to Anarchism and the Black Revolution are dead…

Comment on Petition to Rescind and Repudiate the Decision to Confer the Oliver Tambo Award to Guyanese Dictator, Forbes Burnham by wallace

wallace — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:04:25 +0000

One question that is not often asked is what did president Burnham know about the activties at Jonestown which led to the murder of 900 people and why there is not even a memorial for them at that site?

Comment on Texas: Police in Schools Criminalize 300,000 Students Each Year by tjcoop3

tjcoop3 — Sat, 11 May 2013 06:52:45 +0000

Police in schools is asking for more problems-I agree. Law enforcement does not belong in the school systems of America.
Trained conceal carry teachers and older, mature students would do a much better job at providing whatever protection may be needed against potential assailants.
The Supreme court has ruled that it is not a police officers job to protect. Their job is to report and follow up on crime. Cops in schools merely give them the idea that kids must be criminals to be watched for.
Whereas arming regular citizen teachers and making them pass ridged psychological exams on attitudes about race and delinquency in general before being issued a permit might do a lot more good.
The idea should be to protect students and faculty from rogue, extremely rare incidents where an individual with emotional issues has gone off the deep end.
A teacher might be able to talk, especially a hurting kid, down but a cop will just kill them with no though of why the kid is reacting the way they are.
Guns in properly trained civilian hands are fine. Guns in a cop’s hands in a school is just asking for an excuse to criminalize normal teenage behavior.

Comment on To Advance the Class Struggle, Abolish the White Race by Alex

Alex — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:12:16 +0000

Thanks for posting this! An oldie but goodie with many points appalingly absent from discussions today about anti-racism and allyship. My collective’s open discusion on allyship is starting now here: http://peoplenotprofit.net/theory/allyship/

Comment on Gender, Race and Class: A Study Guide by big money

big money — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:58:53 +0000

thats cool. just wonder if this ever becomes a totality in in itself. I appreciate the fact that its not ok to tell a person of color that their experience is irrelevant or false. However, it seems like during these conversations about race and white privilege having ‘white’ skin means that you cannot think critically.

Comment on Update: Phone Campaign for Jalil Muntaqim by nycjericho

nycjericho — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:28:35 +0000

Thank you for doing this for Jalil. This is an urgent campaign. It is unconscionable that Jalil had a stroke at the beginning of February and did not see an outside doctor until April 8th.

Comment on NYC Today: Rally Against Drones by ognapolean

ognapolean — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:42:00 +0000

POC, thanks for this informative post. I’m not a NY resident. But, these choices will eventually have an impact on the entire country. You are absolutely right. “We need healthcare not warfare!” As a woman of color, the majority of these wars have nothing whatsoever to do with my life. I’m really sick of our government looking for new excuses to start and/or join the next war. As people of color, we’ve already proven what our voting power can do (Obama elected twice). We, the people, need to join together to stop the endless, useless wars.

Comment on Memphis: Anti-Klan Demonstration March 30 by chrstnmom01

chrstnmom01 — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:39:55 +0000

I live in Memphis,and want to take part

Comment on NYC: Building Solidarity Across Black, Native American & Palestinian Struggles by dan v

dan v — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:29:48 +0000

Audio Links: Building Solidarity across Black, Native American, and Palestinian Struggles

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/67050
http://archive.org/details/BuildingSolidarityAcrossBlackNativeAmericanAndPalestinianStruggles

The work of Andrea Smith relates well to this event:

Heteropatriarchy and the 3 Pillars of White Supremacy
http://supportblackmesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Three-Pillars.pdf

Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy
http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=488

The antiviolence movement and the non-profit industrial complex (with transcript) – Opening plenary of the 9th annual R.A.C.E Conference, Montreal
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/56001
http://archive.org/details/AndreaSmithTheAntiviolenceMovementAndTheNon-profitIndustrialComplex

Comment on NYC: Building Solidarity Across Black, Native American & Palestinian Struggles by dan v

dan v — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:27:20 +0000

Audio Links: Building Solidarity across Black, Native American, and Palestinian Struggles
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/67050
http://archive.org/details/BuildingSolidarityAcrossBlackNativeAmericanAndPalestinianStruggles

The work of Andrea Smith relates well to this event:

Heteropatriarchy and the 3 Pillars of White Supremacy
http://supportblackmesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Three-Pillars.pdf

Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy
http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=488