People Of Color Organize!

Tonight: Black and Cuba Documentary Screening

ernesto — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000

The Yale Black Alumni Association (NYC), Venceremos Brigade, WETPAINT, and Progressive Pupil expect a big turnout for the work-in-progress screening of the documentary Black and Cuba. There will be a talkback with writer/director Robin J. Hayes and Yale Professor Jafari Allen, author of “¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba.” “Black and Cuba” is [...]

Afro-Colombian National Gathering

ernesto — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Organizers say, “We aim to build a Life Project based on principles of self-determination. Illegal mining, large scale infrastructure projects, eroding economic neo-liberal policies, war, violence, dispossesion are factors againts this project. Afro-descendant Community Councils and grassroots organizations will gather from May 17-21 in Bogota to tailor strategies for the protection of the ancestral territories, [...]

Message from Robert Seth Hayes – Political Prisoner

Zari Sundiata — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Revolutionary greetings, dear comrades, friends and supporters. This is Robert Seth Hayes, a former member of the Black Panther Party and a Black Liberation Army combatant. Still incarcerated, yet still progressing, I am determined to have closure to an era of Civil Rights struggles. To those of you who have been partners in solidarity, I [...]

A Call For Papers!

IKONOKLAST — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:30:00 +0000

Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue or section of a future issue devoted to Haile Gerima’s Black Radical Tradition On Screen: African Cinema of Liberation at Home and Abroad.

About Robert Seth Hayes, Herman Bell, and David Gilbert

Zari Sundiata — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:55 +0000

Robert Seth Hayes was arrested in 1973, after police opened fire on his apartment while he was home with his wife and children. This occurred as a result of the U.S. government’s illegal Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), in a climate dominated by portrayals of black militants as murderers and cop-killers. Seth, a former member of the [...]

So, What Should White People Talk About?

Around the Web — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:34:29 +0000

there’s this perpetual meta conversation about what white people should/shouldn’t talk about in debunkingwhite. starting with these basics: 1) get r = p + p. don’t make debunkingwhite rehash this again. 2) get the fact that you have white privilege. 3) stop reacting immediately when called on your white privilege. you will not learn about [...]

Lowkey, Akala, Saul Williams, and M.K. Asante On Hip-Hop! [Saturday #Culture]

IKONOKLAST — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Saturday Radical Culture!

Who is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety and State Co-Optation [#Feminist Friday]

ernesto — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:14:01 +0000

An extensive criticism of anti-oppression politics, their relation to non-profits, capitalism and the state, as well as how they play out in movements such as Occupy. This pamphlet – written collaboratively by a group of people of color, women, and queers – is offered in deep solidarity with anyone committed to ending oppression and exploitation [...]

“If We Have Rice, We Can Have Everything”: A Critique of Khmer Rouge Ideology and Practice

Around the Web — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:36:26 +0000

The Khmer Rouge have become synonymous with the terror of ‘communism’. Regardless of the context in which someone today makes the case for a different society, Pol Pot and his alleged ‘stone-age communism’ is always invoked as a counter-‘argument’, along with the KGB and the Berlin Wall, Stalin and the Gulag, all of which supposedly [...]

May Political Prisoner of Color Birthdays

Guest Contributor — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:33:12 +0000

One of our regular contributors compiles each month’s birthdays of political prisoners of color. Check out May’s dates and send a card to our comrades! William Phillips Africa AM4984 SCI Dallas Follies Rd., Drawer K Dallas, PA 18612 May 12, 1956 http://www.onamove.com Alvaro Luna Hernandez #255735 Hughes Unit Rt. 2, Box 4400 Gatesville, TX 76596 [...]