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NYC: Free LGBT Self-Defense Classes

CAE — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:48:18 +0000

The Center for Anti-Violence Education is hosting in New York City free LGBT self-defense classes in the wake of recent attacks on the community. Please click here for a schedule or to register. With your support CAE will continue its work across the city to end violence and to help keep us all safer, stronger and more resilient. [...]

Let’s Resist and Fight! Statement by MKP on the Turkish Uprising

Maoist Communist Party Turkey-North Kurdistan — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:52:12 +0000

To our Struggling Comrades! Those who should be leading, are acting as followers of masses today! Communist and revolutionaries going through another exam today. This is the time for selfless struggle without dismissing the movement as self manifested. The definition of revolutionary movement or the revolutionary wave is the practice that masses exhibit.Masses are revolutionary, [...]

Urgent Call for Active Solidarity Action to Stop Police Brutality in Turkey

Cigdem Cidamli — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:22:35 +0000

This is an urgent call for more active international solidarity actions with people who are fighting for their democratic rights in all cities and towns of Turkey. Prime Minister Erdogan and his government are attacking people who are trying to voice their democratic demands in all city squares, with tear gas, water cannons, other despotic [...]

Africa: Payback for Britain’s Colonial Sins

Sreeram Chaulia Â·,The South African Civil Society Information Service — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:00:37 +0000

The British government’s offer of monetary compensation of £20 million to over 5,000 living Kenyan survivors of systematic torture during the Mau Mau anti-colonial revolt is a historic reckoning with an ugly past. Instead of bringing the sordid chapter of crimes committed against nationalist movements to closure, this settlement is bound to trigger other claims [...]

#Feminist Friday: Vigil for Shantel Davis, NYC

ernesto — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:30:00 +0000

On June 14th 2012, Shantel Davis, a 23 year-old African American woman was brutally shot and killed by narcotics Detective Philip Atkins. Shantel Davis was born on May 26th, 1989 at Kings County Hospital. Shantel was a loving and respectable young woman who loved life and enjoyed her own to the fullest. She had a [...]

Houston: Father’s Day Vigil to Close ICE Facility

ernesto — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:36:39 +0000

Come join human rights advocates, LIFT Houston, Grassroots Organizing, TX United For Families, and MoveOn members, as we join together and travel to Livingston for the Fathers’ Day Vigil-protesting one of the worst ICE prisons in the country right here in our own backyard. Let’s show our solidarity with the fathers behind bars as we [...]

Review: Between Torture and Resistance by Oscar Lopez Rivera

APOC Love — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:23:57 +0000

A brief Preface by Matt Meyer, an anti-imperialist activist and author, outlines and explains how the rest of the book is put together. The Foreward is by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu who begins by describing the effects of colonialism in Africa, then the South African struggle. He goes on to describe how Puerto Rico continues [...]

June 15/CA: Annual Conference on Raza Prisoners and Colonialism

ernesto — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000

This year’s conference is being worked on in collaboration with the Raza Press and Media Association, that will display an exhibition on the work of lifelong activist, teacher, revolutionary and founder of the CMPP, Ernesto Bustillos, who passed away March 26, 2012, in San Diego, CalifasAztlán. For four decades Ernesto Bustillos fought for a Revolutionary [...]

Harlem Teach-In on Assata Shakur

ernesto — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:00:00 +0000

On May 2, the FBI increased its bounty for the capture of Assata Shakur from $1 million to $2 million and included her on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, the first time that a woman has ever appeared on the list. A Black Panther Party and member of the Black Liberation Army, Assata was [...]

Long Distance Revolutionary in Harlem

Stephen Vittoria — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:06:24 +0000

A passionate Mumia supporter has scheduled a TUGG showing of “MUMIA: Long Distance Revolutionary” at the– Magic Johnson AMC 9 in Harlem for Tuesday June 4 at 7:30PM We want to support this grassroots effort because it’s vitally important that this event happens and happens in a big way in Harlem, especially in light of [...]