California Passes First-Ever State Bill on Congo Conflict Minerals From enoughproject.org: It began with individuals, spread to campuses, was taken up by cities, and last Friday California became the very first U.S. state to take action on conflict minerals from Congo. By a vote of 67 to 11, the California…
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People of Color Organize has a thought-provoking, powerful excerpt up from winning author and Professor Frank B. Wilderson III’s critically acclaimed memoir Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. The excerpt was a response to a mandate that came down from the university where Frank was teaching to read Walt…
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Barely out of college, working my first post-college gig at WNBC-TV as a web developer, I was twenty-two years old when the attacks on 9/11 happened. Notwithstanding the overwhelming intelligence available to prevent these well-plotted attacks, the 9/11 plot went on as scheduled, precipitating the lost decade. The attacks precipitated…
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From Samar Magazine: After 2001 there was also a burst of hope for a different future. With this came a new enthusiasm for struggle in movements for social justice. Many of us came together – and some were already in these circles for some time previous – looking for common…
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In an American Political Science Association conference paper, Yale scholar Navid Hassanpour argues that shutting down the internet made it difficult to sustain a centralized revolution in Egypt. He argues that a shut down of the decentralized internet facilitated the growth and development of smaller revolutionary uprisings locally, where in-the-flesh…
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People of Color Organize has a new podcast up from Dr. Jared A. Ball discussing his new book, I MIX WHAT I LIKE!: A MIXTAPE MANIFESTO. We discuss the major themes of this important work such as; emancipatory journalism, Internal Colonialism Theory, the role of propaganda on a colonized population,…
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Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth explores the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century. (5)
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The United States is not absolved from its role in creating crisis in East Africa. Absent from the conversation is the ongoing U.S. domination of the region along with U.S. complicity with corruption and warfare. Interestingly, the United States-funded Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS) alerted the “international community” at least…
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