Chicago Gangs Emerge From Deprivation. To End the Violence, End the Deprivation.
Chicago is the economic core of the vast hinterland that spans the United States Midwest called the Rustbelt. Unlike other major Rustbelt cities like Baltimore and Detroit, on the surface Chicago seems...
View ArticleIsrael’s Insidious Narrative About Palestinian Prisoners
The Israeli government narrative surrounding the Palestinian prisoners being released during this temporary ceasefire is both insidious and dishonest. Interior Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has banned...
View ArticleSecret Indian Memo Ordered “Concrete Measures” Against Hardeep Singh Nijjar...
The Indian government instructed its consulates in North America to launch a “sophisticated crackdown scheme” against Sikh diaspora organizations in Western countries, according to a secret memorandum...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Break With the ADL as a Source for News and Research on Extremism
Pro-Israel groups and right-wing legislators are stoking new panic over antisemitism to attack targets they have long had in their crosshairs — including universities, progressive Jews and even...
View ArticlePolice Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control
In the past 15 years, policing has grown its reach, largely through an array of technologies that record and store our personal details and daily activities. Using algorithms and other formulae,...
View ArticleElise Stefanik, Proponent of Great Replacement Theory, is No Foe of Racial...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) does not care about antisemitism. In the notorious congressional hearing in which she participated last week, she weaponized anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim...
View ArticleBike Lanes Vs. the Carceral State
Advocates committed to addressing the criminal legal system understand that trying to stop traffic violence with mass surveillance, punitive fines, increased contact with law enforcement, and potential...
View ArticleIvy League Presidents at Congress Hearing Threw Student Protesters Under the Bus
The United States Congress received international attention in December for their heated cross-examinations of university presidents on the topic of campus antisemitism. The spectacle fueled the...
View ArticleClaudine Gay Faced Racism and Zionist Ire — She Also Failed Palestinian Students
On January 2, 2024, Claudine Gay became the shortest-serving president of Harvard University. What could have been a presidential tenure of transformative actions befitting of the hopeful promises of...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King is Marching with the People of Palestine
Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee constructed the civil rights and Black Liberation movements on a foundation of Third World internationalism. The...
View ArticleGerman Elites Are Redefining Antisemitism So They Can Be the Victims
On Monday, up to 1,000 artists and cultural workers protested in front of the Berlin parliament. The city’s cultural senator, Joe Chialo of the conservative CDU, has declared that in order to get...
View ArticleSustaining Rosa Parks’s Struggle For Transit Equity
Every February, the Labor Sustainability Network coordinates Transit Equity Day, a nationwide day of action that highlights the importance of equitable public transit in ongoing struggles for civil...
View ArticleGaza Besieged, Jews Divided, & a World in Pain: Gabor, Aaron, & Daniel Maté...
Gabor Maté and sons Aaron and Daniel got together in Vancouver BC to discuss what’s happening in Gaza, Israel, and the worldwide Jewish community. Full Transcript
View ArticleThe Man Who Changed Colors
Dashiell Hammett, the key writer in the twentieth-century detective novel both in print and in screen adaptations of his work, had it right. “The Butler Did It,” the answer to the mystery in a...
View ArticleShadows of Coloniality
For most Malawians, encounters with the history of the country have often been a recycled tale centered on the legacy of Dr Kamuzu Banda, the founding father. Notwithstanding, Muti Phoya is one of the...
View ArticlePublic Ownership of Housing Could Be Closer Than You Think
The housing crisis in New York is the worst it’s been in over five decades, and low-income residents are being hit the hardest. As a result, homelessness is on the uptick and working-class families are...
View ArticleBreaking Barriers For Black Women Candidates
Black women are among the most politically underrepresented Americans. They are 7.7 percent of the total US population and 15.3 percent of the population of women, yet they are only 5.4 percent of all...
View ArticleThe Crimes Driven By The Ideology of Jewish Supremacy
Yahav Erez is an International Advocacy Coordinator at an Israeli organization Yesh Din. She talks about the apartheid regime, ideologically motivated violence, why West Bank settlers believe they will...
View ArticleMalcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing...
On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part...
View ArticleThe Concept “Privilege”: Barrier or Bridge to Social Justice
I recently participated in a brief email exchange about “privilege” and it made me think a broader discussion might prove worthwhile. Does using the concept privilege as in “white privilege,” “male...
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