Tag: social justice
Say Their Names, Protect Their Votes: This Week in Black America
From suspicious deaths and corporate racism to voting rights and cultural legacy, Black communities demand truth, accountability, and power.
Power, Truth, and the People: This Week in Black Civic Life
From media literacy to power outages, Black voices break down what's shaping politics, communities, and the fight for progress.
Rights, Health, and the Fight for Truth: Stories Shaping Black America
From ballot boxes to polluted air, these stories trace the systemic pressures Black communities face across voting, health, and environment - and the truth-tellers pushing back.
Where is the Indigenous Cultural Revolution?
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's 'The Undercommons' describes a space of collective refusal beneath the institutions of the master. On why Black American cultural revolution was possible, why Indigenous cultural revolution is structurally different, and where the Indigenous undercommons already is. The potlatch went underground for sixty-six years. The drum broke out in a shopping mall. The land is the undercommons. We were always already here.
Deeds, Not Words: The Myth of Polite Revolution
A refusal of the sanitized story that rights were won by asking nicely. The suffragettes bombed Westminster Abbey. The Deacons for Defense guarded MLK. Mandela was on the U.S. terror list until 2008. On the radical flank effect, the state's monopoly on legitimate violence, and the 46 people who have died in ICE detention while we are told to keep our resistance polite.
Behind Glass
A few minutes before I begin writing this, I woke up into an anxiety attack. There are a lot of issues I could be writing about, the world is fraught with uncertain violence. This is a story about me, and also a story about North Darfur and Kansas and Haiti and India. I ask this: whose suffering gets reported? Whose death counts behind glass?
A More Perfect Morality: The Progressive Failure of Ethics
Liberal democracies selectively apply universal human rights, and there is a progressive failure to extend moral consideration to: Palestinians, Congolese, Rohingyans, Uyghurs, trans people, women, Black communities, Indigenous Peoples, the chronically ill, mentally ill, poor, sex workers, the disabled, the houseless, children, elderly, Jewish people, immigrants, gender/sexual/romantic minorities, incarcerated people, Romani and Dalits, and animals. True universal rights require principled solidarity beyond tribal boundaries.
Rudy's Theory of Revolution
Eclecticisms Conversations Series: Episode 001 - Interview with Rudy Fraser of Blacksky
We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.
How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?
THE COMPASSION ECONOMY
When a Generation Stops Pretending to Dream of Labour
Witnessing Palestine & the United States
Notes on Apocalypse and What We Owe the Living.
Want to Decolonize Your Writing?
Note-taking with Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Dear Christians: step out of the bubble
A call for Christians to move beyond the church bubble and engage honestly with injustice and suffering.
Which side are you on?
I grew up in a culture of counterculture politics. My parents met in Berkeley during the early seventies, which should tell you pretty much everything you need to know; they were, separately and together, involved in Vietnam protests, equal economic and political rights and liberties, tenants' rights, and the environmental activities around Peoples’ Park. It's partially in tribute to them that I, now, have settled in Berkeley myself, after a lifetime growing up in Britain. It still confounds me
Gender differences on the new frontier
It's a commonly accepted fact that computing is a male-dominated industry, but I was shocked by the scale of the inequality. Okay, this is kind of unscientific, but take a look at these statistics: * Female population of the world: 49.8% * Female population of Facebook: 55% * Female population of social networks as a whole: 54.7% * Percentage of people awarded undergraduate computer science degrees by PhD-granting institutions in the US and Canada in 2006-7 who were women: 12% While social