Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Pomona College and supporter of legislation requiring all students in California’s public university system to pass an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill was put on hold in the face of fierce opposition. Seventy-five percent of the state’s K1-12 students are non-whites, but few students or teachers “have learned this crucial history,” said Ochoa.
New York City is a case study of how imperialist violence abroad and state violence domestically are two sides of the same coin. The unfortunate stories of Derrell Mickles and Jordan Neely…
The Black Alliance for Peace stands against the continued attempts to pursue U.N. occupation in Haiti and calls on people of conscience to support the Haitian people in the struggle to achieve true…
The Bandung of the North Conference brought delegates from twenty-nine African and Asian nations, to work collectively toward decolonization. Julia Wright and Jenipher R. Jones delivered these…
Israel's recent assassination of Hasan Nasrallah came as part of a terroristic campaign it unleashed on Lebanon, culminating in the bombings that leveled whole city blocks. Shock and awe has been…
Canada uses Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to exert soft power and maintain its interests in Haiti. Its "feminist" foreign policy promotes an imperialist neoliberal agenda that funnels money…
