Eyewitness Report from New Orleans Gloria La Riva, Bill Hackwell and Caneisha Mills A.N.S.W.E.R., Septermber 6th 2005 September 6, 2005 On Saturday September 3, award-winning filmmaker Gloria La Riva, internationally-acclaimed photographer Bill Hackwell and A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student Coordinator Caneisha Mills, a senior at Howard University, arrived in New Orleans. …
Left to Sink or Swim Tragic events in New Orleans have laid bare America’s bigotry and exposed the lie of equal opportunity Gary Younge The Guardian, September 5th 2005 The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday September 7 2005: “In the article below, we …
After Katrina, Where Have All the Hondurans Gone? Daffodil Altan Pacific News Service, September 13th 2005 HOUSTON–For several weeks now, consulates and relief organizations have been stumped. They don’t know where, exactly, the thousands of Honduran and Mexican people living in New Orleans went before and after the hurricane. “It’s …
Don’t “Politicize” Tragedy? The Tragedy is Political M. Junaid Alam September 3rd 2005 It is doubtlessly true that some Americans consider the sad and devastating fate meted out to the refugees in New Orleans and other areas along the Gulf Coast to be a strictly “natural disaster,” and therefore dislike …
Katrina’s Lesson: Self-determination for Blacks Everywhere Amadi Ajamu San Francisco Bay View September 20th 2005 NEW YORK – In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the hard lesson Black people have learned is the need for self-determination. Hurricane Katrina ripped through the heart of the Black Belt South, and thousands have …
California Coalition for Women PrisonersA Short Essay by Margaret Randall on Woman Political Prisoners in the USA The Spring 2005 issue of Prison in Focus is all about Women in Prison: you can download the PDf at http://www.prisons.org/cpf22.pdf California Prison Focus’ Committee on Valley State – a Special Handling Unit …
Housework Under Capitalism The Unpaid Labor of Mothers by Cindy L’Hirondelle Off Our Backs, Jan/Feb 2004 I’ve worked laying sod, painting cars, selling donuts, and flipping burgers. I have also lived and felt the invisibility of being “only a mom.” Nothing compares with the stress of looking after small children, …
The Military Strategy of Women and Children, by Butch Lee Introduction The words that follow should be understood not as newly found ideas but as geological strata underneath our feet. Almost twenty years ago i began an exploration to answer one question—how can women make revolutionary change? These first few …
WOMEN’S LIBERATION/studies Aegis. Magazine on Ending Violence Against Women. No. 38. 1984. Washington. Feminist Alliance Against Rape. 66p. This is a xerox reproduction, mimicing the original issue. Wraps. VG. Has Sandy Dickinson’s “FIGHTING FORWARD: Teaching Feminist Self-Defense,” which is a report on the herstoric First National Self-Defense Teaching Practicum. …
The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. Petrolia/Oakland, CA, CounterPunch and AK Press, 2003. 178 sider. Foreword Contents Review article Introduction “How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly …