The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZÂ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide
In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended âsettler coloniesââCanada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Statesâhave proliferated. Read the rest of this post on the original site at A Typology of Colonialism
Thomas Moreâs Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a âconspiracy of the richâ. Read the rest of this post …
A small note â not the stuff of headlines, obviously â appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Two Totalitarianisms
âFascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.â â Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor. Read the rest of this post on …
The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything weâve seen here in this country. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Fergu$on Hijacking â Hands …
#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister. Read the rest of this post on the original site at IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY
Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Overlooked tragedy of Quebecâs aboriginal young …
The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their responsibility to do so, according to the most extensive research of its kind. Read the rest of this post on …
âWhen we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee womenâs rights,â write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on fear-mongering against women who wear niqab only has traction if we all collude with its false conclusions. Read the rest …