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Women’s March On Washington: To White Women Who Were Allowed To Resist While We Survived Passive Racism

Essence January 23, 2017 By Aurielle Marie Lucier   I realize somewhere...

Don’t get confused, in Ecuador the people support Correa and the Citizens’ Revolution

Today the right wing opposition continues to receive funding from NGOs protecting US interests. According to the Bolivian and Ecuadorian heads of state, the “empire” is attacking Latin American nations with “soft coups”.

Resilience Is Futile: How Well-Meaning Nonprofits Perpetuate Poverty

"In other words, we served people who are already resilient. If there’s one thing that people in poverty, children in foster care, and recent immigrants already have in abundance, it’s the knowledge of how to be tough."

Question: Environmental Politics: What’s Left? Answer: Bourgeois Primitivism, That’s What

"...environmental politics has become something that valorizes the individual consumer and aggressively ignores questions of class, race, and gender in the production of environmental inequality. Acceptable expressions of environmentalism are only those that adhere to “ethical” consumption patterns: organics, local, fair-trade. It is a disciplinary logic that taps into a kind of eco-entertainment niche in green capitalism that redefines the leitmotif of existing bourgeois environmentalism: environmentalism as self-improvement via an urban lifestyle performed as an alternative expression of class distinction."

Classism Runs Deep | Liberalism vs. Radicalism

"When it comes to economics, whose side is the left on? Do you want to liberate the slaves, or do you just want their support to help overthrow the plantation owner? Is some inequality in a society a necessary or desirable thing? If you believe this, shouldn’t you be honest about your belief? If you’re not being honest about it, why not?"

WATCH: THE REAL Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING | Dr. Tony Monteiro

This is a presentation given by Dr. Tony Monteiro at the January...