Sep 05
20130
"Today, our oppressors' media is doing unrestrained and shameless crowing about the 1963 March on Washington -- using it to repackage the peoples struggle as a Democratic Party sidecar, and using their coverage to cover over how much the U.S. remains a brutal prison house for African American people and other people of color."
Aug 28
20131
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Afghanistan AFL-CIO Anna Hedgeman Black Panthers Black Workers Congress Combahee River Collective Congress on Racial Equality Democratic Party Dorothy Height Dorothy L. Robinson League of Revolutionary Black Workers March on Washington materialism Militarism NAACP National Action Network National Welfare Rights Organization Negro American Labor Council (NALC) Pakistan Pauli Murray Poor People’s Campaign Racism Somalia Southern Christian Leadership Conference Syria United Auto Workers Urban League Yemen Young Lords
" The moral and political arc of movements for social justice is also very, very long. And this is why it is important to think beyond the march, “the speech,” the spectacle. To understand August 28, 1963 is to understand the entire era. It requires following those movements that fall outside the spotlight, the movements organized and led by the very women who were excluded from the mic on that incredibly hot and humid Washington afternoon. The work of social movements is not always sexy, nor is it necessarily inspiring. But they are the engines for change and the incubators of new dreams."
Aug 27
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Capitalism Civil Rights Movement Democratic Party March on Washington Martin Luther King NAACP New York City’s United Federation of Teachers Syria The International Socialist Organization (ISO) United Auto Workers
The statement stressed that it was not possible to defend democratic rights without a struggle against capitalism. “The Achilles’ heel of the civil rights movement, and even its most radical and sincere representatives such as King,” Mazelis wrote, “was its failure to break with the Democratic Party and recognize that the aims of social equality and democratic rights were realizable only in a struggle for socialism.”
Aug 26
20131
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Ella Baker Feminism March on Washington Patriarchy Southern Christian Leadership Council
"In commemorating the love fest for the "angelic" MLK Jr. and the March on Washington, I am going to focus on one of the greatest ladies who in my estimation was BETTER than King and much more IMPORTANT in her message and place in history: Ella Baker"