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August 24, 2022

Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference - Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

“I abandoned the pitch because I don’t think I’m the right person to write this story – I have no idea what it’s like to be Black... I can send you the Google doc with my notes, too?” I flinched inwardly. It was an innocent and properly motivated offer: Helen, a freelance journalist, was offering to give up something for me, stemming from her concern to live out an ethos of racial justice. But I worried that it was also a trap. Even setting aside the mistake about the power dynamics of the conversation (I am Black, but also a...

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August 21, 2022

[Aug. 30, MTL] India's Descent Into Fascism And Far-Right Hindu Supremacist Networks In The US & Canada: A conversation with Raqib Hameed Naik

*Please share widely / SVP partagez largement**India's Descent Into Fascism And Far-Right Hindu Supremacist Networks InThe US & Canada* *A conversation with Raqib Hameed Naik**Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 6pm Eastern Time*SSMU Ballroom, Room 301, University Center, McGill University3480 McTavish St., Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), H3A 0E7Reserve your spot: https://forms.gle/mojDAmVmd17yX5AD7 Please share: https://www.facebook.com/events/1048572732465962 This summer Trudeau and Biden were shaking hands with Modi in Europesigning documents reiterating its "commitment to protecting and promotingall human rights". While back in India under Modi's watch, human rightsdefenders and journalists, like Teesta Setalvad, were being arrested forhaving pursued justice. *Perhaps a little-known fact about India in the...

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August 21, 2022

Resisting The Second Coming of the Marcos Dictatorship

(from Pingkian: Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education, Volume 7, Number 1: Pandemic and Fascism (2022)) INTRODUCTION: RESISTING THE SECOND COMING OF THE MARCOS DICTATORSHIP The Philippines appears to be in a state of never-ending crisis. From COVID-19 to Marcos Jr., our country is not lacking in viruses that affect the lives of millions of people. As of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected 3,688,941 Filipinos and killed 60,455 people (Reuters, 2022). The government’s inept and militaristic response led to thousands of new COVID cases, with rates reaching as high as 21,819 new infections a day at the peak of the...

The Resounding Right of Mutulu Shakur to Die in Freedom [CounterPunch.org]

[This article was originally posted to Counterpunch.org on July 31, 2022.] Anyone with a loved one in prison carries around the silent, ceaseless terror that the person so loved will die alone, behind bars. Currently, 71-year-old Mutulu Shakur, a Black man imprisoned 36 years, lies in a hospital bed in a federal prison medical facility in Lexington, KY. Ravaged by bone marrow cancer, fed by tubes, having lost 25% of his body weight, Shakur has been given weeks – at best, months – to live. His loved ones – family, friends, hundreds of supporters – are trying any and all...

Strategies to defend abortion access: a review article by Matthew N. Lyons [ThreeWayFight]

[This article was originally posted on Three Way Fight: An Insurgent Blog on the Struggle Against the State and Fascism on July 19, 2022.] How do we assert reproductive autonomy when far rightists are on the offensive and liberals have failed to stop them? As we noted two months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision repealing Roe v. Wade marks a historic victory for the Christian right and specifically its fascist, theocratic wing. Defending access to abortion is an antifascist struggle, but that doesn’t mean the focus should be only, or even primarily, on combating the far right. What’s...

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