by Wamsutta Frank Bertelle James / United American Indians of New England Fifty years ago, the Wampanoag activist and leader Wamsutta Frank Bertelle James wrote this speech after he was invited by the governor of Massachusetts to speak at the 350 year anniversary celebration of the Pilgrims landing […]
by Howard Zinn This is the first chapter of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. Of everything that Howard Zinn ever wrote, this first chapter of his masterpiece on US and American history was considered the most controversial and the most widely discussed. As the […]
by Love and Rage Team The Christopher Columbus statue at the intersection of the Memorial Parkway and Mohawk Street in Utica, NY was vandalized last night with the word “killer” painted in red. The statue has stood at the intersection since 1952 but a growing number of residents […]
by Doug George-Kanentiio When I was growing up on Akwesasne Mohawk Territory there were social habits which reflected an historical response to the devastating communicable diseases which came close to wiping out our ancestors. Beginning in the early 17th century illnesses such as smallpox and influenza struck the […]
by Tariq Khan / Black Rose Anarchist Federation 1. The Declaration of Independence is a document based on settler colonialism and genocide American Progress, a well known allegory of Manifest Destiny. If we read the Declaration of Independence in high school or college we know it to be […]
by Katarina Pavičić-Ivelja/It’s Going Down It cannot be ignored that various modes of silencing often times experienced by members of the excluded and exploited or any other persons seen as a possible threat to the current ‘order’ and perceived as a disruption of the status quo become more evident with […]
by Doug George-Kanentiio When I watch the reports of the thousands of people coming north from their homelands in Central America I do not see Hondurans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorians; I see indigenous people, our southern kin, fleeing countries which have become overwhelmed by vicious gangs whose drug money […]
More than seven months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are still reeling — not only from the power outages and water shortages caused by the storm but also from the ruthless austerity measures imposed the U.S. Government. However, the people of the island are beginning to organize, fight […]
by Reyna Ramolete Hayashi Because every day is International Workers’ Day I send love, gratitude, & hustisya to all of the powerful, loving, and courageous workers I shared space, histories, and healing with in my motherland. To my ancestors who worked, lived in relationship with, and honored the […]
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