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Category: Represent Our Resistance

Commentary

‘The Banality of Evil’: Conciliation in the Face of Terrorism

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

How can one speak of conciliation and healing when trust in the legal and social contracts, in one’s fellow human being, no longer exist?

...American self-evasion...is all that this country has as history... - James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work When an event places the most extreme demands on us,…

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Commentary

Assata Shakur’s Shining Light

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires.

Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard: “I Saw Your Light/And It Was Shining” The FBI's systematic surveillance of and attacks on Black groups and individuals were orchestrated…

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Commentary

“Hatred Begets Hatred, and Terrorism Begets Terrorism”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Before the fascists and the communists, there was the United States and Manifest Destiny.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright had it right! His sermons spoke truthfully about the United States and its past and current engagement with terrorism. State-sponsored terrorism was…

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Commentary

“Joy to the World”: The Liberal’s Proposed Social Security and Medicare Cuts

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The Liberals cannot distance themselves from the consequences of their relationship with the Right...

Thus, the gravest omission from the ‘general picture’ was that of a witness to testify to the cooperation between the Nazi rulers and the Jewish authorities,…

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Commentary

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Free the Ignorant from Tyranny

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Did not the Africans benefit from “our” knowledge of the world?

How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us? The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably…

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Commentary

Compromising with Extremists

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

Each new class which puts itself in the place of the ruling class before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interest as the common interest of all the members of society, that is, expressed in ideal form: it has to give its ideas the form of universality,…

Each new class which puts itself in the place of the ruling class before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to…

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Commentary

If Harriet Tubman Were President

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab a poem fluttering from the sky, blinded by weeping. – Martin Espada “In the Republic of Poetry” If Harriet Tubman were elected president of the United States, the Underground…

In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab…

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Commentary

Privileging the Voices of the Threatened, Marginalized, and Offended

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise. -Joseph Goebbels It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long…

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.…

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Commentary

Book Review – Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons – A Narrative of Struggle

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics. -Nikolai Lenin You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. -G.K.…

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and…

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