Category: Represent Our Resistance

If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in…

Many have re-told the Ibo tale to remember and to remind others to remember. Paula Marshall’s protagonist Avey Johnson remembers the narrative from her Aunt Cuney. Off the coast of the Caribbean, a great ship arrived, and the Ibos found themselves standing on shore. The Ibos” They stood, taking a —“good long look”— Praisesong for…

The original prompt read: Write a letter in praise of someone in your community. “This is our essay prompt for Friday night,” I said on Wednesday night as the intensive writing session came to an end. “No. We don’t have anyone to praise in our community.” NO. Older African and younger Black and Latino/a students…

The world is waiting for the newest Deciders to decide the fate of Afghani citizens and thousands of U.S. troops preparing to deploy to the land where Empires come to die. Do I send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan? He is thinking or, rather for General Stanley McCrystal, stalling the Empire’s Manifest Destiny plans. President…

-Marian Wright Edelman Anti-abortion advocacy groups are willing to shoot to kill abortion doctors and attack supporters on behalf of fetuses. Progressives on the Left organize protest rallies against these advocacy groups, but do these protest rallies call attention to children born and raised in poverty – here in the U.S. – the world’s superpower…

The world plans to send the West (in anticipation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference) a message on Saturday, October 24, 2009. While I did not watch the game between the Yankees and the Angels to see which team the Phillies would play in the World Series, I did look for news on the…

Poor and elderly Black residents of New Orleans failed to leave the city before Katrina hit town. The residents failed to behave responsibility and looted for water and food. They failed to survive flood waters and neglect killed almost 2,000 thousand residents of the city. In fine print, on the back page of corporate newspapers,…

-Malcolm If you do not believe the U.S.-weapons Israel deploys to hold down Palestinian resistance is an act of a declared war; if you do not believe the U.S.-trained Honduras military now surrounding the Brazilian embassy where the democratically-elected Honduras President Manuel Zalaya and his supporters are under threat of death is an act of…

Father Michael Pfleger “flew the American flag upside down outside the Saint Sabina Church in Chicago last May in protest of the violence…” –Digital Journal, September 2009 What does it mean to live in a nation that never intended to include as citizens Red, Black, Brown, and Yellow people it either stole land, material resources,…

Chris Hedges has it right again. In his article, “The War on Language,” September 28, 2009, Hedges writes: “those who seek to dominate our behavior first seek to dominate our speech.” This emptiness of language is a gift to demagogues and the corporations that saturate the landscape with manipulated images and the idiom of mass…