Category: Represent Our Resistance

One billion people, that is, “one in every 6 inhabitants of the planet,” according to the UN World Food Program, writes Jerry White, are going hungry this year (“UN Report, 1 Billion of the World’s People Going Hungry”). Only 8% of the world’s hungry population is the result of floods, droughts, or temporary food shortage.…

-Big Thunder – Algonquin Last spring, at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s gift to U.S. President Barrack Obama is a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s book, Open Veins of Latin America, (Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina). The Guardian, April 189, 2009, reported the incident: “A classic work in left-wing…

The Maasai are among the world’s new homeless. That’s right! The Maasai – who, for centuries, have been at home on the eastern coast of Africa in Tanzania and Kenya! Change the history textbooks! The Earth’s first cattle herders are “conservation refugees”! Thanks to the governments of Tanzania and Kenya, thanks to a wealthy businessman…

– bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters Hollywood is cranking out talkies. Tired of hearing that silent films were finished, Charles Chaplin said—okay! Fine! In the first scene of Chaplin’s silent film, City Lights, politicians and wealthy philanthropists, in their finery, stand at a podium before a crowd of citizens (and the film’s viewing…

– John Henrik Clarke An arrow strikes a man in his chest. He falls backward off his horse. Then another arrow strikes another man. The men falling from their horses one by one are “men” and good men because we’ve seen their wives and little blond-haired children. These men had to save their families and…

[applause, long and loud] The Congolese can thank themselves. The Congolese always knew they were human; they were the rightful owners of the Congo. It was only the Belgians, the West, newly formed civilizations who thought them animals and treated them as such and made sure they acted accordingly. But it was only acting. Jacques…

I know this. My life has a meaning. I refuse to believe that this existence, our time on Mother Earth, is meaningless. I believe that the Creator, Wakan Tanka, has shaped each of our lives for a reason. I don’t know what that reason is. Maybe I’ll never know. But you don’t have to know…

Benton Harbor, Michigan activist Rev. Edward Pinkney tells us that we are all in prison, all subject to surveillance, to arrest while innocent. In the U.S. citizens are taught to look for examples of gulags and detention without due process in China, Russia, Iran – somewhere else. In China, Russia, Iran and somewhere else, the…

Not a word from President Barack Obama, the man of CHANGE, or the newly appointed UN Special Envoy, former President Bill Clinton, man from HOPE, condemning the UN’s shooting of, as Marguerite “Ezili Danto” Laurent reports, “peaceful, unarmed protesters in Haiti” June 18, 2009. The shooting took place at the funeral for Father Jean Juste…

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the last 41 years, poor and working class Blacks have increasingly tuned out in ways unlike enslaved Blacks or Blacks during the years of the Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era. In part, the corporate media is to blame with its emphasis on ratings and profits. Sitcoms, TV personalities,…