Month: January 2015

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/k8l4u8b The Departments of Africology and History will participate in a Community Brainstorming Conference Breakfast Forum on “Police Brutality in the U.S. and Abroad.” Held at Saint Matthew C.M.E. Church. Panelists are: Dr. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, UW-Milwaukee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Africology speaking on “Police Brutality in Brazil and Global White Supremacy” Dr. Robert S. […]

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/qa5ffn8 FLIER: http://tinyurl.com/nmqo7dj In Celebration of Black History (LIBERATION) Month Join us for a Workers World Forum to discuss the struggle to stop the war on youth including racist police terror and low wage slavery. *MORE INFO COMING SOON* Malcolm X College, 1900 W Van Buren, Chicago Room 3603

FROM ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: http://tinyurl.com/lt9jtwr A group of activists, artists, musicians and journalists on the frontlines of the struggle against racist policing in the United States traveled to Palestine earlier this month to build on the growing bonds of solidarity between the Black American and Palestinian liberation struggles, which have intensified since last year’s uprising in Ferguson, Missouri. […]

STATEMENT: http://nepajac.org/unac_011615.html “…We will NOT join the Paris parades orchestrated by imperialist French President Francois Holland and the heads of state of the world’s “great powers;” nor will we applaud their call for the worldwide “Anti-terrorist Conference” that President Holland has set for Paris. We are saddened at the participation of French working people in […]

http://tinyurl.com/pexzyko Update Jan. 17: Due to a people’s campaign, Ms. Benjamin is now free. We will be planning protests at the women’s detention and city jail every day until Sara Benjamin is released. We consider her arrest and jailing as racist and egregious and we will not rest until she is out. Benjamin is one […]

EVENT: http://tinyurl.com/pwm92qz HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONTRE!!! Cornell West once said “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” Justice in its purest form is love, and we can not express how much love we feel, as this community has come out to stand up for Dontre Hamilton and all of the men and […]