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Zoom Download Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense Oppressed peoples and communities can and will only be secure in this country when they are organized to defend themselves against the aggressions of the government and the forces of white supremacy and capitalist exploitation. “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense”, is the latest contribution of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Every 36 Hours Campaign that seeks to strengthen organizing initiatives within Black or New Afrikan communities for self-defense, by presenting these initiatives with a comprehensive analytical framework and practical organizing tools to ground and unite them. As the extrajudicial killing of Kimani Gray and the more than twenty other Black women and men by the police in the first two months of 2013 clearly illustrate, it is imperative that New Afrikan communities get organized and defend ourselves. As the real economy continues to contract, corporations become more vicious and exploitative, our communities are gentrified and displaced, public goods and services continue to be eliminated or privatized, and the national security state continues to grow and become ever more invasive, the attacks on New Afrikan and other oppressed and exploited people are only going to escalate. We must defend ourselves, and we have every right to do so by any means necessary. “Let Your Motto Be Resistance” draws on the long history of New Afrikan peoples struggle to realize self-determination and defend our persons, our rights and our dignity from the assaults of the oppressive settler-colonial government and the forces of white supremacy. Building on this history “Let Your Motto Be Resistance” provides in summary form a vision of how we can (re)organize our communities from the ground up to defend ourselves and reassert our fundamental human rights to life, dignity, and self-determination. We encourage the broad dissemination, discussion, and utilization of this work as a modest contribution towards the effort to rebuild the Black Liberation Movement, Stop the War on Afrikan people, and eradicate white supremacy and US imperialism. For more information on this work, or to set up trainings or public events regarding its contents or those of the Every 36 Hours report on extrajudicial killings contact Kali Akuno at kaliakuno@mxgm.org.

Download Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense

Oppressed peoples and communities can and will only be secure in this country when they are organized to defend themselves against the aggressions of the government and the forces of white supremacy and capitalist exploitation. “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense”, is the latest contribution of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Every 36 Hours Campaign that seeks to strengthen organizing initiatives within Black or New Afrikan communities for self-defense, by presenting these initiatives with a comprehensive analytical framework and practical organizing tools to ground and unite them.

As the extrajudicial killing of Kimani Gray and the more than twenty other Black women and men by the police in the first two months of 2013 clearly illustrate, it is imperative that New Afrikan communities get organized and defend ourselves. As the real economy continues to contract, corporations become more vicious and exploitative, our communities are gentrified and displaced, public goods and services continue to be eliminated or privatized, and the national security state continues to grow and become ever more invasive, the attacks on New Afrikan and other oppressed and exploited people are only going to escalate. We must defend ourselves, and we have every right to do so by any means necessary.

“Let Your Motto Be Resistance” draws on the long history of New Afrikan peoples struggle to realize self-determination and defend our persons, our rights and our dignity from the assaults of the oppressive settler-colonial government and the forces of white supremacy. Building on this history “Let Your Motto Be Resistance” provides in summary form a vision of how we can (re)organize our communities from the ground up to defend ourselves and reassert our fundamental human rights to life, dignity, and self-determination.

We encourage the broad dissemination, discussion, and utilization of this work as a modest contribution towards the effort to rebuild the Black Liberation Movement, Stop the War on Afrikan people, and eradicate white supremacy and US imperialism.

For more information on this work, or to set up trainings or public events regarding its contents or those of the Every 36 Hours report on extrajudicial killings contact Kali Akuno at kaliakuno@mxgm.org.

04.27.13 ♥ 30
Background on struggle in Chechnya: Behind the disaster in southern Russia (2004)

By Deirdre Griswold

Since 1994, Russia has been conducting a devastating war against Chechnya, whose oil and strategic location for a pipeline from the energy-rich Caspian Sea have drawn the attention of the imperialists. The Russian government’s aim is to keep Chechnya from seceding, which it fears could set off other secessionist movements in the area.

When President Boris Yeltsin dissolved the Soviet Union in 1991, it was to the cheers of the entire Western capitalist political establishment and media. Their universal prognosis was that the introduction of a capitalist market and private ownership of the means of production in the territories of the former USSR would vastly benefit all the peoples. The release of individual initiative combined with Western democratic forms of rule would bring prosperity and freedom to those “behind the Iron Curtain.”

The well-being of the people—that was supposed to have been the main U.S. aim in the incredibly costly 45-year “Cold War” against the Soviet Union.

Those rosy predictions have all turned to ashes. From time to time over the past decade, subdued news reports have appeared in the West with alarming statistics showing that in the vast area of the former Soviet Union, where a planned economy had once provided jobs, free health care and education for nearly 300 million people, life expectancy was dropping and the population declining. This reflected the fact that infant mortality, curable diseases, unemployment, prostitution, drug abuse, organized crime, ethnic antagonisms and civil wars had all surged upward.

04.19.13 ♥ 17
“ No matter what classes, parties or individuals in an oppressed nation join the revolution, and no matter whether they themselves are conscious of the point or understand it, so long as they oppose imperialism, their revolution becomes part of the socialist world revolution and they become its allies.

— Mao Zedong, On New Democracy

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12.19.12 ♥ 93
The racist roots of 'right to work' laws

While Michigan’s momentous decision has received widespread media attention, little has been said about the origins of “right-to-work” laws, which find their roots in extreme pro-segregationist and anti-communist elements in the 1940s South.

The history of anti-labor “right-to-work” laws starts in Houston. It was there in 1936 that Vance Muse, an oil industry lobbyist, founded the Christian American Association with backing from Southern oil companies and industrialists from the Northeast.

As Dartmouth sociologist Marc Dixon notes in his fascinating history of the period [pdf], “The Christian American Association was the first in the nation to champion the ‘Right-to-Work’ as a full-blown political slogan.”

Muse was a fixture in far-right politics in the South before settling into his anti-labor crusade. In his 1946 book “Southern Exposure,” crusading journalist Stetson Kennedy wrote:

The man Muse is quite a character. He is six foot four, wears a ten-gallon hat, but generally reserves his cowboy boots for trips Nawth. Now over fifty, Muse has been professionally engaged in reactionary enterprises for more than a quarter of a century.

As Kennedy described, these causes included opposing women’s suffrage, child labor laws, integration and growing efforts to change the Southern political order, as represented in the threat of Roosevelt’s New Deal.

12.18.12 ♥ 191
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10.31.12 ♥ 601
The first thing to remember with Shemekia Moffitt

is don’t trust anything the police and the media tell you.

Stop and think for a minute. Winnsboro is Klan country, a short drive from Jena. Do you think there aren’t Klansmen and sympathizers in the Winnsboro police?

As my comrade Tony Murphy wrote: “I would also like to point out the speed at which the Winnsboro police have cast doubt on her story — compared to the foot dragging that Trayvon Martin’s parent’s encountered when they tried to find out what happened to their son. One article had the police determining this was a hoax in ‘less than 24 hours,’ performing analyses of the car, her fingerprints — they were a regular CSI Winnsboro.  

“In Sanford, police had Trayvon’s body in the morgue for two days while the parents frantically called them looking for their son. I saw Winnsboro referred to as being in the ‘Klanbelt’ — Jena is 60 miles away, and another town, Ruston, is 75 miles away, where the Klan marched in the late ‘90s.”

10.25.12 ♥ 26
Zoom Queens, New York Reminder: Hearing on Stop & Frisk TODAY Oct 24th, 2012 6:00PMNYC Council Civil Rights Committee HearingAcademic Core Building, Room 2D01York College Performing Arts Center94-20 Guy R Brewer Boulevard (Jamaica) Trains: E/J/Z to Parsons-Archer/Jamaica Center.Buses: Q4, Q5, Q25/34, Q30, Q31, Q42, Q44, Q54,Q65, Q83, Q84, Q85, Q110, Q111, Q112, Q113, N4

Queens, New York

Reminder: Hearing on Stop & Frisk TODAY Oct 24th, 2012 6:00PM
NYC Council Civil Rights Committee Hearing
Academic Core Building, Room 2D01
York College Performing Arts Center
94-20 Guy R Brewer Boulevard (Jamaica)

Trains: E/J/Z to Parsons-Archer/Jamaica Center.
Buses: Q4, Q5, Q25/34, Q30, Q31, Q42, Q44, Q54,
Q65, Q83, Q84, Q85, Q110, Q111, Q112, Q113, N4
10.24.12 ♥ 8
Survey: Most Israeli Jews want Apartheid state

The majority of Israeli Jews say they want the establishment of an apartheid regime if the West Bank is formally annexed to Israel, according to the results of a survey published by Israeli daily Haaretz on Tuesday.

Between a third and one half of participants in the survey want to live in a state that practices formal and open discrimination against Palestinians. An even larger portion wants Israel to run as an apartheid state if territories occupied after 1967, considered by the international community to be illegal, become officially absorbed into the state.

The survey signals fresh Israeli acceptance of the term “apartheid”, previously rejected by the Jewish public though previous polls have also shown a preference for discriminatory behavior against Palestinians.

The poll shows that 58 percent of the 503 Jewish Israelis questioned by the pollsters think that Israel already practices apartheid against Arabs.

“The only thing shocking about the poll was people’s response to the term ‘apartheid’ … research I have done over the years indicates in general Israelis support certain kinds of discriminatory behavior but they reject the term apartheid,” Tel Aviv-based public opinion analyst Dahlia Scheindlin told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Fifty-nine percent believe there should be preference for Jews over Arabs in hiring for government jobs.

Seventy-four percent think Palestinians and Israelis should continue to use separate roads in the West Bank. Fifty percent described this as a ‘necessary situation’.

Forty-two percent do not want to live in the same building as Arabs or have their children attend classes with Arabs.

10.24.12 ♥ 28