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We
fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in
the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the
future.
—W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America
It
is strange…that the friends of truth and the promoters of freedom have
not risen up against the present propaganda in the schools and crushed
it. This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement,
because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the
schoolroom.
—Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
On
January 20, Florida’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr., tweeted
out a chart justifying the state’s decision to ban schools from teaching
a newly created advanced placement course in African American Studies.
The graphic singled out the curriculum’s inclusion of Black queer
studies, intersectionality, Black feminist literary thought,
reparations, and the Movement for Black Lives as “obvious violations of
Florida law.” It also identified scholars whose work was included in an
earlier iteration of the curriculum as radical propagandists bent on
smuggling “critical race theory” (CRT), Marxism, and deviant sexuality
into high-school classrooms.
Despite the fact that the College
Board had not yet released the final curriculum to the public, Diaz and
the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, claimed it violated Senate Bill 148,
better known as the “Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act,” or the
Stop W.O.K.E. Act. Sponsored by Diaz and signed in April 2022, the law
prohibits teaching anything that might cause “guilt, anguish, or other
forms of psychological distress” or “indoctrinate or persuade students
to a particular point of view inconsistent…with state academic
standards.” In other words, introducing and teaching race, gender,
sexuality, and anything remotely resembling critical race theory was
strictly prohibited.
When the College Board released the final
curriculum eleven days later, it had changed substantially. Most of the
material the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) found offensive was
removed or downgraded from mandatory to optional. The revised 226-page
curriculum eliminated queer studies, critical race theory, mass
incarceration, and a section titled “Black Struggle in the 21st
Century,” made the Black Lives Matter movement and reparations optional
research projects, and added a project topic on “Black conservatism.”
The names of all the offending authors—including myself—were removed.
The
College Board insisted that it had not bowed to political pressure,
despite a trove of email exchanges with the FDOE discussing potentially
prohibited content and a final letter from the FDOE thanking the board
for removing topics the state had deemed “discriminatory and
historically fictional.” The fact is that the College Board stood to
lose millions of dollars if Florida canceled its AP courses. Although a
federal judge blocked portions of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act that restricted
academic freedom in public colleges and universities, the law still
applies to private businesses and K–12 education.
Rather than
accept a watered-down curriculum bereft of the theories, concepts, and
interdisciplinary methods central to Black Studies, students, teachers,
scholars, and social justice activists fought back. On May 3 they
organized a nationwide day of action calling out the College Board and
defending the integrity of Black Studies. Apparently it worked. A week
before the national protest, the College Board announced plans to revise
the curriculum yet again. As of this writing, however, no specific
changes have been announced.
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The
right’s vehement opposition to Black Studies is predictable. Black
Studies has been under attack since its formal inception on college
campuses in the late 1960s, and repression of all knowledge advancing
Black freedom goes back much further. Most state laws prohibiting
enslaved Africans from learning to read and write were introduced after
1829, in response first to the publication of David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World—an
unrelenting attack on slavery and US hypocrisy for maintaining it—and
then to Nat Turner’s rebellion two years later. Back then the Appeal was contraband: anyone caught with it faced imprisonment or execution. Today it is a foundational text in Black Studies.
The
historian Jarvis R. Givens found that during the Jim Crow era Black
school teachers often “deployed fugitive tactics” and risked losing
their jobs in order to teach Black history.
In Mississippi, organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) taught contraband history in
“freedom schools,” while the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)
established “freedom libraries” throughout the state stocked with
donated books—many on Black history by Black authors. Between 1964 and
1965, white terrorists burned down the freedom libraries in Vicksburg,
Laurel, and Indianola.
Who’s afraid of Black Studies? White
supremacists, fascists, the ruling class, and even some liberals. As
well they should be. Not everything done in the name of Black Studies
challenges the social order. Like any field, it has its own sharp
divisions and disagreements. But unlike mainstream academic disciplines,
Black Studies was born out of a struggle for freedom and a genuine
quest to understand the world in order to change it, presenting
political and moral philosophy with their most fundamental challenge.
The objects of study have been Black life, the structures that produce
premature death, the ideologies that render Black people less than
human, the material consequences of those ideologies, and the
foundational place of colonialism and slavery in the emergence of
modernity. Black Studies grew out of, and interrogates, the long
struggle to secure our future as a people and for humanity by remaking
and reenvisioning the world through ideas, art, and social movements. It
emerged as both an intellectual and political project, without national
boundaries and borders. The late political theorist Cedric J. Robinson
described it as “a critique of Western Civilization.”
A chief
target of this critique has been the interpretation of history. Battles
over the teaching of history are never purely intellectual contests
between ignorance and enlightenment, or reducible to demands to insert
marginalized people into the curriculum.
Contrary to the common
liberal complaint that schools “ignore” the history of slavery and
racism, Black and Native people have long occupied a place in school
history curricula. Generations of students learned that white people
settled the wilderness, took rightful ownership of the land from
bloodthirsty Indians who didn’t know what to do with it, and brought the
gift of civilization and democracy to North America and the rest of the
world. During most of the twentieth century, students were taught that
Negroes were perfectly happy as slaves, until some conniving Republicans
and carpetbaggers persuaded them otherwise. Leading history books by
Ivy League professors repeated the myth, and in the first epic film in
the US, D. W. Griffith depicted the “great and noble” Ku Klux Klan
redeeming the South from rapacious, ignorant Negroes and shifty
carpetbaggers, obliterating all vestiges of the Black struggle to bring
genuine democracy to the South and the nation.
Black scholars and
their allies consistently contested these narratives. In “The Propaganda
of History,” the last chapter of his epic text Black Reconstruction in America (1935),
W. E. B. Du Bois called out the ideological war on truth masquerading
as objective scholarship. He believed in reason but came to see its
futility in the face of white supremacy, colonial rule, and “one of the
most stupendous efforts the world ever saw to discredit human beings, an
effort involving universities, history, science, social life and
religion.”
Du Bois wasn’t out to make a name for himself in the
field of nineteenth-century US history. He was trying to understand the
roots of fascism in Europe and in his native land. He saw the battle
over the interpretation of history play out in the streets, statehouses,
courts, and newspapers for decades—often with deadly consequences. The
rise of the second Ku Klux Klan was inspired in part by a national
campaign to erase the history of Reconstruction. The chief catalyst was
Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, released in 1915, the same
year the renowned Black historian Carter G. Woodson founded the
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Respectable
white supremacists such as the Ladies Memorial Associations and the
United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894, waged their own
soft power campaign, building monuments to the defenders of slavery in
the region and around the nation’s capital. The movement to erect
statues celebrating Confederate war heroes took off in the early
twentieth century rather than immediately after the end of
Reconstruction because it took over three decades of white terrorism,
political assassination, lynching, disfranchisement, and federal
complicity to destroy the last vestiges of a biracial labor movement,
ensuring that white supremacy and Jim Crow could reign supreme.
*
What
the right demonizes as CRT bears no resemblance to actual critical race
theory, a four-decades-old body of work that interrogates why
antidiscrimination law not only fails to remedy structural racism but
further entrenches racial inequality. Racism, these theorists argue,
isn’t just a matter of individual bias or prejudice but a social and
political construct embedded in our legal system. Taking a page straight
from the anticommunist playbook, the right has reduced CRT to an
incendiary dog whistle, turning an antiracist academic project into a
racist plot to teach white children to hate themselves, their country,
and their “race.”
The chief architect of this strategy is
Christopher Rufo, currently a senior fellow at the archconservative
Manhattan Institute, who in the wake of the mass protests sparked by the
killing of George Floyd declared that the spread of critical race
theory was behind the unrest. By his own admission,
Rufo sought the “perfect villain” to mobilize opposition to the
antiracist insurgency and had no qualms about distorting CRT to do it.
Ignoring the scholarship while naming the scholars, notably Kimberlé
Crenshaw and the late Derrick Bell, he presumed that these three words
“strung together” would signify “hostile, academic, divisive,
race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American.” As he explained to
his Twitter followers in 2021, the plan was to rebrand CRT and
eventually
turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under
that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy
in the newspaper and immediately think “critical race theory.” We have
decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of
cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.
Rufo’s
ploy soon became White House policy. He helped draft Trump’s
now-rescinded Executive Order 13950, issued on September 22, 2020, which
warned of a left-wing ideology threatening “to infect core institutions
of our country” by promoting “race or sex stereotyping or
scapegoating.” The document pitted this invented ideology against the
principles of “color blindness” derived from a distorted reading of
Martin Luther King, Jr. to justify eliminating workplace diversity and
inclusion training in federal agencies. It helped spawn a wave of
anti-CRT legislation. According to a recent study released
by UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program, from the start of 2021 to the
end of 2022 federal, state, and local legislative and governing bodies
introduced 563 anti-CRT measures, almost half of which have been enacted
or adopted. At least 94 percent of the successful measures target K–12
education, affecting nearly half of all children in the country’s public
schools.
These measures target not just CRT but liberal
multiculturalism and, more pointedly, Black Studies, Ethnic Studies,
Gender Studies, and any modern academic discipline that critically
studies race and gender. (From here on I will refer to this scholarship
collectively as “critical race and gender studies,” make specific
references to Black Studies or CRT when appropriate, and use “we”
occasionally when explaining what scholars in these fields do.) Most of
these bills allegedly intended to protect education from politics share
identical language because they derive from model legislation drafted
by well-funded right-wing think tanks, including the America First
Policy Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Citizens for Renewing
America, Alliance for Free Citizens, and the Ethics and Public Policy
Center. Stanley Kurtz, a leading critic of the African American AP
course who masquerades as an investigative journalist for National Review,
ironically named the model anti-CRT legislation he drafted for the
Ethics and Public Policy Center “the Partisanship Out of Civics Act.”
Some
of the text of that legislation was lifted from the section of
Executive Order 13950 prohibiting the teaching of “divisive concepts.”
These concepts include the idea that one race or sex is “inherently
superior” to others; that the US “is fundamentally racist or sexist”;
that a person, “by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently
racist, sexist, or oppressive” or “bears responsibility for actions
committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex”; that
“meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist,
or were created by a particular race to oppress another race”; and that
some people “should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form
of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” The
assumption here is that confronting the history of American racism would
provoke feelings of guilt and shame in white kids and their parents.
Such legislation never considers the psychological distress Black,
brown, and Indigenous students frequently endure as a result of
whitewashed curricula, tracking, suspensions and expulsions on the
slightest pretext, even abuses by law enforcement inside their own
classrooms.
Such allegations against critical race and gender
studies strain credulity. No serious scholar believes that someone is
“inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or
unconsciously,” solely “by virtue of his or her race or sex.” We teach
the opposite: that race is neither fixed nor biological but socially
constructed. Modern categories of racial classification were
Enlightenment-era European creations that relied on a false science to
claim that discrete “racial” groups share inherent traits or
characteristics. We reject such claims as essentialist and recognize
that behaviors and ideas attributed to race, gender, class, and
sexuality are not inherent but ideological, and therefore dynamic and
subject to change. We use evidence-based research to show that policies
that further racial, class, and gender inequality need not be
intentional, and that anyone can be antiracist, regardless of their
race.
The belief that hierarchies of race and gender are based on
“inherent” characteristics is the basis for white supremacy and
patriarchy. Such ideologies have been used to justify conquest,
dispossession, slavery, segregation, the exclusion of women and Black
people from the franchise, wage differentials based on race and gender,
welfare and housing policies, marriage and family law, even the denial
of women’s right to bodily autonomy. Many conservatives backing anti-CRT
legislation do subscribe to the idea that certain differences,
especially regarding gender, are “inherent”—that is, fixed and
immutable. CRT and Black Studies do not.
Likewise, to accuse CRT
of teaching that “meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic” are
racist is to turn its interpretation of US history on its head. What
Black Studies and critical race theory reveal is the extent to which
wealth was accrued through the labor and land of others. The
foundational wealth of the country, concentrated in the hands of a few,
was built on stolen land (Indigenous dispossession), stolen labor
(slavery), and the exploitation of the labor of immigrants, women, and
children.
Finally, critical scholars of race and gender
categorically reject the claim that any individual “bears responsibility
for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or
sex.” The language is intended as an attack on the idea of reparations,
but advocates of reparations hardly claim that all present-day white
people are “responsible” for slavery. Rather, they acknowledge that
enslavement, land theft, wage theft, and housing discrimination resulted
in extracting wealth from some and directly accruing generational
wealth to others. Slavery and Jim Crow—more precisely, racial
capitalism—suppressed wages for white workers, and the threat of
interracial worker and farmer unity compelled the Southern oligarchs to
pass antilabor laws and crush unions. The result was the subjugation of
all working-class Southerners, including whites.
The right-wing
movement to remake education is not limited to K–12. Nearly a fifth of
the 563 anti-CRT measures introduced and 12 percent of those enacted
target colleges and universities. In Florida, DeSantis has launched a
successful coup against the administration of New College, replaced a
majority of the board of trustees with handpicked allies, and begun to
totally overhaul the curriculum, wiping out all vestiges of diversity,
equity, and inclusion. The latest attack on Florida’s state university
system, Senate Bill 266, which DeSantis signed into law last month, is a
flagrant attack on academic freedom and faculty governance. The Board
of Governors is charged with reviewing state colleges and universities
for violating the Florida Educational Equity Act, which forbids teaching
“theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, or privilege are
inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to
maintain social, political, or economic inequities.” The law also
prohibits faculty or staff from advocating for diversity, equity, and
inclusion, promoting or participating in political or social activism,
or granting preferential treatment “on the basis of race, color,
national origin, sex, disability, or religion.” And it gives boards of
trustees the power to review the tenure status of any faculty member on
demand, which means that even tenured professors are subject to
arbitrary dismissal.
Buried in this law and shrouded by the
state’s “anti-woke” rhetoric is another agenda: transforming the state
college system into an engine of market fundamentalism beholden to
business interests. One of its objectives is “to promote the state’s
economic development” through new research, technology, patents, grants,
and contracts that “generate state businesses of global importance,”
and to create “a resource rich academic environment that attracts
high-technology business and venture capital to the state.” In 2020 the
governor and the state legislature established and lavishly funded the
Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom at Florida International
University, tasked with promoting “a better understanding of the free
enterprise system and its impact on individual freedom and human
prosperity around the world, with a special emphasis on the United
States and Latin America and the Caribbean.” SB 266 further elevated the
Adam Smith Center by giving it all the powers of an academic
department, including the ability to hire tenure-track faculty and offer
majors and minors.
A matter of days before issuing Executive Order 13950, Trump announced the formation of the federally funded 1776 Commission to
promote “patriotic education” and portray the US in a more positive
light. Advisors for the commission blamed colleges and universities for
distorting history and promoting “destructive scholarship” that sows
“division, distrust, and hatred among citizens…. It is the intellectual
force behind so much of the violence in our cities, suppression of free
speech in our universities, and defamation of our treasured national
statues and symbols.”
The commission issued its first and only
report less than two weeks after the insurrection at the Capitol
building on January 6, 2021. It denigrates popular democracy,
whitewashes the history of slavery, says nothing about Indigenous
peoples or dispossession, and claims that “progressivism” and “identity
politics” are at odds with American values, not unlike communism and
fascism.
Perhaps its most egregious fabrication is turning Martin
Luther King Jr. into a colorblind libertarian. The report recasts the
civil rights movement as a struggle for individual liberty and equal
opportunity that, with the death of King, lost its way when it embraced
“group rights,” “preferential treatment” for minorities, and “identity
politics.” This is the same King who in his book Why We Can’t Wait (1964)
supported “compensatory or preferential treatment for the Negro”
because “it is obvious that if a man is entered at the starting line of a
race three hundred years after another man, the first would have to
perform some incredible feat in order to catch up”; the same King who
called on the federal government to divest from the war in Vietnam,
invest in the war on poverty, recognize racism as a source of
inequality, and acknowledge “the debt that they owe a people who were
kept in slavery 244 years.”
The stunning distortion of King’s
ideas should surprise no one, King least of all. He knew something about
the politics of history. On the occasion of Du Bois’s hundredth
birthday in 1968, King delivered a speech at Carnegie Hall on the
significance of Black Reconstruction’s challenge to the
“conscious and deliberate manipulation of history.” Du Bois, King
observed, proved that “far from being the tragic era” of misrule and
corruption, Reconstruction
was the only period in
which democracy existed in the South. This stunning fact was the reason
the history books had to lie because to tell the truth would have
acknowledged the Negroes’ capacity to govern and fitness to build a
finer nation in a creative relationship with poor whites.
Multiracial
democracy, or what Du Bois called “abolition democracy,” represented
the greatest threat to the classes that ruled the South and the nation.
It still does. DeSantis, Trump, Governors Greg Abbott and Kim Reynolds,
the 1776 Commission, the Center for American Freedom, the American
Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and their
copious allies all claim that their war on critical race and gender
studies aims to present US history in a “positive light.” Why then not
teach the history of movements that tried to make sure every person
enjoyed freedom and safety and fought to end slavery, Jim Crow,
patriarchy, and sex discrimination? If “patriotic education” embraces
the principles of freedom and democracy, why not introduce students to
courageous people—like Benjamin Fletcher, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James,
Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Johnnie Tillmon, George Jackson, Fran
Beal, Barbara Smith, and others—who risked their lives to ensure
freedom, democracy, and economic security for others? Why not create a
curriculum centered on the abolitionist movement; on Indigenous nations
as early models for US constitutional democracy; on the formerly
enslaved people who crushed the slaveholding republic, tried to
democratize the South, and fought the terrorism of lynching, the Klan,
and the Black Legion; on the suffragists and labor organizers who
expanded our democratic horizons and improved working conditions?
But
in our current neofascist universe, this is “woke” history. The right
masks its distrust of multiracial democracy by calling it
“progressivism” and its opposition to antiracism by labeling it
“identity politics.” According to this logic, antiracism has sullied
America’s noble tradition. Ruby Bridges Goes to School, books for young readers on Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist, and his children’s book, Antiracist Baby,
have all been targeted for bans as subversive literature. There is no
commensurate movement to ban books that promote racism, like Thomas
Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), which
asserts frequently that Black people are innately inferior to
whites—physically, intellectually, and even imaginatively; Edmund
Ruffin’s defense of slavery, The Political Economy of Slavery (1857);
or books and articles by Samuel Cartwright, Josiah Nott, George
Fitzhugh, Louis Agassiz, Herbert Spencer, Madison Grant, Lothrop
Stoddard, or Daniel G. Brinton, the eminent anthropologist who in his
book Races and Peoples (1890) wrote, “That philanthropy is
false, that religion is rotten, which would sanction a white woman
enduring the embrace of a colored man.”
The point of these attacks
is to turn antiracists into enemies and the people identified as
“white” into victims. Marginalized white working people, who are victims
of stagnant wages, privatized health care, big pharma, and tax policies
that redistribute wealth upward, are taught instead that they live in
what was once the perfect country until woke forces took over and gave
their hard-earned income to the Negroes and immigrants who are now
trying to take their guns. It would be a mistake to think of such
rhetoric as a “culture war.” This is a political battle. It is part and
parcel of the right-wing war on democracy, reproductive rights, labor,
the environment, land defenders and water protectors, the rights and
safety of transgender and nonbinary people, asylum seekers, the
undocumented, the unhoused, the poor, and the perpetual war on Black
communities.
As I write these words, the predominantly white
Republican Mississippi state legislature is stripping the predominantly
Black city of Jackson of political authority and revenue. Many of the
same states adopting anti-CRT laws are also passing anti-trans bills and
extreme abortion bans, and relaxing gun laws. The Tennessee state
legislature expelled two young Black representatives, Justin Jones and
Justin Pearson, for joining protesters demanding stricter gun laws after
a mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school. And Texas governor
Greg Abbott is planning to pardon Daniel Perry, who was convicted of
killing the antiracist activist Garrett Foster during a Black Lives
Matter protest in 2020.
Colin Kaepernick, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and I put together a new anthology, Our History Has Always Been Contraband,
to respond not only to these right-wing lies and attacks but also to an
ill-informed mainstream discourse over the meaning, purpose, and
scholarly value of Black Studies. Despite the claims of even
well-meaning and sympathetic pundits, Black Studies courses are not
designed to serve Black students alone but all students. The point is
not to raise self-esteem or make students feel guilty, nor is Black
Studies merely a diversity project. The essays and readings we gathered
make clear that Black Studies sits not at the margins of social inquiry
but at its very center. As we face a rising tide of fascism, we must
remember how we got here: by protest, occupation, rebellion, and deep
study. As long as racism, sexism, homophobia, patriarchy, class
oppression, and colonial domination persist, our critical analyses will
always be considered criminal
A
version of this essay appears in Our History Has Always Been
Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies, edited by Colin Kaepernick,
Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, available now from Haymarket Books as a free ebook and to be published in hardcover and paperback July 4.
Robin D.G. Kelley
is the Gary B. Nash Professor of US History at UCLA. His books
include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Thelonious
Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.
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su mayoría. Hay más de...
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Por Leopoldo Batz, Resumen Latinoamericano, 13 de febrero de
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Marta
Valdés, coordinadora de Víctimas deTrauma Ocular, por muerte de Jorge
Salvo: “Es la impunidad la que termina con la vida de nuestros
compañeros”. por Fernanda Araneda/DiarioUchile. De acuerdo a la
organización de víctimas, la decisión deljoven estuvo motivada por una
"enorme carga de frustración ante el abandono del Estado”. En tanto,
desde Amnistía Internacional, aseguraron que efectivamente …
“Para
que el tiroteo fuera legal, el policía tendría que haber estado en
peligro, que su vida estuviera en peligro, lo cual no fue así, ya que en
el vídeo se ve claramente que los policías están a un lado y no frente
del vehículo”, ha afirmado el abogado de la familia de la víctima. La
ira popular se ha extendido a varias ciudades francesas.
Entrevista con el historiador Felipe Portales, autor
entre otros títulos de Chile: una democracia tutelada, Los mitos de la
democracia chilena e Historias desconocidas de Chile. ¿Felipe
Portales, a tu juicio, cuáles son los grandes rasgos del momento
político actual… ¿Es un nuevo ciclo, un nuevo período; cómo prefieres
nombrarlo…? Tratando de ser […]
Estados Unidos. Detenidos en prisión de Guantánamo sufren tratos crueles
Los 30 hombres allí recluidos están sometidos a continuos tratos crueles, inhumanos y degradantes, según investigadora de ONU.
Los
30 hombres recluidos en el centro de detención estadounidense de la
bahía de Guantánamo están sometidos “a continuos tratos crueles,
inhumanos y degradantes, afirmó el primer investigador independiente de
la ONU en visitar el lugar.
Según Politico,
en el informe de 23 páginas al Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la
ONU, la profesora de derecho irlandesa Fionnuala Ní Aoláin calificó los
atentados de 2001 en Nueva York, Washington y Pensilvania, en los cuales
murieron casi tres mil personas, como “crímenes contra la humanidad”.
Sin
embargo, para ella el uso de la tortura por parte de
Estados Unidos contra los presuntos autores y sus cómplices en los años
posteriores a los atentados violó los derechos humanos y, en muchos
casos, privó de justicia a las víctimas y los supervivientes, pues la
información obtenida mediante el martirio no puede utilizarse en los
juicios.
A
su vez, el gobierno de Estados Unidos asumió como suyas las
conclusiones de la investigadora especial y discrepó en aspectos
significativos con muchas afirmaciones fácticas y jurídicas” del
informe.
Aoláin
expresó su preocupación por la detención continuada de 30 hombres,
quienes enfrentan a una grave situación de inseguridad, sufrimiento y
ansiedad. Citó ejemplos como la vigilancia casi constante, el
alejamiento forzoso de sus celdas y el uso injusto de medios de
coerción.
Conforme a la experta, muchos de los detenidos con quienes dialogó mostraron
indicios de “profundos daños y angustia psicológicos, como ansiedad,
impotencia, desesperanza, estrés y depresión, y dependencia”.
También
expresó su desasosiego por la incapacidad del gobierno estadounidense
para proporcionar programas de rehabilitación de la tortura a los
detenidos.
La atención especializada y las instalaciones de Guantánamo
no son adecuadas para atender los complejos y urgentes problemas de
salud mental y física de los detenidos, desde discapacidades
permanentes y lesiones cerebrales traumáticas hasta dolores crónicos y
problemas gastrointestinales y urinarios, subrayó.
Primera ministra Elisabeth Borne señala que
se examinarán “todas las posibilidades” en reunión de crisis que
encabezará el presidente Macron.
El Gobierno de Francia valorará la instauración del estado de
emergencia en medio de la ola de protestas desatadas en el país tras el
asesinato de un adolescente de 17 años por un policía, confirmó este
viernes la primera ministra francesa, Elisabeth Borne.
La premier señaló en rueda de prensa desde la comisaría de
Evry-Courcouronnes, en el departamento de Essonne (norte), que se
examinarán “todas las posibilidades con el Presidente de la República a
las 13H00 horas en la reunión que va a organizar” para analizar la
situación generada en el país a raíz del asesinato del menor y las
posteriores movilizaciones contra la violencia policial.
De acuerdo con el Ministerio del Interior, en la tercera noche
consecutiva de protestas se registraron 875 arrestos en todo el país,
492 ataques a edificios públicos y 2.000 vehículos incendiados.
Por su parte, el mandatario Emmanuel Macron abandonó la Cumbre del
Consejo Europeo en Bruselas para regresar a la nación gala y asistir a
la reunión de crisis con miembros de su Gobierno.
Alrededor de 40.000 policías fueron movilizados este jueves en todo
el país luego de que la madre del joven asesinado convocara a una marcha
pacífica en Nanterre, en las afueras de París, en la que participaron
6.000 manifestantes.
A su vez, la Oficina de la ONU para los Derechos Humanos reclamó al
Ejecutivo francés abordar “los profundos problemas de racismo y
discriminación” de las fuerzas policiales tras la muerte del adolescente
Nahel, de origen norteafricano.
A inicios de la presente semana, fue divulgado un video en el que se
mostraba a un policía en un control de tráfico reteniendo al adolescente
a punta de pistola, a quien disparó a quemarropa en el momento que
aceleró el automóvil.
Fuente: TeleSUR.
Abren en Chile exposición con motivo de los 50 años del golpe (+Foto)
Santiago de Chile, 12 jun (Prensa Latina) Una exposición del pintor
chileno Carlos Tato Ayress está abierta hoy en la Corporación Cultural
de la comuna capitalina de Recoleta, como parte de las actividades
conmemorativas por los 50 años del golpe de Estado.
junio 12, 2023
CDT15:25 (GMT) -0400
Atajo abierto es el título de la muestra donde el reconocido
artista comparte, a través de sus obras, las experiencias como
sobreviviente de los campos de concentración Londres 38, Tejas Verdes,
Estadio Chile y otros, instalados por la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet
(1973-1990).
Tato Ayress estudió pintura en la Escuela Experimental Artística de
la municipalidad de La Reina y en 1974, cuando tenía 16 años, fue
secuestrado, junto a su padre y su hermana Nieves, por agentes de la
temida Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA).
En 1976, gracias a la presión internacional, logró salir de prisión y
viajó a Cuba, donde continuó sus estudios en la Escuela Nacional de
Arte y en el Instituto Superior, y durante una década fue director y
encargado de cultura de la Casa Memorial Salvador Allende de La Habana.
La exposición estará abierta todo el mes y cuenta con el auspicio del
Goethe Institute y varias agrupaciones de derechos humanos.
Las
fuerzas beligerantes están actualmente bien provistas de armas. El
régimen egipcio de Sisi apoya a Burhan, y las milicias de Haftar en
Libia apoyan a Hemidti....,
Vivienda: Conoce los mejores y peores lugares para rentar en los EE.UU.
Comprar una casa no siempre es la mejor
opción, por lo que alquilar una vivienda puede ser mucho más conveniente
para muchas personas y con esto en mente WalletHub analizó las mejores y
peores opciones en EE.UU.
Cuando no es necesario radicar en una ciudad por mucho tiempo, lo más conveniente puede ser alquilar una vivienda.
“La propiedad de vivienda no es para todos. Aproximadamente
44 millones de hogares estadounidenses han optado por alquilar sus casas
en lugar de comprarlas debido a la conveniencia, el costo o ambos”, dice el reporte del sitio financiero.
Alquilar
es una buena opción para resolver el problema de vivienda y
el camino correcto a tomar depende de varios de factores, incluidos los
medios financieros de una persona o familia y qué tan bien está
funcionando el mercado inmobiliario local.
En
medio de estas condiciones que permean el mercado de alquiler,
WalletHub comparó 182 mercados de alquiler en función de 22 medidas
clave de atractivo de alquiler y calidad de vida, para determinar dónde
los inquilinos pueden sacar el máximo provecho de su inversión.
“Sostenemos como evidentes estas verdades, que todos los hombres son
creados iguales; que son dotados por su creador de ciertos derechos
inalienables; que entre estos están la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda
de la felicidad”. -Thomas Jefferson, Declaración de Independencia de los
Estados Unidos
Hace mucho tiempo que no creo que los acontecimientos sucedan por
casualidad. Creo que, en determinadas situaciones, el destino nos indica
el camino. Y entonces, claramente, Chris Smalls, el exempleado que
venció a Amazon y logró crear el primer sindicato de la empresa en
Estados Unidos, con esta fecha de nacimiento, a finales de los 80, solo
podía ser un rebelde, que haría historia en su país.
Creó un sindicato en una de las empresas capitalistas más grandes del
mundo. Amazon, el gigante de comercio electrónico creado por Jeff
Bezos, el tercer hombre más rico del mundo (139,1 mil millones de
dólares, según Forbes), es el segundo empleador privado de Estados
Unidos, con más de 1,6 millones de trabajadores (sólo superada por
Walmart, con 2,3 millones) se vio obligado, en abril del 2022, a
reconocer por primera vez a un sindicato en EE.UU.
Los trabajadores de un almacén corporativo de Nueva York votaron por
un 55 por ciento a favor de unirse a la asociación que busca defender
sus derechos. El grupo que promovió la iniciativa fue dirigido por el
exempleado de la compañía, Chris Smalls, que saltó a la fama por su
protesta contra las condiciones de seguridad en el gigante minorista
durante la pandemia.La victoria de Smalls marca una gran derrota para
Amazon, que ha luchado contra la sindicalización en sus almacenes
durante décadas.La revista Time lo nombró una de las personas más
influyentes de 2022.Y aquí entra en juego la solidaridad. Un espíritu
tan combativo como el de Chris, no solo se ocupa de sus compañeros de
trabajo, sino que su visión va más allá de las fronteras de EE.UU., y
decide defender y reivindicar contra las injusticias que el gigante de
su país comete contra una pequeña pero valiente isla caribeña, Cuba.
Pude conversar con Chris Smalls en el Encuentro Internacional de
Solidaridad con Cuba y el Antiimperialismo, a 200 años de la Doctrina
Monroe, realizado en La Habana el 2 de mayo de 2023. Hubo 1.000
participantes en el encuentro, representantes de 271 organizaciones
políticas, sindicales y sociales de 58 países, y unos 300 eran jóvenes
ciudadanos estadounidenses, que quisieron manifestar su protesta contra
el bloqueo a Cuba y mostrar su solidaridad con la isla rebelde.No es la
primera vez que Chris se pronuncia en contra del bloqueo. Ya en marzo de
2023, durante la Conferencia Internacional para la Normalización de las
Relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Cuba, Smalls consideró que la isla
representa un baluarte para el movimiento obrero de todo el mundo.
“El bloqueo que mantiene hoy Estados Unidos contra Cuba constituye un
claro intento de revertir las conquistas de los trabajadores, que
tomaron el poder en 1959”, dijo el dirigente gremial durante la
conferencia. Cuando me acerco a Chris, lamentablemente descubro que no
habla español, pero enseguida busca a un excelente intérprete, un chico
muy amable, Luis Malik, de Los Ángeles, quien es activista del grupo LA
US Hands Off Cuba (Manos fuera de Cuba), para que se preste a ser mi
intérprete.Cuando me presento y le explico a Chris que soy italiana y
vivo en Cuba desde hace casi 23 años, él se emociona, me abraza y me
sonríe diciendo en voz alta «wowwww».
“Soy el fundador del primer sindicato de Amazon Corporation de Nueva
York. Represento a más de 8000 trabajadores. Estoy aquí en Cuba por
primera vez, para mostrar mi solidaridad con el pueblo cubano, contra el
bloqueo genocida que ejerce mi país contra Cuba, y vine con el grupo de
Los Ángeles, LA US Hands Off Cuba”.Agradezco a Chris por el inmenso
trabajo que está haciendo por todos los trabajadores del mundo, contra
el monstruo que es Amazon y le pregunto si no tiene miedo de ser
asesinado por el gigante capitalista, ahora que representa, para las
grandes empresas corporativas, una gran piedra en el zapato, por el
precedente que sentó.“Me siento motivado por los jóvenes trabajadores
que me apoyan. Sé que cuando uno decide luchar debe ser consciente de
los riesgos que corre, también porque no será una batalla corta, al
contrario, sé que tratarán de cansarme con peleas desgastantes. En la
lucha hay que ser decidido, todo esto lo aprendí de ustedes, los
cubanos… ¿cómo se dice? ‘¿somos o no somos?’”.“Esta forma de pensar, de
todo o nada, es también mi forma de vida”.Por último, lamentablemente,
adivino lo que sucederá a los muchachos de Los Ángeles después. Es
decir, le pregunto a Chris cómo lograron viajar directamente a Cuba sin
problemas y si no temen represalias a su regreso, como de hecho les
sucederá.“Viajamos legalmente. La organización LA US Hands Off Cuba
organiza viajes a Cuba, sin problemas, desde hace ya 3 o 4 años, como
delegados de educación. Veremos qué pasa en el futuro, no creo que haya
ningún problema. En cualquier caso, pase lo que pase, no podíamos
faltar, teníamos que estar en esta cita para protestar contra el bloqueo
y exigir que se levante lo antes posible”. Y en cambio, como siempre,
los yankees tienen una visión muy cambiante de la legalidad, y
arrestaron a una parte de los chicos de LA Hands Off Cuba a su regreso.
Por suerte, a Chris Smalls no le pasó nada. Pero ese es un tema para
otro artículo.
Ida Garberi, periodista italiana radicada en Cuba.
Rebelión ha publicado este artículo con el permiso del autor mediante una licencia de Creative Commons, respetando su libertad para publicarlo en otras fuentes.
Prisiones en el mundo: qué países tienen más presos.
stylemania.it....,
Diapositiva
1 de 9: statista.com.El encarcelamiento es una realidad en muchos países
del mundo y el número de presos puede variar mucho de un país a otro:
pero, ¿cuántos presos hay en los diferentes países? En este artículo,
utilizando datos proporcionados por , nos centraremos en los ocho países
con mayor población reclusa del mundo, ofreciendo una visión completa y
detallada del número de presos en cada uno de estos países hasta
diciembre de 2022.Gracias a esta fotogalería, podrás comprender mejor la
situación a nivel global y sacar tus propias conclusiones sobre un tema
de gran relevancia, teniendo en cuenta que se trata de cifras y números
en constante evolución.
statista.comEl encarcelamiento es
una realidad en muchos países del mundo y el número de presos puede
variar mucho de un país a otro: pero, ¿cuántos presos hay en los
diferentes países? En este artículo, utilizando datos proporcionados por
, nos centraremos en los ocho países con mayor población reclusa del
mundo, ofreciendo una visión completa y detallada del número de presos
en cada uno de estos países hasta diciembre de 2022.Gracias a esta
fotogalería, podrás comprender mejor la situación a nivel global y sacar
tus propias conclusiones sobre un tema de gran relevancia, teniendo en
cuenta que se trata de cifras y números en constante evolución.
Tegucigalpa, 24 may (EFE).- Más 2,4 millones de personas tienen
problemas de empleo en Honduras, país que debe reducir la tasa de
subempleo que afecta a 1,8 millones de hondureños, indicó este miércoles
el Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada (Cohep).
"El
principal problema de Honduras sigue siendo el empleo" y, según datos
actuales, "hay más de 2,4 millones de hondureños con problemas de
empleo, esto representa el 62 % de la fuerza de trabajo", indicó el
Cohep en un informe.
Del total de personas con problemas de
empleo, 1.846.507 están subempleadas, 348.513 desocupadas, 256.363
desalentadas y 25.678 potencialmente activas, detalló.
"La
población con problemas de empleo tiene importantes repercusiones, no
sólo a nivel económico, sino también a nivel social por los dependientes
asociados a una persona empleada, ya sean familiares u otros", subrayó
la empresa privada.
El subempleo visible e invisible, que afecta a
1,8 millones de hondureños , es el "problema principal" del país
centroamericano, con 9,7 millones de habitantes, añadió.
Estos
datos evidencian, según el Cohep, la importancia de implementar
políticas para mantener los actuales puestos de trabajo, como para
generar nuevos empleos formales.
La falta de oportunidades en el
país es "el principal motivo" para que miles de hondureños decidan
emigrar, por lo que el Cohep considera "urgente" crear condiciones
adecuadas y un clima de inversión favorable para el desarrollo de
empresas y generación de trabajo.
Honduras tiene 6,8 millones de
personas en edad de trabajar, de ellos 3,7 millones están ocupados y el
44 % de estos son no asalariados, precisó el Cohep.
"El alto
nivel de informalidad obliga a muchos trabajadores a vivir en pobreza a
pesar de tener un empleo", aseguró la empresa privada.
Los
jóvenes siguen siendo "los más vulnerables" al incorporarse al mercado
laboral porque carecen de educación o formación profesional, destacó.
"Los
jóvenes al ser población vulnerable ya enfrentaban grandes retos antes
de la pandemia de covid-19", a nivel educativo, de empleo y acceso a
seguridad social, lo que "limita su progreso social", apostilló
Un
total de 968.192 jóvenes ni trabajan ni estudian en Honduras debido a
la "falta de oportunidades y la deserción escolar temprana", de acuerdo
al informe.
"El país no está en condiciones de perder más empleos
o precarizar los ya existentes con políticas públicas mal diseñadas",
enfatizó el Cohep.
El mercado laboral "no se recuperará antes de
2024" debido a la crisis económica provocada por la invasión de Rusia a
Ucrania, el alto coste de la energía, la inflación y otros factores que
generan "incertidumbre", acotó la empresa privada de Honduras.
Preocupante:
Cifra de mujeres que reportan haber sufrido violencia intrafamiliar
creció un 11,4 por ciento en 10 años. por Opazo/El Ciudadano. Trabajo
del Instituto Milenio para la Investigación de Imperfecciones de Mercado
y Políticas Públicas (MIPP) de la U. de Chile analizó la evolución de
este fenómeno a lo largo de diez años. La violencia intrafamiliar
(VIF) es un …
Categorías: Feministas, género y sexualidad, Luchas sociales - Chile
The
strike is part of a wave of recent labor actions in the nation’s
second-largest metropolis, where high costs of living have made it
difficult for many workers — from housekeepers to Hollywood writers — to
stay afloat.
Unite Here Local 11 hotel workers hit the streets in protest after walking off the job., Unite Here 11
Thousands
of hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job on Sunday
demanding higher pay and better benefits, just as hordes of tourists
descended on the region for the Fourth of July holiday.
“Workers
have been pent up and frustrated and angry about what’s happened during
the pandemic combined with the inability to pay their rent and stay in
Los Angeles,” said Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11,
the union representing the workers. “So people feel liberated, it’s
Fourth of July, freedom is reigning in Los Angeles and hotel workers are
leading that fight.”
Representatives
for the hotels have said that the union had not been bargaining in good
faith, and that leaders were determined to disrupt operations.
“The
hotels want to continue to provide strong wages, affordable quality
family health care and a pension,” Keith Grossman, a spokesman for the
coordinated bargaining group consisting of more than 40 Los Angeles and
Orange County hotels, said in a statement.
The strike is part of a wave of recent labor actions in
the nation’s second-largest metropolis, where high costs of living have
made it difficult for many workers — from housekeepers to Hollywood
writers — to stay afloat.
Why It Matters
Workers across Southern California in a range of industries have threatened to strike or walked off the job in
recent months, displaying unusual levels of solidarity with other
unions as they push for higher pay and better working conditions.
Hugo
Soto-Martinez, a Los Angeles City Council member who worked as an
organizer for Unite Here Local 11, said that the breadth of industries
locked in labor fights demonstrated frustration especially among younger
workers, who have seen inequality widen and opportunities evaporate.
“It’s
homelessness, it’s the cost of housing,” he said. “I think people are
understanding those issues in a much more palpable way.”
The
hotel workers’ strike comes just as the summer tourism season ramps up,
and labor leaders say they are hoping to capitalize on that momentum.
Last year, tourism in the city reached its highest levels since the coronavirus pandemic, according to
the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board. Roughly 46 million people
visited, and there was $34.5 billion in total business sales in 2022,
reaching 91 percent of the record set in 2019.
But
for many workers like Diana Rios-Sanchez, who works as a housekeeping
supervisor at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, the pay has not
helped to keep up with inflation.
She
often wonders how long she and her three children, who live in a
one-bedroom apartment in El Sereno, a neighborhood on the Eastside of
Los Angeles, can afford to stay in the city.
“All
we do in hotels is work and work and get by with very little,” Ms.
Rios-Sanchez said. “We take care of the tourists, but no one takes care
of us.”
Business
groups say that simply demanding that employers pay workers more does
not address the much-deeper problems that have led to sky-high costs of
living in California.
Background
The union has been negotiating since April for a new contract. In June, members approved a strike.
The
group has asked that hourly wages, now $20 and $25 for housekeepers,
immediately increase by $5, followed by $3 bumps in each subsequent year
of a three-year contract.
By
contrast, Mr. Grossman said in the statement that the hotels had
offered to increase pay for housekeepers currently making $25 an hour in
Beverly Hills and downtown Los Angeles to more than $31 per hour by
January 2027.
On
Thursday, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, a large hotel in
downtown Los Angeles, announced that it had staved off a walkout of its
workers with a contract deal.
Agreements
made this year will set pay levels ahead of the 2026 World Cup and 2028
Olympics, which are expected to be enormous tourist draws to the
region.
What’s Next
Mr.
Petersen said on Sunday that the strike would go on for “multiple
days.” The Hotel Association of Los Angeles had said in a statement that
the hotels would be able to continue serving visitors.
El
12 de julio, el Parlamento Europeo aprobó una resolución en que lamenta
el supuesto deterioro de la democracia y los DDHH en Cuba....,Mundo :: 24/07/2023.
Entrevista
con Ricardo Antunes :: "La lucha por la reducción de la jornada de
trabajo y contra la división de ocupados y desocupados es el embrión de
una lucha anticapitalista"...,Europa :: 24/07/2023
Se
procura "que muera hasta el último ucraniano" con tal de cumplir con la
agenda de destruir a Rusia :: Europa es una periferia subalterna....,Mundo :: 24/07/2023
Las
multitudinarias protestas de este sábado, continuación de la tercera
Toma de Lima, contaron con la participación de decenas de movimientos
sociales y gremios....,Venezuela :: 24/07/2023.
El 19 de julio, llegaron de todas partes, y siguen llegando....,
El
pasado 25 de junio falleció el peruano Hugo Blanco, uno de los
dirigentes históricos y referencia obligada de los movimientos
campesinos e indígenas de América latina
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Originally published Aug. 24, 2006, this column was part of Leslie
Feinberg’s series of articles on the connections between LGBTQ2S+ [...]
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, sworn in
after winning 80% of the vote in 2020. Imperialist figureheads and
their corporate media lackeys were gleeful over the [...]
Thousands protest in Athens (above) and
Thessalonica, Greece, demand a lessening of migration restrictions to
prevent more sea disasters and migrant deaths. Demonstrators [...]
In the New York Times of June 22, a panel of
writers named the 1993 novel Leslie Feinberg’s “Stone Butch Blues” as
the most influential work of queer literature of the [...]
Starbucks workers at over 150 stores in the U.S.
are striking with pride in response to the company’s decision to ban
Pride decorations at many stores across the country. [...]
Johanna
Acevedo fue jefa de la División de Planificación Sanitaria del
Ministerio de Salud entre 2020 y 2022. Ante la fiscalía aseguró que al
inicio de la pandemia el gabinete del entonces ministro Jaime Mañalich
tenía un sistema propio para contar a los contagiados, que difería de
los criterios que utilizaban los equipos expertos. Ahora, al conversar
con CIPER acerca de la serie de reportajes “Correos de la pandemia”,
agrega contexto a sus afirmaciones: su evaluación sobre cómo el Minsal
enfrentó la emergencia es positiva. Ella asegura que las diferencias
entre las autoridades políticas y los equipos especializados se limitó a
una inicial divergencia de criterios. En todo caso, afirma que con los
meses la postura de los técnicos se impuso.
A
inicios de 2022 la Municipalidad de San Bernardo firmó un contrato con
Gestión Global por asesorías financieras, a pesar de que el director de
control municipal advirtió que era ilegal. Ahora, la Contraloría ordenó
rescindir el contrato. Se trata del mismo tipo de asesorías relacionadas
con las cuentas corrientes municipales que investiga la Fiscalía de
Ñuble, indagatoria que ya suma dos alcaldes procesados. Uno de esos
jefes comunales, al igual que el dueño de Gestión Global, están en
prisión preventiva.
Alguien
osado asomó la cabeza y gritó: la plaza está llena de tanques y nos
disparan. Era un 29 de junio de 1973. El Tancazo había empezado....,
Es
un mito creado por los librecambistas actuales que Smith se opusiera al
gobierno y que subordinara el comportamiento moral al interés material
El
12 de julio, el Parlamento Europeo aprobó una resolución en que lamenta
el supuesto deterioro de la democracia y los DDHH en Cuba....,Mundo :: 24/07/2023. 
Entrevista
con Ricardo Antunes :: "La lucha por la reducción de la jornada de
trabajo y contra la división de ocupados y desocupados es el embrión de
una lucha anticapitalista"...,Europa :: 24/07/2023 
Se
procura "que muera hasta el último ucraniano" con tal de cumplir con la
agenda de destruir a Rusia :: Europa es una periferia subalterna....,Mundo :: 24/07/2023 
Las
multitudinarias protestas de este sábado, continuación de la tercera
Toma de Lima, contaron con la participación de decenas de movimientos
sociales y gremios....,Venezuela :: 24/07/2023. 
El
pasado 25 de junio falleció el peruano Hugo Blanco, uno de los
dirigentes históricos y referencia obligada de los movimientos
campesinos e indígenas de América latina
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EL 36 ANIVERSARIO DEL Movimiento de la Peña del Bronx apoya UN DIA SIN
INMIGRANTES y Huelga Global el 2023 .POR UNA LEGALIZACION PARA
TOD@S...,
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Thousands of people joined the Queer Liberation
March in New York City on June 25. Organized by the Reclaim Pride
Coalition, the march has been held annually since 2019, the [...]
Leslie Feinberg, Boston, July 25, 2004.
Originally published Aug. 24, 2006, this column was part of Leslie
Feinberg’s series of articles on the connections between LGBTQ2S+ [...]
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, sworn in
after winning 80% of the vote in 2020. Imperialist figureheads and
their corporate media lackeys were gleeful over the [...]
Thousands protest in Athens (above) and
Thessalonica, Greece, demand a lessening of migration restrictions to
prevent more sea disasters and migrant deaths. Demonstrators [...]
In the New York Times of June 22, a panel of
writers named the 1993 novel Leslie Feinberg’s “Stone Butch Blues” as
the most influential work of queer literature of the [...]
Starbucks workers at over 150 stores in the U.S.
are striking with pride in response to the company’s decision to ban
Pride decorations at many stores across the country. [...]
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