5.09.06 black liberation

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The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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It has always been assumed that attendance at environmental conferences would always be 90 percent white and overwhelmingly affluent. Not this time.

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Colleagues of mine in Zimbabwe were jailed and tortured by the Mugabe administration, but I was expected by pro-Mugabe activists in the USA to say nothing, and indeed, to deny everything.

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We need to learn how to celebrate and develop our resilience. When we can do that, we bring life back into our lives and into the lives of our communities.

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In Mississippi, African American political leaders and immigrant organizers favor a different calculation: Blacks plus immigrants plus unions equals power.

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Immigration policy is race policy in this country, as it has been since the genocide of its native people.

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The two employees formed the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, which demanded that the company disengage from South Africa and contribute its profits made in South Africa to recognized African liberation movements.

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Social justice organizing is about changing hearts and minds, and about changing public policy.

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White elites have long fanned the flames of racism among white workers in order to block multi-racial alliances for change.

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