Category: Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity - Page 5

Boston George Floyd Protest, Washington St. Photo: GorillaWarfare

Racial Justice / Decolonization 2022 Work Plan

April 26, 2022 Maryellen Kurkulos

Campaign Name: Decarceration Working Group Name: Racial Justice and Decolonization Executive Summary: White supremacy and colonialism continue to operate in the US government and in our society. The incarceration rate in the US exposes the systemic racism in our criminal-legal system. Racialized slavery was outlawed […]

Getting to where we are today

January 16, 2022 Doe West

by Rev Dr Doe West When I was just a young teen, Reverend Dr Martin Luther King helped shape my whole life by his “I have a dream” speech (August, 1963), when he said: “Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we […]

How the US Government Segregated America

December 18, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes Originally published in Common Dreams For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of residents, community organizations, public housing staff and other professors on reducing and removing the many asthma triggers that caused the highest rates of asthma […]

Indigenous activists demanded a Just Transition at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Oct 31- Nov 13, 2021.

COP26 Reflection: Indigenous Peoples Demand a Just Transition

December 5, 2021 Jean-Luc Pierite

by Jean-Luc Pierite No “false solutions” such as carbon markets and net zero schemes and free, prior, and informed consent from Indigenous nations are the demands going into COP26 and going forward. With the support of Rios to Rivers, International Rivers Network, and Empathy Accelerator, […]

Prison Moratorium Standout, Belchertown, Nov 14, 2021. MAPA photo

Support the Prison Moratorium – Building up People not Prisons

November 16, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky Report on standout/canvassing event in Belchertown on November 14, 2021, 2-4 PM The campaign to pass the Moratorium bill is focusing on 5 representatives who co-chair a committee that will decide if the bill moves forward or not. They are: Judiciary House […]

Critical Race Theory: The Right’s New Bogeyman

October 31, 2021 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Gather round, children, to hear about the new bogeyman. In the current cycle of reactionary demonization, the bogeyman is no longer anyone ever associated in any way with the Communist Party. The new bogeyman, supplanting communism, socialism, and Sharia law, is ‘critical […]

Indigenous People's Day rally, "Christopher Columbus Park", Boston, October 9, 2021. Photo: Cole Harrison/MAPA

Massachusetts Has the Biggest Indigenous Peoples Day Ever

October 30, 2021 Craig Simpson

by Craig Simpson This year’s Indigenous Peoples Day was much different than last. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boston Marathon was moved from its usual date in April to so-called “Columbus Day.” Indigenous people, including the Massachusett tribe and allies in Newton, stood their […]