Category: Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity - Page 8

Far-right groups, including militias and white supremacists, rally Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, while a broad coalition of leftist anti-racist groups organized a counter-demonstration. (Jenni Girtman/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Legal and Vigilante Repression of the Antiracism Movement

September 29, 2020 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Last week several organizers in Colorado who have been organizing nearly daily protests over the summer demanding justice for Elijah McClain, murdered by police last year, were arrested and charged with felony kidnapping among other felony charges. The kidnapping charge was apparently […]

Black Lives Matter protesters at Peter's Park march, Boston, late May, 2020 (photo: Claire Gosselin/ MAPA)

Challenging Policing, Reimagining Safe Communities

September 29, 2020 Claire Gosselin

by Claire Gosselin Nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism remained strong over the summer, fueled by new instances of police violence and a widespread recognition that the time for the country’s reckoning with its legacy of slavery and Jim Crow has come due. […]

Indigenous America and the Pandemic Era: Response

August 17, 2020 Nicholas Smaldone

This article is the third in a three part series on the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples across the Americas during the COVID-19 era. Read the first part here, and the second part here. Response With around 40% of the population being Indigenous, Guatemala has […]

Indigenous America and the Pandemic Era: Land Rights

August 17, 2020 Nicholas Smaldone

This article is the second in a three part series on the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples across the Americas during the COVID-19 era. Read the first part here, and the third part here. Land Rights While Indigenous populations themselves are being decimated by the […]

Indigenous America and the Pandemic Era: A Demographic Disaster

August 17, 2020 Nicholas Smaldone

This article is the first in a three part series on the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples across the Americas during the COVID-19 era. Read the second part here, and the third part here. From Alaska to Chile, North and South America have been […]

A barefoot boy waiting in line and staring ahead at a crematorium after the Nagasaki bombing, with his dead baby brother strapped to his back. Photo by US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell

Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

August 4, 2020 Elaine Scarry

Originally published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists This past Memorial Day, a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the throat of an African-American, George Floyd, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Seventy-five years ago, an American pilot dropped an atomic bomb on the civilian population […]

Rahsaan Hall, director, of the ACLU of Massachusetts Racial Justice Program, addresses reporters on police reform bill. Bay State Banner photo

State Police Reform Bill Passes House, Heads to Conference

July 25, 2020 Mike Connolly

by State Rep. Mike Connolly The police reform bill, “An Act relative to justice, equity and accountability in law enforcement,” was engrossed by the House on a vote of 93-to-66 late last night. This was the closest vote on major bill in the House in […]