Tag: anti-racist

Barcelona: Mani. Oct 12 16.30. Nada Que Celebrar ..Nothing to celebrate!

Convocatoria:Palacio de la Virreina (rambla 99). 16.30 Plataforma Nada que celebrar Barcelona:

Resistencia AntiColonial, AntiRacista, y AntiPatriarcal

Invitamos a todxs los colectivos, vecinos, migrantes, artistas, trabajadoras y organizaciones populares a marchar este viernes 12, para denunciar el genocidio de millones de personas en estos siglos y la continuidad del neo-colonialismos Europeo, que sigue saqueando y sangrando a los pueblos del sur, mediante tratados comerciales, empresas, fronteras y guerras. Para los de arriba es el día de la hispanidad o de la raza , para los de abajo, es el día de la resistencia indígena, negra y popular. trae tu cartel , pancarta o lienzo para denunciar.

Barcelona: callout for October 12
Platform Nothing to celebrate Barcelona: Friday, October 12, at 4:30 pm, at Palacio de la Virreina (rambla 99)

We invite all groups, neighbors, migrants, artists, workers and popular organizations to march this Friday, 12, to denounce the genocide of millions of people in these centuries and the continuity of European neo-colonialism, which continues to plunder and bleed the peoples from the south, through trade agreements, companies, borders and wars.

For those on top it is the day of Hispanidad or ‘The Race’, for those below, it is the day of indigenous, black and popular resistance. Bring your poster, banner or canvas to demonstrate.

Anti-Colonial, Anti-Racist and Anti-Patriarchal RESISTANCE

18 African Feminists We Love and Celebrate

What is African Feminism? Many feminists from around the world have contested the idea of whether modern conceptions of feminism are African or un-African. Indeed, feminism has existed in Africa since the times of Queen Nzinga of what is now Mozambique and Yaa Asantewaa of Ghana.

These women have inspired contemporary African feminists, who have contributed significantly to feminism in various ways—whether it be through art, music, writing, policy. They have been committed to bringing the voices of African women into the spaces that they work within, and they are indeed change-makers—not only on the African continent, but also throughout the African Diaspora.

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we must take the time to celebrate the African Feminists you should know.

1. Theo Sowa – CEO of African Women’s Development Fund

Theo Sowa is Chief Executive Officer of the African Women’s Development Fund. She has previously worked as an independent advisor for a wide range of international and social development issues. Her work has covered advocacy, service delivery, evaluation, facilitation, policy, and organizational development with a range of international and intergovernmental organizations and grant-making foundations.

Follow her work at: http://www.awdf.org/our-work/staff/
Follow her on Twitter: @TheoSowa

2. Abena Busia – Writer, Poet & Professor

Professor Abena Busia is the current Chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is also co-director and co-editor of the groundbreaking Women Writing Africa Project, a multi-volume anthology published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York. As Professor Busia points out, “History is located in multiple places,” and the anthology is designed to recognize the complex cultural legacy and “cultural production” of African women. Busia has helped edit two volumes of the anthology—Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel (2005) and Women Writing Africa: Northern Africa (2009). Continue reading “18 African Feminists We Love and Celebrate”

Beyoncé, Rihanna, Alicia Keys… ’23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America’..Video

The We Are Here Movement is Alicia Keys’s initiative to counteract and raise awareness about various injustices around the world using, including income inequity and climate change, using the power of art and culture. Her latest campaign is a powerful video in which musicians and actors honor and memorialize some of those Americans who’ve been killed for living while black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VaNhI4CLo

The video, in conjunction with Mic and reporter Jamilah King, is called “23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America,” and very plainly names things people have been doing while they’ve been killed, mostly by police officers but also by racist murderers like Dylann Roof. “Riding in your girlfriend’s car with a child in the back,” says Beyoncé, before a photograph of Philando Castile, young and sweet, appears…. Continue reading “Beyoncé, Rihanna, Alicia Keys… ’23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America’..Video”

Historic Anti-racist demo for Closure of Immigration Prison

racist prisons ( español abajo)   Not all Europe is rife with racism and neo -fascism. Over 2000 journeyed to an industrial suburb to demand the closure of the Immigration Detention Centre in Barcelona as pressure mounts for the Catalan Parliament to demand closure . As wars provoked to fuel Capitalism spread around the world , and millions of destitute refugees are barred from Fortress Europe or die trying to enter, the solidarity cry goes up–NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL..Close Down Europe’s 280 shameful  Immigration Prisons! (CIE’s).    dancers at the March against Immigrant Prisonsdancers at the March against Immigrant Prisons

Historic mobilization to demand the closure of the CIE Barcelona     By David Bou

2,000 people journeyed out to the gates of the center in the Zona Franca industrial suburb in a demo that demanded that the Catalan Parliament come out in favour of the closure of this prison for migrants. A massive and unprecedenteded response from the public last Saturday at Barcelona CIE Immigration Prison. Continue reading “Historic Anti-racist demo for Closure of Immigration Prison”

Anonymous – We Stand United

by  Most importantly, you’re being urged to realize we’re all brothers and sisters, one species, connected by the basic instincts we have to socialize and protect one another. 2012 is not the year we wake up as a group, or a country, or even a planet, 2012 is the year we wake up as a species. However this can only be done if you want it to be, you hold the power in your hands.

Greetings citizens of the world, you’ve most likely heard of the recent exposure of the global security network called TrapWire. You may have also heard of the recent developments concerning the NDAA (or National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012). As time goes on it gets more evident that our situation is getting worse…. Continue reading “Anonymous – We Stand United”

Barcelona / apoyo mutua! / Mutual Aid Works..Eviction of 300 stopped

de 300 veïns
per @assembleapoble9 16 jul 2012

Els 300 veïns del Poblenou que estan amenaçats per un macro desallotjament al carrer Puigcerdà 127,

Poble Nou Narcelona warehouse..300 homeless.
Eviction fails due to solidarity of 500 people

podran seguir a la nau ocupada fins que el jutge dicti nova ordre, gràcies al suport veïnal!

The 300 residents of Poblenou that are threatened by a macro eviction of homeless people from Puigcerdà 127 Street, will remain  in the occupied warehouse until the judge issues another order, thanks to support from neighbors! Continue reading “Barcelona / apoyo mutua! / Mutual Aid Works..Eviction of 300 stopped”
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