International Symposium
OCTOBER 9 - OCTOBER 11, 2008
Institute of African American Affairs, New York University
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the United States of America, New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs and Africana Studies Program is hosting an international symposium entitled Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and [...]

By Alex Kane
A month after Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin trashed community organizers as a way to attack Barack Obama, activists and individuals around the country have responded by raising more than $7,500 for the “Community Organizers Fight Back Fund.” The Chicago-based Midwest Academy is managing the fund and will use the money to train [...]

Every four years, the Democratic and Republican parties gather to nominate their candidates for president. These national conventions are vast public spectacles. With great pomp and decadence, they praise the virtues of democracy and claim a mandate from the American people, while simultaneously choking dissenting voices with clouds of tear gas and pepper spray. This [...]

By CR Hamilton
This epistle is for all those who have been influenced by the current mainstream ideology that it is reprehensible or an act of individual imperfection or weakness to “blame the white man” for the problems facing Africa and Black America. I (and this is the first time I have used first person to [...]

Transforming Justice & Left Turn magazine present:
Resisting Prisons, Shaping Alternatives - a conference report back & movement-building gathering (with food & drink!)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 7:30pm
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street
The tenth-anniversary Critical Resistance conference (CR10) this September marks a major moment in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). Many are gathering [...]