Category: 2009 Winter
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change the world Powerful Youth @ Work
By Santrechee’l Julian Santrechee’l was born and raised in Atlanta and is a 12th grader at the New Schools at Carver. She participated in the first Community Power Institute (CPI) in 2008 and served as one of four Action Team Leaders in the second CPI in 2009. I am involved in the Youth Community Action…
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10 Lessons for Movement Building on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown
By Stephanie Guilloud For five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, organizers, workers, and community members participated in a public uprising using direct actions, marches, rallies, and mass convergences. Longshoremen shut down every port…
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up south – down south Defending and nurturing our liberation roots: Detroit, Haiti, and the road to the US Social Forum 2010
By Emery Wright This article is the second in a series of articles addressing how colonialism affects our liberation struggles in the US. The first article examined today’s legacy of colonialism in Puerto Rico and what a decolonization process will have to entail. Additional articles will examine relationships between Mexico, the Southern Black experience, and…