Here is a "top 10" list for white anti-racists from the Colours of Resistance website. There are a lot of "top 10" lists out there for white anti-racists, but this one provides specific guidance for activists.
Ten things to remember: Anti-racist strategies for white student radicals (Chris Dixson): http://www.coloursofresistance.org/749/ten-things-to-remember-anti-racist-strategies-for-white-student-radicals/
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Colours of Resistance resources
Check out the site Colours of Resistance archives for informative resources on a wide variety of topics: http://www.coloursofresistance.org/
About Colours of Resistance: Welcome to the archival website of Colours of Resistance! We offer this collection of articles and resources as a contribution to documenting our movement history and helping to advance contemporary analysis and organizing. Colours of Resistance (COR) was a grassroots network of people in the U.S. and Canada who consciously worked to develop anti-racist, multiracial politics in the movement against global capitalism. This network existed from 2000 until about 2006. Through this work, COR members aimed to help build an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer and trans liberationist, anti-authoritarian movement against global capitalism. COR members were also committed to integrating an anti-oppression framework and analysis into all of our work.
About Colours of Resistance: Welcome to the archival website of Colours of Resistance! We offer this collection of articles and resources as a contribution to documenting our movement history and helping to advance contemporary analysis and organizing. Colours of Resistance (COR) was a grassroots network of people in the U.S. and Canada who consciously worked to develop anti-racist, multiracial politics in the movement against global capitalism. This network existed from 2000 until about 2006. Through this work, COR members aimed to help build an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer and trans liberationist, anti-authoritarian movement against global capitalism. COR members were also committed to integrating an anti-oppression framework and analysis into all of our work.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Call for investigation of missing and murdered Aboriginal women
-->
CBC News - Missing aboriginal women prompt UN letter: Two Canadian groups requested investigation, accusing Canadian government of breaching convention
Saturday, December 10, 2011
The high price of fashion: Killer jeans
The Hidden Human Cost (from www.labourbehindthelabel.org)
Jeans with the faded or worn out look achieved by blasting sand at high velocities at denim often retail for as much as 180% of the price of a normal denim. Yet the hidden cost is paid by sandblasting operators working today in countries such as Bangladesh, China, Mexico and Egypt, many of whom will contract an acute form of the fatal lung disease silicosis due to fine silica particles gathering in the lung.
The first case of silicosis in the garment industry was identified in 2005 by doctors in Turkey, who were investigating the reason for a high incidence of lung and respiratory problems among the young men employed in the industry. By 2010, over 1000 affected workers had been identified in Turkey. 46 workers, mostly young men, had died of the disease and doctors suspect 5,000 other unreported cases. Silicosis can become fatal within 6 to 9 months.
For more information:
Shop Ethical: http://www.ethical.org.au/get-informed/issues/jeans-sandblasting/
http://www.ecochicmagazine.co.uk/eco-fashion-expo/fashion-expose/killer-jeans-how-distressed-is-your-denim
BBC News - Sandblasted jeans: Should we give up distressed denim?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15017790
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)