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Deion Scott Hawkins: “Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option.”

Posted on January 5, 2023 by

“In my view, rebellions of the enslaved can aptly be classified as insurrections.  From the early 1600s, historians estimate that there were around 250 insurrections in America that involved 10 or more enslaved people using violence to fight for equal rights.”

Posted in freedom, justice, Nota Bene, revolt, rights, tyranny

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Ethan Oversby & Benjamin Maiangwa: “Thomas Sankara, Intersectionality and the Fate of Africa’s Liberation”

Posted on January 2, 2023 by

‘Thomas Sankara is relevant today as a Marxist revolutionary, and a martyr to those inspired by his subaltern resistance to what bell hooks calls the “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy”; an “interlocking system of domination” that exist between the west and the rest of the world. Sankara’s legacy is particularly felt among the younger generation in Africa and elsewhere who are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with exploitative capitalism, the kleptocracy of their leaders and other planetary crises.’

Posted in freedom, Nota Bene, power, revolution, rights, violence

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“Emory Douglas: The Art of the Black Panthers”

Posted on November 11, 2022 by

“From 1967 to the Party’s dissolution in the early 1980s, Douglas designed the art that came to define the Black Panthers and their iconography.”

Posted in Blog, fine arts, resistance, revolt

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Glenda Gilmore interviewed: “The Civil Rights Movement Was Radical to Its Core”

Posted on August 28, 2022 by

“Gilmore’s narrative follows a path of struggle through Southern, American, and world histories that links together the Russian Revolution, the rise and fall of fascism, and the “long civil rights movement” in the United States”.

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Kris Manjapra: “Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days”

Posted on June 20, 2022 by

“Βetween the 1780s and 1930s, during the era of liberal empire and the rise of modern humanitarianism, over 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.  There were, in fact, 20 separate emancipations in the United States alone, from 1780 to 1865, across the U.S. North and South.”

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Rinaldo Walcott on Riots, Policing, and Traditions of Black Refusal

Posted on May 25, 2021 by

“The Black riot is a refusal of entrenched policing practices that has boiled over. The riot is an expression of revolt with a historical basis in slavery. In activist circles, riots have been renamed uprisings, thereby giving their actions a deeper meaning. And the difference isn’t merely semantic. Riots often garner the attention of state authorities in a way that so-called peaceful protests do not. The riot, or uprising, is an important element of the quest for Black freedom.”

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Tim Bruno: ” Transforming Rebellion into Revolution: Rereading Cedric Robinson and Eugene Genovese”

Posted on April 20, 2021 by

“Defensiveness about the revolutionary-ness of resistance potentially understates just how much is needed to expand and escalate the rebellious conditions that precede Black liberation. Rereading Robinson and Genovese, it becomes clear how much of the Black Radical Tradition is about historiography—it is a tradition, after all”

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Mohamed Abdou: “Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution”

Posted on November 2, 2020 by

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Leo Jubault: “Memory against History: Black Lives Matter, Identity and the Revolution”

Posted on October 28, 2020 by

“This is a revolutionary moment; one that needed no parties or state, one that comes, as it often does, from the eruption of the memory of the oppressed. A memory that lies within specific lived experiences, but whose truth and call for justice transcends those specificities. From Rojava to Chiapas, from Yellow Jackets to Black Lives Matter.”

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Vanessa Taylor: “How Black anarchists are keeping the protest movement alive”

Posted on October 3, 2020 by

“Black anarchists are striving for a liberation that requires the total upheaval of social order as it stands now.”

Posted in anarchism, democracy, disobedience, gender, In The News, justice, revolt

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