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Concern about article in proposed Bolivian law against racism2010-09-24
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls for an amendment to an article in the draft law against racism.
IJV Demands That Canada's Mainstream Jewish Groups Condemn Spate of Racist, Anti-Democratic Laws Passed By Israeli Parliament2011-04-11
Independent Jewish Voices
IJV says that if Canada's mainstream Jewish organizations really believe in democracy, they will condemn the laws passed recently by the Israeli parliament.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel2009-03-10
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tr...
Journalists Condemn French Crackdown on Roma and Warn Over Rise of Racism2010-08-10
International Federation of Journalists
Journnalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn that it will encourage xenophobia and intolerance.
Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education2009-03-06
Canadians for Genocide Education
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded project...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
Sources Select Resources
Activists Track Down Racist Trolls Who Thought They Were Anonymous and Brilliantly Embarrass ThemA Brazilian group is turning racist social media messages into signs everyone can see.
Holloway, Kali
Article
2015
Alternet
Recently, the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced it had turned off comments on stories about Tamir Rice because "just about every piece we published about Tamir immediately became a cesspool of hateful,...
American White Separatist Finds Shared Values with IsraelSheen, David
Article
2015
Muftah
If America and Israel have "shared values," as their elected leaders often claim, then how can so many Americans reject ethnocracy in their own country, but support what is happening inside Israel?
Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'Andre, Aletta
Article
2016
Aljazeera
After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap hi...
The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
Eskow, John
Article
2014
CounterPunch
If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at t...
Black Codes (United States)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks.
The Central Park Five - reviewAgainst The Current vol. 162
S., George
Article
2013
Against The Current
A review of 'The Central Park Five', a documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon.
The changing meaning of raceMalik, Kenan
Article
2011
If the proverbial anthropologist from Mars were to land in Britain today, he would probably regard us as schizophrenics when it comes to the question of race. He would find a population within which t...
The City That BleedsFreddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
Jackson, Lawrence
Article
2016
Harper's
The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
The 'Civic Death' of Dominicans of Haitian DescentMendes-Franco, Janine
Article
2015
Global Voices
Imagine being born in a country and then being told you have no rights as a citizen; that you're not wanted there. That is exactly what has been happening to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority VotersChibber, Vivek; Kalek, Rania; Gosztola, Kevin
Article
2016
ShadowProof
The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the ...
CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
Content Magazine - Number 63June 1976
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1976
Demonizing the Victims of KatrinaCoverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
Yassin, Jaime Omar
Article
2005
Extra!
Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native AmericansLoevy, Debra
Article
2015
CounterPunch
With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
Native American men ...
Dominican Republic to be 'Socially Cleaned' in two daysgjohnsit
Article
2015
Daily Kos
In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism...
Environmental racism in the US - black communities fight for justiceRoss, Heather Kathryn
Article
2015
Ecologist
Landfill sites, giant hog farms, incinerators and other 'bad neighbor' industries in the US tend to be situated in African American communities. The Environmental Protection Agency is legally obliged ...
Ethnic issues in JapanArticle
Wikipedia
Details the various racial minorities within the Japanese population, as well as historical and recent issues faced by these groups.
European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them ApartJohnstone, Diana
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Unification of Europe has brought about radical new divisions within Europe. The most significant split is between the people and their political leaders.
40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor PeopleIt's Not Just About Crime!
Quigley, Bill
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So MuchReed, Adolph Jr.
Article
2015
Common Dreams
As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression ...
Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'Moore, Jack
Article
2014
International Business Times
Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
"Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youthsAbunimah, Ali
Film/Video
2014
The Electronic Intifada
This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-ol...
Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racismSharma, Gouri
Article
2017
Aljazeera
The Nazis didn't fall out of the sky, there is a deeper racist, xenophobic mindset in German history.
Greece's Fascist ThreatFox-Hodess, Katy
Article
2013
Jacobin
The increasingly bold Golden Dawn party has precipitated a political crisis in Athens whose resolution is far from certain. Golden Dawn, the largest fascist party in Europe and the third largest party...
How Fukushima gave rise to a new anti-racism movementShaw, Vivian
Article
2017
Al Jazeera
Shaw examines the rise in anti-discrimination social activism in Japan after the environmental disasters in 2011 and lack of support from the government towards its non-Japanese citizens.
How Israel Abuses AfricansBlue Pilgrimage
Film/Video
2012
Blue Pilgrimage
Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
How Israel Covers Up Its Ugly Racial Holy WarSheen, David
Article
2015
Alternet
As the incitement to violence by Israeli leaders ramped up, so did racist attacks by Israeli citizens.
Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rightsDiemer, Ulli (ed.)
Website
2006
Connexions Information Sharing Services
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
Israeli calls for Palestinian blood ring at fever pitchSheen, David
Article
2014
The Electronic Intifada
Concerned humanists may have hoped that when a group of Jewish Israelis confessed to kidnapping and killing Muhammad Abu Khudair, a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem — forcing him to drink gasoline an...
Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - VideoCook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
Israel's anti-African dragnet tightensSheen, David
Article
2014
Electronic Intifada
The past year saw some of the most ruthless Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the territories were occupied in 1967. Israeli political leaders incited violence against Pa...
Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minorityCook, Jonathan
Article
2014
Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups an...
Israel's 'nation-state law' parallels the Nazi Nuremberg LawsAbulhawa, Susan
Article
2018
Aljazeera
Israel's new 'nation-state' law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy LandBlumental, Max
Film/Video
2013
The Nation
About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecut...
Israel's racist electionsArticle
2015
Free Haifa
I didn’t expect any good from the elections to the Israeli Knesset. Its results are decided a priori by the definition of the voters’ register.
Israel's War on AfricansBlue Pilgrimage
Film/Video
2014
Blue Pilgrimage
72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of IsraelArticle
2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tr...
Jim Crow lawsConnexipedia Article
Article
Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
The John Lewis Conundrum: Caring for Justice or Carrying WaterFikre, Teodrose
Article
2017
Ghion Journal
What the author is writing about John Lewis is not so much a condemnation as it is a reflection of the very meaning of justice and how we can fight for it.
Journalists Condemn French Crackdown on Roma and Warn Over Rise of RacismSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
Journnalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn that it will encourage xenophobia and intolerance.
Kill a Black Kid and Get RichAn American Disgrace
Caccioppoli, Mike
Article
2014
CounterPunch
This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system a...
Ku Klux KlanSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reacti...
The leaders of the American Womens March have spoken: Jews are unwelcome on the feminist leftTeitel, Emma
Article
2018
Toronto Star
Columnist Emma Teitel draws attention to the problematic relationship between US Women's March organizers and antisemetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Let's talk about Gaza, Sderot and the racist valuation of livesDavid, Ben Lilach
Article
2014
+972
A frank discussion about everything we don’t mention when talking about rockets and bombs and Gaza. Let’s talk about fear, about poverty, about angst and about racism.
The limits of anti-racismReed, Adolph J.
Article
2009
Left Business Observer
The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly r...
Little Rock Central High SchoolConnexipedia Article
Article
The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
LynchingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Lynching is extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake and shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or oth...
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Malik, KenanConnexipedia Article
Article
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racismFaulkner, Neil
Article
2011
Counterfire
Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ra...
A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone madFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible w...
Mass IncarcerationNew Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
Lewis, Nathaniel
Article
2018
People's Policy Project
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
Master raceSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Migration and MoralityMalik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than i...
MischlingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Mischling ("crossbreed" in German, plural: Mischlinge) was the German term used during the Third Reich to denote persons deemed to not have full Aryan ancestry.
Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School GraduationThompson, Juan
Article
2015
The Intercept
When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime exam...
Missouri's Legacy of Violent RacismQuantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
Jacobs, Ron
Article
2014
CounterPunch
What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in thi...
More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in SchoolsHenerson, Mary Anne; Platt, Brian
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. V...
Multiculturalism or World Culture?On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Goldner, Loren
Article
1991
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the valu...
My Journey from RacismAnd how we can best end it
Balkwill, Jack
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
Nadir of American race relationsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The "nadir of American race relations" refers to the period in United States history from the end of Reconstruction through the early 20th century, when racism is deemed to have been worse than in any...
The Nature of Police, the Role of the LeftLearning From Ferguson
Gelderloos, Peter
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the instit...
A New Way of Life and the New Underground RailroadMaking a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
Moore-Backman, Chris
Article
2014
Truthout
This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores...
Omar Barghouti And “Reverse” RacismFryett, Dave
Article
2012
Countercurrents
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016Depression and Joy
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence t...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017Race and Class
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which s...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Diemer, Ulli
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to co...
The Pattern (Musically Annotated)From the Annals of Occupation
Rovics, David
Article
2014
Counterpunch
The war of words heats up. Israeli and US leaders are all over the airwaves, saying Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is responsible for all deaths on both sides. The news organizatio...
The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax CollectorsPlatt, Brian
Article
2015
CounterPunch
The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infrac...
Police Unions Sustain Police Violence EpidemicSince when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
Boardman, William
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police vi...
Police Violence Against Native PeopleCorreia, David
Article
2015
Counter Punch
In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmingt...
Practicing HopeHe's Just 17
Vermilya, Shelley
Article
2014
Counter Punch
It seems like teachers want to do the right thing and, along with most white people, they don’t want to say the wrong thing about race (or class or LGBT or adoption or disabilities) so they just don’t...
Race Obsession harms those it is meant to helpMalik, Kenan
Article
2009
Sunday Times
Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only a...
Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in IsraelSheen, David
Article
2013
Black Agenda Report
Israel has launched a wholesale roundup of African immigrants, whom members of the ruling parties call a "cancer" on the Jewish state. To circumvent court rulings against imprisonment without trial, t...
Racial hygieneSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Racial hygiene (often labeled a form of "scientific racism") is the selection, by a government, of the most physically, intellectually and morally superior people to raise the next generation (selecti...
Racial policy of Nazi GermanySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the "Aryan race", and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scien...
Racial segregationSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Racial segregation is the separation of different kinds of humans (like black and white people) into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking fr...
RacismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular...
Racism and Sexual Violence in IndonesiaWhere Fear Stalks the Streets
Vltchek, Andre
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
Racism in AsiaArticle
2017
Wikipedia
Racism in Asia exists for similar reasons that racism elsewhere exists, with roots in events that have happened anywhere from thousands of years ago to the present.
Racism in IsraelSheen, David
Article
2012
Open Democracy
Reports of anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv in May finally broke western media silence over one of the most contentious issues facing the state of Israel in recent years: the arrival of tens of tho...
Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking ReformismThompson, Mitchell
Article
2016
Dissident Voice
Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock ta...
Red Shirts (Southern United States)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were paramilitary groups in the 19th century, active primarily after the formal Reconstruction era of the United States. They first arose in M...
Red Summer of 1919Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Red Summer describes the bloody race riots that occurred in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans in more than two dozen Am...
RedliningSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Redlining is the practice of denying, or increasing the cost of services such as banking, insurance, access to jobs, access to health care, or even supermarkets to residents in certain, often racially...
Resistance to Reporting on Discrimination in IsraelSheen, David
Article
2013
Muftah
To date, I have published over a hundred reports about anti-African racism in Israel. Some of these stories have been widely circulated, including a 10-minute video released last month that has been s...
The Riot That Changed CanadaHow rampagers against Asians in Vancouver helped launch a famous PM
Kilian, Crawford
Article
2015
The Tyee
The race riots of September 1907 have been Vancouver's embarrassing little incident for over a century. Most of us know very little about them, and still less about the consequences -- which, Julie Gi...
Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatterThompson, Juan
Article
2015
The Intercept
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious...
The roots of Israel's most racist lawNoy, Orly
Article
2016
+972
Israel’s most draconian laws may have been passed by the current right-wing government, but the stage was set long ago by the Israeli Left. With a majority of 65 votes, the Knesset approved last week ...
Scott Walker's False Promise of Racial UnityFischer, Brendan
Article
2015
PRWatch
Scott Walker's solution for racial injustice? Ignore it. Acknowledging systemic problems like the documented wave of police killings of unarmed black men, or the racial wealth gap, or disparities in s...
Segregation Had to Be InventedSemuels, Alana
Article
2017
The Atlantic
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
Separate but equalSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States Constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to b...
Seven NewsSerial Publication (Periodical)
1970
Seven News
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no long...
16th Street Baptist Church bombingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by violent racists on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turni...
The Sochi Games, Homophobia and Western Media HypocrisyStephens, Alastair
Article
2014
Counterfire
Alastair Stephens looks at the hypocritical response of the Western media to the Sochi Games.
Supremacy, oppression, and powerDiemer, Ulli
Article
2015
It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create ...
Surrealism Against Racism - Book ReviewLowy, Michael
Article
1999
Against the Current
THE WELL-KNOWN antiracist journal Race Traitor—whose motto is “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to Humanity”—published in the form of a small book a special issue (number 9, Summer 1998, ISBN # 0-88286...
Thinking Outside the BoxMalik, Kenan
Article
2007
Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or fai...
Three Myths of ImmigrationMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
Pandaemonium
Kenan Malik sets out to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom multiculturalism has a very different meaning than it does to a European one, the contours of the European debate, as well as his disag...
2,500 Years of Class HatredReid Ross, Alexander
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Class struggle never existed without hatred of the poor. And neither has racism. Boots Riley's recent article, posted in The Guardian, systematically dispels the myth of black-on-black crime advocated...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
The Two ApartheidsWhat are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
Traboulsi, Fawwaz; Kfoury, Assaf
Article
2014
Jacobin
Ultra-Zionists protest Muslim-Jewish wedding saying miscegenation is 'gravest threat to the Jewish people'Sheen, David
Article
2014
Mondoweiss
As even mainstream Israeli politicians threaten the Palestinians of Gaza with ethnic cleansing and genocide, Israel's far-right figures take to the street to rile up racist supporters and to chase Pal...
Under Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli BusesNever Equal
Norton, Ben
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank. The new apartheid law dictates that Palestinians cannot ...
Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?Sheen, David
Article
2014
Religion Dispatches
Earlier this week the Times of Israel published a post, written by American Yochanan Gordon, titled "When Genocide is Permissible," which concludes with the following question:
"If political leaders ...
What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?Malik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and sta...
Why do we still believe in race?Malik, Kenan
Article
2007
Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
Why is Canada Subsidizing Racist Property Restrictions?The JNF's Bigoted Land Use Policy
Engler, Yves
Article
2013
CounterPunch
In Canada it is illegal to restrict the sale of property to certain ethnic or religious groups but many of our business people and politicians promote an organization that does exactly that in Israel.
Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison? Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
Bollinger, Michelle
Article
2009
CounterPunch
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
Sources Bookshelf
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient Views of BlacksSnowden, Frank
Book
1991
In this richly-illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank M. Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their colour...
Canada Since 1960: A People's HistoryA Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Gonick, By (ed.)
Book
2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
Content Magazine - Number 63June 1976
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1976
The Cost of Free SpeechLee, Simon
Book
1990
In the wake of the Ayatollah's "fatwah" against Salman Rushdie and in the turbulent context of terrorism in Northern Ireland, free speech really can lead to death, according to the author. This book o...
Creating an Ecological SocietyToward a Revolutionary Transformation
Magdoff, Fred; Williams, Chris
Book
2017
Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams...
Easily LedA History of Propaganda
Thomson, Oliver
Book
1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism, & The Gulf WarKashmeri, Zuhair
Book
The Gulf Within documents the experiences of Arab and Muslim Canadians during the Gulf War. It's about the subtle and not-so-subtle anger and distrust other Canadians and institutions demonstrated tow...
In a Time of TormentStone, I.F.
Book
1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
Media and MinoritiesRepresenting Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Fleras, Augie; Kuhz, Jean Lock
Book
2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
Our Way to FightPeace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Riordon, Michael
Book
2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people ...
A Paradise Built in HellThe Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Solnit, Rebecca
Book
2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearni...
Social Determinants of HealthCanadian Perspectives
Raphael, Dennis (ed.)
Book
2004
The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
New HomesThree editions: Greater Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, Eastern Ontario. Additional publication titled The Condo Guide GTA. Listings of new homes and condos. Some editorial content.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Canadian Race Relations FoundationCommitted to the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, the CRRF sheds light on the manifestations of racism; provides independent outspoken leadership, and acts as a resource and facilitato...
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