Ethiopia’s government says five people have been killed in protests against a government plan to develop farmland outside the capital into a new business zone. Communications Minister Getachew Reda said Monday that the number of dead could rise. Opposition supporters… Read More ›
Ethnic discrimination
When It Was Jewish Refugees On The Eve of WWII
July 1938. Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed that the United States should raise its immigration quotas or encourage political refugees fleeing fascist states in Europe — the vast majority of whom were Jewish — to voyage across the… Read More ›
Voices from the Palestinian uprising against Israel
Al Jazeera asked young Palestinians whether the current violence is a precursor to a general Intifada or not. In September, Jewish settlers backed by Israeli security forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. The event triggered widescale… Read More ›
Black Lives Matter
The meme “All Lives Matter” is yet another effort to undermine legitimate calls to end antiblack police practices that characterize far too many interactions between police and citizens of color. Covered with a veneer of neutral and inclusive language, this… Read More ›
American devotion to order over justice must end
We need to disrupt the legal and political system that expects people of color to shut up and women to behave By Chaumtoli Huq Last summer, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, I stood on the sidewalk in Times… Read More ›
The Black Lives Matter policy agenda is practical, thoughtful — and urgent
By Radley Balko Last week, the leaders of Black Lives Matter* released a series of policy solutions to address police killings, excessive force, profiling and racial discrimination, and other problems in law enforcement, called “Campaign Zero.” Critics and police organizations… Read More ›
Open letter to progressives: You’re doing it wrong and it’ll cost the Democratic Party
I was thick in the progressive movement when BLM interrupted Bernie Sanders at Netroots Nation in PHX, then again when the 2 independent activists disrupted the event for Soc Sec/Medicare. My first reaction was selfish — I had just found a… Read More ›
Palestinian baby killed in arson attack ‘by Israeli settlers’
Attackers thought to be Jewish extremists threw Molotov cocktail into West Bank home, killing 18-month-old boy and severely injuring his four-year-old brother and both parents It was a scene of chilling, sadistic callousness. The masked men – almost certainly Jewish… Read More ›
A desperate thirst
By Soe Zeya Tun for Reuters This shot is of a group of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants from a boat carrying 734 people rescued off Myanmar’s southern coast last week. Those on board had been at sea for more than… Read More ›
Malcolm X, Gentrification and Housing as a Human Right
If we look at what is happening today in major cities throughout the United States, the same principles and legal precepts are at work. Now, instead of military might, overpowering economic forces are pushing low-income people of color out of… Read More ›
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