In an engaging and thought-provoking talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Nov. 14, Dr. Melanie Yazzie, assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Twin ...
Ontario parents must have been bewildered if not horrified several years back to discover that math was racist. A new school curriculum put forth by the province included a preamble declaring ...
Whatever Happened to Saying No? Cornell and the Modern Sexual ‘Contract’ Hedging AI Risks with Common Sense Christopher Columbus Is Wrongly Reviled — but Not for the Reason You Think Audio By ...
I want to believe that mass protests, strikes, and boycotts will be more effective than violence at liberating the colonized. Yet how many liberation movements have felt forced to choose violence as ...
“Decolonization is not simply political. It is also cultural and musical. We can decolonize our minds, our art, and our institutions as we imagine a world rooted in justice, peace, and love.” — Dr.
Whether the Jews and Arab Muslims in the Middle East, the Sinhalese and Tamils in Sri Lanka, Hispanics and Indians in South America, or the Chinese in Indonesia, decolonization is a euphemism for the ...
On Earth Day, we speak with two of the more than two dozen Indigenous authors of a new book that looks at the history of resistance against colonialism and capitalism and lays out a vision for the ...
Since the modern anti-globalization movement kicked off with the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, a new generation has been engaging in anti-capitalist direct action. Its aims, politics, lifestyles, and ...
That the revolutionary Marxist concept of “decolonization” should apply to Canada, itself a former colony that gained independence with scarcely a drop of blood shed, had no legacy of slavery, and ...
Imagine this: A revolutionary leader stands above a large crowd to declare his nation’s independence. He proclaims, “All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaking to France's National Assembly on April 11, Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza did not petition Europe for the ...
This excerpt from The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia (AK Press, 2019) was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media ...