The Latest from Black Rose/Rosa Negra
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#TrumpIsHate
On Friday, March 11th, thousands of Chicagoans descended on the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Pavilion to protest the rally of Donald Trump, including UIC students, different political organizations, affinity groups and autonomous individuals. Our affinity group was composed of two WOC, four self-identifying sex-workers, and others, the majority of whom identify as queer folx,…
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The Black Anarchism Reader
Black Anarchism: A Reader – PDF In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available…
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Statement from Black Rose North Georgia on “Rock Stone Mountain” White Power Rally
The legacy of slavery, racial discrimination, racism, and institutional white supremacy are inescapable aspects of life in the US South. In the gap since the Civil Rights and Black Power movements we’ve spent a generation failing to critically examine or confront how these issues continue to manifest themselves in our society–not only in the South,…
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Another Day, Another Hatchet Job on Anarchism
Is it just me, or has the quality of critiques of anarchism been getting worse lately? Barnard Professor Sheri Berman’s contribution to Dissent’s Fall 2015 issue (“No Cheers for Anarchism”) makes it clear she holds anarchism — and anarchists — in contempt. I looked for, but sadly could not find, a well-argued reason why. Her essay…
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Kurdish Resistance Against the Curfews in Bakur: An Overview and an Anarchist Message
From a comrade in Turkey: After the stalling of the peace process between the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Kurdish freedom movement (in short, the KFM, which supports the legal political party called the People’s Democratic Party [HDP]), a new phase of oppression has begun through the imposition of draconian curfews. According to…
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The Murderer State: Statements on the October 10 Massacre in Ankra, Turkey
10 Ekim or October 10th commemoration held in 2017 of those killed during the Ankara bombing attack On October 10, 2015 a bomb was detonated as hundreds of youth participated in a “Labour, Peace and Democracy” rally in Ankara, Turkey in protest of the Turkish state’s ongoing repression against the Kurdish movement. With 103 killed…
