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InteractiveThe Politics of Natural Disaster (The Lessons We Never Learn)
by Guest Columnist on May 23 2008, 10:12AM
by Thanu Yakupitiyage Photo credit: AFP I remember the horror in December 2004 when the Asian Tsunami affected several countries across Asia leading to an outpour of sympathy and international aid from all over the world. As is routine after…
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by Daisy Hernandez on May 13 2008, 9:13AM
This week, Racewire contributors will be liveblogging at the Transnational Assembly of Remitters and Families in Mexico City. I read about towns like Piaxtla, Mexico when I was in graduate school. These are towns that have been mostly emptied…
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by Seth Freed Wessler on May 8 2008, 4:22PM
Yesterday was Israeli Independence Day; the 60th year of Israel’s existence. For some Israelis and Zionists, the day celebrates the birth of statehood for a people long without a land. But for me, as for many other’s, Israeli Independence…
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40 Years Later, Should Athletes Boycott the Olympics?
by Jonathan Adams on May 7 2008, 8:49AM
In the Los Angeles Times, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar points of the parallels between the 1968 Olympics and the upcoming summer games in Beijing. Here we are 40 years later and we are once again about to send our young athletes…
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Waterboarding? Torturing People of Color Isn’t New
by Jonathan Adams on February 29 2008, 11:37AM
From Alternet When I read about the increasing acceptance of waterboarding as a form of torture, I vividly recall how in 1968 members of the Memphis Police Department believed I could tell them information about civil rights insurgents arriving to…
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Activists go to UN to Discuss Racial Discrimination in Chicago
by Terry Keleher on February 22 2008, 12:00PM
A delegation of Chicago activists are in Geneva, Switzerland to demand that the U.N. consider human rights violations in Chicago in light of Mayor Daley’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. The Chicago activists are part of a broader delegation demanding…
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US Should Stay at the Table for the UN Racism Conference
by Guest Columnist on January 24 2008, 9:52AM
by Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario No doubt that the first United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa was wrought with controversy in 2001, and it appears already that its follow up Durban II will be also. Although former U.N. Secretary…
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Simplifying Pakistan and Kenya
by Guest Columnist on January 15 2008, 2:34PM
by Thanu Yakupitiyage In late December, the world was captivated by raw coverage of catastrophic political events. In Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, former President of two terms and candidate in the 2008 Pakistani elections, was assassinated after a rally in the…
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by Guest Columnist on December 11 2007, 1:55PM
International Human Rights Day was marked by the release of bold and telling human rights reports on the state of racial discrimination in the United States. But will the reports be just another testament to centuries of human rights violations…
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Avoiding Race, Sarkozy Blames France Riots on ‘Thugocracy’
by Megan Izen on December 3 2007, 8:21AM
Sadly, it’s not surprising that in the aftermath of the second round of French riots in two years, President Sarkozy unabashedly reveals the deep-seeded racism that plagues France (and the rest of the world). Just a few months ago, Sarkozy…
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The thing with Brazil, a follow-up
by Malena Amusa on July 18 2007, 12:51PM
So guys, I don’t mind sticking my neck out sometimes to get to the heart of issues, and the other day, I made a stretch when analyzing Brazil’s racial dynamics. Read: “Apartheid in Brazil—Will we ever see past Brazil’s pretty?”…
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Apartheid in Brazil— Will we ever see past Brazil’s pretty?
by Malena Amusa on July 16 2007, 1:12PM
Why are people so slow to admit that apartheid exists in Brazil? Today, I ran across an article that made my point. When the media covers it at all, it seems to grapple with the concept of baked-in racism in…
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