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The new show Watershed will be posted Wednesday January 19th, 2011 and will feature an interview with Professor Frank B. Wilderson III.  Frank B. Wilderson, III is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist, revolutionary, and filmmaker.   He is the author of two thought provoking books entitled Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and Red, [...]

We are witnessing an unprecedented surge in racism against Muslims in the US.  There is a real fear among US Muslims that if there’s a successful terrorist attack on Americans, particularly on US soil, we will surely face pogroms and detention centers.  The growth of the Far Right and, more specifically, the Tea Party over the [...]

It sounds like something the IMF would have funded during the regime of General Banzer: a super highway cutting across Bolivia, linking Brazil with Peru and Chile—and thus with East Asian markets, and in the process plowing straight through a vitally important nature reserve that also happens to be the home of three indigenous nations. [...]

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The recent visit of two AfroColumbians to the Boggs Center started me thinking dialectically about the paradigm shift in the concept and practice of Solidarity made necessary and possible by corporate globalization. In 1997 these AfroColumbians, members of a small farming community in Araba, Colombia, were among those displaced when a joint paramilitary and U.S.-backed [...]

Issues surrounding the CPI (Maoist) have acquired an important place in the political debates on contemporary India. By estimates of the Government of India, the Maoists have their presence in about 220 of 626 districts of the country. While the ruling dispensation, including most mainstream political parties, paint the Maoists, to use the famous expression [...]

We have been meeting for several days now discussing extremely important matters for the future of the nation. This time, in addition to our customary work in commissions, the deputies have met in plenary with the purpose of analysing the details of the current economic situation, as well as the budgetary proposals and the economic [...]

Looking at how US officials have privately assessed press freedom in  Venezuela provides a good way to judge their ability to put ideology aside when  they analyze Venezuela – and reality in general. It’s easy to judge the  extent to which anti-government views can be expressed in Venezuela and – most  crucially – reach a [...]

Unsettling America is a new political project and an outgrowth of the Unsettling Minnesota, a collective of non-Dakota people working in solidarity towards decolonization in the Dakota homelands in Minnesota. The goal of Unsettling America is to document the praxis of decolonizing the “Americas,” with an particular eye towards the land that are colonially known as “Canada” and [...]

Sometimes I wonder what people who get riled up about immigration would do if they actually knew how the laws worked, instead of relying on the lies that have been spun into conventional wisdom. Utah State Rep. Stephen Sandstrom wants Utah to pass a SB1070-style law that would drive undocumented immigrants further into the shadows. [...]