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Russia-Ukraine: Western Media Are Acting As Cheerleaders for War
by The CNCL Team | Mar 5, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Right now, we need voices from Russia to understand what Putin thinks and wants, not what the BBC’s “chief international correspondents” think he wants. We need information sources ready to quickly challenge both western and Russian “fake news”. And most of all we need to stop with our racist view of the world, in which we are always the Good Guys and they are always the Bad Guys, and in which our suffering matters and the suffering of others doesn’t.
Read MoreFifteen Thoughts on Palestine
by The CNCL Team | May 15, 2021 | Human Society | 0
#1 – You don’t get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That’s not a thing.
Read MoreOthering & Belonging: An Interview with john a. powell
by The CNCL Team | Jul 21, 2020 | Human Society | 0
john a. powell is one of the foremost public intellectuals in the areas of civil rights, racism, ethnicity, housing and poverty.
Read More‘They’re Trying to Kill Us’: A New Documentary about Racism and Food Justice
by The CNCL Team | Jun 26, 2020 | Uncategorized | 0
A new documentary starring prolific advocate Bad Ass Vegan (aka John Lewis) will focus on racism, disease, and food justice.
Read MoreMLK and the Ghost of an Untrue Dream
by The CNCL Team | Jan 24, 2020 | Human Society | 0
In his keynote address for the Civil Rights Movement’s March on Washington, DC in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his despair and disappointment that a century after emancipation, freedom still was not a lived reality in the United States of America
Read MoreDiversity Makes Countries Stronger in the Long Run, New Research Shows
by The CNCL Team | Jul 25, 2019 | Human Society | 0
New research shows that, despite initial resistance, humans can cope with the documented challenges of diversity. It also shows that, by focusing only on the short term, we may draw an inaccurate, pessimistic conclusion about the impact of diversity. An increase in diversity offers the opportunity for members of different groups to engage in contact, get to know each other, and cooperate. And when this occurs, this positive effect of diversity trumps the initial challenges.
Read MoreFor Healthy Communities, Look Beyond Diet and Exercise
by The CNCL Team | Jul 25, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Written by Jay Walljasper / Yes! Magazine Improving health for everyone starts with addressing...
Read More5 Years Later: No Indictments in Choking Death of Eric Garner
by The CNCL Team | Jul 22, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Attorney and activist Kamau Franklin says the decision not to bring civil or criminal charges against NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the murder of Eric Garner is an example of the criminal justice system working as intended.
Read MoreSystemic Violence and the Mental Health Industrial Complex
by The CNCL Team | Jun 10, 2019 | Human Society, Personal | 0
A recent paper, by Dr. Eric Greene, builds upon critiques of the biomedical model and illustrates how the mental health industrial complex overmedicates, stigmatizes, and creates long-lasting iatrogenic effects for those most marginalized in society.
Read MoreVenezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Crosshairs of US Imperialism
by The CNCL Team | Jun 7, 2019 | Human Society | 0
This article explores the contributions, shortcomings, and lessons of the Bolivarian Revolution’s two decades, in the context of the US regime-change efforts from its inception to current attempts by the US to install the unelected Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president.
Read MoreBernie Sanders Links Hitler’s Murder of His Family to His Fight Against Occupation of Palestinians
by The CNCL Team | Jun 5, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Bernie Sanders weighed in yesterday with a forceful message that connects the murder of his own family by the Nazis to his fight against the crushing, humiliating military occupation by Israel of Palestine.
Read MoreDon’t Give J. Edgar Hoover a Posthumous Victory in his Attempts to Assassinate Dr. King’s Character
by The CNCL Team | May 30, 2019 | Human Society | 0
For seven and half years from 1960 to April 4, 1968, I was privileged to serve Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a political advisor and subsequently as his personal lawyer and draft speech writer. With assistance from Jonathan D. Greenberg, co-founder with me of the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice, the following is my response to the current publicized statements by author David Garrow about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read MoreIn Prison for 37 Years, Mumia Abu Jamal Finally Has the Right to Defend Himself. When Will He Finally Be Released?
by The CNCL Team | May 14, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Mumia Abu Jamal just turned 65. Known as “The Voice of the Voiceless”, he has spent most of his life in prison – 37 years now – after his death sentence in 1982. “A vindictive trial” as denounced by his supporters around the world.
Read More8 Must-Reads by Women Who Take on White Supremacy and Patriarchal Power
by The CNCL Team | Mar 21, 2019 | Human Society | 0
These authors pull no punches in tackling head-on the topics of race, gender, and justice.
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