via Mobilizing Ideas, a blog of The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame Marshall Ganz calls Occupy a moment, but we have a history and a future. My generation, in North America, was birthed over 12 years ago, in the streets of Seattle, when trade unionists joined with [...]
I saw the most amazing play yesterday. I left the theater, feeling chilled, with prickles erupting across my skin. Of course, this being Berkeley, two elder women, white with gray hair, exited ahead of me, talking loudly: “Well, there were so many problems…with the wardrobe. I mean, really! First, Irina’s dress wasn’t pressed.” “No, really?” [...]
via Colorlines.com It’s been one year since the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, which dumped 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Desperation has set among the communities of color impacted by the toxic oil spill. Earlier this year, an audience listening to the BP compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg was astounded when [...]
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.
Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.