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Centenary of the Russian Revolution
(October 2017) 

"One Hundred Years"―Poem by Steve Bloom

Click here for the text of the poem

We are debuting  this poem on October 7, 2017, as part of a collaborative on-line project with the following websites around the world: stevebloompoetry.net; Links, Australia; International Viewpoint; Ecosocialist Horizons; Lalit, Mauritius;  Radical Socialist, India;  Socialist Party, Sweden;  xspiritmental.com;  Jozi Book Fair, South Africa;  janinebooth.com; Workers Liberty,…

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click here to learn about our campaign to bring hip hop art and healing to Rikers. Urban Art Beat and a new black arts movement have a team of dedicated mentors raising our own funds to bring ourselves and critical revolutionary hip hop pedagogy directly to an LGBTQ youth house on site. link to article https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/02/new-york-rikers-island-jail-closure-inmates?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=220079&subid=18921906&CM …

ACTIVISTS ANGELA DAVIS ASSATA SHAKUR BLACK HERSTORY BLACK PANTHER PARTY BLACK POWER CIVIL RIGHTS SAY IT LOUD: 9 BLACK WOMEN IN THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

 

by Melody Blossom

This semester, I was part of a course that focused on radical women in social movements. We studied the Black Power Movement, the Black Panther Party (BPP), and the involvement of women during this time.


The Black Panther Party, founded in the 1960s, was notorious for being a revolutionary…

A Young Radical’s View of Marriage

A University of Michigan study[1] found that becoming a wife creates seven added hours of housework per week for women. For men, housework decreases by one hour per week after marriage. Another way to say this is that gender roles some like to claim are dead are in fact alive and well. The study took a "nationally representative" sample of couples (including, presumably, some who believed they were flouting the division of labor) and relied on time-diary data from 2005.

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maroon leadership.

it'll be a testament to our historical memory banks to see if we can fill our minds with the deposited ideas of Fidel. as generations pass, what will our youth remember. our society is crippled and enabled by symbolism, conquistador reminders of who's street this is?, what monument is claimed? what named coined this or that foundation/institution? 
even pass this dimension. a soul like Fidel challenges us to revolutionize our minds. remember not to forget. our…

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it is more evolved to discuss the colour of your ideology than the colour of your skin. throughout your lifetimes, it is unrealistic to know or even believe what you were then in relation to who you have become to appear now. i can admire your pigmentation, your melanin and respect your lack thereof. for my eyes (all three of them), the evolution of your soul is of more significance. so let us evolve through a maroon ideology to determine whether the colour of your skin is relevant towards prefiguring a…

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peace and unconditional revolutionary love 

a resistance grows in brooklyn…and the many worlds

resistance hasn’t the privilege of rest.

she speaks through the wind. traveling at the pace of a snail with the urgency of a panther.

as disappointing as it all may appear, no matter the expectations, 

as revolutionaries we should expect but one thing - and that is to be disappointed.

this can be an uncomfortable reality however comfort breeds ignorance and naivety. comfort lulls us to an apathetic sleep or a…

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first workshop today with youth in prison in Belgium. no other place i'd rather set off this tour. from our Ed Unit of A New Black Arts Movement the Urban Art Beat wing, prefiguring our presence at Rikers to now here. makes sense. what doesn't make too much sense are the uncomfortable parallels of reality. today's population, "youth of color" i don't use this term, however to unify and relate. some could say or would say oppressed youth. these are maroon youth. specifically from Morocco, Iraq, Cape…

 

Rise In Power Majesty peace and unconditional revolutionary love

i don't have answers only more questions. it is hard to accept, it is difficult to believe, it is unbelievable to process. a brilliant energetic and vibrant being. a truth. a light. a gemini twin ;). a fire untamed. a comrade. fierce warrior emcee. a revolutionary that stood for what he cared for and urged others to fight. a rebel rouser. a beautiful. challenging challenger. champion of self. our friend.…

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