5.16.01 confronting internalized oppression

Freedom Summer: A School for Young Community Organizers

Authors: Maile Kaneko

Summary:Youth conduct power analyses of policies and institutions that specifically affect people of color and poor communities.

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Potato Chip Assisted Learning: The Quest to Return Literature to Teens

Authors: Maya Gaul

Summary:When literature is negated from a community, young people lose an important means of creating and carrying their own tools of success, and imagining their own future.

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Brick by Brick: Prisoners Use Writing to Find Freedom

Breaking Out Of Prison cover
Authors: Judith McDaniel

Summary:

"I must say that writing is a lot safer and much more productive than doing drugs."

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"We're All Feminists": Solidarity with HIV Positive Women in West Africa

Woman with Fight Global AIDS poster
Authors: Sarah Mukasa

Summary:There is no stopping us. We're here to stay. We're here to speak out.

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The Tyranny of Tyranny

Homeless women at St. Patrick's shelter in Somerville MA protest against Catholic Charities cancelling onsite HIV/AIDS education programs and access to condoms, as well as the firing of the program director, Gayle Basten, November 16, 1991. Photo: © Ellen
Authors: Cathy Levine

Summary:

Small groups aren't the problem. They're the solution.

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Passionate About Books - and Social Justice

Reading in Chilean Recycling Cooperative, November 2007. PHOTO: © MARTA ESCOTET
Authors: Gustavus Myers Center

Summary:

The 2007 Gustavus Myers Book Awards by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

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A Politics of Inclusion: An Interview with Egyptian Democracy Advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Following a fire in the Qale't el-Kabsh slum of Cairo, residents were promised replacement housing and compensation, but many received nothing. After a prosecutor told residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights that they would not pursue
Authors: Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Summary:

Women got upset and marched to the Royal Palace. The King called me and said, 'Saad, do you see what is happening?' I said, 'Yes, but that is democracy, your Majesty.'

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The Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change

Authors: A coalition of Syrian democrats

Summary:

The process of change has begun. It is not directed against anyone, but requires everyone's efforts.

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006
Authors: Ammar Abdulhamid

Summary:

We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

Majora Carter
Authors: Majora Carter

Summary:

The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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