Resources
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African Ancestral Lesbians United For Social Change
- Afrekete : An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing, by Catherine E. McKinley. Random House, 1995. ISBN 0-3854735-5-9.
- Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories, edited by Lisa C. Moore. Washington: Redbone Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9656659-0-9.
- The Bull-Jean Stories, by Sharon Bridgforth. Washington: Redbone Press, 1998. ISBN 0-9656659-1-7.
Andolan- Organizing South Asian Workers
Click here for the Andolan website
Audre Lorde Project
Black Radical Congress
BlackOut Arts Collective
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities & Coalition to Preserve Community
Columbia's Expansion:
[Spectator Article: "COMMUNITY BLASTS CU FOR SECRECY, EVASIVENESS"]
[City Limits Weekly: "Expand and Contract"]
Columbia Spectator: University Senate Discusses Manhattanville Expansion in Depth
Columbia Spectator: Neighbors Voice Concerns About Columbia Expansion
Columbia Spectator: Community Board Debates Subway, Post Office Concerns
[Spectator Expansion Articles]
197-A Plan Seeks to Set Framework
Gentrification in Harlem:
[New York Times: Retailers have Harlem on Their Minds]
[New York Times: In Columbia Growth Plan, Ghosts of '68]
[City Limits: Open University]
Columbia Students Hold Town Hall Discussion
United for an Open and Strong Community
['"The Gentrification of Harlem?'"]
By Richard Schaffer; Neil Smith
Annals of the Association of American Geographers > Vol. 76, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), pp. 347-365
['"Gentrification and Displacement: New York City in the 1990s'"]
By Lance Freeman
'"Psychiatric implications of displacement: Contributions from the psychology of place'"]]
By Mindy Fullilove
Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem
By Eric K. Washington
Listening to Harlem: Gentrification, Community and Business. By David Maurrasse
[Student Coalition on Expansin and Gentrification]
Critical Resistance
News and Articles http://www.criticalresistance.org/index.php?name=pt_whats_new
Domestic Workers United
Related Links
"Domestic Workers United homepage
"Summary of Proposed Domestic Worker Legislation
"Domestic Workers United Standard Contract
"Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers Homepage
"CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Homepage
"Damayan Migrant Workers Association Homepage
Facing History and Ourselves
News Articles
- Helping Students Face History Click here to read about how a teacher in California observed positive changes in her classroom after using Facing History
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2002/2002_09_18.history18.html
- Breaking the Silence Click here to read about how Facing History helped "break the silence" in a classroom allowing students to have productive discussions about race realations in the United States
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0312le1.htm
- Eugenics in MA Click here to read about one more reason Facing History is necessary. This article describes a eugenics program administered in Massachusetts in 1928!
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/special1/eugenics_1202.shtml
Websites
- Facing History and Ourselves
http://www,facing.org
- Facing History and Ourselves: On-line Classroom Click here to access all of Facing History's on-line resources including upcoming events and teacher trainings
http://www.facinghistorycampus.org
- Facing History and Ourselves: On-line Lessons Click here to go straight to the on-line lessons
http://www.facinghistorycampus.org/campus/reslib.nsf/newbieresources?openform
- South Africa Partners Click here to learn more about South Africa and programs creating productive partnerships between the United States and South Africa
http://www.sapartners.org
Organizations
Here is a list of organizations invloved in work similar to Facing History but for a more complete list of social justice organizations please visit: Organizations.
- Educators for Social Responsibility
23 Garden Street
Cambridge,MA 02138
(800) 370-2515
Web site: www.esrnational.org
- Teaching Tolerance
400 Washington Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36104
(334) 264-0286
Web site: www.splcenter.org
- A World of Difference Institute
The Anti-Defamation League
823 United Nations Plaza
New York,NY 10017
(212) 885-7800
Web site: www.adl.org
- History Through Hip Hop
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Web site: www.epamap.org
INCITE!
INCITE! National Website
- http://www.incite-national.org
- Contact: incite_national@yahoo.com
- INCITE! E-mail List
Affiliate Organization: Sista II Sista http://www.sistaiisista.org
International Hip-Hop Exchange
Check out these links for coverage of past IHX events:
[http://www.nacla.org/art_display.php?art=2018 Review at North American Congress on Latin America]
[http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?secc=4&cont=music/num23/01.htm 10 Years of Havana Hip Hop Festival from CubaNow]
IHX Contact Information
IHXChange@aol.com
Jobs With Justice NYC
Massachusetts
Massachusetts JwJ exists in two branches statewide, one covering the eastern and the other covering the western portions of the state. Recently, Eastern Mass JwJ hosted a "solidarity school" with international activists to solidify connections between activist groups and to develop organizing skills.
New York
New York JWJ is comprised of seven labor and faith-based coalitions from across New York State. One of their most recent campaigns fought to obtain a union contract on behalf of hospital workers in Newburgh, New York.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's JwJ organizations are directed toward labor activism in Philadelphia and Erie. Recently, they co-sponsored the public performance of a dramatized version of Barbara Ehrenreich's book, "Nickle and Dimed," in downtown Philadelphia.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island JwJ exists in one organization located in Providence. The organization's recent work has focused on participating in a healthcare rally that mobilized 60,000 workers across the Northeast.
Vermont
Vermont JwJ is concentrated in one organization based in Montpelier. Recently, Vermont JwJ conducted a series of town hall meetings to inform community residents about the impact of outsourcing on Vermont's economy.
Georgia
The Georgia JwJ coalition consists of two organizations located in Atlanta. Their most critical work has focused on organizing the 5,000 workers at the Smithfield Processing Plant in Tar Heel, NC, whom local police assaulted during their efforts to form a union.
Florida
The Florida JwJ branch includes two divisions, one operating out of Orlando and the other out of Miami. In conjunction with UNITE!, Florida JwJ has aided in workers' two-year struggle to win a union contract from a body armor manufacturer based in the state.
Kentucky
Kentucky JwJ exists in one organization operating out of Louisville. Kentucky JwJ recently hosted a conference to encourage delegates to form Workers' Rights Boards that disseminate information about labor law and the problems facing workers within the current legal system.
North Carolina
North Carolina JwJ exists in one branch located in Durham. One of their recent campaigns pledged to assist employees of the Hillside High School in Durham after they were dismissed from their positions without legitimate reason.
Tennessee
Tennessee JwJ exists in two branches located in Knoxville and Nashville. Recently, the Nashville branch mobilized community support around striking UAW workers in Madison, Tennessee, in their successful attempt to win a wage increase from a local truck manufacturing company.
Illinois
Illinois JwJ operates out of a central organization comprised of three offices located in Chicago. Among its other activities, Illinois JwJ is part of an ongoing effort to prevent Wal-Mart from opening a store on Chicago's West Side.
Indiana
Indianapolis JwJ draws on the strength of two organizations located in Osceola and Indianapolis. One of their recent activities has been to host screenings and discussions of the documentary "At the River I Stand" about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in local communities.
Michigan
Michigan JwJ is centralized in one organization located in Detroit. Recently, Detroit JwJ joined with JwJ coalitions in Philadelphia and Chicago in pressuring the Starbuck's Corporation to rescind its contract with a laundry services company that employs its workers in sweatshop conditions.
Missouri
Missouri JwJ coordinates its efforts with the St. Louis Branch of SEIU. In one of its recent campaigns, Missouri JwJ won a major victory in obtaining reinstitution and full back pay for an exemplary whistleblower who was fired from her job at a mental hospital for publicly exposing its poor treatment of its patients.
Wisconsin
The Wisconsin JwJ Coalition unites the efforts of labor and faith-based organizations located in Milwaukee. One of Wisconsin JwJ's recent campaigns put community pressure on the management of a Wauwatosa, WI, food chain to restore healthcare benefits, pay cuts, and a full union contact to employees.
Arizona
Arizona JwJ consists of one organization based in Tucson. Arizona JwJ recently united with other community-based organizations to demand that American West Airlines stop intimidating its 3,700 workers who are trying to merge with the Teamsters Union.
Colorado
Colorado JwJ is comprised of one organization based in Englewood. Colorado JwJ has added their strength to the effort to provide adequate healthcare benefits to airport workers in Colorado, a struggle that has united the energies of seven different unions and community organizations throughout the state.
New Mexico
JwJ's efforts in New Mexico are based in one organization operating out of Albuquerque. While still in its first year, New Mexico JwJ contributed to a major victory for laundry workers seeking better pay rates and union recognition from the Mission Laundry Co. in Albuquerque.
Texas
Texas JwJ consists of three main committees located in Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. Texas JwJ seems to be reorganizing its website, and thus no information is available on-line. For phone contact, follow the link below.
Utah
Utah JwJ exists in one central organization based in Salt Lake City. Utah JwJ has been instrumental in rallying support for mine workers at the Kingston mine in Huntingdon, Utah, where Mexican workers are paid only $5.25-$7 an hour without health insurance in conditions that resulted in the recent deaths of three mine workers over a seven-year period.
California
California JwJ consists of two committees based in Oakland and San Jose. The organization is still in its formative stages and has not yet become involved in any campaigns. To contact California JwJ representatives, follow this link:
Montana
Montana JwJ consists of one committee located in Missoula. Among its other activities, Montana JwJ has concentrated on building bridges between environmental and labor organizations in Montana, which have frequently taken opposite sides on important issues in state politics.
Oregon
Oregon Jobs with Justice consists of four main branches located in the cities of Bend, Eugene, Salem, and Portland. Oregon JwJ has launched a major campaign to inform workers, elected officials, and the general public of working peoples' right to form a union in the face of Portland employers' illegal attempts to counter union activity.
Washington
Washington Jobs with Justice consists of one branch located in Seattle. Washington JwJ recently coordinated a statewide effort to prevent the sale of Darigold Company products in retaliation for the company's refusal to negotiate with its unionized employees, who have been locked out of their jobs since 2003.
MADRE
Looking for more information on MADRE or the designers of this site? Look below for contacts:
Designers:
Toi Carrion: tc2169@barnard.edu
Armond Adams: aa2125@columbia.edu
Vanessa Anderson: vanessanderson@gmail.com
MADRE Contacts:
MADRE
121 West 27th Street, # 301
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 627-0444
Fax: (212) 675-3704
To email MADRE, please select the relevant department:
Africa Department
africa@madre.org
Latin America and the Caribbean Department
lac@madre.org
Middle East Department
middle_east@madre.org
Fundraising Department
fundraising@madre.org
Media Department
media@madre.org
The MADRE Medical Project and Helping Hands Campaign
meds@madre.org
Publications and Human Rights Advocacy
publiced_advocacy@madre.org
Speaking Engagements
speakers@madre.org
Voyages with a Vision
travel@madre.org
Internships
internships@madre.org
Volunteers and Sisters Without Borders
volunteers@madre.org
Beijing+10
beijing10@madre.org
General Inquiries
madre@madre.org
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
WHY WE NEED A MALCOLM X GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT
THE MALCOLM X PROJECT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Millions for Reparations
Links:
- N'COBRA: National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
- African Reparations Movement
- United Nations World Conference Against Racism
- Congressman John Conyers Jr'swebsite studying reparations proposals
- Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid: The Case for Black Reparations by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
- Radio Reports on Reparations] from National Public Radio (NPR)
- No Masses, No Movement by Adamma Ince
- Forty Acres and a Mule: Video clips of leading scholars discussing the case for reparations
- An Idea Whose Time Has Come by Manning Marable
- The Case for Reparations by Amiri Bakara
- The Master's Tools by Rhonda V. Magee
- The "Black Manifesto" and the Tactic of Objectification by Jerry K. Frye
- The Economic Case for Reparations to Black America by Robert S. Browne
- The Slavery Reparation Center of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives
- CURE (Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation)
(Note: Contains articles both for and against reparations.)
Bibliography:
- Ernest Allen Jr. and Robert Chrisman, “Ten reasons: A response to David Horowitz,” Black Scholar 31, no. 2 (Summer 2001).
- Robert L. Allen, “Past Due: The African American Quest for Reparations,” Black Scholar 28, no. 2 (1998): 2-17.
- Boris Bitker, The Case for Black Reparations (1973).
- Roy L. Brooks, ed. When Sorry Isn't Enough: the Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. (1999).
- William Darity, Jr. “Forty Acres and a Mule: Placing a Price Tag on Oppression,” in Richard F. America, ed., The Wealth of Races: The Present Value of Benefits from Past Injustices. (1990).
- Joe R. Feagin, Racist America (2000)
- Robin D.G. Kelley. Freedom Dreams, Chapter 4. (2002).
- Robert S. Lecky and H. Elliott Wright, eds. Black Manifesto: Religion, Racism, and Reparations. (1969).
- Clarence J. Munford, Race and Reparations: A Black Perspective for the 21st Century. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1996.
- Randall Robinson. The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. (2001).
- Raymond Winbush, ed., Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations (2003).
- Marable, Manning. “An Idea Whose Time Has Come”. Newsweek 27 Aug. 2001. Page 22 paragraph 7 and 11.
And don't forget to visit Millions for Reparations!
Prison Moratorium Project
One cannot be an advocate for civil rights, social justice, or democracy without acknowledging the crisis that is America's prison system. Wake Up and Get Involved with the Prison Moratorium Project!
For more information about PMP's workshops, go here: (PMP website on workshops)
Contact the Prison Moratorium Project for more ways to get involved:
E-mail: info@nomoreprisons.org'
Telephone: (718) 260-8805
Fax: (718) 260-0070
388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Global
Prashad, Vijay. The Karma of Brown Folk. Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, 2000.