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Women’s Strike for Peace – Vietnam War
The Mandate for 1992: Resistance – Bobby Castillo (1992)
This piece was published in the 1992 program of the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA. Bobby Castillo, the author of the mandate as well as the coordinator of the International…
Slavery Exists! Miss America is a Slave to:
In 1968, 200 feminist activists protested at the Miss America Pageant, symbolically trashing items that enabled domination of women, such as bras, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, and more. The protestors saw the pag…
Malcolm X Liberation University: Collection of News Articles
In October of 1969, the Malcolm X Liberation Univeristy was founded byHoward Fuller and other prominent Black activists. The creation of the university was inspired by Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism, of which Malco…
Life Without Men: The 4B Movement
Many South Korean women are rejecting traditional patriarchal structures and refusing to engage sexually with men.
The Yellow Jacket Movement: France 2018
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary French citizens put on their high-visibility vests as a response to President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax hike.
Political Prisoners and Lesbian Resistance – Jennie McKnight (1989)
This 1989 interview from Gay Community News features political activists Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, and Susan Rosenberg, who were imprisoned for conspiracy. In the interview, they share their experiences as activist…
Soviet Churches and Schools (1919)
Nikolai Bukharin – a Bolshevik revolutionary – discusses the need for not only economic liberation but also spiritual liberation of the working class and its party. He asserts that religion is a detriment to the workers’…
Statement for International Women’s Day Demonstration – Judy Clark (n.d.)
This statement by Judy Clark, a member of the Weather Underground and May 19th Communist Organization, celebrates International Women’s Day and advocates for direct action against U.S.-led imperialism. She rejects reform…
Message to the Tricontinental by Che Guevara (1967)
Che Guevara’s Message to the Tricontinental was a seminal work for the 1960s global movement against imperialism through its expression of solidarity between all colonized people of the world. Its words and sentiment wer…
ActUP Activists Lock Al Gore Out of Office
On August 23, 1997, Five activists were arrested after locking down the Old Executive Office Building to deny Al Gore access to proceed with his U.S.-South Africa deal on pharmaceutical access.
Manifesto of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)
The Industrial Workers of the World is a worker-led union advocating for and working towards direct action, democracy in the workplace, and unionism. This manifesto explains the power of collective membership since capit…
“We are an honorable people – can you say the same?” (1973)
This document was written by the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1973. It states their solidarity with the occupation of Wounded Knee. It is written for the United States government. It addresses the destruction and…
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair (1906)
Art Front Magazine (1937)
The Art Front was a magazine first published by the Artists Union of New York as a response to Nelson Rockefeller’s destruction of a mural by Diego Rivera in 1934. Politically, the Artists Union and the magazine were ali…
Women! Join Our Celebration of Independence – Bread and Roses (n.d.)
This document is a call to action, urging women to join a movement led by Bread and Roses, a socialist women’s liberation group, on International Women’s Day in Boston, Massachusetts. The flyer presents a declaration of…
Palestinian Children: The Generation of Liberation (1970)
“Palestinian Children: The Generation of Liberation” is a sociological study by Bassem Sirhan, published by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) research center in 1970. The study focused on the liberation tacti…
Sarayaku Court Case(2012)
The indigenous people of Sarayaku were faced with a devastating loss in 1996. The Ecuadorean state gave away a large part of their land to an oil company without consulting the people that were living there. In 2002, thi…
SCUM Manifesto (1967)
The SCUM Manifesto describes all the flaws associated with male created society, and Valerie Solanas’ rationale for ridding society of all men.
Congolese Independence Speech by Patrice Lumumba (1966)
Given by Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba shortly after the independence of the Republic of Congo in 1966, the Congolese Independence Speech was most praised for its critique of colonialism and imperialism. Withi…Related Posts:
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