Colonialism

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Human Rights, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Barka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 5, 2018 The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation. “If human rights are to have any incredibility, any “universal” applicability, any value, they must be seized from the barbaric grip of European and[…]

Puerto Rico Tribunal Verdict: U.S. Is Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity

October 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Featured, Protest, Puerto Rico

Image: Header from Puerto Rico Tribunal Facebook Page Editor’s note: This post is composed of information from the Puerto Rico Tribunal Facebook Page, from information circulated by the Black Alliance for Peace, and from posts on The International Action Center ( IAC) website (prologue) and Popular Resistance Newsletter (followup). The following is a summary of the indictment prepared by Agusto[…]

The Military Occupation of US Black Communities & The Age of AFRICOM

September 4, 2018 UNAC Editor Militarism, Racism

Local and National Activists Gather to Address Problem of Police Militarization and Violence in Baltimore “Impunity is defined as “exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action,” and is precisely what defines the war on poor black and brown people being waged by the frontline troops in that war – the police forces – from Baltimore[…]

Interview with Puerto Rican Revolutionary Activists

July 26, 2018 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Puerto Rico

Photo: Yasmin Morales Torres, 41, washes laundry by hand in her yard in Playa El Negro, a neighborhood in the town of Yabucoa. As of March the area had still been without power since the storm. Interview By Mike Larson Translation By Azza Rojbi first published on Fire This Time, “We are the best example of the disaster that has[…]

White Lies and Black Disbelief in a Fading Empire

April 20, 2018 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Racism, Syria

by Glen Ford, originally published on Black Agenda Report “What would prevent Russia from attacking the United States because of all the people that the United States is killing in our communities.” Having already violated every tenet of international law in its proxy jihadist war against Syria, including the seizure of one-third of the country, the United States invoked a[…]

Myanmar’s colonial history feeds current crisis of Rohingyas, Saudi Arabia and U.S.

October 27, 2017 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars

Originally Posted on The International Action Center Website. The current corporate media attention to the abuses suffered by the mostly Muslim Rohingya people who have crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh has raised questions as to what is really going on. Background information about the history of Myanmar is essential to an understanding. First called Burma, the name was changed in[…]

Puerto Rico Shock and Awe Exposing Capitalism’s Criminality

October 4, 2017 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire

by Raymond Nat Turner, Poet in Residence at Black Agenda Report Water is life…and Saliva’s even in short supply… for drum-tight mouths, sandpaper throats. Yodeling bellies cave in on spines, as evil scents of sewage and death float in, Remaking an island into a spreadsheet. Cell towers, power lines tumbled like legos—electricity’s a distant memory—[…]