The latest issue of "Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education" is just out from Anti-Racist Action-L.A./People Against Racist Terror, Volume 23, Number 4, October-December 2010.
The issue features "We Are All Oscar Grant!" by Shango Abiola of the Black Riders Liberation Party, with a news update on the street protests in Los Angeles over the police killing of a Guatemalan Maya day laborer, along with an article and comic strip about disappearances and extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. Teacher and solidarity activist Mabie Settlage and her associate, Haitian educator Osprival Descomme, contribute a piece on "Haiti: Agony and Courage," countering paternalism in aid efforts since the massive quake in Port au Prince with eyewitness accounts of the Haitian people's efforts and their history of resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism. The issue includes an interview conducted on Death Row with journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal by Clothilde Le Coz of Reporters without Borders. The newly amended Four Points of Unity of the Anti-Racist Action are printed for the first time (adding Islamophobia and systemic police abuse and repression to the ills challenged by ARA), along with a new feature, "Rumors," a blotter of antifa and antiracist actions in the recent period. There is also a piece by Russian antifas about the "No Surrender" Mixed Martial Arts Tournament, the third annual carried out by anti-fascists, and a piece by Flint on the "Iroquois Nationals, Nationalism, and Exception." An expose by WBAI producer Bill Weinberg of ways in which his station and the Pacifica network have swallowed the poison bait of fascist-oriented conspiracists and anti-Semitic "populists" like David Icke is paired with endorsements for an anti-racist slate of grassroots activists running for Local Station Board at Pacifica's LA affiliate, KPFK 90.7 FM (including TTT editor Michael Novick). Finally, the issue includes PART's Perspective" "Will the Real Fascist Please Stand Up? Seizing the Initiative Against the Empire" by Michael Novick of ARA-LA/PART, and an editorial retraction and self-criticism of several pieces in past issues of "Turning the Tide," motivated by a critical analysis made by Rose City Antifa (RCA), the Portland OR affiliate of the ARA Network of anti-Semitic sources, associations and lines of argument in that material. Free sample issues of "Turning the Tide" are available (in the US) on request from ARA-LA/PART at 310-495-0299, <mailto:antiracistaction...@yahoo.com>antiracistaction...@yahoo.com, or by mail at PO Box 1055, Culver City CA 90232. An annual subscription is $16 ($26 foreign or institutional) payable to "Anti-Racist Action" at the above PO Box. PS Don't forget to vote for Aryana Gladney, Lawrence Reyes, Michael Novick, Brenda Medina, Chuck Anderson, Lydia Brazon and Ron Spreisterbach for KPFK Local Station Board this month! ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
