More than 50 years after he lost his life serving as a peacemaker in the South Bronx, the intersection of East 165 Street and Rogers Place in Longwood has been officially renamed Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin Way. — Read on http://www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/03/black-benjie-ghetto-brothers-gangs-hoe-avenue-peace-treaty-south-bronx-longwood/
Author Archives: aidarends
Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)
It often happens that long ballads become whittled down into short lyrical songs. The dwindling of Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship into I Gave My Love a Cherry is a case in point. So too some forgotten narrative ballad of the return of a ghostly lover has survived as a lyrical fragment that sometimes turns up as aContinue reading “Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)”
From Okinawa to Palestine: How the US military machine connects occupied territories | Middle East Eye
The shared experience of settler-colonial dispossession and western military aggression helps explain why Okinawans see themselves in Palestinians — Read on http://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/okinawa-palestine-how-us-military-machine-connects-occupied-territories
Ilan Pappé, The Collapse of Zionism — Sidecar
Six signs of breakdown. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-collapse-of-zionism
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22
What, then, might it mean to bear witness and stand with and stand for in our times of ordinary and catastrophic violence? Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe passes resolution calling for ceasefire, aid in Palestine
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe passed a historic resolution earlier this month that called for an “immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine.” — Read on http://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2024/06/12/cheyenne-river-sioux-tribe-passes-resolution-calling-ceasefire-aid-palestine/
Becoming Kwame Ture – ROAPE
In Guinea, doors fly open at the mere mention of Kwame Ture’s name. A senior government minister met me within a few hours’ notice. And when I arrived at Villa Syli to meet a member of Sékou Touré’s old party, the PDG (Parti démocratique de Guinée), I was unexpectedly ushered into a luxurious salon, whereContinue reading “Becoming Kwame Ture – ROAPE”
Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22 – Mondoweiss
Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/06/columbia-university-hinds-hall-defendants-reject-deals-in-solidarity-with-the-cuny-22/
Breed, Chiu gave right-wing Supreme Court ammunition to criminalize poverty – 48 hills
At least eight times in his decision for the right-wing majority, Justice Neal Gorsuch cited a brief filed by City Attorney David Chiu and endorsed by Mayor London Breed. — Read on 48hills.org/2024/06/breed-chiu-gave-right-wing-supreme-court-ammunition-to-criminalize-poverty/
The battle against Western arrogance | Al Mayadeen English
The Western left, despite having had virtually no successes since the fall of the Soviet Union, thinks of itself so highly that it can choose to ignore and minimize the anti-imperialist Resistance in the Middle East. — Read on english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/the-battle-against-western-arrogance
Aida Rends 