Thoughts on Ferguson
But it means nothing if your interactions with people of color, and your politics around people of color, don’t change.
The Violence Happening in Ferguson Is More Than Physical
A big mistake that people tend to make when thinking and talking about violence is assuming that the term only refers to physically painful encounters.
We Call it the “American Dream”
What immigrants don’t always fully appreciate is that many native-born Americans have had to fight just as hard and struggle just as much for safety, freedom, opportunity, and family. Throughout American history, no group has had a greater struggle than African-Americans.
The Black Scholar: Ferguson, the Black Radical Tradition and the Path Forward
A new movement is being born in the darkness of Ferguson, Missouri. The new reality, the new nadir has established the structural conditions for the birth of a new movement. We need to supply the consciousness.
Following Ferguson
In Ferguson, Mo. protests are in their 13th day. And while a governor-imposed curfew has been lifted and National Guard units have been withdrawn, a “state of emergency” remains in place. Amid a flood of related reading, these articles and resources have stood out to me. I hope their insights will fuel your own discussions about Ferguson and the larger systems at play.
St. Louis Activist: Decades After 1968 Urban Uprisings, Key Economic & Race Issues Remain Unresolved
The upheaval in Ferguson, Missouri, has called to mind the racial divisions that split open in the 1960s with a series of uprisings in cities across the country.
Ferguson Solidarity: Ways to Support the Fight
Organization for Black Struggle (OBS) and Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) have identified several critical ways for allies outside of Ferguson to support OBS's organizing efforts: financial resources, legal support, and solidarity actions in localities across the country.
The Security & Rights Collaborative (SRC)
The SRC makes strategic grants to protect and restore the civil rights of individuals whose communities have been targeted for profiling, surveillance, hate crimes and discrimination in the post-9/11 security environment of the United States.
Seven Ways That Funders Can Support Racial Justice
“Racial justice has been strengthened when individuals in foundations took a chance on movement building,” answered Gihan Perera, executive director of Florida New Majority (FNM) and former executive director of Miami Workers Center.
Behind the curtain: one theory of social change
This animation is an attempt to articulate one theory of social change—that of an individual program officer...It’s an aperitif, meant to whet the appetite for the types of nuanced and complex debates we’ve been lucky enough to have inside of Ford...