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President Joe Biden was elected with massive support from people of color, and in his second week in office he issued four executive orders to advance what the White House calls his “racial equity” agenda. The orders aim to strengthen anti-discrimination policies in housing, end Justice Department contracts with private prison companies, reaffirm sovereignty of Native American tribes and combat xenophobia against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Biden’s racial justice push comes as COVID-19 has devastated communities of color in the U.S., who are experiencing higher rates of infection, death and unemployment during the pandemic. Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, co-executive director of the Highlander Research and Education Center, says Biden’s executive orders are “a step forward” and credits social movements who have been pressuring the administration to act. “This is not just because of his good graces,�
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Making Our Movements Stronger by Resisting Antisemitism
Do you want to fight white supremacy? We do. Do you want to fight systemic wealth and income inequality! Us, too.
Authors’ Note: The title of this piece and much of its content is inspired by April Rosenblum’s zine, “
Well, resisting antisemitism is one more way to make our feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement organizing stronger.
It is much easier to describe how anti-Semitism works than what works against it.
Anti-Semitism is a hatred. At heart, it is a conspiracy theory positing that Jews conspire to harm non-Jews. Like most conspiracy theories, it provides easy answers to difficult problems.
Of course, the world’s problems are rarely simple. Neither is anti-Semitism, but we sometimes choose to look at it as if it is, perhaps for reasons similar to why anti-Semites seek easy answers too.
The first of the usual bromides is Holocaust education. Surely it’s important that people know about the Holocaust. But how is teaching about the Wannsee Conference and Kristallnacht going to change people whose anti-Semitism is connected to seeing Jews with guns lording over their Muslim brethren in the West Bank? Or those, already well-educated in Holocaust terminology, who gleefully use terms like “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” to describe Israeli actions that may be discriminatory, but ar
The struggle for religious freedom â from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter
Out of America s paradoxical history of religious liberty comes a great push for Black freedom and racial justice
January 23, 2021 5:08PM (UTC)
Thomas Jefferson | Black Lives Matter Plaza poster is seen on a building on the 16th Street NW next to the St. John s Episcopal Church (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)