Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

“Docs or Cops?” Domestic violence is a public health issue in Indian Country

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s trite to say, “everything is connected.” It’s a phrase that comes up in the context of family, the environment, or perhaps, philosophy. When the subject is reservation violence, however, that same notion could be rewritten as a blunt question: Docs or cops? Cops are...

August 3rd, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Health | Read More

Racial aspects of economy are significant for White House to address

After an intense and shameful week of poorly dealing with ex-USDA worker Shirley Sherrod and issues of race, the country is left trying to make sense of where we are and why issues of race seem so hard and intractable. There have been many editorials and stories – many of them very thoughtful. ...

July 28th, 2010 | Economics, Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US | Read More

Shirley Sherrod for president

Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging...

July 26th, 2010 | Featured, Shirley Sherrod, US, Women | Read More

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Last week, I wrote about an impending civil war in Pakistan, projecting a possible “complete collapse of Pakistan...

July 19th, 2010 | Middle East, Politics, World | Read More

The Haudenosaunee right of return

by: Steven Newcomb For some 30 years, the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), often known as the Six Nations Confederation, have been accustomed to traveling internationally from and back to North America on Haudenosaunee passports. Now, however, the United States government has evidently taken...

July 16th, 2010 | American Indians, Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

$10 million not enough to restore justice and dignity for indigenous women in Canada

After 600 Aboriginal women and girls go missing or found murdered in Canada the federal government decides to throw-a-bone and give $10 million dollars. In March, the Canadian Minister of Justice budgeted $10 million over two years to address the issue of murdered and missing women in Canada, however,...

July 12th, 2010 | Featured, Women, World | Read More

Obama’s black paradox and our own

He’s damned fortunate if we don’t and damned fortunate if we do allow that he is black. We received some crazy responses by email, by phone, and as online comments to our blog post, “Could Obama dare to say that some people attack him because he’s black?” on Race Talk a week ago. Racial...

June 30th, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

Why the tea party is good for America

Late last year, few could have predicted that Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown would return Massachusetts to the red column after decades awash in blue. Even fewer could have foreseen primary victories for Sharron Angle in Nevada, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Raul Labrador in Idaho, Mo Brooks in Alabama,...

June 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Politics, US | Read More

Roseanne Barr says Israel must end their blockade and occupation of Gaza

A frame grab from a video released by the Israel Defence Forces shows what the IDF says is an activist hitting Israeli soldiers on a ship heading toward Gaza on May 31. (IDF/Reuters) Co-authored by Roseanne Barr It is time for American Jews to demand that Obama instruct Israel to obey international...

June 17th, 2010 | Featured, Politics, US, World | Read More

House race in S.D. could be decided on Indian reservations

For the first time in history two women will be competing for South Dakota’s lone Congressional seat. Repub. Candidate Kristi Noem Dem. Candidate Stephanie Herseth- Sandlin Kristi Noem entered the Republican primary late, but outdistanced her male opponents in a stretch run that saw her win the right...

June 14th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Obama is black but he’d better not say so

Against blatant racism there are weapons and white allies; against stealth racism, not so many. It is now politically incorrect to call anyone a racist, even if they are. But how can you tell anymore? Those who used to be identifiable as black racists now have white friends and white racists have...

June 11th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Obama Administration: Only Muslims can be Terrorists

John Brennan in the Oval Office - White House Photo The new May 2010 US National Security Strategy has been appropriately praised for doing away with some of the “global war on terrorism” rhetoric used by the George W. Bush administration. President Obama’s National Security Strategy,...

June 8th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

Thousands defy heat, walk winding route to protest SB 1070 in Phoenix

Thousands of people marched from Steele Indian School Park to the State Capitol. The march took place exactly two months before SB 1070 in implemented, and more actions against it are expected in the next 60 days. Marches and protests in Arizona have been the rule rather than the exception. In 2006,...

June 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More

Israel, ideology of trauma

Originally published on the Unapologetic Mexican MANY AMERICANS OF JEWISH DESCENT find themselves torn in two by the tyrannical and cruel actions Israel levels upon the Palestinians. Perversely, for these people, it is not so much rampant Anti-Semitism that causes us shame at our roots, but the actions...

June 1st, 2010 | Featured | Read More