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Blog: Human Rights, Anything But Academic
Photo: No Hate at 'Gate
"They were born to be slaves and serve White People. Bout time for them to start doing it again."
"No nigger will ever rule the WHITE House".
White-supremacist graffitis were found at Colgate University on the same day the United States elected its first African American president. It's been less than a week, and I am standing in front of an overflowing chapel on this all-American "Hidden Ivy" campus, with over a thousand people who have congregated here to denounce the symbols of a deep, ongoing strand of racism. The midday sun is as dim as the air is crisp, but the chill comes from elsewhere: the bigoted scribbles were part of hundreds of race threats and crimes committed around the same time across the US.
Blog: Les droits humains : tout sauf un savoir livresque
Photo : No Hate at 'Gate
« Ils sont nés pour être esclaves et servir les Blancs. Y'est temps qu'ils reviennent à leur rôle. »
« Jamais un nègre ne dirigera la maison BLANCHE. »
Des graffitis prônant la supériorité de la race blanche ont été trouvés à l'université Colgate, le jour même où les États-Unis élisaient leur premier président afro-américain. Moins d'une semaine plus tard, je me trouve devant la chapelle de cette institution qu'on associe à la « Ivy League » de la seconde chance (quand Yale ou Harvard vous refusent). La chapelle déborde. Plus d'un millier de personnes sont rassemblées ici pour dénoncer les symboles d'un racisme toujours profond, toujours vivant. Le soleil du midi est aussi faiblard que l'air est vif, mais le frisson vient d'ailleur...
Blog: Can the language of Otpor! be universal?
In the late 1990s, the organization Otpor! developed in
Milosevic-ruled Serbia.
Considered by many as a rag-tag group of student protestors, the group soon
became the leading citizen-based force for resistance to the Milosevic regime.
Otpor! used non-violent tactics to create a broad base of citizen support and
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Blog: Technology marches with Freedom in Myanmar/Burma
The situation in Myanmar
(formerly Burma)
has continued to escalate, and as more time passes the body count is rising.
The violence and harsh, repressive tactics of the military junta regime is
widely known; however, the past month’s events have put a new perspective on
the role and importance of technology and access to information. Our current
Blog: Looking at recent events in Myanmar...
For the past month, Buddhists monks have been marching and practicing civil disobedience in Myanmar (formerly Burma).This past weekend (September 23) the marches gained more participants, and attention. The Associated Press reports that upwards of 100,000 people led by hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through the streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon.
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