2. thepeoplesrecord: George W. Bush: Now a convicted war criminal In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were found guilty of war crimes on Friday. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Full Article

    thepeoplesrecord:

    George W. Bush: Now a convicted war criminal

    In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were found guilty of war crimes on Friday.

    Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.

    The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

    At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

    Full Article

  3. With me, forever.

    With me, forever.

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    So what does this mean for the future of white anti-racists? This might mean to first, figure out ways in which whiteness needs to die as a social structure and as an identity in which you organize your anti-racist work. What this looks like in practice may not be so clear but I will attempt to give some suggestions here. First, don’t call us, we’ll call you. If we need your resources, we will contact you. But don’t show up, flaunt your power in our faces and then get angry when we resent the fact that you have so many resources we don’t and that we are not grateful for this arrangement. And don’t get mad because you can’t make decisions in the process. Why do you need to? Secondly, stop speaking for us. We can talk for ourselves. Third, stop trying to point out internal contradictions in our communities, we know what they are, we are struggling around them, and I really do not know how white people can be helpful to non- whites to clear these up. Fourth, don’t ever say some shit to me about how you feel silenced, marginalized, discriminated against, or put in your place. Period. Finally, start thinking of what it would mean, in terms of actual structured social arrangements, for whiteness and white identity—even the white antiracist kind (because there really is no redeemable or reformed white identity)—to be destroyed.

    In conclusion, I want to say to anyone who thinks that this is too academic or abstract, I write as a non-white person, meaning that from my body, my person, I experience white supremacy. I also draw my understanding of white supremacy from non-white people, many engaged in various struggles of activism, but most importantly just to speak out and stay alive. They did not get accolades from many for speaking out but instead experienced constant threats on their lives for just existing and doing the work that they did. Moreover, I want to know when a discussion of whiteness, white supremacy and domination became seen as abstract and not rooted in the everyday concrete reality that we experience?

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    An Open Letter to White Anti-Racists by Tamara K. Nopper

  5. »  new phase: Soo... "Light skin privilege "

    Mixed race identity is hard enough to navigate without outsiders yellin’ their shit. Only I know my experiences with race - for me, personally, especially in places that aren’t super knowledgeable about hispanic culture, i.e. washington, I get hella white privilege. In Texas, where I’m from, people can spot the mexican in me from 40 paces. this doesn’t mean that i’m more or less of a PoC, it just changes how I navigate the world. If you’re light skinned, you’re still susceptible to being victimized and harassed by RACIST bullshit, but exempt from a fuckton of COLORIST bullshit. Saying that racial identity is synonymous with skin color is to reduce an entire cultural identity to the point of most harassment - we are more than our oppression. Light skinned people have a responsibility to speak up, recognize the instances when we have privilege and when we’re being trod upon as PoC, and basically everyone else can shut the fuck up. Mixed race people, like all people, need to stand in solidarity with darker skinned family and work against the internalized bullshit that we all have to contend with. Hold yourself accountable, because people of one racial background probably don’t get it - let’s be honest here. And, hopefully this goes without saying, but don’t speak to our darker skinned family’s experiences, and don’t fall into the traps of racism just because we pass. 

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    Is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of. That’s like saying if you’re mixed you have white privilege (even tho, should you do something someone doesn’t like/agree with/or see as “normal/acceptable” in a heartbeat they’ll say “Oh that’s just your [insert race/ethnicity here]…

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