Racism

Interview with former Black Panther Ashanti Alston in Ireland

Here's a timely interview with Ashanti Alston, an anarchist who we have recently featured in our black history month edition of our newspaper Linchpin. Cheers to the Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) and former Common Cause member Andrew Flood for making the interview available for our readers.

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These are two audio interviews with US anarchist Ashanti Alston who the WSM have brought to Ireland to speak at the Anarchist bookfair. Ashanti describes himself as a former member of the Black Panther Party and a former soldier in the Black Liberation Army, in connection with which he served 14 years in prison in the US. Today he is an active US anarchist who speaks at events all over North America, giving him a valuable persepective on the state of the movement today.

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Submitted by Mick on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 23:21.

No Rice Bowl for Anyone: Israeli Apartheid, An Asian Dimension

A year ago, I posted an article about Israel's plan to bar Asian restaurant workers in the country and to replace them with 'Israeli' workers. I thought it'd be timely to bring this issue up again, considering the recent atrocities committed by the Israeli State against the Palestinian people.

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Submitted by EdwardW on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 17:35.

Spanish Team's Racist Gestures Not Simply 'Lost in Translation'

I previously posted an image of an ad done by the Spanish Basketball team doing the slanted-eye Chinese stereotype gesture and have debated the issue for days on a Toronto FC message board (the thread has now been closed).

Props to the Chinese Canadian National Council for demanding an apology from the team *(link at the bottom).

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Submitted by EdwardW on Sat, 08/16/2008 - 12:03.

The Subaltern Cannot Speak?

The Subaltern Cannot Speak?

In response to Rob Ford's refusal to appologize and his continued defence of his comments, Victoria Shen, Co-President of the Chiense Canadian National Council has posted an excellent critique and call for people to challenge Ford.

http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/03/open_letter_re_rob_ford/index.php

While as a friend commented it is hardly shocking to see an elected-official being racist, it is quite unsettling to see the number of, at least they claim, asians and Chinese coming to the defence of Ford. Is this indicative of how sophisticated systems of oppression currently in placea are? Have subjugated peoples internalized their position?

As usual with any internet website, a plethora of illogical comments have been posted...

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So now the word "oriental" is racist, because Victoria Shen attributes negative stereotypes to it?

Or is only when a white guy says "oriental" that it's racist.

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Submitted by EdwardW on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 11:42.

Toronto Councillor Rob Ford Makes Racist Comments Against Asians

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/310088

"Mayor David Miller sharply criticized Councillor Rob Ford today for “outrageous and absolutely unacceptable” comments about Asians during a council debate.

Speaking last night during a debate over expanding business openings on holidays, Ford said, “Oriental people are slowly taking over.”

Ford went on to describe people from the Far East as workaholics. “Those Oriental people work like dogs … they sleep beside their machines.” he said. “They’re hard, hard workers.” "

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Submitted by EdwardW on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 10:16.

Israel to kick out every Asian restaurant worker

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Israel will kick out every Asian restaurant worker by the end of the year. "We feel an Israeli can hold a wok as well as a Thai or a Chinese person," says a Trade Ministry official in charge of work permits.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=125911

Utterly ridicules, hopefully the Israeli workers won't allow this blatant racism.

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Submitted by EdwardW on Sun, 02/17/2008 - 15:11.

The Rhetoric of Inclusion: The I.W.W. and Asian Workers

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http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1999/choi.html

The IWW was one of few labour unions that saw past the rhetoric, and understood that the bourgeois was attempting to divide the working class. One of the more positive accounts of the circumstances faced by Asian immigrants in North America, where they were alienated both by the ruling class and their fellow workers, the IWW would not just take up "Workers of the World, Unite!" as a slogan, but would take it to heart.

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Submitted by EdwardW on Sat, 11/24/2007 - 13:11.

The racist origins of Canada's drug prohibition laws

In a piece published on Ottawa indymedia Jason Setnyk reveals the racist origins of Canada's drug prohibition laws in the wake of the 1907 Vancouver Anti Asian Riots.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/16/2007 - 11:07.
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