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Article 19ARTICLE 19, a human rights pioneer, defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world.
Censorship Kills. It starves and it represses. It denies people access to information essenti...
The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)A not-for-profit registered charitable organization focused on reducing youth violence in our schools and communities. CSSN conducts research, develops teacher resources and provides social comment on youth violence.
Commonwealth SecretariatThe Commonwealth is an association of 53 independent states consulting and co-operating in the common interests of their peoples and in the promotion of international understanding
National Anti-Racism Council of CanadaNational Anti-Racism Council of Canada (NARCC) is a national, community-based, member-driven network that addresses racism, racialization and all other forms of related discrimination by sharing, developing information a...
Organization of American StatesThe Organization of American States (OAS) brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values, defend common interests and debate the major issues facing the region and th...
United Nations Human Rights CouncilThe Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the...
United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumA living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stimulates leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity and strengthen democracy. A public-private partn...
New Releases
Concern about article in proposed Bolivian law against racism2010-09-24
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls for an amendment to an article in the draft law against racism.
IJV Demands That Canada's Mainstream Jewish Groups Condemn Spate of Racist, Anti-Democratic Laws Passed By Israeli Parliament2011-04-11
Independent Jewish Voices
IJV says that if Canada's mainstream Jewish organizations really believe in democracy, they will condemn the laws passed recently by the Israeli parliament.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel2009-03-10
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tr...
Journalists Condemn French Crackdown on Roma and Warn Over Rise of Racism2010-08-10
International Federation of Journalists
Journnalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn that it will encourage xenophobia and intolerance.
Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education2009-03-06
Canadians for Genocide Education
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded project...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
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Black Codes (United States)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks.
CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of IsraelArticle
2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tr...
Jim Crow lawsConnexipedia Article
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Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
Journalists Condemn French Crackdown on Roma and Warn Over Rise of RacismSources News Release
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2010
International Federation of Journalists
Journnalists condemn French crackdown on Roma and warn that it will encourage xenophobia and intolerance.
Ku Klux KlanSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reacti...
The limits of anti-racismReed, Adolph J.
Article
2009
Left Business Observer
The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly r...
Little Rock Central High SchoolConnexipedia Article
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The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
LynchingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Lynching is extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake and shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or oth...
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Malik, KenanConnexipedia Article
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Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
Master raceSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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MischlingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Mischling ("crossbreed" in German, plural: Mischlinge) was the German term used during the Third Reich to denote persons deemed to not have full Aryan ancestry.
Multiculturalism or World Culture?On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Goldner, Loren
Article
1991
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the valu...
Nadir of American race relationsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The "nadir of American race relations" refers to the period in United States history from the end of Reconstruction through the early 20th century, when racism is deemed to have been worse than in any...
Omar Barghouti And “Reverse” RacismFryett, Dave
Article
2012
Countercurrents
Race Obsession harms those it is meant to helpMalik, Kenan
Article
2009
Sunday Times
Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only a...
Racial hygieneSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Racial hygiene (often labeled a form of "scientific racism") is the selection, by a government, of the most physically, intellectually and morally superior people to raise the next generation (selecti...
Racial policy of Nazi GermanySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the "Aryan race", and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scien...
Racial segregationSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Racial segregation is the separation of different kinds of humans (like black and white people) into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking fr...
RacismSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular...
Red Shirts (Southern United States)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were paramilitary groups in the 19th century, active primarily after the formal Reconstruction era of the United States. They first arose in M...
Red Summer of 1919Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Red Summer describes the bloody race riots that occurred in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans in more than two dozen Am...
RedliningSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Redlining is the practice of denying, or increasing the cost of services such as banking, insurance, access to jobs, access to health care, or even supermarkets to residents in certain, often racially...
Separate but equalSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States Constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to b...
16th Street Baptist Church bombingSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by violent racists on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turni...
Thinking Outside the BoxMalik, Kenan
Article
2007
Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or fai...
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
Why do we still believe in race?Malik, Kenan
Article
2007
Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison? Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
Bollinger, Michelle
Article
2009
CounterPunch
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
Sources Bookshelf
The Cost of Free SpeechLee, Simon
Book
1990
In the wake of the Ayatollah's "fatwah" against Salman Rushdie and in the turbulent context of terrorism in Northern Ireland, free speech really can lead to death, according to the author. This book o...
Easily LedA History of Propaganda
Thomson, Oliver
Book
1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism, & The Gulf WarKashmeri, Zuhair
Book
The Gulf Within documents the experiences of Arab and Muslim Canadians during the Gulf War. It's about the subtle and not-so-subtle anger and distrust other Canadians and institutions demonstrated tow...
In a Time of TormentStone, I.F.
Book
1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
Media and MinoritiesRepresenting Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Fleras, Augie; Kuhz, Jean Lock
Book
2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
Our Way to FightPeace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Riordon, Michael
Book
2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people ...
Social Determinants of HealthCanadian Perspectives
Raphael, Dennis (ed.)
Book
2004
The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
New HomesThree editions: Greater Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, Eastern Ontario. Additional publication titled The Condo Guide GTA. Listings of new homes and condos. Some editorial content.
Spartacist CanadaPublication of the Trotskyist League, Canadian section of the International Communist League.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Canadian Race Relations FoundationCommitted to the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, the CRRF sheds light on the manife...
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