[News] Nooses at Columbia
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October 10, 2007
Enough is Enough!
Nooses at Columbia
By SUNSARA TAYLOR
2006: A noose is hung from a "Whites Only" tree in a Jena, Louisiana
high school.
September 20th, 2007: tens of thousands descend on Jena in an
outraged and joyful protest.
October 9, 2007: a noose is hung at Columbia Teacher's College as
part of a spate of nooses, racist threats and brutality lashing back
across the country. A white supremacist website has published the
home addresses of the Jena Six, encouraging people to take "justice"
into their own hands.
TODAY: Time for everyone who refuses to go backwards and worse to
stand up, resist, and take the future into OUR hands!
What are NOOSES?
NOOSES -- are an open threat of racist terror rooted in generations
of slavery: children auctioned out of their mother's arms, feet
mutilated to prevent against escape, backs scarred with welts from whips.
NOOSES--are in line with a whole system of white supremacy enforced
by courts that have warehoused nearly a million Black people into
prison, carried out by brutal police who see "driving while Black" as
a crime punishable by death, and reinforced through countless daily
insults and discrimination large and small.
NOOSES--are a message to Black people as a whole, but particularly
Black youth, that the U.S., the so-called "leader of the free world,"
has no future for them other than massive criminalization, gangs,
dead-end and disappearing jobs, imprisonment, early death or
know-nothing-bible-banging.
The hanging of this noose at Columbia also takes place after the
appearance of racist graffiti lashing out at communists and
advocating "nuk[ing] Mecca, Medina, Tehran, Baghdad, Jakarta, and all
the savages in Africa," and a whole atmosphere of fascist
intimidation and thuggery being whipped up and mobilized in the
upcoming "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" October 22--26th initiated
by David Horowitz. This week involves over 100 campuses, speakers
like Ann Coulter, Daniel Pipes, Rick Santorum and is ominously being
called "the biggest conservative protest ever." Invoking progressive
themes like "free-speech" and combating "the oppression of women in
Islam" as a cover, they plan to harass Muslim Student Associations
and Women's Studies departments, and silence anyone that questions
the Bush regime's official narrative, including even those concerned
about global warming.
The people planning this week are the ideological foot-soldiers of a
whole fascist clamp-down on society right at a time when the Bush
regime is neck-deep into a deeply unpopular and genocidal war in Iraq
and is preparing a new potential war against Iran. David Horowitz
himself waged a campaign against reparations by crowing that Black
people should be grateful for slavery! Horowitz is planning to come
and speak at Columbia, along with Fox News host Sean Hannity on October 26th.
This fascist assault will not "just go away" and cannot be ignored.
It must be exposed, confronted with the truth about who the real
fascists are, and politically defeated.
If anything cried out with urgency for a revolutionary movement and
massive political resistance it is the world today: the nooses, the
legalized torture, the wars for empire, the moves towards a dark ages
theocracy for women and gays and science, and the massive grinding up
of human lives and human potential in the vast sweatshops, swelling
shanty-towns slums, and whole regions left to waste in disease and disaster.
We have learned from the righteous history of rising up and fighting
against the oppression of Black people, against unjust wars, the
oppression of women and from revolutionary struggles for emancipation
the world over--power concedes nothing without a struggle!
Two futures are being posed for this generation...what will you do?
The direction of the whole world is being fought over--campus life
cannot go back to normal.
It is time for a new generation to wake up and fight for a whole
different world!
What could be more important than that?
Who Is David Horowitz?
It is worth reprinting this description from Revolution Newspaper:
Horowitz is a self-described "battering ram" against any thinking in
academia that challenges a whole range of lies this system has
perpetrated. He's played a major role in slandering, hounding, and
even ending the careers of progressive teachers. Horowitz established
his credentials with the ruling class by renouncing his involvement
in the 1960s movements for social change in a series of slanderous
articles, books and conferences. He "made his bones" in the '90s, by
waging a high-profile campaign against reparations for
African-Americans, with the theme that Black people should be
grateful for slavery! Horowitz took out huge ads in campus newspapers
proclaiming this vicious lie and to this day makes it a major part of
his attack. He wrote a book on the "art of political war" that Karl
Rove distributed to key Republican campaign operatives. He is a
vitriolic defender of everything from the extermination of the Native
Americans and the enslavement of Black people, to the savage and
criminal wars against Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of those
whom this regime deems to be terrorists. He has set up a website that
clamors for the arrest and imprisonment of revolutionaries, radicals,
dissenters and liberals and reports every slander, rumor, lie and
innuendo that comes his way. And, bankrolled from the ruling class,
he has organized the falsely named "Students for Academic Freedom,"
which literally takes notes on lectures and rips things out of
context in an attempt to get professors who do not sufficiently bow
down to the Bush agenda fired. The modern-day Nazi-type student
groups inspired by Horowitz organize so-called "games" like "Catch an
Illegal Immigrant" on campus. In short, Horowitz defends every crime
that this system has ever committed and is now preparing to justify
even more, and to intimidate and silence any who would question or resist this.
Sunsara Taylor writes for <http://www.revcom.us/>Revolution Newspaper
and sits on the Advisory Board of <http://www.worldcantwait.org/>The
World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime. She can be reached at:
<mailto:sunsarasworld at yahoo.com>sunsarasworld at yahoo.com
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