Activism
Marijuana Doesn’t Cause Permanent Brain Damage!
This article speaks for itself. UCSD was the first university allowed to study pot now that the US government has sanctioned studies on marijuana for the first time in decades! (Please note: this article can no longer be found on Reuter’s website, so we are publishing it here in the public interest) Study: Pot Doesn’t […] Continue reading
GIs United Against the War in Vietnam
GIs United Against the War in Vietnam: Statement of Aims Fellow GIs: For the past decade our country has been involved in a long, drawn-out, costly and tragic war in Vietnam. Most Americans do not support this war–increasing numbers are demonstrating their opposition, including active duty GIs. It is the most unpopular war in our […] Continue reading
Black Panther Party Platform and Program (1966)
Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that […] Continue reading
The Basis of Black Power (SNCC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: The Basis of Black Power The myth that the Negro is somehow incapable of liberating himself, is lazy, etc., came out of the American experience. In the books that children read, whites are always good (good symbols are white), blacks are evil or seen as savages in movies, their […] Continue reading
The Black Revolution: Speech by Malcolm X (1963)
The Black Revolution Malcolm X Dr. Powell, distinguished guests, brothers and sisters, friends, and even our enemies. As a follower and minister of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who is the Messenger of Allah to the American so-called Negro, I am very happy to accept Dr. Powell’s invitation to be here this evening at the Abyssinian […] Continue reading
Young Lords Party: 13-Point Program and Platform
The Young Lords Party is a Revolutionary Political Party Fighting for the Liberation of All Oppressed People 1. We want self-determination for Puerto Ricans–Liberation of the Island and inside the United States. For 500 years, first spain and then united states have colonized our country. Billions of dollars in profits leave our country for the […] Continue reading
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)
Vietnam Veterans Against the WarStatement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations April 23, 1971 I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans testified to […] Continue reading
A Veteran Speaks Against the War (1971)
Bob Muller, Vietnam Veterans Against the WarPresented at a meeting of the Student Assembly of Columbia University Student Assembly, July 23, 1971. Vietnam is something you have to experience firsthand to believe. I know I didn’t believe what anybody told me about Vietnam before I went; it was something I had to go through myself. […] Continue reading
SNCC Position Paper: On Vietnam
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper: On Vietnam The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee has a right and a responsibility to dissent with United States foreign policy on any issue when it sees fit. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee now states its opposition to the United States’ involvement in Vietnam on these grounds: We believe the […] Continue reading
What is the May 2nd Movement? (1965)
We, as students in the richest but most brutally confused country in the world, cannot understand that world and our part in it with the a-historical education we receive in our universities. In order to make ourselves into effective social beings and in order to discover, sharpen, and use the power of our knowledge, we […] Continue reading