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Guatemala: Nos duelen 56, nos faltan 41

El 8 de marzo es una fecha clave para la lucha antipatriarcal en diferentes latitudes del planeta. En Guatemala, a las reivindicaciones contra la violencia machista y para ampliar los derechos reproductivos, se suma también la reclamación de justicia para las 56 adolescentes y niñas de la masacre del Hogar Seguro. “El 8 de marzo de 2017 el Estado de Guatemala va a cometer un acto violento y feminicida contra 56 niñas que buscaban escapar del Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, donde vivían abusos y reclamaban derechos a recreación, alimentación y educación” nos explica Lorena Cabnal, defensora de la Red de Sanadoras Ancestrales del Feminismo Comunitario Territorial.

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¡Ganamos con la huelga!

Lilly Thorne encabezó una huelga en Hops Burger Bar en la ciudad de Greensboro, en Carolina del Norte el 24 de diciembre de 2020. Esta huelga fue una de muchas huelgas organizadas esporádicamente por trabajadores de restaurantes y comida rápida durante la pandemia. Aquí, Lilly relata los hechos de la huelga con Tina Trutanich para Puntorojo y conecta las luchas en el trabajo con la identidad queer y la construcción de sindicatos antirracistas en el sur de los Estados Unidos y otras partes.

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Biden’s immigration proposal: a path to nowhere

The election of Joe Biden and the return of Democratic Party control of Congress has raised hope that Trump’s disastrous immigration policies could be undone. Separated and incarcerated families long to be reunited and freed, refugees blocked into deadly camps at the border wait for legal channels to be reopened, undocumented workers cut out of pandemic relief efforts endure dangerous working conditions and economic devastation, and all Trump’s other orders designed to be cruel and inhumane urgently need to be reversed.

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When we strike, we win!

On December 24, 2020, Lilly Thorne led a strike at Hops Burger Bar in Greensboro, North
Carolina. The strike represented one of many sporadic restaurant and fast-food workers’ strikes
during this pandemic. Lilly recounts the strike with Puntorojo and connects workplace struggles
with queer identity and anti-racist union building in the United States and beyond.

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The failures of the DSA are going to get us killed

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Trump supporters breach the Capitol on January 6. I was visiting my mom and we were getting ready for dinner when I received frantic texts from comrades from Mexico City. “What is going in the US? I just saw the videos from the Capitol”. I assumed it was some Proud Boys getting violent as usual but when I turned on the TV and watched thousands of Trump supporters outside the Capitol and an armed stand-off inside, I knew this was different.
As we commented on the chaos over dinner, my grandmother, who is blind, began to tense up, she was getting worried, we were talking about civil war, Donald Trump and running away to Mexico. I tried to reassure them that things would be OK, and that this would be resolved appropriately, but deep down, I wasn’t—I’m not—so sure.

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Us versus the billionaires and their parties

In a recent interview, Joe Biden was visually irritated when responding to a reporter who asked if his proposed policies are “socialist”. “Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career — my whole career. I am not a socialist…I beat the socialist!”

This back-handed slap at Bernie Sanders occurred precisely at the time that Sanders and the self-identified progressives and Socialists in Congress push for the 10-15 million people who voted for Sanders in the primaries to get behind Biden—despite deep ideological differences.

On the heels of the deployment of Federal police in several states to repress Black Lives Matter protests, and Trump accusing him of being soft on the movement against police violence, Biden defensively replied and criticized the protests. At a high-profile press conference at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with all of its dog-whistle

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They came for us

Recent revelations by whistleblower Dawn Wooten, exposed that at ICE detention centers, doctors have been performing hysterectomies on unsuspecting patients. Her revelations, while appalling and detestable, are not surprising to me. I’ve seen this before. I know this movie well. It’s like The Ten Commandments playing on television during Good Friday, I know what happens next. I can quote this story line for line.
As a Latin American History scholar, I’ve spent many years familiarizing myself with people like Cornelius Rhoads, a former US Army doctor and hospital administrator who was oversaw racist and barbaric human experimentation projects. I have learned about forced sterilizations on colonial islands through documentaries like La Operación. I’ve combed through the published studies of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on African American males who were injected with syphilis. I am well aware of the medical community’s penchant for using people in Africa to conduct clinical trials for prescription drugs.

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Assimilate This! Is it possible or desirable to assimilate into a white supremacist, colonial settler, and imperialist nation?

Assimilation is this political plasticine that is frequently at the core of newspaper editorials, scapegoating by politicians, and ideological constructs of what it is to be a citizen of the United States of America (U.S.). As such, it refers to a myth-soaked narrative of the history of the U.S. as a nation; who is assumed to belong to it, or who can be allowed to earn a spot in that ark of glorified passengers known as “Americans.”
The term “American” sits at the center of this chauvinistic and exaggerated conception of who is a “red-blooded” inhabitant, and therefore a bona fide “citizen” of the U.S. It is a misguided and vainglorious term that robs the rest of the inhabitants of the Americas of such self-designation. For everyone born or naturalized in Latin America, Central America and the Caribbean

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To end racism and change the world, we need to burn down the past

The white base of a statue. Two men on the base. One of them pushes the other one. The man who is pushing is wearing a white shirt, a little bit stained, probably because of work in the fields. In his left hand he is holding and leaning on a sledgehammer. His skin is dark, brown, he wears a cap, and his right hand is fully extended, with a gesture of contempt and pride toward the other man whom he has toppled.

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Incendiar el pasado para acabar con el racismo (y transformar el mundo)

La base blanca de una estatua. Dos hombres sobre la base. Uno de ellos empuja al otro. El hombre que empuja lleva una camisa blanca, un poco percudida, seguramente por el trabajo en el campo. En su mano izquierda lleva un mazo sobre el que ahora se recarga. Su piel es oscura, morena, lleva una gorra y su mano derecha está completamente extendida, con ese ademán de desprecio y orgullo hacia el otro hombre a quien ha empujado. El hombre que empuja es indio. A su alrededor muchos otros indios ven el acontecimiento, son todos ellos los que empujan al mismo hombre contra el que dirigen su rabia. Es de día, el cielo se ve despejado.

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