File:4PageFactSheetOctober9.pdf

I think it's important that while we're educating ourselves about racism in our own lives and in the context of the U.S. (where the folx on our campus are physically @, though def. not where we might actually be from), that we also keep room in our minds for what systems of racism and oppression look like on a global scale. U.S. imperial aims abroad have always been tied to its racist policies @ home, and I'm including this piece on the use of the word "apartheid" to describe the situation in occupied Palestine b/c of its ties to South African apartheid and b/c the occupation wouldn't be possible without the U.S.'s financial, physical, political and cultural enforcement of it, and lastly b/c it is so intimately tied to our general imperialist aims in the Middle East...