Re Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz' article posted below, I am delighted that
someone sees the usefulness and ongoing validity of the Genocide
Convention in this regard. I would like to suggest that people would
gain by reading a fifty-year-old book-length petition to the United
Nations, WE CHARGE GENOCIDE, submitted to that body on behalf of the
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.), the writing of which was organized by a
man who is virtually forgotten, William L. Patterson, son of a slave and
historically the individual who occupies the chronological space between
DuBois as NAACP founder and editor of The Crisis, and Martin Luther
King.
It was my honor to have been asked by Patterson to travel the country
bringing that document-book to the attention of Black leadership, to
whom Patterson's name was an open-sesame in 1951 because of his major
role in the Scottsboro and other struggles, and also to the eyes of
those whites who would listen. The responses in the progressive trade
unions struggling to survive against the Red-baiting of the period are
among the warmest memories of a lifetime.
William Mandel
Ron Jacobs wrote:
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> >Delivered-To: brc-news-outgoing@lists.tao.ca
> >From: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz <rdunbaro@pacbell.net>
> >Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Slavery and the Genocide Treaty
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Do you teach in the social sciences? Consider my SAYING NO TO POWER
(Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), for course use. It was written as a
social history of
the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century through the eyes of a
participant
observer in most progressive social movements (I'm 83), and of the USSR
from the
standpoint of a Sovietologist (five earlier books) knowing that country
longer than any
other in the profession. Therefore it is also a history of the Cold War.
Positive reviews
in The Black Scholar, American Studies in Scandinavia, San Francisco
Chronicle,
forthcoming in Tikkun, etc. CHAPTERS MAY BE READ AT BillMandel.net
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