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Claudia Jones Editorial Internship

Toward Freedom Editor April 15, 2022 Toward Freedom Editor

CLAUDIA JONES EDITORIAL INTERN, Summer 2022 (10 hours/week)

Toward Freedom is seeking a motivated inexperienced journalist to join our team this summer as the Claudia Jones Editorial Intern.

We named this internship after the Afro-Caribbean immigrant activist and journalist, Claudia Jones, a trailblazing woman who edited and/or launched publications that centered workers’ struggles.

OUR ORGANIZATION

TF is a 69-year-old independent U.S. publication that has documented anti-colonial struggles since its founding as a newsletter covering independence movements in 1950s Africa. TF operates as a nonprofit organization and its main offices are located in Burlington, Vermont. We are supported by large and small individual financial contributions. read more

Cover of Coup, by Linda Farthing and Thomas Becker (2021)

Book Review: ‘Coup’ Recounts How the Bolivian People Foiled Another U.S.-Backed Attempt At Recolonization

Danny Shaw April 14, 2022 Danny Shaw

Journalist Linda Farthing and attorney Thomas Becker’s 306-page book evaluates the balance of class forces that led to the 2019 coup, as well as the anti-imperialist forces who were ultimately able to repel it and seize political power again in the plurinational state of 11.4 million, writes Danny Shaw in a review.

Ukrainians protested on February 10 holding signs that read, "No war with Russia" / credit: Facebook / Ukraine Peace Movement

Exclusive: Ukrainian Refuseniks On Why Many Won’t Fight for Ukraine

Fergie Chambers April 12, 2022 Fergie Chambers

Since Russia began what they call the “special operation” on February 24 in Ukraine, the corporate media has reported the Ukrainian population is united in resistance against the Russian military offensive. However, beneath this façade of chest-beating patriotism lies an anti-war movement, reports Fergie Chambers.

The Palace of Serbia was the venue for July 2019 talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic / credit: Twitter/KremlinRussia_E

Sanctions Pressure Sticks Serbia Between Western Hammer and Russian Anvil

Nikola Mikovic April 5, 2022 Nikola Mikovic

Only a handful of European countries have refused to impose sanctions on the Russian Federation after the United States called for them once Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine began on February 24. Serbia is one such outlier. As a result, the West is pressuring the Balkan nation to change its foreign-policy vector and pick a side in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, reports Nikola Mikovic.

Residents of the Palestinian neighborhood, Jabal al-Mukaber, protest proposed demolition of their homes to make way for an expansion of a highway that would connect Israeli settler neighborhoods / credit: Jessica Buxbaum

Hundreds of Palestinian Homes May Be Demolished to Expand Highway Connecting Israeli Settler Colonies

Jessica Buxbaum March 28, 2022 Jessica Buxbaum

For the fifth week in a row, residents of Jabal al-Mukaber, a Palestinian neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem, demonstrated outside city hall against a municipal plan to demolish their homes to expand the American Road, a highway largely viewed as a bypass serving illegal Israeli settlements throughout Jerusalem, reports Jessica Buxbaum.

The Chuuk Lagoon in Weno, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, one of many small island developing nations that face extreme climate impacts with rising sea levels / credit: Marek Okon on Unsplash

Wealthy Countries ‘Disappoint’ on Climate Funding, Seek to Change Criteria for Financial Support

Rishika Pardikar March 24, 2022 Rishika Pardikar

If anyone expected ambitious delivery of climate finance given the rhetoric at the United Nations’ 26th Conference of Parties (COP26), they would be disappointed. Ongoing discussions regarding climate funding to help developing countries meet their obligations reveal serious limitations, according to experts Rishika Pardikar interviewed.