colonialism Archives - Toward Freedom

VIDEO: Breaking the Colonial Grip on African Journalism

Toward Freedom Editor May 24, 2023 Toward Freedom Editor

Toward Freedom’s online panel discussion, “Breaking the Colonial Grip on African Journalism,” launched the Africa Reporting Fund. The fund is designed to enable Toward Freedom to publish more reports from and about Africa. The discussion took place on May 24—the day of Eritrea’s 32nd independence anniversary and one day before African Liberation Day—to hear from African journalists about how they best see to break the colonial grip on African journalism.

Hundreds of activists take to the streets uplifting the anti-imperialist women’s movement / credit: Hannah Ballesteros

International Women’s Alliance Uplifts Militant Grassroots Struggles in First U.S.-Based Conference

Julie Varughese March 14, 2023 Julie Varughese

Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Washington, D.C.-based Catholic University's Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of an international grassroots women's alliance and help strengthen its U.S. chapter. TF editor Julie Varughese reports.

Burkina Faso Gives France 1 Month to Leave

African Stream January 25, 2023 African Stream

Burkina Faso has given France one month to pull troops out. France was conducting an anti-terror operation that the people of Burkina Faso deemed a failure. African Stream reports.

Malians protest France / credit: Anadolu Agency

Mali Bans French NGOs, Rejecting ‘Conditional Aid’

African Stream November 28, 2022 African Stream

Mali has banned French NGOs from operating within its borders, reports African Stream.

Proud Boys in MAGA hats at a neo-Confederate rally in 2019 / credit: Anthony Crider / Flickr

Left-Right White Solidarity Basis of Support for U.S./EU/NATO Wars on Global Humanity

Ajamu Baraka February 1, 2022 Ajamu Baraka

The apparent incapacity of white leftists to understand the cultural and ideological impact of white supremacy and its powerful effect on their own consciousness has weakened and deformed left analysis of U.S. and European foreign policy initiatives, resulting in the U.S. and European left taking political positions that either objectively champion U.S./NATO imperialist aggression or provide tacit support for that aggression though silence, writes Ajamu Baraka.

‘Previously Unknown Massacres’: Why Is Israel Allowed to Own Palestinian History?

Ramzy Baroud December 28, 2021 Ramzy Baroud

Reclaiming history is not an intellectual exercise; it is a necessity, yes, with intellectual and ethical repercussions, but political and legal, as well. Surely, Palestinians do not need to re-write their own history. It is already written. It is time that those who have paid far more attention to the Israeli narrative abandon such illusions and, for once, listen to Palestinian voices, because the truth of the victim is a wholly different story than that of the aggressor, writes Ramzy Baroud.