My piece on the Truth Commission organized by the Rochester Poor People’s Campaign, published in the Socialist Worker:
As a Muslim from the Global South, I often feel invisibilized when America’s imperial war machine and its devastating impact on people of color outside the U.S., are separated from local issues of racial and economic marginalization.
It’s clear as a bell that as long as Black and Brown bodies in the world’s hinterlands are freely tortured, famished and incinerated, there is no chance of uprooting racism or poverty inside the American empire.
Once dehumanization is activated and a war declared on the racially and economically colonized, it’s bound to cross borders and impact all of us.
This process of othering is closely tied to capitalism–its ruthlessly extractive nature and its need for a serf class. More here.