In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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To Jamaica Plain for a Race and Equality in Latin America
Sat, 2010/04/03 - 10:18pm — Benjamin Melançon
Went into Boston with Stefan today. MBTA commuter rail faretakers accepted my expired 12-ride commuter rail pass (after six months!?) without comment. I may consign them collectively to a lesser layer of hell.
MC: Dorothea Manuela
All workers must be organized!
No more borders.
Bill Fletcher
- recommends two volume Invention of White Race
- Racial denial in Latin America, from Cuba to Venezuela. If white folks in US said we are all African, we'd be 3/4 to socialism. People can say the same in Venezuela and it doesn't mean quite as much.
- Land
- Internalized psychological chains - will stop socialism
need to be more sophisticated on immigration – African Americans are at best forced immigrants, and constructed much of the country -- different relation to empire. All immigrants learn one thing: Stay as far away as possible from Blacks and Native Americans.
No socialism without equality.
Venezuelan leader was denied Visa
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"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
--quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915.