Defeating white supremacy, while also overcoming colonialism

Public Analysis Session of the Alianza Americas’ 2020 National Leadership Assembly: Power and Solidarity for Transformation, that took place on October 23, 2020.

 

Since April 2020, mobilizations against police violence and racial and economic oppression in the U.S. have been echoed worldwide. In the public debate around the fight against white supremacy, there is little discussion of the influence of the European colonization in the Americas and in the people of Latin American origin. In this critical session, panelists addressed the intersection between the past and current struggles for racial justice and equality, considering potential collective responses both in the U.S. as well as in Latin America.

Panelists

Nana Gyamfi

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Bill Fletcher Jr

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Marta Elena Casaús Arzú

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Santiago J. Ruiz

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Find below some highlights of our panel discussion

Find below the complete video of the conversation

You can also read our blog-post on this topic

 

 

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Nana Gyamfi Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Nana Gyamfi is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), the largest Black-led social justice organization representing the nearly 10 million Black immigrants, refugees, and families living in the U.S. She previously served as BAJI's Board Vice-Chair and Managing Director. A Movement attorney for the past 25 years, Nana is co-founder of Justice Warriors 4 Black Lives and Human Rights Advocacy, both dedicated to fighting for human rights and Black liberation. She has served as the Executive Director of Black Women's Forum, an organization co-founded by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves as its President. Nana is also a former professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University Los Angeles. She has repeat appearances in documentaries and other media, including Tales of the Grim Sleeper and Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, and she hosts her own weekly radio show “Conversations On the Way: The Asafo Edition”.
Bill Fletcher Jr Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college, he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.
Marta Elena Casaús Arzú
Marta Elena Casaús Arzú. PhD in Political Sciences and Sociology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Director of the María y Antonio Goubaud Carrera Foundation. Emeritus Americas History Professor of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has led multiple projects, among them the European Master on Latin American Studies: Social Complexity and Cultural Diversity (Spain) and the Management Master for Sustainable Development, (Guatemala). Her main research lines include the study of family networks and power elites in Central America, Studies on racism, intellectual elites, formation of the nation, and lately she is researching intellectual history and conceptual history.
Santiago J. Ruiz Director of the Scientific, Humanistic and Technology Direction of the National Autonomous University of Honduras
Santiago J. Ruiz has a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is the Director of the Scientific, Humanistic and Technology Direction of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, where he is also a Faculty Member. He was awarded the National Science Award “José Cecilio del Valle” in 2018 and the National Technical Scientific Award “Month of the African Ancestry in Honduras” in 2019. He is the Executive Secretary of the National Pastoral Garifuna Commission in Honduras. He has a number of publications, related to food sovereignty and the Garifuna language and its preservation.