Meleiza Figueroa discusses how Colonization is more accurate vernacular than racism, and how capitalism classifies people to exploit them at the 2017 Democracy Convention during the Basics of Solidarity & Racial Justice panel.

Media Revolt Published on Aug 9, 2017

Meleiza Figueroa is a Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of California at Berkeley and a producer at KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. She was head researcher on the 2005 film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.”  She is a longtime social justice activist and organizer in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
 

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  1. Rise Up Times September 30, 2017 at 8:57 PM

    Reblogged this on Rise Up Times and commented:

    If you missed this first time around, watch it now. Excellent piece on white supremacy, racism, colonization.

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