Nonviolent Activist, March-April 2006
Blacks, Military Recruitment & Antiwar Movement: Not Showing Up
By Kenyon Farrow
When I was the Southern Region Coordinator for Critical Resistance I once spoke at an event in New Orleans entitled “What Now: War, Occupation, and the Peace Movement.” I was asked specifically to address why more people most adversely affected by systems of oppression were not involved in local antiwar work. Many of the white attendees were very concerned about how to bring Blacks into antiwar organizing work.
