ANWO Sweden busts up Feminist Who Targeted the African Community

16 Sep '16

ANWO Sweden busts up Feminist Who Targeted the African Community

September 16, 2016

Special Note: Throughout this post we will use African/Muslim interchangeably, not to hold Islam up as special or protected, but to help the reader understand the basis for why attacks were launched against the African community. While Islam is the religion of many groups in Sweden; when violence is involved, […]

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9 Sep '16

Brent Council Buckles Under International Pressure

September 9, 2016

Anti-Colonialism, Birth and Reproductive Justice, Black Power

Up until August 2016, Kushinda Olanrewaju, Vice President of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) had been under serious attack by the state in London’s borough of Brent. We aren’t talking about the type of attacks, that make national headlines or draw international outrage, but the types of attacks that […]

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28 Aug '16

#BlackGirlsWrapWednesday

August 28, 2016

Anti-Colonialism, Black Power, Colonialism

The #BlackGirlsWrapWednesday is a movement started by the African National Women’s Organization when our young organizers at Gibbs High School were told that they could not wear their African headwraps to school. A 17-year-old student was told that her headwrap was a violation of school dress code and was forced […]

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27 Aug '16

Phoenix Protest – Solidarity with Kushinda

August 27, 2016

Anti-Colonialism, Birth and Reproductive Justice

In solidarity with Kushinda Olanrewaju’s month-long protest against London Borough of Brent , the African National Women’s Organization Phoenix (ANWO PHX) branch held a two-hour demonstration in front of Arizona Science Center. During the two hours, organizers passed out ANWO PHX’s branch letter of support explaining the campaign. There were […]

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19 Aug '16

ANWO DC Holds Solidarity Protest Supporting Kushinda

August 19, 2016

Anti-Colonialism, Colonialism, protest, State Violence

ANWO DC members Yejide Orunmila and Antoinette Taylor and African People’s Socialist Party member Aaron O’Neal held a solidarity protest in support of Kushinda Olanrewaju who has been protesting targeted attacks by London Borough of Brent. Local members in D.C. held up signs outside of the British Embassy that read […]

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7 Aug '16

ANWO Phoenix Organizes Protest for Korryn Gaines, Dalvin Hollins and Loreal Tsignine

August 7, 2016

Anti-Colonialism, State Violence

On Saturday, August 6th, the African National Women’s Organization Phoenix (ANWO PHX) held a rally at the Phoenix Space Civic Center in Arizona, to protest the deaths of Korryn Gaines ,an African woman killed by Baltimore police; Dalvin Hollins an African man killed by Tempe, Arizona police; and Loreal Tsignine […]

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