Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz @rdunbaro

Historian, author

 Oklahoma, San Francisco
Joined December 2008
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The School Shooting That History Forgot; 1989, Stockton CA, the victims children of SE Asian refugees teenvogue.com/story/clevelan… via @TeenVogue

The School Shooting That History Forgot

In 1989, five Southeast Asian children were killed in a California schoolyard.

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Position of World’s Governments on Ukraine Considered Insane Pacifism in U.S. - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2022/05/27/…

Position of World’s Governments on Ukraine Considered Insane Pacifism in U.S.

The stance taken on Ukraine by many of the governments of the world is outside acceptable debate in the United States. The Secretary General of the United

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Capitalism is killing us: "Shootings aren’t a sign America is ‘broken’. It’s working exactly as intended" by former arms executive Ryan Busse theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Shootings aren’t a sign America is ‘broken’. It’s working exactly as intended | Ryan Busse

I was a firearms exec for years. The industry used to adhere to self-imposed rules and norms – until gun makers and lobby groups like the NRA realized fear and extremism sold more guns

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My commentary in The Guardian in November 2017, Inside the minds of American mass shooters theguardian.com/us-news/2017…

Inside the minds of American mass shooters

Since 1966, mass shootings have occurred regularly in the US. Attackers are linked by frequent mental health problems – and access to guns

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Scottish artist Ted Christopher singing Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door".. invidious.fdn.fr/_wG6A7-0nVg via @YouTube

Best version of KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR, 2folld with MARK KNOPFLER`S...

KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR, 2folld, October images. Ted Christopher - vocalsMark Knopfler - guitarThis version was recorded in the memory of the Dunblane Massa...

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Why do these civilian massacres happen regularly in the United States? Why are there 400 million firearms in individual hands, more than there are people? citylights.com/true-crime-st…

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment | City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar...

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This time will be different.
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Hedges: No Way Out but War scheerpost.com/2022/05/23/he… via @Robert_Scheer

Hedges: No Way Out but War

The permanent war economy, implanted since the end of World War II, has destroyed the private economy, bankrupted the nation, and squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. The monopolization...

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Important read: Hitler's American Model | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/pa…

Hitler's American Model

How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany

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| Beyond Eurocentrism newframe.com/long-read-beyon… via @NewFrame_News

Long Read | Beyond Eurocentrism

If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin.

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We need to remember that, a century ago, unhinged fear-mongering about "demographic changes" in the American population led not just to drastic immigration restrictions at home, but to disastrous horrors abroad.
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As Whitman noted, these immigration restrictions, along with southern segregation laws, ultimately served as the inspiration for the 1935 Nuremburg Laws that in turn served as legal justification for the Holocaust. jewishbookcouncil.org/book/h…
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The National Origins Act of 1924 not only shut the door on a centuries-old tradition of open immigration to America. As James Whitman has noted, it also served as a model for the racial citizenship laws that took root in Nazi Germany a decade later.
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David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy. bostonreview.net/articles/wi…

Will Buffalo Change Anything? - Boston Review

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

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The Christian leader trying to break America’s link between faith and guns: Good luck with that! theguardian.com/us-news/2022…

The Christian leader trying to break America’s link between faith and guns

Peter Cook says in the aftermath of the Buffalo racist shooting white Christian denominations have a duty to act

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Lumbee Charles Graham wins Democratic nomination indiancountrytoday.com/news/…

Charles Graham wins Democratic nomination

UPDATED: North Carolina could have its first Indigenous person elected to Congress in November #NativeVote22

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White Replacement, Kathleen Belew: Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/m… via @NewYorker

Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

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How abortion became a mobilizing issue among the religious right npr.org/2022/05/08/109751418…

How abortion became a mobilizing issue among the religious right

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, about how evangelicals shaped the debate over abortion in the United States.

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Another Easter Rising? No, But Sinn Féin Dominance Marks a Significant Turning Point - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2022/05/12/…

Another Easter Rising? No, But Sinn Féin Dominance Marks a Significant Turning Point

Northern Ireland specialises in political watersheds after which nothing will supposedly ever be the same again. In the wake of the Assembly election, one

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Column: The Supreme Court is coming for Latinos latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Column: The Supreme Court is coming for Latinos

With three out of the six conservative Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump, the effect of the right-wing majority’s rulings on Latinos will grow increasingly dire.

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