By Karma R. Chávez I’m not Black; I’m Chicana. So if that matters to you as to where critique comes from, then feel free to take what I am about to say with a grain of salt. However I do believe our struggles for liberation are intimately linked. My Black comrades have already been making […]
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EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
‘Now is the Time for Big Ideas’
A Call for Community Control of Campus Police by Karma R. Chávez On April 14th during UW-Madison Professor Dr. Johanna F. Almiron’s Afro-American Studies Class, Black Visual Culture, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department entered Dr. Almiron’s classroom to remove a young black male student from the class. Upon confrontation, the student agreed to leave […]
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#TheRealUW: ‘Too Many Racist Stories, Not Enough Space For Them’
by Karma R. Chavez #TheRealUW has been used by students of color on UW-Madison’s campus to draw attention to what life is like for them at the flagship campus. After a rash of reported hate incidents on the Madison campus in the last several weeks, several interruptions of Board of Regents meetings to issue statewide […]
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Potentially Devastating: Why the Attack on Tenure at UW Matters
by Karma R. Chavez On March 10, the UW Board of Regents passed what I can only describe as extreme changes to System tenure policies. These policies, much to the contrary of the public statements of the Board and some campus administrators, will have potentially devastating impacts on the UW. After tenure protections and shared […]
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Open Letter Addressing Racist Incidents at UW
by Dr. Karma R. Chavez Dear Dean Berquam and Chancellor Blank, I am writing to you about the racist incidents that have happened in the last several days on this campus, one against a Native American elder, and the second where a student spat in the face of another student in the UW First Wave […]
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Systems That Divide Us
Reflections on the Loss of Skylar Lee, the Need for Solidarity and the Complexity of Oppressions by Karma R. Chávez Last February I attended the Creating Change conference in Denver. Creating Change is put on by the National LGBTQ Taskforce and it is one of the largest meetings of LGBTQ non-profit service providers, activists, and […]
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From Salgado to Grayson: The Historical Legacy of State Violence Against Targeted Movement Leaders Continues
by Karma R. Chávez Nestora Salgado is an indigenous Mexican woman, a US citizen, and currently a political prisoner in Mexico. Two weeks ago marked the 2-year anniversary of her incarceration, and US-based activists joined Mexican counterparts by staging protests at Mexican consulates around the United States to urge Secretary of State John Kerry to […]
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In Defense of Rev. Everett Mitchell
“Mediatrackers’” Attempted Slander Can’t Touch the Reverand’s Outstanding Work, Leadership, and Reputation by Karma R. Chávez Last week, I hosted a panel at UW-Madison called, “Best Policing Practices? From Ordinary Encounters to Deadly Force.” I invited M. Adams of the Young Gifted and Black Coalition and Freedom Inc.; former MPD Chief, Pastor David C. Couper; […]