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Juneteenth: No Place for Police

July 6, 2016

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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‘Now is the Time for Big Ideas’

April 22, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karma R. Chavez

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#TheRealUW: ‘Too Many Racist Stories, Not Enough Space For Them’

April 8, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karma R. Chavez

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Potentially Devastating: Why the Attack on Tenure at UW Matters

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karma R. Chavez

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Open Letter Addressing Racist Incidents at UW

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karma R. Chavez

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Systems That Divide Us

October 9, 2015

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

September 11, 2015

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Brandi Grayson, Karma R. Chavez, Nestora Salgado

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In Defense of Rev. Everett Mitchell

August 28, 2015

“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; […]

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