Once again, the U.S. refuses to play unless it gets to make up the "ruse"--this time at the UN
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, 8/31 to 9/7. Unfortunately, there's more at stake than just a game, as Frances M. Beal (Nat'l. Secretary of the Black Radical Congress) details in two articles,
"WCAR Agenda Still in Dispute," and
"US Threatens to Boycott WCAR."
The threatened U.S. boycott is in response to the draft declaration's definition of Zionism as racism and definition of past slavery as a crime against humanity. Although pressure to remove the Zionism language may be working, the issue of Black reparations is proving more resistant to U.S./EU bullying. Black activists are seizing this opportunity to expose "the ongoing failure of the U.S. to comply with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" (ratified by the U.S. in 1994).
WCAR info:UN Research Inst. for Social Dev. | WCAR and NGOs | Human Rights Internet
Local info: FULL REPORT on issues of racism and xenophobia derived from So. Cal.'s Preparatory Conference to the WCAR. (Report SUMMARY.) | Facing History
