genocide Archives - Abolition

We Charge Genocide

June 11, 2020June 9, 2020 by Black Internationalist Unions

The 1951 text, We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People, by William L Patterson, 1970, presents the historic petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of The United States Government Against the Negro People.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her children Charles, Herman, Ida, and Alfreda, 1909 (public domain)

An Abolitionist* Call to Defund the Police and Mobilize Community Control over Attorneys General and Grand Juries

June 27, 2020June 4, 2020 by Black Internationalist Unions

Our BIU is making a call to defund the police and mobilize community control over attorneys general and grand juries.