Indigenous Solidarity There and Here

Dear Bay Area people, Many of you are supporting or want to support the efforts at Standing Rock to resist the North Dakota Access Pipeline. There are action steps below from the folks at SURJ—Showing Up for Racial Justice below Read more... Read More

Interview with Ed Misler

Ed Misler interviews Paul about his involvement with the struggle to end male violence.   Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted Read more... Read More

Interview with Intersections Radio

Paul speaks with Intersections Radio about adultism, Christian hegemony and how racism works. k Listen to internet radio with IntersectionsRadio on BlogTalkRadio Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. Read more... Read More

Interview with Robert Goodwin at Jefferson Public Radio

Paul Kivel was recently interviewed by Robert Goodwin from Jefferson Public Radio. Click below to hear the full interview. The Keenest Observers: “Uprooting Racism” By Geoffrey Riley, John Baxter and April Ehrlich Remember the talk of American becoming a Read more... Read More

Interview: Anti-Racism Book Club

Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only for noncommercial purposes and with an attribution to Paul Kivel, www.paulkivel.com. Creative Commons Attribution Read more... Read More

Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence

Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice by Paul Kivel & Allan Creighton, 2011 edition The following excerpt comes from the twentieth-anniversary edition of what was originally titled Helping Teens Stop Violence. Our first book Read more... Read More

Introduction from You Call This A Democracy?

The following is an introduction to Paul Kivel’s book, You Call This a Democracy? “In the past, Americans smugly assumed that European societies were more stratified than their own, but it now appears that the United States has surpassed all Read more... Read More

Introduction to Making the Peace: Violence Prevention in the Classroom

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Introduction Violence is a powerful and evocative concept in American life. We may all agree that some things people do to one another, like Read more... Read More

Is it anti-Semitism or anti-Jewish oppression?

Anti-Semitism can be a convenient term at times because it has widespread recognition. However I generally use “anti-Jewish oppression” instead of anti-Semitism because it is more accurate, more comprehensive, and I want to separate the concept from the recent use Read more... Read More

Islamophobia

On August 25, 2010, Ahmed H. Sharif, a taxi driver in New York, was attacked with a knife and slashed on the neck and face by Michael Enright. The attack occurred immediately after he had replied yes to his young Read more... Read More