TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Vijay Prashad - From Bandung to Durban
CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time In late summer, 20 01, the international commu nity convened in Durban , South Africa , for the World Conference Against Racism. At stake was the making of a global d eclaration and agenda against the European domination of the planet called imperialism by some and Whitesupremacy by others, among many descriptions. But instead of agreement, delegates from over 160 countries found themselves filibustered by former colonial powers such as Belgium and boycotted by the United States . Many delegates found the final declaration to be a drastically understated document. Instead of declaring European slavery of millions as a crime against humanity, the document went only so far as to address that crime with “profound regret.” But for a short time, whatever the conference’s failures, the world was focused on the former apartheid state for a discussion on the globe’s ongoing racial hierarchy and its enormous damage to the political, economic, social...