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In 1951 Paul Robeson and William Patterson presented the petition "We Charge Genocide" to the UN, launching the Communist Party aligned Civil Rights Congress' campaign to hold the US government accountable for the atrocities committed against Black people, and making the connection between the violence of racial capitalism and US imperialism.


In the context of the pandemic and as we approach the petition's 70th anniversary, the PSC-International Committee organized a discussion on lessons we can learn from the original document and from the Black radical tradition more broadly for our various local and global forms of organizing against racism, colonialism, imperialism, and all forms of oppression within and beyond the university.


The event included an amazing line-up of speakers and panelists: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Ujju Aggarwal, Nellie Bailey, Sarah Raymundo, Angel Martinez, Trevor Ngwane, Rhea B Rahman, and Amber Rivero, introductions by Dr. Marie Louise Patterson and Dr.