{"id":300284,"date":"2017-03-23T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/peter-toshs-resistance-against-racism-apartheid-and-settler-colonialism\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T09:54:05","slug":"peter-toshs-resistance-against-racism-apartheid-and-settler-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/peter-toshs-resistance-against-racism-apartheid-and-settler-colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Tosh\u2019s Resistance against Racism, Apartheid and Settler-Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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March 21 was the 57th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre<\/a> that was carried out by the South African apartheid regime against protesting Africans in 1960. This protest was organized by the liberation organization, the Pan Africanist Congress<\/a> (PAC). It targeted the pass law of the settler-colonial regime that regulated the movement and residential pattern of the indigenous Africans. International opinion was so outraged by the murderous behaviour of the apartheid system that the United Nations\u2019 General Assembly was inspired to declare March 21 the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination<\/em><\/a> (IDERD).<\/em><\/p>\n

Whenever we commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre and the IDERD, we are politically obligated to highlight the valiant effort of the late reggae singer, Pan-Africanist, Rastaman, revolutionary, and human rights champion Peter Tosh<\/a> in creating greater public awareness of the crimes of South Africa\u2019s apartheid system. Tosh was one of the original Wailers\u2019 trio alongside Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer. He was a reggae superstar at the time of his assassination by lumpen elements in Jamaica on 11 September 1987. Tosh was known as a militant cultural worker and organic intellectual who did not mince words in condemning the powers-that-be like the Old Testament prophets.<\/p>\n

According to Tosh\u2019s former manager Herbie Miller in the book Remembering Peter Tosh<\/em><\/a>, Tosh loved to read about international affairs and politics in general, biographies of noted…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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March 21 was the 57th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre that was carried out by the South African apartheid regime against protesting Africans in 1960. This protest was organized by the liberation organization, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). It targeted the pass law of the settler-colonial regime that regulated the movement and residential pattern of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}