The Institute for Policy Studies, Haymarket Books, and the Center for Constitutional Rights present “Grasping at the Root: White Supremacy and the So-Called “War on Terror,” the second event of a four-part series marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11. The conversation with scholars, lawyers, and journalists is an invitation to reflect and interrogate the pillars of white supremacy upon which the U.S. constructed the last 20 years of policy. The post-9/11 human rights crisis is but the latest chapter in over half a millennium of colonialism, capitalism, and war. Only in situating today’s injustices within a history of U.S. domination, exceptionalism, and impunity, can we begin to chart a new future rooted in accountability, solidarity, and interdependence.

"Grasping at the Root" is part of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Haymarket Books series is entitled "Just Resistance: 20 years of global struggle against the post-9/11 human rights crisis." The series is an opportunity to bring together our colleagues and comrades from impacted communities across the world, to center stories of survival, and to contextualize the last two decades of U.S. policy within a history of imperialism, domination, and impunity. Over the course of the series, we will also invite audiences to imagine the next twenty years of demilitarization and decolonization. 

Check out Part 1: "Whose Security: Communities Resisting the Post-9/11 Global Security Framework"