Eric K. Ward is currently the executive director of Western States Center. Western States Center’s mission is to connect and build the power of community organizations to challenge and transform individuals, organizations and systems to achieve racial, gender and economic justice. Ward recently went on a speaking tour on “How Anti- Semitism Animates White Nationalism.” Tohuvabohu felt it necessary to reprint this interview between Tikkun Magazine and Eric Ward, because of the prevalence of identity politics within leftist discourse and spaces that ignores the nuance that makes up our very existence.
“Ever since his childhood as an African American male, Eric has been a civil rights activist and strategist. He spent 1990 – 2010 working with communities across the United States to counter social movements seeking to use bigotry and hate violence to undermine democratic society. Before joining Western States Center, Eric was the Program Officer overseeing racial justice and civil rights for the Ford Foundation. He was interviewed at our Tikkun office in Berkeley during a brief visit he made to the SF Bay Area. This interview appears in the Winter/Spring 2018 issue of Tikkun magazine.”
A zine version will appear shortly….
For now, here is the PDF version: ward-interview
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