Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
CNN's Chicagoland: An 8 Part Miniseries Campaign Commercial For Rahm Emanuel and Urban Neoliberalism
10 Apr 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon CNN's Chicagoland "documentary" is an 8 part wet kiss for Rahm Emanuel & neoliberalism by the same crew that made Brick City, a propaganda flick to…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Striking GA Prisoners Name Names, Allege Sexual Abuse, Ongoing Threats, Maltreatment by Staff
20 Mar 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Not quite a month ago, I wrote that we at Black Agenda Report had received word of a new self-organized hunger strike among prisoners in Georgia's notorious…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
3 Years After 2010 GA Prison Hunger Strike, Another Erupts, But Still No Organizing For Prisoners Outside the Walls
27 Feb 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Federal Prosecutors Declare Mass Incarceration is Fine Will Continue; Obama & Holder Pretend Not to Notice
20 Feb 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon While the Attorney General grants interviews promising significant action on mass incarceration, federal prosecutors openly declare that there's nothing wrong…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Barack Obama, the State of the Union and the Prison State
29 Jan 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For a generation now, predatory policing, the war on drugs and the prison state have been government's most frequent intersection with young black Americans. The…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
MSNBC: Cherry Picking News & Issues to Make Toxic Democrats Look Good
22 Jan 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For the last couple weeks and several more to come, Chris Christie will get more air time on MSNBC than drone murders, gentrification, NSA spying, and network…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Moral Monday A Branding Exercise Blaming Republicans for Stuff Democrats Helped Them Do
15 Jan 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is Moral Monday “sweeping the nation”? Is it the beginning of a new movement, or the revival of an old one? Or is it a sad, cynical and partisan attempt at…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Obama Legacy, Part 1 of Many: Why Secret Trade Negotiations? Because TPP & TAFTA are NAFTA on Crack & Evil Steroids
19 Dec 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Thanks to WikiLeaks, a chapter of the secret agreement being negotiated by the White House has been made public. It will enshrine corporate profits as sacred…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
From the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black Panther Party
11 Dec 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Historians are supposed to help us make sense of the world, by illuminating the forces and trends that shape the lives and destinies of ordinary people. But…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Progressive Sheepdogs, Democrat Sheep: Broken Promises & the Minimum Wage
13 Nov 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If President Obama and his party didn't even try to deliver on their 2008 campaign promise of a minimum wage hike when they had the White House and both houses…