April Goggans is an organizer with Black Lives Matter DC. She filed a Freedom of Information act request with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington in order to determine the extent of surveillance on her activities. After 5 years of seeking information, and denials that such information existed, she appealed a judge’s dismissal and has been granted a hearing. She is joined by Max Rameau, an organizer with Pan African Community Action.
Erica Caines is Co-Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti and the Americas Committee. She is also co-editor of the Hood Communist blog. She discusses the recent anti-imperialist summit held during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
Attorney Bryan K. Bullock defended three detainees who were held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. He discusses the continued impact of policies which legitimized violations of human and constitutional rights.
The congressional hearings investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol are a diversion for desperate democrats. They also ignore the constant threat of mob violence caused by racist feelings of aggrievement.
On December 7, 2022 a right wing coup removed Perú’s President Pedro Castillo Terrones from power, but the people have protested against the coup regime ever since.
"We cannot go through decades of this physical and psychological abuse behind these walls and think We are coming home undamaged, without scars," explains New African political prisoner Shaka Shakur.
Violence against Haitians and Haitian descended people continues in the Dominican Republic. The Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic condemn the latest state sanctioned…
COINTELPRO never ended. The FBI still pays informants to disrupt, to target organizers, and to spy on the movement.
Black people must differentiate between pride in self and their ancestors and any attempt to forge connections with the nation that continues to oppress.
