Heads Should Roll Over Flint – Like Watergate “What did they know, and when did they know it?” That’s the question Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo would pose to everyone involved in the poisoning of Flint, Michigan, including Gov. Rick Snyder, EPA chief Gina McCarthy and, ultimately, President Obama himself. BAR editor and columnist Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, who was a senior-level whistleblower at the EPA, said she “can’t imagine” that EPA administrator Gina McCarthy did not send President Obama a memo that essentially warned, “There is a potential that a major American city my be poisoned.” Failure to warn the public of imminent environmental danger “is a criminal offense,” she said.
Black and Brown Cities Disenfranchised The poisoning of Flint began with the theft of democracy, through the imposition of state appointed emergency financial managers. “This is a form of taxation without representation,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the Newark, New Jersey-based People’s Organization for Progress, which held protests in solidarity with the people of Flint. “I don’t know of any white cities in America where this has occurred,” said Hamm, noting that local schools in Black and brown districts have long been targeted for state takeover.
Move Members Up for Parole, Again Janine, Debbie and Janet Africa, members of the Move 9, will go before a Pennsylvania prison parole board, once again, in May, having spent 37 years behind bars in the 1978 shooting of a cop. The women are not even alleged to have possessed any guns. “In their fervor to kill our family, they ended up killing one of their own,” said Move spokesperson Ramona Africa. “”All of the evidence shows that.” Seven years after the 1978 confrontation, Philadelphia police bombed the Move residence, killing 11 men, women and children.
Black Lives Matter Network Supports Reproductive Rights Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, joined with two Black women’s organizations to combat right-wing groups that rail against abortion as “genocide” against African Americans. Or, as Garza put it: “the co-optation of Black Lives Matter language as a way to talk about restricting the ability of women to make the best decision for their own unique situation.” Garza held a joint press conference with La’Tasha Mayes, founder of New Voices for Reproductive Justice, and Monica Simpson, director of the Trust Black Women Partnership.
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