US Politics

David Pleasant
Savannah, the Afro-Fetish-City
21 Oct 2020
The African Exposition at the Savannah Riverside Plant “is one of the most intense examples of fetishization, colonialism, exoticism, and dehumanization” the author has ever scene.
Margaret Flowers
Liberals and Fascists Both Love Capitalism
21 Oct 2020
It is important to look at the bigger picture lest we focus on the wrong issue and play into the hands of the ruling class.
Yoav Elinevsky
Trump’s Looting of CITGO Punishes Low-Income People in Venezuela and US
21 Oct 2020
The sanctions on Venezuela are also hurting some two million low-income Americans who used to receive free heating oil from CITGO.
BBC staff
Nigeria SARS Protests: Amnesty Warns of “Escalating Attacks”
21 Oct 2020
Protests mount against Africa’s most populous nation’s most feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
by Signatories from the Use of Force Community Working Group
A Public Letter to Mayor Lightfoot: A Call for Leadership
21 Oct 2020
The Chicago Police Department’s new use-of-force policy input process is a sham, designed only to create the illusion of community engagement.
Ali Winston
The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters
21 Oct 2020
The police unit most likely to bust protesters’ heads is full of cops with long misconduct histories.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 19, 2020
19 Oct 2020
Protests in Minneapolis Disrupted by Orange-Shirted “Collaborators” with Cops
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions
19 Oct 2020
The newsletter for the prison abolition organization Black and Pink sent out a 133-page questionnaire to incarcerated LGBTQ persons, earlier this year, so that “we can laser beam solutions to the n
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Blackness Spread by Global Capital
19 Oct 2020
The ideology of anti-Blackness is both a prerequisite to the rise of capitalism and a product of its spread around the world, said Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environme
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Protests in Minneapolis Disrupted by Orange-Shirted “Collaborators” with Cops
19 Oct 2020
A group calling themselves “violence interrupters” played a role in the October 7 arrest of 50 protesters demanding community control of police, said Jae Yates, of the Twin Cities