US Politics

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
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris
15 Oct 2020
If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The United States is a Sick Society That Produced Two Sick Options for President
14 Oct 2020
The US dictatorship of capital provides the people with a non-choice between two vile and racist presidential candidates.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Freeing “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Paul Rusesabagina
14 Oct 2020
The man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…Freakish flight of the fearless Fly…
14 Oct 2020
There sat the morally constipated politician fartin’ ‘round with truth like an amateur magician… Locked, loaded, flinging fecal matter at a class mate…