The newly founded Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) issued a joint statement denouncing U.S. “destabilization” and “attempts to cause regime change” in Venezuela. “We share the objective to revive the anti-war movement -- the anti-imperialist movement in the U.S.,” said BAP organizer Ajamu Baraka, the veteran human rights activist and 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate. “We are, of course, committed to peace, but we understand that there can be no peace without justice, and that means people have to be prepared for struggle,” said Baraka.
Prisoners at Brooklyn, New York’s infamous Metropolitan Detention Center endured days with “no heat, no food, no water” during a power failure last month.
By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral
“The entire Democratic Party came after Ilhan Omar and the entire country stood with her,” said human rights activist Shahid Buttar, who took part in actions supporting Omar’s
Reparations? In order to get the job done, maybe it’s time to call it something else.
Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation.
