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.
Black women have the longest history in the labor force, but reap the least rewards. “Black families are more reliant on women’s incomes than other families.”
This week the coup in Venezuela attracted the most attention from commenters and letter writers.
A theoretical and yet also vernacular approach to “the rules” as they are made and unmade.
Slam and spoken word poetry created their own spaces and voices, and may one day provide a blueprint for making new worlds.
The people of Haiti demand to know who stole the oil money that was gifted to them in solidarity by the people of Venezuela.
