Riot police brutally attacked protesters in the mostly Black city of Buenaventura, the South American nationâs largest port. Charo Mina-Rojas, of Black Community Process, part of a broad spectrum of organizations behind a general strike in the city of half a million people, said water is unavailable 150 days of the year, the people âdonât have access to health care, teachers have not been paid in months,â and violence is rampant in poor neighborhoods controlled by paramilitary gunmen. âWe donât see opportunities for real peace in Colombia if Black people continue under these racist attacks by the national government,â said Mina-Rojas.
Israel is accelerating its annexation of the West Bank through legal maneuvers that grant settlers direct ownership of Palestinian land.
President Donald Trump's recent antagonisms toward Panama have illustrated the need for the Panamanian people to build power through popular unity.
In this weekâs segment, we hear about a community forum that will discuss the need to organize in the wake of an acquittal in the 2023 killing of Jordan Neely in the New York City subway system.
Maurice Carney is the Executive Director of Friends of the Congo. He joins us to discuss the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis in eastern Congo, where the Rwandan government continues itsâŚ
Tag, a Spirit of Mandela coordinating committee member, joins us to talk about their upcoming community forum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Saturday, February 1st. This is the first in aâŚ
