“In terms of the front pages of major newspapers in this country, police brutality has not been covered to the degree it was in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and others,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), in Newark, New Jersey. POP, which was founded 37 years ago, last week held its 70th weekly protest against police brutality. “We have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,” said Hamm.
The author believes we are at a crossroads between fascism and/or extinction, and a path of communal care.
Long before the Civil War, Black abolitionists shared the consensus that violence would be necessary to end slavery.
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
The idea that Israel cannot be targeted or criticized as a “racist endeavor” is an absurd suggestion.
American troops in Iraq are at increasing risk every day the US stays in that sovereign nation.
