âIn 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,â said Larry Hamm, chairman of the Peopleâs 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. âWe have to keep demonstrating, we have to keep fighting, in order to keep public attention on the issue,â said Hamm.
Half of the projects funded through the law have been allocated to expanding highways.
From the era of Malcolm X to the present, progressive forces have supported the Palestinian and Arab struggles against Zionism and imperialism.
Gus Griffin joins us to discuss Maryland's new legislation which allegedly reforms juvenile justice, but is in fact an expansion of the carceral state to include young children.
Shaka Shakur, a revolutionary New Afrikan political prisoner speaks to us from Virginia, where he is now being held.
Hassan El-Tayyab, with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, joins to discuss this trip to Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory, Jordan, and Lebanon and U.S. policy and the humanâŚ
