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.
Despite the messaging from politicians, the new Maryland "Juvenile Justice" bill is another attack on African (Black) youth and, by extension, the whole of the African masses.
Louisiana is one of several states passing punitive measures in response to fears stoked by orchestrated crime panics.
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.
