Two million people have been displaced from their homes by violence in the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 80 mass graves have recently been discovered. Not coincidentally, huge deposits of coltan and other precious minerals have been found in the region, said Kambale Musavuli, of Friends of Congo. The killings are widely blamed on soldiers of President Joseph Kabila, who refuses to step down despite having used up his two terms in office. “This is the same area where King Leopold II of Belgium caused the death of millions of Congolese, a hundred years ago,” said Musavuli.
A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth.
Tenants fight back and win in the city with the nation’s highest rate of gentrification, by far.
The Lasalin massacre was designed to punish and destroy a neighborhood long known as a stronghold of the grassroots opposition.
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 22, 2019 Reparations Demand: End Capitalism
Donald Trump’s racist attacks on immigrants and “The Squad” are designed to tell his base that the US is a White Man’s Country and he is the president who’s going to keep it that way,” said Black A
