Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Pomona College and supporter of legislation requiring all students in California’s public university system to pass an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill was put on hold in the face of fierce opposition. Seventy-five percent of the state’s K1-12 students are non-whites, but few students or teachers “have learned this crucial history,” said Ochoa.
Activists and community organizers have never known the precariousness of the threats they face today.
There is every indication that a Biden administration will maintain the punitive sanctions against Venezuela, suffocating the country during the pandemic.
From Obama v McCain to Biden v Trump, the good cop/bad cop drama of US imperial politics, continues.![Don’t [Mourn] Celebrate, Organize!](/sites/default/files/styles/nc_thumb/public/2020-11/Enteen_360x200.jpeg?itok=N1ROiKEs)
The same “injustice” system that unlawfully locked up the Central Park Five will continue unabated with Biden and his “top cop” sidekick.
We must not allow the Democrats to weaken our demand that every person in the United States have access to the care they need.
