Beware the Movement’s “Controlled Opposition”

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

12 Oct 2020

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Beware the Movement’s “Controlled Opposition”

Shannon Jones, of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, who was among 250 people arrested at a massive police assault on protesters, June 4, warns that some corporate foundation-funded groups now constitute a “controlled opposition” to the ruling order. “Follow the money,” said Jones. “There are so many organizations that are profiting and poverty-pimping off of Black pain and struggle.” Jones’ organization and others have for several years been confronting the NYPD under the slogan “F the Police.”

Police Repression

More Stories

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Putin, South Africa, and the International Criminal Court
31 May 2023
The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
2 Pentagon Parties= 1% Kabuki Theater/0 ‘debt ceiling’
31 May 2023
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Naa Oyo A. Kwate’s Book, “White Burgers, Black Cash”
31 May 2023
This week’s featured author is Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Kwate is associate professor of Africana studies and human ecology at Rutgers. Her book is White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
30 Years Later, Justice for Forced Sterilization Cases During Fujimori Dictatorship?
31 May 2023
The Fujimori regime forcibly sterilized thousands of people in Peru and the victims are still fighting for justice.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ol’ Schmo ‘negotiates’ Us a trillion dollar deal— We started with TEN…
31 May 2023

Related Podcasts

More Stories