Neoliberals Seek to Establish Their Own Brand of Fascism
The US State âis using the so-called insurrection at the CapitolâŚto impose an ideological conformity that supports and sustains the neoliberal projectâ at home and abroad, said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. Speaking on a Dissenters webinar, Baraka warned that Democrats, especially, are âsetting us upâ to âusher in a form of neofascismâ that could win liberal and even progressive support because it is ostensibly aimed at Trumpâs older brand of fascism.
Anti-Police Activists are Doing Post-Slavery âWake Workâ
Todayâs Black Americans are living in âthe wakeâ of centuries of slavery, said Dr Corey Miles, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University. Thus, contemporary Black activists are doing âwake work.â Dr Miles said the South, as the center of US slavery, presents special problems, but the whole country is hostile to Black lives. âWe are trying to see how we can forge emotional belonging to a space that surveils and polices us,â he said.
Christian Liberation Theology Still Useful to Black Movement
A progressive, liberationist theology can be useful to movements against both domestic politic repression and US imperial wars, said Dr Vincent Lloyd, professor of theology and Africana Studies at Villanova University. âChristianity has resources within it to think about prison abolition and police abolition,â said Lloyd.
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