Sara Flounders is co-founder of the International Action Center, as well as a member of the United National Antiwar Coalition, a contributing editor for Workers World and a coordinator of the Sanctions Kill campaign. She joins us from Jersey City, New Jersey to discuss her work as editor of the newly published anthology, 'Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy.' The book provides analysis of U.S. unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which devastate millions of people around the world.
State affiliated think tanks often shape foreign policy in Washington.
The US regime of economic coercive measures is investigated by a newly formed tribunal, prison abolition is a necessity, and so are changes in drug policy.
The Tribunal is holding hearings on the impact of sanctions, economic coercive measures, in 16 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
R.E.A.L. Youth Initiative develops revolutionary consciousness and community among current and formerly incarcerated youth towards abolition of prisons and the conditions that reproduce them.
New congressional legislation is needed to change marijuana laws.
