Jordan Neely was a Black man who died after being held in a chokehold by Daniel Penny, a white vigilante, on the New York City subway in 2023. Penny was acquitted by a jury, but the Peoples Senate, which is the next phase of the Spirit of Mandela Coalition, is hosting a community forum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Saturday, February 1st. This is the first in a series of workshops organized by the Medgar Evers College Coalition. We are joined by Tag, who is on the coordinating committee of Spirit of Mandela.
This week we discuss the rising popularity of socialism in the US, Bernie Sanders’ energy policy, and the electoral obstacles to electing a new Congress.
Race-based medicine in the US has solidified health inequality and is bound up with indebtedness.
Colonial relations of power and ways of classifying human persons that were essential to political colonialism have persisted.
Papua and West Papua are subjected to violence and habitual repression from the Indonesian central authorities.
We figured out pretty fast that hashtags don’t move white supremacists, and petitions don’t change policy for Black lives.
