In this 55 minute audio by U of Illinois scholar and activist Pauline Lippman, she explains how the bipartisan push to privatize education by starving existing public schools, introducing charter schools in the name of “choice” and destroying teacher unions is key to a radical re-fashioning of American society by our wealthy corporate elite, one that is disastrous for the rest of us, our communities and our children. Courtesy of KPFA's Against the Grain.
Against The Grain is a three times a week radio show on Berkeley's KPFK Radio.
Incarcerated people are limited to pushing prison reform, while the unincarcerated have the privilege to advocate abolition.
“It’s a war against the prisoners, but also a war against knowledge and, ultimately, the Constitution, itself,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, ch
Although a statewide lockdown is officially over, prisoner mail and visitation will be hugely disrupted for the next 90 days, said Johanna Fernandez, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia
Robin DG Kelly, the author and essayist, agrees with Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee movie whose hero is a Black cop who spies on Black activists.
