Riot police brutally attacked protesters in the mostly Black city of Buenaventura, the South American nation’s largest port. Charo Mina-Rojas, of Black Community Process, part of a broad spectrum of organizations behind a general strike in the city of half a million people, said water is unavailable 150 days of the year, the people “don’t have access to health care, teachers have not been paid in months,” and violence is rampant in poor neighborhoods controlled by paramilitary gunmen. “We don’t see opportunities for real peace in Colombia if Black people continue under these racist attacks by the national government,” said Mina-Rojas.
The late Robert L. Allen broke down the dialectics of Black elite co-option and counter-revolution. Hello, Kamala.
The Imperialist chickens have come home to roost.
The Poor People’s Army has a permit to march to the steps of the Democratic National Convention in August, but now Chicago authorities want to have a “conversation” with them.
Under pressure since the June 27 disastrous debate, the president exits the campaign creating more uncertainty on the political landscape.
Barack Obama earned the moniker of the "lesser evil" despite his evil deeds that, in many cases, were much more successful than those positioned as the greater threat. His image as the first African-…
