Why are hijacking the formerly left politics of Black America, and corporate takeovers of public education key to the hard right's agenda in the US? In an address this month at NYC's All Souls Unitarian Church, Glen Ford outlines the linked history of these two right wing efforts, from vouchers to charter schools to the new wave of black politicians like Cory Booker.
Click "read more" below for reference links.
To read Glen Ford's 2002 articles on the origin and strange career of Newark's Corey Booker, click the links below
The liberation struggle in colonial Kenya is a guide for mass mobilization today. Members of the Mapinduzi organization explain.
The African Union reversed its decision to suspend Israel's observer status.
Joe Biden says that Latin America is "in our front yard." Nations in the region declare independence by deepening their ties with China.
The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down.
…
