Police Unions VS the Public, Mass Incarceration VS Restorative Justice
A radio interview by Chuck Mertz on This is Hell Radio.
Flint Taylor, co-founder of the Peoples Law Office in Chicago, who has represented the victims of police and political violence for 45 years explains the role of police unions, public defenders, the problems of supposedly progressive candidates who claim more cops will solve problems, and what restorative justice might look like.
Among much else, Flint Taylor is the author of "Blood On Their Hands: The Racist History of Modern Police Unions," and helped author model legislation now before Chicago's City Council that would guarantee reparations to the victims of police torture.
US imperialism is white supremacist capital on a global rampage, and must be countered by mass mobilizations of the oppressed -- like this weekendâs Black Is Back Coalition march on the White House
Rwanda's democratic opposition leader says âthere is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda.â
Almost half a year after the siege of the Venezuelan embassy by a right-wing mob, a journalist who helped defend the embassy has been thrown in jail.
San Francisco singer sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, ringlets trickling down âround Angelic paper bag brown face, like sweat gathering on her glass of white wine.
BAR will never stop linking the conditions of apartheid America with the imperialist wars waged against the people of Libya, Syria, or anywhere else.
