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.
Anthony Monteiro on the twilight of US empire; Black Alliance For Peace: Trump Should Withdraw From Syria, and African too; Carrie Bramen on the myth of “American Niceness.”
”American Niceness” can be deeply anti-social, according to the author of a book by the same name.
We are witnessing “the beginning of the end of a world order that was hatched after World War Two,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro.
The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “ille
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region.
