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.
The White House press corps, like the corporate media in general, are foot soldiers in a wider conflict between sections of the ruling oligarchy: Trump versus anti-Trump.
Can a Mom and Pop store be too big to fail? Could a mafia don be businessman of the year? Can a hitman plead, “Just doin’ my job?”
Readers challenged Glen Ford and Ann Garrison on the "white supremacist electoral bloc" in the US and genocide in Rwanda, respectively.
There is no doubt who won the midterm elections: the War Party, which for generations has been virtually unopposed in the US.
Julian Assange, a hero in the struggle against imperial wars and the lies that states tell to justify them, is in mortal danger.
