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.
âMainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement.â
âWhite workers have not only failed to precisely identify their class enemies, they have also held on to the racial baggage of their ancestors.â
âBlack working class militancy is THE essential precondition for the fight against racism, but it is not sufficient.â
Margaret Kimberley on the CBC protecting police as a class, William Hartung on the bloated US military budget, Akile Anai on reparations and protecting the homeless in St.
At $716 billion, the US military budget is larger than the defense spending of the next ten nations, combined, yet is mostly wasted, said William Hartung, author of Prophe
