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.
Mike Africa Jr, the son of two MOVE 9 members imprisoned for the past four decades in a the death of a Philadelphia policeman, said supporters have stepped up efforts to free the i
"Democratic party leaders are as always firmly behind their Israeli clients, and their party machinery remains under lock and key."
Despite repeated protests, the Philadelphia Orchestra is going ahead with a planned trip to Israel to join in the apartheid state’s independence anniversary celebrations.
The logic of Zionism compels Israel to massacre scores of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza, said journalist and scholar Vijay Prashad.
The giant Whirlpool Corporation, which has long dominated the politics of 90 percent Black Benton Harbor, Michigan, “has not paid taxes” to the city for years, said Rev.
