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.
It was natural enough. To be white in Mississippi is to be a Republican, to be black is to be a Democrat.
“The imperial populace is immensely forgiving of crimes against weaker peoples.”
Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya discuss building a solidarity economy at Cooperation Jackson - from the project's roots in the New Afri
“Anyone and anything connected to Russia gets the double standard treatment and is targeted for attack.”
Last year the African Union resisted Western pressure to intervene militarily in Burundi.
