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.
Black Agenda Radio for week of August 28, 2017 Oligarchs Cannibalize the Economy
At this late stage of capitalism, “there’s nothing that’s going to impede their cannibalizing for profit,” said veteran journalist and author Chris Hedges.
In seeking the identities of 1.3 million visitors to a web site for protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration, last January, Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department is “trying to silence and chill and
The August 19 Millions for Prisoners Human Rights rallies across the country were highly successful, despite lockdowns in some state prisons.
Comedian and social activist Dick Gregory was targeted for surveillance and disruption by the COINTELPRO.
