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.
BAR contributor Pascal Robert takes the mic at Dead Pundits Society to discuss the Haitian scene, his love-hate relationship to the project of black nationalism and its relationship to class struggle…
A new book of essays by Mumia Abu Jamal sheds light on the historical roots of police violence. “The state will always utilize its ‘law" as a tool of repression, but movements must create and expand…
The Uhuru Movement is running a serious race for mayor and a city council seat in St. Petersburg, Florida, on a platform of social justice and reparations to the Black community. The Black south side…
Black Peace Advocate Wonders If Trump Can Reign in CIA President Trump’s cancellation of the CIA’s longstanding mission to train, arm and finance a jihadist overthrow of the Syrian government is…
President Trump’s cancellation of the CIA’s longstanding mission to train, arm and finance a jihadist overthrow of the Syrian government is recognition that “the Obama war has basically failed,” sa
