Black Agenda Radio for week of September 11, 2017
Peace and Enviro Activists Seek Collaboration
Anti-war and environmental activists will hold a joint conference at American University, in Washington DC, September 22 and 23, to foster closer collaboration between the two movements. Historically, said veteran peace activist David Swanson, the big environmental groups âdonât think itâs strategic to get involved with offending funders and media outlets by taking on the âpatrioticâ public warmongering machine.â The U.S. military is the worldâs biggest polluter.
U.S. Rulers Seen As Illegitimate
American government, business and media institutions have lost legitimacy in the eyes of the people, said Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro. âThis is a real opportunity for movement building, for coalition building,â said Montiero. âThe growing contradiction between the majority of the American people and the elite is probably sharper than at any time in the last 70 years.â
Make the Cops Accountable
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations and its allies will present a resolution to the Philadelphia City Council, this week, demanding Black community control of the police. Coalition spokesman Diop Olugbala said the resolution proposes that a commission, âdemocratically elected on the block and neighborhood level,â would be empowered to âhire, fire, train and discipline police forces in our community.â
âSwiping It Forwardâ in the NYC Subways
The Coalition to End Broken Windows Policing has been descending into the New York City subway system, urging folks with unlimited fare cards to swipe entrance for young and poor riders, so they wonât be swept up by the cops for turnstile hopping. âWeâre also highlighting the increase in homelessness because of increasing rents,â said activist Lauren Concepcion.
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Fight Mass Incarceration Like Our Ancestors Fought Slavery
âPervasive racism in the medical professionâ is to blame for the fact that three times as many Black mothers die in child-birth as whites,â said Dana-Ain Davis, author of âRep
The agreement reached between civilians and the Sudanese military to share power in a three-year transitional government has a good chance to succeed if peace agreements can be finalized with armed
A delegation of the Black Alliance for Peace was honored by the Venezuelan government and citizens for taking part in protecting that nationâs embassy in Washington from takeover by coup plotters.
âItâs remarkable how much the prison system looks like the institution of slavery,â said Kellie Jackson, author of âForce and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of
