American money and American moral and political support has been really important in creating this backlash in Europe against feminism, LGBT rights and basic equality. The reason we started looking at this was it didn't add up how much these groups were able to organize, and the size of these organizations, based on the size of the bases they could reach when they started. A lot of these groups seemed to suddenly spring up. That a lot of their funding is coming from the US explains that.
Journalist Adam Ramsay traces money fueling Europe's far right back to Christian fundamentalists in the US - as a way to create new political spaces within Europe for the far right to advance against gay and trans rights, immigration and abortion, and as cover for a global reactionary movement in service of oligarchs on both sides of the Atlantic.
openDemocracy released the report Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian âfundamentalistsâ pour millions of âdark moneyâ into Europe, boosting the far right.
The African conservation movement is run by European and American NGOs and wealthy individuals. Land grabs are committed in the name of biodiversity.
This segment examines the policing and incarceration systems and how the political duopoly protects them instead of protecting the people. CURB's mission is to reduce incarceration inâŚ
Amber-Rose Howard is Executive Director of CURB, Californians United for a Responsible Budget. CURB is a Black-led coalition of 80 grassroots organizations dedicated to reducing the number ofâŚ
Matthew Johnson is a minister and activist in Atlanta and Interim Executive Director at Beloved Commune. He joins us from Atlanta to discuss the building of a police training facility that isâŚ
Dr. Gerald Horne reminds us that Esther Cooper Jackson, Louise Thompson Patterson, and Dorothy Burnham made many contributions as liberation movement leaders.
