Black Is Back Coalition: Fight US Imperialism at Home and Abroad
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will mark its tenth anniversary with a march on the White House and national conference under the banner, âTurn Imperialist Wars Into Wars Against Imperialism.â Although Donald Trump and Barack Obama are very different presidents, the enemy remains the same: US imperialism, says Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela. âItâs necessary, not just to simply protest and condemn what the US government is doing, but to open up new fronts of struggle here in the United States,â said Yeshitela.
US Cops Act Like Soldiers, While US Soldiers Police the World
Local police and foreign-deployed US militaries both practice a kind of âcommunity policingâ designed to control and gather intelligence on occupied populations, said Dererka Purnell, a movement lawyer, writer and activist. Purnell recently published an article in War and Peace, titled âMass Shootings, Militarism and Policing are Chapters in the Same Manifesto.â
Pelosi Slow to Impeach Trump, But Quick to Collaborate With Him
Shahid Buttar, a lifelong activist who is trying to unseat Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi in her home district of San Francisco, says Pelosi âhas actively enabledâ the Trump administration by submitting to congressional restrictions on social spending while âsupporting Trumpâs foreign policy and international violations of human rights.â Buttar is the former director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
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A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Fasoâs Ibrahim TraorĂŠ, resisting the Westâs dictates, but nothing could be further from theâŚ
Muriel Bowser is proving that Black faces in high places donât break systems, they grease them. While slashing wages for tipped workers and handing billionaires stadium deals, D.C.âs mayor is theâŚ
The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about powerâŚ
Malcolm X didnât just fight for Black liberationâhe waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than everâŚ
"A few lines for the Poet Ojenke..." is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
