Black Women Lead Fight Against Police Violence in UK
One reason Black women are in the forefront of British anti-police violence campaigns, is to counter the capitalist smear that Black families are ānot capable of raising children, leading to criminality,ā said Adam Elliott-Cooper, an activist and PhD candidate at Kingās College, in London. Black women fight back by āarticulating their love for family by challenging police violence.ā Elliott-Cooper wrote a paper which concluded that every recent campaign to protest the killing of Blacks by British police has been led by a woman.
NYC To Celebrate Release of Last Move 9 Prisoner
āWe want to show our appreciation and love for what this 73 year-old man has gone through,ā said Gwen DeBrow, one of the organizers of a reception for Delbert Africa, who was released from prison after 42 years of confinement in the death of a Philadelphia policeman. The event is scheduled for Saturday, March 14, at the Holyrood Episcopal Church in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. DeBrow, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, described the surviving members of the Move family as āstronger than ever, committed revolutionaries to the liberation of all forms of life.ā
Teaching bell hooks
One of the books Boke Saisi most enjoys sharing with her students at the University of California at San Diego, is bell hooksā āWhere We Stand: Class Matters.ā Saisi is a PhD candidate who contributed a column to Black Agenda Reportās feature, āBooks I Teach.ā The chapter āBeing Richā is especially useful in showing how āracism and racist caste systems are inherent parts of the capitalist system,ā said Saisi.
Marxās āCapitalā as a Literary Experience
Columbia University PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature Tiana Reid finds that her students benefit from reading volume one of Karl Marxās āCapital.ā āThere are so many literary wsys to read it, which I donāt think blunt the more radical political reading,ā said Reid, who conducts research in Black Studies, Marxism and feminism.
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The Black Alliance for Peace released a statement in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel.
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For the tenth time in the last 30 years, the United Nations vote to authorize an occupation of Haiti.
