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 ânot capable of raising children, leading to criminality,â said Adam Elliott-Cooper, an activist and PhD candidate at Kingâs College, in London. Black women fight back by âarticulating their love for family by challenging police violence.â 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
âWe want to show our appreciation and love for what this 73 year-old man has gone through,â 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 âstronger than ever, committed revolutionaries to the liberation of all forms of life.â
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 hooksâ âWhere We Stand: Class Matters.â Saisi is a PhD candidate who contributed a column to Black Agenda Reportâs feature, âBooks I Teach.â The chapter âBeing Richâ is especially useful in showing how âracism and racist caste systems are inherent parts of the capitalist system,â said Saisi.
Marxâs âCapitalâ 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 Marxâs âCapital.â âThere are so many literary wsys to read it, which I donât think blunt the more radical political reading,â said Reid, who conducts research in Black Studies, Marxism and feminism.
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The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New Yorkâs Civilian Complaint Review Board. â
Some Africans in America identify with people like Harris because THEY see their class interests, as she does, as being intertwined with the interests of the American capitalist system.
You Canât Understand Capitalism Without Race
Social discontent rises with the level of fatalities and government incompetence during the current epidemic, said the nationâs best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal.
The official US position, that this country holds no political prisoners, is part of âthe lie and the founding mythology of US âdemocracy,ââ said Nyle Fort, a Princeton Univer
