First, we speak to Dr. Johnny Eric Williams who is Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College in Connecticut. Professor Williams has a special interest in the covid-19 pandemic and how it has been handled in this country. Covid continues to have an impact, but now there is an official consensus to act as though it has disappeared. The neglect of public health is a result of neoliberal policies. He joins us from Hartford, Connecticut.
Josmar Trujillo is a writer and activist based in New York City. He joins us to talk about policing in New York under mayor Eric Adams. You can find him on twitter @josmar_trujillo.
Dr. Philippe Gendrault joins us to discuss presidential election results in the French overseas territories of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. The candidate who was considered right wing, racist and even fascist, won the votes of majority Black populations. But the results don’t explain a more complicated story of voter apathy born of political disaffection and protest. Dr. Gendrault speaks to us from San Francisco.
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists.
The Democrats’ relentless suppression of the Green Party affected the mind-set of more voters than all the right-wing howls put together.
This week the role of US elites in controlling resistance by Ugandans and Black Americans were on your minds.
The U.S. military claims it is “green,” but what the Pentagon is really trying to prove is the planetary sustainability of war.
What happens if we really pay attention to what black folks in the rural South are saying and doing in their everyday lives?
