Jaribu Hill is Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. She joins us to discuss a Mississippi political scandal involving a former governor who gave millions of dollars in funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to political cronies and even to a multi-millionaire former football star. In addition, the city of Jackson has been without clean water for more than a week. She joins us from Greenville to talk about Mississippi politics and how these two scandals came about.
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Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences.
Millions of Venezuelans are building socialism from below, and most of them are Black, brown and female.
The atrocities committed by white male shooters are part and parcel of US behavior both domestically and around the world.
Sting operations and the use of informants and agents provocateurs have become a staple of FBI operations.
