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Bill Quigley
27 Arrested in "Stop Stop & Frisk" Action at Worst Precinct in New York City
02 Nov 2011
The 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn, racks up the highest number of stop-and-frisks in New York. Citywide, police will accost around 700,000 people this year, 85 percent of them Black and brown. Ten years ago, the figure was 86,000. Stop Stop and Frisk organizers plan another civil…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Occupy Where? What's In It For Black and Brown People?
02 Nov 2011
Those that initiated the early occupations in most cities were white. They have re-established the long-lost right of the poor to comngregate in public and express their discontent. If this is not to be a right which only whites enjoy, it's time for us to step up too. There will be race and class…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Occupy All the Harlems, to Save Ourselves from the Dictatorship of Wall Street
02 Nov 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The question for Black America is not what’s going on in the heads of young white people in Zuccotti Park, but how WE will organize in our own defense against Wall Street, which has “done more damage to Black people than anyone else” in the country. Barack…
Dr. Mark Naison
A Buffalo Story: How Mindless Application of Federal and State School Turnaround Mandates Undermine Communities
25 Oct 2011
by Dr. Mark Naison A bold effort to engage inner city Buffalo public school students in rebuilding and redesigning their own communities, is undermined by “reform” educational policies “which reduce students to test scores and graduation rates.” Their high school is doomed to change…
Mark P. Fancher
Obama’s Tragic Rorschach Perceptions of the Law, Africa and Military Intervention
25 Oct 2011
by Mark P. Fancher President Obama uses his training as a constitutional lawyer to find opportunities to spread violence and impose U.S. imperial will on Africa. He makes war against Libya and then denies having done any such thing. He sends troops to Uganda and other central African…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Butchering of Gaddafi Is America’s Crime
26 Oct 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Moammar Gaddafi’s last minutes gave clarity to NATO’s war in Libya. It is a mission of mass murder and theft of sovereignty through the arming of savages. “The saner sections of America’s psychological operations machinery were doubtless as horrified as…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Occupy Atlanta VS Kasim Reed, the Black Misleadership Class and the One Percent
26 Oct 2011
Why are police across the country arresting and dispersing occupation sites? And why is the Black Misleadership Class, and its black Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed threatened by the occupy movement? Why did Atlanta send copters, hundreds of police, and spend at least $800,000 to breakup Occupy Atlanta…
Bill Quigley
Black Agenda Report Urgently Needs Your Help
28 Oct 2011
It's come to this, dear readers. For five years now, Black Agenda Report has delivered you news, commentary and analysis from a black left perspective. In that time, we haven't begged much or often, compared to other places on the internet that deliver a lot less and spend a lot more…
Dady Chery
The Uses of Haiti’s Poor Children: Guinea Pigs for Cholera Vaccines
02 Nov 2011
by Dady Chery Foreigners always bring death to Haiti. United Nations soldiers acting as enforcers of American, French and Canadian rule brought cholera to the country, killing more than 6,000 and sickening half a million. Yet, the galaxy of NGOs that also descended on Haiti have done been…
Donna Lamb
Occupy Harlem Campaign Launched
02 Nov 2011
by Donna Lamb New York’s Harlem is in the process of occupying itself. "We need a radical transformation of the current status quo – the banks financing and controlling the political process, buying out politicians in both parties to protect the economic interest of the one percent.” The…