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Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: La Resistencia
22 Apr 2020
Public pressure works. Some local entities are not willing to work with ICE anymore. “Our goal is not just to put money on their commissary, but for them to be free.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Bennett’s “Being Property Once Myself”
22 Apr 2020
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique. “There is an inextricable bond between black freedom struggle, the study of black letters, and the stewardship of the Earth.”
Linn Washington
Wrong On Weed – Blacks And Marijuana Myths
22 Apr 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization. “Studies expose stupidity on 'smoke.'” When New Jersey State Senator Ronald Rice roadblocked legislation to legalize adult use of marijuana in the ‘…
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, and Du Xiaojun
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus. “There is no clarity that it emerged directly from the Wuhan market.” Part 1: Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of CoronaShock Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a…
Lee Fang
Wall Street Fat Cats Back Challenger to AOC in Primary
22 Apr 2020
Finance capitalists collected nearly $1 million in the first three months of the year to oust Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a registered Republican until a few years ago.” Wall Street Titans are financing a direct challenge to firebrand progressive lawmaker Rep.…
Don Fitz
Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
22 Apr 2020
Before Cuba experienced its first COVID-!9 case it had already updated a plan to prevent and control the disease. “Cuba has 8.2 doctors per 1,00 people while the United States has 2.6 doctors per 1,000.” Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between…
Pierre Labossiere
Resisting Covid-19 in Haiti
22 Apr 2020
There are only around 124 intensive care unit beds and less than 100 ventilators for a population of about 11 million. “The authorities care only about lining their pockets.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism
23 Apr 2020
The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
22 Apr 2020
The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for supply chain collapse. “Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2020
The coup in Bolivia and the Bernie Sanders campaign were in your thoughts this week.