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Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition and Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ejeris Dixon
15 Apr 2020
Mutual aid efforts are proliferating in this time of epidemic, organizing communities towards self-determination by creating mechanisms that oppose the state violence. “Support organizations need to think through safety teams for their building, blocks, streets, or even whole neighborhoods…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
15 Apr 2020
How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor? “Racial outsourcing occurs when organizations transfer the work of reaching communities of color onto the few black professionals in their…
Max Rameau
Capitalism’s Weak Doses of Socialism to Treat the Economic Infection of COVID-19
15 Apr 2020
The same proposals that were demonized yesterday as radical socialism are embraced today to save the society from collapse. “The Democratic party will attempt to take credit for things they did in agreement with Republicans, but never pursued when in power themselves.” The global…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…NOW’S THE TIME…
15 Apr 2020
coronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical neglect; over shattered ruins of poverty like a good traveler: simple and silent; appreciative of hosts beneath stars and bars Below the…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
15 Apr 2020
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump. “Trump is a useful idiot for the neoliberal forces who are in power.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
15 Apr 2020
While the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats. “The US Navy’s Pacific Command is not in its normal operational mode.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Yellow Skin, White Masks: Andrew Yang and the Democratic Party’s School of White Supremacist Thought
15 Apr 2020
Yang’s hope that Asian-Americans fight racism by marrying themselves to American exceptionalism is nothing more than an attempt to maintain his own economic privileges. “Yang’s insistence that Asian-Americans drape themselves in the American flag is particularly egregious.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: COVID-19 and Deadly Health Care for Black People
15 Apr 2020
Even if the United States had a strong public health system, Black and brown people would be plagued by racist medical practices. “In all likelihood the American vaccine will be tested on black people.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left
16 Apr 2020
Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” presidential candidate as this never-in-our-lifetimes crisis unfolds. “A core of Sanders supporters…
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…