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BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
10 Dec 2020
This week the role of US elites in controlling resistance by Ugandans and Black Americans were on your minds. We share your letters for “BLM Chapters Demand ‘Accountability’ from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement” and “Uganda’s Youth Majority Brave Police Blockades and Bullets to Rally Behind…
Don Fitz
What Does the Esau Revolution Despise?
10 Dec 2020
The Democrats’ relentless suppression of the Green Party affected the mind-set of more voters than all the right-wing howls put together. “The birthright of the left is to inspire people with our dreams – just as progressive visions have motivated mass movements for two centuries.” “And…
Denise Lynn
Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War
10 Dec 2020
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists. “Harmless ideas like ‘peace and progress’ could be transformed into treasonous conspiracies.”
Flint Taylor
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: A Short People’s History
10 Dec 2020
Hampton's body was dragged from the bloodstained bed to the hallway floor, to be displayed as the raiders' trophy “He's good and dead now." Introduction
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
$election postmortem
10 Dec 2020
It was the Latino Vote… No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms! No, it was Mocha-sipping Millennials! No, it was Gen Z Cannabis Users! No, it was Independent Tattooed/Pierced Punks! No, it was Swinging Swing State Couples…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Coronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression
10 Dec 2020
Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they don’t like. “The CARES Act further entrenched power upwards by redistributing vast wealth to oligarchs and mega corporations.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Notes Toward a National Defense Organization Against Racism and Political Repression, 1973
10 Dec 2020
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis – but government spies preserved Davis’ speech. “We are here to build a united organization to defend existing movements, and to defend our communities from racist and politically…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Cuomo Wins an Emmy for Being an Effective Weapon of Corporate Power
10 Dec 2020
While liberals celebrate Biden and Cuomo at brunch, the situation for the growing class of “have-nots” in the U.S. and around the world becomes more grim. “Years of Cuomo-led austerity cuts came home to roost on the pandemic.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Demands for the Biden Administration
10 Dec 2020
The Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves. “The needs of the people are diametrically opposed to those of the donor class and their black misleader minions.” What do black people need most right now? The list is a very…
Kim Ives
Top Haiti Cop Specializes in Counter-Insurgency Intelligence Gathering and Repression
16 Dec 2020
Léon Charles, Haiti’s new national police chief, is a mass killer dedicated to suppressing the nation’s poor majority. “We saw a church and a school completely riddled with machine gun blasts.”