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Jon Jeter
911 Is a Joke: Preferring to Shoot Unarmed Blacks, Cops Find It Ain't No Fun When the Rabbit Has the Gun
01 Jun 2022
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) began after an LAPD raid on the Black Panthers in 1969 and spread throughout the country. Then as now they neither protect nor serve, as was the case in Uvalde, Texas when a gunman killed children while police stood by.
Orinoco Tribune
Gustavo Petro Wins in Colombia, 2nd Round Battle Begins
01 Jun 2022
The Historic Pact candidates Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez won the first round of the Colombian presidential election but now face conservative candidates in a June 19 runoff.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Witnessing and Making History: On Observing the 2022 Presidential Elections in Colombia
01 Jun 2022
"From May 26 to May 31, I was in Cali, Colombia serving as an election observer with an international delegation of mostly Black women. This is a preliminary report."
Roberto Sirvent and Julian Akil Rose
“The connections between policing and militaristic assault on the world are endless”: An Interview with Julian Akil Rose
01 Jun 2022
BAR Book Forum editor Roberto Sirvent and Julian Akil Rose discuss community organizing, Black Queer Feminism, the struggle for police and prison abolition, and an end to militarism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic of rifles (for Uvalde and other schools…)
01 Jun 2022
Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic of rifles (for Uvalde and other schools…)
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part 5
01 Jun 2022
Ann Garrison ends her reporting from the Horn of Africa with updates on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the conflict between Ethiopia and the TPLF.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and the Decline of the American Empire
03 Jun 2022
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) for Prosperity is another futile U.S. effort to diminish China's economic prowess. But IPEF also demonstrates systemic failure and a crisis of legitimacy.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Resolutions Passed by the Fourth Pan-African Congress, New York City, 1927
01 Jun 2022
The Fourth Pan-African Congress in New York in 1927 was the first held in the Americas, and the first organized by women.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Mass Shootings, Empire, and Racist, Copaganda Dog Whistles
01 Jun 2022
Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the…
Sheila Xiao and Manolo De Los Santos
The People’s Summit for Democracy Offers a Progressive Vision to Counter U.S. Dominance in the Region
31 May 2022
The People's Summit for Democracy will be a much needed counterweight to the U.S. dominated Summit of the Americas.