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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police is a Right and Necessity
12 Oct 2020
In response to protests, the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville has discontinued its ties to the Pentagon’s infamous 1033 program that funnels military weapons and equipment to local police.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Only Community Control Can Stop Police Atrocities
15 Sep 2020
A Minneapolis judge is moving forward with jury selection in the 2nd degree murder trial of the cop that killed George Floyd.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
10 Sep 2020
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Protest and Power
02 Jul 2020
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and accep
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police Must Answer to the Community
15 Jun 2020
The demand for community control of police ushers in a new stage of struggle, in which “young people are imagining a world where these tremendous institutions of imperialism and the police state ar
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
11 Jun 2020
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.
Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman
Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis
10 Jun 2020
Defunding the police might end the armed and uniformed force as we know it, but the ruling class will then hire mercenaries to protect their wealth and enforce their will.