Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
From Peace Conference: Attorney General Must Open Investigation into Case of Mumia Abu Jamal
28 Jul 2010
US political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal is not far from the last stop on the death bus... that is, from execution. Recently some US participants in an international death penalty conferences…
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Shirley Sherrod's Bizarre Week in the Sacrifice Zone
28 Jul 2010
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In the wake of the Sherrod Affair, “one is obliged to ask: Does this administration have a moral center?” The Obama administration has a hair-trigger…
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Old Wounds and New Pain: The Oscar Grant Tragedy
28 Jul 2010
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad With maddening repetition, we are taught and re-taught the same lesson: Black life is cheap in America. “The burden of blackness is to prove one’s innocence, to…
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Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
28 Jul 2010
by Bill Quigley The author enumerates the ways American “justice” is used as a weapon to beat down Black people. “The criminal justice system,’ he writes, ”from start to finish, is seriously racist…
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A Roller Coaster Week in the Anti-Amusement Park of Radical Politics
21 Jul 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR editor and columnist Jared A. Ball, Ph.D. The bad news has come hot and heavy, lately: leniency for a killer cop, a draconian sentence for a people’s…
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James Edward “Billy” McKinney Laid to Rest
21 Jul 2010
by Cynthia McKinney Former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney spoke at the funeral of her father and co-struggler, July 19. Thousands attended the…
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Reparations…for Present Injustice
21 Jul 2010
by Paul Street The author’s problem with African American reparations is that some of the demands seem to stop with the demise of Jim Crow. “Why stop with the 20th century?” Racist crimes that…
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DNA and “the Banality of Evil”
21 Jul 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson First, the criminal justice system failed the Black victims of an LA serial killer. Now, the system embraces a family DNA aggregator approach that is certain to further…
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An Open Letter to the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement: Suggestions on Next Steps, Strategy and Unity Building
21 Jul 2010
by Kali Akuno A veteran activist wants the “movement” to debrief itself – engage in criticism and self-criticism – in the wake of the Oscar Grant killing verdict. “This small contribution is an…
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Lynne Stewart Gets Ten Years – The Progressive Movement Gets Lethal Injection
21 Jul 2010
by U-Savior It’s time to regroup, rethink, and possibly re-boot the “movement,” which has been gravely damaged from inside and out. “The back biting and murmuring amongst the agenda-less,…