Embassy Activists Face Prison in Trial Based on Trump Venezuela Fantasy
The jury in the February 11 trial of four US activists charged with disobeying police orders to relinquish their occupation of the Venezuelan embassy to supporters of self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido will not be told that the actual president is Nicolas Maduro, or that Guaido âhas never served a nanosecond as president,â said defendant Kevin Zeese. âThe little sliver of hope we have,â based on the judgeâs ruling, âis that we can say that we believed we were in the embassy with the permission of what we thought was the elected government of Venezuela.â The defendants face a year in prison and fines of $100,000 each.
Black Mothers and Children Die Because of Racist Medical âScienceâ
Centuries of medical experimentation on enslaved and free Blacks and scientifically erroneous assumptions about Black bodies have created âa crisis in Black maternal morbidity and infant mortalityâ in the US, said Deirdra Cooper-Owens, of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska. The crisis is only now being recognized because âthe chorus of protest is getting louder and louder.â Cooper-Owens is co-author of a paper titled âBlack Maternal and Infant Health: Historical Legacies of Slavery.â
The Global Struggle Continues â But So Does Racism
Students of all races should be exposed to the history of movements of liberation from colonialism and racist rule, said Nana Osei-Opare, a professor of history at Fordham University. Osei-Opare wrote a âBooks I Teachâ feature for the Black Agenda Report Book Forum. His reading list contains many works by luminaries in anti-colonial and socialist struggles that show âracism cuts across the fascists, the capitalists, the communists and the liberals,â said Osei-Opare. âRacism is racism, and thatâs something that I want students to see.â
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