Black Is Back Coalition: Fight US Imperialism at Home and Abroad
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will mark its tenth anniversary with a march on the White House and national conference under the banner, âTurn Imperialist Wars Into Wars Against Imperialism.â Although Donald Trump and Barack Obama are very different presidents, the enemy remains the same: US imperialism, says Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela. âItâs necessary, not just to simply protest and condemn what the US government is doing, but to open up new fronts of struggle here in the United States,â said Yeshitela.
US Cops Act Like Soldiers, While US Soldiers Police the World
Local police and foreign-deployed US militaries both practice a kind of âcommunity policingâ designed to control and gather intelligence on occupied populations, said Dererka Purnell, a movement lawyer, writer and activist. Purnell recently published an article in War and Peace, titled âMass Shootings, Militarism and Policing are Chapters in the Same Manifesto.â
Pelosi Slow to Impeach Trump, But Quick to Collaborate With Him
Shahid Buttar, a lifelong activist who is trying to unseat Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi in her home district of San Francisco, says Pelosi âhas actively enabledâ the Trump administration by submitting to congressional restrictions on social spending while âsupporting Trumpâs foreign policy and international violations of human rights.â Buttar is the former director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.
Abayomi Azikiwe joins us to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused theâŚ
Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targetedâŚ
Rafiki Morris joins us from Washington D.C. to discuss the upcoming demonstration, âOpen the Peoples National Assembly in Guinea-Bissauâ and why this action is so important.
Dr. Jemima Pierre joins BreakThrough News to discuss the nationwide uprisings in Haiti where thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets calling for the ouster of the unelected Prime MinisterâŚ
Public reaction to the Fani Willis soap opera is an example of how cynical Black misleadership creates confusion among the masses.
