Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Black Agenda Radio, week of April 29, 2015
29 Apr 2015
🖨️ Print Article

This week's entire show is selections from last weekend's conference in St. Louis MO on Community Control of Police.

The crisis means it's time to imagine self determination for our communities.

What cops do in our communities will not change unless our communities are in the position to give the police their orders, according to Omali Yeshetila of the African Peoples Socialist Party. It's time to lift our sights beyond this black face and that reform and wrap the black political imagination and political practice around the project of actually controlling what the police do.

Hiring more black cops and “sensitivity training” won't prevent more Fergusons.

As long as the core mission of the police include counter-insurgency and being the intake valves for black mass incareration, hiring more black police doesn'will nott change what police do, explains Glen Ford. Neither will so-called “community policing” or sensitivity training for cops. The policing mission will only change when there is authentic community control of the institution of the police.  

Nothing in political is ever guaranteed, says Larry Hamm of the Peoples Organization for Progress in Newark NJ.

The only solution to a system out of control is mass organization to confront the powers that be.  If power will concede nothing without demands, it's up to the organized people to make real and significant demands to change the way society is ordered, and to put their energies, if need be, their bodies on the line behind those demands.



Your browser does not support the audio element.

listen
​http://blackagendaradio.podbean.com/mf/web/5krg2z/BAR_042715.mp3

More Stories


  • Cuba
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    U.S. Continues Economic Warfare Against Cuba
    29 Mar 2024
    Isaac Saney discusses recent events in Cuba, where shortages of food and electricity caused by U.S. sanctions have resulted in popular discontent, but also a continued commitment to resist.
  • ICSGP
    The International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine (IGCSP) Global Call to Action
    27 Mar 2024
    The International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine invited all signatory organizations to join a global call on Sunday, March 17, 2024 to share the ways groups are working to build public…
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    The People's Ceasefire
    27 Mar 2024
    The United States relented and abstained from voting on a UN Security Council resolution requiring Israel to abide by a two-week ceasefire. Popular pressure forced this small step. Organized…
  • Map of Haiti and Africa
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    SUMMARY: The U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability 10-Year Strategic Plan for Haiti, U.S. Department of State, March 24, 2023
    27 Mar 2024
    The US has a 10-Year Plan to pacify and occupy Haiti using tactics that try to hide its imperial motives. Last week, it was deleted from the website of the US Embassy in Haiti.
  • Solino mobilization
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    The Haitian State Is Neo-colonized, Not “Failed”
    27 Mar 2024
    ​​​​​​​Ann Garrison spoke to Professor Danny Shaw, who speaks fluent Haitian Creole and returned from his last trip to Haiti one month ago.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us