Despite what their elected officials say and do, and despite the unceasing pro-war propaganda of corporate media, most Americans still favor a winding down and withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan and lots of other places. Addressing that disconnect between the will of the American people and the deeds of our public officials is the task of a revitalized movement for peace and justice. Among the organizers, thinkers and do-ers that came together last weekend in Albany NY was our own Glen Ford...
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The author examines how Black youth in post-apartheid South Africa imagine freedom under tremendous systems of constraint. 
This arena of the mutual aid movement is energized by “a vision of the absence of prisons, jails, detention, and criminalization.”
The feds don’t keep racial data on the coronavirus, but local reports show Blacks are dying at multiple the rates of whites in some cities.
A century ago, In cities across the nation, black people struck by the flu were often left to fend for themselves.
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign.
