The US waged bloody wars in the 1970s and 80s to confine Nicaragua and El Salvador to its colonial "back yard." Although the victories of popular revolutions were partially rolled back, new governments with deep ties to popular forces have allied themselves with Cuba, which extricated itself from US empire half a century ago. In the third installment of this series by the producers of the groundbreaking "Ravaging of Africa" Asad Ismi and Kristin Schwartz bring us voices from Cuba and Central America as they endeavor to build new relationships that will enable them to prosper despite the unremitting hostility of the US to their aspirations.
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Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898;
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Newly released FBI files provide direct documentation that the FBI chief and other high officials were involved in the raid and the coverup that followed.
This week the uprising in Washington and Du Bois’s writings on the Soviet Union were on your mind.
We need a different relationship to and with time and temporality to imagine new worlds and to begin bringing those new worlds into being.
