Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 12, 2018
The Chains That Bound Blacks and Indigenous Americans
Blacks and Native Americans share a history of enslavement at the hands of European settlers, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the University of Houston and author of the new book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean. âThe nature of ethnic cleansing in North America not only involved mass murder; it also involved mass enslavement,â said Horne. âYou can find, today, Native American DNA all over the world, because they were sent to the slave markets of Turkey, to Madagascar â all over the world.â
Ethnic Cleansing is Still U.S. Policy
âThe Black Misleadership Classâ acts as âagents and collaboratorsâ in the planned shrinkage of Black and brown populations, said veteran tenants organizer and Black Agenda Radio host Nellie Bailey, at a Tribunal on Ethnic Cleansing of the Black Community, in New York City. Father Frank Morales, an activist Episcopal priest, said, âWe have to create heat on the street, with masses of people. Then weâll see some changes.â
Happy Birthday, Jericho Movement!
The organization created by and for U.S. political prisoners -- most of them Black Panthers, some incarcerated for nearly 50 years -- marks its 20th anniversary, March 24. The Jericho Movement has taken the struggle to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. âWeâre trying to organize on an international level,â said co-chair Jihad Abdulmumit, âso that the world can see whatâs going on with our freedom fighters.â
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.
Racial inequity is the result of racist and capitalist policies and can't be defeated by the self-interested Black political class.
There is a long and terrible history of exploitation and abuse of Haitians and Haitian descended people in the Dominican Republic's sugar industry.
The US desire to secure Venezuela's oil has resulted in the easing of the diplomatic and commercial "maximum pressure" campaign. The Venezuelan government was resolute in its fight for sovereignty.
The opening of a new Canadian embassy in Rwanda is an effort to ensure that the plunder of Congo's mineral resources will continue under the protection of a US ally.
Analysis of the 2022 midterm election results and a report on the COP27 climate conference.
