jBlack Agenda Radio for Week of March 26, 2018
Baraka on Leftists That Collaborate with Empire
âWe have not made a revolution in the U.S., but we have all these ârevolutionary theoristsâ that know exactly how to do that,â said Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka, sarcastically. He recently returned from a conference in Caracas in solidarity with Venezuela. Baraka called âcollaborationâ with U.S. aggressions against Venezuela and Syria âreally shameful on the part of people who call themselves leftists or radicals or whatever.â Any genuine left must oppose imperialism. âOur position, as citizens of empire, is to put a brake on empire.â
U.S. at Peace? Some Americans Think So
The U.S. Senate voted down, 55 to 44, a bill co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders that would have ended U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabia-led war against Yemen. However, veteran anti-war activist David Swanson saw the action as a sign of progress, given that the Senate has never conducted such a vote based on the War Powers Act. Swanson, publisher of the influential web site WarIsACrime.org and director of World Beyond War, has found that Americans âaround the country think that the U.S. is at peace, or think itâs engaged in a war somewhere, but canât remember the name of the country.
Outlaw Poverty, Says Activist
Nyle Fort, an activist with the Poor Peopleâs Campaign, was among the speakers at a New York City event designed to bring Black and immigrant communities together on issues of mass incarceration and deportation. Fort urged the crowd to âdream of a world where poverty is illegal.â The event, held at Manhattanâs Holy Rood Church, was titled âBreak Down Walls and Prison Plantations: Mumia, Migrants and Movements for Liberation.â
Theft is Part of U.S. DNA
You canât understand the present-day United States if you donât know its bloody history, said Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peopleâs History of the United States and her new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. The nationâs roots in organized theft of labor and land explains âwhy we have a real estate broker as president, just like our first president, the land speculator George Washington.â
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Three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, the consequences of a decision driven by siege, settlement expansion, and assaults on Al-Aqsa are still unfolding.
In this weekâs segment we hear about the right-wing politics of the anti-migrant movement in South Africa, ANC failures, and upcoming elections in that country. But we begin with the first and onlyâŚ
Chris Smalls discusses his memoir, "When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class," published by Penguin Random House. He is the first and only union leader to successfullyâŚ
Our guest is Nairobi based political writer and strategist Clinton Nzala. He joins us to provide an update and an analysis of the South African anti-migrant March and March movement, which isâŚ
The Hague Groupâs goal is to â. . . take coordinated legal and diplomatic measures against Israelâs violations of international law.â But international law was never a reality.
