Sara Flounders is co-founder of the International Action Center, as well as a member of the United National Antiwar Coalition, a contributing editor for Workers World and a coordinator of the Sanctions Kill campaign. She joins us from Jersey City, New Jersey to discuss her work as editor of the newly published anthology, 'Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy.' The book provides analysis of U.S. unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which devastate millions of people around the world.
Beginning with the Slave tax, the US has overburdened Black communities with taxes for services that they often don’t get.
The academic laboratory of the Venezuelan coup is housed at Harvard. “Behind every US-backed war on a foreign people there will be a body of scholarly work.”
Black theologian Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage of Friendship deeply influenced the worldview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blacks and Palestinians share a common struggle against colonialism; Venezuelan elections the most transparent in the world; the "hard work" of becoming a billionaire is exploitation.
“The hard work of becoming a billionaire is called exploitation,” said William Anderson, co-author of “As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation.” Anderson
