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Is Labor Ready to Challenge Obama?
The October 2 Washington march for jobs, announced by the NAACP and SEIU Local 1199 and now endorsed by the entirety of organized labor, āis an important shiftā from laborās āfailed policyā of avoiding conflicts with the Obama White House, according to Alan Benjamin, of the Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign. The WERC urges unions to demand single-payer health care, creation of 15 million WPA-type jobs and an end to U.S. wars.
The Ongoing Crime Against Black New Orleans
Five years after Katrina, the quality of life is worse for working people in New Orleans. Lance Hill, executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research, Tulane University, reports that as many as 150,000 former residents have not been able to return. The āeliteāsā plan to shut out and keep out much of the Black population, has been largely successful.
The Internet is Not a Movement
The Netroots Nation and others still drunk on ObamaāLaid mistake the traffic on the Internet for a real political movement, says BAR columnist Dr. Jared Ball. āIt seems not to matter whether or not Obama is good for us, or that the Internet didnāt prevent Oscar Grantās murder from occurring or prevent his killer from being handed an unjust non-sentence.ā
Wyclef Jean Serves Foreignersā Schemes for Haiti
Haitian community activist Ray LaForest says Wyclef Jeanās presidential candidacy is part of the U.S.-France-Canada āgrand planā to transform Haiti into the ācheapest source of labor in the Americas.ā The entertainerās move has heightened interest in an election from which the nationās most popular political party, exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristideās Fanmi Lavalas, has been excluded.
ntimidating the Rich
Angered over a land grab by the giant Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, Michigan, activists led by Rev. Edward Pinkney spoiled the opening of a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course developed by the company. The demonstrators shouted āJack Nicklaus, go home!ā and caused Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and rich patrons to seek a side exit. āWe intimidated them like they have never been intimidated,ā said Rev. Pinkney.
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 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour. Click here to download the show.
This week we hear about the implications of the anti-imperialist struggle in the African nation Guinea-Bissau.
Abayomi Azikiwe joins us to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused theā¦
Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targetedā¦
Rafiki Morris joins us from Washington D.C. to discuss the upcoming demonstration, āOpen the Peoples National Assembly in Guinea-Bissauā and why this action is so important.
Dr. Jemima Pierre joins BreakThrough News to discuss the nationwide uprisings in Haiti where thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets calling for the ouster of the unelected Prime Ministerā¦
