Black Agenda Radio for week of September 11, 2017
Peace and Enviro Activists Seek Collaboration
Anti-war and environmental activists will hold a joint conference at American University, in Washington DC, September 22 and 23, to foster closer collaboration between the two movements. Historically, said veteran peace activist David Swanson, the big environmental groups âdonât think itâs strategic to get involved with offending funders and media outlets by taking on the âpatrioticâ public warmongering machine.â The U.S. military is the worldâs biggest polluter.
U.S. Rulers Seen As Illegitimate
American government, business and media institutions have lost legitimacy in the eyes of the people, said Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro. âThis is a real opportunity for movement building, for coalition building,â said Montiero. âThe growing contradiction between the majority of the American people and the elite is probably sharper than at any time in the last 70 years.â
Make the Cops Accountable
The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations and its allies will present a resolution to the Philadelphia City Council, this week, demanding Black community control of the police. Coalition spokesman Diop Olugbala said the resolution proposes that a commission, âdemocratically elected on the block and neighborhood level,â would be empowered to âhire, fire, train and discipline police forces in our community.â
âSwiping It Forwardâ in the NYC Subways
The Coalition to End Broken Windows Policing has been descending into the New York City subway system, urging folks with unlimited fare cards to swipe entrance for young and poor riders, so they wonât be swept up by the cops for turnstile hopping. âWeâre also highlighting the increase in homelessness because of increasing rents,â said activist Lauren Concepcion.
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In this weekâs segment, we discuss football, why it isnât popular in the US, how it can be, sports as consciousness raising, and the nation of Brazil and its Black population. But first, we have theâŚ
Mary Frances Phillips is an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She joins us from Detroit to discuss her biography of Ericka Huggins, "âŚ
Robert Wilson is a U.S.-born philosopher who has lived in Brazil for many years. He is the author of âThe Football Manifesto and Club Handbook: Bringing the Beautiful Game to the People and MakingâŚ
It is true that Barack Obama used the surveillance state apparatus in an effort to undermine the first Donald Trump administration with the Russiagate fraud.
âWhen the American and West Indian Negroes get to know their historyâŚthey will have a greater love for the African through whom they have sprung.â
