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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Occupying Wall Street
05 Oct 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It is great that the Occupation “movement” exists, but unclear where it is going. Its leaderless nature may help to avoid cooptation and media manipulation, but there are equally serious drawbacks. “The movement may be doomed to…
David Bacon
Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice in Schools?
05 Oct 2011
by David Bacon The so-called “parent trigger” appears designed to achieve one result: increase the spread of charter schools under the guise of parental empowerment. Charter boosters may use the language of people power, but their funding comes straight from the oligarchs. “At its birth, Parent…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Wall Street as Public Enemy Number One
05 Oct 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford They are very young, very white, and largely inexperienced in organizing. But the Occupy Wall Street crew has picked the right target: finance capitalists, the class that is the common enemy of the human race. In that sense, “the Zuccotti Park campers…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Are Democracy Now!'s Libyan Correspondents Feeding Us the State Department and Pentagon Line on Libya?
05 Oct 2011
Is the independent media movement's flagship radio-TV show Democracy Now! pushing the State Department and Pentagon line on Libya instead of “going where the silence is” and telling the truth without fear or favor? Are its Libyan correspondents embedded with the US-backed Libyan rebels to such an…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Mahmoud Jibril and Qaddafi's Wealth Redistribution Project
02 Nov 2011
from Cynthia McKinney The historical record of Muammar Qaddafi’s leadership of Libya must be preserved against the false narrative of the regime changers. The real story is one of internal betrayal at the highest levels, as well as external aggression. The Libyan government bureaucrat…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Shaking the System
02 Nov 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Greek government, after months of demonstrations by a citizenry that rejects impoverishment for the sake of the bankers, has promised to submit the bailout plan to a referendum. This should be a lesson to the Occupy Wall Street…
Bill Quigley
27 Arrested in "Stop Stop & Frisk" Action at Worst Precinct in New York City
02 Nov 2011
The 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn, racks up the highest number of stop-and-frisks in New York. Citywide, police will accost around 700,000 people this year, 85 percent of them Black and brown. Ten years ago, the figure was 86,000. Stop Stop and Frisk organizers plan another civil…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Occupy Where? What's In It For Black and Brown People?
02 Nov 2011
Those that initiated the early occupations in most cities were white. They have re-established the long-lost right of the poor to comngregate in public and express their discontent. If this is not to be a right which only whites enjoy, it's time for us to step up too. There will be race and class…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Occupy All the Harlems, to Save Ourselves from the Dictatorship of Wall Street
02 Nov 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The question for Black America is not what’s going on in the heads of young white people in Zuccotti Park, but how WE will organize in our own defense against Wall Street, which has “done more damage to Black people than anyone else” in the country.…
Dr. Mark Naison
A Buffalo Story: How Mindless Application of Federal and State School Turnaround Mandates Undermine Communities
25 Oct 2011
by Dr. Mark Naison A bold effort to engage inner city Buffalo public school students in rebuilding and redesigning their own communities, is undermined by “reform” educational policies “which reduce students to test scores and graduation rates.” Their high school is doomed to change…