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This Is Hell
Welcome To Neoliberal Chicago, the Privatized City of the Future
11 Feb 2015
A radio interview courtesy of This Is Hell Radio, by Chuck Mertz Chicago elects a mayor Feb 24. Barack Obama cut commercials for privatizer Rahm Emanuel? Rahm gave Chicago an “Infrastructure Trust Board” appointed by the mayor with power to overrule all local laws. His public schools chief…
Candy Gonzalez
Selma, the Movie: “White” Washing History
11 Feb 2015
by Candy Gonzalez Veterans of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee have good reason to be unhappy with the group’s depiction in the movie Selma. The film “portrayed James Forman, the head of SNCC as a little boy when in actuality he was older than King.”
The Editors
Action Alert –Prison Officials Denying Russell Maroon Shoatz Treatment for Prostate Cancer – Call Prison Today
11 Feb 2015
by the Editors Political prisoner and former Black Panther Russell Maroon Shoatz #AF3855 was informed that he had prostate cancer on December 9, 2014. Prison medical staff has not provided any treatment to date. Cancer does not wait for the prison bureaucracy. Maroon’s health, his life,…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on The State Machine’s Machinegun-Totin’ Cops…
01 Jan 1970
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Dey got Glocks, pumps, tasirs, peppurspray, vess— White magik fo’ conjurin’ cases ob “resisin’ aress!”
The Real News Network
Blacks Launch Class Action Suit Against Ferguson & Jennings MO Alleging Discriminatory Over-Policing
11 Feb 2015
by the Real News Network Blacks have launched a class action suit against the towns of Ferguson and Jennings, Missouri, demanding compensation for disproportionate traffic tickets, fines and jailings. BAR executive editor Glen Ford discussed the case on the Real News Network.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Complexities of Black Community Control of Police
12 Feb 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Black Lives Matter movement has been remarkably successful in drawing tens of thousands of young people into direct confrontation with the coercive powers of the State: the police. One of the hardest tests lies ahead. “The principles undergirding Black…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Loretta Lynch is Condoleeza Rice With A Law Degree
12 Feb 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In private practice Loretta Lynch was a “white collar crime specialist” keeping banksters, tax evaders and money launderers out of jail. She did exactly that at Obama's Justice Department, passing get out of jail cards in the biggest money laundering cases in…
Bill Quigley
The “Wait ‘Til He Gets In” Delusion: The President Elect is Not a Latent Lefty
17 Dec 2008
by Paul Street Despite all the evidence to the contrary, there are still those who think that Barack Obama "is a ‘true progressive' whose left and democratic orientation has been ‘squandered' or carefully hidden thanks to his national political ambitions and/or the influence of his political…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
School Closings Come To Atlanta This Week, To Your City Next Week: It's Time To Dump Arne Duncan
11 Apr 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A national movement to save public education is coming to life, in the face of a decades-long bipartisan campaign to discredit, de-fund, destabilized and destroy public education. President Bush's Education Secretary said teachers unions were terrorist…
Michelle Renee Matisons and Seth Sandronsky
People's Benchmarks, People's Sovereignty: New Jersey’s Occupied School Districts
18 Feb 2014
by Michelle Renee Matisons and Seth Sandronsky New Jersey pioneered the practice of abolishing democracy in education through state takeovers of mostly minority school districts. “Not only was New Jersey the first U.S. state to implement school district takeover, it has some of the longest occupied…