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South African Police Unleash Water Cannons and Rubber Bullets During Virus Lockdown
01 Apr 2020
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home. “Police were accused of tasering and beating a man to death after the man was caught going to buy beer.” Despite efforts by President Cyril Ramaphosa to enforce a pandemic…
Ed Morales
The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ Revolution
01 Apr 2020
Historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists. “The Lords synthesized ideology with practical political activity pretty much on the fly and constructed an urban version of liberation theology along the way.”
Jojo Goldman
"I'm Detained at Rikers Island and I'm Sick With Coronavirus"
01 Apr 2020
“The corrections officers think it’s a joke, and I be telling them, ‘This is serious, man.’” “The Department of Corrections is not prepared to handle this crisis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brenna Greer’s “Represented”
01 Apr 2020
This book demonstrates the challenges of pursuing rights or recognition through capitalism and the market. “The more strategic route is to expose representational regimes that tie equality, civil rights, and humanity to normativity as constructed and lethal.”
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
01 Apr 2020
The system is a disaster and the victims can best determine their own needs -- only the people save the people. “Mutual aid builds power from below, more effectively than any other means.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 Apr 2020
This week readers discussed the coronavirus’s relationship to NATO, sanctions, and the duopoly.
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband. “Cellphone cameras and access to social media have become a mandatory survival tool like condoms during the HIV/AIDs crisis.” “Please, please help me. No, I don’t want to put handcuffs on. No! Don’t put…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system. “Billions of dollars were allocated to business while millions of people are facing an increasingly desperate…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Flattening the curve on Capitalism?
01 Apr 2020
CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo, heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…” “Yes, like ’08— Heads we win—and tails they loose?” “Gentlemen, toast to health risk over economic risk— and let’s be like Mike, with cures like stop and…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths
01 Apr 2020
This is going to become a problem for the Pentagon, whether it's on Navy destroyers, submarines, and aircraft carriers or the 800+ bases. “The Space Command will be one more operation trying to get in line while we don’t have masks, gloves, gowns, ventilators, ICUs, or even tests.”