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Judy Lubin
Systemic Racism Is Making Coronavirus Worse in Black America
15 Apr 2020
COVID-19 is a perfect storm of systemic inequities operating together to worsen existing vulnerabilities. “Long before COVID-19, Black communities were experiencing deep health and economic inequities that are only intensified by a public health crisis of this magnitude.”
Independent Political Report
Sanders Supporters Pledge to “#DemExit” and “#GreenEnter” to Make a Home in a Party That Shares Their Core Values
15 Apr 2020
Online contributions to the Green Party tripled after Sanders’ capitulated to Biden, and ten times as many people signed up to volunteer. “It’s time for people to see that backing progressive candidates in the ‘Democratic’ Party is a dead end.” The Green Party of the United States reported an…
Quetzal Cáceres
The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death
15 Apr 2020
The blame-anyone-other-than-Sanders apologists exposed themselves as devotees to a cult of personality devoid of any real political strategy. “The sense of denial of the calamity staring us in the face— a Biden or Trump presidency in an era of economic collapse and climate catastrophe— is…
Belen Fernandez
Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19
15 Apr 2020
Media outlets have exploited the current pandemic to disseminate rank anti-Cuban propaganda. “Cuba has made historically impressive advances in biotechnology, ‘despite the US blockade obstructing access to technologies, equipment, materials, finance and even knowledge exchange.’”
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition and Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ejeris Dixon
15 Apr 2020
Mutual aid efforts are proliferating in this time of epidemic, organizing communities towards self-determination by creating mechanisms that oppose the state violence. “Support organizations need to think through safety teams for their building, blocks, streets, or even whole neighborhoods…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
15 Apr 2020
How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor? “Racial outsourcing occurs when organizations transfer the work of reaching communities of color onto the few black professionals in their…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Apr 2020
This week white supremacy and aggression on Venezuela were on your minds. We share your letters for “Affirmative Action for White People” and “Trump Sends Gun Boats to Venezuela While the World Partners to Fight a Deadly Pandemic.”
Max Rameau
Capitalism’s Weak Doses of Socialism to Treat the Economic Infection of COVID-19
15 Apr 2020
The same proposals that were demonized yesterday as radical socialism are embraced today to save the society from collapse. “The Democratic party will attempt to take credit for things they did in agreement with Republicans, but never pursued when in power themselves.” The global…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…NOW’S THE TIME…
15 Apr 2020
coronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical neglect; over shattered ruins of poverty like a good traveler: simple and silent; appreciative of hosts beneath stars and bars Below the…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Coronavirus and the Crisis of African American Human Rights
15 Apr 2020
Pushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump. “Trump is a useful idiot for the neoliberal forces who are in power.”