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Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power. “Defunding the police – inevitably, in practice – is an immersion in Democratic Party budgetary dickering that legitimizes the imposition of the…
Lauren Smith
Truth + Justice = Green Party’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform
15 Jul 2020
With ballot access in most states and a comprehensive new program for world peace, the Green’s national ticket is ready to battle the oligarchs’ duopoly. “The fallacy that the Greens are a one-trick pony environmental group must be dispelled.”
Look Left Staff
Ajamju Baraka on Race, Class and Protest in the United States
15 Jul 2020
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka urged vigilance against US “attempts to control the narrative” of the Black Lives Matter movement. “They were scared to death of young black, white and brown people engaged in resistance.”
Riva Enteen
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Dump the Democrats
15 Jul 2020
The Democrats are likely to put forward a Black woman prosecutor to legitimize the mass incarceration plague that Joe Biden helped inflict on Black America. “Until we accept that the Democrats will never deliver, we will not look at alternatives.”
Mike Elk
How Black and Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes in the Digital COVID Age
15 Jul 2020
White labor leaders are failing to understand non-traditional organizing that has developed from viral social media movements. “On July 20 Black Lives Matters activists intend to hold strikes and work stoppages in more than 25 cities.” During George Floyd’s funeral on June 9th, Black…
Kathryn Bedecarré
Storming the Bastille: #BlackLivesMatter, “Allies” and the Fear of Black Revolt
15 Jul 2020
Does the belatedness and ubiquity/banality of allyship echo an anxiety about the enormous restraint that African Americans have exercised? “What is the difference between a yard sign that says BLM and a yard sign that says ‘Assata is welcome here?”
Chip Gibbons
Barr's New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
15 Jul 2020
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent. “By embracing preventive policing, the task force aims to eliminate the threat of dissent.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s “Prison By Any Other Name”
15 Jul 2020
Increased police technology, increased training and “community policing” tend to actually expand instead of decreasing policing. “The entire system of policing, surveillance and imprisonment is violent and grounded in white supremacy, and abolishing it is the only viable end goal.”
Jade Bentil
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
15 Jul 2020
The books in focus explore the ways an anti-black world tries to interdict the possibilities of Black life, and how Black people resist and overcome such assaults. “I don’t know of any Black scholar that would be able to do the work we’re endeavouring to do now without the brilliance of Toni…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Jul 2020
This week you had the Democratic Party, Libertarianism, and Native American relations with African Americans on your minds.