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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Koni Benson’s “Crossroads: I Live Where I Like”
24 Mar 2021
This book challenges the myth that 1994 was the turning point in South Africa -- because the liberation process is unfinished. “Forced removals were not considered in the famous 1994 Truth and Reconciliation Process.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jean Casimir’s, “The Haitians: A Decolonial History”
24 Mar 2021
The worldview animating Haitian masses today is leading to a social context ungovernable within the framework of prevailing economic neo-liberalism. “Haitians denounced the very concepts used by the metropolitan countries to see and organize the world.“
Nick Alexandrov
US Government Turns Somalia Into Failed State to Steal Its Oil
24 Mar 2021
“Bombing Somali civilians is one of AFRICOM’s main projects,” writes Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, a young Somali historian. “A promising new frontier for oil exploration.”
Kayla Hui
The Answer to Anti-Asian Racism Is Not More Policing
24 Mar 2021
More policing rarely results in justice for anyone, and only puts Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color (BIPOC), including Asian people, at risk for more violence. “The model minority stereotype portrays Asian people as ‘successful’ and able to pull themselves up by the…
Tim Madigan
Remembering Tulsa
24 Mar 2021
In 1921 thousands of whites attacked the Black population of Tulsa, Oklahoma with machine guns, airplanes, fire and pure hatred, killing at least 300. “Greenwood, known at the time as the Negro Wall Street of America, on account of its affluence, resembled a city flattened by a massive bomb.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
PIMP: Paper In Militarists’ Pockets (Business as usual…)
24 Mar 2021
$13 billion aircraft carriers, $10 pencils and $500 hammers, renamed “portable hand-held transcribing devices” and “impact fasteners;” so war-profiteer pimps—war lords of Wall Street—can prance the planet with Pockets looking like they’ve got the mumps! Mirrored by their …
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: A Draft Proposal for the Founding of the International Working Peoples Association, 1979
24 Mar 2021
The following is a manifesto in the full sense of the word; a Black anarchist’s proposal for a sweeping approach to a nation and world without capitalism. “Ervin offers a remarkable, eloquent, militant, and feminist blueprint for a revolutionary re-organization of society according to anarchist…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
New Global Alliance Defends UN Charter in Clear Rebuke of U.S. Imperialism
24 Mar 2021
The United States has long positioned its imperial ambitions as the definition of international law and rejected entirely the spirit and authority of the U.N. Charter. “Since the end of World War II, the United States and its allies have spearheaded an international regime of terror.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Establishment Role in Anti-Asian Bigotry
24 Mar 2021
Joe Biden is no better than Trump in advocating de facto white supremacy with his foreign policy, and corporate media fan the flames of anti-Chinese racism. “The media in this country always use non-white people as the focus of suspicion.”
Alexi Jones and Wendy Sawyer
New Data on Jail Populations: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
31 Mar 2021
The pandemic forced many police departments, courts and jails to take steps that reformers had been demanding for decades. “But by the end of June 2020, the jail population had dropped by 25%; 185,000 fewer people were held in jails in June 2020 compared to June 2019.”