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Robyn Maynard
Toward a Police-Free Future in Canada
02 Jun 2021
The defund movement shows the way to divest from violence and repression, and invest in safety and life-affirming services. “In Canada, more than 70 defunding related events took place over the summer of 2020.” It’s been one year since the police publicly executed George Floyd in Minneapolis, and…
H. Claire Brown
How Corporations Buy—and Sell—Food Made With Prison Labor
02 Jun 2021
The small world of prison food production is a microcosm of the American food system, which all too o#en functions as a race to the bottom. “Prison labor is punishment first and foremost.” In 2011, Leprino Foods, the $3 billion company that supplies all the mozzarella to Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, and…
Adofo Minka
Jackson Mississippi’s Black Ruling Class Collaborates to Give Cops Cover to Kill
02 Jun 2021
The “radical” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has presided over the police killing of eight Black citizens since 2017. “The Jackson 8, those Black folks killed by the Black led police state, should not be forgotten.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger’s “Extraordinary Threat”
02 Jun 2021
Western media outlets, NGOs and powerful governments allied with the United States work in unison to deceive people about foreign policy. “Never underestimate how convincing, formidable and dishonest the propaganda apparatus is that supports US imperialism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamika Nunley’s “At the Threshold of Liberty”
02 Jun 2021
How Black women gave the term “liberty” its meaning and expanded the scope of liberty in the nation’s capital during the nineteenth century. “Washington, D.C. was southern in orientation even it was an important site of antislavery activism for abolitionists.”
Pascal Robert
Biden is Anti-Haiti, and His Haitian-American Press Person Doesn’t Give a Damn
02 Jun 2021
The current Haitian president is perhaps the most ineffectual US stooge to date, but Joe Biden and his Haitian American press person couldn’t care less. “Biden is currently supporting a political regime in Haiti almost universally loathed by the Haitian people.”
Quetzal Cáceres
Bob Wing’s Strategy to Build the “Anti-Racist State” to Replace the “Racist State” is Liberal Social Imperialist Nonsense
02 Jun 2021
What Wing has done is taken an important formulation and neutered it to serve neoliberal multiculturalism. “Wing’s formulation conveniently forgets about the rest of the world, as unfortunately many ‘anti-racists’ tend to do.”
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Before Tulsa there was Bethesda: The Cover-up of MAAFA (Genocide) and the Continuation of State Sponsored Racial Terror
02 Jun 2021
The Black community in Bethesda and descendants of those buried in Moses Cemetery demand an immediate halt to the destruction of their ancestors’ resting place. “White supremacists and the racist nature of land use policy in Montgomery County would not permit the community to accumulate…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
MOVE Tulsa to Gaza…
02 Jun 2021
The Mass Shooting Of The Day— this time was in San Jose… Do you know the way to San Jose? MOVE Tulsa to Gaza from Hiroshima-Nagasaki and you’ll find a Trail Of Tears—the sanguinary Long And Winding Road of plausible Deniability; and you’ll Know The Way To San Jose…The way the Du Ponts'…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence, Andiaye, 2013
02 Jun 2021
Andiaye, a tireless advocate for the rights and welfare of women in Guyana, agitated against the system’s “way of organizing the economy which creates poverty and then criminalizes it.” “The life of this woman cannot be transformed except if we confront the power relations that underlie both the…