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Henry A. Giroux
To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
23 Jun 2021
The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism. “The call for law and order repeatedly served as a smokescreen for racist and militarized police practices that equated Black behavior with criminality.”
Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris
The Case of Alex Saab - US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge
23 Jun 2021
The case involves the kidnapping of a diplomat by the world’s sole superpower locked in an unequal struggle to destroy the formerly prosperous, oil rich country of Venezuela. “Alex Saab has withstood a year-long arrest, torture, months of solitary confinement rather than comply with U.S. demands to…
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s Jazz and Justice
23 Jun 2021
He was stunned to ascertain that Europe was less racist toward those like himself in comparison to his homeland; “One study concludes that jazz served to sustain ‘anti-Americanism’ and this artistic bent also meant ‘solidarity with African Americans in opposition to white Americans.’”
Ella Fasslier
Over 100 Anti-Protest Bills Have Been Introduced Since George Floyd Rebellion
23 Jun 2021
The new laws are part of a larger trend of conservative, right-wing efforts at the state level designed to counter the goals of social movements. “Republican state politicians continue to attack the people rising up against those systemic injustices.”
Jennifer Bendery
Texas Governor Signs Law to Stop Teachers from Talking about Racism
23 Jun 2021
Texas mandates that its schools see no racism, hear no racism, and teach nothing about racism, racial oppression or racial capitalism. “The Texas measure is part of a nationwide effort by conservative Republicans to enact laws that prevent the teaching of ‘critical race theory…
Black Alliance For Peace
US Militarism Kills at Home and Abroad
23 Jun 2021
We regard militarism as the antithesis of revolutionary pan-African visions of Africa as a region freed from the destructive legacies of its patriarchal and colonial history. “African women must take a stand in the transnational movement to dismantle militarism.” Militarism is not just about men…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s Big Tooth Fund (For Drs. Rosenthal, Sapir and Ferdowsi)
23 Jun 2021
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…” —Karl Marx Reclined in my dentist’s chair, daydreaming in Numbers: #s 13, 15, 18, 19— “5 on # 13; 7 on # 15; 5 on # 18; 7 on # 19—“ Problematic, impacted, subtracted, divided—fractured, cracked numbers… Unequal distal-…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopians Go to the Polls Even After the US Tells Them Not to
23 Jun 2021
Many Ethiopians expressed enthusiasm for what they consider the country’s first real, competitive election, writes Ann Garrison. “Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia are now alarming US political and military elites by forming an alliance and threatening to chart an independent path in the Horn of Africa…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REVIEW ESSAY: A Truncated Story of Black Rebellion, Charisse Burden-Stelly
23 Jun 2021
Black violence functioned as both a political challenge to racial domination and a political rationale for both the intensification and normalization of aggressive and pervasive policing in poor Black communities. “Hinton exceptionalizes the U.S. in her study, ignoring the broader revolutionary…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Appearance Versus Essence: Biden is Stabilizing, Not Ending, Neoliberalism
23 Jun 2021
For neoliberalism to truly end, austerity and privatization must also come to an end and universal public programs such as nationalized healthcare and free higher education must exist within a context of peace. “A massive increase in the standard of living of workers and oppressed people must occur…