As protests rage across America against police brutality and systemic racism, Akunna Eneh, an activist from Boston, argues that the movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd has exposed the true face of American society.
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The police murder of George Floyd sparks mass protests throughout the world
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth will protest the police murder of George Floyd, not only in the United States, but in Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Brazil, South Korea and many other countries.
Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement are linked to historical lynchings
U.S. counties where lynchings were more prevalent from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved killings
‘Fight The Power’ by Public Enemy
The opening quotation, “Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight! Matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switch than fight!,” was taken from Chicago attorney and civil rights activist, Thomas “TNT” Todd.
Royalty “Letter To Your Flag” | 2018 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam
Unapologetically honest, attendees witnessed some of the Bay’s most outspoken youth poets.
We crunched the numbers: Police — not protesters — are overwhelmingly responsible for attacking journalists
WE ARE WITNESSING a truly unprecedented attack on press freedom in the United States, with journalists are being systematically targeted while covering the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Chart of the day
At the highest of levels of unemployment following the 2007-08 crash, there were 15.3 million jobless Americans.
From George Floyd back to the structural violence of capitalism
Across the country—in city after city—the people have erupted in righteous indignation to George Floyd’s recorded lynching. His extrajudicial murder set off a rebellion that had been primed by the highly publicized white-vigilante murder of Ahmaud Arbery and the botched, “no-knock” police raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her bed.
The Movement gets BIG–and its enemies reveal themselves
When things seem like they’re coming apart, we need to ask: for whom? it may be that things are finally coming together.
White House forced to retract claim viral videos prove Antifa is plotting violence
THE WHITE HOUSE engaged in an extraordinary act of rumor-mongering on Wednesday, releasing a compilation of viral video clips posted on social media recently by people who believed, wrongly, that the piles of bricks they came across had been planted there by anti-fascist activists, known as Antifa, to inspire violence at protests.
Agent provocateurs: Police at protests all over the country caught destroying property
Police all over the world commonly use plants and undercover cops to undermine protests.
What is the Bougaloo Movement?
There has been persistent speculation that peaceful protests against racism and police brutality may have been infiltrated by white provocateurs.
Demands for Trump removal grow as ‘fascist’ speech condemned as declaration of war against U.S. public
“Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late.”
Trump administration deploys military to the capital as nationwide protests continue
On Monday evening, President Donald Trump delivered a fascistic speech from the Rose Garden in which he announced the deployment of military forces in the capital and an escalation of police repression to end nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd one week ago.
The treason of the ruling class
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state.
New York police are attacking protesters-they know they won’t face consequences
The Civilian Complaint Review Board, New York’s independent office for investigating police abuses, has received 467 complaints since Friday, when the protests started, “and is committed to fully investigating them,” a board spokesperson told The Intercept.
Louisville Police left the body of David McAtee on the street for 12 hours
To lose your job when someone has died at your hands is a small price to pay.
U.S. campaign against Cuba’s medical brigades targets healthcare, not ‘forced labor’
For decades, Cuba has sent tens of thousands of its medical professionals abroad to work in countries where natural disasters or poverty have left people without healthcare. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the catastrophic U.S. response to it, the absurdity of a propaganda war against Cuban medical missions has become more obvious […]
The World at crossroads
Radical reforms in reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investment rather than as liabilities and look for ways to make the labour market less insecure. […]
“A riot is the language of the unheard”
More than 50 years ago (on 14 April 1967), Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of his famous speeches, on “The Other America,” at Stanford University.* King patiently explained to the audience of students and faculty members that, while in his view “riots are socially destructive and self-defeating,” they are “in the final analysis. . […]
