What good is freedom if you don’t know you are free? For slaves in Galveston, Texas, they were free but didn’t know it because they were not informed about the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order by the 16th United States President Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved people. On June 19, 1865, two years after slaves were declared free, General Gordon Granger informed slaves in Galveston about their freedom.
Due to Years of Austerity, Cuts to Public Health Care, And An Anti-Science and Profiteering President, The United States Now Leads the World In Coronavirus Cases and Deaths in the World! And Now the Total Caronavirs Deaths in the United States are Over 20% of the Total Death in the Entire World!
Capitalism Does Not, and Never Has, Worked for the Masses! In Its Death Agony, Capitalism Is Traveling About The World Like The Four Horsemen of the The Apocalypse, Spreading War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The very future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three-Point Political Program: 1.Austerity, 2.Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and 3. The Iron Heel! Always Remember: That President Obama, With a Majority Democrat Legislature Supported the Wall Street Bailout and Remember, That he Established, in writing, the United States Capitalist Austerity Program. — The Race to the Bottom/Pauperization of the 99%!
Democracy?:As the Capitalist Robber Barons Steal from the 99%, Only the 1% Voted For Austerity! The 99% Should Decide On Austerity — Not Just The 1% Who, Profit From Austerity!! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico.! Socialism Means True Democracy, that the 99% Will Rule, Not the Few!
The United States is not a Democracy (A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly)! Only the 1%, through their ownership of the Reublicrats and who profit from war and the war budget, vote for War and the war budget — A policy, which Gore Vidal called a Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. — The 99% Should Decide On War — Not Just The 1% Who Profit From War! Under a Democracy, The 99% would have the right to vote on the policy of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace! The United States takes from the poor and gives tothe Rich.
Barbarism on the Rise: Hunting Mama Wolves and Bears and Their Cubs in Alaska Like the French monarch Louis XIV, Trump said I am the state. I can do anything I want. There’s no climate change. Corporations are right about the environment and pollution. I will follow their guidance. In about 3.5 years, he reversed the modicum of theoretical and real environmental and public health protection Americans enjoyed. By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
The Police Originated from the first slave patrols in 1704, which first got established in the South and lasted until 1861. Their original role was to catch run away slaves. An important part of Black history is the destruction of Reconstruction, which lasted for a decade after the Civil War, and the establishment of Jim Crow in the South and racial segregation in the North. Reconstruction officially ended with the “Compromise of 1876.”
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable. “Movements are about amassing power to the people, not collecting promises from corporate flunkies.” The wave of people’s protests across the nation, backed by solidarity actions in cities around the world, has caused the corporate oligarchy and its servants to make promises they can’t keep and give lip service to programs they have always resisted. The Congressional Black Caucus, the vast bulk of whose members backed militarization of local police and elevation of cops to the status of “protected” class, now claims to favor limits on police arsenals, less legal immunities for cops and a grab-bag of other reforms they previously dismissed out of hand. Mayors that know damn well they will have to cut spending across the board due to catastrophic loss of tax revenues during the current, Covid-induced Great Depression, now profess that they plan to withhold funds from cops in deference to the “defund the police” movement. They’re a bunch of Kente-clothed liars, of course, but movements are about amassing power to the people, not collecting promises from corporate flunkies. That means demanding community control of the police, and of those funds that local governments are supposedly diverting from the police to social programs. By Glen Ford, BAR Executive EditorHow Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19 Cuba uses its decades of experience to create an example of how a country can confront the virus with a compassionate and competent plan. By Don Fitz
Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold Fall Down Millions of white people glorify mass murderers because their sense of identity and place in society is deeply tied to white supremacy. “It is important to name and shame the mass murderers.” By Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism” We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. “The struggle is for power not reform.” By Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistSay Its Name: Genocide! We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, educ ation an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. “The struggle is for power not reform.” By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Black-Outs, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Black Power Community control of police and prison abolition have been completely removed from the conversations dictated by a mainstream and complacent narrative. “We find ourselves settling for ID reductionism void of any real power.” By Erica Caines
Caribbean Workers and Capitalist Geography: An interview with Marion WernerGlobal Displacements is anexamination of the impact of the global organization of capitalist accumulation and exploitation on the life and labor of Haitian and Dominican people. “The Plantation together with The Mine are at the fore of contemporary debates on our rapacious, capitalist age.” By The Public Archive
Update on Charges Against the Embassy Protectors It was agreed that dropping the federal charges and seeking no jail time in return for pleading to a very low-level DC Code charge was an important victory. “Judge Howell did all she could to create an unfair trial.” By Ajamu Baraka and Bahman AzadPolitical ABCs: Maybe the Difference between a “Cop” and a “Crook” is Just a Badge What has recently been condemned as corrupt and brutal policing is actually consistent with historical tradition of localized repression. “The police in the US are an army of occupation.” By T.P. Wilkinson
Stolen Breaths Demonstrators are laying bare the deep pain that persists for black people fighting to live under the crushing weight of injustice that has long been at our necks. Too many ‘leaders wonder how we got here and what we can do to move forward, as if the answers have not been ever-present.” By Rachel R. Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Eduardo M. Medina, M.D., M.P.H., Rhea W. Boyd, M.D., M.P.HTo Observe and Protect: Community Alert Patrol and the Fight Against Police Terror in the1960s The Black Panther Party modeled their policing initiatives after Black citizens’ patrols in Los Angeles. “The problem of police terror has only worsened.in the 54 years since CAP’s existence.” By Ron WilkinsLabor:
Trump Hammers Cuba While Cuba Cures the Sick A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of the sanctions screws. This time he targeted seven Cuban entities, including Fincimex, one of the principal financial institutions handling remittances to the country. Also targeted was Marriott International, which was ordered to cease operations in Cuba, and other companies in the tourism sector, an industry that constitutes 10 percent of Cuba’s GDP and has been devastated globally by the pandemic. By Medea Benjamin
Health, Science, Education, and Welfare:
The government of the United States can pass laws in a few days to spend tens of trillions of dollars for war and the bailout of Wall Street and the bankers. Yet, those who ‘governn’, pass universal healthcare for themselves, but they cannot spend even one trillion dollars for universal health for those who are ‘governed’! This is what is considered, by the powers to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let the People Vote on Healthcare
Today’s Science Deniers: What We Owe Galileo After 400 years On June 22, 1633, a sick and beaten old man, on his knees, had to “abjure, curse and detest” his view that “the earth moves and is not the centre of the world.” It was “one of the most deplorable acts of the Inquisition”, relevant to our times, according to astrophysicist Maria Livio in a new book, Galileo and the Science Deniers. [1] He’s right, but not because of “fake news” and “alternative facts”. Galileo’s relevance hits much closer to home. By Susan Babbitt
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Environment:
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