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In the very beginning of it all in 2015, one comment managed to lodge harmfully inside me: Sad. I hope my daughter never ends up like her. I absorbed that statement. Ends up. As if we end somewhere, as if what was done to me marked the completion of my story. Instead of being a role model to be looked up to, I was a sad example to learn from, a story that caused you to shield your daughter’s eyes and shake your heads with pity. But when my letter was published, no one turned away. No one said I’d rather not look, it’s too much, or too sad. Everyone pushed through the hard parts, saw me fully to the end, and embraced every feeling. If you think the answer is that women need to be more sober, more civil, more upright, that girls must be better at exercising fear, must wear more layers with eyes open wider, we will go nowhere. When Judge Aaron Persky mutes the word justice, when Brock Turner serves one month for every felony, we go nowhere. When we all make it a priority to avoid harming or violating another human being, and when we hold accountable those who do, when the campaign to recall this judge declares that survivors deserve better, then we are going somewhere. — Stanford Sexual Assault Case Survivor Emily Doe Speaks Out
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Forget the Trump-Clinton Charade: It’s Time to Wake Up America! There will only be one group of winners: the interlocking oligarchy of financial, oil, military, agribusiness and pharmaceuticals interests than run the U.S. Whether it’s Trump or Clinton, policy nuances aside, Washington’s empire will stumble on. And it will do so not because of its inherent dynamism but because of its lies, manipulations, militarism and ability to crush any tendencies that exist towards a multi-polar world. by Colin Todhunter
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Colin Kaepernick Just Started A Black Panther-Inspired Youth Camp The athlete plans to expand the program to cities across the country. Colin Kaepernick has taken his protests of police brutality to the people.During his team’s bye week, the San Fransisco 49ers quarterback hosted a free youth camp in Oakland on Saturday called Know Your Rights. The program aims to teach kids about various important issues, including higher education, self-empowerment and interacting with law enforcement. Hundreds of black and Latino children from the Bay Area attended, according to the New York Daily News. By Taryn Finley
The Lords of Capital Sic Crazy Hillary on the World The capitalist ruling class is frightened, for good reason: the empire cannot peacefully contain the rising economic powers of the South and East. “The Lords of Capital know there is no future for them in a world where the dollar is not supreme and where Wall Street’s stocks, bonds and derivatives are not backed by the full weight of unchallenged empire.” War is the only card they have left to play – and Hillary Clinton is their favored dealer. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Freedom Rider: Russophobia: War Party Propaganda The world’s most reactionary regime, the head-chopping, terror-sponsoring Saudi Arabian kleptocracy, was awarded the chair of the UN Human Rights Council, while Russia has been kicked out. The travesty was engineered by the Superpower of Lies to punish Moscow for resisting the U.S.-led war of sectarian massacre and regime change in Syria. The War Party is on the march, to the cheers of corporate media – and Hillary hasn’t even been elected yet. by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Green Party’s Margaret Flowers Challenges US Senate Debate in Maryland as Undemocratic The “revolving, rigged system” that purports to be American democracy was revealed in all its corporate vulgarity on a Baltimore university stage, last week. Two U.S. Senate candidates of the duopoly parties pretended to support the Green Party’s candidate’s right to join the debate, but failed to protest when cops hauled her away. “This was their ‘Rosa Parks’ moment when they could have stood for integrity and democracy” — but failed the test. by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo
Break the Silence or Support Self-Determination? In Syria, the Answer Should be Obvious Syria is “the target of one of the greatest misinformation campaigns in recent history.” The author regrets that left analyst Eric Draitser has contributed to the confusion. Draitser criticizes leftists who firmly support the Syrian government. Danny Haiphong counters that “the left must act with uncompromising dedication to the principle of self-determination in every case where US and Western imperialism wages wars of neo-colonial plunder.” by Danny Haiphong 
“When You Speak Up for the MOVE 9, You Speak Up for Yourself”The Philadelphia-based MOVE family was horribly victimized by police in 1978 and 1985. The first atrocity led to the mass imprisonment of MOVE members; the second assault killed five adults and six children and burned down a city block. No cops have ever been punished, but the MOVE 9 remain in prison, and were this year once again denied parole. “They couldn’t kill us that day, so they are trying to finish the job in these prisons.” by MOVE People
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice Now that serious Marxists are agreed that chattel slavery was not only capitalist, but the basis of global capitalism, it is time to reexamine our notions of rights and reparations for injustice. The author calls for “essaying a notion of justice that is rooted in the history of slavery and goes beyond liberal notions of human rights.” Historical wrongs are identified and weighed differently in “the experiences of the dark and the dispossessed.” by Walter Johnson
Lesser Of Two Evilism Hillary Clinton is, no doubt, a threat to life on Earth. But the duopoly electoral system is a menagerie of warmongers. “The response to the white nationalism of Donald Trump has been the rainbow coalition of hawks.” Barack Obama has proven an awesomely prolific war maker. Bernie Sanders is no peacenik. “It is only the white nationalist orange demon — guided only by his own whims and twitter feuds — that is at all off script on this question.” by Matt Sedillo
Realities Faced by Black Canadians are a National Shame Canada, including its French-speaking regions, is home to much the same kind of systemic racism as its southern neighbor, according to a United Nations Working Group report. Black women’s poverty rates are “almost five times higher than that of white Canadian women.” In Montreal, “a 2008 study found that black girls are three times more likely than white girls the same age to have been arrested two times or more.” by Robyn Maynard
An Open Letter to Black South African Police Officers With students joining workers in revolt against South Africa’s neoliberal regime, young people are demanding to know why Black police are engaged in the same kind of repression that was previously used by white governments “to systematically counter Black resistance?” In a letter to Black cops, activists note “an increase and worrying pattern of anti-Black police violence.” by Black Power Front
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Profits Before People’s Lives: Profits As Flint Suffers, Nestlé Plans Dramatic Expansion of Water Privatization in Michigan What’s more, the biggest food company in the world gets to pump that water at no cost by Lauren McCauley 
Capitalism Kills: 1 in 7 children globally lives with ‘toxic’ air, study finds By Brady Dennis
Germany unveils zero-emissions train that only emits steam The world’s first ‘hydrail’ can travel almost 500 miles per day at speeds of up to 87mph By Tom Embury-Dennis
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