Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Chicago Authorities Want a “Conversation” With the Poor People’s Army About the DNC 2024

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, July 24, 2024 I spoke to Cheri Honkala of the Poor People’s Army , also known as the Poor People’s Campaign for Economic Human Rights. ANN GARRISON: Cheri, tell us about what you experienced in Milwaukee at the Republican National Convention. CHERI HONKALA: I’ve never experienced anything like it. I attempted to serve[…]

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The Palestinian Youth Movement in a Time of War

by Susie Day, published on Socialist Action, October 30, 2023 – An Interview with Kaleem Hawla Kaleem Hawa [photo above] is a young Palestinian writer who has contributed eloquent pieces on art and film to such publications as The New York Review of Books and Art forum. But he has no time for this now. He and his comrades in the Palestinian Youth Movement[…]

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Movement ‘not afraid’ as ‘Stop Cop City’ activists face felony charges

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, September 12, 2023 Bulletin: As of Sept. 11, Atlanta City officials refused to verify signatures in time for the November election in a memo issued by the City Clerk office. This development followed a dramatic and exuberant delivery of 16 cardboard boxes holding petitions of 116,000 registered Atlanta voters to have the issue[…]

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State Repression Targets the Stop Cop City Movement

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 7, 2023 Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta’s white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who[…]

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Why Americans Are Shot At The “Wrong House”

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 26, 2023 People in the U.S. venerate its violent history, support violence committed by the state, and remain very racist, yet express shock when individuals kill and maim.  In recent days there have been widely reported stories about individuals in the United States who were shot because they were in the “wrong” location. The most[…]

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Protesters Charged With Terrorism in Atlanta

News by People’s Dispatch, March 18, 2023 At least 23 protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism amid a week of action against the construction of “Cop City” in Atlanta, a proposed $90 million police training complex. Atlanta police detained 35 people and arrested 23 on the night of March 5, they claim, for vandalism against the Cop City construction[…]

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U.S. Systemic Racism: From Slavery to George Floyd and Tyre Nichols

by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, March 9, 2023 Tyre Nichols, 29, was murdered by police in yet another modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief. What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the five police officers were all African American.[…]

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Atlanta Area Police Attack Music Festival, Stop Cop City Battles On

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, March 7, 2023 Atlanta, March 7 —Workers World writer Dianne Mathiowetz stated: “I was just at a press conference called by various local and national clergy that denounced the police action again as proof that there is nothing about Cop City that suggests de-escalation and protection of people’s rights. There are a significant[…]

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Capitalism in Black and Blue

by John Parker, published on Black Agenda Report, February 8, 2023 Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism. There are two very frightening realities faced by the capitalist ruling class – their smaller numbers in relation to the majority, and their inability to derive profit without exploited human labor. Since they are the sole owners of the means[…]

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