Racism

Is the U.S. Legal System at War With Its People?

September 4, 2022 UNAC Editor Lawfare, The War at Home, War on the Poor

by Natalia Marques, distributed by Peoples Dispatch and Globetrotter., September 1, 2022 The very laws and government agencies created to protect the people in the United States are increasingly being weaponized against those who are often marginalized in society: people of color, the poor, and the working class. In just the last few months, there have been many incidents of[…]

FBI Attack on Uhuru is a Warning

August 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Propaganda, Racism, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 3, 2022 The FBI targeted the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) because it is a Black organization that has dared to confront and oppose U.S. imperialism. APSP is the first but they will not be the last. On July 29, 2022, the FBI raided the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida[…]

Solidarity with the Uhurus

July 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Racism, The War at Home

by St. Pete for Peace, published on Organizing Notes, July 30, 2022 St. Pete for Peace [Florida] stands in 100% solidarity with the Uhuru Movement who came under attack on Friday by the FBI and Justice Dept for alleged ties to a Russian citizen trying to interfere with U.S. elections. The charges are as tired and preposterous as they are[…]

Protesting for Jayland Walker

July 8, 2022 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Anti-Imperialism, Police Brutality, Racism, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6. 2022 The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught. Jayland Walker was killed by police in Akron, Ohio when he was shot more[…]

Mass Shootings, Empire and Racist Copaganda Dog Whistles

June 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Mass Shootings, Militarism, Political Analysis, The War at Home, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 1, 2022 Two mass shootings in quick succession brought out the worst in Americans. The anger and grief were followed by the usual lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. Political leaders advocate state violence all the time, calling for new victims to be created here and around the[…]

Mumia and His Mighty Pebbles

April 8, 2022 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Imperialism, Police Brutality, Political Prisoners, Racism

by Julia Wright, published on Workers World, March 31, 2022 Some years back Prison Radio quoted a progressive judge as saying that we had reached: “the twilight of evil.” Half a century ago, George Jackson told us: “Fascism is here.” We were devastated by his murder, but did we really heed his words? Because heeding them would have involved making[…]

Without Even Realizing How We Were Being Played, Could This Be Russiagates Checkmate

March 7, 2022 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Racism, Russia, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe, US Politics

by Jacqueline Luqman, published on Black Agenda Report, March 2, 2022 Tales of Donald Trump collusion with Vladimir Putin absolved the democrats of electoral blame, and supported the war party in its attacks on Russia. Yet it was the democratic administration of Barack Obama which first made common cause with the Ukrainian right wing and set the stage for military[…]

Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy

March 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Ukraine, White Supremacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 2, 2022 White supremacy is at the heart of US war propaganda. The exhortation to “stand with Ukraine” is no exception to this rule. By now everyone knows that Ukraine’s flag is blue and yellow. It is impossible to miss as the Empire State Building in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in[…]

Black History And the Ongoing Struggle for Liberation

February 20, 2022 UNAC Editor Action!!, Racism

by Olujimi Alade, published on Workers World, February 14, 2022 February, as we all know, is Black History month: a time to celebrate Black Americans and their accomplishments. Corporations and the bourgeois establishments will no doubt pay lip service to the African American experience by hawking items with Black historical figures on them, likely as another way to profit off[…]

On the Biden Plantation

January 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Political Analysis, Trumpism, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 19, 2022 One can’t disagree with Margaret’s words. However, leaving aside commentary on that hideous insulting meeting with black leaders in December 2020, you could replace the term ‘Black people’ or ‘Black voters’ with ‘ordinary Americans’ on every point. [jb] The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created[…]