December 15, 2017
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UK: Deporting a champion
It’s been all over the press. The champion boxer set to be deported to Nigeria, a country where he has no family and knows no one. A country he’s even competed against for England. Sharlot, a 38 Degrees member, thinks Kelvin deserves to stay in England where he’s lived for over half his life. So… Continue reading
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NSA: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner Continue reading
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Digital Dystopia: FCC Ends Net Neutrality By Baynard Woods
Net neutrality was the result of activist campaigns in 2015. Craig Aaron, president of the advocacy group Free Press, calls net neutrality the “First Amendment of the internet,” which ensure that “when you go online, you can go wherever you want; do whatever you want; download whatever you want; and it’s not up to Comcast,… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 14 December 2017
14 December 2017 — Black Agenda Report Our Open Letter To NAPO, MXGM, and Dr. Akinyele Umoja on Ultra-Leftism, the Democratic Party and the Movement in Jackson MS by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In a Dec. 1 article, our friend and comrade Akinyele Umoja of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement branded this publication, Continue reading
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Net Neutrality Repeal Is Only Part of Trump’s Surrender to Corporate Media By Reed Richardson
The FCC is under attack—and so too is the First Amendment. As the primary regulator of how media and information gets to our nation’s citizens, the Federal Communications Commission has a critical role to play in protecting the open Internet, free speech, and free press in our democracy. Though the agency has always enjoyed a… Continue reading
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IRR News (1 – 14 December 2017)
14 December 2017 — IRR Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This has been a horrendous year for deaths of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign nationals across Europe, whether it be in the Mediterranean, at land borders, during the deportation process, in prisons, immigration removal centres or inadequately funded Continue reading