Black Agenda Report 15 March 2018

15 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report

Going Down With the Bad Ship U.S.A. 

– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The decline of U.S. empire is upon us, along with the politics of decline: nasty, stupid, petty and racist.

Freedom Rider: Talking to North Korea 

– Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Nobody knows whether Donald Trump will negotiate in good faith with North Korea or not, but the Democrats have made it clear that they have no interest in peace.

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to Charles Onana and Phil Taylor 

– Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Political prisoner Victoire Ingabire stands in courageous opposition to Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame and the western ideology of “humanitarian intervention.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
There are lands of bluebirds and fountains— where everyone in their minds is forever free… Turning away, shuttering high-beams:
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
“A capitalist does not think that just your existence in-the-world is a contribution.”
Netfa Freeman
“Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.”

Black Agenda Radio, Week of March 13, 2018 

– Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Click the link above for the entire one hour show, or any of the next three for the individual segments thereof”
Dr. Gerald Horne on the chains that bind Native Americans and Africans, 
Father Frank Morales on gentrification as ethnic cleansing and how to fight it,
The 20th anniversary of the Jericho Movement which stands for US political prisoners.
Doug Henwood
Activism. Democracy. Change through nonviolent direct action. It’s time to question some of our fetishes…
Gregory Duff Morton
“The crimes appear to follow a simple, grim logic: kill the leaders.”
Ken Morgan
“Alongside Assata and Rosa and Harriet and Sojourner, let’s celebrate Grace Campbell, of the Blood Brotherhood and the Communist Party.
Lucas Koerner
“The people know that it’s easier to deepen a revolution while being in government than to turn it over to a right-wing that has no respect for life…”


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