Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report for 12 November 2014: #AfterFerguson – Organizing 104; Obama's Feet to the Fire?
12 November 2014 — Black Agenda Report #AfterFerguson: It’s Organizing 104 – The Workshop A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon People of concern and conscience will mobilize in scores of US towns and cities the day after the grand jury announces its verdict in the case of Ferguson’s Michael… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for November 5 2014: Zombie Consensus Wins Midterms, Ditch the Working Familes Party, Pinkney Convicted
5 November 2014 — Black Agenda Report Midterm Madness! Zombie Dems VS Zombie Repubs, Zombie Consensus Wins Again! by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats lost almost everywhere this midterm, and where they won it wasn’t good news for the 99%. Pension-cutting, privatizing, mass incarcerating tax-the-poor and coddle-the-rich Democrats like the incumbent governors of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for October 29, 2014: World Embraces Cuba, Slaps US, Human Rights Abuses, CBC (Corporate Black Cash-hounds)
29 October 2014 — Black Agenda Report For Moment, the World Embraces the Cuba Model – and Slaps the Empire by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The United Nations’ yearly vote against the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba has evolved into a “singular opportunity for all the world body’s members to chastise the superpower that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for October 22, 2014: Detroit: Black Urban Dispersal — Killing Michael Brown Again –Ebola – Whitening HBCUs
23 October 2014 — Black Agenda Report Detroit: The Dispersal of Urban Black America Begins by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit’s bankruptcy drama is a cover for ethnic and class cleansing. The city’s accelerated Black-removal plan came under scrutiny of United Nations rapporteurs, who found evidence of racial discrimination and human rights abuses. “The… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report Report for Oct 15, 2014: Obama's VS Cuba's Ebola Response, Privatizing Ebola, Counterinsurgency, Tips For Organizers
15 October 2014 — Black Agenda Report Obama’s Cynical, Stilted Response to Ebola vs. Cuba’s Magnificent Mobilization by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama initially offered Ebola-afflicted West Africa “a paltry $22 million to set up a 25-bed field hospital in Liberia at a time when literally thousands of beds – and health care… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report Report for September 24, 2014: Jesse & Andy OK Spoils of Congo Genocide, CBC Left Wing Crumbles, Venezuela's Maduro in Bronx
24 September 2014 — Black Agenda Report Will America’s Black Political Class Join In the Spoils of the Rape of Congo? Andy Young & Jesse Jackson Say It’s OK. By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The table set with the loot from 5 million dead in neighboring Congo, the largest genocide on earth since… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for September 17, 2014: Naming, Shaming the Black Caucus, These Joes Ain't Loyal, ISIS, Wayne Pharr
17 September 2014 — Black Agenda Report Naming-and-Shaming the Black Caucus by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Silence implies assent, which is why activists in Washington, DC, will loudly and clearly denounce the Congressional Black Caucus for its collective crimes against Black people, social justice and the cause of world peace. The “Shame on the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for September 10, 2014: CBC's Treasonous 32, Losing Ukraine, Obama's Head Chopping Friends, Low Voter Turnout
10 September 2014 — Black Agenda Report The Treasonous 32: Four-Fifths of Black Caucus Help Cops Murder Their Constituents by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Fully 80 percent of the 40 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus refused to defund the Pentagon’s militarization of local police departments. That means, 32 Black lawmakers are “conscious… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for August 27, 2014: Zombie Civil Rights Sellouts, Absolving White America, Ferguson-Midwest Bank
27 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report To Zombie Civil Rights Organizations: Don’t Like Being Called Sellouts? Then Don’t Sell Out by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon An August 11 letter published by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson in the newsletter of MMTC, a notorious mouthpiece of corporate telecoms protests that this and other publications,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for August 20, 2014: Ferguson VS the Counter-Insurgency State, On the Ground From Ferguson, American Terror
20 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report Ferguson Versus the Counter-Insurgency State by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the people of Ferguson, Missouri, had remained “calm” in the police killing of Michael Brown, the nation would not be discussing the “militarization” of the police forces. “All the nation’s police departments are following the same… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for August 6, 2014: CBC & Apartheid Israel, Irreversible Climate Change, Ted Wafer Trial
6 August 2014 — Black Agenda Report Time For The CBC and our Black Political Class Denounce Apartheid and Ethnocracy in Israel-Palestine by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The contradiction between the supposed origin of our black political class out of the struggle against Jim Crow and its collaboration with Israeli apartheid can’t be… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 23, 2014: Black Political Class Silent on Gaza, Black Removal in Detroit, Putin in Crosshairs
23 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report Why Our Black Political Class is Paralyzed and Silent on Gaza Massacres and Israeli Apartheid by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon How did the NAACP wrap up its national conference this weekend without saying a mumbling word about the genocidal bombing of Gaza? Why did Moral Monday’s… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 16, 2014: Central American Child Refugees, Toward Free Higher Education, US-Israeli War Crimes
16 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report What Corporate Media and Corporate Latino Politicians Won’t Tell You About Central American Child Refugees by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why can’t Latino politicians and corporate media call the current wave of Central American children refugees, when that’s what they plainly are? What’s the role of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 9, 2014: Political Prisoner Jamil Al-Amin, Mercs & Fireworks, Who Prosecutes the Prosecutors?
9 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report Political Prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin in Declining Health, Urgently Needs Medical Care By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Politcal prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin was one of the leading lights of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960s rural Alabama. Wrongfully accused and falsely convicted of murder… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 2, 2014: Superpower and the Caliphate, Why Elections Matter, Blame SCOTUS on Democrats
2 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report The Superpower and the Caliphate by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t believe the hype that the CIA is behind ISIS’s declaration of an Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. “The Caliphate threatens, not only its immediate adversaries, but the potentates of the Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report June 25, 2014: Serial School Privatizer, Iraq & Detroit, Central Park 5, "We Are Not A Monolith
25 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Serial School Privatizer “Chainsaw Paul” Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Neoliberalism holds that all human interactions should to be disciplined and mediated by the market. Paul Vallas is the nation’s neoliberal chainsaw man on public education. After savaging public… Continue reading
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U.S. Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements By Glen Ford
The U.S. Department of Defense is immersed in studies about…people like you. The Pentagon wants to know why folks who don’t themselves engage in violence to overthrow the prevailing order become, what the military calls, “supporters of political violence.” And by that they mean, everyone who opposes U.S military policy in the world, or the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for June 17, 2014: Corporate VS Dark Social Media, Back to Iraq, War Crimes, Ta Nehisi Coates Reparations
18 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Top 10 Reasons Why Corporate Social Media is Not Your Friend, and Dark Social Media Is by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For a long time now, we’ve all been told, and have told each other, that corporate social media is the way to build businesses, audiences… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for June 11, 2014: White Right Impunity, $25 Million Koch HBCU "Gift", Working Families Party Betrayal
11 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The White Right’s Impunity by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If a thousand armed Blacks had gathered in one place, pointing rifles at federal officers, and two of them later cold-bloodedly assassinated policemen, the federal response would touch every Black neighborhood in… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for June 4, 2014: Leveraging the Freedom Movement, Molefi Asante, SA 'Miners Host Down'
4 June 2014 — Black Agenda Report Black Lobbyists, Black Legislators Leverage Their “Brands” For Banksters, Military Contractors, Corporate Interests by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When black politics emanated from the streets, not the suites, it was a force against imperial war, for full employment, better housing and public education. But now, black… Continue reading