Category Justice
Chris Hedges on the Ruling Class’ Revenge Against Julian Assange
“The whole process has really been a mockery of the rule of law. Julian is not a U.S. citizen; WikiLeaks is not a U.S.-based publication.”
Haiti: This Is Not A Crisis—This Is A Rebellion
“A Catholic church in Petionville held a mass with political undertones against the dictatorship. When marchers from outside took refuge from the police inside the church, the Haitian National Police tear gassed the entire congregation.”
Criminalizing Black Protest: When We Resist
“That’s incredible that you were really just showing them that you left this all over Texas, left it all over the world, it’s probably going to be left over Louisiana, but you were charged with terrorism. So to your point, who’s the terrorist and the situation…”
Michelle Alexander’s Brilliant Intro to “Beyond Vietnam”
“We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.”
Anti-Asian Violence in America Is Rooted in US Empire
Exoticized and fetishized Asian American women have borne a dual burden of both racism and sexism, viewed on one hand as submissive and sexually available “lotus blossoms” and on the other as manipulative and dangerous “dragon ladies.”
Calling Chauvin a “Bad Apple” Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
“Even the best training in the world cannot teach police, who are licensed to kill and deployed to enforce a racist system, not to be racist.”
The Unspeakable Horrors of Police Brutality
MLK: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Behind the Doodle: Audre Lorde’s 87th Birthday and Angela Davis on Audre Lorde
“…and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid,
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.”
“A Litany for Survival,” Audre Lorde
Communities United Against Police Brutality, Peacestock Peace Plaza
“Our overriding goal is to create a climate of resistance to abuse of authority by police organizations and to empower local people with a structure that can take on police brutality and actually bring it to an end.”
Community Control of the Police, Peacestock TCC4j
Giving people more information and self-determining power where the police are concerned.
A Very Intentional First Day of the Year, by Michael Bayly
“Following are images from my time at the George Floyd Memorial Site and the Prayer Tree on the afternoon of Friday, January 1, 2021. I experienced my time at both of these places as holy, grounding, and renewing.”
Chris Hedges, On Contact: Cornel West on America’s Existential Crisis
ON THE RT SHOW THIS WEEK, CHRIS HEDGES TALKS TO MORAL PHILOSOPHER, DR. CORNEL WEST, ABOUT WHAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT AMERICA’S EXISTENTIAL CRISIS AFTER WITNESSING ENRAGED SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP STORMING THE CAPITOL
Midwest Dispatch: How Past Economic Policies Influenced Racism of Today, by Sara Lahm
“While hedonism was running rampant among young, white, urban professionals, George Floyd and his family and friends were caught up in another hallmark of the 1980s: the war on drugs.”
Glenn Greenwald: Julian Assange’s Imprisonment Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom
“Censorship, like most repression, is reserved for those who dissent from majoritarian orthodoxies, not for those who express views comfortably within the mainstream.”
Sara Thomsen: Freedom Song
Oh, blowing wind Where do we begin? Have you any answers now? Can you tell us how? Freedom Song Sara Thomsen Lyrics Oh, blade of grass Can I ask you Where is the road to peace? Tell me, please. Oh, singing bird What are the words To the freedom songs you sing? Oh, how they […]
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Ella’s Song
To me young people come first
They have the courage where we fail
An Assault on Human Dignity, the Rule of Law, and the Institutions That Would Uphold Them
“The plight of Djamel Ameziane is a real-world example of the self-serving approach to human rights practiced by the United States.”
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire
“Save the strong, lose the weak
Trust nobody, don’t be no fool
Whatever happened to the golden rule
We got stranded…”
Why racism was declared a public health crisis, by Andrew Hazzard
COVID-19 “really highlights the intersection of social determinants and historical health issues that make people more vulnerable,” Allen said.
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