Category: View from the Battlefield

Protests have become the strategy and not a tactic; they have become the destination and not the vehicle to the destination. I think this is a dangerous precedent for the movement to protect and respect Black lives.

It’s not just a new generation that needs schooling on political prisoners. The larger social justice movement also needs to be reminded of those whose political views and activities captured the attention of the FBI and who were caught in its net of deception and lawlessness.

We have this Democratic president to thank for not only for mandatory life sentences but for doing nothing about the racial disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. This racist policy helped to explode both the state and federal prison populations by sucking up non-violent drug offenders.

Globalism has created discontent and uprisings all over the world. The vast majority of the world’s people is experiencing corporate greed and suffering under the austere policies passed by politicians to maintain the obscene profits of the rich.

While there have been several cases of wrongful conviction that have come to light over the years, I believe there are hundreds of people who languished in prison for years or who are still incarcerated due to prosecutorial misconduct.

What has evolved over the last few years is the creation of these exclusive clubs—formations of families who have lost children, mainly to police terrorism.

A unanimous vote against the DOJ’s consent decree doesn’t exactly shout racial change.

The Flint water crises was born out of government/corporate decisions that believe black and poor people are collateral damage in the financial strategy to make the state of Michigan solvent. African Americans are about 60 per cent of the population; nearly 42 per cent of Flint residents are below the poverty line.

"The Congress of African People was one of few revolutionary nationalist organizations that saw the electoral arena as part of a legitimate strategy for building black political power."

Those of us who are so-called U.S. citizens have double duty. We must fight for equity and equality for all the people in this country as well as keeping this government from invading, controlling or destroying the land, resources and people in other lands. Those who live in European countries have the same obligation.