Issue: 835
Oct 01, 2020
Color of Law
American Police Cannot Pay Their Way out of This Crisis
Executive Editor
Minor policy tweaks, well-meaning, but superficial, reforms, and generous monetary compensation for victims cannot sufficiently reform a system that has its roots in white supremacy and allow communities of colour to live in peace in America.
In the United States, where hundreds of Black people fall victim to police brutality each year, very few police officers are ever prosecuted or convicted for…
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Guest Commentary
Progressives Warn Barrett’s Right-Wing Ideology and Past Rulings Signal She Could Intentionally ‘Make the Country a More Unjust Place’
Guest Commentator
"Sometimes her opinions have been downright cruel. They disqualify her, full stop."
Since President Donald Trump on Saturday confirmed reports that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the…
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View from the Battlefield
COVID-19 and Criminal Negligence
Editorial Board
He wakes up everyday unfazed by the tragic situation fueled by his inaction.
It has been 28 weeks since the pandemic hit U.S. shores and still, no national coordinated plan has been developed or implemented. COVID-19 cases have exceeded…
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Commentary
Organized Labor and the “Cold Civil War”
Editorial Board
The moment in which we live is explosive because of the fusion of crises, including but not limited to the Covid19 pandemic, the economic collapse, the environmental catastrophe, extrajudicial violence targeting racialized populations, and a growing right-wing populist movement with a crypto-fascist President as its main spokesperson.
The eruption of protests and rebellions following the murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd sent shockwaves across the country; indeed, around the world. Suddenly, in the…
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Commentary
Reading Frederick Douglass During the Pandemic and Black Lives Matter Protests – Part I
Editorial Board
The indifference towards other human beings and their plight, their suffering, and their death and the outlawing of their protests, dismissal of their pleas of “I can’t breathe,” is violence. The omission of this history of violence, its continuing legacy, the omission of the beneficial inheritance for those who collaborate consciously or unconsciously in this cover up is a crime against humanity.
He spoke out, argued, fussed, and fumed. His anger showed, without apology. And yet, a fugitive from the law in a land “whose inhabitants are legalized…
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Commentary
Little By Little, The Fraud That Is President Trump Is Outed – Solidarity America
Columnist
He is a laughing stock among the leaders of the rest of the world, no matter in what part of the political spectrum they stand. They know a buffoon when they see one and they know how to deal with one.
It had to happen. With the voluminous material on Donald Trump’s taxes (income from some 500 business entities and taxes paid or not paid) that was…
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Commentary
Trump’s Taxes, First Presidential Debate
Columnist
Now that Trump’s back is against a political wall, his thuggish tendencies are in full view. He has no choice but to resort to any level of dishonesty to win.
With the New York Times’ series of stories on Trump’s taxes earlier this week, we now know that Donald John Trump is who we thought he…
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