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Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 – 21:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024 This week we discuss claims that non-citizens are voting when all evidence proves that assertion to be untrue. We also talked about U.S. policy towards Niger, which has publicly declared that it is no longer permitting U.S. military facilities to operate in that country. But first, we talk to a former Black Agenda Report contributor about China, U.S. policy towards that country, and what we can learn from person-to-person contact with that… […]

China's Example in the World Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 – 21:04 Black Agenda Radio · China's Example in the World Our guest is Danny Haiphong, formerly a Black Agenda Report contributing editor, now the host of the YouTube channel, Danny Haiphong. He is also a co-founder of Friends of Socialist China, which is hosting a delegation to Beijing and other cities in China. Margaret Kimberley is also a delegation participant. She and Danny discuss U.S./China relations and the importance of studying Chinese socialism. International China socialism Chinese Communist Party Cold War […]

Non-Citizen Voting: A Non-Existent Problem Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 – 20:34 Black Agenda Radio · Non-Citizen Voting: A Non-Existent Problem At a recent press conference at Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson made a false claim that non-citizen voting is a problem in the U.S. We're joined by Andrew Garber, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, to discuss the mythology surrounding non-citizen voting. US Politics Donald Trump immigrants Immigration voting rights […]

Niger and U.S. Africa Policy Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/19/2024 – 20:21 Black Agenda Radio · Niger and U.S. Africa Policy Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on the Revolutionary Blackout Network and discussed Niger’s demand that the U.S. military leave that country. We present excerpts of that conversation with co-hosts Nick, C.J., and Rome. Africa US military bases […]

Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 – 06:05 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024 This week we listen to BAR’s 2017 analysis of the protection afforded Rwanda’s Paul Kagame by the human rights industrial complex, which works closely with the U.S. state. In the second part of our discussion with BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner, he discusses the connections between art and politics and an upcoming performance in Harlem. But first Camila Escalante of Kawsachun News discusses Ecuador’s invasion of Mexico’s embassy, the violations… […]

Ecuador Kidnaps Former Vice President from Mexican Embassy Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 – 05:29 Black Agenda Radio · Ecuador Kidnaps Former Vice President from Mexican Embassy Camila Escalante is an editor for Kawsachun News and a Latin America correspondent for PressTV. She joins us from Toronto to discuss Ecuador’s intrusion into Mexico’s embassy in Quito and the arrest of Ecuador’s former Vice President who had been given asylum there. This incident is a violation of the Vienna Convention and international norms. She will give us the background of the events which precipitated this incident… […]

Fight Back News

Palestinians in Chicago stand up to police repression

Chicago, IL – Thousands of protesters took Michigan Avenue, Saturday afternoon, April 20 and marched to demand an end to U.S. funding for Israeli genocide in Palestine. Led by the Coalition for Justice in Palestine, this was the 32nd mass mobilization since October 7 and demonstrated that people of Chicago are not intimidated by recent police escalation and repression in Chicago and across the country. On Monday, April 15, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) harassed and arrested more than 50 protesters exercising their First Amendment rights at two separate actions demanding an end to the U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza. The… […]

Minnesota Cuba Coalition calls for end to the embargo on Cuba

Minneapolis, MN – On Thursday, April 18, about 30 members of the Minnesota Cuba Coalition gathered at U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Minneapolis office, under the banner of “Minnesotans love Cuba,” to call for an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba While at the senator’s office, the coalition hosted a program of speakers, with veteran organizers, Cuban Americans and their allies new to the movement represented. During rush hour near the heart of Minneapolis’s downtown, cars honked in support and solidarity as they passed the crowd. The coalition’s main demand is for Senator Klobuchar to sign a letter calling on… […]

Students for a Democratic Society calls for nationwide encampments for Gaza, stands with Columbia students for Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by the New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). While standing in solidarity with Palestine, the student movement has once again escalated protests on campus with the campus encampment movement. Students are calling out their universities and its administrators for their decades’ long support of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and are demanding that our universities divest and cut all ties to Israel! University administrators have no right to ignore the students as university administrators continue to support the genocide in Gaza and maintain support for Israel.  Rather than carrying out the… […]

Chicago IL – On April 17, over 70 students rallied and marched at the University of Illinois at Chicago to oppose U.S. war moves against Iran. The action was part of a National Day of Action called by Students for a Democratic Society. Zahra Nabavi of Students for Justice in Palestine condemned the continuing aggression of the United States against Iran, demanding an end to the sanctions that caused the deaths of thousands of Iranians at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nabavi stated, “If you ask any Iranian in the diaspora, you'd know we've all lost at least one… […]

A reading for Lenin’s birthday, the “Letter to American Workers”

To mark the 154th birthday, April 22, of the outstanding revolutionary V.I. Lenin, Fight Back News Service is circulating his famous article “Letter to American Workers” written in 1918. Comrades! A Russian Bolshevik who took part in the 1905 Revolution, and who lived in your country for many years afterwards, has offered to convey my letter to you. I have accepted his proposal all the more gladly because just at the present time the American revolutionary workers have to play an exceptionally important role as uncompromising enemies of American imperialism—the freshest, strongest and latest in joining in the world-wide slaughter… […]

Tampa students demand U.S. hands off Iran

Tampa, FL- Over 20 students at the University of South Florida marched April 18 to demand no U.S. attacks on Iran and an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Tampa Bay SDS organized this protest and march as part of a National Day of Action called by National SDS in response to the April 1 Israeli bombing of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Damascus, Syria. Students marched from the library to the student center to show their support for Palestine and for the solidarity that Iran has shown towards Palestine. Students chanted “Hands off Iran” and “From Iran to Falasteen,… […]

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