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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

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,… […]

Chicago: Community packs police board meeting demanding firing of five officers involved in murder of Dexter Reed

Chicago, IL – On April 18, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, alongside other organizations in the Black liberation movement, called a rally at Chicago Police Department Headquarters ahead of the police board meeting to demand that the five officers who fired 96 shots and murdered Dexter Reed, Jr. be fired, indicted and convicted. 200 activists and supporters from all corners of the movement in Chicago, from torture survivors to family members of those killed by police violence, as well as those from the Palestinian liberation movement, converged on CPD HQ to make clear to the powers that… […]

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from University of Central Florida Students for a Democratic Society. On April 1 , UCF Students for a Democratic Society was informed that the Office of Student Conduct and Academic Integrity was moving forward with charging one of its members with several violations of student conduct in addition to filing legal charges for criminal mischief, in response to pro-Palestine activism. The charges only reference flyers being posted around the UCF campus containing pro-Palestine messages and advertising our organization’s weekly meetings. This compounded on a previous accusation on January 29, also in… […]

Protest sends anti-genocide message to Biden campaign at Education Minnesota convention

Minneapolis, MN – On Friday, April 15, the Free Palestine Coalition led a protest of around 100 people outside of Education Minnesota’s Representative Convention. Education Minnesota (EDMN) is a large state-level educators union that announced only the day before that they would be delaying their entire program to host the opening event of First Lady Dr .Jill Biden’s “Educators for Biden-Harris” national tour. Protesters outside the convention drew attention to the issues of recent attacks on academic freedom, with speakers like Dr Sima Shaksari from Educators for Justice in Palestine – UMN, Michael Runyon from Students for Palestine Normandale, and… […]

MN students demand freedom for Palestine

Minneapolis, MN – On April 20, on a brisk spring afternoon, over 350 pro-Palestine demonstrators rallied at Bryant Square Park in the Minneapolis Uptown neighborhood for the first large scale march initiated by the Minnesota chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Arab Student Association at the U of MN. The event was titled “Sumud Across Generations.” Students and educators, young and old, all came out in a show of support with the cause of Palestinian resistance as the world enters its seventh month of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Chanters and speakers, some who have never spoken… […]

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