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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… […]

Human Rights Industrial Complex Protects Paul Kagame in Rwanda Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 – 05:24 Black Agenda Radio · Human Rights Industrial Complex Protects Paul Kagame in Rwanda The actual relationship between Human Rights Watch and the superpower is most clear in the case of Rwanda, where the United States backs Paul Kagame’s vicious Tutsi minority dictatorship. The Rwandan regime imprisons or kills those who point out that hundreds of thousands of Hutus, who constitute the overwhelming majority of Rwanda’s population, were killed by Kagame’s forces during the bloodbath of 1994. Ann Garrison and… […]

Raymond Nat Turner, Upsurge NYC and Black Agenda Report – Part 2 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/12/2024 – 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Raymond Nat Turner, Upsurge NYC and Black Agenda Report – Part 2 Raymond Nat Turner is Black Agenda Report’s Poet-in-Residence. He joins us from New York City to talk about his work and an upcoming performance with his group, Upsurge New York City on April 13 at Sisters Uptown Bookstore and Cultural Center. This is the second part of a two-part interview. Media and Culture Jazz […]

Black Agenda Radio April 5, 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/05/2024 – 06:02 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio April 5, 2024 This week Black Agenda Report’s poet in residence discusses his work and learn why Bill Clinton, the CIA director and Tony Blair have all recently visited Guyana. But first we discuss the Black vote and election year politics in the pivotal state of Michigan. US Politics Guyana Venezuela poetry Jazz Abandon Biden Black politics 2024 election […]

The Black Vote and Swing State Michigan in 2024 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/05/2024 – 05:19 Black Agenda Radio · The Black Vote and Swing State Michigan in 2024 Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire. He is also a resident of Michigan and a longtime activist there. He joins us from Detroit to discuss that state’s Black voters, the Abandon Biden campaign, and the prospects for that all-important swing state in the 2024 presidential election. US Politics Michigan 2024 election Abandon Biden Black politics […]

Fight Back News

Palestine protesters disrupt Oregon Democrats' biggest fundraising event of the year

Portland, OR – On April 13, Oregon Democrats arrived in Portland for the annual Wayne Morse Gala, Oregon’s largest democratic fundraising event of the year. When representatives arrived at the Hilton Hotel, they were met with a group of 50 protesters demanding Oregon Democrats stop funding the genocide of Palestinians. The disruption was organized by the local group PDX for Palestine, which instructed attendees to bring noise makers, pots and pans, and instruments to “Get Loud for Gaza.” This was in response to the most recent spending bill approved by every Oregon Democrat in the U.S. House and Senate that… […]

Tallahassee students rally to divest from Boeing and Israel

Tallahassee, FL – On Friday, April 12, students at Florida State University joined Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society to demand that the university divest from apartheid Israel, including ending its partnership with infamous weapons manufacturer Boeing, which arms the Israeli occupation. More than 30 students marched to a rally on Landis Green, where they and the many other students heard speakers from SDS, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC), the FL Student Power Network, Tallahassee Dissenters, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Despite the mounting death toll in Palestine, the FSU administration and President Richard McCullough continue to partner… […]

Chicago: Hundreds gather to plan march on the Democratic National Convention

Chicago, IL – More than 450 people representing 75 organizations gathered in Chicago, April 13, to plan a massive march at the Democratic National Convention, which will stand with Palestine and promote a people’s agenda. Kobi Guillory of the National Alliance Against Racist and Pollical Repression told conference participants, “We will counterprotest the DNC starting on August 19 to demand an immediate end to the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide, and that no more of our tax dollars are used to fund the massacres of Palestinians.” Guillory also talked about the fight to get permits for a large-family friendly protest, but said… […]

Say no to a wider war in the Middle East! Hands off Iran!

The U.S. and its proxy Israel are provoking a wider war in the Middle East. For the past 6 months, the U.S. has been assisting Israel in the Gaza genocide. Israel and the U.S. have launched repeated attacks on Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Iran is now responding to the deadly Israeli airstrikes on its diplomatic mission in Syria. The possibility of a wider war is here. A response by our movement is needed. All of us who stand with Palestine and oppose the genocide, who insist on peace with justice, need to be ready to hit the streets. We… […]

Protest at Los Angeles courthouse demands justice for a Chicano murdered by LAPD

Los Angeles, CA – On April 11, the family of Christian Escobedo continued their fight for justice as they pursue accountability for his tragic murder on January 14, 2018 by LAPD Officer Edward Artiaga from the Hollenbeck Division. Six years after Escobedo’s murder, there are court hearings for his family’s civil lawsuit against Officer Artiaga, a display of the unwavering determination of his loved ones. In 2018, Escobedo, a 22-year-old Chicano, was walking home at 6:30 a.m. with a friend when they stopped to rest on the sidewalk for a moment. LAPD arrived and shot him four times without provocation.… […]

Florida vigil honors martyred children of Palestine

Orlando, Fl – On April 4, over 25 students gathered at the University of Central Florida to participate in a vigil honoring Hind Rajab and the many other martyred children of Palestine. Hind Rajab was a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who, along with her family of seven, was martyred by Israeli forces while trying to flee the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City. While coordinating with the Gaza Health Ministry and Israeli military to deliver emergency aid, the dispatchers with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society stayed on the phone with Hind for over three hours while she was trapped in the… […]

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