Black Working Class

Brazil’s Black Lives Matter Moment

February 19, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Black Working Class, Brazil, police brutality, Racism

Hundreds protested Sunday in cities across Brazil in what commentators are calling Brazil’s Black Lives Matter moment, sparked by the death of a young Black man as a result of restraining choke hold used by a supermarket security guard. Pedro Gonzaga, 19, a young Black Brazilian man was put into a chokehold when confronted by two security guards at an Extra supermarket in the affluent neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Feb. 14. The chokehold left him asphyxiated and he collapsed in front of his mother. He later died in the hospital of a heart attack, according to the Guardian.

Black Working Class Will Never Abandon Venezuela!

February 11, 2019 Staff, Blackallianceforpeace.com Educate! Black Working Class, Internationalism, Solidarity, Venezuela

We must remind our people that over 150 million Africans live throughout the so-called Americas. We especially must raise this reality at critical moments like this when the corporate media and establishment opinion is legitimizing U.S. gangsterism that could kill thousands of people in Venezuela. Afro-Venezuelans contacted Black Alliance for Peace to ask us to remind our people in the United States that military forces will target Afro-Venezuelans if a military intervention occurs because they represent a core constituency of the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela.

Black America’s Vanishing Wealth Is Bad For All Americans

February 6, 2019 By Bob Lord, Inequality.org Educate! Black Working Class, Racism, wealth inequality

Want an impossible task? Try identifying the most disturbing trend in America today. Consider the choices: Climate change denial, extreme political polarization, gun violence, etc. Those are just the ones on the national radar. Here’s one that isn’t, but needs to be: the systematic destruction of black wealth. The reality is horrific, according to the recent Institute for Policy Studies report Dreams Deferred. “Between 1983 and 2016, the median black family saw their wealth drop by more than half after adjusting for inflation,” the report notes, “compared to a 33 percent increase for the median white household.”

Marc Lamont Hill And The Legacy Of Punishing Black Internationalists

December 8, 2018 Noura Erakat, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Black Working Class, Internationalism, Repression

Last week, Marc Lamont Hill, academic, activist and media personality, addressed the United Nations at its commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People . Hill’s speech was a bold call because it countered U.S.-led orthodoxy clinging to a two-state solution despite a one-state reality in which Palestinians are neither sovereigns of their own state nor citizens of Israel. Hill’s closing words, imploring international actors to support Palestinian freedom “from the river to the sea,” effectively demanded the dismantlement of an apartheid regime and the establishment of a bi-national state.

Black Internationalists Demand Closure Of Hundreds Of U.S. Military Bases

November 24, 2018 Staff, Blackallianceforpeace.com Resist! Black Working Class, Internationalism, Military bases, US military

NOVEMBER 21, 2018—The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), a founding member of the Global Campaign Against U.S./NATO Military Bases, joined 300 attendees from 36 countries at a historic conference last weekend that re-committed anti-war activists to closing U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military bases throughout the world. The Global Campaign Against U.S./NATO Military Bases held its first international conference November 16-18 at Liberty Hall in Dublin, Ireland. The conference’s Unity Statement was endorsed by more than 700 individuals and organizations. The Dublin conference convened several months after the U.S.-based Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases held its first conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.

Recovering From The War On Drugs: National Expungement Week October 20-27, 2018

October 26, 2018 Amani Sawari, Sawarimi.org Resist! Black Working Class, History, War On Drugs

For decades the Black community has been heavily targeted by the war on drugs which resulted in the disenfranchisement of many families of color and the destruction of Black communities nationwide. Now the same drugs are making white business owners billions of dollars for engaging in the same practices that black ‘entrepreneurs’ were incarcerated for at astronomical rates. Thousands of individuals still wait behind bars while others who have been released still suffer from the effects of their incarceration with records that bar them from the ability to vote, obtain public assistance, find work, fund an education or acquire housing.

Dual War And Repression: Domestic And Foreign Policy On Black People

October 23, 2018 Netfa Freeman, Theinternationalcommittee.org Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Black Working Class, Policy, Racism, United States, US Imperialism

Parallel tracks of US government policy against the Black working class in the US and on the African continent expose much more than incidental similarity but a concerted fatal conspiracy. For the US, African people globally have no economic value short of being unwitting consumers whose labor-use has expired, and whose resistance to social injustice must be repressed at all costs. This conflict of interests reveals a natural contradiction between North American versus African or Black identities. African-American on many levels is an oxymoron. This month marks the 10th anniversary of U.S. Africa Command – AFRICOM, created on October 1, 2008. AFRICOM is the re-colonization of Africa by the U.S. and constitutes the new scramble for Africa equivalent to when...

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