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This is a battle between those who want to ensure permanent white minority rule vs. all those who believe this country must become a multiracial democracy. It’s daily trench warfare on every front, with USA's future if not the entire planet at stake.

Perhaps this pandemic’s devastation will promote a debate on the failures of our ragged social safety net.

"We believe the solution to violence is to empower our communities with resources, support, and education — this is how we make all of our communities safe.”

Life should come before profit, human rights before property rights.

Agents routinely ignore emergency search and rescue calls and push people into harsh terrain as part of a “deterrence” policy, reports say.

The stakes for environmental racism need to be even higher than jail time. What if any company responsible for major ecological devastation was dissolved? Or politicians colluding with or enabling environmental destruction could not hold office?

In short, ending the Muslim ban should begin a bigger process of healing the harms this long-term dehumanization has caused.

These themes resonate today: need to limit casualties among “our” troops, who are not necessarily white, though the people who control them usually are; the pretense that “precision bombing” differentiates between “lawbreakers” and “innocents."

If we are to confront white supremacy in its totality, this means that we must understand its place in the war on terror and the ways in which they intersect and fuel each other.

The demand is still, more than ever, #DefundThePolice, #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives.