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June 13, 2020

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions

Bill Fletcher In These Times

Before rushing to expel police unions, labor needs a larger reckoning with law enforcement’s role in a capitalist-colonialist state.

June 12, 2020

On Social Distancing

Jacki Rigoni

California poet Jacki Rigoni responds to the phrase social distancing, just added to the dictionary in March, and how much we were doing without naming it.

June 12, 2020

Dockworkers to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Memory of George Floyd

Daniel Boguslaw The Nation

Workers with signs picketing along the dock.

One of the most radical antiracist unions in the country makes a show of solidarity with all those threatened by police violence and exploitation

June 12, 2020

The City That Really Did Abolish the Police

Katherine Landergan Politico

And rebuilt the department from the ground up. The strange, hopeful, politically complicated story of Camden, N.J.

June 12, 2020

Treason, Shmeason: Trump Backs Fort Benedict Arnold

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect

These bases are named after Confederate generals not because they personified either victory or freedom. They were named to reflect the politics of the viciously white racist South decades after the Civil War had ended.

June 12, 2020

N.Y. Bans Chokeholds and Approves Other Measures to Rein in Police

Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Jesse McKinley The New York Times

The state became the first to make major changes in police practices in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, which has spurred nationwide protests.

June 12, 2020

The Trump Regime Is Beginning to Topple

Franklin Foer The Atlantic

The best way to grasp the magnitude of what we’re seeing is to look for precedents abroad.

Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down

June 12, 2020

Confederate monuments are being removed—both officially and unofficially—across the U.S.

Invade Us, Canada | The Daily Show

June 12, 2020

America needs a return to democracy. And if there's one thing America knows, it's that when a country needs democracy, you invade it.

Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution | Movie

June 12, 2020

The untold story of how the twin struggles for racial justice and healthcare intersected, creating Medicare and desegregating thousands of hospitals at the same time. Directed by Charles Burnett and narrated by Danny Glover. Please contact bullfrog films for inquiries.