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As we come together to speak out against these horrendous actions at the border, it is important that we also examine why these children and families have evoked such strong emotional response from the public, and with white liberals specifically.
Blue Lives matter and always have, but in the US black and brown lives have always mattered less. For the third year in a row, police killed nearly 1,000 people while Congress considers legislation making harsh penalties for violence against police harsher.
“Over 500 people we surveyed in West Garfield Park said they do not want this cop academy,” said Monica Trinidad, one of the demonstrators. “There are way more resources of need in their community. They want jobs. They want mental health clinics. They want public schools."
What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.
The March 18 killing of 22-year old Stephon Clark by Sacramento Police once again calls our attention to the racist aspect of the problem of civilians murdered by law enforcement. Angie Thomas's award-winning Young Adult novel is among the most recent literary responses to this crisis.
Let's put Black, women of color, Indigenous, anti-capitalist and queer-centered feminist politics at the heart of the overall struggle for justice in the coming year. What could that look like?
As Black Lives Matter and other social justice campaigns focus more on economic inequality, unions see an opportunity
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