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Friday Nite Videos | April 9, 2021

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American Interregnum

Nancy Fraser New Left Review
Militant anti-racist activity coincided with the pandemic due to the realization that these expressions of structural racism – disparate vulnerability to death from the virus, disparate vulnerability to death from police violence -- were linked.

How Gun Rights Helped Mainstream Neo-fascists

Dave Anderson Boulder Weekly
Larry Pratt, a former Virginia state legislator, suggested that local armed militias should be formed to help in the war on drugs. His models were the civil defense patrols in Guatemala and the Alsa Masa vigilantes in the Philippines

Jim Crow Voting Laws — Then and Now

Bruce Hartford Civil Rights Movement Archive
Republicans claim that the wave of GOP voter suppression laws sweeping across the nation are not a return to Jim Crow because they "apply fairly and equally" to everyone regardless of race and they don't contain explicitly racial provisions.
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