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Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective.
- Michigan
Governor Rick Synder has agreed to testify before a House committee
investigating the poisoning of Flint, Michigan. The committee will also
hear from Flint’s former emergency financial manager; the regional
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and, Gina
McCarthy, the head of the EPA. We spoke with Black Agenda Report editor
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, who blew the whistle on the EPA’s complicity
in the poisoning of South African vanadium miners. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo
said Michigan’s Governor and the rest of the officials should be asked
the “Watergate question.”
- The assault against the people of
Flint began with a crime against democracy, when Michigan’s governor
appointed emergency financial managers to run all of the state’s heavily
Black cities, effectively disenfranchising half of Michigan’s African
American population. In Newark, New Jersey, the People’s Organization
for Progress, POP, demonstrated in solidarity with the people of Flint.
POP chairman Larry Hamm says the people of Flint need their clean water
and their democratic rights restored.
- In May of
this year, Janine, Debbie and Janet Africa will once again be eligible
for parole, after serving 37 years in prison for allegedly killing a
Philadelphia policeman. The three women are part of the Move 9. The
other Move members face even more time in prison. The draconian
sentences stem, not from the 1985 bombing of the Move house by
Philadelphia police, but a 1978 confrontation in which a cop was fatally
shot. Move spokesperson Ramona Africa recounts the events.
-
Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, has
joined forces with advocates for Black women’s reproductive rights.
Garza held a joint press conference with La’Tasha Mayes, founder of New
Voices for Reproductive Justice, and Monica Simpson, director of the
Trust Black Women Partnership. They denounced anti-abortionist forces
for trying to co-op the language of the Black movement. Alicia Garza
spoke first, followed by Ms. Mayes and Ms. Simpson.
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Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective.
- Michigan
Governor Rick Synder has agreed to testify before a House committee
investigating the poisoning of Flint, Michigan. The committee will also
hear from Flint’s former emergency financial manager; the regional
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and, Gina
McCarthy, the head of the EPA. We spoke with Black Agenda Report editor
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, who blew the whistle on the EPA’s complicity
in the poisoning of South African vanadium miners. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo
said Michigan’s Governor and the rest of the officials should be asked
the “Watergate question.”
- The assault against the people of
Flint began with a crime against democracy, when Michigan’s governor
appointed emergency financial managers to run all of the state’s heavily
Black cities, effectively disenfranchising half of Michigan’s African
American population. In Newark, New Jersey, the People’s Organization
for Progress, POP, demonstrated in solidarity with the people of Flint.
POP chairman Larry Hamm says the people of Flint need their clean water
and their democratic rights restored.
- In May of
this year, Janine, Debbie and Janet Africa will once again be eligible
for parole, after serving 37 years in prison for allegedly killing a
Philadelphia policeman. The three women are part of the Move 9. The
other Move members face even more time in prison. The draconian
sentences stem, not from the 1985 bombing of the Move house by
Philadelphia police, but a 1978 confrontation in which a cop was fatally
shot. Move spokesperson Ramona Africa recounts the events.
-
Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, has
joined forces with advocates for Black women’s reproductive rights.
Garza held a joint press conference with La’Tasha Mayes, founder of New
Voices for Reproductive Justice, and Monica Simpson, director of the
Trust Black Women Partnership. They denounced anti-abortionist forces
for trying to co-op the language of the Black movement. Alicia Garza
spoke first, followed by Ms. Mayes and Ms. Simpson.
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