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White supremacist terrorists shot into the crowd of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis (BLM-MN) protesters, hitting 5. Police respond to the scene in riot gear and immediately pepper spray protesters, allowing the shoters to escape.

The irony, of course, of Christians lustfully joining the effort to deny safehaven to Syrian refugees fleeing the violence of their homeland is that Jesus was a Syrian refugee fleeing the violence of his homeland.

An impressive protest by Black students at the University of Missouri against the administration's lack of response against racism on campus, succeeded in the removal of two university officials, but failed miserably at putting a dent in actual racism that remains prevalent on campus.

The ongoing effort to privatize virtually every social common is poised to make a huge leap forward as the number of private police departments grows exponentially.

Video shows Deputy Barney Fife Ben Fields body slamming a female high school student who 'refused' to leave class.</p

In order for this story to make any sense at all, it becomes necessary to reveal the least important details about the entire affair: the boy is Black and the girl is not.

By Max Rameau. On April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray was jumped by six Baltimore cops for staring at one of them. Less than an hour later, after a ride in the paddy wagon, Freddie's spine was 80% severed and his voicebox crushed. On May 1, 2015, District Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted all six cops, some even charged with murder or manslaughter. 5 things you need to know: 

War Cry by Tef Poe of Ferguson, MO

Kwame Ture speaks on Pan-Africanism in Miami, FL (1992)

White people celebrating pumpkin fest in New Hampshire

 

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While the US government sends 3,000 military troops and deploys drones to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Cuba sends over 450 medical professionals.

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There is an overwhelming consensus right now that we face a severe market failure with regard to housing. One industry expert recently testified before Congress that, unless something is done about it, 8 to 10 million more homeowners will lose their homes to foreclosure(1). That is 1 in 5 owners with an outstanding mortgage, and in addition to the 8 million owners who have already lost their homes to foreclosure since 2007.

As community organizations, the Occupy movement and the general public begin to refocus their attention towards this crisis, “fixing” the market through mortgage principal reductions is one proposal for stemming the tide of foreclosures that has been gaining some political traction. Even the 50 Attorneys General included a form of this demand in talks to settle the lawsuits filed against the Wall Street banks accused of robo-signing documents and other financial shenanigans. The theory is that by allowing for cuts in mortgage balances – debt relief – homeowners will pay less monthly, which will result in fewer foreclosures.

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The modern era of gentrification, starting approximately in mid 2002 and ending abruptly towards the end of 2007, is possibly the most extreme- and brutal- since the term was coined in England in the late 1800s. In June 2005, The Economist magazine, widely regarded as the world's most respected financial periodical, argued, with documentation, that never in history have home prices rose so high, for so long and across so many countries, bestowing upon the “housing boom” a more appropriate moniker: "the biggest bubble in history." A significant and integral component of that bubble was speculative gentrification.

The social justice movement in the United States proved woefully ill prepared to counter what became a national crisis with devastating impacts on the local communities the movement serves. Consequently, many organizations and activists entered the gentrification game well in the fourth quarter, down by too many points to compel meaningful compromises from the forces of capital dictating and profiteering from gentrification.

By Max Rameau  November 10, 2004

More than a month after the elections, to those in the Black community and elsewhere, deflated by the return of GW Bush to office after a rancorous, at time brutal, high stakes campaign, I say: get over it, we have work to do.

Lamenting over the prospects of the next four years is inhibiting our ability to process the implications of some very real lessons: first, most whites in the US are largely unsympathetic to the plight of Blacks and other dark peoples in the world; second, the Democrats are not willing or able to address our needs; and finally, the solution to our problems don’t lie in further empowering the Democratic party, but, rather, in empowering ourselves.