Black Agenda Radio Commentaries

A century ago, Republicans and Democrats passed ballot access restrictions to prevent socialists from getting on the ballot in the US. It's time to organize to break those barriers.

A century ago, Republicans and Democrats passed ballot access restrictions to prevent socialists from getting on the ballot in the US. It's time to organize to break those barriers.

Biden's Poll Balloon is Black Voters

When the faux reparationists of ADOS point to the colonial settler state of apartheid Israel as an example of restorative justice and reparations for Jews in support of their claim to reparations for blacks in the US they are either confused, cynical, or both.

Tulsi Gabbard uses peace rhetoric to chase us back into the war party. That's the textbook definition of a sheepdog candidate.

ADOS deprecates solidarity, ignores racist empire and capitalism. But without eliminating those, reparations will be impossible to achieve.

If we seriously want to accomplish the heasv y lifting of reparations for the descendants of Africans in the western hemisphere it miht be time to call it something else

Bernie has upped his game for 2020, forcing everybody else to do the same. The challenges are particularly steep for the Green Party, which must field a 2020 campaign aimed achieving national ballot access, and building a new kind of sustainable, viable party outside and independent of the parties of capital.

HR 1 pretends to be a voting rights bill, a take the money out of politics bill, but those are merely bait. Its real legislative payload are a funding cutoff to third party presidential candidates, and an institutional requirement that the Pentagon, the intel and police and prison and homeland security industry deliver an annual threat report on Americans working for change.

Los Angeles was not West Virginial or Oklahoma or Arizona. LA teachers followed the Chicago model, and spent many months organizing their membership, forging deep organic ties with school communities, and even advancing their vision of what they called the community school, as opposed to the market driven charter school

HR 1 is a truckload of cynical promises which House Democrats have neither the ability nor the intent to keep, along with a couple deadly measures to institutionalize a new McCarthyism and prevent the Green Party from running an effective presidential campaign in 2020.

Our place as Greens, as leftists generally then, is not to whine about how the Democrats stole our Green New Deal slogan and slapped it onto their half-assed efforts to appear responsive to the looming crises around us. What we did is we managed to raise the bar, and we have to find ways to do that constantly and consistently, again and again.

Michelle Obama's Memoir "Becoming" -- Lots of Stories, Few Lessons

Trump and his followers are writing a brand new playbook, one suitable for delegitimizing future elections whose outcomes are inconvenient.

We hear "most important election of our lives" stuff every two years now, loudest of all from those whose careers depend on marshalling a big vote election day, and ignoring the people's will afterward in deference to their investor-contributors.