Summary: <br> Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and<br> <br> <br> <br> analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host,<br> <br> <br> <br> Nellie Bailey. Coming up: vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka says the<br> <br> <br> <br> Green Party will fight for the rights of all oppressed people; Blacks in Ferguson,<br> <br> <br> <br> Missouri, suspect the cops are behind the killing of a young activist; and, Blacks<br> <br> <br> <br> in Colombia want to make sure that a peace deal between the government and<br> <br> <br> <br> rebels also safeguards the rights of African descended peoples.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Veteran anti-war activist David Swanson is urging corporate<br> <br> <br> <br> media networks and cable channels to hold their own debates that include the<br> <br> <br> <br> presidential candidates of the Green and Libertarian Parties.<br> <br> The Green Party held a massive rally in Chicago, recently, for Jill Stein<br> <br> and Ajamu Baraka, their candidates for president and vice president. Baraka<br> <br> says the people are demanding answers to some serious questions.Twenty-year- old Black political activist Darren Seals’ body was found shot<br> <br> and burned inside his car in Ferguson, Missouri, last week. No one has been<br> <br> charged in Seals’ murder, but folks on the street suspect that the police are<br> <br> involved. We spoke with Edwin Chanell, whose New Generation Black Council<br> <br> works with gang members in the St. Louis area. Chanell was a close associate of<br> <br> Revolutionary Black Panther Party local leader Houdari Juelani, also known as<br> <br> Angelo Brown, who was shot to death by cops in nearby Belleville, Illinois, earlier<br> <br> this year. Chanell also collaborated with Darren Seals, and believes the cops<br> <br> played a role in his death. Colin Kaepernick’s name is by now a household word, after the football<br> <br> player’s refusal to stand and honor the national anthem. But, 31 years ago,<br> <br> Hardy Williams lost his position as a Los Angeles high school coach when he<br> <br> turned his back on the national anthem. Williams sued his school principle and<br> <br> the school district, and won a $25,000 settlement. The life-long educator says<br> <br> he’d been shunning the flag and the anthem for years before the authorities<br> <br> finally took action against him, in 1985. On September 26 th , the Colombian government and FARC guerillas will<br> <br> sign a peace deal to bring an end to more than 50 years of civil war. Shortly<br> <br> afterwards, a national referendum will be held on the peace deal. However, Afro-<br> <br> Colombians and indigenous peoples worry that their rights may be disregarded in<br> <br> the process. Charo Mina-Rojas is a spokesperson for the Afro-Colombian<br> <br> struggle to maintain their territorial rights. Mumia Abu Jamal, the United States’ best known political prisoner is<br> <br> making an appeal for Prison Radio, which carries his commentaries and reports<br> <br> from other activists locked up in the American Gulag. And that it’s for this edition of Black Agenda Radio.<br> <br> Be sure to visit us at BlackAgendaReport.com, where you’ll find a new and<br> <br> provocative issue, each Wednesday. That’s www.BlackAgendaReport.com. It’s<br> <br> the place for news, commentary and analysis, from the Black Left. I’m Nellie<br> <br> Bailey. Our thanks to the good people at the Progressive Radio Network.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
