Month: August 2020

Did You Know The FBI Sabotaged These Black Organizations? Here Is How COINTELPRO Works! | Urban Intellectuals

The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. All COINTELPRO operations were ended in 1971. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

 

Source: Did You Know The FBI Sabotaged These Black Organizations? Here Is How COINTELPRO Works! | Urban Intellectuals

Brazil’s Bolsonaro vetoes plans to offer COVID-19 support to indigenous people – Reuters

Brazil’s indigenous population of roughly 850,000 is more vulnerable to the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, as they live in remote areas with little access to health care systems and because their communal lifestyle rules out social distancing.

Bolsonaro vetoed 16 parts of the law on efforts to address the coronavirus threat to Brazil’s indigenous population, but still allowed for provisions on adequate testing, ambulance services and medical equipment.

Source: Brazil’s Bolsonaro vetoes plans to offer COVID-19 support to indigenous people – Reuters

Raoul Peck: What James Baldwin Knew About This Moment – The Atlantic

 

“Why can’t we understand, as Baldwin did and demonstrated throughout his life, that racism is not a sickness, nor a virus, but rather the ugly child of an economic system that produces inequalities and injustice?
The history of racism is parallel to the history of capitalism. The law of the market, the battle for profit, the imbalance of power between those who have all and those who have nothing are part of the foundation of this macabre play. He spoke about this not-so-hidden infrastructure again and again:
“What one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right to be here, you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world.’ And more pointedly: ‘I attest to this: The world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”

Source: Raoul Peck: What James Baldwin Knew About This Moment – The Atlantic