Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates
What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis?
What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis? — Read on www-brookings-edu.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.brookings.edu/research/fed-response-to-covid19/
500,000 people at risk of eviction in Brazil as Supreme Court moratorium nears end : Peoples Dispatch
The Zero Evictions Campaign has warned that 142,000 families might lose their homes if the STF-issued injunction against evictions is allowed to expire on June 30. — Read on peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/21/500000-people-at-risk-of-eviction-in-brazil-as-supreme-court-moratorium-nears-end/
Colombia elects first Black woman VP Francia Marquez, who vows to stand for ‘nobodies’ | Reuters
Francia Marquez, a single mother and former housekeeper, will be Colombia’s first Black woman vice president after a historic vote on Sunday saw the Andean country pick its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-elects-first-black-woman-vp-francia-marquez-who-vows-stand-nobodies-2022-06-20/
Why does the United States have a military base in Ghana? : Peoples Dispatch
An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana — Read on peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/15/why-does-the-united-states-have-a-military-base-in-ghana/
George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
“Born in Barbados, he was among the last of a generation of writers who traced the Caribbean’s transition to independence.” Clay Risen renders … George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
Treatment of Haitian migrants in Del Rio memorialized on coin | Miami Herald
A controversial moment captured last fall on the U.S. southern border of an officer on horseback corralling a Haitian migrant in Del Rio, Texas, has been memorialized on “a challenge coin.” — Read on http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article262498842.html
Its Time For Us to Reclaim Juneteenth – Hood Communist
The militancy of the Black Power movement and the overall emerging militancy of African and other colonized people signaled a change in our enemy’s approach. If you’ve been paying close attention to the tactics of the capitalist system over the last 25 years, you can see the trend. The mass movements of the past taughtContinue reading “Its Time For Us to Reclaim Juneteenth – Hood Communist”
Patricia Rodney on the 42 years since Walter Rodney’s assassination
Ralph Gonsalves: “Latin-Caribbean integration is necessary, but it has been discontinuous” | MR Online
The small island countries of CARICOM have given a demonstration of dignity and sovereignty, maintaining firm positions on the U.S. interference policy against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. — Read on mronline.org/2022/06/08/ralph-gonsalves/