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Restore My Voting Rights

Restoring Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions Is Essential to Reparations

The most critical reparation issue is certainly financial, but I have been working this legislative session on the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions here in Washington state. Although we decided not to explicitly include restoration language in our testimony, disenfranchisement is clearly a reparation issue. The theft of suffrage, primarily as a racist policy, has been

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Vijay Prashad 2 19 on Venezuelan Chavistas

Vijay Prashad on Venezuela: Affirming No Military Intervention Under the Cover of “Nonviolence”

Vijay Prashad’s insightful post (“Notes from the Streets of Venezuela: The People Are Resilient in the Face of Intervention,” Feb. 26, 2019, Independent Media Institute via CommonDreams) reveals some vital on-the-ground realities in Venezuela today. It almost perfectly reflects my own interviews, interactions, and subsequent writings during my visit there a year or so ago. I was not mainly in

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Vijay Prashad 2 19 on Venezuelan Chavistas

Vijay Prashad on Venezuela: Affirming No Military Intervention Under the Cover of “Nonviolence”

Vijay Prashad’s insightful post (“Notes from the Streets of Venezuela: The People Are Resilient in the Face of Intervention,” Feb. 26, 2019, Independent Media Institute via CommonDreams) reveals some vital on-the-ground realities in Venezuela today. It almost perfectly reflects my own interviews, interactions, and subsequent writings during my visit there a year or so ago. I was not mainly in

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Slave trader ledger

Redlining and the Many Effects of Slavery: Are You Willing to Act to Heal This Moral Injury?

By David J. Ragland Recent headlines reinforce how little progress has been made in terms of economic justice for African Americans. An exhaustive report by the Center for Investigative Journalism examined current redlining practices that fuel gentrification. Combing through over 31 million mortgages, investigators found that bankers regularly sidestep the Fair Housing Act. They are more likely to provide loans

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Slave trader ledger

Redlining and the Many Effects of Slavery: Are You Willing to Act to Heal This Moral Injury?

By David J. Ragland Recent headlines reinforce how little progress has been made in terms of economic justice for African Americans. An exhaustive report by the Center for Investigative Journalism examined current redlining practices that fuel gentrification. Combing through over 31 million mortgages, investigators found that bankers regularly sidestep the Fair Housing Act. They are more likely to provide loans

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Korean tensions

New Korean Summit: Possible Steps Forward for Asian Security

On February 27-28, the leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet in Hanoi, Vietnam. The place of the meeting has symbolic overtones, especially for Americans, that the earlier summit in Singapore did not. The new summit will build on the earlier summit, but also on events since. The summit meeting in Singapore on June 12, 2018 of

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