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Black Lives Matter protesters face off against NYPD officers after George Floyd's death last May. picture-alliance/newscom/C.Sipkin.

A Second Trump Term Would Make War on People of Color and the Racial Justice Movement

October 8, 2020 Rosemary Kean

Racial Justice Would Be Under Fire by Rosemary Kean What would another four years of Trump mean for the cause of racial justice in this country? Trump has done more to foment and feast on racism than any previous president. As a New York developer […]

Far-right groups, including militias and white supremacists, rally Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, while a broad coalition of leftist anti-racist groups organized a counter-demonstration. (Jenni Girtman/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Legal and Vigilante Repression of the Antiracism Movement

September 29, 2020 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Last week several organizers in Colorado who have been organizing nearly daily protests over the summer demanding justice for Elijah McClain, murdered by police last year, were arrested and charged with felony kidnapping among other felony charges. The kidnapping charge was apparently […]

Climate Justice: Environmental Movement Needs a Soul-Searching Reset

April 30, 2020 Rosemary Kean

Third contribution to a discussion about the new documentary “Planet of the Humans”. Read the other contributions here by Rosemary Kean The proficiency of corporate capitalism in co-opting ideas and people that threaten its demand for infinite growth is demonstrated in the history of the […]