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Liberation Road | Our Analysis

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After Murder and Church Burnings: Organize the South! Black Lives Matter!

July 17, 2017 /

On June 17th, 2016, Dylann Roof, a 21 year old white man, entered Mother Emanuel AME Church, a pivotal institution in the Black liberation struggle in Charleston, South Carolina. He joined the evening’s prayer meeting. An hour later he took

Let’s Go Public: Reframing the Health Care Debate by putting Health Back into the Discussion

July 9, 2017 /

The national policy discussion around health care reform ignores the big question—“How do we improve the people’s health?”—and concentrates instead on a narrow question: “How do we get people insured?” The debate is couched in language that is designed to

Islands of Poverty in a Sea of Prosperity

July 9, 2017 /

It’s now commonly accepted that a person’s zip code is the best predictor of how healthy a person is and will be. And what determines your zip code? Income, wealth – and the racialized public policies and practices over generations

Talking points on the Trump disaster, the New Confederacy and the Left

June 4, 2017 /

This piece was written in early January, 2017 after the Nov. 2016 elections. 1. The New Confederacy won. The New Confederacy is composed of the most reactionary factions of capital allied with racist/nativist, right-wing populists. The Republican Party is the

May Day in the Time of Trump: Going Beyond Resistance to Build Political Power and Organization