Seeds of the Future

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Magazine: The decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer is just the latest story in a long history of violence against black men. What response can disrupt patterns set by centuries of racism? Truth and reconciliation processes offer the greatest hope, says Fania Davis. Read the Article  The Fallacy of Right-Wing Appeals to Race in Criminal Justice Reform Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress: The right's plans for criminal justice reform may ultimately magnify the structural racism and classism at the root of the creation, proliferation and maintenance of the prison industrial complex. Read the Article  We Need to Start Holding Tax-Dodging Banksters Accountable The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: The Supreme Court has legalized the purchase of lawmakers in Washington by corporate lobbyists and Wall Street hustlers. As a result, our economy is losing billions and billions of dollars each year to corporate tax avoidance. Read the Article  Too Big to Ignore Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins, OtherWords: Why should policy makers focus on inequality? One answer is that by crimping consumption, inequality is a key factor behind the failure of the US economy to fully recover from the Great Recession. Read the Article  Party On! The War Party Ascendant Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Thirteen years later, we are yet again floating on what seems to be a rising, not ebbing, tide of war, and the one qualification for a new secretary of defense is that he or she be a hot, not a cold, warrior. Read the Article  Vince Warren on How Police Officers Get Away With Killing - From Ferguson to NYC Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, talks about how the grand jury system can be used to shield police officers from prosecution, and retired NYPD detective Carlton Berkley discusses departmental restrictions on the use of chokeholds. 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Global recognition that Black lives matter means fighting back not just when Black lives are senselessly taken, but when insufficient value and material care are put forward to sustain them. Read the Article

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