PCUSA Oppressed Nationalities Commission

03/14/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOHbDbEi0dQ

“My God, [Afghans] must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant. Is it the colour of their skin?”Clare Daly, Irish Member of the Eur...

09/30/2021

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07/12/2021

U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democrats have been playing the "Black Lives Matter" tune on their fiddle. Biden even raised the issue of Black Lives Matter during his presidential campaign. But, just days after Biden was sworn into office, his administration lent support for the Haitian dictator, Jovenel Moïse, who stayed in office past his term to the dismay of the Haitian people, who flooded the streets in protest.
Now, Moïse is dead and the United Nations has decided who will be the new president of Haiti. We see the racist irony. The people of Haiti have not been allowed to weigh in. The white rulers have made their decision, as the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) stated in its July 9 press release.

And while the director of Colombia's National Intelligence Agency and the director of its national police's Intelligence Division are in Haiti to investigate the role of Colombia in the assassination, those agencies have not launched investigations into police forces and paramilitary elements involved in the recent killings of peaceful protesters in Colombia, a client state of the United States.

Accepting the recommendation from the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti that contested Prime Minister Claude Joseph would be the new president is the ultimate in Western arrogance. The white West is continuing its white-supremacist narrative that the predominately African/Black population of Haiti cannot govern itself. What is really going on is the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination is working through the "Core Group" to ensure Haiti remains subordinate to its interests. The United States remains in the lead of that axis.

That is why we say Biden and Democrats could care less about Black lives.

In fact, Biden was famously quoted in 1994 as saying, "If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot in terms of our interest."

Is this the man and are Democrats the people Africans and other colonized people around the world are supposed to trust with our lives?

No, they are committed to one thing: The perpetuation of the pan-European colonial-capitalist project that has been underway for more than 500 years. That ideological foundation explains why they do not believe in the inherent dignity of all human beings. Hence, the double standard in place: The pretense of democracy and the rule of law for them and colonial fascism for the nations and peoples of the global South.

This is why the white West's deployment of "humanitarian intervention" because of the "Responsibility to Protect" is so cynical. The West is responsible for the barbaric treatment and conditions colonized peoples have faced for centuries. The U.S. ruling class has shown nothing but contempt for the lives of workers inside its borders and for the millions worldwide who live in abject poverty as a result of the global U.S.-dominated capitalist-imperialist system.

Why the concern about Muslims in China while Biden and Democrats greenlight Israel's war crimes against predominately Muslim Palestinians?

Whenever the United States raises humanitarian issues—be it in the Horn of Africa or in China—we know it can only mean one thing: The United States has strategic interests that have nothing to do with the humanity of the people they pretend to care about.

That is why BAP will continue to tell the truth, no matter the consequences.

07/05/2021

https://blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-terrible-origins-july-4th

The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.” “White settlers were in a constant state of fear of slave revolts.” “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of ...

06/16/2021

05/13/2021

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State and local governments have spent billions of dollars over the past decade in settlements and judgments in police misconduct lawsuits. Most of the awards come out of their budgets’ general funds rather than from the police budget or the individual officers responsible. But apart from settlements in high-profile cases that make the news—like a $12 million settlement for Breonna Taylor’s family and a $27 million settlement for George Floyd—data about these costs are often hidden from the public.

Please join us for a discussion featuring Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) to change this. The panel discussion will be moderated by POGO’s Senior Legal Counsel Katherine Hawkins, and include experts from organizations such as the NAACP, Yale’s Center on Policing, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and others.



TownHall: The Cost of Police Misconduct

Date: Monday, May 24

Time: 1:30PM ET

Keynote remarks by lead sponsors of the bill, Senator Tim Kaine and Representative Don Beyer, followed by a moderated discussion of the importance of the bill by experts on police misconduct.

05/07/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ziTingsz4

04/11/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCyAfFxUzI

Greg and Pat welcome an American historian Dr. Roger Keeran. Dr. Keeran is now Professor Emeritus of the Empire State College at SUNY after retiring in 2013...

03/27/2021

Z’man Cheruteinu– Time of our Freedom

What makes this Passover different from any other Passover?

Last year, we were newly isolated facing a virus that seemed to have no end in sight with a government which refused to take the pandemic seriously. Now, with a new administration and more and more people getting vaccinated, there’s a lot more hope this year. There's no doubt that is a huge difference. But there’s also the difference that each of us can make this Passover and beyond.

Passover is a celebration of our liberation. The Rabbis told us that not only do we have to tell the story of our freedom, but we need to act as if we ourselves were just liberated from Egypt. It’s difficult to act this way when so many in this world are not free. As a movement, we are guided by the belief that achieving Jewish safety is only possible when we achieve the safety of all people.

Over the past few years, we have been fighting for the freedom and dignity of Palestinians and Israelis — and against antisemitism and white supremacy. We do not view these two fights as competing or conflicting in any way. It is just the opposite. On the one hand, global authoritarians like Trump and Netanyahu have used marginalized communities to rally their supporters toward their hateful ideology: in the US that was Jews, people of color, immigrants, and more; in Israel that is the Palestinians. On the other hand, we know that false accusations of antisemitism against progressives are stopping us from achieving freedom in Israel/Palestine and distracting from the need to take on racist extremists that come after our community and our neighbors.

The only way to beat those forces is through solidarity and care.

What does solidarity during Passover mean?

It means that during this holiday, we will not only imagine Jewish freedom, but Palestinian, Black, Asian, and q***r liberation as well. It means envisioning a world without deportation, without violent policing of Black and Brown communities, without targeted violence against s*x workers, and without people going into debt for basic medical procedures. It means being willing to fight for someone you don't know.

That’s why this Passover, we’re asking you to recommit yourselves to the fight for collective liberation.

Don’t let this vision go to waste. Join your local mutual aid networks. Go to a new organizing meeting. Join that protest you’d normally ignore. None of us are free until all of us are — and that’s going to take a lot of work. But if each of us chips in, it’ll be easier for all of us.

Let’s make this Passover different from every other one.

Chag Sameach to all those celebrating Passover,
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