Jamal Rich

LATEST ARTICLES BY Jamal Rich

• News

  

  Solidarity rallies call for end to U.S.-backed dictatorship in Haiti

  March 3, 2021 By Jamal Rich

  The Black Alliance for Peace is demanding the Biden administration withdraw support for a Haitian dictator refusing to leave office.

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• U.S.

  

  Renewed calls for community control of the police come to D.C.

  January 5, 2021 By Jamal Rich

  An old idea first pioneered by the Black Panther Party is back.

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• Politics

  

  Film, communism, radical politics: A conversation between Boots Riley and Charisse Burden-Stelly

  December 1, 2020 By Jamal Rich

  Simply calling oneself an “anti-capitalist,” Boots Riley reasons, isn't enough. You've got to stake out a position when it comes to an alternative. For him, that alternative is communism.

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• News

  

  Can’t pay, won’t pay: Building a debtor’s union in D.C.

  November 23, 2020 By Jamal Rich

  People's World interviews Wes Vanderburgh, an organizer from the newly established D.C. Chapter of the Debt Collective.

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• U.S.

  

  Poor People’s Campaign and progressive allies take fight to Mitch McConnell’s doorstep

  September 23, 2020 By Jamal Rich

  Activists brought their demands right up to McConnell's Washington and Louisville, Ky. homes with a 'Moral Monday Cavaran.'

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• Opinion

  

  Free college was once the norm all over America

  September 11, 2020 By Jamal Rich

  A fightback against student debt is being led by groups like the Debt Collective that participated in a panel at the Claudia Jones School in Washington D.C.

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• U.S.

  

  Black Panther veterans Denise Oliver-Velez, Ericka Huggins share experiences with new generation

  September 9, 2020 By Jamal Rich

  The two pioneers came together for an intergenerational discussion on the ideas of radical friendship, the future of movement building, and radical self-care.

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• U.S.

  

  Black National Convention targets police violence, builds unity for Black liberation

  September 1, 2020 By Jamal Rich

  From our elders and ancestors, we are learning it’s possible to bring Black people together from all political ideologies and backgrounds to mobilize around a common vision for Black liberation.

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