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The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color
Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. Her most recent book is Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (City Lights Books, 2023). She is a writing fellow for the Economy for All project at the Independent Media Institute and the racial justice and civil liberties editor at Yes! Magazine. She serves as the co-director of the nonprofit solidarity organization the Afghan Women’s Mission and is a co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan. She also sits on the board of directors of Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights organization.
Democratic governments have already used the virus to crack down on freedoms, while those regimes that were authoritarian to begin with have used the pandemic to grab even more power.
Its Face is Cruel and Selfish
Los Angeles teachers are telling the district and the world that their public schools have been deeply damaged by years of austerity
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Trump needs Americans to believe there is an imminent threat to our collective safety and security in order to whip up his base and retain support
From Starbucks to Waffle House
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Our ignorance of the havoc Trump is wreaking overseas makes us more susceptible to the politicization of future retaliatory attacks
The most effective way to express our demands is through political organizing that is entirely independent of any political party