Litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, argues that we have not ended racial caste in America, we have simply redesigned it: The US criminal justice system functions as a contemporary means of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. Her provocative new book challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. As the United States celebrates the nation's triumph over race with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Event at Demos February 18, 2010. Camera, edit Joe Friendly.Author: Joe Friendly
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Michelle Alexander: Drug War Racism
Days before the G20 financial summit in London, Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, called for a new currency to eventually replace the US dollar. The dollar, which was made the reserve currency after World War II, has come under increased pressure of late. Barack Obama, the US president, cast doubt upon calls by senior Chinese authorities for the creation of a new global currency to replace the dollar as the standard bearer for the world.
Noam Chomsky speaks about Gaza, Palestine, Israel at a meeting in Boston. 1-21-09 filmed by Paul Hubbard at the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace www.socialistworker.org www.risocialism.org
