Bruce A. Dixon

grandfather, organic gardener, lifelong leftist, former Panther, current Green, troublemaker, organizer

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Tulsi Gabbard is a #Sheepdog; Greens' Howie Hawkins is 2020's Only Peace Candidate
by Bruce A. Dixon
https://t.co/gUQr47DmbP
Gabbard uses peace rhetoric to chase us back into the war party. Howie Hawkins is building a permanent party to fight 4 justice at home and peace abroad.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump
by Margaret Kimberley
https://t.co/6p88F7WzZ2
If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

On class in Black politics.
By Cedric Johnson & This Is Hell
https://t.co/FPNCbJpvpY
Johnson examines class in Black political life limits of electoralism and solely race-driven analyses vs the power of a Marxist materialist lens in understanding power dynamics iof capitalism

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
by Glen Ford
https://t.co/RwfARd1wLV
Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
by Carl Davidson
https://t.co/n85Lu5LtIG
Flint Taylor’s new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

The Bankers’ “Power Revolution” -- How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
by Ellen Brown
https://t.co/X3NGBCK5tV
Enshrined by law and custom, bondholder debt repaid by taxpayers is a naked transfer of wealth from the poor and workers to the super-rich.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

The Battle For Ballot Access is a Century Old. It's Time to Break it Open https://t.co/NJFnjQ5A8R

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The Battle For Ballot Access is a Century Old. It's Time to Break it Open https://t.co/dIzorlMp62

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Regime Change Coming Home?
By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
https://t.co/63fyqie0sV
Limbo! How low can we go—
Barr is set so low in its
swamp draining elephantine donkey dung...

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Joe Biden Personifies a New “End of History,” This time for U.S. Imperial Rule
by Danny Haiphong
https://t.co/N7PqI7uh5C
Biden’s open support of corporate oligarchy and disdain for Black America won him the hearts and minds of the ruling class.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Venezuelan Embassy in DC Under Siege by Guaido’s Racist Mob
Lauren Smith
https://t.co/42m9Sjoj6f
Emboldened by Trump’s aggressions against #Venezuela, fascist followers of Juan Guaido have threatened and assaulted US activists while US cops and Secret Service agents do nothing.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class)
-by Ann Garrison
https://t.co/CqR5WKDtVc
Saying Assange not a journalist is like saying Darwin wasn’t a biologist, Einstein wasn’t a physicist and LeBron James can’t play basketball.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Letters from Our Readers 
by Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
https://t.co/SIRWnAz7z8
This week saw some interesting letters, as readers discussed black support for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party establishment’s relationship to Black people, and more.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

BAR Book Forum: Lilian Calles Barger’s “The World Come of Age”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
https://t.co/OJmKDl3b0b
Any Christian theology worth holding has to be engaged with the need for the liberation of the oppressed.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 2)
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora
https://t.co/VJN30rmDSY
It is crucial to bring a feminist and critical race perspective to bear on notions of technological development.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Black Caucus Blasted for Turning Its Back on Rep. Omar 
by Glen Ford
https://t.co/Wz0uipbaUQ
It’s been more than a generation since the #CongressionalBlackCaucus stood up for Black people, or progressive political principles, anywhere. #BlackMisleadershipClass

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Extinction Rebellion Training, Or How To Control Radical Resistance From the "Obstructive" Left
Cory Morningstar @Wrong KInd Of Green
https://t.co/N9EamISicm
Extinction Rebellion is a corporate front, devised to take the place of real resistance to capitalist ecocide.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't
by Adolph Reed & Cornel West
https://t.co/LNUGf89DNg
Joe Biden is the purest example of the corporate Democrats that turned the party decisively towards war, austerity and race-baiting in a previous elections.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Hijacking the Congolese People’s Victory
by Kambale Musavuli
https://t.co/l4AwEJY6aT
#Congo President Kabila is finally out. Sort of. Before leaving ensured that the most pliable and least threatening opposition figure, Félix Tshisekedi, would be designated president.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Angela Davis Denounces Attacks on Afro-Colombian Social Movements
by Angela Y. Davis
https://t.co/MWty6LrDkH
Afro-Colombians face repression and outright violence as a consequence of their struggle to defend their territory, protect the environment, and combat racism.

[Bruce A. Dixon @brucedixon]

Black Mothers Dying in US
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
https://t.co/ZJf0LvlszZ
Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power.