1/ The maintenance of the decaying capitalist system is prioritized over human lives.
2/ The U.S. will go to any length to protect the functioning of the economy and continue to seek profits.
3/ Austerity politics means that COVID-testing has been largely taken over by private companies instead of a coordinated mass testing effort. Meaning some people have been charged up to $850 for a single test and as Omicron spiked, some have had to wait weeks for their results.
4/ Private pharmaceutical companies have been protecting exorbitant profits at the cost of allowing millions of people around the world to get even their first vaccine – what many of called a vaccine apartheid (@tri_continental).
5/ Federal, state, local governments and public organizations are entirely structured to protect business interests over the lives of the people.
6/ Motivated by complaints from corporations over labor shortages, the CDC shortened the COVID isolation period for asymptomatic people to 5 days from 10 days (@NPR). The CDC isolation change only furthers public distrust of any official COVID policy or recommendation.
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For months we’ve been the target of a campaign that alleges our funding comes from “dark money”
A few years ago we met Roy Singham, a Marxist comrade who sold his company & donated most of his wealth to non-profits that focus on political education, culture & internationalism.
It seems to bother some folk that we receive funding that furthers our anti-imperialist politics. It seems to bother them even more that our funder is also a staunch anti-imperialist whose work goes back to the Black Panthers & the LRBW in Detroit. blackagendareport.com/road-detroit-s…
The folks who make allegations against us are steeped in the worst kind of racism, believing somehow that our funding robs us of agency & self-determination.
Roy follows in the footsteps of his father Archie, a committed activist for National Liberation newframe.com/archie-and-i-a…