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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Which way is the reparations struggle going? There is still no consensus among Black Americans on what the United States must pay for centuries of slavery and oppression. And, Chicago is the city where community control of the police is closest to becoming a reality. We'll get an update from a local activist. But first – The United States government last week seized the website of the Iranian news service Press TV and three dozen of that country's other internet outlets, claiming the sites were spreading “disinformation.” What gives Washington the right to roam the planet, shutting down other nations' information services? We posed that question to Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. That was Ajamu Baraka, national organizer wth the Black Alliance for Peace. In recent years, increasing numbers of white people have come to favor some form of reparations for the harm Black Americans suffered under centuries of slavery and discrimination. But there is still no consensus among Black people on what kind of reparations should be demanded from the United States. Efia Nwangaza is director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina, and a longtime reparations advocate. Nwangaza is trying to pull reparations supporters together in her state. That was Efia Nwangaza, at the Malcolm X Center for Self- Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina. In Chicago, a majority of the board of aldermen now support community control of the police. Jasman Salas is co-chair of the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the organization that is spearheading the effort. Salas says women and trans people would greatly benefit from community control of the cops  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Which way is the reparations struggle going? There is still no consensus among Black Americans on what the United States must pay for centuries of slavery and oppression. And, Chicago is the city where community control of the police is closest to becoming a reality. We'll get an update from a local activist. But first – The United States government last week seized the website of the Iranian news service Press TV and three dozen of that country's other internet outlets, claiming the sites were spreading “disinformation.” What gives Washington the right to roam the planet, shutting down other nations' information services? We posed that question to Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. That was Ajamu Baraka, national organizer wth the Black Alliance for Peace. In recent years, increasing numbers of white people have come to favor some form of reparations for the harm Black Americans suffered under centuries of slavery and discrimination. But there is still no consensus among Black people on what kind of reparations should be demanded from the United States. Efia Nwangaza is director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina, and a longtime reparations advocate. Nwangaza is trying to pull reparations supporters together in her state. That was Efia Nwangaza, at the Malcolm X Center for Self- Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina. In Chicago, a majority of the board of aldermen now support community control of the police. Jasman Salas is co-chair of the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the organization that is spearheading the effort. Salas says women and trans people would greatly benefit from community control of the cops  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Both Republicans and Democrats in the US claim it’s alright to threaten Venezuela with invasion, because its not a democracy. But we’ll talk with a veteran Black activist who was an official observer of democracy in action in Venezuela. And, a call for the abolition of poverty, by getting rid of the class that is hoarding all the wealth. Angela Davis, the human rights activist, was initially disinvited from an event of the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis’s home town, apparently because of her support for Palestinian rights. The month before, CNN fired Mark Lamont Hill for supporting Palestinians in a speech at the United Nations. We spoke with Michael Fischbach, a professor of history at Randolph-Macon College and author of a new book titled “Black Power and Palestine.” Fischbach says Black American empathy with Palestinians and Arabs is nothing new. The South American nation of Venezuela has held more elections in the past 20 years than any other nation in the western hemisphere, and maybe the entire world. But the corporate media and both political parties in the United States insist that Venezuela’s socialist government is a dictatorship. President Trump has seized billions in Venezuelan assets, and is threatening military action. In Greenville, South Carolina, Efia Nwangaza is a people’s lawyer and director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination. Nwangaza was among the international observers that have verified all of Venezuela’s elections as free and fair. The popular backlash against deepening economic inequality gets more intense by the day. William Anderson is co-author of a book titled, “As Black as Resistance: Finding Conditions for Liberation.” In an article in Truthout, Anderson said it’s time to heed Dr. Martin Luther King’s call for the abolition of poverty.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: A critique of the recent national prison strike. A veteran activist says the strike’s organizers failed to consult local people on the ground; a California prisons activist addresses the difference between prison abolition and prison reform; and, we’ll talk to the author of a new book on How to be Less Stupid About Race. Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to be the next Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had a hard time during last week’s Senate confirmation hearings. One of the many Americans that was glued to the television was Kevin Alexander Gray, the activist and author from Columbia, South Carolina. Gray says, even when the subject of contention is women’s rights, the SUBTEXT in America, is race. Efia Nwangaza is an activist and attorney based in Greenville, South Carolina, where she’s director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination. The center also operates radio station WMXP. Nwangaza has been organizing around prison issues in South Carolina since 1978. She is critical of the leaders of the recent national prison strike, conducted from August 21st to September 9th. Nwangaza says the organizers failed to consult with local activists, inside or outside the prison walls. Romarilyn Ralston spent 23 years as an inmate of the California prison system. She’s now the Program Coordinator of Project Rebound, at the State University at Fullerton, and serves as Policy Coordinator for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. It seems that Ralston has been on a mission since the moment she set foot outside the prison walls. Much of today’s political conversation seems to blame Donald Trump for American racism, sexism and endless wars. That’s not very smart, according to Dr. Crystal Fleming, a professor of sociology and Africana Studies at Stony Brook University, on Long Island, New York. Fleming is author of a new book, titled, “How to Be Less Stupid About Race.” She says, yes, Trump is a white supremacist warmonger, but so was his Democratic predecessor.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: We’ll have a radical analysis of the importance of the the summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, from Dr. Tony Monteiro, who says the U.S. can no longer demand obedience to Washington’s version of how the world should be run; and, rebellion continues to simmer behind the prison walls in South Carolina. The massive popular rebellion that rocked the streets of most of Haiti’s cities has brought down the prime minister and cabinet of the US-backed regime. The disorder was ignited by the government’s massive hike in the price of kerosene, gasoline and diesel fuel, under orders from the International Monetary Fund. In Brooklyn, New York, we spoke with Dahoud Andre, of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. Andre is also host of a popular Haitian radio program. He says the people of Haiti want the country’s president to step down, as well. The summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki, Finland, occurs at a time of clear decline of the United States, economically and in terms of influence in the world. For three years, Russia has militarily prevented Washington and its Islamic jihadist proxies from overthrowing the government in Syria, Russia’s longtime ally. And, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, with Russia and China in the lead, is creating an alternative economic and political center on the planet, further diluting the influence of the U.S. and Europe. We spoke with Dubosian scholar and political analyst Dr. Anthony Monteiro. He says the world is quite different than the picture painted by the New York Times and the Washington Post. South Carolina experienced the world prison violence in many years back in April. There’s very little news from the corporate media and current conditions behind the bars, but activists say the rebellion is still simmering. Efia Nwangaza is a veteran of the struggle against the criminal IN-JUSTICE system. Nwangaza is director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, and also directs WMXP Radio, in Greenville, South Carolina. She says the revolt against oppression in the state’s prisons has not been quelled.    

Warrior Efia Nwangaza gives us a different perspective of the Revolutionary Leader Fidel Castro. Ms. Nwangaza is the founder of The Malcom X Center & WMXP-lp 95.5 in Greenville, South Carolina. The Malcolm X Center & WMXP-LP 95.5 FM are designed to promote economic, social and cultural consciousness and rights of New Afrikans (Black people). The Malcolm X Center serves as a public space for developing, testing, training and implementaion of approaches to popular education, strategic planning, and communications skill enhancement for self-determination and self-advocacy. Communications skill development ranges from workshops in: * Leaflet / press release / broadside publication (with and without computer) * Puppet & poster making * Photography & videography * LPFM radio and Internet broadcasting * Creative writing and self-publication * Spoken word and dramatic performance * Music * Know Your Rights and Convictions Expungement for employment * Prisoners' Rights While the Center serves and draws from all ages and experiences, significant emphasis is placed on youth and peer teaching. LOCATED: 321 W. Antrim Dr, P.O.Box 16102, Greenville, SC 29607 864-239-0470, mxcentergvl@gmail.com or wmxp955@gmail.com

A life-long human rights activist and people's lawyer in Greenville, SC, Nwangaza is the founder/coordinator of the Afrikan-American Institute for Policy Studies & Planning and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self-Determination, a current representative on the Pacifica Radio Affiliates Board, past national chairperson of the Jericho Movement and ran for U.S. Senate in 2004 as a Green Party candidate.Nwangaza learned the power of radio as an organizing tool early in life from her parents who worked in international evangelical radio broadcasting. During her early years as a civil rights activist she dedicated herself to the betterment of her community and the oppressed in general. As an established activist and lawyer, with the assistance of her community and Prometheus Radio, she helped launch (June '07) WMXP, a low power community radio station. WMXP (95.5 fm), The Voice of the People, is Greenville's only non- commercial, community owned, operated, and funded radio station and is a project sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The station gives a voice to the voiceless and a home to knowledge, community enrichment and social justice advocacy. Nwangaza's interest in forming the station was driven by her desire to use the power of radio in the interest of liberation of people for political purposes, in a culture of consciousness and resistance. As she puts it: "Media is a life-line, not a commodity.".This is a wide-ranging conversation that shows the power of low-cost, low-power FM community radio as a vehicle for community organizing and local artistic, cultural and polictical expression. Topics include a contextual discussion of racism in today's culture and the criminal in-justice system along with why the station was developed and examples of hands-on community use of radio as a tool in community empowerment and youth leadership development projects, WMXP programming practices and more.Recorded at the Grassroots Radio Conference, Portland, Oregon in July, 2008.Websites of interest: Prometheus Radio Project