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  • Smash Duopoly and Build Dual Power

    Posted in General on Dec 06, 2024

    In the wake of the 2024 US presidential election, there has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth, but the angst has been largely misdirected... While the election of Donald Trump comes with dire consequences, domestically and globally, it must be clear that he is not the central problem or primary contradiction confronting the Black working class, including women, queer folx or immigrants. The primary contradictions that we must confront are rooted in imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy, of which Trumpism, like the isms of Biden, Harris and Obama, is merely a particular expression.

  • A Critical Analysis of the Response to COVID-19

    Posted in General on May 21, 2020

    by Max Rameau
    Pan-African Community Action (PACAPower.org)


    Fear of the global COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic is compelling local, state and even the US government itself to do what protests, law suits, policy position papers and appeals to human decency could not: treating people as if they were valued members of the human family.

    Government agencies that have consistently demonstrated a wanton disregard for the well-being of poor Black and LGBTQ people have taken a series of actions that, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, liberals did not necessarily support, progressives were reluctant to demand a...

  • Community Control over Police: A Proposition

    Posted in General on Jul 21, 2019

    Community Control over Police: A Proposition

    By Max Rameau
    Pan-African Community Action

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    Introduction
    While it might be fair to say that the police enjoy support among the majority of the white population, the police enjoy no such support among the majority of Black people, who endure more frequent and harsher interactions with cops than whites.

    To be sure, white support for the police decreases proportionately with income. That is to say, poorer whites tend to support the police less because the police interact with them differently than with their wealthier white counterparts....


  • Forward from Ferguson

    Posted in General on Nov 20, 2018

    Forward from Ferguson offers in depth analysis of the recent urban rebellions and how Black communities can use human rights and self-determination to navigate these challenging times.

    By Max Rameau (of PACA), M Adams and Rob Robinson.

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    INTRO
    Moving Forward from Ferguson
    In the spring of 1992, Los Angeles burned for six days in what became the largest urban rebellion in the history of the United States, a country with a long and storied history of urban rebellions. Even though it served as the spark, the LA Rebellion was not caused by the video taped police bru...