Panelists discuss political struggle and movement building in light of the up coming Presidential elections and the Black youth led street protests against State repression and police impunity in the murder of Black youth. They reference the triple evils of Racism, Classism and Militarism that Dr. King identified and the role played by the Democratic Party in furthering those evils in support of Empire abroad and exploitation at home.
Bruce A. Dixon, is managing editor at Black Agenda Report, and a member of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party.
Paul Street, independent researcher, journalist, historian, author of They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy and Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History.
A short statement from Rafia Zakaria who was scheduled to participate but was unable to is read by the moderator.
Rafia Zakaria is a columnist for DAWN, Pakistanâs largest English newspaper. She has written for The New York Times, Dissent, The Progressive, Guernica.