Black Agenda Radio

Comments today from : 1. CliveYoung - Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition 2. DonnaSmith - National Nurses United. The union is pushing for a tax on Wall Street stock trading, instead of cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Says it’s a no brainer. 3. Tonya Ward Jordan - Coalition4Change, a grassroots organization for Black federal government employees. Coalition has noted a marked increase in complaints of racial discrimination in the federal workforce – up 4 percent in 2010. 4. Sabrina Shupe - Educators and supporters of public education from around the country will converge on Washington, DC, on July 30, for a rally and march to “Save Our Schools.” Former teacher Sabrina Stevens Shupe says high stakes testing and assaults on teachers are a clear and present danger to American public schooling. 5. Sikivu Hutchinson - The same anti-abortion forces that put up posters targeting African Americans, declaring that the most dangerous place for a Black baby is the womb, have launched a similar campaign among Latinos. Sikivu Hutchinson, a frequent Black Agenda Report contributor, has followed those developments closely. 6. David Cobb - On August 24, a convention on and about democracy will be convened in Madison, Wisconsin. The event, which is billed as the first national democracy convention, will include no less than nine mini-conventions on subjects such as Economic Democracy, Media Democracy and Education for Democracy. David Cobb is one of the organizers. He says the convention is designed to attract the widest constituencies for radical change.