A critical analysis of the response to COVID-19

• Uri Adomou
• May 21, 2020
• Position Papers

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...

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Expect Police-Military Repression Amid the Crisis of COVID-19 and Its Aftermath

• Uri Adomou
• Apr 08, 2020
• Position Papers

The rulers are concerned about the class war becoming sharper in the current crisis and they are preparing to send in the military and police to quell dissent.

“The pre-existing crisis of legitimacy for the rulers is compounded by the government’s inept response to the pandemic.”

News stories about the National Guard assisting with the coronavirus have overshadowed stories about US military plans  to join police in stopping expected “civil disturbances.” But eyewitness accounts of trains transporting armored vehicles and other equipment into their communities prompted posts to social media about...

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The US Surges Into A Police State While Media White Out Structural Racism

• Uri Adomou
• Jan 16, 2020
• Position Papers

Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan.

“No matter how many cases of murderous police brutality there are, each is treated like an isolated incident.”

If withholding US military aid from a neo-Nazi friendly  government in Ukraine is unacceptable, then it is only logical that a fascist police surge on Black and Brown communities in the US is acceptable.

Until the threat of war between the US and Iran stole what had been central in media attention, the power elite worked to keep the public fixated on the antics ...

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Community Control Over Police: A Proposition

• Uri Adomou
• Jul 21, 2019
• Position Papers

Community Control over Police: A Proposition

By Max Rameau
Pan-African Community Action

 

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. By the same token, ...

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