– Walidah Imarisha
Last month, Obama inspired a renewed flurry of think pieces and arguments with his comments that “defund the police” is nothing but a “snappy slogan” which serves only to alienate potential allies rather than bring about needed police reforms. In the ensuing blowback, a video of Vice President Kamala Harris resurfaced in which she arrogantly mocks the demand to “build more schools, less jails” and declares that we, as abolitionists, do not really mean what we say when we argue police have no place in public safety. In the UK, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has been similarly dismissive of “defund the police
lay it out right there, what the agenda would be from hillary s standpoint. what does labor get from bernie sanders that it will not get from hillary clinton? first of all, a $15 minimum wage. he s very clear on that. secondly, the right to organize. last week, he introduced the workplace democracy act, for the second time in his congressional career, he s out there when workers are organizing all the time. he s out there on picket lines. he makes it clear he s not with the bosses, he s not a neutral. he believes that income inequality in this country is way off-base and we need to redirect it for working families. the list goes on from there. higher education paid for with a financial transaction tax. that s for our kids, for working class kids. it s a total redirection led by a political revolution, which means we re not going to make it with business as usual. we re not going to make it with a third term, essentially, for this president. we need a mass movement in this