"There are decades when nothing happens; there are weeks when decades happen." -- V.I. Lenin
Despite demonization, criminalization, and murder sanctioned by American apartheid, black lives find power in protest.
For the youth - excluded from the American economy by inferior, substandard education; targeted by the malevolence of the fake drug war and mass incarceration; stopped and frisked for Walking While Black - were given front-row seats to the national security state at Ferguson after a friend was murdered by police in their streets...
Ferguson is a wake-up call, writes Mumia Abu-Jamal. A call to build social, radical, revolutionary movements for change.
