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REP. ILHAN OMAR: It’s almost as if every single time we say something, regardless of what it is we say, that is supposed to be about foreign policy, our engagem

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LISA FOSTER: Certainly. And that history, both Justice Ginsburg and Justice Thomas, in his concurring opinion—both wrote at length about the history of the exce

LISA FOSTER: Certainly. And that history, both Justice Ginsburg and Justice Thomas, in his concurring opinion—both wrote at length about the history of the excessive fines clause, which really goes back to the Magna Carta, but their emphasis on the fact that after the Civil War excessive fines were used by Southern states really to re-enslave black people. Southern states passed vagrancy laws, all kinds of provisions, and imposed very steep fines on people who violated those laws, and, when they couldn’t pay those fines, then literally sold people to private companies for labor. It was convict labor. And that was a notorious practice throughout the South and even in some Northern states, during Reconstruction and after.

That is important, because, today, fines, fees and forfeitures disproportionately affect black people and other communities of color in the United States. And by citing that history, the Supreme Court says to the states, “We understand what’s happening, and that’s a reason to be particularly concerned about the imposition of these excessive fines.”

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Garvey Gave My People Backbones Where they had Wishbones

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Black Power is a Psychological Call to Manhood

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BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE

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THE SLEEP OF REASON PRODUCES MONSTER

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The Occupation of the American Mind (Official Trailer #1)

Israel’s ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and its repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world--except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the United States.

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A NEW KIND OF INFANTILISM & CULTURE OF IGNORANCE

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Kamala Harris explains her neoconservative views on the US-Israel relati...

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It is time to initiate a cultural campaign in which the positive virtues of radical criticality can be reclaimed, courage to truth defended, and learning connected to social change energized.

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Trump now personifies a party that makes intolerance a priority while viewing evidence-based arguments with open disdain.

We believe that political and civil Illiteracy is PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1! Therefore the Forum is designed to see through the sand storm that authoritarianism is unleashing, and to point toward alternative pathways offered by critical pedagogy, insurrectional democracy, and international solidarity.

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OUR GROWING FONDNESS FOR IGNORANCE

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For Hannah Arendt the inability to think, to be thoughtful, and to assume responsibility for one’s actions not only spoke to a regrettable type of civic and political illiteracy but was crucial for creating the formative cultures that permitted authoritarian tendencies to fully consolidate into totalitarian regimes.

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CATEGORIES OF THOUGHT AND STANDARDS OF JUDGMENT

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