Read Glen Ford, by David Swanson

Glen Ford and The Radical Black Press

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Jan. 12, 2022
October 23, 2022

Someone asked me the other day for advice on collecting the best essays of the past 20 years. I recommended the new collection of Glen Ford’s called The Black Agenda. I recommend it to everyone — including people who are not black. I’m not black.

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Glen Ford: The Black Elite and the Legacy of MLK + Martin Luther King, Jr.: Organized Nonviolent Resistance Is The Most Powerful Weapon

Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial

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Dandelion Salad
Originally posted Jan. 21, 2013
January 17, 2022

TheRealNews on Jan 21, 2013

Glen Ford: Black upper class took advantage of legal victories won by MLK and the Civil Rights Movement and then helped to undermine the movement.

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Chris Hedges: Glen Ford and The Radical Black Press

Chris Hedges: Glen Ford and The Radical Black Press

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with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Dec 9, 2021

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jun 30, 2022

On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the journalist Glen Ford and the radical Black press with Ajamu Baraka, national organizer and spokesperson with the Black Alliance for Peace.

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Chris Hedges and Glen Ford: Analysis of the George Floyd Protests

Defund the Police

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with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Jun 13, 2020

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 6, 2022

On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the George Floyd protests, erupting in over 140 American cities, with Glen Ford, executive editor, Black Agenda Report.

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John Pilger: Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed + The Prosecution of Julian Assange

John Pilger: Julian Assange Must Be Freed, Not Betrayed + The Prosecution of Julian Assange

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by John Pilger
John Pilger
February 18, 2020

On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death.

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Exceptionally Innocent by David Swanson

American Exceptionalism Exceptions

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
May 3, 2019

Go right now and get yourself and the nearest house with a flag in front of it a copy of Roberto Sirvent’s and Danny Haiphong’s American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News — From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.

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Glen Ford: History of Black Radicalism, Social Justice, and Antiwar

no justice no peace die-in

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by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Peace Report
April 16, 2019

The Peace Report on Apr 8, 2019

Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report was the keynote speaker at the No Compromise No Retreat campaign launch event organized by Black Alliance For Peace.

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Glen Ford: The Black Elite and the Legacy of MLK + Martin Luther King, Jr.: Organized Non-violent Resistance Is The Most Powerful Weapon

Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial

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Originally posted Jan. 21, 2013

“I think it’s just as bad to passively accept evil as it is to inflict it.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

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Chris Hedges and Glen Ford: The Con Of Diversity

Chris Hedges and Glen Ford: The Con Of Diversity

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with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Oct 27, 2018

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 6, 2022

Glen Ford, executive editor, Black Agenda Report, talks to Chris Hedges about the history of affirmative action, reparations, and the con of diversity in America.

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Paul Street, Glen Ford, Chris Hedges, Bruce Dixon: Imagining an Authentic 21st Century U.S. Left (Left Forum 2018)

Death to Capitalism

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with Paul Street
Writer, Dandelion Salad
June 5, 2018

and with Glen Ford, Chris Hedges, Bruce Dixon

Other Voices, Other Choices on June 4, 2018

Event Organizer: Paul L. Street

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Glen Ford: There is No Such Thing as a Progressive Movement That is Aligned with the CIA

Resist Imperialism

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TheRealNews on Jan 24, 2017

Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford says a progressive movement can’t be build out of the pro-war, pro-CIA, and McCarthyite politics coming from Democratic leadership.

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Chris Hedges and Glen Ford: Obama’s Legacy—The Smashing of the Left

Barack Obama - Second Term Flare-Ups

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with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Jan 23, 2017

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 7, 2022

On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges looks back on President Barack Obama’s legacy with Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report. They examine Obama’s role in boosting the war industry, serving corporate interests and depleting the privacy rights of Americans. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at some of the darker decisions made over the past eight years.

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Milwaukee Community in Rebellion After Cops Gun Down Youth + Why Milwaukee Erupted

"Am I next?" - Justice for Philando Castile

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by Workers World staff
workers.org
August 15, 2016

As part of the ongoing international resistance against police terror, youth rose up in rebellion in Milwaukee the evening of Aug. 13 and again the following night.

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Chris Hedges, Glen Ford and Jill Stein at the Left Forum 2016: Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power?

Bernie Sanders - Caricature

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

OpenUnivoftheLeft on May 24, 2016

Left Forum 2016, Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power? Linda Thompson, Chair, Left Elect Coalition, Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party USA, Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report, Chris Hedges, Truthdig.

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Chris Hedges: No Ramifications For Police Who Murder + No Indictment For #Ferguson Cop Who Killed Michael Brown

Don't Shoot

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Dandelion Salad

Updated: Dec. 10, 2014

with Chris Hedges

GRITtv on Nov 24, 2014

Chris Hedges talks in anticipation of protests in Ferguson after the grand jury decision in the case of Darren Wilson, who shot and killed an unarmed teenager Mike Brown, this summer.

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