Erica Caines

2 months ago | blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Arnold August |Travis Ross |Erica Caines

The United States is a colonial empire, repressing and exploiting colonized peoples domestically and internationally. Mass deportations are a function of ethnic cleansing and a continuation of U.S. settler colonial history. The Trump raids have begun. In many ways, nothing is new. Despite liberals’ best attempts at depicting Trump’s policy as qualitatively different, what we are witnessing is merely an intensification of the bipartisan U.S. deportation regime.

2 months ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Erica Caines |Abayomi Azikiwe

Former president Joe Biden commuted long-held political prisoner Leonard Peltier's life sentence, which was welcome news to his loved ones and supporters worldwide. However, he will have to serve the remainder of his sentence on house arrest. This bittersweet moment shows us the unending cruelty of the U.S. and the need for the continued fight for the unconditional release of all political prisoners. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace.

Jan 22, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Arnold August |Erica Caines |John Perry

Fanmi Lavalas has fallen far from its roots as a popular progressive movement to nothing more than a servant of imperialism. Originally published in The Canada-Haiti Information Project. When former Catholic liberation theologian priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide burst onto the world stage in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was as an opponent and victim of U.S. imperialism.

Jan 21, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Arnold August |Erica Caines |John Perry

Fanmi Lavalas has fallen far from its roots as a popular progressive movement and is now nothing more than a servant of imperialism. Originally published in The Canada-Haiti Information Project. When former Catholic liberation theologian priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide burst onto the world stage in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was as an opponent and victim of U.S. imperialism.

Jan 14, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Erica Caines |John Perry

Professor Pierre highlights the United Nations’ involvement in the 2004 coup d'état and the subsequent occupation of the country. By discussing the deployment of Kenyan troops as a U.S. proxy force during the invasion and occupation, she raises important questions about neocolonialism and imperialism, as well as African self-determination and Black sovereignty.