Margaret Flowers

Nov 21, 2024 | nationofchange.org | Margaret Flowers

The Poor People’s Army, formerly the Poor People’s Economic and Human Rights Campaign, has been leading efforts across the country to place individuals and families who need them into federally-owned housing for a long time. Their position is that housing is a human right and that people in need should not be forced to wait for shelter. They recently published “Takeover: A Human Rights Approach to Housing” on Poor People’s Press, a step-by-step guide to occupying empty houses.

Jun 18, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Kevin Zeese |Margaret Flowers |Ajamu Baraka

The Biden administration and congress work together in their efforts to secure what they think is U.S. domination. They are playing a dangerous game and now try to bring back a draft through sleight of hand. The United States ended conscription, the military draft, in 1973. The all volunteer military came about because of mass protest over the Vietnam war.

Mar 5, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Flowers

Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism. In 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer arrested George Floyd, threw him to the ground, and pressed a knee into his neck, murdering him by asphyxiation. In response, “Black Lives Matter” protests erupted across the US, and it briefly appeared as if a racial reckoning might be taking place in the United States.

Jul 18, 2023 | blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Sarah Sax |Kevin Zeese |Margaret Flowers

The earth recently experienced its hottest days on record. Here in the U.S. Black people face the worst consequences of the climate crisis. There was no more defining moment in modernity than the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Within that revolution domestically to the United States, the most significant incident was the Titusville, Pennsylvania oil drilling find, which began our internal deluge of oil.