Edward Rhymes Founder & CEO Rhymes Media GroupJun 23, 20207 min“Justifiable” White Violence And The History Of The Criminalization Of BlacknessThere has been a long and troubled history in this country of making righteous white violence and intimidation, while criminalizing skin color — especially as it pertains to black and brown people. White violence and intimidation is usually bathed in declarations of patriotism and dried off with the American flag. And when it can’t be thus sanctified, the rationale becomes some sort of mental phenomena or illness, divorced from any sort of “ethnic group” pathology. A long his
Abby Martin, teleSUR EnglishSep 1, 20171 minEmpire Files: Peter Joseph & Abby Martin on Abolishing CapitalismPeter Joseph is the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, a grassroots, worldwide organization that advocates an alternative economic system based on sustainability, cooperation and human need. His most recent book, ‘The New Human Rights Movement,’ delivers a startling exposé about the violent oppression that defines our economic order, while issuing an urgent call for global activism to unite to replace it. Abby Martin sits down with Joseph to talk about the contradictions and