5LL #102 - History, Angela Davis, Safety, Primaries, White Guilt

What the Courage to Change History Looks Like
William Barber II, Liz Theoharis, Timothy B. Tyson and Cornel West, The New York Times
We can’t tinker around the edges. We need to dismantle systems.
Angela Davis: 'We Knew That the Role of the Police Was to Protect White Supremacy'
Lanre Bakare, The Guardian
The veteran civil rights campaigner on growing up in segregated America, the opportunity of the Black Lives Matter movement and what inspires her to keep fighting
Sex Workers Have Never Counted on Cops. Let's Learn From Their Safety Tactics.
Mike Ludwig, Truthout
Now, as demands for abolition rise, sex workers — particularly Black transgender women, who are most targeted by police, and also have played prominent leadership roles in sex worker activist movements — are uniquely positioned to provide insight into models of community safety and care without police.
A New Group of Leftist Primary Challengers Campaign Through Protests and the Coronavirus
Astra Taylor, The New Yorker
Across the country, political novices, inspired by Bernie Sanders’s Presidential bids and the rise of unapologetically left-wing candidates—most visibly, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—have thrown their hats into the electoral ring.
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism
Hadas Thier, Jacobin
To win substantive change, we don’t have to disavow personal education or introspection. But we do have to set our sights much higher — on dismantling the institutions that entrench racial inequality and violence.
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