5LL #106 - Demands, Suburbs, Homelessness, Guns, Larry Hogan

The Left Is Remaking the World
Amna A. Akbar, The New York Times
“Defund the police” and “cancel rent” aren’t reforms, but paths to revolution.
Abolition Is Not a Suburb
Tamara K. Nopper, The New Inquiry
Affluent white havens are not models of accountability
The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest Street in Philadelphia
Hamilton Nolan, In These Times
Where there was once just empty grass, there is now something approaching a community.
Guns and the Southern Freedom Struggle: What's Missing When We Teach About Nonviolence
Charles E. Cobb Jr., Zinn Education Project
Pieces of history that could help us think more clearly about today’s movements for social change are often ignored or distorted in popular media or commercial textbooks.
How Larry Hogan Kept Blacks in Baltimore Segregated and Poor
Sheryll Cashin, Politico
Hogan portrays himself as a moderate who cares about minorities, but his decisions tell a different story—particularly his decision to cancel Baltimore’s Red Line.
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