Summary: <p>Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. <br></p><p><strong>- </strong>Michigan<br> Governor Rick Synder has agreed to testify before a House committee <br> investigating the poisoning of Flint, Michigan. The committee will also <br> hear from Flint’s former emergency financial manager; the regional <br> administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and, Gina <br> McCarthy, the head of the EPA. We spoke with Black Agenda Report editor <br> Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, who blew the whistle on the EPA’s complicity<br> in the poisoning of South African vanadium miners. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo <br> said Michigan’s Governor and the rest of the officials should be asked <br> the “Watergate question.”</p><p>- The assault against the people of <br> Flint began with a crime against democracy, when Michigan’s governor <br> appointed emergency financial managers to run all of the state’s heavily<br> Black cities, effectively disenfranchising half of Michigan’s African <br> American population. In Newark, New Jersey, the People’s Organization <br> for Progress, POP, demonstrated in solidarity with the people of Flint. <br> POP chairman Larry Hamm says the people of Flint need their clean water <br> and their democratic rights restored.</p><p><strong>- </strong>In May of<br> this year, Janine, Debbie and Janet Africa will once again be eligible <br> for parole, after serving 37 years in prison for allegedly killing a <br> Philadelphia policeman. The three women are part of the Move 9. The <br> other Move members face even more time in prison. The draconian <br> sentences stem, not from the 1985 bombing of the Move house by <br> Philadelphia police, but a 1978 confrontation in which a cop was fatally<br> shot. Move spokesperson Ramona Africa recounts the events.<br></p><p>- <br> Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network, has <br> joined forces with advocates for Black women’s reproductive rights. <br> Garza held a joint press conference with La’Tasha Mayes, founder of New <br> Voices for Reproductive Justice, and Monica Simpson, director of the <br> Trust Black Women Partnership. They denounced anti-abortionist forces <br> for trying to co-op the language of the Black movement. Alicia Garza <br> spoke first, followed by Ms. Mayes and Ms. Simpson.</p>
