Summary: <br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;">Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host, Nellie Bailey. Coming up:</span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is trying to pull every Republican voter and fat cat contributor into her Big Tent Democratic Party, but what does that mean for Black and working people? And, Black activists remember the legacy of Robert Williams, the former NAACP leader in Monroe, North Carolina, who championed Black people’s right to armed self defense.</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> <br></span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But first – the Green Party has assembled a full ticket to challenge the two-party duopoly system. Presidential candidate Jill Stein tapped veteran Black activist Ajamu Baraka as her vice presidential candidate. Baraka is a founder of the U.S. Human Rights Network and an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report. Baraka accepted the vice presidential slot not long before the Green Party held its national convention in Houston, earlier this month. We asked him how that happened.</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><br> <br></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">AjamuBarakaGREENS</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vice Presidential candidate, Green Party. Founder of the U.S. Human Rights Commission, veteran political activist, editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report. Picked for the number two spot on the ticket by presidential candidate Jill Stein not long before the Party’s nominating convention, earlier this month, in Houston, Texas. How did that happen?</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;">In: “It was something that was pretty sudden....”</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;">Out: “...a plurality of votes can win this election.”</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><br> <br></span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">DrAnthonyMonteiroTRUMP-CLINTON</span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;">In Philadelphia. Dubosian scholar, part of the Black Radical Organizing Committee.</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;">On the Trump and Clinton economic positions.</span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"><br> <br class="zw-br"></span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-size: 12pt;">In: “First of all, they’re political documents...”</span></p><br> <p class="zw-paragraph" style=""></p>
