Black Agenda Radio - 10.24.16




Black Agenda Radio show

Summary: <br> <div> <font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and </span></font><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">analysis from a Black Left perspective. </span><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Coming up: former Black Panthers celebrated the party’s 50 </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">anniversary, in Oakland, California, where it all began; and, a Haitian political </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">activist says Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, is the greater evil of the 2016 </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">U.S. presidential contest. </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">But first, It’s been 20 years since the start of the genocide in the Democratic </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Republic of Congo, a bloodbath that continues, provoked, according to United </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Nations reports, by U.S. allies in neighboring Rwanda and Uganda. The Friends </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">of Congo noted the 20th anniversary of the genocide with an all-day teaching </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">session in New York City. One of the speakers was Nita Evele, of the Congo G</span></font><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;">lobal Action Coalition. </span><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Hundreds of former members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">gathered in Oakland, California, to mark the organization’s 50 th anniversary. The </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">event saw four days of intense discussion on the burning issues that confront </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">today’s Black liberation movement. The weekend also marked the 80th birthday of </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">former Black Panther Party chairman and co-founder Bobby Seale, who was </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">roasted and honored. Seale said, from the very beginning, he just wanted to put </span></font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial, Verdana;">more Black people in elected office. </span><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">If you are from Haiti, Bill and Hillary Clinton may look like the greater evils of the </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">2016 U.S. presidential election. Haitian community political activist Daoud Andre </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">led a protest against New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">whose office has been investigating Donald Trump’s charitable organization. </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Andre says Schneiderman is showing his political bias by leaving Bill and Hillary </span></font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial, Verdana;">Clinton’s multi-billion dollar, global fund-raising empire untouched.</span><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">And that it’s for this edition of Black Agenda Radio. </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Be sure to visit us at BlackAgendaReport.com, where you’ll find a new and </span></font><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">provocative</span></font> </div>