{"id":163106,"date":"2020-06-22T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=163106"},"modified":"2020-06-19T05:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T04:26:35","slug":"black-lives-matter-is-international-where-there-is-oppression-there-will-be-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/06\/black-lives-matter-is-international-where-there-is-oppression-there-will-be-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d Is International: Where There Is Oppression, There Will Be Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_163107\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Black-Lives-Matter-Resize-Defund-the-Police-Edited-800x445-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163107\" class=\"wp-image-163107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Black-Lives-Matter-Resize-Defund-the-Police-Edited-800x445-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Black-Lives-Matter-Resize-Defund-the-Police-Edited-800x445-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Black-Lives-Matter-Resize-Defund-the-Police-Edited-800x445-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Black-Lives-Matter-Resize-Defund-the-Police-Edited-800x445-1-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricio Zamorano\/COHA.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>18 Jun 2020 &#8211; <\/em>The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25<sup>th<\/sup> was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/interactive\/2020\/06\/mapping-anti-racism-solidarity-protests-world-200603092149904.html\" >globally<\/a>. This injustice has deep antecedents in the US and indeed in much of what is now called the Global South. There is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theelephant.info\/op-eds\/2020\/06\/06\/africa-we-will-not-remain-silent\/\" >shared history<\/a> of colonial conquest of the Indigenous and the abominable institution of the enslavement of African peoples.<\/p>\n<p>What happened has its roots in systemic oppression that has resonated internationally. Just as the police suffocated George Floyd, US <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mronline.org\/2020\/03\/10\/united-states-imposed-economic-sanctions-the-big-heist\/\" >unilateral coercive measures<\/a> against Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Zimbabwe, and nearly one third of humanity are designed to asphyxiate those nations which aspire to pursue an independent course.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40688\" src=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_181651.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_181651.jpg 800w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_181651-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_181651-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_181651-768x1022.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March against police brutality in DC, June 6, 2020. (Photo-credit: Patricio Zamorano\/COHA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>International Movement Erupts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defying coronavirus restrictions on public assembly, people are amassing in solidarity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>In the US colony of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/puerto-rico-protests-loiza-george-floyd-black-lives-matter\/\" >Puerto Rico<\/a><u>,<\/u> hundreds danced <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Destineyteresa\/status\/1268009841840152576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268009841840152576&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news18.com%2Fnews%2Fbuzz%2Fwatch-girl-performs-african-bomba-dance-amid-black-lives-matter-protest-in-puerto-rico-2652513.html\" >bomba <\/a>and chanted the names of their martyrs along with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others. A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaPotash\/status\/1267974065077260288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1267974065077260288&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinknews.co.uk%2F2020%2F06%2F04%2Fpuerto-ricans-bring-out-a-guillotine-and-trans-pride-flags-as-hundreds-join-black-lives-matter-protest%2F\" >guillotine<\/a> was hauled up to the governor\u2019s mansion.<\/li>\n<li>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/01\/world\/george-floyd-global-protests-intl\/index.html\" >Mexico<\/a>, where Bill Clinton\u2019s NAFTA decimated peasant agriculture, among the signs affixed to the security fencing in front of the US embassy was one reading, \u201cracism kills, here, there, and all over the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Thousands took the streets in major cities in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5-jk76tG330\" >Brazil<\/a> under the banner <em>Vidas Negras Importam! <\/em>The anti-racist struggle was connected to criticisms of the rightwing Bolsonaro government\u2019s handling of the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coha.org\/the-death-of-alejandro-treuquil-and-the-disregard-for-mapuche-lives-in-chile\/\" >Chile<\/a>, where the indigenous <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coha.org\/the-death-of-alejandro-treuquil-and-the-disregard-for-mapuche-lives-in-chile\/\" >Mapuche leader Alejandro Treuquil was just assassinated<\/a>, the cry \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/comitexsolidaridadinternacional\/posts\/2623372937933991\" >Mapuche lives matter<\/a>\u201d can be heard.<\/li>\n<li>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/inter.kke.gr\/en\/articles\/Protest-outside-US-Embassy-against-barbarism-and-repression-in-USA\/\" >Greece<\/a>, where the EU had wrecked the economy, youth associated with the Communist Party (KKE) lined up in front of the US embassy in Athens and the US consulate in Thessaloniki bearing torches and holding signs reading \u201ccapitalism means I can\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/06\/07\/edward-colston-statue-pulled-bristol-black-lives-matter-protesters\/\" >England<\/a>, authorities had long resisted removal of the statue of 17<sup>th<\/sup>-century slave trader Edward Colston, but 10,000 protesters marching in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement tore the racist symbol down and dumped it into the River Avon. Statues of colonialists <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/winston-churchill-statue-covered-box-protests-2020-6\" >Winston Churchill<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/11890172\/cecil-rhodes-statue-oxford-oriel-college-down-black-lives-matter\/\" >Cecil Rhodes<\/a> have been targeted by the movement and may come tumbling down too.In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/black-lives-matter-protests-king-leopold-statues\/2020\/06\/09\/042039f6-a9c5-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html\" >Belgium<\/a>, statues of King Leopold II are meeting a similar fate as tens of thousands take to the streets in protest. The late 19<sup>th<\/sup> and early 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century monarch became fabulously wealthy over the dead bodies of millions of Africans, who were subjected to terrible atrocities.<\/li>\n<li>Warriors for Aboriginal Resistance and others drew the connection between the police murder of African Americans in the US to the deaths of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jun\/01\/deaths-in-our-backyard-432-indigenous-australians-have-died-in-custody-since-2008\" >over 400 Indigenous<\/a> who are believed to have died in police custody in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com.au\/news\/black-lives-matter-protests-australia-23578\" >Australia<\/a> as protests arose throughout the country.<\/li>\n<li>Similar actions took place in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/01\/thousands-in-new-zealand-protest-against-george-floyd-killing\" >New Zealand<\/a>, where the indigenous Maori are oppressed.<\/li>\n<li>In Cape Town, protesters marched on the parliament to pay homage to George Floyd and a local man, Collins Khosa, who was beaten to death by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2020\/06\/04\/black-lives-matter-protest-hits-south-africa\/\" >South African<\/a> police, describing their struggle as part of an anti-neocolonial, anti-imperialist movement.<\/li>\n<li>In occupied <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePIPD\/status\/1267121540753129472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1267121540753129472&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.vogue.me%2Fculture%2Fblack-lives-matter-protests-underway-palestine%2F\" >Jerusalem<\/a>, an autistic Palestinian man, Eyad Halak, was killed by Israeli police, precipitating demonstrations proclaiming: \u201cEyad and George [Floyd] were victims of similar systems of supremacy and oppression. They must be dismantled.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2016\/09\/black-lives-matter-palestine-historic-alliance-160906074912307.html\" >historic alliance<\/a>\u201d of the Movement for Black Lives with the oppressed abroad goes back to their 2016 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bostonreview.net\/books-ideas\/robin-d-g-kelley-movement-black-lives-vision\" >founding document<\/a>, which then characterized Israel as an \u201capartheid\u201d state, condemned US backing for the settler \u201cgenocide\u201d against Palestinians, and supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement against Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linking Home and Abroad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The militarization of the US domestic police is bringing home the practices that the government perfected in suppressing popular expressions for self-determination abroad. The US\u2019s closest international partner, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel\/\" >Israel<\/a>, is a master of abusive police practices against its own Palestinian population. Development of those practices, partly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/interactive\/2018\/03\/understanding-military-aid-israel-180305092533077.html\" >funded by the US<\/a>, are then imported back to the US. Over 100 Minneapolis police received training from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/minnesota-cops-trained-israeli-forces-restraint-techniques\" >Israeli law enforcement<\/a> officers along with other police departments across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/how-americas-police-became-army-1033-program-264537\" >Newsweek<\/a> describes \u201chow America\u2019s police became an army.\u201d Under the 1033 Program, military equipment is transferred to the domestic police, who are then mandated to use the equipment as a condition of the program.<\/p>\n<p>While the police have been shooting rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators in the homeland, the US military deployed a so-called Security Force Assistance Brigade to Colombia. As the \u201cworld\u2019s policeman,\u201d the US has some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/archive\/the-us-has-military-bases-in-172-countries-all-of-them-must-close\/\" >800 formal military bases<\/a> internationally; no other country has more than a handful of foreign bases.<\/p>\n<p>Budgets for both domestic police and the US military are obscenely inflated and continue to grow, receiving bipartisan support. The Black Lives Matter movement questions whether either of these armed forces \u2013 police and military \u2013 truly serve or protect us. When Hurricane Katrina flooded poor African American neighborhoods in New Orleans, people were left to die stranded on rooftops while the police and the National Guard guarded private property.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the current pandemic, ordinary people are experiencing punishing austerity with the worst yet to come. While the US Fed is doling out hundreds of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wallstreetonparade.com\/2020\/06\/feds-repo-loans-to-wall-street-skyrocket-by-230-percent-week-over-week\/\" >billions<\/a> of dollars <em>daily<\/em> at a 1\/10 of one percent interest rate \u2013 practically free money \u2013 to the banks, the average US citizen is saddled with average\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.valuepenguin.com\/average-credit-card-interest-rates\" >credit card<\/a> penalty interest rates of just under 30%. Who is doing the real looting?<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, payments of unjust debt \u2013 mostly accrued by US-backed military dictatorships \u2013 to vulture capitalists from the US and other wealthy countries are stealing the livelihoods of the peoples of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/jhenry1124vulture\" >Argentina<\/a> and other nations saddled with socially <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/19\/opinion\/argentina-debt-negotiation-coronavirus.html\" >unsustainable debt<\/a> burdens.<\/p>\n<p>More people are behind bars in the US than anywhere else in the world, largely due to the so-called war on drugs, which in fact is a war on the most vulnerable and a pretext for the deployment of coercive means of social control. Black and brown people are targeted for arrest, adjudication, and imprisoned disproportionately compared to their numbers in the general population. The NAACP reports African Americans are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naacp.org\/criminal-justice-fact-sheet\/\" >imprisoned<\/a> at five times the rate of whites. While poor communities in the US, particularly those of color, are suffering from the plague of drugs, the primary world source of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/why-is-colombias-cocaine-production-so-high\/a-49381157\" >cocaine<\/a> is the US client state of Colombia and the primary world source of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/opium-and-heroin-production-in-afghanistan-has-increased-2016-10\" >heroin<\/a>\u00a0 is US-occupied Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40648 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_185107-1024x768.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_185107-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_185107-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_185107-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_185107.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March against police brutality in DC, June 6, 2020. In front of the White House.<br \/>\n(Photo-credit: Patricio Zamorano\/COHA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Delegitimization of \u201cAmerican Exceptionalism\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2015\/02\/obama-and-american-exceptionalism\/\" >President <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2015\/02\/obama-and-american-exceptionalism\/\" >Obama<\/a> unequivocally exclaimed: \u201cI believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.\u201d In another speech, he proclaimed: \u201c[W]hat makes us the envy of the world\u2026[is] the fact that we\u2019ve given everybody a chance to pursue their own true measure of happiness. That\u2019s who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not who \u201cwe\u201d are, and the chant \u201cno justice, no peace\u201d is exposing that to the world. American exceptionalism is the ideological construct used to extol \u201cAmerican world leadership\u201d based on the vision that the US is uniquely just and therefore has an obligation to endow the rest of the world with its freedom. As George Floyd\u2019s niece Brooke Williams <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/09\/george-floyds-niece-when-has-america-ever-been-great\/\" >asked<\/a>, \u201cwhen has America ever been great?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US \u201cleads\u201d the world in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prb.org\/us-incarceration\/\" >incarceration<\/a> of its own people, in consumption of addicting illicit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-leads-the-world-in-illegal-drug-use\/\" >drugs<\/a>, in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures\" >military and police<\/a> spending, and in foreign <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases\" >military bases<\/a>. No one elected the US to impose its \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/20\/countdown-to-full-spectrum-dominance\/\" >full spectrum dominance<\/a>\u201d on the globe. With the internationalization of the Black Lives Matter movement, this justifying ideology is being challenged, delegitimizing the US imperial project.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creosotemaps.com\/blm2020\/index.html\" >internationalization of the protests<\/a> reflects an understanding that it is the same US imperialist knee on the neck at home and abroad. Martin Luther King\u2019s indictment that \u201cthe United States is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,\u201d rang true in 1967 and ever more so now. Appropriately, the movement around Black Lives Matter, which has engaged the popular classes in what Che called the \u201cbelly of the beast,\u201d has taken international prominence signifying that where there is oppression, there will be resistance.<\/p>\n<p>As activist and lawyer Mark P. Fancher observes, \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/global-africa-must-defeat-global-imperialist-policing\" >resistance is global<\/a>.\u201d International solidarity among the oppressed has a long tradition and is gathering momentum based on the understanding there is one struggle for justice with many fronts. \u201cNo justice, no peace\u201d is being heard around the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40656\" src=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_200259.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_200259.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_200259-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_200259-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/104.238.69.231\/dbn.f1b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200606_200259-768x575.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"899\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March against police brutality in DC, June 6, 2020. (Photo-credit: Patricio Zamorano\/COHA.org)<\/p>\n<p><em>________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/roger-harris-150x150.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-146130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/roger-harris-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Roger Harris<\/em> <em>is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network, <\/a><em>associate editor at <\/em>Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA),<em> and the immediate past president of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/taskforceamericas.org\/\" >Task Force on the Americas<\/a>, a 33-year-old human rights organization in solidarity with the social justice movements of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is active with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/afgj.org\/focus-areas\/venezuela-solidarity-campaign\/campaign-to-end-us-and-canada-sanctions-against-venezuela\" >Campaign to End US-Canadian Sanctions against Venezuela<\/a> and is on the state central committee of the <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peaceandfreedom.org\/home\/\" ><em>Peace and Freedom Party<\/em><\/a><em>, the only ballot-qualified socialist party in California. He recently visited Syria for an international conference on the impacts of economic sanctions by the US and its allies on over 30 countries in the world. <\/em><a href=\"mailto:roger.harris@comcast.net\"><span data-hovercard-id=\"roger.harris@comcast.net\" data-hovercard-owner-id=\"78\"><em>roger.harris@comcast.net<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coha.org\/black-lives-matter-is-international-where-there-is-oppression-there-will-be-resistance\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; coha.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 Jun 2020 &#8211; The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. There is a shared history of colonial conquest of the Indigenous and the abominable institution of the enslavement of African peoples. What happened has its roots in systemic oppression that has resonated internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":163107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[229,867,120,101,1281,103,99,70,126],"class_list":["post-163106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-activism","tag-anglo-america","tag-conflict","tag-cultural-violence","tag-police-brutality","tag-racism","tag-structural-violence","tag-usa","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}