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Articles by Max Rameau
The Jackson-Kush Plan & The Struggle For Land
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice and equality.
Black Agenda Report
Black Is Back Coalition Holds Conference on Community Control of Police “We must deepen the resistance to police terror and all attempts to protect a status quo of colonial domination of our people,” the 17 organizations of the coalition declared.
Black Agenda Report
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing: A Reply to Our Critics Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free to re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of policing itself.
Community Control Over Police
DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION Community Control over Police: A Proposition By Max Rameau Pan-African Community Action Introduction While it might be fair to say that the police enjoy support among the majority of the white population, the police enjoy no such support among the majority of Black people, who endure more frequent and harsher interactions with cops than whites. To be sure, white support for the police decreases proportionately with income.
Black Agenda Report
“America” Doesn’t Need Healing. It Needs Socialism Biden’s promise to return the United States to “normalcy” comforts corporate executives in the “gig economy,” Wall Street, and the military industrial complex. “Racial cleavages will be written off as the product of a Russian-backed racist billionaire whose presidency is now a thing of the past.” Much of the corporate media has asked whether Joe Biden will “heal America” of the so-called divisiveness spawned by Donald Trump’s presidential reign.
Black Agenda Report
V.I. Lenin and W.E.B. Du Bois: Class Struggle and Civilization While the ruling elite is calling for a capitalist reset which could leave half the working class without jobs or adequate income, many leftists are proclaiming working class backwardness.
Black Agenda Report
Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
Prisons and policing: systemic challenges and alternative visions
It’s easy to propose reforms and tweaks to the current economic system: even if it is politically impossible, no one has a hard time imagining a world where there is a higher minimum wage. Most people can wrap their heads around even an idea like a universal basic income.
Beyond The Carceral Logic of Civil Commitment
A key component of the current system is its reliance on imprisonment as a response to behaviors and populations which are understood as sources of actual or potential harm. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, this carceral response seems to multiply and perpetuate harm rather than reducing it.
For Reparations: A Conversation With William A. Darity Jr.
William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. The focus of his work is on inequality based on race, class, and ethnicity. He has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and most recently Jacobin Magazine.
Addressing the Systemic Challenge at the Heart of Escalating Inequality and Environmental Destruction
I want to begin by thanking the conference organizers for extending an invitation to address you during your important annual deliberations. I come before you today not as an expert on environmental matters, but as someone who has devoted his professional life to social justice concerns, in particular addressing economic and social inequality in the United States and in the Global South.
Kurdish Women Struggle for a Next System in Rojava
We asked Ruken Isik, currently working on a PhD exploring the struggles of Kurdish women, to help us understand what Rojava can teach us about building gender equity into the next system. In what follows, she fills in the historical context around feminist organizing in Northern Syria and traces the innovative practices and policies developing on the ground, as an introduction for two interviews she conducted with YPJ (Women’s Protection Unit) commanders Meryem Kobani and Roza Haseke.
Social Transformation Through 'The Commons' (w/ David Bollier)
David Bollier joins us this week to discuss “the commons” and what such a concept means for social transformation. You can read more about David’s ideas in his paper for the NewSystems: Possibilities and Proposals series, and also read more of his work at www.Bollier.org. Subscribe to the Next System Podcast via iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, or RSS. Adam Simpson: Welcome back to The Next System Podcast.
Infographic: The Preston Model
The “Preston Model” is helping inspire a new conversation about the role of local government in catalyzing locally-driven economic revitalization and transforming patterns of ownership towards democratic alternatives.
Episode 11: The Transformative Potential of Public Ownership (w/Andrew Cumbers)
This week on the Next System Podcast, Dr. Andrew Cumbers sits down to discuss his work on public ownership and how such paradigms can pave the way for democratic controls over the economy. The Democracy Collaborative’s Director of Research, Thomas Hanna, joins the conversation as well. Subscribe to the Next System Podcast via iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, or RSS. Adam Simpson: Welcome back to the Next System Podcast. I’m your host Adam Simpson.
Towards the horizon of abolition: A conversation with Mariame Kaba
John Duda: I wanted to start by asking you about what it means to work for prison abolition with Trump in the White House. It’s very clear that anybody fighting for anything good is facing a much much harder battle now—certainly this would be true for work around ending mass incarceration and police violence.
Episode 4: Darrick Hamilton on the racial wealth gap & the job guarantee
This week on the Next System Podcast, Adam sits down with Darrick Hamilton to discuss his work on the racial wealth gap in the United States, as well as Hamilton’s proposal for a federal job guarantee program. This episode touches on economic planning, labor force dynamics, stratification patterns along race and gender lines, as well as workforce automation. Subscribe to the Next System Podcast via iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, or RSS.
6 Points About the Freddie Gray Murder Indictment
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray was jumped by six Baltimore cops for staring at one of them. Less than an hour later, after a ride in the paddy wagon, Freddie's spine was 80% severed and his voicebox crushed. On May 1, 2015, District Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted all six cops, some even charged with murder or manslaughter. 5 things you need to know: This is Important. There is no denying that an indictment of police for murdering a Black person is important.
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