Black Agenda Report-War On Libya | Cost of War in Afghanistan | Newburgh 4 sentenced | mass black incarceration | Durban conference http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-agenda-radio-glen-ford-and-nellie-bailey-progressive-radio-network-–-week-july-4-2011

U.S. Intransigent on Crimes of Slavery-Dr. Conrad Worril, chairman emeritus of the National Black United Front, says the U.S. government has opposed all attempts to brand slavery and the slave trade as crimes against humanity, since the “We Charge Genocide” campaign of the early Fifties. Most recently, “the Obama administration has indicated that they’re not going to participate in the Durban Review process” on racism “on September 22, when the United Nations opens,” says Worril. “So, it’s the same policies that are entrenched.”

Mass Black Incarceration is a Counter-Insurgency Strategy-For more than 40 years, the United States has waged a “counter-insurgency” war against African Americans through mass Black incarceration, with the result that one out of every eight prisoners on planet Earth is a Black American. In addition, “the U.S. has well over 100 political prisoners and prisoners of war” and “close to 50 or 60 of our people who are still in exile,” says Kali Akuno, co-director of the U.S. Human Rights Network. “There is this perception of ‘We have overcome,’ which is a blatant denial of reality,” says Akuno. Blacks must come to grips with the fact that “Obama is fully a partner in this neoliberal and imperial project.”