BTR News: More Gaston County Residents Speak Out Against Pay To Protest Ordinance

Gastonia, NC – It seems that a small rural county in North Carolina is gaining opposition to a proposed ordinance to require hundreds of dollars and fees and the personal information of any organizer in the county that calls for a protest. Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger worked with the Gaston County attorney Jonathan Sink to draft the ordinance and slip it in minutes before a scheduled county commissioner’s meeting. Protest were called at the last minute by the founder of the Gaston County Freedom Fighters to assemble at the courthouse to oppose the proposed “Pay To Protest” ordinance.

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LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E20

When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our ‘colorblind’ society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure – the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.- Michelle Alexander

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Abolition Today: Historians Against Slavery S2-E4

Our guest will be Professor Robert Chase. author of “We Are Not Slaves’ State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America”.

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BTR News: Gaston County North Carolina Commissioner Whitewashes Treason & Insurrection

Gaston Commissioner Chad Brown recently did a live FB video which has been deleted but in which he was whitewashing Trump’s liability for the DC…

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Abolition Today: LIVE FROM THE PLANTATION E19

8 PM EST – “The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.” – Chinua Achebe

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Abolition Today: The Abolitionist Witnesses S2-E3

7:00 PM EST – Max and Yusuf have been providing educational radio podcast content for the abolitionist movement since 2010. On 1/17/2021 we are joined by our former co-host Yohanan Elijah. We’re also being syndicated on the Black Talk Radio Network courtesy of Scotty T Reid. In the midst of a national insurrection by white supremacists, these Veteran Abolitionist Witnesses come together for the first time in years to testify of what they have seen and discuss the bigger picture of then, now, and tomorrow.

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BTR News: Failure To Convict Trump Forever Undermines Notions of US Rule of Law

Donald J. Trump has become the first POTUS to be impeached twice. While some pundits on both the left and right will claim that the first impeachment was a witch hunt, I disagree, Trump was absolutely guilty of the charges that a formal House inquiry found evidence that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.

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BTR News: Taking On Corporate Radio Stations Over Murder Music

7:00 PM EST – Two activists from the Chicago area have been taking on the radio stations that play a type of rap that is known for its lyrics promoting acts of murder, rape, and misogyny to name a few.

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BTR News: Presidents Lincoln & Jackson Partly Responsible For 2021 Insurrection

Historians, should correct me if I am wrong about any points of U.S. history in thinking that part of the blame for the attack on the US capitol on January 6, 2021 is in part due to the actions and precedence set by Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson set in dealing with the treasonous ring leaders of the Confederacy.

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Abolition Today: I Know Why The Caged Bird Screams S2 E2

Sunday, 7 PM EST US on Abolition Today We examine the deadly systemic conditions of the currently enslaved and the daily fight for survival they wage.

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BTR News: Police Awfully Tame In Calls To Find Capitol Cop Killers & Insurrectionists

By Scotty Reid – The fallout continues from the thus far failed coup attempt by Trump supporters in which more than 50 police officers were reportedly injured and 15 hospitalized in confrontations with several factions of groups that support Trump which he has used to threaten the U.S. public and elected officials across the nation with mob violence.

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