Abolish The FBI? African Socialist Leader Omali Yeshitela On Being Raided By The FBI & Alex Vitale

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While the FBI raid on Trump's MarALago home has been in the headlines and provoked a discussion about the abolition of the FBI another raid has received far less attention. In July the FBI carried out a violent raid using flash grenades and drones of the properties of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP, ) in Missouri and Florida. Omali Yeshitela (), chairman of the APSP joins the show to talk about the raid, being an unindicted coconspirator of a Russian man accused of spreading propaganda, the work the APSP does, the FBI's history of attacking Black radicals and his revolutionary past.

Then sociologist Alex Vitale, author of The End Of Policing () talks about why the "tough on crime narrative" is being bought into by socalled Leftists and why it's so dangerous.

In 1968 Chairman Yeshitela founded The Burning Spear newspaper which is still published today. The Chairman has authored numerous articles, pamphlets and books. Chairman Omali made “reparations a household word” with the International Tribunal on Reparations for African People which was held in Brooklyn, New York in 1982, finding that African people are owed 4.1 trillion dollars for stolen labor in the U.S. alone. The Chairman founded the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement in 1991 as a revolutionary mass organization to defend the democratic rights of the African working class. Today, Chairman Omali Yeshitela, as the leader of the African Socialist International, speaks to his growing base around the world and leads the worldwide movement for the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere.

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society, Police Practice and Research, Mobilization, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have been published in The NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA Today. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

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