Erica Caines of the Black Alliance for Peace speaks on how checkpoints and patrols in DC, how fits into the history of policing black and brown communities.
Author: Margaret Flowers
Margaret Flowers is an American pediatrician, public health advocate and activist. After 17 years of practicing medicine, she became an advocate for a single-payer insurance system. Flowers joined Physicians for a National Health Program, serving as a Congressional Fellow, advocating a single payer insurance system to expand Medicare to cover everyone. In 2011, Flowers organized with the Occupy Movement in Washington, D.C., which evolved into her work at Popular Resistance in 2013, which she co-directed with Kevin Zeese. In 2012, Flowers launched the show Clearing the FOG with her partner Kevin Zeese on We Act Radio in Anacostia, and today is presented on Pacifica Radio as a podcast.