I'm re-reading my 18-year-old essay on the ridiculous claims for 
genetic predispositions to violence among Black children, and its 
real world consequences, which I'm attaching .....

It dissects the way science is misused under Democrats as well as 
Republicans to rationalize racist policies. Please give it a read and 
let me know what you think!

Mitchel



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Here are several sketches -- interviews done in the course of recent 
demonstrations -- from my new series, "Profiles of Protest in the 
Trump Resistance Era" for WBAI radio / Pacifica.

<https://ia601500.us.archive.org/1/items/PROTESTATSCHUMERSPARKSLOPEAPT.20170131FINAL/PROTEST%20AT%20SCHUMER'S%20PARK%20SLOPE%20APT.%202017-01-31%20FINAL.mp3>PROFILES 
OF PROTEST #6
14 minutes. Mitchel Cohen reports from a protest of more than 1,000 
people who marched on Senator Charles Schumer's apartment in Park 
Slope, Brooklyn, Tuesday night, condemning Schumer's votes in favor 
of 3 of Trump's cabinet appointments, and demanding that Sen. Schumer 
and other Democrats "join the resistance" and stop placating the 
Trump administration and Wall Street.

<https://ia601508.us.archive.org/2/items/BATTERYPARKRallyAndMarch/BATTERY%20PARK%20Rally%20and%20March.mp3>PROFILES 
OF PROTEST #5
12 minutes - Participants in the "No Hate, No Fear, Refugees are 
Welcome Here!" rally and march of 18,000 people in New York City 
Sunday, January 29, 2017, beginning in Battery Park.

<https://ia601503.us.archive.org/19/items/ProfileOneAnnieGrayGiftOfGod/Profile%20One%20-%20Annie%20Gray%20%26%20Gift%20of%20God.mp3>PROFILES 
OF PROTEST #1
3:24 minutes - A wonderful 3 minute piece interviewing a couple of 
90-year-olds at the women's march in NYC.

<https://ia601506.us.archive.org/15/items/ProfilesTWOMoreVoicesFromTheWomensMarch20170121/Profiles%20TWO%20-%20More%20voices%20from%20the%20Women's%20March%202017-01-21.mp3>PROFILES 
OF PROTEST #2
This one sketches 3 women at the gigantic Women's march on January 
21, 2017. Just 1:24 minutes ....

<https://ia801509.us.archive.org/15/items/ANTIINAUGURATIONNYCPROTEST20170120/ANTI-INAUGURATION%20NYC%20PROTEST%20%202017-01-20.mp3>PROFILES 
OF PROTEST 
<https://ia801509.us.archive.org/15/items/ANTIINAUGURATIONNYCPROTEST20170120/ANTI-INAUGURATION%20NYC%20PROTEST%20%202017-01-20.mp3>#3
 From the streets of NYC's inauguration night protest, as thousands 
marched from Foley Square down to Trump's building on Wall Street.

<https://ia801501.us.archive.org/0/items/ImmigrantRightsRallyWashingtonSquarePark02252017/Immigrant%20Rights%20Rally%20-%20Washington%20Square%20Park%2002-25-2017.mp3>PROFILES 
OF PROTEST 
<https://ia801501.us.archive.org/0/items/ImmigrantRightsRallyWashingtonSquarePark02252017/Immigrant%20Rights%20Rally%20-%20Washington%20Square%20Park%2002-25-2017.mp3>#4
Immigrant Rights Rally in Washington Square Park Jan. 25, 2017, with 
3,000 people participating.

www.MitchelCohen.com


Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack, a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen