It’s time for the world to boycott the US

Under Donald Trump, the US is escalating violence abroad and repression at home while facing none of the sanctions routinely demanded of other states. A global boycott and divestment campaign may now be the only nonviolent way to force accountability.

Short of civil strife, civil war, or military action, there is no other way for the world to disrupt US aggression except through massive economic pressure. While on a considerably smaller scale, [Dr. Martin Luther] King and so many other Black people in the 1950s understood that hitting the wallets of those who had long benefited from Black labour and pain could be effective in the US. It was one of the few tools available in their struggle against the daily onslaught of violent racist segregation.

The American people who chose the Trump regime Must. Feel. Pain.

Donald Earl Collins

Professorial Lecturer at American University in Washington, DC.

Al Jezeera