Media — Kyle Bibby

Op-ed: Anjanette Young’s story challenges Chicago’s culture of police violence | Chicago Tribune

“Last year, Cook County released its “Do Not Call List” containing almost 200 discredited police officers who remain on the force but cannot be trusted to testify. The list includes officers who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection, lied under oath and had connections with white supremacist groups.”

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Veterans Call on Congress to Put Country Over Party During Impeachment | MSNBC

Kyle Bibby joins Richard Lui to discuss an ad from a veterans group calling on Congress to put their country over party during the impeachment inquiry and possible trial.

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Trump Will Never Understand Marines Like Me | Newsweek

“As an officer, I was taught that a commander must exhibit unyielding physical, mental and moral fitness. We must be citizens of punctilious courtesy, with a sense of personal honor, and we must be strong enough to be gentle. Our president is bereft of these characteristics. His disrespect for them is matched only by his selfishness.”

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This Marine says it’s time to end this ‘Forever War’ | Star Ledger

“Every single day that we continue these wars is a day that American service members are asked to recommit to a cycle of trauma. Worse, we never as a nation truly reckoned with the harm we put on the communities overseas.”

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Looking Back On 20 Years At War In Afghanistan | Huffington Post

“There’s no amount of Special Forces raids that’s going to protect women’s rights in Afghanistan.”

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The Conversation with Benjamin Dixon | The Young Turks

National Campaigns Manager for Common Defense Kyle Bibby speaks with Benjamin Dixon on The Conversation about the issues that matter to progressive veterans.

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Time to Give Our Afghan Allies a Permanent Home | Newsweek

“In a country that never misses an opportunity to claim "support for the troops," this is a real and tangible way for the American people to make sure their voices are heard in support of Afghans who put their lives on the line for U.S. service members deployed in harm's way.”

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Interview on Laurie Daniel Favors Show | SiriusXM's Urban View

“Folks need to remember as much as there were organizers in the civil rights movement, there are organizers in the white supremacist movement.”

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'Appalled': Pentagon restores web pages on Navajo code talkers, Jackie Robinson

"We should take Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump administration at their word that, when they constantly refer back to the past as a time that they want to bring back, that also means that they are interested in bringing back a segregationist structure to our institutions. They're signaling that this is not a welcome place for Black people," Bibby said.
Trump’s Defense cabinet pick Pete Hegseth has a history of hostility toward racial equity | The Grio

“Choosing who will lead the Department of Defense is one of the most critical appointments a President will make. All Americans agree that candidates must possess the necessary competencies from day one, as there is no time for an on-the-job orientation to the Pentagon,” Kyle Bibby, co-founder Black Veterans Project, told theGrio.
Memorial Day: America's strained salute to its Black veterans | BBC

"There's been a historical consistency in black veterans being treated badly ever since the Red Summer," says Bibby, noting the period following WWI when many African Americans returned home from the war with a new confidence and assertiveness, which often didn't go now well with many whites.
Justice Department creates database to track records of misconduct by federal law enforcement | Associated Press

“For this initiative to reach communities that feel the most impact of police violence, this database needs to include local and state police departments,” Kyle Bibby, chief of campaigns and programs, said in a statement. “As we call for local and state jurisdictions to adopt this federal framework, one of the most consistent opposition forces will continue to be local police unions.”
Florida tourism boycott builds with Alpha Phi Alpha decision | Miami Times

“There’s a lot of places where you can have your conferences and probably feel safer,” Bibby said. “Boycotts and strikes are examples of people standing up and uniting together and demanding the people in power to do something better for the community. I’d be willing to bet most families in Florida understand the sort of hostility that we’re seeing, and they would support standing up to DeSantis on this … They should use the avenues available to them and organize in their communities to get it changed.”
OpenSea’s NFT Platform Is Rife with Racist Content | Mother Jones

According to two Color of Change representatives who were present, a staffer from OpenSea then asked if it would be appropriate for the Holocaust Museum to take down Nazi paraphernalia it displayed.
“It was an incredibly inartful and inaccurate analogy,” Bibby told me, his voice betraying that he remained astounded by an interaction that had taken place months earlier. “The Holocaust Museum wouldn’t want to be a home of hate content. It’s carefully curated to explain the harms of Nazism.”
The Military’s Myth of Black Freedom | YES! Magazine

Bibby thought he “found control through joining the military.” But, “You learn very quickly, you are not in control in the military.” Bibby learned firsthand upon enrolling at the Naval Academy that talk of meritocracy and rhetoric about earning your place through honorable service had its limits—especially for Black people.
Crises in Afghanistan and Haiti turns White House upside down

“In 20 years of war, there’s no shortage of people, I think, that can share the blame. I will say that where I personally stand as someone who served in the war, I feel angry at President George Bush,” said Kyle Bibby, a Marine Corps veteran and national campaigns manager for Common Defense.”
After George Floyd’s death, Trump administration told military’s service chiefs to remain quiet about unrest | Washington Post

Kyle Bibby, a former Marine captain, said he has been disappointed by the silence of senior military officials after Floyd’s death, especially in light of reports of white nationalism in the military. “Condemning racism and police brutality is not really a partisan issue, right?” said Bibby, who is black and now works on social-justice issues for Common Defense, a progressive veterans group.
"Playgrounds for cops": Beyond protests, clergy, environmentalist unite against Atlanta's 'Cop City' | Salon

"We have a problem in the United States with how deeply unimaginative our leaders are in addressing crime," said Kyle Bibby, the senior campaign director at Color Of Change, a civil rights organization. "All we do is just increasingly militarize our police. We increase funding to the police, but that doesn't actually address real systemic issues that lead to crime.”
Extremism in the US Military Is Not New | Vice News

This lack of oversight, and a certain unwillingness to confront extremism, is why Bibby, other veterans, and military experts told VICE News they were unsurprised to see so many veterans present at the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. “The question for us was how many,” said Bibby, of watching the insurrection and wondering about the veterans involved in the attack.
‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies | Associated Press

“We view white supremacy as like, you know, somebody’s got the cross in the truck and they’re rolling to your crib to go burn it,” said Bibby, who co-founded the Black Veterans Project, which advocates for racial justice in the armed services. But the cuts are much more subtle, he said.
Do Military Courts Play a Role in the Wake of January 6? | PBS

Kyle Bibby, a former Marine Corps infantry captain and now national campaigns manager at Common Defense, a veteran-led political activism organization, told FRONTLINE: “The military needs to be just as aggressive going after this just as they would any other enemy of the United States.”
‘It’s horrible to watch’: US veterans on seeing Afghanistan fall to the Taliban | The Guardian

“I had this kind of dread that the Taliban were just going to wait us out,” said Bibby. “And all these families, all these kids, they’re just going to go back to being under the rule of the Taliban. And we will have just been a blip for them.”
Extremism Among Active-Duty Military and Veterans Remains a Clear and Present Danger | Southern Poverty Law Center

Extremism in the military is “definitely present,” Bibby states. “I’ve had conversations with enlisted guys about it, particularly since I’ve gotten out.” Sometimes, the problem can be severe, putting service members in an unsafe environment.
They Are the Good Guys With Guns. After Another Mass Shooting, Veterans Want Change. | The War Horse

When Kyle Bibby reported to the Naval Academy, he had never fired a gun. But he learned to shoot a pistol. Then a rifle. He learned safety measures and effective training. Eventually, he taught pistol to other midshipmen. When he graduated and was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps, he says, “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, rockets—that was my life.”
Trump’s military cuts in Afghanistan highlight an array of divisions in a 19-year-old conflict | Washington Post

“This seems like political theater to me,” said Bibby, now the national campaigns manager for the liberal veterans group Common Defense. “He’s doing his homework the morning it is due — let me put it that way.”
NYC veterans want Congress to probe Afghanistan War after bombshell report | New York Post

“Our culture of never questioning the military has kind of led us here, so I can’t really say I am surprised that people who are senior officers — whose careers depend on giving good news about the war — found a way to give good news about the war to progress their careers,” said Kyle Bibby, who once served as a captain in the Marines.
The Youthful Energy of Bernie Sanders’s Final Days in South Carolina | The New Yorker

Kyle Bibby, a veteran and an organizer from the group Common Defense, said, “Veterans like us, we’re regular working-class people, just like most of you here today.” He cited “the audacity of ‘us’ ”: “We need a candidate with the audacity to slap the table and say, ‘I don’t care what you call radical, I don’t care what you call far-left—we need a solution to the problems that we have right now.”
Veterans of color push for voting rights, demilitarizing police departments | The Grio

“This is cross-cultural training of skills and equipment has really led now to the police treating the population in a lot of ways as if the population is some sort of potential enemy force rather than their fellow community members,” Bibby said. “You can’t talk about this without also focusing on the fact that our policing is very racialized in this country.”
Afghanistan War veterans, still waiting for a peace deal, ask: Was the sacrifice worth it? | USA Today

“Right after that, my first thought was, what the f--k are we still doing here?” says Bibby, now a lead organizer with Common Defense, a New York-based nonprofit with a mission is to draw veterans to progressive causes.
Veterans call for Trump impeachment in July 4 video | The Hill

“I don’t see Donald Trump as someone who is serious about our values, who is serious about his job to serve the American people,” said Kyle Bibby, who served in the Marines.
'Sick of Using Us as Props': Veteran Calls Trump's July 4 Military-Style Celebration 'Insanely Inappropriate' | Newsweek

Having military personnel transport tanks from distant bases to Washington, D.C., over Fourth of July week is "insanely inappropriate," Marine Corps veteran Kyle Bibby told Newsweek on Wednesday, "And flies in the face of everything that I understood about training as Marines."
Veterans Tell Donald Trump They 'Feel Deeply Betrayed' in July 4 Video Calling For Impeachment | Newsweek

Common Defense lead organizer Kyle Bibby, a Marine Corps veteran, says in the video that the oath members take to join the military "establishes our ties to something that is greater than us," and, "I don't see Donald Trump as someone who is serious about our values, who is serious about his job to serve the American people."
Demilitarization of Police Means Disrupting the Army-to-Police Pipeline | Jacobin

Among those involved is Kyle Bibby, a former Marine Corps infantry officer, Annapolis graduate, and co-founder of the Black Veterans Project. According to Bibby, who served in Afghanistan, veterans have unique credibility as critics of putting of $7 billion worth of military hardware in the hands of local police departments.
A Common Defense: Mobilizing Veterans in Labor to Beat Trump and the GOP | Labor Notes

A co-founder of the Black Veterans Project, Bibby condemned the “use of force by uniformed police and a culture of violence that seeks to dominate communities rather than serve and heal them.”
Williams: Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire's racism does not merit honor. Remove his name from Richmond spaces. | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Kyle Bibby, a former Marine captain whose tours of duty include Afghanistan, does not think much of this choice. He almost exclusively goes to VA medical centers for his health care needs. As a Black man, “It is a slap in the face.”
Veterans push Republicans to take impeachment seriously | Courier News

The campaign’s goal is to “get every single member of Congress to take these investigations seriously and hold the President accountable for his actions,” Bibby said.
Veterans, experts reflect on Afghanistan war’s end | Gray TV

“Most of the veterans I know support ending the war. They do think that 20 years has been too long, that there isn’t necessarily a military solution in Afghanistan,” said Bibby.
Meet the veterans behind that "Veterans for Impeachment" sign at the World Series | Connecting Vets

"We were able to acquire these tickets. We knew Donald Trump would be present and we wanted to send a very clear message to both him and the rest of the country," Bibby said.
An organization of veterans is lobbying for Trump's impeachment — and they're headed to D.C. | Connecting Vets

“It's about challenging hate and intolerance and taking the mission of defending the U.S. to our role as veterans — fighting missions of economic justice, social justice, racial justice, and environmental justice," said Marine Corps veteran and Common Defense lead Kyle Bibby.
Black Veterans Project wants to disrupt the status quo by combating racial military inequalities | Connecting Vets

For Kyle Bibby, joining the military was an obvious choice. Born into a family in which many served in the military, Bibby attended the United States Naval Academy after high school. He was the first in his family to become an officer, a notable accomplishment for the grandson of a man who served in a segregated military.
The Black Veterans Project Highlights The Voices Of Those Who Have Served And The Racial Inequities They Faced | Blavity

The Black Veterans Project, an initiative co-founded by Kyle Bibby and Richard Brookshire in partnership with a collective of veterans from the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, seeks to engage the greater American public on the role racial bias plays across our nation’s military landscape.

Op-ed: Anjanette Young’s story challenges Chicago’s culture of police violence | Chicago Tribune

Veterans Call on Congress to Put Country Over Party During Impeachment | MSNBC

Trump Will Never Understand Marines Like Me | Newsweek

This Marine says it’s time to end this ‘Forever War’ | Star Ledger

Looking Back On 20 Years At War In Afghanistan | Huffington Post

The Conversation with Benjamin Dixon | The Young Turks

Time to Give Our Afghan Allies a Permanent Home | Newsweek

Interview on Laurie Daniel Favors Show | SiriusXM's Urban View

'Appalled': Pentagon restores web pages on Navajo code talkers, Jackie Robinson

Trump’s Defense cabinet pick Pete Hegseth has a history of hostility toward racial equity | The Grio

Memorial Day: America's strained salute to its Black veterans | BBC

Justice Department creates database to track records of misconduct by federal law enforcement | Associated Press

Florida tourism boycott builds with Alpha Phi Alpha decision | Miami Times

OpenSea’s NFT Platform Is Rife with Racist Content | Mother Jones

The Military’s Myth of Black Freedom | YES! Magazine

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After George Floyd’s death, Trump administration told military’s service chiefs to remain quiet about unrest | Washington Post

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Extremism in the US Military Is Not New | Vice News

‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies | Associated Press

Do Military Courts Play a Role in the Wake of January 6? | PBS

‘It’s horrible to watch’: US veterans on seeing Afghanistan fall to the Taliban | The Guardian

Extremism Among Active-Duty Military and Veterans Remains a Clear and Present Danger | Southern Poverty Law Center

They Are the Good Guys With Guns. After Another Mass Shooting, Veterans Want Change. | The War Horse

Trump’s military cuts in Afghanistan highlight an array of divisions in a 19-year-old conflict | Washington Post

NYC veterans want Congress to probe Afghanistan War after bombshell report | New York Post

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Veterans call for Trump impeachment in July 4 video | The Hill

'Sick of Using Us as Props': Veteran Calls Trump's July 4 Military-Style Celebration 'Insanely Inappropriate' | Newsweek

Veterans Tell Donald Trump They 'Feel Deeply Betrayed' in July 4 Video Calling For Impeachment | Newsweek

Demilitarization of Police Means Disrupting the Army-to-Police Pipeline | Jacobin

A Common Defense: Mobilizing Veterans in Labor to Beat Trump and the GOP | Labor Notes

Williams: Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire's racism does not merit honor. Remove his name from Richmond spaces. | Richmond Times-Dispatch

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Meet the veterans behind that "Veterans for Impeachment" sign at the World Series | Connecting Vets

An organization of veterans is lobbying for Trump's impeachment — and they're headed to D.C. | Connecting Vets

Black Veterans Project wants to disrupt the status quo by combating racial military inequalities | Connecting Vets

The Black Veterans Project Highlights The Voices Of Those Who Have Served And The Racial Inequities They Faced | Blavity

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