Zombie Prisons
We’re going to see the rise of a mass detention and deportation system [for immigrants] that will very much rival mass incarceration, and could actually grow as mass incarceration shrinks.
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We’re going to see the rise of a mass detention and deportation system [for immigrants] that will very much rival mass incarceration, and could actually grow as mass incarceration shrinks.
The mining companies involved in murdering people in the forest can also be running law schools, and in the law schools they have courses on the poetry of resistance.
“We Have to Understand the Game. We Are All Playing it.” Read More »
There’s a lot of real old-fashioned class antagonism at the heart of this. When, on top of that class antagonism, you add an actual war with shooting, it becomes really ugly.
Long Way From Maidan: A Report from Donetsk Read More »
There really is no choice but to organize a politics that is consciously resistant to the mass Black incarceration state. And it must be done in a confrontation with the coercive powers of the state. That is, the police.
Counterinsurgency in America Read More »
The human rights movement, in its focus on atrocity, has been way too selective, leading us away from thinking about structural wrongdoing.
The Quiet Counterrevolution of Human Rights Idealism Read More »
It’s not like we need to encourage bottom-up building and community building, because that’s happening without anyone asking or assisting.
Learning from “Informal” Urban Innovation Read More »
Rebellions give people practice in learning that they can stand up for themselves, and it shows them a further horizon. Within that, there’s going to be conflict about what’s acceptable and what’s not, what’s helpful and what’s harmful. But those decisions can’t be handed down from above.
The Failure of Nonviolence Read More »
What’s going on is not really a genuine search for a compassionate resolution to a humanitarian crisis but a political hot potato that everyone is looking for ways to abuse, to feed their own ideological, political positions.
Sadness and Hope: On the American Refugee Crisis Read More »
We found the portions of Chuck and Iain’s conversation that centered on place, cities, and our place in cities to be most complementary to topics we cover on Antidote.
On the Road in Late Capitalism Read More »
I’m not an anarchist because I believe Anarchism is the perfect ideology that will make us all happy—but rather because there is no such ideology.
A Politics of No Politics Read More »