AntiNote: Call to Days of Rage and Direct Action
First they came for the refugees, and I said nothing…
A regime operating on a combination of racist selfishness and cultural nationalism that kills thousands of refugees at its borders–and surveils, harasses, detains, and marginalizes them within its borders–will not be capable of preventing the rise of the misanthropic Right.
If we want to truly respect the memory of those drowned, yesterday’s catastrophe should represent a paradigm shift. These people did not die in a natural disaster, but were killed by an inhumane and frankly undignified man-made doctrine: “Drowning should serve as a deterrent.” Nothing about the mass death on the Mediterranean is unavoidable.
Just the opposite: everything about this in fact desired; all of it is consciously accepted as “worth it.” It’s time that we find out exactly who is responsible for this criminal doctrine; it is time that anyone who accepts this death as the price of “deterrence” be called to account for their words and deeds.Continue Reading