The False Friends of Rojava
The significance of the struggle in Kobanê cannot be overstated. But real international solidarity won’t come in the form of military intervention.
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Structural Violence
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on the control and justification of brute force.
Police Violence from Ferguson to Rio
The police will argue that they have to be heavy-handed with criminals because they’re under attack, because it’s a ‘war.’ But they won’t admit that they’re creating a climate of terror.
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“There Were Just Too Many”
“The neo-Nazi ideology of the attackers is completely ignored, and the whole incident is trivialized as a bar fight instead of a cold, calculated racist attack by people who vocally promote genocide.”
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Storytelling: “Borderline”
AntiNote: This story was told in December 2014 to a live audience in Seattle at one of the RISK! Tour’s many live storytelling performances. RISK! describes itself as a platform for people to tell stories they “never thought they’d dare to share.” We hope many more will dare to share the kind of story that
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The War Is Not Over
Remember those mock die-ins? The vigils? The demonstrations we saw at the corner of your flawless selfies? Let Gaza burn it all for warmth.
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Offener Brief an die Mutter von Rémi Fraisse
Jedes Mal wenn der Staat tötet, ist auch eine Gelegenheit, ihn zu stoppen, ihn zu zwingen, sich zu ändern, und allen anderen die verlorene Würde wiederzugeben.
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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.
RSB Statement on Torture of Refugees in North Rhein-Westphalia
As long as there are these camps, and people are not regarded as people, these kinds of crimes will continue to be committed.
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Long Way From Maidan: A Report from Donetsk
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.
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Counterinsurgency in America
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.
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