We have been alerted, we have been warned: three significant outbursts of indignation and information from an overlooked flashpoint in Fortress Europe’s worsening border crisis: the Bosnian-Croatian border.
The Balkanroute in 2019: Camps, Cops, and Corruption Read More »
If there isn’t resistance to police brutality, then the white supremacy and violence will increase. In some ways, we’re holding back a tide more than we’re actually advancing the bar.
Take it from a Veteran Civil Rights Attorney: Yes ACAB Read More »
2018 saw a major backlash against human rights defenders advocating legal access to the asylum system in the EU. Volunteers and NGOs have been threatened, attacked, and legally prosecuted. Are You Syrious? (AYS) is one of them.
When Governments Turn Against Humanitarian Volunteers Read More »
It’s something I ask every cop I question: Is there a code of silence in the Chicago police department? “Oh, no.” Have you ever testified against a fellow cop? “Oh, no.” Have you ever seen any police misconduct in your thirty years on the job? “Oh, no.”
A Pattern of Torture and a Code of Silence Read More »
The FBI links all this together into something called the “black identity extremist movement,” which then gives them the opportunity to surveil whomever they put in that category. There’s no definition of that category, so we have to believe that they’re doing the same thing that they did back then.
Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton Read More »
“We do it because otherwise they won’t leave,” Zurich functionary Mario Fehr (Social-democratic Party) recently explained.
“He died because he’s black!” Read More »
“Everything we need is already inside of us as black people. It’s absolutely necessary that we recognize our very rich history of rebellion in this country, one that we can learn from and build off of, and that we can use right now in this moment.
We Will Bring About Our Own Liberation Read More »
In Athens alone, an estimated four thousand refugees live in squatted, self-organized structures.
Greece: Renewed State Attacks on Squats, Renewed Movement Defiance Read More »
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence Read More »
Many journalists apparently regard the reports of police spokespeople as a priori accurate and true descriptions of factual reality not to be questioned. Hmph.
Cops → Copy Paste → Content Read More »
