Take it from a Veteran Civil Rights Attorney: Yes ACAB
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.
ACAB
When Governments Turn Against Humanitarian Volunteers
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.
A Pattern of Torture and a Code of Silence
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.”
Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton
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.
“He died because he’s black!”
“We do it because otherwise they won’t leave,” Zurich functionary Mario Fehr (Social-democratic Party) recently explained.
We Will Bring About Our Own Liberation
“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.
Greece: Renewed State Attacks on Squats, Renewed Movement Defiance
In Athens alone, an estimated four thousand refugees live in squatted, self-organized structures.
The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
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.
Cops → Copy Paste → Content
Many journalists apparently regard the reports of police spokespeople as a priori accurate and true descriptions of factual reality not to be questioned. Hmph.
Exposing the Chicago Police’s Cover-Up Culture
The code of silence, this narrative control that the department exercises, includes the press. The press, as a general matter, publishes the police blotter.