A Different Kind of American Revolution
We always think of the war. But the war masks and hides the revolution. Those aren’t the same. You can have a revolution without a war.
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Doesn’t That Make It a “Death Camp?”
I thought it was just another detainee holding facility. But we knew that it was not on the map; this was not on the books.
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Riots gegen den Rassismus des 21. Jahrhunderts
lasst euch vom Mut des Aufstands und der Militanten von Ferguson inspirieren. Nehmt am Kampf und an den Debatten teil, egal wo ihr seid.
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The Nadir of Race Relations in America
In the era from 1890 to 1940, the United States actually went backward in race relations, got more and more racist. This is almost completely left out of American history textbooks.
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Ferguson is Not Unique
These broader structural issues of police brutality, loss of economic opportunity, and exploitative practices are happening everywhere.
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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.
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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Under Occupation in America
When you’re a target of the police, you don’t want to show up routinely anywhere. You don’t want to go to the hospital when you’ve been injured or when your baby is born. You don’t want to go to your mother’s house on Christmas. Who knows who will be there to take you into custody?
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Lack of Diversity in Policy and Media has Consequences
The mistake people make is to say that there’s violence in Chechnya because Chechens are violent. Politics is what motivates ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts don’t happen because a particular ethnicity is inclined to violence.
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Dragnets and Pre-Crime
It might be worth pointing out that it is unrealistic to think that we can catch every crime before it happens. Right? There was a movie about that.
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