Category Archives: emergency

Frances Fox Piven & Deepak Bhargava: “What If Trump Won’t Leave?”

Posted on August 14, 2020 by

“If Trump steals the election, a broad united front will have to make the country ungovernable and the reigning regime illegitimate, despite the risks involved. … If an illegitimate election gives rise to civil disorder that cannot be easily suppressed, corporate and political elites will move to dump Trump to protect their interests.”

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“‘We Can’t Stand It Anymore’: Bolivian Protesters Demand Quick Elections”

Posted on August 12, 2020 by

“The highway blockades are organized by labor unions alongside rural and indigenous groups allied to the socialist party of ousted former president Evo Morales.  Last week, they launched an open-ended campaign of strikes, marches and barricades in a bid to pressure Bolivia’s unelected interim government to bring forward presidential elections after electoral authorities twice postponed these, citing the coronavirus.”

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Julius Gavroche: “Dignity: On the George Floyd Rebellion”

Posted on August 8, 2020 by

“There is unrest in every state. A generation is learning what it means to live and fight. The racist urbanism that structured our cities is being torn apart. Landscapes are being reconfigured with the art of distance and the spirit of rebellion. Outside the burning Third Precinct, laughter and speeches. Outside the burning Wendy’s, sideshows with dirt bikes and cars doing donuts. In cities everywhere, fireworks and gunshots in the distance. The mood of this uprising oscillates from rage to exuberance, from celebration to seriousness—somewhere between block party and civil war.”

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“Solidarity with the People in the Streets of Portland”

Posted on July 20, 2020 by

On Thursday, both Trump and his advisor Stephen Miller announced that they will begin deploying armed officers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the streets of cities that have seen large-scale protests—specifically, cities governed by Democrats.  Trump stated he would “be looking at Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, and Chicago.”

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Kate Derickson: “Community Defense in Minneapolis We are not yet after a revolution”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by

“We are not yet after a revolution and so we are situated in the liminal space of prefiguration. We can imagine it, but we cannot yet make it so. But it might be even harder than this particular tension implies. It might even be the case that to prefigure the world we desire—on the fly, and horizontally—runs the risk of importing the very grammars we wish to abolish.”

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“More Precisely Revolution”​: Notes from the Protests Worldwide

Posted on June 27, 2020 by

“In an ongoing series, The Drift is inviting short reflections on global protest movements. We ask: What are we learning about direct political action in the midst of this unprecedented crisis? What are we risking, and what are we gaining, by gathering together—many of us for the first time in months?”

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CrimethInc.: “Snapshots from the Uprising: Accounts from Three Weeks of Countrywide Revolt”

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

“In the following analysis, we review the series of movements that led to the uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, explore the factors that made the uprising so powerful, discuss the threats facing it, and conclude with a series of accounts from participants in Minneapolis, New York City, Richmond, Grand Rapids, Austin, Seattle, and elsewhere around the country.”

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“Today’s Activism: Spontaneous, Leaderless, but Not Without Aim”

Posted on June 5, 2020 by

“Welcome to 21st-century activism, where spontaneous and leaderless movements have been defined by their organic births and guided on the fly by people whose preferences, motivations and ideas may not always align.”

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CrimethInc: “What Will It Take to Stop the Police from Killing?”

Posted on June 1, 2020 by

“So what will it take for us to end police murders once and for all? Nothing short of revolution.  But that revolution isn’t a distant utopia, or a single spasm in which we storm the Winter Palace. It’s an ongoing process of building relationships, sharing resources, defending ourselves, undoing the interlocking structures of white supremacy, and organizing to meet our needs together without police or politicians—and it’s already happening.”

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Anonymous: “Between Looted Targets And Trillionaires: Solidarity With The Rebels In Minneapolis”

Posted on June 1, 2020 by

“The order of things is crushing us. Our jobs are disappearing, they’re paying us shit for throwing our lives into a charnel house, they’re murdering the unruly in the streets and stealing the lives of black people on camera for all the world to see. This is a world we must refuse because it never gave a damn thing for us. This is a world we must destroy.”

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