Category Archives: emergency

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.”

Posted in emergency, In The News, resistance, revolution, rights, the common

“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?”

Posted in emergency, hubris, In The News, justice, power, resistance, revolt, the Left

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.”

Posted in anarchism, emergency, governance, Nota Bene

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.”

Posted in anarchism, emergency, justice, Nota Bene, power, revolution, the Left, violence

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.”

Posted in disobedience, emergency, In The News, revolution, terror, violence

Julius Gavroche: “Chronicles from Lebanon’s revolution”

Posted on May 9, 2020 by

“Since October 17, 2019, Lebanon has been living at the rhythm of an uprising targeting both the political class and a moribund economic regime. As elsewhere, the spread of the virus and the health emergency measures first put an end to the contestation. … Despite a quarantine in effect until the 10th of May, movements are taking to the streets, and once again targeting banks that are crystallising discontent.”

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Dietrich Hoss: “What can, what must keep us standing: About revolutionary ethics”

Posted on February 7, 2020 by

“Everywhere it has become clear to many people something that we have learned with difficulty: there is nothing and no one to trust; neither the laws of history, nor party-churches. We can only trust ourselves; we can only hold on alone, with accomplices, on the basis of revolutionary ethics. In the face of the external and internal enemy, never give up, no conciliation or accommodation; identify positions and maneuvers, and gain self-control as one tries to conquer places outside.”

Posted in anarchism, emergency, ethics, Nota Bene, revolution

“‘Modi is afraid’: women take lead in India’s citizenship protests”

Posted on January 22, 2020 by

“Strikingly, the loudest voices of dissent have largely been women. From activists and lawyers to students, housewives and grandmothers, both Hindu and Muslim, women across India have been at the forefront of the resistance to the new citizenship law, and a nationwide citizenship test, known as the NRC, which could result in millions of Muslims being declared illegal aliens in their own country. For many, it is the first time they have had any political engagement at all.”

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Billy Anania: “The Viral Artwork Emerging From Hong Kong’s Protests”

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

“In Hong Kong, the ongoing protest movement immortalizes its political action in real time through art. … Art and politics are uniquely linked in the city, reinforcing the youth-driven struggle against human rights abuses.”

Posted in emergency, fine arts, justice, Nota Bene, performance, revolt

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