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Jade Begay: “Prolonged Uprising Is the New Normal”

Posted on July 14, 2020 by

“This is the new normal. Let’s keep it up. Let’s keep protesting, let’s keep unlearning and relearning, let’s keep honoring and respecting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) leadership, let’s keep voting, let’s keep dismantling white supremacy within ourselves, our families, our workplaces, our institutions, and our government. Let’s keep moving resources from the police into Black and Brown communities. Let’s keep building the movement, making it stronger and bigger until we abolish the police and ICE and eradicate racism and white supremacy.”

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Peter Gelderloos: “Questions In The Face Of Counterinsurgency”

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

“Liberal identity politics, in contrast to radical resistance against the multiple, overlapping forms of oppression that exist in our society, is ultimately about turning oppressed people into demographics to be exploited for power struggles within the dominant institutions. It is about representation. To be represented, a people must be simplified, they must be homogenized, borders must be drawn around them to determine who has membership and who does not, and then that entire body must be further disciplined, bribed, and silenced until they accept the political views that belong to their representatives.”

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CrimethInc.: “This Is Anarchy”

Posted on June 11, 2020 by

“Eight Ways the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings Reflect Anarchist Ideas in Action.”

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“How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War”

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

“Far-right extremists are hijacking nationwide protests against racism to push for … a race war!”

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Asad Haider: “No Justice, No Peace”

Posted on June 5, 2020 by

‘The disturbance of the peace will continue as long as there is injustice; so “no justice, no peace,” is a slogan which represents the intransigent pursuit of justice, against all the forces of containment wielded by the state, against the voices of the white moderates who would blame protestors for the violence of the police, and against all those who fail to grasp King’s lasting message that a politics of overcoming injustice is a politics of revolutionary change.’

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William C. Anderson: “We defend ourselves so we can all breathe in peace”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by

“These events, revolts and rebellions like the ones taking place in the streets this very moment, are not the revolution itself. They are singular events in a long process that eventually can lead to a revolutionary struggle, which in itself is a substantial undertaking.”

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Tim Wise: “Protest, Uprisings, and Race War”

Posted on May 31, 2020 by

“As much of the country burns, literally or metaphorically, it is time to face our history. Time to stop asking others to fight for their lives on our terms, and remember that it is their collective jugular vein being compressed. It is their windpipe being crushed. It is their sons and daughters being choked out and shot and beaten and profiled and harassed.  It is their liberty and freedom at stake.”

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Crystal Eddins: “The First Ayitian Revolution”

Posted on May 18, 2020 by

“And given that the island was essentially a black space from the mid-1500s forward, we can think of this historical trajectory not in terms of the maroons fighting back against empires, but as empires attempting to repress – and in some cases to co-opt – those who had already liberated themselves.”

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“‘Black Patriots’ Were Heroes Of The Revolution — But Not The History Books”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

“A new documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, introduces us to heroes of the American Revolution who aren’t typically found in history books. They are a writer, a double agent, a martyr and a soldier — and they are all black.”

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: “Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?”

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

“Black lives can matter. But it will demand a struggle to not only change the police, but to change the world that relies on the police to manage its unequal distribution of the necessities of life.”

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