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Rinaldo Walcott on Riots, Policing, and Traditions of Black Refusal

Posted on May 25, 2021 by

“The Black riot is a refusal of entrenched policing practices that has boiled over. The riot is an expression of revolt with a historical basis in slavery. In activist circles, riots have been renamed uprisings, thereby giving their actions a deeper meaning. And the difference isn’t merely semantic. Riots often garner the attention of state authorities in a way that so-called peaceful protests do not. The riot, or uprising, is an important element of the quest for Black freedom.”

Posted in disobedience, law, Nota Bene, power, resistance, rights, violence

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Antonia Malchik: “Riot acts”

Posted on December 23, 2019 by

“History shows that tumult is a companion to democracy and when ordinary politics fails, the people must take to the streets.”

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Jason Read: “The Modality of Necessity: On Clover’s ‘Riot. Strike. Riot'”

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

“The question is how does one make a politics out of this combination of necessity and contingency. Such a question is not new, it might be the question of revolutionary politics. The long wave of strikes had answers to this question, answers that took the form of the worker’s movement, revolutionary unions, and so on.”

Posted in crisis, disobedience, emergency, Nota Bene, resistance, revolt, the common

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