We talked with Lauren Regan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center about the changing face of State repression and the push by the Center for a new 'War on Terror' in the wake of the far-Right attempted coup in DC. https://itsgoingdown.org/state-repression-in-changing-terrain-an-interview-with-lauren-regan-from-the-civil-liberties-defense-center/
The It's Going Down podcast just posted an episode they did on QAnon and conspiracy theories with Travis View from the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
It's pretty awesome!
Saskatchewan First Nation erects blockade after company enters territory without consent
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/sask-first-nation-blockade-territory-company-1.5920039
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(4) The Mayor and Police Chief were quick to hold a press briefing on Friday, justifying the violence of this action by citing fears of “violent agitators” coming from outside the city and “health risks” of possible Covid-19 outbreaks, however it is known that there is an ongoing outbreak within the Whatcom Sheriffs Department itself, and the myth of “outside agitators” is a known media fear tactic.
(3) The operations expense of this sweep was certainly immense, and offered nothing but militarized force. It’s impossible not to consider how this money could have been better spent to aid our homeless neighbors, rather than meet them and their supporters with brutality. For this we refer to the Defund BPD Campaign, which names an 11-point strategy to reallocate money from the police department to reduce violence and better aid our community health.
(1) On Thursday morning Bellingham Police Department coordinated a multi-department homeless encampment sweep with around 100 police, additionally including Whatcom County Sheriffs, WA State Troopers, and federal Border Patrol agents. The 100-tent encampment had been established on the City Hall and Public Library lawns and the sweep came a day earlier than had been announced. This plan was organized by BPD and approved by executive order of Bellingham Mayor, Seth Fleetwood.
One of anarchism’s greatest strengths is its adaptability. Anarchist principles can be applied in almost infinite ways and each community can use those principles in ways that best fit their material reality. It allows groups and individuals to craft their own freedom instead of having a reality imposed on them by a vanguard and then be told that its freedom.
If a paternalistic force can "take away your freedom" then it's not really freedom is it? It's privilege at best.
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We must hold onto the lessons of the 2020 actions in support of Black lives, namely that the carceral system within racialized capitalism will always disproportionately target the most marginalized amongst us. We must be working here and now to support other solutions, and cannot be baited to call for incarceration when it momentarily focuses on our enemies, because we know it will again shift it’s gaze back to us.
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