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Losing face in a pandemic
Le visage est présent dans son refus d’être contenu./The face is present in its refusal to be contained. Emmanuel Levinas, Totalité et infini To be or not to be masked? Depending on the jurisdiction, this remains a choice before the … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings: This is anarchy
From the CrimethInc. Collective (09/06/2020) … This Is Anarchy: Eight Ways the Black Lives Matter and Justice for George Floyd Uprisings Reflect Anarchist Ideas in Action Since Minneapolis police brutally murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, demonstrations have exploded across the … Continue reading
The Minneapolis Uprising
To hell or utopia: The Minneapolis uprising Christopher Scott Thompson (Gods and Radical Press 10/06/2020) “Rather than running off as the police intended, the protesters stood their ground. When they were forced back by tear gas, they advanced again as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-racism, George Floyd, insurrection, united states
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Renzo Novatore: The anarchy of life
From Distinctively Dionysian … New Renzo Novatore and Bruno Filippi translations Bonsoir. There are twelve new Renzo Novatore writings, never before in English, now included in Distinctively Dionysian’s remaining spring ’20 issues. Due to the volume of new translations of … Continue reading
black anarchism
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. James Baldwin, Down at the Cross The Anarchist movement in North America is overwhelmingly white, middle class, and for the most part, pacifist so the question … Continue reading
COVID-1984: Power, control and the struggle for freedom
From antimidia (brazil) posted with koletiva.media … The struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been used by different governments to implement a variety of means of social control and to increase the powers of the police. Yes, the threat of … Continue reading
Mutual Aid in Cape Town
Mutual aid is a response to crisis born within the cracks of regimes of State-Capital. It is also that which allows the creation of ties and bonds, of social relations, outside commodity and spectacle mediation. It is that which can … Continue reading
United States: Facing counter-insurgency in times of riots
Counterinsurgency: dousing the flames of Minneapolis Peter Gelderloos (Roarmag 04/06/2020) As people rise up against police violence and structural racism, what counterinsurgency techniques is the state deploying to attack and undermine the movement? The uprising that has spread across the … Continue reading
From riot to revolution: Protest as self-defense and mutual aid
Reflecting on the protests following the murder of George Floyd and as an historical example of mutual aid in African-American political history, a moment from the history of the Black Panther Party.
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-racism, united states, William C. Anderson
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Snapshots from the Uprising
From the CrimethInc. Collective (17/06/2020) … Snapshots from the Uprising: Accounts from Three Weeks of Countrywide Revolt In the following analysis, we review the series of movements that led to the uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd, … Continue reading →