The killing of a homeless black man on March the 1st by the Los Angeles police, one more in the never ending list of murders, is tragic testimony to the racism and violence of capitalist states for whom the “economically useless” are best addressed by death; a death that is meted out by “officers of the peace”. In solidarity with this most recent killing, we share below an amateur video of the violence and a text from CrimethInc., The thin blue line is a burning fuse. See also the essay Black Skin White Cops.
Cinema America Occupato (Rome): The okupation of culture
Okupations are often conceived of as the taking and creation of spaces, spaces that then serve to satisfy immediate needs. We think of houses, factories, land, and so on. But okupations are also, and perhaps above all else, spaces for the creation of new forms of life, often sadly summarised as merely “cultural”, but which have fundamentally to do with an ethics: the ethics of self-management, of mutual aid, and collective creation.
We share below a reflection on the okupation of the Cinema América de Roma, an experiment in autonomous creation …
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