State Violence

The Magical Thinking Of Reformism

October 23, 2020 Dylan Rodriguez, Abolition for the People. Strategize! Abolition, Police, Racism, State Violence

Reform is best understood as a logic rather than an outcome: an approach to institutional change that sustains existing social, economic, political, and/or legal systems, including but not limited to policing, two-party electoral politics, heteronormativity, criminal justice, and corporate destruction of the natural world. To reform a system is to adjust isolated aspects of its operation in order to protect that system from total collapse, whether by internal or external forces. Such adjustments usually rest on the fundamental assumption that these systems must remain intact...

Colombia: National Strike Joins The Minga As Mobilization Grows

October 22, 2020 Telesur English. Resist! Colombia, Indigenous Resistance, National Strike, State Violence

Colombia woke up on Wednesday with a new national strike in the country's main cities, amidst the coronavirus crisis and the increase in the numbers of massacres and murders of social leaders and former members of the then Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP). The president of the Central Workers Union (CUT), Diógenes Orjuela, explained that the strike would clarify the position of absolute rejection of the massacres and murders that have occurred in the country in recent months, as well as the repression exercised by the police.

Solidarity With Colombia’s Indigenous Minga And National Strike!

October 21, 2020 the Alliance for Global Justice. Resist! Colombia, Indigenous Resistance, Peace, State Violence

Minga is an indigenous concept that means working to build together, doing things in community for the wellbeing of all. The leaders of the Minga are also calling on President Iván Duque to meet with them face to face to discuss these demands. On Wednesday, October 21st, labor organizations and Colombian popular movements will engage in a national strike that will link together with the Minga. The Alliance for Global Justice will continue monitoring the situation. We are especially concerned for the safety of those participating in this movement.

Health Justice And Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis

October 18, 2020 Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report. Create! Black Liberation, Health Care, Health Justice, State Violence

It is not only that state violence is a public health issue, but what I want people to understand is that state violence bleeds into particular public health issues—specifically, reproductive health issues. It is parastatal violence as well, by which I mean those practices and institutions that work in parallel and intersecting ways with the state. Think about this: some of the research I did for my book Reproductive Injustice shows both subtle and blatant examples of state and...

Morales Warns About US Meddling In Upcoming Elections

October 15, 2020 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! 2020 Elections, Bolivia, State Violence, US Regime Change

The former head of state made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Iran’s Hispan TV Spanish-language television network on Tuesday. Morales was seeking to nationalize the extraction of Bolivia’s lithium reserves when he was forced to resign last November under pressure from the military and following the opposition’s challenging the victory that he had secured in presidential elections a month earlier. The former president, who both himself and his Movement for Socialism (MAS) still wield influence in Bolivia’s politics, sought exile in Mexico back then and is currently residing in Argentina, closely monitoring the domestic developments.

Dangerous Use Of Crowd-Control Weapons Against Protestors And Medics

October 8, 2020 Kathryn Hampton, Michele Heisler, and Donna McKay, Physicians for Human Rights. Educate! Human Rights, Law Enforcement, Portland, State Violence

Portland, OR - Regardless of where we are, we are living in a reign of violence in which “we can’t breathe.” We are witnessing a global downward trend in terms of respect for fundamental human rights, freedom, democracy, and the rule of law. In most parts of the world, the human rights environment is radically transforming in a way that brings into question the basic concept of human rights: holding, possessing, claiming, and asserting rights legally as a human being. This deterioration in the human rights environment has accelerated over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Justice And Black Liberation: Ugo Edu

October 4, 2020 Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black Liberation, health, Health Justice, State Violence

I remember always wanting to be a doctor—perhaps because my parents are Nigerian—and having a genuine concern with people’s health. I soon became disillusioned with treatment and the competition that entailed pre-med education as an undergrad at UCLA. Nonetheless, I decided public health better suited my interest and desire to develop preventive interventions. Public health left out too many factors to be the only means by which I felt I could contribute to health—I decided to study medical anthropology, simultaneously exploring other disciplinary offerings. My current work draws on all these aspects of my academic trajectory.

Colombia: ‘The Number One Demand On The Streets Is For Justice’

September 28, 2020 People's Dispatch. Resist! Colombia, Human Rights, Police violence, State Violence

On Wednesday, September 9, a video went viral in Colombia. It depicted a man repeatedly being beaten and tased by the police while he kept pleading “please, no more”. In a few hours, the man, Javier Ordóñez, would be dead and thousands would be on the streets of Bogotá and across the country demanding justice for him. Ordóñez, a lawyer and father of two, had stepped out with his friends when he was accosted by a group of police officers. As Ordóñez was being tortured, his friends begged the officers to lay off even while capturing their cruelty.

What The OAS Did To Bolivia

September 24, 2020 Mark Weisbrot, Counterpunch. Educate! Bolivia, Evo Morales, State Violence, US Regime Change

Bolivia has descended into a nightmare of political repression and racist state violence since the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was overthrown by the military on November 10. That month was “the second-deadliest month, in terms of civilian deaths committed by state forces, since Bolivia became a democracy nearly 40 years ago,” according to a study by Harvard Law School’s (HLS) International Human Rights Clinic and the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) released a month ago.

Architects Build Society’s Cage On National Mall In Bold Statement On Racial Strife

September 1, 2020 By John Zangas, DC Media Group. Resist! Art, Black America, Legal System, Racism, State Violence

A group of five designers at the internationally known SmithGroup Architecture firm set up a metallic cubic structure on the National Mall to frame the struggle of Black Lives in America. The public display titled “Society’s Cage” is a 14 foot cube pavilion timed for the 57th anniversary of the March On Washington and is made from the hidden components of sky scrapers. It depicts an architect’s visualization of ongoing racial inequality in the United States and asks the question, “What is the value of Black life in America?” The cube is constructed from 484 vertical rusted conduit pipes attached to a large metal plate, supported by four large metal supports on a pavilion, resembling a cage. One in four bars are connected to the floor, representing the rate Blacks will be incarcerated. A four-part, 8 minute, 46 second music composition, the same time length of time of George Floyd’s tragic murder, sets the mood.

An Outside View: Kenosha Is A Microcosm Of The US In 2020

September 1, 2020 Ramin Mazaheri, The Saker. Educate! Kenosha, State Violence, Systemic Racism, United States

The situation in Kenosha is a microcosm of the United States in 2020 – tragedy on top of tragedy on top of tragedy: A Black man wantonly paralysed by cops, his three sons forced to watch, ethnic-based violence deteriorating a community already gutted by anti-patriotic neoliberal economics, shops frantically boarding up their windows after having been shuttered during a pandemic lockdown, a 17-year old shooting and killing two protesters – there is just a complete lack of security everywhere over here.

Report: White Supremacists And Militias Have Infiltrated Police Across The US

August 30, 2020 By Michael German, Brennan Center. Educate! armed militia, Law enforement abuse, Right-Wing, State Violence, Terrorism

Racial disparities have long pervaded every step of the criminal justice process, from police stops, searches, arrests, shootings, and other uses of force to charging decisions, wrongful convictions, and sentences. As a result, many have concluded that a structural or institutional bias against people of color, shaped by long-standing racial, economic, and social inequities, infects the criminal justice system. These systemic inequities can also instill implicit biases — unconscious prejudices that favor in-groups and stigmatize out-groups — among individual law enforcement officials, influencing their day-to-day actions while interacting with the public.

33rd Anniversary Of Brian Willson Surviving The US Train Assault

August 30, 2020 S. Brian Willson, Popular Resistance. Resist! Brian Willson, Nicaragua, State Violence, US Regime Change

I am here today in front of the US Embassy in Managua to protest US intervention in Nicaragua and also to publicly deliver a letter in which I and others request a meeting with Ambassador Sullivan to denounce US intervention in Nicaragua. I first came to Nicaragua in 1986 to study Spanish and to learn about Nicaragua’s Revolution. In 1987 I protested US weapons going to Nicaragua by blocking a train, he other two veterans and I took our firm positions between the rail’s two tracks, to wait for our arrests. I was sitting in a lotus position, the other two were crouched but firmly planted on their feet. But, as it got closer and closer to our human blockade, it was clear it had no intention of stopping. It struck me causing significant damage. I have never given up my defense of Nicaragua. On July 31, 2020, we learned that the US has launched a new brazen, criminal, and arrogant plan to overthrow Nicaragua’s government. Today, a group of US citizens and Nicaraguans are requesting a meeting with Ambassador Sullivan, to ask him to denounce the RAIN coup plan or any other plan to destabilize the Nicaragua society and government.

Bolivia’s Ongoing Coup

July 28, 2020 Oliver Vargas , Tribune Magazine. Educate! Bolivia, Elections, State Violence, US coup

When the Bolivian government’s electoral authorities nervously announced to the nation that elections were to be suspended for the third time in four months, the fear instilled in many seemed to suddenly melt away. It was replaced by a fury of a country whose working-class districts and rural areas were led to believe that free and fair elections, on September 6th, would provide a peaceful route of the country’s dramatic economic collapse. The hope was that these elections would mark the end of authoritarian rule at the hands of an unelected regime, who stand as proof of how the US rules its ‘backyard’ and the ease with which neoliberalism dispenses with its purported values when facing down those who call for national sovereignty and public control of natural resources.

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