RELEVANT READING CLUB
"READERS ARE LEADERS"
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"Acting in the tradition of non-violent direct action and civil disobedience, proponents of Electronic Civil Disobedience are borrowing the tactics of trespass and blockade from these earlier social movements and are applying them to the ...Read More
Donald Trump’s threat to have protesters in Minneapolis shot echoed the words ...Read More
This piece from 2016 is still quite relevant. “One of the falsehoods in the Clinton speech was the implied equivalency between civil resistance and insurgency. This is an autocrat’s favorite con, the explanation for the violent suppression ...Read More
The Power of Crowds: By Dan Hancox
"It’s very, very convenient for dominant and powerful groups,” Stott says. “It pathologises, decontextualises and renders meaningless crowd violence, and therefore legitimises its repression.” As Stott ...Read More
"It's hard to view the US at this point as anything other than a cautionary tale.”
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/31/outsiders-police-violence-minneapolis-protest-george-floyd/
"As people in the Twin Cities woke up to a devastated city this weekend, state and local officials pushed the idea that the damage was mostly ...Read More
Historically speaking it’s also the 99th anniversary of the lynching and destruction of Tulsa Oklahoma’s Black Wall St. with more than 300 black-owned businesses in 1920. This is very relevant as economic resiliency has been intentionally ...Read More
"The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both the basis and end of their ...Read More
"there’s no doubt that this is America’s moment of reckoning. ... The catalyst was certainly ...Read More
"The weight of significance that a small selection of books published over 20 years ago gave to certain clubs and people has inadvertently led to a widespread and contemporary acceptance of reductive narratives, only telling a fraction of ...Read More
"PAR uncovers new information on the dangers of serving no-knock warrants and analyzes the raid that killed 26-year-old EMT Breonna Taylor. Cop watcher Kennet..."
"The art world - as a system of organised institutions - is ill-equipped to address the political issues around who’s afforded access. The way power and resources are distributed in the ...Read More
"When it comes to the Covid-19, Dr Annabel Sowemimo explains that we should remember that how we are racialised is not the same as genetic difference."