Just keep in mind that there are always ppl who reject or abandon their place in the global imperialist order of things and that nothing is ever fully determined in advance. And that should be encouraged even if it’s never likely.
Today would have been the birthday of revolutionary leader Sekou Odinga, who was captured by amerikan forces during a military operation in 1981 and spent over 30 years behind bars as a prisoner of war. He orchestrated the successful prison break of Assata Shakur.
Begging people to read revolutionary imprisoned intellectuals like Monsour Owolabi who have explained the concept of “slow genocide” so many times in a way that CONNECTS rather than ranks struggles against each other. Which ofc, is the correct position. https://t.co/U88upJ5rIN
and if formations that aren’t fully compromised refuse to engage the politics themselves and their salience, then these groups will continue to be relevant to people disillusioned with such failures, theyll get caught up, and the cycle will repeat
i think the BH comparison is much more helpful than OPs observation in the sense that there’s a reason people were largely positive about BH towards the beginning: they at least purported to have forthright lines on settler/internal colonialism and seemed to organize accordingly
and i think that’s the marker of how successful the op is if that’s what it is; limiting the horizon through necessary association of armed struggle with incoherence and abuse
Malik Muhammad has been consistently exposing the state of Oregon’s illegal use of indefinite solitary confinement practices and this is likely a motivating factor as to why they trafficked him out of state.
The panic is not accidental.
It is produced.
"Karmelo, Who Said No: Autonomy & the Making of a Moral Panic" explores the figure of the autonomous young Black male, the manufacture of national moral panics, and why refusal has always been treated as a threat to the colonial order.
This was hard to write.
https://t.co/o1XkDcnzb8
many such cases…
but can’t discuss the broad strokes liberalism/chauvinistic identity politics/anti-blackness.
no, just make bullshit documentaries and make celebrities out of a couple of people with good optics and look starry eyed on the fact that “something” was done.
It’s been two years since the encampments so I wanted to say that my local one fell apart almost entirely because one careerist international student idpol’d a majority of participants into thinking it was “white privilege” to break any university policies
mamdani is hiring a bunch of cops? as a dsa elected? if only anyone could have seen this coming. hey but at least everyone who helped get him elected, did something.
Here's Dr. Selamawit D. Terrefe reminding y'all that Black people are not the problem with solidarity. She notes that no movement wants to be authorized by Black violence.
(NEW!) The Soul of the Black Liberation Army: A Poetry Compilation
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The only poetry collection of incredible, heartfelt, and revolutionary works from BLA members and comrades, most of them written while being locked up for their courageous actions.