New York City. A piece about the Black Bloc at the Breonna Taylor protests in New York.
Originally published by Abolition Media Worldwide.
On the Breonna Taylor March
On September 23rd, Breonna Taylor is dead; there is no justice. Another court upholds white supremacy, acquitting the murderers. Days earlier, a call had ...
Report from Hard Crackers on the Kenosha uprising on the first several days of the uprising following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Originally published by Hard Crackers on September 7, 2020.
What’s so simple in the moonlight by the morning never is.
Bright EyesThe night of the shooting, bands of ...
Elections
Democracy and its instrument of choice are based on citizens handing over their powers to representatives or delegating them to a professional group that decides on their behalf. This implies a misjudgment, because only because the representatives exist does the represented group exist, which in turn creates its representatives ...
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The streets of several Colombian cities have erupted into conflict in the last two days in response to the brutal police murder of 43-year-old Javier Ordóñez, a lawyer and father of two in Bogotá, the nation’s capital. Ordóñez was peaceably drinking in the street in front of his friends’ apartment ...
Gerardo Munoz: You say that Afropessimism as a method or critical intervention thematizes ...
Die Gilets Jaunes als Bewegung sind tot. So oft ist das schon behauptet worden, von den politischen Eliten und den politischen Kommentatoren. Barrikaden mitten auf den Champs Elysees, geplünderte Luxusshops und Bullen in panischer Flucht im Steinhagel haben diese Behauptungen immer und immer wieder Lügen gestraft. Die Gilets Jaunes sind ...
NPR24: Für Leute, die dein Buch nicht gelesen haben: Wie definierst du Plünderung?
Vicky Osterweil: Wenn ich das Wort Plünderung verwende, meine ich damit die massenhafte Enteignung von Eigentum, den massenhaften Ladendiebstahl in einem Moment des Aufstandes oder Riots. Das ist es, was ich verteidige. Ich verteidige keine Situation, in ...
taken from Ill Will
Theses on the White Proletariat
EconoFiction, GenericScience, NonPolitics, PhiloFiction
Sog. Saugen. Ansaugen. … Es bleibt allem Patriarchat zu eigen und deshalb vorzuwerfen, dass es nicht saugt. Dies manifestiert sich in einer generellen Angst vor der Verschlingung eines Loches. Verschlingung des Lochs, Verschlingung durch das Loch, das bereits von einem verschlungenen Loch verschlungen worden sein wird; (zwangs-)arbeiten für das Loch, ...
Antisemitismus, derrida, FORS, Krake, Minderwert, non-philosophy, patriarchy, Psychoanalyse, queer
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ
Ich möchte mit einem Gruß an das, was letzte Nacht hier passiert ist, an die Arbeiterklasse der Stadt Seattle, an die Rebellen der Stadt Seattle beginnen: Mir hat das, was ich gesehen habe, wirklich gut gefallen, deshalb bin ich hier, um diese Stimmung zu fühlen. ...
Agamben, black proletariat, corona virus, Georg Flyod riots, Insurrection, riots, state
taken from illwill editions
The following is a transcript of a talk delivered in Seattle on July 20, 2020, lightly-edited by the author for readability. A video recording produced by Red May is online here. * * * * *I want to begin with a shout-out to what happened ...
blackness, Georg Flyod riots, Governance, identity politics, revolution, Riot
From May 26 to June 1, 2020, a Black led multi-racial proletarian rebellion burned down police stations, destroyed cop cars, attacked police, redistributed goods, and took revenge for the murder of countless Black and non-Black people by the police. By the first week of June, everything seemed to have ...
