"But the truth is that no one is healthy, because what health actually is, is something that encompasses way beyond the individual's own bodily state, and it encompasses things like feeling psychically safe and secure, like having clean air and clean water, having housing that's not commodified so heavily that three quarters of your income goes to your housing, counts as I think, a social determinant of health. And this is why your work and Engels' work are such touchstones for us, because it really sort of thinking through the ways that health becomes kind of like a mode of production,"*

https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/organized-abandonment-with-ruth-wilson-gilmore

#RuthWilsonGilmore #OrganisedAbandonment #GovernmentControl #state_violence #DeathPanel #podcastingIsPraxis #ableism #HealthCare
* small edits for readability

#RaceIsBullshit #Race is a political construct.

A #melanin_count, #appearance, #surname do not a 'race' make.

#Racism, #antisemitism, #genocide, #xenophobia, #colonialism, #state_violence, #discrimination, #oppression, etc are the results of people BELIEVING in race.

Russian facing extremism charges alleges police torture
#torture #state_violence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/24/russian-facing-extremism-charges-alleges-police-torture-ruslan-kostylenkov