🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨
"Challenging State Power: From 'Cop City' to Prison Abolition" is LIVE!
🎧 Tune in to unpack the layers of state oppression & the call for #PrisonAbolition.
👉 https://www.radical-guide.com/a-radical-podcast-ep-19-challenging-state-power-from-cop-city-to-prison-abolition/
#ARadicalPodcast #StatePower #CopCity #Atlanta #RICO #SocialJustice

https://archive.org/details/gilles-pop

Popular Movements and Political Development in Haiti by Alain Gilles

Topics
#Haiti, #Haitianpolitics, #politicsofHaiti, #socialmovements, #massmovements, #statepower, #statecraft, #Caribbeanpolitics, #neocolonialism

"Conference Paper No. 21"

2 #prominent #Chinese #HumanRights #lawyers have been #sentenced to more than a decade in #prison - #HumanRightsWatch said Monday, the latest in a #crackdown by the ruling #CommunistParty on its critics.
The rights group said Xu Zhiyong, 50, was sentenced to 14 yrs & Ding Jiaxi, 55, was given 12 yrs in prison under the #vague charge of " #subversion of #StatePower ." Proceedings are conducted under intense #secrecy .
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/world/2023/4/10/1_6348774.amp.html

#AsianMastodon #China #injustice #HumanRights #Chinese

"What #COVID can teach us about climate and nuclear policies.

The fight against the coronavirus revealed the extent to which state power can be mobilized, so why aren’t we using these tactics to fight climate change and #nuclear threats?"

#climate @sts @nuclearhumanities #StatePower

https://inkstickmedia.com/what-covid-can-teach-us-about-climate-and-nuclear-policies/

"Why is #power so mean?": 🧶
"➤ To sustain threatened profits.
The first spring is economic, and stems from the fact that the capitalist crisis has deepened from 2020 onwards. The continuous decline in #productivity gains and the dependence of the private sector on permanent support from #statePower are main characteristics of this crisis.
This results in a double necessity for capital and its allies: to maintain the pressure on the wage-earner in order to make work profitable for the companies;

"Why is #power so mean?":
"➤ To sustain threatened profits.
The first spring is economic, and stems from the fact that the capitalist crisis has deepened from 2020 onwards. The continuous decline in #productivity gains and the dependence of the private sector on permanent support from #statePower are main characteristics of this crisis.
This results in a double necessity for capital and its allies: to maintain the pressure on the wage-earner in order to make work profitable for the companies;

“A simplification and reduction of vast complexities into easy currency, the easier to deploy and exploit them in the interest of state policies.”

Edward W. Said, more on the money every time I’ve read him.
#culture #cutlureandimperialism #imperialism #westernhegemony #statepower #power #ideology #polarisation #domination

Righteousness + force in America: The trap of righteous #activism coupled with #statepower https://newstarget.com/2021-10-31-righteous-activism-coupled-with-state-power.html