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With permission from Seattle car brigade folks, I wrote up and illustrated this thread on the car brigade techniques. I’d be grateful if people could share it around:
https://twitter.com/gaohmee/status/1287791502999998464?s=21
https://twitter.com/gaohmee/status/1287791502999998464?s=21
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Jennifer Scheurle
In the wake of car attacks, #seattleprotest have used a protective protest technique we call car brigades. I worked on this for a while now to share how it works, thread incoming. In the wake of deaths of #summertaylor and #GarretFoster. RIP #PDXprotest #AustinShooting
https://youtu.be/7SmqjTqfo3w - This is part 1 of a 4 part talk Angela Davis gave on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States.
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Oppression and Repression in the U.S. by Angela Davis [1972] (1/4)
Angela Davis addresses a large crowd of students in the gymnasium at California State University at Fullerton on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States. Also discussed in the speech were Nixon, the killing of students at Southern…
https://youtu.be/VLly0WebhVc- This is part 2 of a 4 part talk Angela Davis gave on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States.
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Oppression and Repression in the U.S. by Angela Davis [1972] (2/4)
Angela Davis addresses a large crowd of students in the gymnasium at California State University at Fullerton on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States. Also discussed in the speech were Nixon, the killing of students at Southern…
https://youtu.be/cRfDXYcftzM - This is part 3 of a 4 part talk Angela Davis gave on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States.
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Oppression and Repression in the U.S. by Angela Davis [1972] (3/4)
Angela Davis addresses a large crowd of students in the gymnasium at California State University at Fullerton on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States. Also discussed in the speech were Nixon, the killing of students at Southern…
https://youtu.be/6Fefly6Cjv0- This is part 4 of a 4 part talk Angela Davis gave on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States.
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Oppression and Repression in the U.S. by Angela Davis [1972] (4/4)
Angela Davis addresses a large crowd of students in the gymnasium at California State University at Fullerton on the topics of fascism, inequality and racism in the United States. Also discussed in the speech were Nixon, the killing of students at Southern…
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Wesley Lethem
Hi, I’ll be live-tweeting today's Cook County Board of Commissioners Criminal Justice Committee meeting for #ChiDocumenters @ChiDocumenters. In addition notes and audio of the meeting will be recorded to be posted afterwards on https://t.co/kmuFzaoRvj
“What this report shows is a strong alignment of big capital and police departments that, in urban settings, is very much at loggerheads with the communities they serve.”
—Javier Morillo, former president of SEIU Local 26 in the Minneapolis area
Title: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Funds the Police
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f1b517ec5b6128e6825d0ff
—Javier Morillo, former president of SEIU Local 26 in the Minneapolis area
Title: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Funds the Police
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f1b517ec5b6128e6825d0ff
“In this era, groups of CP members and sympathizers would regularly congregate in Washington Park and march to the house of a person being evicted, sometimes in the hundreds, to move their furniture back into the building and turn their utilities back on. This became so common that when parents on the South Side feared an eviction, they would tell their kids to “run quick and find the Reds!”
https://rampantmag.com/2020/07/28/learning-from-multiracial-radical-organizing-in-1930s-chicago/
https://rampantmag.com/2020/07/28/learning-from-multiracial-radical-organizing-in-1930s-chicago/
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Learning from Multiracial Radical Organizing in 1930s Chicago | Rampant
In the 1930s the Communist Party in Chicago was a vibrant, multiracial organization with thousands of members that actively fought against racism and class inequality. There is much socialists today can learn from its successes and failures.