Forwarded from /r/Mapporn
Police brutality does not just happen; it is allowed to happen. It is tolerated by the police themselves, those on the street and those in command. It is tolerated by prosecutors, who seldom bring charges against violent cops, and by juries, who rarely convict. It is tolerated by the civil authorities, the mayors and the city councils, who do not use their influence to challenge police abuses. But why?
The answer is simple: police brutality is tolerated because it is what people with power want.
https://roarmag.org/essays/rights-riots-and-police-brutality/
The answer is simple: police brutality is tolerated because it is what people with power want.
https://roarmag.org/essays/rights-riots-and-police-brutality/
ROAR Magazine
Rights, riots and police brutality
Riots are communities defining what counts as police brutality and to set the limits of authority. It is here, not in the courts, that our rights are established.
Forwarded from Syndiegram (socialist raccoon)
Leftist candidates in 2020 US elections
currentaffairs.org/2020/06/the-current-affairs-guide-to-left-candidates-2020/
currentaffairs.org/2020/06/the-current-affairs-guide-to-left-candidates-2020/
Current Affairs
The Current Affairs Guide To Left Candidates 2020 ❧ Current Affairs
<p>An incomplete list of races to watch and people to consider supporting. </p>
Forwarded from Syndiegram (socialist raccoon)
Mapping Police Violence
Law enforcement agencies across the country are failing to provide us with even basic information about the lives they take. So we collect the data ourselves.
#poetry
The good-for-business wars
by Marge Piercy
Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
we really consume?] things we don’t need
with money we don’t have. Credit cards
weren’t invented for our convenience.
That’s the American Way troops are sent
to defend in lands where we don’t know
their language, march through their
customs, bitch about their religions.
Most people now can’t even find Kansas
on a map; Afghanistan might as well
be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
Their corpses we see on television
lack faces as well as names. We
count our own dead but won’t allot
money to talk nightmares from brains
of those who made it out. Who can
remember a time when we weren’t
at war someplace? No one in power
cares that we haven’t won a war
in seventy years. Still we invade.
When the same mistake is made over
and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
times it means that every cooked-up
invasion earns some people billions.
source
The good-for-business wars
by Marge Piercy
Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
we really consume?] things we don’t need
with money we don’t have. Credit cards
weren’t invented for our convenience.
That’s the American Way troops are sent
to defend in lands where we don’t know
their language, march through their
customs, bitch about their religions.
Most people now can’t even find Kansas
on a map; Afghanistan might as well
be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
Their corpses we see on television
lack faces as well as names. We
count our own dead but won’t allot
money to talk nightmares from brains
of those who made it out. Who can
remember a time when we weren’t
at war someplace? No one in power
cares that we haven’t won a war
in seventy years. Still we invade.
When the same mistake is made over
and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
times it means that every cooked-up
invasion earns some people billions.
source