On episode 40 of the World BEYOND War podcast, I talked to Bob about his new book “Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir” and the need to call attention to the victims of settler-colonialism in the world today.
The parallels between the police-prosecution-prison system and the war system are extensive. I don’t mean the direct connections, the flow of weapons, the flow of veterans. I mean the similarities: the intentional failure to use superior alternatives, the ideology of violence used to justify horrible ideas, and the expense and corruption.
By Marc Eliot Stein, April 30, 2022 Activists and advocates for a humane planet have enough to cope with in 2022. But we also need to pay special attention to
“I was arrested for singing … I’ve been hauled off and left to swelter in paddy wagons for 7 hours, and hog-tied and somebody kneeled on me and I thought if I’d been another color and saying ‘I can’t breathe’ …” – Kathy Kelly
Hundreds of people gathered for a loud protest at the RCMP’s Quebec headquarters in Montreal on Saturday afternoon.
I’m still reeling after the horrific display of militarized policing we saw here in Toronto yesterday, in many ways a textbook paramilitary operation. All to evict fewer than 20 people living in a tent encampment in a public park, people with no other place to go.
The similarities between the movement to abolish war and the movement to abolish police and prisons jump out at me anew when reading Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, which is about police and prison abolition.
There are a number of hurdles to clear before you can get people to support banning armed drones or surveillance drones.
Congressman works to rein in Pentagon’s 1033 Program that gives military-grade weapons to local law enforcement departments for free.
