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Different contexts. Same place, but today:

"When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning."
(Bad Religion, 2004).

#LosAngeles #Protest #PoliceViolence #SystemicViolence #NoJusticeNoPeace #SocialJustice #AmericaBurning #CivilUnrest #Resist #militarypresence #immigrationlaws

FASCISM
is genocide

#Fascism #Genocide #SystemicViolence #DeathPanels #Democide #WeaponizedGovernment #Racism #ClassWar

If the lack of a particular resource or service would result in your death, and your government deliberately blocks your access to that resource, that's genocide.

The Game Theory of Giving Up Private Justice or Ending The State Monopoly On Violence – Ian Welsh

#PrivateJustice #StateViolence #SystemicViolence #SocialPower #ChecksAndBalances

https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-game-theory-of-giving-up-private-justice-or-ending-the-state-monopoly-on-violence/

@aral

Best commentary so far:

https://youtu.be/J_swGiAHhbQ

#LuigiMangione
#manifesto
#LuigiMangioneManifesto
#UnitedHealthcare
#UnitedHealthcareCEO
#UnitedHealthGroup
#capitalism
#systemicViolence
#censorship
#corporateMedia

I'm glad I'm not an American and don't have to live under their health care system.

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

#LuigiMangione #manifesto #LuigiMangioneManifesto #UnitedHealthcare #UnitedHealthcareCEO #UnitedHealthGroup #capitalism #systemicViolence #censorship #corporateMedia

Folks, this is Luigi Mangione’s manifesto that the mainstream media don’t want people to read, so please don’t distribute it, m’kay?

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

#LuigiMangione #manifesto #LuigiMangioneManifesto #UnitedHealthcare #UnitedHealthcareCEO #UnitedHealthGroup #capitalism #systemicViolence #censorship #corporateMedia

Remember, the only #Violence allowed in the democratic process, is the #SystemicViolence initiated by those in power.

#BlackCode #13thAmendment #Slavery #SystemicOpression #SystemicRacism #SystemicViolence

In 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes.

Once arrested, these men, women and children would be leased to plantations where they would harvest cotton, tobacco, sugar cane. Or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor.

It is believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Blacks were part of the system of peonage, or re-enslavement through the prison system. Peonage didn’t end until after World War II began, around 1940.
This is how it happened.

The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (Ratified in 1865)

Did you catch that? It says, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude could occur except as a punishment for a crime". Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. This system of convict labor is called peonage.

The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish laws called Black Codes. Here are some examples of Black Codes:

- In Louisiana, it was illegal for a Black man to preach to Black congregations without special permission in writing from the president of the police. If caught, he could be arrested and fined. If he could not pay the fines, which were unbelievably high, he would be forced to work for an individual, or go to jail or prison where he would work until his debt was paid off.

- If a Black person did not have a job, he or she could be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy or loitering.

This next Black Code will make you cringe.
- In South Carolina, if the parent of a Black child was considered vagrant, the judicial system allowed the police and/or other government agencies to “apprentice” the child to an "employer". Males could be held until the age of 21, and females could be held until they were 18. Their owner had the legal right to inflict punishment on the child for disobedience, and to recapture them if they ran away.

This (peonage) is an example of systemic racism - Racism established and perpetuated by government systems. Slavery was made legal by the U.S. Government. Segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow and peonage were all made legal by the government, and upheld by the judicial system. These acts of racism were built into the system, which is where the term “Systemic Racism” is derived.

This is the part of Black History that most of us were never told about.

(Chuck Allen via my FB friends)

Kabaka Pyramid - Well Done (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8rClH-Jbno&ab_channel=KabakaPyramidMusic

Well done, well done, Mr. Politician Man
You done a wonderful job a tear down we country, demolition man
Well done, Well done, Mr. Politician Man (I hope you happy)
You done a such a great job selling out we country
With you business plan

#corruption #indirectplutocracy #globalproblem #suffering #systemicviolence

Neuroqueering religion and the liberation of human spirituality

https://emergentdivergence.com/2023/02/04/neuroqueering-religion-and-the-liberation-of-human-spirituality/

#normativeviolence #organisedreligion #NeuroqueerTheory #actuallyautistic #neuronormativity #neuroqueertheory #systemicviolence #marginalisation #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neuronormative #Neuroqueering #Spirituality #Christianity #marginalised #normativity #liberation #neuroqueer #oppression #oppressive #liberated

Benjamin Powers notes that we've been told body cameras will prevent police violence. But Tyre Nichols's murder suggests otherwise. As he writes,

"The reality is technology is just a tool — not a panacea for systemic structural problems in law enforcement."

#PoliceViolence #TyreNichols #SystemicViolence

https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2023/01/29/police-body-cameras-filmed-tyre-nichols-killing-but-they-were-supposed-to-prevent-it-in-the-first-place/

"Power attracts corruptible people more generally, and power centers with a history of abusive, militaristic, and racist violence disproportionately attract people who want to abuse minorities, or use lethal force. Those are the exact people who shouldn’t be in uniform, because they see that kind of culture as an attractive profession. But that’s too often who applies. People who should never be in uniform self-select into it."

#PoliceViolence #SystemicViolence

"But nothing systemic changes.

Then, a little while later, the cycle resets. We do it all over again. Like clockwork, around 1,100 Americans are killed by police in the United States each year, a per capita rate that’s much higher than other comparable rich democracies.'

#PoliceViolence #SystemicViolence

Brian Klaas writes (and he's very correct, I think),

"Policing reform is usually tied to body cameras and oversight—how the police behave. Not enough attention is paid to who the police are—and the abusive systems that attract them in the first place. …

But nothing systemic changes.

Then, a little while later, the cycle resets. We do it all over again."

#PoliceViolence #SystemicViolence

https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/how-to-reduce-police-violence