Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
2011 London Insurrection Over the Murder of Mark Duggan by Neo-Colonial Police Force
On Insurrection by A. Shahid Stover
In a global context, the misery which informs the lives of the majority of humanity has for the most part become such a banality that human suffering itself is merely a part of the normal landscape of advanced neo-liberal capitalist societies, right next to the red and yellow ‘over one billion served’ McDonald’s sign in neon lights. As such, oppressed people become objectified, overdetermined by one's lot in life, looked upon as if we lack some fundamental grasp of the human condition itself, indeed, western bourgeois subjectivity has no tolerance for those who reject its standards as universally binding. Surely the problems we face are due to our lack of proper tools for assimilation. “Look at Obama”, this in spite of the fact that Western imperialism with a Black face is still Western imperialism.
And then something remarkable happens, in the face of overwhelming odds as constituted by the structural-inert violence of established power, one of us, and then more of us, refuse to accept the dehumanizing terms of our lived experience. We get in tune with that intrinsic spiritual rhythm of freedom which animates our shared humanity. The ensuing confrontation between the rebirth of a genuinely human subjectivity and the tyranny of established unjust power breeds insurrection . . .
In a global context, the misery which informs the lives of the majority of humanity has for the most part become such a banality that human suffering itself is merely a part of the normal landscape of advanced neo-liberal capitalist societies, right next to the red and yellow ‘over one billion served’ McDonald’s sign in neon lights. As such, oppressed people become objectified, overdetermined by one's lot in life, looked upon as if we lack some fundamental grasp of the human condition itself, indeed, western bourgeois subjectivity has no tolerance for those who reject its standards as universally binding. Surely the problems we face are due to our lack of proper tools for assimilation. “Look at Obama”, this in spite of the fact that Western imperialism with a Black face is still Western imperialism.
And then something remarkable happens, in the face of overwhelming odds as constituted by the structural-inert violence of established power, one of us, and then more of us, refuse to accept the dehumanizing terms of our lived experience. We get in tune with that intrinsic spiritual rhythm of freedom which animates our shared humanity. The ensuing confrontation between the rebirth of a genuinely human subjectivity and the tyranny of established unjust power breeds insurrection . . .
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
San Francisco Neo-Colonial Police Murder Kenneth W. Harding
On Saturday July 16th,2011
"When police stopped a teenager stepping off the T-train yesterday to show his transfer as proof he’d paid his fare – $2 at most – he ran from them. They shot him as many as 10 times in the back and neck, according to witnesses. For many long minutes, as a crowd watched in horror, the boy, who had fallen to the sidewalk a block away, lay in a quickly growing pool of blood writhing in pain and trying to lift himself up as the cops trained their guns on him and threatened bystanders.
Having killed the boy at 4:44 p.m., according to the San Francisco Chronicle, in broad daylight at the main intersection – Third Street between Palou and Oakdale – in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco’s last largely Black neighborhood, the police seemed eager to terrorize the community. They waited and waited and waited as the teenager stopped moving but continued breathing before eventually setting him on a gurney and taking him to the hospital, where the Chronicle reports he died at 7:01 p.m."
By Willie Ratcliff for the San Francisco Bay View
"When police stopped a teenager stepping off the T-train yesterday to show his transfer as proof he’d paid his fare – $2 at most – he ran from them. They shot him as many as 10 times in the back and neck, according to witnesses. For many long minutes, as a crowd watched in horror, the boy, who had fallen to the sidewalk a block away, lay in a quickly growing pool of blood writhing in pain and trying to lift himself up as the cops trained their guns on him and threatened bystanders.
Having killed the boy at 4:44 p.m., according to the San Francisco Chronicle, in broad daylight at the main intersection – Third Street between Palou and Oakdale – in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco’s last largely Black neighborhood, the police seemed eager to terrorize the community. They waited and waited and waited as the teenager stopped moving but continued breathing before eventually setting him on a gurney and taking him to the hospital, where the Chronicle reports he died at 7:01 p.m."
By Willie Ratcliff for the San Francisco Bay View
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