Who Is A “Terrorist” In Biden’s America? ~~ Whitney Webb

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/who-is-a-terrorist-in-bidens-america/

~~ recommended by a guest contributor ~~

BIDEN MUST STOP PIPELINES TO DELIVER CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

 https://popularresistance.org/biden-must-stop-pipelines-to-deliver-on-climate-change-and-environmental-justice/

~~posted for dmorista ~~

LOCAL COPS SAID PIPELINE COMPANY HAD INFLUENCE OVER GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT ~~ Alleen Brown

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/17/enbridge-line-3-minnesota-police-protest/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

George Floyd’s murderer convicted – But no real justice exists in a racist system! ~~ Erika Roedland AND Arman Ebrahim

https://marxiststudent.com/george-floyds-murderer-convicted-but-no-real-justice-exists-in-a-racist-system/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

The Fight to Abolish the Police Is the Fight to Abolish Capitalism ~~ Carmin Maffea

https://www.leftvoice.org/the-fight-to-abolish-the-police-is-the-fight-to-abolish-capitalism

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Following the Chauvin verdict: Stay in the streets! Abolish the police!

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55929/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Amazon Hires Off-Duty Cops to Harass Workers, the Press, and Supporters ~~ Madeleine Freeman

https://www.leftvoice.org/amazon-hires-off-duty-cops-to-harass-workers-the-press-and-supporters

Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive. Two Left Voice reporters who were recently expelled from Amazon’s premises by the cops: report from the ground.

NYPD Deploys Counter Terrorism Unit To Protect Wall Street in Response To Gamestop Protests ~~ Alan Macleod

 https://www.mintpressnews.com/nypd-deploys-counter-terrorism-unit-protect-wall-street-in-response-gamestop-protests/274996/

The Neoliberal Road to Serfdom ~~ Branko Marcetic

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/neoliberalism-totalitarianism-surveillance-hayek-socialism?fbclid=IwAR3574vPPFWTXyt4Z9xkXeSJQfd-IfJ6v4ZQSkdhlvu_MKff8zwoRNVs38w

~~ Posted for Collectivist ~~

The fear of socialism is mostly based on one idea: that the end of the road of bigger government is the totalitarian horror of the early twentieth century.

Sure, there are other objections, usually involving muttered words like “market” and “efficiency.” But for the fathers of neoliberalism like Friedrich Hayek, what it really came down to was the fear that every increase in the role of the state was just one more step toward the chimneys of Dachau: power concentrated among a know-it-all elite deaf to the problems facing its people; ever-present surveillance of the population, whether “suspect” or not; a vast, armed bureaucracy ready to stamp out dissent; countless bodies locked and tortured in prisons; and a state that asserts the power to treat its citizens as mere subjects while demanding secrecy and impunity for itself.

Corporate money militarizes the police

https://www.workers.org/2020/10/51840/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

After police murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., demonstrators across the U.S. called for defunding police departments. The Center for Popular Democracy Action, in a June 10 report, estimates $100 billion is spent each year in the U.S. on policing — between 20% to 45% of municipal budgets. (https://populardemocracy.org/news-and-publications/congress-must-divest-billion-dollar-police-budget-and-invest-public-education)

As activists target state and municipal funding sources, it is important to shine the spotlight on often hidden corporate police funding. A popular street chant against the police has been “Who do they protect? Who do they serve?” 

Another question must also be asked: Who protects the police?

‘They Couldn’t Arrest Us All’: Civil Rights Veteran Rutha Mae Harris on MLK, Protest, Prison and Song ~~Ahmna Mohdin

If anyone wishes to post civil rights music or music about class struggle, this is a good place to put it. 

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https://portside.org/2020-10-08/they-couldnt-arrest-us-all-civil-rights-veteran-rutha-mae-harris-mlk-protest-prison-and

Rutha Mae Harris has never been afraid to sing in front of a crowd. Even as a 22-year-old facing the 250,000 people who had gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 for the historic march on Washington, she felt excited rather than scared. After all, at earlier protests, she had faced police pointing batons, fire hoses and even guns, and each time, when she sang, her terror faded away.

Top Trump Official Asks Feds to Charge Protesters with Sedition

https://blackagendareport.com/top-trump-official-asks-feds-charge-protesters-sedition

~~~ This article was contributed by Collectivist ~~~

Top Trump Official Asks Feds to Charge Protesters with Sedition 

The rarely used statute could put protesters accused of using violence in prison for up to 20 years.

“The charge does not require evidence of any purported plot against the state.”