The Real Violence Causing Climate Change
Hiya!!
This month, I dove into how the state wields violence and criminalization to stymie climate action and movements for climate justice. Having had friends arrested and beaten by police, this one felt important to make. I hope you find it illuminating.
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Three Quotes:
“Since 2017 alone, 45 US state legislatures have considered 269 new bills restricting basic domestic rights to freedom of speech and assembly, with more pending at the time of writing.”
— International Center for Not-For-Profit Law via Constance Gordon
“We believe in a need to foster a counterculture of care— a politics larger than any siloed issue, one that can challenge dehumanization and the erasure of atrocity while allowing us to hold on to each other and our humanity amid disasters daily and acute”
— Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
“It’s been normal for a while that militarized states, whose purpose is the facilitation of capital, are using mechanisms and strategies of counterinsurgency . . . to repress movements defending land and water…Now that’s coming back north. Now you’re seeing a little bit of that increasingly creep into the United States.”
— Jared Olson via Jacobin
Three Links:
Cop Cities in a Militarized World (Boston Review)
The Fight Against Cop City (Dissent Magazine)
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression (Constance Gordon)
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Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie