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[event & hella links] Please come out! Join the Echo Park Community, the Youth Justice Coalition, and national Justice For Families Network for an Action and Event this Tuesday-"National Night Out For Safety and Justice-No More Gang Injunctions!" Tuesday Night at 6:00pm at the Walgreens Parking Lot on Sunset and Echo Park. LOS ANGELES, CA Law Enforcement is holding "community-based events" all over the country with their version of public safety. The Community will speak out against criminalization, incarceration, deportation of our people! Join us Tuesday night to stop the Echo Park Gang Injunction and work towards youth jobs, youth centers, and community peace-builders/interventionists- true community-based safety and justice! https://www.facebook.com/events/204747206355074/ More Information on Gang Injunctions & their destructive effects on communities and how they are a tool for gentrification by capitalist class below: Video: 5-minute speech by Angela Davis in Oakland Against Gang Injunctions -http://vimeo.com/20683332 Book (need full text): Gang Injunctions & Abatement: Using Civil Remedies to Curb Gang-Related Crimes - http://books.google.com/books?id=YnxNX-k-droC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
JSTOR Article (need full text): Black Codes and Broken Windows: The Legacy of Racial Hegemony in Anti-Gang Civil Injunctions - http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/797421?uid=3739256&sid=21102112495963 Book (need full text): The New Blacklists: The Threat to Civil Liberties Posed by Gang Databases - http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr&id=VimgwrvMEOcC&oi=fnd&pg=PA109&dq=overturning+gang+injunctions&ots=Jg9gs_6BVG&sig=uovYcSl7PYUezP0NMZYqNH8YAyM#v=onepage&q&f=false article: Toward the Restorative Constitution: A Restorative Justice Critique of Anti-Gang Public Nuisance Injunctions - http://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=facpubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar_url%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.law.msu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1215%2526context%253Dfacpubs%26sa%3DX%26scisig%3DAAGBfm0o9JDgvCisnkjaAtDoCyv2Vjvv0w%26oi%3Dscholarr#search=%22http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.law.msu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1215%26context%3Dfacpubs%22 article: The Fight Over Gang Injunctions: In Oakland, An Attempt to Reduce Crime Runs into Stiff Opposition - http://www.callawyer.com/clstory.cfm?eid=922757 resistance resource: Stop the Injunctions in Oakland - http://stoptheinjunction.wordpress.com/ history of LA gang injunctions and lots of information about history and implementation: Gang Injunctions and Civil Abatement in Los Angeles - http://www.streetgangs.com/injunctions mp3 radio discussion: Gang Injunctions: Problem or Solution? - http://www.radioproject.org/2011/12/gang-injunctions-problem-or-solution/ Tracked and Trapped - YJC's report on gang injunctions - http://www.youth4justice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/TrackedandTrapped.pdf Oakland Gang Injunctions: Gentrification or Public Safety? - http://www.urbanhabitat.org/18-2/arnold Fighting For Peace: Alex Sanchez on wars and borders at home and abroad - http://abolitionistpaper.wordpress.com/fighting-for-peace-alex-sanchez-on-wars-and-borders-at-home-and-abroad/ Gang Injunctions are Spreading, Communities are Reacting - http://www.womenprisoners.org/news/001046.html An Invading Army: A Civil Gang Injunction in a Southern California Chicana/O Community - http://www.palgrave-journals.com/lst/journal/v5/n4/full/8600280a.html Youth Justice Coalition: Getting Off A Gang Injunction - http://www.youth4justice.org/self-defense-legal-rights/getting-off-a-gang-injunction Video: Stop the North Oakland Gang Injuction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUjBPMp8q4E
on 'marches' or acts of public 'protest'
in addition to the critique that they are immediately restricted in terms of efficacy if there is any collaboration with the police there is also the problem with protests being built to appeal to a false status quo media audience instead of shaped by the participants. this makes it more of a parade and less of a practice of people power.
however these are some functions i appreciate:
1) they hold space for community energy 2) they challenge the domination of space by corporate entities and the police state 3) they give people a situational empowering outlet to participate in something that actually means something and carries potentiality 4) they can take direct action and blockade spaces of 'power' to be heard or affect the economy 5) they challenge unconstitutional *also fuck the constitution* permitting that requires people be led by the police
also i think marching is one of many tactics, and should always ignite dialogue and think tanks so that we can employ different tactics with varying degrees of goals- like community caucus's and self defense networks to protect our streets. standing with signs -traditional protest- has been rendered ineffective by the reform 'policy begging' process (that we have to refight over and over again keeping us subordinated and distracted). unfortunately, the amerikan people accept protest actions on the side of the street as part of the status quo falsely constructed democratic process, it allows them to believe HEY look we're being free over there. and they keep driving like good little consumers of political thought. which is why we need to hold space and disrupt 'business as usual' or whatEVER.
also the reality is that the privileged will always be fearful of the disenfranchised. and groups of empowered people of color will always instill fear; empowerment in the street will always appear a threat to the spectacle and subsequently criminalized as riot. TAKE STREETS.
amerikan fascism
Nationally, in 2011, the FBI and DHS were, in the words of Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, “treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity.” Last December using FOIA, PCJF obtained112 pages of documents (heavily redacted) revealing a good deal of evidence for what might otherwise seem like an outlandish charge:that federal authorities were, in Verheyden-Hilliard’s words, “functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America.” Consider these examples from PCJF’s summary of federal agencies working directly not only with local authorities but on behalf of the private sector:
• “As early as August 19, 2011, the FBI in New York was meeting with the New York Stock Exchange to discuss the Occupy Wall Street protests that wouldn’t start for another month. By September, prior to the start of the OWS, the FBI was notifying businesses that they might be the focus of an OWS protest.”
• “The FBI in Albany and the Syracuse Joint Terrorism Task Force disseminated information to… [22] campus police officials… A representative of the State University of New York at Oswego contacted the FBI for information on the OWS protests and reported to the FBI on the SUNY-Oswego Occupy encampment made up of students and professors.”
• An entity called the Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC), “a strategic partnership between the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the private sector,” sent around information regarding Occupy protests at West Coast ports [on Nov. 2, 2011] to “raise awareness concerning this type of criminal activity.” The DSAC report contained “a ‘handling notice’ that the information is ‘meant for use primarily within the corporate security community. Such messages shall not be released in either written or oral form to the media, the general public or other personnel…’ Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) reported to DSAC on the relationship between OWS and organized labor.”
• DSAC gave tips to its corporate clients on “civil unrest,” which it defined as running the gamut from “small, organized rallies to large-scale demonstrations and rioting.” It advised corporate employees to dress conservatively, avoid political discussions and “avoid all large gatherings related to civil issues. Even seemingly peaceful rallies can spur violent activity or be met with resistance by security forces.”
• The FBI in Anchorage, Jacksonville, Tampa, Richmond, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Birmingham also gathered information and briefed local officials on wholly peaceful Occupy activities.
• In Jackson, Mississippi, FBI agents “attended a meeting with the Bank Security Group in Biloxi, MS with multiple private banks and the Biloxi Police Department, in which they discussed an announced protest for ‘National Bad Bank Sit-In-Day’ on December 7, 2011.” Also in Jackson, “the Joint Terrorism Task Force issued a ‘Counterterrorism Preparedness’ alert” that, despite heavy redactions, notes the need to ‘document…the Occupy Wall Street Movement."
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Public property is a contradiction, it’s supposed to be the fulfillment of the collective labor of society, it belongs to everyone, yet in reality it belongs to those who set it’s boundaries, the bureaucratic state.
It belongs to everyone and no one, it is the monopoly of the collective labor of the multitude by the state through the illusion of representation.
now they are more appropriately referring to it as 'city managed green space' . the illusion of the 'public' is very well controlled.
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the Victorian state government has banned political meetings or doorknocking on all public housing estates in an apparent form of revenge for public housing tenants successfully organising against a sell-off of their open space to developers
I’ve been struggling for a while now to comment on this but something about it is so perfectly evil that it fries my higher cognitive capacities.
there’s an action group “HOME — Hands Off Melbourne’s Estates” who are a bit less immobilised by shock, if you’re interested.
This is a perfect example of 'reform'.
Investigation underway. The state, in the morally justified panopticon, has to act. The FBI steps forward.
i hope you
dance in the street to the beat of a cop line pacing holding space
our vision gifted to us with a blur only as bright as the streetlamp whose shadow leans into your body as you stamp out the concrete walls
but this battle ground is ripe kicking up dirt into their eyes as we peel away our thick skin and dance for the systems demise
if you pause twice look behind your own eyes you can sense the violence descending as the moment fills your body never a reason to retreat or prevent you from sight but always a trigger, the dawn a rumble in the gutter's fight
feeling my way around metal i breathe in muffled air mouths seething behind cloth we bite back our fear
and a daunting question emerges a gleam of choice and i don't even need to see you to know you're there
they say we don't dream because we're losing sleep but we don't deem our dreams alone tracing the outlines of the sidewalk with our weary backs neck to pavement we sleep there choosing to dance out our resistance with impatient feet, in 'public'.