[TW for police violence]
Police work: shooting kids, standing around watching them bleed out, tackling family members who try to give assistance. Also this:
"Officer Loehmann, 26, who fired the fatal shot, had quit a suburban police force after his supervisors determined two years ago that he had had a “dangerous loss of composure” during firearms training and was emotionally unprepared to cope with stresses of the job. The Cleveland police acknowledged that they had never reviewed the previous police personnel file of Officer Loehmann." NY Times
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Horrible story about the first concerned effort to document the camp-based Holocaust in Western Europe, and how it was suppressed by the UK government. (I add the qualifier to emphasise that the camps were not the full story of the Holocaust - the Einsatzgruppen, who operated in Eastern Europe, murdered comparable numbers of people, but left less documentary and physical evidence. And fewer surviving witnesses.) Guardian
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Good piece on the intellectual connections between intersectional feminism and animal rights activism. Everyday Feminism
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This is just horrible. This journalist followed around a police squad around for the whole of NYE in Hillbrow. They aggressively searched people, broke down doors, broke up parties, destroyed or confiscated property, just generally made life unpleasant for residents. They didn't uncover evidence of a single actual crime - the closest they came is finding one guy who was carrying a pair of scissors, which they think identifies him as a possible mugger. This is a community with real problems, and obviously people shouldn't be throwing bottles from balconies. But how is this sort of confrontational policing supposed to address any of these problems? The police are conducting a war against this community, not trying to help it. I think it's telling that the only times the author reports anyone actually being *hit* by projectiles is when they were specifically aimed at police vehicles.
10and5
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"Police originally thought Bathily was a conspirator when he managed to escape through a goods lift. “They told me, ‘get down on the ground, hands over your head’. They cuffed me and held me for an hour and a half as if I was with them,” he added. Once freed he was able to give them details of the layout of the store and where people were hiding." Guardian
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Some resources about the rescue industry, aka "white saviour industrial complex". Storify
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Response to Russell Brand's poorly thought out views on drug policy reform.
"The ‘addiction-as-disease’ model is highly contested, since it is based on an arbitrary and changeable set of ‘symptoms’ that principally revolve around the labelling of people who use drugs as sick and dangerous, disempowered, and unable to exercise agency, choice, and self-determination." INPUD
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"One of my oldest and kindest friends from Paris, a man with a beautifully aristocratic last name, made a point the other day that seems to have become one of the default rationales: “But Charlie Hebdo offended everyone the same. My grandmother, who is a practicing Catholic, will tell you they are harsher with the Pope than with anyone else.” While this may even be true, Anatole France had the right of it when he said, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”" N+1
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[TW: emotional abuse]
Long, but insightful, piece about emotional abuse in the context of a poly relationship. Really good at underlining how guilt can paradoxically be used as a weapon of control by an abuser. Medium
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Good piece by Feminist Fightback.
"Women, Black and Queer workers turned to feminism, antiracism and gay liberation, not because they couldn’t find a trade union or a Marxist group to join, but because existing forms of politics (predicated upon the white male subject) failed to respond to their needs as workers. Of course, there were many complex reasons why worker militancy went into retreat from the 1970s onwards, but the notion that this was due to all those selfish, feminist and gays preoccupied with their identitarian agenda is ridiculous. The rich, multiple and various currents of feminist/anti-racist/Queer politics that have emerged over the last forty years or so should not be viewed as a threat to class struggle, but, to the contrary, as a way to make struggles around class and labour at the point of production more effective, more widespread and more powerful."
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Pretty sound article. The drop in oil prices is a rare moment of political possibility, and governments should use it to stop subsidising fossil fuel production and consumption and start taxing it.
"The most straightforward piece of reform, pretty much everywhere, is simply to remove all the subsidies for producing or consuming fossil fuels. Last year governments around the world threw $550 billion down that rathole—on everything from holding down the price of petrol in poor countries to encouraging companies to search for oil. By one count, such handouts led to extra consumption that was responsible for 36% of global carbon emissions in 1980-2010." Economist
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Ha, yes.
"Woman: I just want to be left alone when I walk down the street.
Dude: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER WAY FOR ME TO INTERACT WITH A WOMAN" Medium
Police work: shooting kids, standing around watching them bleed out, tackling family members who try to give assistance. Also this:
"Officer Loehmann, 26, who fired the fatal shot, had quit a suburban police force after his supervisors determined two years ago that he had had a “dangerous loss of composure” during firearms training and was emotionally unprepared to cope with stresses of the job. The Cleveland police acknowledged that they had never reviewed the previous police personnel file of Officer Loehmann." NY Times
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Horrible story about the first concerned effort to document the camp-based Holocaust in Western Europe, and how it was suppressed by the UK government. (I add the qualifier to emphasise that the camps were not the full story of the Holocaust - the Einsatzgruppen, who operated in Eastern Europe, murdered comparable numbers of people, but left less documentary and physical evidence. And fewer surviving witnesses.) Guardian
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Good piece on the intellectual connections between intersectional feminism and animal rights activism. Everyday Feminism
>>><<<
This is just horrible. This journalist followed around a police squad around for the whole of NYE in Hillbrow. They aggressively searched people, broke down doors, broke up parties, destroyed or confiscated property, just generally made life unpleasant for residents. They didn't uncover evidence of a single actual crime - the closest they came is finding one guy who was carrying a pair of scissors, which they think identifies him as a possible mugger. This is a community with real problems, and obviously people shouldn't be throwing bottles from balconies. But how is this sort of confrontational policing supposed to address any of these problems? The police are conducting a war against this community, not trying to help it. I think it's telling that the only times the author reports anyone actually being *hit* by projectiles is when they were specifically aimed at police vehicles.
10and5
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"Police originally thought Bathily was a conspirator when he managed to escape through a goods lift. “They told me, ‘get down on the ground, hands over your head’. They cuffed me and held me for an hour and a half as if I was with them,” he added. Once freed he was able to give them details of the layout of the store and where people were hiding." Guardian
>>><<<
Some resources about the rescue industry, aka "white saviour industrial complex". Storify
>>><<<
Response to Russell Brand's poorly thought out views on drug policy reform.
"The ‘addiction-as-disease’ model is highly contested, since it is based on an arbitrary and changeable set of ‘symptoms’ that principally revolve around the labelling of people who use drugs as sick and dangerous, disempowered, and unable to exercise agency, choice, and self-determination." INPUD
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"One of my oldest and kindest friends from Paris, a man with a beautifully aristocratic last name, made a point the other day that seems to have become one of the default rationales: “But Charlie Hebdo offended everyone the same. My grandmother, who is a practicing Catholic, will tell you they are harsher with the Pope than with anyone else.” While this may even be true, Anatole France had the right of it when he said, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”" N+1
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[TW: emotional abuse]
Long, but insightful, piece about emotional abuse in the context of a poly relationship. Really good at underlining how guilt can paradoxically be used as a weapon of control by an abuser. Medium
>>><<<
Good piece by Feminist Fightback.
"Women, Black and Queer workers turned to feminism, antiracism and gay liberation, not because they couldn’t find a trade union or a Marxist group to join, but because existing forms of politics (predicated upon the white male subject) failed to respond to their needs as workers. Of course, there were many complex reasons why worker militancy went into retreat from the 1970s onwards, but the notion that this was due to all those selfish, feminist and gays preoccupied with their identitarian agenda is ridiculous. The rich, multiple and various currents of feminist/anti-racist/Queer politics that have emerged over the last forty years or so should not be viewed as a threat to class struggle, but, to the contrary, as a way to make struggles around class and labour at the point of production more effective, more widespread and more powerful."
>>><<<
Pretty sound article. The drop in oil prices is a rare moment of political possibility, and governments should use it to stop subsidising fossil fuel production and consumption and start taxing it.
"The most straightforward piece of reform, pretty much everywhere, is simply to remove all the subsidies for producing or consuming fossil fuels. Last year governments around the world threw $550 billion down that rathole—on everything from holding down the price of petrol in poor countries to encouraging companies to search for oil. By one count, such handouts led to extra consumption that was responsible for 36% of global carbon emissions in 1980-2010." Economist
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Ha, yes.
"Woman: I just want to be left alone when I walk down the street.
Dude: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER WAY FOR ME TO INTERACT WITH A WOMAN" Medium
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