https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1279500089413828608?s=20 not a single arrest, armed protest works!

Still not abolition

But it’s nice regardless

Content Warning, violence

Seattle protestors run over by a man named Dawit Kelete

https://streamable.com/il05n7

To talk on this a bit more, there are many efforts from the media to associate mostly-libertarian "boogs" with white supremacists. While certainly there are a few more supremacist-leaning elements among their ranks (right accelerationists particularly), by and large even the right-libertarians among them focus on anti-authoritarianism. As the interviews later in the twitter thread touch on, these people are as upset at police militarization and brutality as any of us. Duncam Lemp is their Breonna Taylor. This offers an opportunity for coalition building, for genuine cultural reconciliation, for advancements in our common struggle against state tyranny, which we should not squander.

As a trans POC, I've felt as welcome in some boog groups as in leftist spaces. It would be a mistake to let disagreements over things like healthcare policy, firearms regulations, or even market capitalism and property rights prevent us from making common gains in our pursuit of an equitable justice system.

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Abolition has been a huge topic in the wake of the uprising sparked by the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Calls to defund or abolish the police are now experiencing a surge of interest, in the form of street art, protest signs, op eds, and more. In this episode, I’ll be exploring things to consider as you take your first steps toward joining the abolitionist movement, especially in this tumultuous moment of a pandemic and global uprising, in a conversation with Mariame Kaba.

https://rebelsteps.com/episodes/abolition-with-mariame-kaba/

Currently the reactionary base, including all of its subgroups, but not including the U.S. Military have us out-gunned at a tremendous ratio. If we are at all serious about community defense and mutual aid, then we need to invest in the infrastructure that will afford us protection from the terrorists that seek to destroy our progress.

Our revolutionary moment will not amount to much if we continue to propagate in-fighting about the validity of guns and violence. Ultimately, if we do not arm ourselves, our aspirations to end global violence will be thwarted by those who will use regardless use violence against us.

It is the paradox of tolerance: if we tolerate fascism, then our totality of tolerance falls. Similarly, if we do not appreciate a limited capacity of violence to protect ourselves, then violence by reactionaries will only continue and our mission will have failed.

"Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun." -- Mao TseTung