Why is the fight against Cop City important?

During the George Floyd rebellion of 2020, for the first time it became possible to speak of police abolition as a viable proposal for how to break the cycle of violence that poverty and police militarization impose on communities. Yet every effort to “defund the police” via institutional means hit a dead end. Under Biden, the Democratic Party doubled down on unconditional support for police. If there is any hope of limiting the continuous expansion of police infrastructure and state violence, grassroots movements and direct action will have to show the way.

That goes double for climate change. Practically everyone agrees that humanity is on a collision course with ecological disaster, but institutional reforms have utterly failed. The movement in Atlanta offers a glimpse of what it would take to defend our communities from the unbridled profiteering and repression that are forcing the catastrophe on us all.

https://crimethinc.com/CityintheForest

#StopCopCity

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Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Femme, Vie, Liberté) : La généalogie d’un slogan

https://fr.crimethinc.com/2023/03/08/jin-jiyan-azadi-femme-vie-liberte-la-genealogie-dun-slogan-1

À l’occasion du 8 mars, Journée internationale de la femme, Somayeh Rostampour explore les origines et les implications du slogan qui est devenu le mot d’ordre du soulèvement en Iran en 2022.

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Elections, Fascism, and Popular Resistance in #Brazil

https://crimethinc.com/exworker91

In Brazil, a three-way contest has unfolded between the far right in the streets, the institutional electoral left in the halls of power, and autonomous radical movements caught between them. When authoritarian president Jair Bolsonaro was narrowly defeated at the polls in October, a popular right-wing movement emerged to contest the election results, culminating in a protest in which Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in the capital of Brasilia. In the latest episode of our podcast, we explore these events and their implications around the world.

Disasters of State: On the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

https://crimethinc.com/Earthquake2023

These two texts offer different vantage points on the ways that the Turkish and Syrian governments not only failed to protect their subjects but used this catastrophe as an opportunity to consolidate power and target their adversaries via neglect, blockading, and even bombing.

We must understand both the earthquakes and the state as aspects of the same catastrophe and take action against both of them.

18 Μαρτίου 1871: Η γέννηση της Παρισινής Κομμούνας

https://crimethinc.com/2017/03/18/18-martiou-1871-e-gennese-tes-parisines-kommounas

Το έτος είναι 1871. Η επανάσταση μόλις δημιούργησε μια δημοκρατική κυβέρνηση στη Γαλλία, μετά την ήττα του αυτοκράτορα Ναπολέοντα στον πόλεμο με τη Γερμανία. Αλλά ο νέος Ρεπουμπλικανισμός δεν ικανοποιεί κανέναν. Η προσωρινή κυβέρνηση αποτελείται από πολιτικούς που υπηρέτησαν υπό τον Αυτοκράτορα. Δεν έχουν κάνει τίποτα για να αντιμετωπίσουν τα αιτήματα των επαναστατών για κοινωνική αλλαγή και δεν σκοπεύουν να το κάνουν. Οι δεξιοί αντιδραστικοί συνωμοτούν για να επαναφέρουν τον Αυτοκράτορα ή, ελλείψει αυτού, κάποιον άλλο μονάρχη. Μόνο το επαναστατικό Παρίσι βρίσκεται ανάμεσα στη Γαλλία και την αντεπανάσταση.

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Louise Michel Square, at the foot of the hill of Montmartre, where Louise Michel participated in the events that catalyzed the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871. (In the background, the hill is surmounted by the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, built by reactionary religious authorities to "expiate the sins of the Commune.")

The sign for the park also displays our classic "Community Watch Area: Police not Welcome" sticker.

https://crimethinc.com/stickers/police-not-welcome-community-watch-area