Forwarded from Syndiegram (socialist raccoon)
Mapping Police Violence
Law enforcement agencies across the country are failing to provide us with even basic information about the lives they take. So we collect the data ourselves.
#poetry
The good-for-business wars
by Marge Piercy
Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
we really consume?] things we don’t need
with money we don’t have. Credit cards
weren’t invented for our convenience.
That’s the American Way troops are sent
to defend in lands where we don’t know
their language, march through their
customs, bitch about their religions.
Most people now can’t even find Kansas
on a map; Afghanistan might as well
be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
Their corpses we see on television
lack faces as well as names. We
count our own dead but won’t allot
money to talk nightmares from brains
of those who made it out. Who can
remember a time when we weren’t
at war someplace? No one in power
cares that we haven’t won a war
in seventy years. Still we invade.
When the same mistake is made over
and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
times it means that every cooked-up
invasion earns some people billions.
source
The good-for-business wars
by Marge Piercy
Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
we really consume?] things we don’t need
with money we don’t have. Credit cards
weren’t invented for our convenience.
That’s the American Way troops are sent
to defend in lands where we don’t know
their language, march through their
customs, bitch about their religions.
Most people now can’t even find Kansas
on a map; Afghanistan might as well
be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
Their corpses we see on television
lack faces as well as names. We
count our own dead but won’t allot
money to talk nightmares from brains
of those who made it out. Who can
remember a time when we weren’t
at war someplace? No one in power
cares that we haven’t won a war
in seventy years. Still we invade.
When the same mistake is made over
and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
times it means that every cooked-up
invasion earns some people billions.
source
some very useful tips for conveying your message
https://libcom.org/blog/advertising-anarchy-03062020
https://libcom.org/blog/advertising-anarchy-03062020
libcom.org
Advertising Anarchy
An introduction to advertising and propaganda for anarchists
Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩
#video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=773T86dY7wU
It's got a ridiculously low number of views, but please do watch it. This is the training that many in the police take. They are trained with the idea that everything and everyone is a threat. They are not protecting and serving, they are taught that they're in a war and they act as a consequence.
(Of course, this is just a small fraction of the problems with the US police)
(Of course, this is just a small fraction of the problems with the US police)