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Anarchism and Social Ecology

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Indicting anarchism, inventing ‘terror’: From 1898 to Cop City (prismreports.org)
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People have been fighting to stop the construction of a militarized police facility threatening one of Atlanta’s “four lungs.” Anarchist or otherwise, they have put their lives on the line. One of whom, Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán, was murdered by the police in an act of wanton police terror. This is the terror we’re most familiar with. This is the terror that has killed thousands of people in recent years. Among the many victims we both know and don’t know are people that were often maligned after their extrajudicial killings. And what’s certain is no anarchist group in the history of this country has ever lived up to the relentless killing with impunity that the police and state exercise daily. Old propaganda tells us anarchism is a major threat while the state grants legitimacy to its forces that kill relentlessly based on race. This is what we should be collectively putting on trial, not the people resisting such an arrangement.

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[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

130 years since the survivors of the Haymarket prosecutions were pardoned, and the U.S. is still finding ways to prosecute people just for being anarchists.