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Angela Davis
from Global Slump by David McNally
If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.
Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.
So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.
This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.
Shout out to bell hooks for taking down down mainstream white feminism in a single page.
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A Poem about My Rights
BY JUNE JORDAN
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear my head about this poem about why I can’t go out without changing my clothes my shoes my body posture my gender identity my age my status as a woman alone in the evening/ alone on the streets/alone not being the point/ the point being that I can’t do what I want to do with my own body because I am the wrong sex the wrong age the wrong skin and suppose it was not here in the city but down on the beach/ or far into the woods and I wanted to go there by myself thinking about God/or thinking about children or thinking about the world/all of it disclosed by the stars and the silence: I could not go and I could not think and I could not stay there alone as I need to be alone because I can’t do what I want to do with my own body and who in the hell set things up like this and in France they say if the guy penetrates but does not ejaculate then he did not rape me and if after stabbing him if after screams if after begging the bastard and if even after smashing a hammer to his head if even after that if he and his buddies fuck me after that then I consented and there was no rape because finally you understand finally they fucked me over because I was wrong I was wrong again to be me being me where I was/wrong to be who I am which is exactly like South Africa penetrating into Namibia penetrating into Angola and does that mean I mean how do you know if Pretoria ejaculates what will the evidence look like the proof of the monster jackboot ejaculation on Blackland and if after Namibia and if after Angola and if after Zimbabwe and if after all of my kinsmen and women resist even to self-immolation of the villages and if after that we lose nevertheless what will the big boys say will they claim my consent: Do You Follow Me: We are the wrong people of the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about and according to the Times this week back in 1966 the C.I.A. decided that they had this problem and the problem was a man named Nkrumah so they killed him and before that it was Patrice Lumumba and before that it was my father on the campus of my Ivy League school and my father afraid to walk into the cafeteria because he said he was wrong the wrong age the wrong skin the wrong gender identity and he was paying my tuition and before that it was my father saying I was wrong saying that I should have been a boy because he wanted one/a boy and that I should have been lighter skinned and that I should have had straighter hair and that I should not be so boy crazy but instead I should just be one/a boy and before that it was my mother pleading plastic surgery for my nose and braces for my teeth and telling me to let the books loose to let them loose in other words I am very familiar with the problems of the C.I.A. and the problems of South Africa and the problems of Exxon Corporation and the problems of white America in general and the problems of the teachers and the preachers and the F.B.I. and the social workers and my particular Mom and Dad/I am very familiar with the problems because the problems turn out to be me I am the history of rape I am the history of the rejection of who I am I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of myself I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul and whether it’s about walking out at night or whether it’s about the love that I feel or whether it’s about the sanctity of my vagina or the sanctity of my national boundaries or the sanctity of my leaders or the sanctity of each and every desire that I know from my personal and idiosyncratic and indisputably single and singular heart I have been raped be- cause I have been wrong the wrong sex the wrong age the wrong skin the wrong nose the wrong hair the wrong need the wrong dream the wrong geographic the wrong sartorial I I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without the evidence of slime and/ but let this be unmistakable this poem is not consent I do not consent to my mother to my father to the teachers to the F.B.I. to South Africa to Bedford-Stuy to Park Avenue to American Airlines to the hardon idlers on the corners to the sneaky creeps in cars I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life
Most of the world’s exploited labor comes from women. Women work in the sweatshops and the giant factories. Women sow and tend and harvest the world’s crops. Women carry and birth and raise children. Women wash and clean and shop and cook. Women care for the sick and the elderly. All of this—layer upon layer of labor—is what makes human society possible. Ripping it off is what makes capitalism possible. The primacy of women’s labor is normally edited out of political discourse, but it’s a fact beyond dispute. More than half of the world’s women have formal jobs. (In some countries in Asia and Latin America, the percentage is well over 60%.) On top of this, women predominate in millions of illegal and semi-legal “off the books” jobs, where they are normally heavily exploited. Meanwhile, some 70% of women’s labor, worth tens of trillions of dollars a year, is unpaid altogether. Most of the world’s women average 31-42 hours per week on family housework alone. Women “do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive 10% of the world’s income and own 1% of the means of production.” Throughout history, groups and classes of men have fought over the precious resource of women’s labor. All women, but especially working-class women, who constitute the world’s most valuable source of wealth. Hundreds of millions of these women, the core and majority of the working class, lack any private property or social privilege. They have no ownership, claim or control over the means of production. This sets them apart from the upper stratum of wage workers—labor aristocrats and privileged sectors subsidized from capitalist profits. Instead, they belong to the “lower and deeper” layers of the working class, compelled to offer their labor up for exploitation within capitalism for sheer survival. This part of the working class stands as capitalism’s main labor force and, historically, its direct antagonist. Many of these working-class women are paid wages; many are not. Few are paid for all their labor. Most are destitute or economically vulnerable. They labor under extreme duress—facing not only the threat of hunger, but also dependency, slavery and male violence backed up by tradition, family structure and law. Their labor and life experience—and their class position—is often substantially different from that of even the men in their own families. The multi-sided struggle to own, control and exploit this fantastically profitable labor force is expressed on many levels and in many forms: migrations, wars, genocide, cultural movements, populist rebellions, changes in family structure, colonialism, shifting geopolitical alliances, the rise and fall of governments. Today, the women at the center of the world working class are experiencing dramatic and fundamental changes in their work lives and their social lives. Capitalism, entering a new phase of development, is remaking the working class. This is where a new revolutionary politics must start.
Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization (via malcolmxing)
Notes from #annebraden2015
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
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In the wake of Monday’s violent police attack on well-known Oakland activist Jabari Shaw, we at Community Ready Corps (C.R.C.) are raising questions about the surveillance of community organizers by the Oakland Police Department and U.S. Marshalls.According to East Bay Express and eyewitness testimony, U.S. Marshals were surveilling a home in East Oakland when community organizer Jabari Shaw exited the building with his four-year-old daughter. Shaw and his daughter entered the car, driven by close friend Mary Valencourt. Federal officers, dressed in plainclothes, approached the car with weapons drawn but failed to identify themselves clearly as law enforcement. Unsure of their identity and fearing for her life, Valencourt accelerated away from the scene, prompting several unmarked cars to pursue them. When officers identified themselves as law enforcement by flashing their lights, Valencourt attempted to stop at a red light, but the car was rammed from behind by pursuing officers, propelling the vehicle through the intersection and into the back of a Paratransit van.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that officers rammed the car with their vehicle, causing a collision that severely injured Shaw, Valencourt and Shaw’s young daughter. Shaw’s four-year-old daughter broke her leg in the collision, and Valencourt was seriously injured with the potential for permanent disability.Community Ready Corps leader Tur-Ha Ak and founding member of Oakland Alliance Carroll Fife were of the first on the scene to provide support and bear witness to this unjustified act of police terrorism. They confirmed with eyewitnesses that U.S. Marshals not only rammed Valencourt’s vehicle, but used unnecessary violence when arresting Shaw and Valencourt, including pointing their weapons directly at Shaw’s young daughter. C.R.C. led the Anti-Police Terror Project’s First Responders in documenting the scene extensively, including photos and videos that were viewed by tens of thousands of people within 24-hours of the attack.
Increased collaboration between OPD and federal agencies like the FBI and U.S. Marshals is part of the militarization of local law enforcement. Mayor Libby Schaaf is working hard to portray her aggressive policing strategies as ‘cracking down on crime’ and ‘helping Oaklanders sleep better at night,’ but this incident reveals what the Black Lives Matter movement has been saying all along: police are dangerous, and have no respect for Black lives. Not even the lives of Black children.
Shaw has not been arrested and was released from the hospital within 24 hours. Police claim that the incident was a case of mistaken identity - that they simply mistook Shaw for another Black man who was a target of their surveillance. But given the discrepancy between police claims that Valencourt intentionally accelerated through the intersection, causing the collision, and the eyewitness reports that a police vehicle rammed Valencourt’s vehicle, many in the community are questioning the police narrative.
Jabari Shaw: I’m no stranger to police oppression and repression. Law enforcement efforts to suppress activism are documented. Since I’ve been in this movement these things have been happening to me - harassment, surveillance, intimidation by police. We’ll probably never know the whole truth of what happened to my family yesterday, but I have a hard time believing this attack wasn’t related to my position as a community leader on police accountability.
We know that the State is not invested in the health and safety of Black communities, and the purpose of local and federal law enforcement agencies is not community safety, but the protection of State power. The purpose of CRC is to build self defense and self determination for our own communities. When our people are attacked, whether by the primary predator (the State) or a secondary predatory (someone within our community), the first thing we need to do is show up and take care of our people, ensuring they get proper medical care and legal defense. Carroll Fife supported Jabari in the hospital and secured legal support from civil rights attorney and friend of CRC, Anne Weills.
The second thing we need to do is perform an independent People’s Investigation to document exactly what happened, especially in a case like this where the attack is coming the State. The State, in conjunction with racially-biased news outlets, will attempt to spin the narrative in an attempt to create a narrative that minimizes the actions of law enforcement while exaggerating and/or creating wrongdoing and criminal intent by the victim(s), so it is critical that we document and publicize the truth. Tur-Ha Ak, as a member C.R.C. led the APTP First Responders, to respond immediately to the brutal attack on Jabari and his family, taking photos and videos of the scene, interviewing eyewitnesses, and pushing all the US Marshals & OPD officers for information.
This is what community safety really looks like: folks showing up for each other, taking care of each, and defending each other. CRC is committed to building this kind of Black power.
“We need a r/evolution of the spirit. The power of the people is stronger than any weapon." - Assata Shakur
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Global Inequality on the Rise
In the last 10 years of unbridled corporate globalization, the world’s total income has increased by an average of 2.5% every year. And yet, the numbers of poor in the world has increased by 100 million. Of the top hundred biggest economies, 51 are corporations, not countries. The top 1% of the world has the same combined income as the bottom 57% and that disparity is growing.
In his book on globalization, Thomas Friedman says, "The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish with McDonnell Douglas…and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technology to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps." After the 11th of September 2001 and the War Against Terror, the hidden hand and fist have had their cover blown - and we have a clear view now of America's other weapon - the Free Market - bearing down on the Developing World, with a clenched, unsmiling smile. The Task That Never Ends is America's perfect war, the perfect vehicle for the endless expansion of American imperialism
Arundhati Roy
The Low Road
What can they do to you? Whatever they want. They can set you up, they can bust you, they can break your fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can't walk, can't remember, they can take your child, wall up your lover. They can do anything you can't stop them from doing. How can you stop them? Alone, you can fight, you can refuse, you can take what revenge you can but they roll over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob, a snake-dancing file can break a cordon, an army can meet an army. Two people can keep each other sane, can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delegation, a committee, a wedge. With four you can play bridge and start and organization. With six you can rent a whole house, eat pie for dinner with no seconds, and hold a fundraising party. A dozen can make a demonstration. A hundred fill a hall. A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter; ten thousand, power and your own paper; a hundred thousand, your own media; ten million, your own country. It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again and they said no, it starts when you say WE and know you who you mean, and each day you mean one more.
- Marge Piercy
Notes from Anne Braden 2015: The Struggle for Black Liberation
This session was led wonderfully by Robbie Clarke (Causa Justa), Wazi Davis (Youth Alive), and Brianna Gibson (Black Brunch).
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From "US Empire and the War against Native Sovereignty" by Andrea Smith
First of all, White Movie Star Lady, people of color and queer people don't owe you shit (especially because you haven't done shit for them, as far as I can tell).
Second, unequal pay is way more complex than "women get paid less than men." Race actually plays a bigger role in unequal pay (White Movie Star Lady, do you know how much less Black women get paid compared to white women?).
Finally, income inequality is integral to the design of capitalism - it's set up to exploit as many people's labor as possible, and to use every social hierarchy (yes gender, but also race, sexuality, ability/disability, immigration/citizenship status, etc) to justify the exploitation of working people for the immense profit of a wealthy few (you are one of those wealthy few, White Movie Star Lady!).
By taking the overly simplistic and self-serving approach that "We (rich white women) deserve to get paid like (rich white) men," she's actually undermining the real, complex, POC-led movement for income equity. All the rich white people at the Oscars can applaud her and act like she's saying something risky and ground-breaking (I'm looking at you, Meryl Streep (sorry Matthew but it's true)), precisely because she's not actually saying something that truly challenges patriarchy, capitalism, or white supremacy.
