Dit stuk is algemener en wel veel in Amerikaanse context, maar in Nederland staat ook een uiterst rechts PVV kabinet voor de deur en het politiegeweld en politieke repressie is hier niet los van te zien.
In view of these stakes, the participants in every encampment and occupation—including the ones that have been forcibly evicted—should consider the following strategic questions.
What is the next step in escalation? How will you respond to a raid, an eviction, or slow death by committee? What is your plan if Israel begins a ground invasion of Rafah? Will you take a building, march downtown and impose economic consequences, blockade highways and ports, or something entirely new? If the encampments become impossible to defend, what is the next step that allows people to continue struggling together?
How do we keep growing after the semester ends? How can on-campus struggles benefit from non-student support? Can the power built on campuses overflow into the communities that surround them?
How do we shift antagonism away from university administrators, whom politicians are currently using as sacrificial shields, towards the adversaries whose defeat would actually impede the war machine? Divesting from war profiteers is a good first step; occupying factories and blockading ports would be a logical escalation. Who are the billionaires and vested money interests forcing the crackdown on campuses? Who has the most to lose from putting an end to unconditional US support for the Israeli military’s colonial violence?
How can we act now in ways that will prepare us to confront the likely return of Donald Trump to power in January 2025? We will need every tactical innovation, every new relationship, every network and form of infrastructure that we can build to confront the full force of right-wing fascism that looms in our future. We are in a moment when history cracks open and countless new possibilities and dangers emerge as the old order crumbles.
What comes next could be terrifying. But our part in the story is up to us.
Op een aantal Amerikaanse
Op een aantal Amerikaanse sites staan ook verschillende report backs waar soortgelijke conclusies worden getrokken.
onder andere over de tweespalt die gecreeerd worden als je wel of niet gearresteerd wilt worden.
https://itsgoingdown.org/all-spectators-are-cowards-or-traitors-reflecti...
Podcast met analyse gebeurtenissen van UCLA bezetting.
https://itsgoingdown.org/report-from-the-battle-to-defend-ucla/
Dit stuk is algemener en wel veel in Amerikaanse context, maar in Nederland staat ook een uiterst rechts PVV kabinet voor de deur en het politiegeweld en politieke repressie is hier niet los van te zien.
In view of these stakes, the participants in every encampment and occupation—including the ones that have been forcibly evicted—should consider the following strategic questions.
What is the next step in escalation? How will you respond to a raid, an eviction, or slow death by committee? What is your plan if Israel begins a ground invasion of Rafah? Will you take a building, march downtown and impose economic consequences, blockade highways and ports, or something entirely new? If the encampments become impossible to defend, what is the next step that allows people to continue struggling together?
How do we keep growing after the semester ends? How can on-campus struggles benefit from non-student support? Can the power built on campuses overflow into the communities that surround them?
How do we shift antagonism away from university administrators, whom politicians are currently using as sacrificial shields, towards the adversaries whose defeat would actually impede the war machine? Divesting from war profiteers is a good first step; occupying factories and blockading ports would be a logical escalation. Who are the billionaires and vested money interests forcing the crackdown on campuses? Who has the most to lose from putting an end to unconditional US support for the Israeli military’s colonial violence?
How can we act now in ways that will prepare us to confront the likely return of Donald Trump to power in January 2025? We will need every tactical innovation, every new relationship, every network and form of infrastructure that we can build to confront the full force of right-wing fascism that looms in our future. We are in a moment when history cracks open and countless new possibilities and dangers emerge as the old order crumbles.
What comes next could be terrifying. But our part in the story is up to us.
https://crimethinc.com/2024/05/03/why-the-state-cant-compromise-with-the...