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It’s important for us to recognize the extent to which, in the aftermath of the war on terror, police departments all over the U.S. have been equipped with the means to allegedly ‘fight terror.’ The police slogan is ‘to protect and serve.’ Soldiers are trained to shoot to kill. We saw the way in which that manifested itself in Ferguson.” We also live with the myth that the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights Movement freed the second-class citizens. Civil rights, of course, constitute an essential element of the freedom that was demanded at that time, but it was not the whole story, but maybe we’ll get to that later. Eric Foner, in his book called The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, wrote that, and I am quoting: Although Occupy was a spontaneous reaction to the 2008 recession and income inequality in the United States, Davis points out that we cannot romanticize spontaneity and leaderless movements (more on leaders later).
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It is incumbent upon us not only to recognize these temporal continuities but also to recognize the horizontal continuities, links with a whole range of movements and struggles today. And I want very specifically to mention the ongoing sovereignty struggles in Palestine. In Palestine where not too long ago, Palestinian freedom riders set out to contest the apartheid practices of the state of Israel.
And I wonder will we ever truly recognize the collective subject of history that was itself produced by radical organizing—early on during the 1930s/1940s, and I am referring, for example, to an organization which was known as the Southern Negro Youth Congress, which has largely been excised from the official historical record because some of its key leaders were communist. I fear that if we don’t take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist—the bad apple type who is the perpetrator—then we won’t ever succeed in eradicating racism.”
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Most Palestinian families have had at least one member imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. There’s currently some 5,000 Palestinian prisoners and we know that since 1967, 40% of the male population has been imprisoned by Israel. The demand to free all Palestinian political prisoners is a key ingredient of the demand to end the occupation.” Moreover, what does she see as an end to the occupation? A Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza like the one that was offered several times and was turned down? Is she talking about one state? Does she know that one state binational solutions are unpopular, both among Israelis and among Palestinians? Does she care about what average Palestinians and Israelis think?
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