Writer Marquis Bey on new visions of anarchy and Blackness in this world and the next, and their book "Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism" from AK Press. https://www.akpress.org/anarcho-blackness.html

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1202: Toward Black anarchism / Marquis Bey

Criminologist Brendan McQuade on mass surveillance, population control and his article "The 'Camden Model' Is Not a Model. It’s an Obstacle to Real Change" for Jacobin. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/camden-new-jersey-police-reform-surveillance

1201: The future of liberal policing / Brendan McQuade

Attorney Flint Taylor on his op-ed "Police Unions Are Racist Power Brokers in Opposition to Movement for Black Lives" for Truthout and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants us to plan for what happens after the future. https://truthout.org/articles/police-unions-are-racist-power-brokers-in-opposition-to-movement-for-black-lives/

1200: The work of police unions / Flint Taylor

Anthropologist Kregg Hetherington on the politics of soy monocropping in neoliberal Paraguay, and his book "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-government-of-beans

1199: The agripolitics of soy / Kregg Hetherington

Geographer Eugene McCann on the politics of public and counterpublic space, and his article "Spaces of publicness and the world after the Coronavirus crisis" for Society and Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/spaces-of-publicness

1198: Public space, post-pandemic / Eugene McCann

Kai Heron and Jodi Dean on progressive climate denialism, the danger of apolitical climate movements and their essay "Revolution or Ruin" for e-flux. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/110/335242/revolution-or-ruin/

1197: Toward revolutionary climate politics / Kai Heron + Jodi Dean

Writer Richard Seymour on his article "The nationalist unconscious" for Red Pepper, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wonders who put the pomp in Pompeo. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-nationalist-unconscious/

1196: Nationalist pathology / Richard Seymour

Law scholars Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz on the role of prosecutors in the brutality of the American legal system, and their article "Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too" for Boston Review. https://bostonreview.net/law-justice/kate-levine-joanna-schwartz-hold-prosecutors-accountable-too

1195: Prosecutors, too / Kate Levine + Joanna Schwartz

Historian Jennifer L. Holland on the success of the pro-life movement within conservative politics, and her book "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295872/tiny-you

1194: Anti-abortion politics / Jennifer L. Holland

Kate Shea Baird on Barcelona En Comú and municipal politics under COVID-19 quarantine, and her article "Lessons from the pandemic for the municipalists in Spain" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/lessons-from-the-pandemic-for-the-municipalists-in-spain/

1193: Pandemic municipalism / Kate Shea Baird

Writer Connor Woodman on his Verso blog series "The Imperial Boomerang" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wonders if we can pretend our way to justice.

1192: The imperial boomerang / Connor Woodman

Historian Adam Goodman on his new book "The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants" from Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182155/the-deportation-machine

1191: Expulsion politics / Adam Goodman

Legal scholar Aya Gruber on crimes against women, mass incarceration and her book "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304512/the-feminist-war-on-crime

1190: The feminist war on crime / Aya Gruber

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi on the politics of police violence, and his article "Brutal Force" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/brutal-force-al-gharbi

1189: On police violence / Musa al-Gharbi

Organizers Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman on today's uprisings, fighting the violence of dispossession and their article "Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis" for Black Agenda Report. https://www.blackagendareport.com/community-control-vs-defunding-police-critical-analysis

1188: Power over police / Max Rameau + Netfa Freeman

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