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Militants in Philladephia loot shopping centers in retaliation for the murder by police of Eddie Irizarry (6abc.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.

Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it's illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the "left" whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.

It's just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don't disrupt our lives.

The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah. Any time anything good has happened in this wretched country it's because people burned shit down.

Pick up "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" by Charles Cobb. it's a real eye opener about what was sanitized out of the official history of the Civil Rights movement.

Also countless labor actions in the early 20th. And it's worth remembering - The US traditionally has used it's vast amount of "free" land to let off the pressure of proletarian revolt. Whenever things came to a boiling point the government gave out a bunch of cheap land to white people to get them out of the cities. That situation doesn't exist anymore. One of the tactics the US used in the past to shut down popular unrest is no longer available.