Weekly Shaarli
Week 51 (December 15, 2014)

Good article on prosecutors' use of grand juries to avoid indicting cops (which was written before the non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases).

Yet the Billy Graham team seems to think that peace is something that can be “restored” in Ferguson. They seem to think that “peace” is somehow an accurate description of Ferguson, Missouri, before the protests began. They seem to be so thick-headed and thick-hearted that they think the people’s response to the violence and injustice done against them is somehow the reason Ferguson lacks “peace.”
Adam Hochschild on subversive acts of peace
A handy collection of verses.

The anti-government message of Anonymous rings true among prisoners who have been railroaded, condemned and warehoused. So when they hear about hacked government websites and cops getting doxed, my fellow inmates often tell me things like, “It’s good to see people finally doing something about it.”

I thought this video was a good presentation of something that sounds so silly on its face ("anarcho-monarchism"). I'll always have a fondness for Distributism because it was reading GK Chesterton in high school that first got me interested in anti-capitalist thought. I've since realized that the libertarian socialist traditions make Distributism superfluous. But while I'd rather they keep their bourgeois families, kings, and popes to themselves... I'd be happy with three acres and a cow.

Eric Garner’s murder is not only about the justice system. It’s about how capitalism creates racialized categories of “surplus” people.
"In order to end police violence, we have to start considering abolition [of the police]," she said. "At the very least, we are going to need to work on getting the cops 'out of our heads and our hearts.' As individuals and communities, we have to actively unlearn our fear of the police and also diminish our dependence on them."