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Important works from the last wave of anti-police anti-white supremacist uprisings: Bobby London ( @i_KAN_love) on looting as a political tactic, and how "looting" is used as a dog whistle to demonstrate value of property over Black life https://thisisbobbylondon.com/2014/08/12/looting-is-a-political-tactic/">https://thisisbobbylondon.com/2014/08/1...
Raven Rakia ( @aintacrow) on how the legitimacy of "protest" is reserved for white political action, and how Black resistance is consistently reduced, demeaned, slandered and misnamed. https://thenewinquiry.com/black-riot/ ">https://thenewinquiry.com/black-rio...
Tyler Reinhard ( @abolishme) with Hey, Step Back with the Riot Shaming: on common slanders and attacks used by leftists and liberals to disown and deligitimize riots and Black resistance http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-substance-issue/struggle/step-back-with-the-riot-shaming">https://www.maskmagazine.com/the-subst...
Evan Calder Williams ( @nightsmove) with a take down of the UK left& #39;s utterly atrocious, racist and anti-materialist response to the London Riots of 2011, and a Marxist defense of looting https://azinelibrary.org/zines/Open-Letter-to-those-who-Condemn-Looting-An-Evan-Calder-Williams">https://azinelibrary.org/zines/Ope...
Anonymous pamphlet You Can& #39;t Shoot Us All about the Oscar Grant rebellion (Oakland, 2009) and the feeling of going into the streets after a long period without strong resistance https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/you_cant_shoot_us_all_print.pdfv">https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-conten...
Lorenzo Raymond with Beyond MLK, a look back at the debates around non-violence in the Civil Rights Movement inspired by Black Lives Matter and the 2015 release of Selma https://thenewinquiry.com/beyond-mlk/ ">https://thenewinquiry.com/beyond-ml...
Cars, Guns, Autonomy: An anonymized discussion of riot tactics used on the ground in Ferguson and Oakland, and the tactical and defensive use of guns https://mtlcounterinfo.org/cars-guns-autonomy-a-discussion-on-anti-police-struggles-in-the-bay-area-and-ferguson/">https://mtlcounterinfo.org/cars-guns...
New Ghettos Burning by Phil Neel, an essay about the suburban geography of the Ferguson riots and the emergence of the suburban riot https://www.metamute.org/community/your-posts/new-ghettos-burning">https://www.metamute.org/community...
There& #39;s plenty of other great, valuable work out there! These are just the things that came to mind, that have stuck in my head for years, and/or that I used as a source for my book.
