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“If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because ‘violence’ is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as ‘peaceful’ are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of
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“Non-violence is non-functional in a society that’s based on organized violence”
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Sometimes you have to imagine in a radical way that makes you seem a little crazy, that puts you in an embarrassing light, in order to open up a possibility that others have already closed down with their knowing realism. I’m prepared to be mocked and dismissed for defending nonviolence in the way that I do. It might be understood as one of the
... See morenewyorker.com • Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage
The form of the protest—the bizarre blood sculpture, the poems—was itself a protest against passivity, lack of imagination, and normalcy.
Lola Milholland • Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
It’s a comforting phrase, but it’s almost always delivered too late, after the glass is already broken. It’s never said when the budget cuts are passed that close hospitals. It’s never said when laws are written to force pregnancies, gut voting rights, or criminalize protest. It’s never said when corporations... See more