Oppressors share technologies for oppressing. There's a lot that is new and shocking about this moment. COVID in the air. Fascists and police collaborating to kill and hurt Black and Indigenous people. (Never mind the human-caused collapse of the global ecosystem our species needs to live.)
But some of what is being called "unprecedented" -- totally new and never before seen -- we have in fact seen before. To be as prepared as possible to resist what's coming, we must study the histories that hip us to how oppressors get down.
In this episode, G & O urge folks to check out Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall and other radical histories that are rich with lessons our Black/Indigenous past offers us right now. These books, articles, and videos offer important insights into how oppressors try to crush the freedom movements oppressed people use to survive the onslaught of white supremacist fascism.
In this episode, G & O urge folks to check out Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall and other radical histories that are rich with lessons our Black/Indigenous past offers us right now. These books, articles, and videos offer important insights into how oppressors try to crush the freedom movements oppressed people use to survive the onslaught of white supremacist fascism.
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