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<div class="gmail-field gmail-field--name-body gmail-field--type-text-with-summary gmail-field--label-hidden gmail-field--item"><p><em>Recent
global and domestic events have put the United States in a defensive
posture that presents an opportunity for the movement to step up.</em></p>
<p><em><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span>"How do we break the cycle?"</span></span></span></span></span></em><br>
<span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span>Angela Davis</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The U.S. National Security State is worried, very worried behind its mask of bravado.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Just
as Israel early on lost the war of narrative, Biden and Blinken are
losing their own domestic war of public relations - that corporate
narrative so carefully spun and financed to sell domestic electoral
support for genocide.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>It
can be said that we are reliving the time when the Black Lives Matter
movement placed the police force on the defensive nationally - to the
extent that in Georgia the police went down with the “Blue flu” or
professional depression and were offered a bonus to boost their spirits
affected by the massive protests. That bonus was Cop City. The Stop Cop
City movement was born - was it supported enough?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Cop
City has now spread to a nation full of cop cities and the "bonus"
enabled a backlash whereby the police considered itself back in the
saddle again and the mass arrests throughout the country were as brutal
as they were illegal. From Ant Smith's arbitrary federal sentence in
Pennsylvania to Tortuguita's extrajudicial killing in Weelaunee forest
and hundreds of other non-violent young people framed on RICO charges.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Today
again, seven months into the Israeli genocide perpetrated in Gaza with
U.S. help, the U.S. police finds itself at a similar point as after
George Floyd's murder - its excessive brutality going viral and its
public relations disastrous. In fact, an excessively militarized U.S,
police has yet again been shown to be on the verge of executing the
blood choke that killed George Floyd but this time round against the
daughters and sons of those whose property they are paid to protect. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>The
Marshall Project of May 18 revealed that a police sniper stood watch on
the roof at Indiana University; that bean bag rounds were fired at UCLA
and that at Emory students were met with less-than-lethal bullets. Yet
this youth has the maturity to protest peacefully against military
techniques tested in Palestine on 97% of the campuses.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The
sharp contrast of excessive police force used against an overwhelmingly
peaceful youth speaks louder than the silence of the corporate media
(Fox News muted the live images of the police repression of the student
encampment at UPenn as if in fear of what the sound of the first
amendment chants of the students could signify</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The
context is strategically favorable to the students and to those who
uphold the students' demands: a ceasefire in Gaza at least, an end to
the occupation of Palestine <em>in fine</em>; disclosure of the links
between universities and industries enabling genocide such as arms
industries; divestment from those complicit corporations; cessation of
scholarships and exchanges with Israel; amnesty from criminal procedures
for all the student protesters.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>But
the context is potentially favorable beyond the student campuses - on
other liberation fronts already in historical alliance with the
students. More and more workers' unions, interfaith voices throughout
the country and, importantly, the abolition movement against mass
incarceration are showing active solidarity. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>If the
National Security State has some sense of world history, it will
remember that in 1968 in France, it was at the very moment the main
workers' trade unions united with the students' demands that Charles De
Gaulle's government almost toppled.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Here
are 10 reasons why the National Security State has been placed on the
defensive and why it is time to seize the time and "break the cycle"
before yet another backlash sets in :</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>1 -
The uranium-rich West African state of Niger after driving out French
military and economic interests following a coup d'etat last year has
now asked the U.S. army to leave. In Niger, the U.S. army had deployed
its biggest and most powerful base in Africa, the base of Agadez, under
the guise of fighting terrorism that has only increased since U.S.
presence in the Sahel began. The State Department and the Pentagon are
jittery because Niger has now formed a radical Pan-African federation
with two other left leaning African states - Mali and Burkina Faso.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The
overwhelming majority of Niger's population are below 30 years old and
for them schools let alone universities cannot be destroyed because they
never existed. It is the young daughters and sons of the contaminated
and disenfranchised uranium miners, of the same age as the U.S. students
today, who were the first to rise up against the western exploitation
of their country.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>2 -
On May 10th, after 50 years as an observer at the UN General Assembly,
Palestine was voted as a full fledged member of the UNGA to which
historic event the Israeli ambassador to the UN had a tantrum and used a
shredder that looked like a toy to destroy the UN charter. 143
countries voted in favor, 25 abstained 9 voted against including the US
and Israel. Those who voted against represent a mere 5% of the world
population.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The message is: the United States cannot vote against the world and win.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>3 -
On May 13, Egypt in spite of its being under the autocratic
pro-American government of President General Al Sisi, possibly because
it was faced with the consequences of the IOF invasion of Rafah on its
border, declared it was supporting South Africa and filed a case against
Israel's genocide in Gaza at the ICJ.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>4 - Ireland has recognized Palestine as an independent state.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>5 -
Inside the United States, on May 7th, after 50 years of imprisonment,
Black Panther and political prisoner, Veronza Bowers was released. We
notice that the half a century Veronza Bowers spent in prison coincides
with the 50 years Palestine was maintained as an observer at the UNGA.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>6 -
Meanwhile. inside the United States but also across the world, the list
of university student protests for Palestine that have won demands
against their Ivy League administrations is getting longer each day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>To date, students at the following universities have prevailed:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<ol><li><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Brown University where Mumia Abu-Jamal's archive is alive and kickin'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Evergreen College Rachel Corrie’s alma mater </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>the Auraria Campuses, Denver,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Northwestern University,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>John Hopkins University</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Harvard University</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Rutgers University</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Minnesota University</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Wisconsin University</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>The University of Barcelona</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Trinity College, Dublin Ireland</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Trinity College, Cambridge, UK</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>Emory University with its ties to the Stop Cop City movement is resisting</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ol>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The United Auto Workers Union has just voted yes on a strike authorization across </span></span></span></span><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/8C6s0D05egg?si=HeenHtA8RZ3k4rGl" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>University of California</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span> campuses in solidarity with the repression of student protests there. </span></span></span></span> <span lang="EN"><span><span>And since April 29, the </span></span></span><a href="https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78703/" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span>University of Washington</span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span> in Seattle has set up a 100-tent encampment called "The Popular University for Gaza".</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>7 -
It is important to return and dwell here on the extent to which not
only the U.S. police but the intelligence community and the Pentagon are
worried over developments that prove there is first of all inner
conflict and certainly loss of morale within the ranks of the men in
blue over the student uprisings,- and second of all a much feared
"spillover" of the student model of resistance into other areas of
corporate and political power.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>We
mentioned the Auraria campuses of Denver: there the police simply
refused to show up when called in by the university's upper echelons
because the police said there was no proof of "unlawful assembly" and
there had been millions of dollars paid out to protesters after 2020 for
excessive use of force.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>In New York City, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/eric-adams-nypd-escalate-social-media-brawl-00156895?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a76fd3ee2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_10_11_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-5a76fd3ee2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>Mayor Eric Adams</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>,
well known for his dependence on Israeli training programs when he was
head of police, has been increasingly under criticism since he sent the
National Guard into the subway.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>After the first shows of force against the encampments, the slick </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/nypd-sizzle-reel-student-protests/?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a76fd3ee2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_10_11_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-5a76fd3ee2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D76fd3ee2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>sizzle videos</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>
put out by the NYPD were seen as clumsy attempts to disguise the fact
that the NYPD's repression of the encampments at City College of the
CUNY system, Columbia and other campuses was disproportionately violent,
using riot gear, tear gas, tasering but also hired thugs against civil
disobedience by the nation's youth.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The footage was carefully </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/01/did-live-pd-let-police-censor-footage?utm_campaign=opening-statement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=3642-hail-the-puppies-behind-bars-program&utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a76fd3ee2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_10_11_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-5a" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>edited</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span> to weed out any semblance of the police violence that took place.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Instead,
a sizzle video put out by the NYPD glorifying their heroic clearing of
the CUNY encampment to the martial score of a Hollywood action movie is
instructive: the pointed reference to the "smell" of the encampment is
to be borne in mind because of the need to criminalize or "animalize"
students thereby "justifying" police interference. The zionist narrative
of Palestinians as "human animals" strikes a familiar chord here.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Meanwhile,
any New York City Council Members who dare challenge the police
violence leveled against the students are bullied on social media by ...
the police themselves.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>As
for the US intelligence community, the Pentagon and its lackeys in the
corporate media - they have been having worried meetings. It is mild to
say they are desperately biting their nails. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Max Blumenthal of Grayzone was able to obtain </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0jxZ-3Tom0" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>footage</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>
of one of these meetings attended by Mark Milley former head of Central
Command, Eric Schmidt co-founder of Google and now working at the
Pentagon, Alan Sorkin of the New York Times and Alex Karp of Palantir,
the intelligence firm that failed to get the Israeli contract for
targeting but is working other aspects of Israeli intelligence.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Excerpts
from the panel are worth listening to, especially Alex Karp's inspired
epiphany that " the peace activists are actually war activists" because
they are marching for Hamas. They are "an infection inside of our
society. They are the reason why Hamas will never give up".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>And
even more ominously, Alex Karp adds: " If we lose the intellectual
debate [ in other words the war of ideas with the student protesters ],
we will not be able to deploy an army in the West - ever ".</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Max
Blumenthal interprets this zionist propagandist's words to mean: if we
allow the model of student resistance against the universities to expand
against other institutions that hold up the empire and its army - it
will be the end of the United States as we know it with its imperial
domination and bases throughout the world.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>In
other words, U.S. intelligence is worried about "spillover". Just as
epidemiologists tell us there is a danger of spillover of zoonotic
disease during climate change. But then we have just been told that the
students are an "infection"... And we are back to the "animalization"
meme.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Also
an "infection" is a condition difficult to control. These elites are
scared because they are losing control. Hence their fear of "outside
agitators". Would the worry of the anti-Ivy-League model spilling over
have anything to do with that fear of losing control? </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Would the worry about "spillover" have anything to do with the "contamination" of </span></span></span></span><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jjcFxRsfUyw?si=TOOZjfiY-87hx42U" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>CNN</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>
a loyally moderate channel that has recently broken ranks and aired
testimony proving that Palestinian prisoners in Israel were tortured for
revenge, </span></span></span></span> <span lang="EN"><span><span>not to gather intelligence?</span></span></span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>And what about the revelation by the very pro-White House </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>Washington Post</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>
that a group of pro-Israel business leaders and millionaires formed a
chat group to pressure Eric Adams to send the NYPD to clear Columbia of
"perps"? Not only were financial donations funneled but private
investigators' were offered to support the police's incursion on campus -
and a strategy to find Black celebrities who could offer their
blessings to the anti-student police assault suggested. Meanwhile, the
zionist chat group maintained regular contact with high placed Israeli
government officials.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>As
more and more officials in Biden's administration are resigning, the
damage control stage is spreading and difficult to keep up with.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>Already
the destabilization of the war mongering elites has become
embarrassingly visible on the diplomatic front: US ambassador to the UN,
Linda Thompson Greenfield has just been canceled as the invited speaker
for Commencement at Xavier University, Louisiana, due to the protests
of part of the students.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>And at </span></span></span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/0gPE9IOldIU?si=0xqBjKtWo29J6Fw0" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span>Morehouse College</span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a></span><span lang="EN"><span><span>, the alma mater of Martin Luther King, students turned their backs on Joe Biden's commencement speech.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h4><strong><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>WILL IT BE THE PRISONS NEXT TIME?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></h4>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>8 -
There is incontrovertible evidence that universities in the U.S. are
not only heavily invested in industries enabling genocide abroad - these
same universities have for a long time been investing in and profiting
from slavery and mass incarceration as well as the land and wealth theft
of the Indigenous peoples.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>In
fact there is documented evidence of the recycling of repression
techniques between Palestine and the mini Gazas represented by prisons
in the U.S. notoriously cut off from sustainable diets, air and
space. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The
links between United States detention centres and dark torture sites
abroad is well known. Mumia Abu-Jamal wrote about Charles Graner's stunt
at SCI Greene as a prison guard on death row who liked placing razors
in the food of detainees and who was indicted for domestic abuse before
being promoted to become torturer-in-chief at Abu-Ghraib.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The
former Holmesburg prison, Pennsylvania, was involved with the
University of Pennsylvania in the infamous experiments of creams,
shampoos, and talcum powder manufactured by various corporations and
experimented on mostly Black, brown and poor prisoners in return for a
pittance. See " Acres of Skin" by Allen M. Hornblum. Published in 1998
by Routledge</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The
monetization of the bones of the MOVE children burned alive while their
parents were in prison was encouraged by the Universities of
Pennsylvania and Princeton who sent the " still juicy" bones to be used
as teaching specimens for forensic anthropology courses. In 2021,
hundreds of students alongside folks from the projects in the city of
brotherly love marched to protest this cruel and inhumane unrepaired
crime.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>And,
the students who are rising up today against genocidal administrations
will be treated as a new rising generation of political prisoners ( "We
must treat them fiercely" Alex Karp )</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>The recorded voices of </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/mumia-free-palestine-columbia-speech/" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>Mumia Abu-Jamal</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span> - whose 42nd year behind bars has just been the occasion of worldwide rallies - and a June Jordan poem read by Angela Davis, "</span></span></span></span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKKZWpnTbvxXtwhJbVhWqznwccxFrZpnzgcJhJHQLXJMQQjDwBSvzXtjqxMrhKhvvskb?projector=1" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>I am Palestine</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>",
are being shared by protesters on the campuses. And these voices are
connecting the protest for Gaza to the protest for political prisoners
in the USA.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span>So - will it be the prisons next time?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>9 - We are in countdown to the parole hearing on June 10th of an iconic political prisoner, </span></span></span></span><a href="http://freeleonardpeltiernow.org/" class="gmail-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span><span><span><span>Leonard Peltier</span></span></span></span><span class="gmail-0"><span class="element-invisible"> </span></span></a><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>.
His liberation will be celebrated on the campuses. Conversely, a
refusal to free this 79 year old Indigenous prisoner who is nearly blind
and has so many serious ailments that maintaining him behind bars is
tantamount to political assassination - would send a message to
protesting students the world over.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span> <span lang="EN"><span><span>10
- It is too early to say and I might seem provocative in conclusion,
but I would go so far as to suggest that the National Security state
prefers the lone mass shooter situations to thousands of students
uprising for Palestine. The U.S. police would prefer a Columbine, yes,
even a Robb Elementary to the ripple of free zones unfurling in the
universities today. After all, the mass shootings are a living
advertisement for further militarization of the police as well as
schools - with a few students killed as collateral damage. The mass
shooter is the Frankenstein-like, desperate and rogue poster boy of the
NRA. Whereas the students rising up for Palestine are not alone, nor are
they rogue - and they are not the ones using guns galore. </span></span></span><br>
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<strong><em><span lang="EN"><span><span><span><span>Julia
Wright is the elder daughter of Richard Wright and executrix of his
estate. She worked as a journalist in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana until the
coup d'etat in 1966. She was a member of SNCC and accompanied the BPP to
the First Panafrican Festival in Algiers. She has been in the campaign
to free Mumia since the mid-eighties.</span></span></span></span></span></em></strong></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN"><span><span><span>(c) Julia Wright May 20, 2024. All Rights.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div></div>
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