From e49cd516adc723f7383c9b7f7e220e83fd15b95e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: emina Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 02:28:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add 'content/session/calloutcopscalloutsystem.md' --- content/session/calloutcopscalloutsystem.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/session/calloutcopscalloutsystem.md diff --git a/content/session/calloutcopscalloutsystem.md b/content/session/calloutcopscalloutsystem.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b641bd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/session/calloutcopscalloutsystem.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: Call out cops! Call out system! +--- + +# Purpose + +- Providing critique to policing migrants and refugees and those who solidarize with them +- Deconstruct the systemic justification of the punitive and repressive actions against illegal that is constructed as a threat and enemy + +# Method: Direct action + +Organizing direct action is both a common and uncommon way of addressing police violence and coercion many citizens/volunteers are subjected to. There are various examples when people/activists went out in the streets and protested against police and state violence. Lately many [activists, priests, firefighters, doctors and others](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/migrants-refugees-solidarity-europeans-arrested-europe-opendemocracy-a8919686.html) were criminalized because they helped undocumented migrants or refugees in different ways. Those coercive and often violent actions provoke counter responses by local or translocal/national groups. + +## Possible ideas: + +- Creating and promoting a booklet for citizens, teachers, medical workers on migrant and refugee rights and local systems of solidarity acting in opposition of police and state violence +- Creating a local map and timeline of police activity against solidarity actions followed by public display (i.e. on building walls, on streets, public boards) +- Making stickers and placing them in public places such as public transport, hospitals, schools, parks etc. +- Walking through the town with banners and leaflets +- Protesting on a larger scale (there are a number of online resources on how to organize a protest) + +Time: 2 days and more… + +## Guiding questions + +- What/Whom do we need to address? +- How will we address it? What is the way we want to deliver our message? +- Whom do we collaborate with? +- How will we prepare the scenario/choreography? +- What do we need? +- What are the repercussions for those who we solidarize with? What are the repercussions for us and myself? +- How will we cope with repercussions and provide an on-going critique? + +# Resources: +- [Direct Action - An Ethnography](https://books.google.hr/books?id=PnTDEQkCoc4C&pg=PA473&lpg=PA473&dq=direct+action+against+police&source=bl&ots=FPAJOUWLGm&sig=ACfU3U3dmYSKcJi0AKiszhHRadKOWFXzyA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjcvOCP_YzmAhVFmYsKHdbaBaA4ChDoATAGegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=direct%20action%20against%20police&f=false ) +- [An Anarchist Guide to... ACAB by Ruth Kinna](https://www.strike.coop/an-anarchist-guide-to-acab)