From the Atlanta Race Massacre to Cop City: The AJC Incites Harm – Scalawag
The AJC wielded its editorial power to pave the path for Cop City and the 1906 race massacre, directly harming Black Atlantans.| Scalawag
The Holy Land Foundation was founded in 1989. Rooted in Palestinian self-determination, the charity provided an incredible amount of material support to Palestinian people, combating the brutality of life under occupation. Read more via Scalawag: Palestinian Political Prisoner Shukri Abu Baker's Poetry Book Debuts in Houston.| Scalawag
These links illustrate both the ideological and practical ties between the two bodies, as both serve as means to increase the militarization of policing via the weaponization of surveillance technology. Read more via Scalawag: ICE and the IDF: The Transnational Nexus of State Control.| Scalawag
Why is the carceral state storing recordings of typical strip-frisks without incident involved? Read more via Scalawag: A new directive permits prison guards to record strip searches using body cameras.| Scalawag
The coercive nature of jobs within the immigrant detention industrial complex—whether at privately-run ICE facilities in economically disinvested areas or with ICE itself—is not so different from the coercion that drives people to join the military. Read more via Scalawag: ICE and the military use the same playbook—exploiting impoverished communities.| Scalawag
Aint Sh*t changed... so let's stop pretending that what is happening has not always been Read more via Scalawag: Ain't Sh*t Changed.| Scalawag
The Texas Rangers police force was founded in 1823 to enforce colonial rule in a "for whites only” government. Read more via Scalawag: The Colonial History of Texas Rangers.| Scalawag
As faithful people and healers, it is against the doctor’s faith to watch a patient suffer when they can intervene. Read more via Scalawag: South Carolina providers push back against faith-based assaults on abortion care .| Scalawag
"We cannot defend trans youth without confronting the carceral, racialized, and reproductive logics that underpin this moment, nor can we treat gender-affirming care as separate from the broader struggle for bodily autonomy, housing, healthcare, and family dignity." Read more via Scalawag: Freak Generations: The Moral Panic Playbook from Crack Babies to Trans Kids.| Scalawag
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a long legacy of circulating pro-police and corporate talking points, which, in the past, have directly led to violent police or mob killings in the city. Read more via Scalawag: From the Atlanta Race Massacre to Cop City: The AJC Incites Harm.| Scalawag
“We are in the belly of the beast, the head of the empire—and the world is waiting on us. Our silence is complicity, our failure to act is complicity.” Read more via Scalawag: A Look into Houston's "Safeguard the Flame" for Political Prisoners.| Scalawag
The AJC wielded its editorial power to pave the path for Cop City and the 1906 race massacre, directly harming Black Atlantans.| Scalawag
While some have dismissed the EO’s definitions as biologically incoherent—given that early fetal development renders all genitalia phenotypically similar (and female)—this EO, and the strategic assault it is a core component of, are not clumsily or carelessly written. Read more via Scalawag: Refining Fascism: Fetal Personhood, Transphobia, & AntiBlackness.| Scalawag
