A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
Bail Bloc Features
Our work on policing and mass incarceration. Read more here.
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
The Right to Remain Silent
Ableism, the English to prison pipeline, and the plight of deaf inmates.
Sci-Fi Crime Drama With A Strong Black Lead
A new crime investigation technology generates suspect sketches from genetic material left at the scene, but this big data tool is based on old racialism
Transcript on a Face
Wilson the innocent ghost, Brown the guilty demon
In Defense of Looting
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
K in Love
Every love story is a cop story.
Portrait of the Artist as a Rookie Cop
The photographs of Antonio Bolfo, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and former NYPD patrolman who took artistic photographs while on the job, humanize both officers and civilians. So says the The New York Times. But is this true? And if it is, does it matter?
Save the World
How Star Wars films thematize their own irrelevance
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
Bad faith: a magnanimous euphemism. To accuse someone of acting in bad faith is to assume that their motives are duplicitous. It avoids calling them…
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
The Predator and the Jokester
Power shows its ugliest tentacles most clearly in the figures of the predator and the jokester
Lol
I’ve been googling radiation poisoning, I’m going to need to know how this happens. The toxic dose of ions seeping into the body politic until…
Ordinary Boredom
Distraction is no longer a relief from tedium but its metronome
Triple-Decker Weekly, 140
Detroit police officers fight each other in undercover op gone wrong Chinese restaurant offers discounts to women depending on their bra size Participants rated women…
The Native Struggle
The Red Nation's manifesto for Indigenous liberation in the 21st century
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People We, the native Americans, reclaim the land known as Alcatraz Island in the name of…
Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
#upcoming
Upcoming solo and collaborative events in the U.K.
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.