As I watch the march of history the forces of resistance are rising to meet the present challenges of police terror. The question is will demonstrations be enough? The outbreak of civilian demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience even in the face of outright military state mobilization has forced corporate media to stubbornly try to rewrite what millions of people see unfold before their very eyes. Rebellions aren’t new its nature‘s way of dealing with the patent exploitation and oppression which is highlighted by the blood sacrifice that the mechanism of the state has to inflict to remind the masses who is in control.
Now the cry of Black lives matter will not fulfill the social contract of essential liberation. Objectively Black lives don’t matter in a white supremacist empire which has a policy of wholesale terror and exploitation.
There are exceptions to that rule however:
Black lives matter in a white supremacist culture when such lives are positioned to create wealth for the exploiter and oppressor. Black lives matter when there is a need for a minstrel show in a vain effort to project in technicolor that in the 21stcentury that we live in a post racial society. Black lives matter when the corporate controlled US state needs someone to fight imperial wars overseas in an attempt to maintain political instability in foreign nations; or support armed struggle by a mercenary class to assure the extraction of their mineral wealth at bargain basement compensation, or the stagnation of democratic development to maintain the comprador class that oppresses its own population. Black lives matter when it is time to incarcerate Black individuals to use them as slave labor in the prison industrial complex to increase corporate profits as well as stimulate bond issues by investment bankers to privatize prisons for further capital extraction.
The everyday violence against Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and White working class people by the police is nothing new. The paramilitary forces are used to contain organized dissent that seeks to move towards a just society, crush workers movements and maintain the status quo. The recent mounting offenses against the 99 percent have been punctuated by the murdering of unarmed civilians by the gendarme who keep the masses in their oppressed and exploited place. The murdering of civilians by police officers has always been a flash point for confrontation with the corporate controlled state. And when the people confront such atrocities with acts of counter-violence after being taunted by the military might of that very same corporate controlled state the people are portrayed as the instigator of civil unrest when in fact it is the actions of state personnel that causes the spontaneous outrage against the only thing that the corporate controlled state really cares about and that is commercial property. The calls by “responsible” (to the corporations) leadership for non-violence and peaceful demonstrations with condemnation of such acts of counter- violence are echoed throughout corporate media. Condemnation of the murdering of civilians by federal, state and local military (police) personnel is either muted or never on their agenda.
When the people demand that the legal apparatus be used to enact the mechanisms of justice the state’s response is to orchestrate a secret panel beyond the scrutiny of transparency and adversarial discourse to come to a preordained conclusion of no bill. Such action ridicules the premise of an open democratic society, mocks the words of the United States constitution and blatantly ignores the will of the people. The irrational Orwellian conclusion of “justifiable homicide” dictated by the state legal apparatus is announced after preparations for a rational response by the people have already been put in place by the corporate controlled state which is mobilization of its armed forces on the federal, state and local level to crush the rebellion if its actions go as far as to stop business as usual on any meaningful level.
Since 9/11 some say we live in a different political environment where banks are too big to fail, bank high level executives are too privileged to go to jail while the US and global economy is structured to fill the coffers of the one percent by sucking the wealth created by the working class through disproportionate taxation to maintain the military corporate prison state, unfair wages and an educational system that doesn’t guarantee employment yet burdens post-secondary graduates with onerous loans.
We live under the restrictions of a corporate national security state that watches our every move through cameras on the street and drones in the air, credit card purchases are monitored, telephone conversations warehoused, your cable selections noted, the websites you visit cataloged, your social medias sites analyzed to see if you are the type of person to resist the corporate military prison state. And if the corporate states’ military and intelligence apparatus decides that you are a threat to their interests you go on a list. Those on that list are further scrutinized to see if you are planning actions against the repressive state.
One must be cognizant that this has never been a “perfect union”. The United States of America was built on genocide of the indigenous population, the super exploitation of Black, Brown and Yellow labor and the exploitation of White labor. Today our daily existence is permeated with an ever prevailing practice of white supremacy, sexism, state terrorism, rape culture, homophobia and xenophobia. However there is constant resistance to these degenerate aspects of our lives. What we are seeing now with demonstrations not only against police terrorism and slave wages are people organically carving out space for a revolutionary culture with a principle essence of love, community and improvement of humankind. Workers are creating collectives for economic production to meet their own needs since transnational corporations that were giving birth in the US are seeking cheaper labor overseas to satisfy the greed of their shareholders.
The consciousness of the United States citizenry is in a period of reflection and resistance. Even though there are constant attempts to distort the historical past and present reality of the United States citizenry its culture has revolutionary roots. We are a revolutionary people. When we look at ourstory it challenges us to take another direction than the one we are on presently as dictated by the well-financed corporate politicians who presently occupy the governmental institutions that control the levers of power and media. The men that I’m about to mention were not perfect yet their actions were perfect in a moment in time in respect to advancing the ideology of human rights even though they flagrantly failed when it came to revolutionary practice. Crispus Attucks, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Quincy Adams and Thomas Pain, among others, separated themselves from the United Kingdom in search of establishing a nation where law was above privilege and applied equally to its citizens regardless of station because the government is of, by and for the people. The problem was with that moment. The moment wasn’t long enough and the propertied Whited male class wasn’t principled enough to include at that historical time repatriation of lands to the indigenous peoples, liberty for Black people and White woman in the land we now call North America. And yet we struggled. We fought a civil war which tore this young nation apart to end chattel slavery. Unions were established to protect workers’ rights. Women struggled to get the right to vote. Black people carried out insurrection to end segregation for what they paid for in taxes but were denied access to by state and local law.
We aren’t done yet. We have to continue promoting a revolutionary consciousness and practice. Resistance should be an integral part of our lives if we want to end homelessness, incarceration for non-violent offenses, discrimination, unlivable wages, human trafficking, unsustainable economics, race, sex and gender negative discrimination, violent verbal attacks, police murder, imperial warfare, violence against the people, hunger and all other actions that run counter to positive human development and actual fairness for all.
No there is no blueprint. Create a theory on the following two laws: (1) Love thy neighbor as you love yourself (if you don’t love yourself learn to love yourself). (2) Do not violate the first law. Build the revolutionary movement. Debate the issues, create a program and implement it. Observe, analyze, plan and act. Study history, gather information/intelligence; the enemy is collecting data to either set you up or set a trap. Have faith in the people. Yes some people aren’t ready to engage in struggle because they are already defeated. Your role is to show them the possibilities through action and living out the fact that the people are the government and the bureaucrats from the top down are here to serve us. If public servants don’t realize that then it’s time to show them the door! Demonstrations are not ends in themselves. Demonstrations are platforms to engage people, have a dialogue discuss the issues of the day. Movement is just that keep it going. Make YouTube videos, create blogs, and carry out flash mobs shut down the normal day. Create an alternative style of existence. Grow your own food (it tastes better anyways), Have pot luck breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Make your own clothes use mass transportation - - create your own mass transportation. Engage police officers and other public servants. Be polite but don’t place yourself in harm’s way because you know how dangerous some police officers are.
Yes people are going to die. They are dying every day. Some are spiritually dead and just cogs in a wheel that grinds up a bit of their soul every day. Many people are zombies in a world of alienation created by the unbridled pursuit of capital by all and any means.
Theorize, practice, analyze, adjust and build a better world. Those who claim to be in control aren’t in control. No is a very powerful word. Refuse and resist in word, deed and action. Challenge the corporate thought. Strip the illusion and show the raw real world as it is and change it. This is your revolutionary duty to yourself, to the people and future generations.
Let me be clear this is not about civil rights. Our peoples struggle is about human rights. You cannot be free until you act free. Individual liberty is a myth either we are all free or no one’s free. The struggle continues and Power to the People!
So refuse and resist. Confront the madness and show that love for one another. Challenge the façade of freedom because it’s an illusion. Strip it down so that all can see it for all its ugly nakedness of terrorism, abuse and horror. So plant the seed, write the poems, pen the essays, produce the street plays, sing the songs, paint the murals of resistance, and dance to the rhythm of liberation! When you act like free people you will become free people.
In conclusion let a thousand demonstrations of resistance bloom. Build the mass movement. Be creative with non-violent direct action. Disrupt the notion of normal because any sane individual can see that this madness must end; unemployment, working for slave wages, nonexistent affordable housing, destruction of our environment, rape without consequences, police murder, human trafficking, unbridled foreign and domestic wars, stop and frisk, disproportionate ticketing of people of color, prison industrial complex-re-enslavement, unrecognized indigenous sovereignty, hunger, inadequate education and so much more.
Get on the move and build towards a better world.
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