#georgefloyd — Public Fediverse posts
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Six Years On: George Floyd, his legacy and the future of racial equity
The Bounce Black Team
Six years after the murder of George Floyd, the world is still reeling from the promises and limits of what followed.
His death catalysed a global uprising against anti-Black racism, policing violence, and structural inequality. Organisations, institutions, and governments issued statements of solidarity, pledged reforms, and, in some cases, implemented new frameworks for racial equity.
Yet for many communities and advocates, the question remains: what has actually changed beneath the surface?
While visibility increased, the deeper systems that sustain racial injustice — surveillance, state and extrajudicial violence, institutional neglect, and the criminalisation of dissent — have in many contexts adapted rather than dissolved.
The result is a shifting landscape where racial equity is increasingly discussed, but not consistently protected. Likewise, racism is increasingly feared as an accusation, but not frowned upon as a culture.
The evolving landscape of racial justice
In the aftermath of 2020, racial equity work has become more visible, but also more contested and, in some spaces, actively constrained.
Equity practitioners, activists, whistleblowers, and human rights defenders report growing forms of retaliation that are often subtle, bureaucratic, and difficult to challenge.
One of the most concerning developments in this period is the rise of transnational repression, where individuals face intimidation, surveillance, legal pressure, or detention across borders, often linked to their advocacy, identity, or perceived political stance.
Alongside this, there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of organised harassment: coordinated patterns of intimidation, discrediting, digital targeting, workplace retaliation, and social isolation that can operate across institutions and jurisdictions. While often difficult to evidence in traditional legal frameworks, its impact on wellbeing, civic participation, and democratic engagement is profound and lasting.
These dynamics raise urgent questions about the safety of those who speak out for justice, and whether current human rights protections are keeping pace with contemporary forms of harm.
A live case study: concerns about the detention of Dr Tamara Dixon
Recent concerns have been raised regarding the reported detention of Dr Tamara Dixon, an African American academic and former university professor.
Writing every step of the way about her experiences, Dr Tamara’s latest updates include that she is currently being held in an immigration detention setting in Luxembourg, where she is seeking asylum from severe transnational repression. Yet her efforts have been met with hostility and further covert harm in addition to restricted access to legal counsel and a limited ability to communicate due to confiscation of her personal devices.
With only one hour per day of permitted access to the computer facilities at the detention centre, without much clarity as to what’s next for her, Dr Tamara’s case is emblematic of broader concerns around due process, access to legal representation, and the treatment of individuals who may be vulnerable within detention systems.
It also highlights how quickly individuals can become isolated from support networks and advocacy channels, particularly when communication is restricted.
For human rights observers, such cases underscore the importance of independent monitoring, legal access, and safeguards against administrative or institutional overreach.
Importantly, and unfortunately, this case is not isolated or exceptional. Instead, it’s part of a wider pattern being flagged by activists and civil society organisations about how dissenting or visible individuals can become exposed to compounded vulnerabilities, especially when intersecting with race, gender, migration status, and advocacy work.
Organised harassment as a human rights issue
Organised harassment is increasingly being recognised by advocates as a serious but under-acknowledged threat to human rights and democratic participation. This type of repression and retaliation does not always appear in ways that are easily legible to formal institutions.
Instead, it thrives on weaponised conditioning cues to signal surveillance and intimidation in public without widespread detection. The campaign of psychological warfare and total assault on character, life and property can also extend to hidden reputational harm, career sabotage and other forms of financial and emotional abuse designed to destabilise and destroy victims.
Its effects are cumulative: social isolation, reputational damage, economic harm, and in some cases, deterrence from civic or advocacy engagement altogether.
For individuals working in racial justice, gender equity, and human rights, these patterns can operate as a form of structural silencing, thereby reducing participation not through direct censorship, but through sustained pressure and attrition.
A personal dimension: lived experience within Bounce Black
At Bounce Black, these conversations are not abstract.
Our Founder has, for the past four years, experienced sustained organised harassment and transnational repression while continuing to lead racial equity-focused work, community programmes, and trauma-informed advocacy initiatives.
This lived reality underscores how advocacy itself can become a site of vulnerability, and how those working to challenge systems of inequity are often simultaneously navigating personal exposure to harm.
This is not unique.
It reflects a broader pattern experienced by many Black women leaders, community organisers, and equity practitioners who operate at the intersection of public visibility and structural resistance.
Where do we go from here?
If George Floyd’s legacy is to extend beyond symbolic remembrance, it must include a serious reckoning with how power adapts, and how harm evolves.
This means:
- Expanding human rights frameworks to recognise modern forms of repression and organised harassment
- Strengthening protections for activists, academics, and whistleblowers across borders
- Ensuring access to legal representation and communication for those in detention settings
- Supporting independent investigation and accountability mechanisms
- Investing in the wellbeing and safety of those doing racial equity work
- Listening seriously to lived experiences, even when they fall outside conventional institutional categories
Racial equity cannot exist without safety for those who speak about it. And that is everybody’s business!
A call to action
Six years on, the challenge is not only remembrance, but responsibility.
We are calling on human rights organisations, policymakers, academic institutions, and civil society actors to take coordinated action in:
- Recognising transnational repression and organised harassment as urgent human rights concerns
- Supporting individuals and communities reporting these harms
- Demanding transparency and accountability in detention and immigration systems
- Protecting the civic space required for racial justice work to continue
The legacy of George Floyd demands more than reflection. It demands infrastructure (legal, social, and political) that protects life, dignity, and truth-telling.
Without that, equity remains an aspiration rather than a reality.
And to quote a wise Black woman…
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
#blackLivesMatter #BLM #bounceBlack #COINTELPRO #DrTamaraDixon #GeorgeFloyd #healing #intimidation #justice #mentalHealth #racialEquity #racialTrauma #repression #retaliation #sayHerName #sayHisName #socialJustice #surveillance #surveillanceState #transnationalRepression -
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)(6/6)
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TikTok Ya No Es Seguro 🚨
Logo de TikTok, símbolo de una plataforma en debate por su contenido para menores de edad.
La App Que Era Cool Se Volvió Peligrosa 📱💔
No soy de las que se espanta fácil, pero lo que está pasando en TikTok últimamente me tiene súper preocupada. La plataforma que antes era solo bailes y trends divertidos ahora está llena de contenido que definitivamente NO debería estar al alcance de menores de edad.
El Trend «White Shampoo»: La Gota Que Derramó El Vaso 🤢
¿Qué es este trend tan peligroso?
El famoso trend del «white shampoo» es literalmente lo peor que he visto en redes sociales. Sin entrar en detalles explícitos (porque este blog también debe ser apropiado), básicamente involucra contenido sexual disfrazado que puede traumatizar seriamente a los niños que lo ven.
AnunciosNo es el primer trend problemático
Ya habíamos visto otros challenges peligrosos antes que también involucraban contenido sexual inapropiado. El trend del «Dior Gloss» también mostraba contenido explícito disfrazado, junto con otros «challenges» donde hombres exponían partes íntimas de manera «creativa». También hemos visto trends que ponían en riesgo la salud física y mental, contenido que normalizaba comportamientos dañinos, y «challenges» que terminaban en tragedias.
TikTok = El Nuevo Twitter/X: Mismo Problema, Peor Audiencia 😬
La diferencia que lo hace más grave
Mientras que X (antes Twitter) siempre tuvo una audiencia más adulta, TikTok está LLENO de niños y adolescentes. Hombres adultos mostrando partes íntimas y secreciones en pantalla es algo que está convirtiendo esta app en un lugar igual de tóxico que X, pero con una audiencia mucho más vulnerable. Los números no mienten: TikTok tiene millones de usuarios menores de 18 años, el contenido inapropiado se viraliza más rápido que nunca, y los menores están expuestos sin filtros reales.
El Gran Problema: Por Qué Los Algoritmos Son El Enemigo Real 🤖❌
La censura automática es peor que no tener censura
Aquí viene lo que realmente me molesta y por qué NUNCA voy a defender la censura a través de algoritmos. Estos sistemas automatizados son completamente arbitrarios y crean más problemas de los que resuelven. Los algoritmos no entienden contexto, no pueden diferenciar entre una conversación educativa y contenido inapropiado, y lo peor de todo: son súper fáciles de manipular.
Los humanos saben cómo engañar a las máquinas
Las personas con malas intenciones han perfeccionado el arte de burlar estos sistemas. Saben exactamente qué palabras usar, qué imágenes mostrar, y cómo disfrazar contenido explícito para que parezca inocente ante los ojos de un algoritmo. Mientras tanto, estos mismos algoritmos censuran conversaciones importantes sobre salud mental, educación sexual apropiada para la edad, y temas sociales que los jóvenes NECESITAN conocer.
La falsa sensación de seguridad
Los algoritmos dan a los padres una falsa sensación de que sus hijos están «protegidos» cuando en realidad están más expuestos que nunca. Es como tener un guardia de seguridad ciego que solo puede escuchar pero no ver lo que realmente está pasando.
Por Qué Defiendo la Moderación Humana Sobre la Automática 👥
Los humanos entienden contexto
A diferencia de los algoritmos, los moderadores humanos pueden entender sarcasmo, ironía, contexto cultural, y la diferencia entre contenido educativo y contenido dañino. Pueden ver cuando alguien está usando códigos o referencias que un algoritmo jamás detectaría.
La moderación humana es más justa
Cuando un humano revisa contenido, puede tomar decisiones más matizadas. Puede entender que una conversación sobre depresión no debería ser censurada solo porque menciona temas «sensibles», y puede detectar cuando alguien está siendo genuinamente educativo versus cuando está siendo predatorio.
Los algoritmos censuran lo que no deben
He visto cómo los algoritmos bloquean videos de educadores hablando sobre salud mental, mientras permiten que contenido predatorio se quede porque usa las palabras «correctas». Esto no solo es injusto, es peligroso. Los jóvenes se quedan sin acceso a información vital mientras los depredadores siguen operando libremente.
La Censura Algorítmica: Un Sistema Roto Por Diseño 🚫
Por qué no funciona y nunca funcionará
Los algoritmos son binarios: algo está bien o está mal, sin término medio. Pero la comunicación humana es compleja, llena de matices, contexto cultural, y significados implícitos. Un algoritmo no puede entender que la misma palabra puede ser educativa en un contexto y dañina en otro.
El problema de la escala
Las plataformas argumentan que necesitan algoritmos porque hay demasiado contenido para que los humanos lo revisen. Pero este argumento es falso. Si tu plataforma es tan grande que no puedes moderarla adecuadamente, entonces tal vez el problema no es la falta de algoritmos, sino el modelo de negocio que prioriza el crecimiento sobre la seguridad.
Los algoritmos censuran poblaciones vulnerables
Estos sistemas automáticos no son neutrales y la evidencia está por todas partes. ¿Quién no recuerda cuando TikTok censuró las etiquetas #BlackLivesMatter y #GeorgeFloyd, mostrando cero visualizaciones mientras alegaban que era un «fallo técnico»? Los usuarios también descubrieron que frases como «Black Lives Matter», «apoyando voces negras», y «apoyando a personas negras» eran marcadas como contenido inapropiado, mientras que términos como «supremacía blanca» pasaban sin problemas.
Pero el sesgo va más allá del tema racial. Documentos internos revelaron que TikTok literalmente le decía a sus moderadores que suprimieran contenido de usuarios considerados «feos» y pobres, porque aparentemente eso podría «asustar» a nuevos usuarios. Imagínate el nivel de discriminación: censurar a personas por su apariencia física o situación económica.
Estos sistemas aprenden de información que ya tiene sesgos, y terminan amplificando prejuicios existentes. Censuran más contenido de ciertas comunidades mientras son más permisivos con otras, creando un sistema de moderación fundamentalmente injusto y discriminatorio.
¿Qué Pueden Hacer Los Padres? Eliminar Es Mejor Que Supervisar 👨👩👧👦
Niños concentrados en sus teléfonos móviles, representando la preocupación por la exposición a contenido inapropiado en plataformas digitales.La supervisión al 100% es imposible
Seamos realistas: no se puede estar pendiente de lo que ven los hijos las 24 horas del día. Es físicamente imposible supervisar cada segundo que pasan en estas aplicaciones, y mientras tanto, están expuestos a contenido que puede dañarlos permanentemente. En lugar de esta falsa sensación de control con «supervisión activa», es mejor eliminar directamente estas aplicaciones problemáticas.
YouTube Kids tampoco es confiable
Tres niños concentrados mirando sus teléfonos, reflejando la preocupación por el acceso a contenido inapropiado en plataformas como TikTok.Y no, YouTube Kids no es la solución. Ahí pasa exactamente lo mismo: videos supuestamente para niños que son perturbadores, contenido que parece educativo pero está diseñado para confundir o asustar a los pequeños, y algoritmos que fallan igual de mal que los de TikTok. Los padres piensan que sus hijos están «seguros» viendo YouTube Kids, pero la realidad es que estos algoritmos siguen siendo defectuosos.
Mejores alternativas: Netflix, Pluto TV y plataformas curadas
Es mucho mejor que los niños vean contenido en plataformas como Netflix, Pluto TV, o servicios donde el contenido está realmente curado por humanos. Estas plataformas tienen programación específica para diferentes edades, sin la aleatoriedad peligrosa de los algoritmos de recomendación. Al menos sabes que lo que están viendo fue revisado por profesionales, no por una máquina que no entiende contexto.
Conclusión: Es Hora de Exigir Mejor 💪
TikTok se ha convertido en un espacio donde los menores definitivamente NO deberían estar, punto. Los algoritmos de censura están empeorando el problema en lugar de solucionarlo, y pretender que con supervisión se puede solucionar es engañarse. Como sociedad, necesitamos exigir moderación humana real, no soluciones tecnológicas baratas que dan la ilusión de seguridad mientras fallan en proteger a quienes más lo necesitan.
La tecnología avanza, pero la protección de menores debería ser siempre la prioridad número uno. Y esa protección no puede venir de máquinas que no entienden lo que están «viendo», ni de padres que pretenden supervisar lo imposible.
¿Qué opinas tú? ¿Has notado estos cambios en TikTok? Cuéntanos en los comentarios 👇
#AlgoritmosBias #BlackLivesMatter #CensuraAlgoritmica #ContenidoInapropiado #DiscriminacionAlgoritmica #GeorgeFloyd #MenoresEnRedes #ModeracionHumana #Netflix #PadresDigitales #PlutoTV #ProteccionInfantil #SeguridadOnline #TecnologiaSegura #tiktok #TikTokPeligroso #TrendsWeb #YouTubeKids
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When you just thought the ship cannot sink any deeper...😡
"Elon Musk Calls on Trump to Pardon Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin, Who Murdered George Floyd"
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Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against #CopCity
Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest
2023-12-12 via #CrimeThinc"Escalating Repression: #RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the 'tactics of organized criminals' language Governor Kemp used on July 2 was not just boilerplate copy drafted by an intern, nor was the August 2 press conference simply propaganda to assure backers that the state could still protect their investments. These phrases and statements were shaping operations, carefully crafted interventions designed to position the government for their next operation: the blanket criminalization of the entire movement.
"On August 29, the Attorney General of #Georgia, Christopher M. Carr, filed an indictment with the Fulton County Superior Court, bringing charges against 61 people under Georgia’s version of the Rackeeter-Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act O.C.G.A. § 16-14-4. The indictment became public on September 5. The document, which is over 100 pages long and very poorly written, claims that the 'conspiracy' (which it names 'Defend the Atlanta Forest') was 'founded' on May 25, 2020—the day that #MinneapolisPolice officers murdered #GeorgeFloyd, precipitating a nationwide #uprising.
"This was a serious escalation. It did not catch everyone by surprise: the #AtlantaSolidarityFund has been braced for such charges since February. The authorities and their extreme-right proxies had been demanding a full-scale crackdown on the movement for over a year, spreading a conspiracy theory that the movement was a mafia controlled by a shadowy and well-connected group (a narrative some activists also reproduced, apparently with no sense of irony). According to one version of this conspiracy theory, circulated by far-right trolls, the Network for Stronger Communities (a Georgia-based nonprofit organization) operates a number of financial enterprises, including the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, that coordinate acts of terrorism in order to accumulate wealth and influence. Of the 61 accused, three were members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The 42 people already facing #DomesticTerrorism charges were also indicted, as well as a number of other people whose connection to the movement was unclear. The indictment alleged that some people had committed acts in 'overt furtherance of the conspiracy' such as buying #GlueSticks for #SignMaking. [UK is using similar tactics, arresting people for just having #Superglue or #BikeLocks in their possession.]
"The RICO indictment was not a legal procedure but a political act. It was not a judicial intervention to suppress criminal activity but a government measure to crush what the text describes as '#anarchism,' '#collectivism,' '#SocialSolidarity,' '#MutualAid.”
"It is not simply 61 people who are on trial. By dating the case to the murder of George Floyd, the prosecution showed that their real target was the entire population of millions that participated in the consequent revolt. This is not an unusual court case, but a new chapter in the fight between those who seek to preserve the hierarchies of a structurally white supremacist society and those fighting to destroy it root and branch. The indictment does not present a list of crimes. It describes the contours and values of a rival society emerging within the movement to stop Cop City, aspiring to reinvent the world according to a different logic.
"The Fulton County Judge assigned to the RICO case immediately recused himself. Until then, judges had not recused themselves from cases related to the movement even when they possessed obvious ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation."
#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SLAPPs
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Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against #CopCity
Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest
2023-12-12 via #CrimeThinc"Escalating Repression: #RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the 'tactics of organized criminals' language Governor Kemp used on July 2 was not just boilerplate copy drafted by an intern, nor was the August 2 press conference simply propaganda to assure backers that the state could still protect their investments. These phrases and statements were shaping operations, carefully crafted interventions designed to position the government for their next operation: the blanket criminalization of the entire movement.
"On August 29, the Attorney General of #Georgia, Christopher M. Carr, filed an indictment with the Fulton County Superior Court, bringing charges against 61 people under Georgia’s version of the Rackeeter-Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act O.C.G.A. § 16-14-4. The indictment became public on September 5. The document, which is over 100 pages long and very poorly written, claims that the 'conspiracy' (which it names 'Defend the Atlanta Forest') was 'founded' on May 25, 2020—the day that #MinneapolisPolice officers murdered #GeorgeFloyd, precipitating a nationwide #uprising.
"This was a serious escalation. It did not catch everyone by surprise: the #AtlantaSolidarityFund has been braced for such charges since February. The authorities and their extreme-right proxies had been demanding a full-scale crackdown on the movement for over a year, spreading a conspiracy theory that the movement was a mafia controlled by a shadowy and well-connected group (a narrative some activists also reproduced, apparently with no sense of irony). According to one version of this conspiracy theory, circulated by far-right trolls, the Network for Stronger Communities (a Georgia-based nonprofit organization) operates a number of financial enterprises, including the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, that coordinate acts of terrorism in order to accumulate wealth and influence. Of the 61 accused, three were members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The 42 people already facing #DomesticTerrorism charges were also indicted, as well as a number of other people whose connection to the movement was unclear. The indictment alleged that some people had committed acts in 'overt furtherance of the conspiracy' such as buying #GlueSticks for #SignMaking. [UK is using similar tactics, arresting people for just having #Superglue or #BikeLocks in their possession.]
"The RICO indictment was not a legal procedure but a political act. It was not a judicial intervention to suppress criminal activity but a government measure to crush what the text describes as '#anarchism,' '#collectivism,' '#SocialSolidarity,' '#MutualAid.”
"It is not simply 61 people who are on trial. By dating the case to the murder of George Floyd, the prosecution showed that their real target was the entire population of millions that participated in the consequent revolt. This is not an unusual court case, but a new chapter in the fight between those who seek to preserve the hierarchies of a structurally white supremacist society and those fighting to destroy it root and branch. The indictment does not present a list of crimes. It describes the contours and values of a rival society emerging within the movement to stop Cop City, aspiring to reinvent the world according to a different logic.
"The Fulton County Judge assigned to the RICO case immediately recused himself. Until then, judges had not recused themselves from cases related to the movement even when they possessed obvious ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation."
#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SLAPPs
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Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against #CopCity
Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest
2023-12-12 via #CrimeThinc"Escalating Repression: #RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the 'tactics of organized criminals' language Governor Kemp used on July 2 was not just boilerplate copy drafted by an intern, nor was the August 2 press conference simply propaganda to assure backers that the state could still protect their investments. These phrases and statements were shaping operations, carefully crafted interventions designed to position the government for their next operation: the blanket criminalization of the entire movement.
"On August 29, the Attorney General of #Georgia, Christopher M. Carr, filed an indictment with the Fulton County Superior Court, bringing charges against 61 people under Georgia’s version of the Rackeeter-Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act O.C.G.A. § 16-14-4. The indictment became public on September 5. The document, which is over 100 pages long and very poorly written, claims that the 'conspiracy' (which it names 'Defend the Atlanta Forest') was 'founded' on May 25, 2020—the day that #MinneapolisPolice officers murdered #GeorgeFloyd, precipitating a nationwide #uprising.
"This was a serious escalation. It did not catch everyone by surprise: the #AtlantaSolidarityFund has been braced for such charges since February. The authorities and their extreme-right proxies had been demanding a full-scale crackdown on the movement for over a year, spreading a conspiracy theory that the movement was a mafia controlled by a shadowy and well-connected group (a narrative some activists also reproduced, apparently with no sense of irony). According to one version of this conspiracy theory, circulated by far-right trolls, the Network for Stronger Communities (a Georgia-based nonprofit organization) operates a number of financial enterprises, including the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, that coordinate acts of terrorism in order to accumulate wealth and influence. Of the 61 accused, three were members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The 42 people already facing #DomesticTerrorism charges were also indicted, as well as a number of other people whose connection to the movement was unclear. The indictment alleged that some people had committed acts in 'overt furtherance of the conspiracy' such as buying #GlueSticks for #SignMaking. [UK is using similar tactics, arresting people for just having #Superglue or #BikeLocks in their possession.]
"The RICO indictment was not a legal procedure but a political act. It was not a judicial intervention to suppress criminal activity but a government measure to crush what the text describes as '#anarchism,' '#collectivism,' '#SocialSolidarity,' '#MutualAid.”
"It is not simply 61 people who are on trial. By dating the case to the murder of George Floyd, the prosecution showed that their real target was the entire population of millions that participated in the consequent revolt. This is not an unusual court case, but a new chapter in the fight between those who seek to preserve the hierarchies of a structurally white supremacist society and those fighting to destroy it root and branch. The indictment does not present a list of crimes. It describes the contours and values of a rival society emerging within the movement to stop Cop City, aspiring to reinvent the world according to a different logic.
"The Fulton County Judge assigned to the RICO case immediately recused himself. Until then, judges had not recused themselves from cases related to the movement even when they possessed obvious ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation."
#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SLAPPs
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Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against #CopCity
Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest
2023-12-12 via #CrimeThinc"Escalating Repression: #RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the 'tactics of organized criminals' language Governor Kemp used on July 2 was not just boilerplate copy drafted by an intern, nor was the August 2 press conference simply propaganda to assure backers that the state could still protect their investments. These phrases and statements were shaping operations, carefully crafted interventions designed to position the government for their next operation: the blanket criminalization of the entire movement.
"On August 29, the Attorney General of #Georgia, Christopher M. Carr, filed an indictment with the Fulton County Superior Court, bringing charges against 61 people under Georgia’s version of the Rackeeter-Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act O.C.G.A. § 16-14-4. The indictment became public on September 5. The document, which is over 100 pages long and very poorly written, claims that the 'conspiracy' (which it names 'Defend the Atlanta Forest') was 'founded' on May 25, 2020—the day that #MinneapolisPolice officers murdered #GeorgeFloyd, precipitating a nationwide #uprising.
"This was a serious escalation. It did not catch everyone by surprise: the #AtlantaSolidarityFund has been braced for such charges since February. The authorities and their extreme-right proxies had been demanding a full-scale crackdown on the movement for over a year, spreading a conspiracy theory that the movement was a mafia controlled by a shadowy and well-connected group (a narrative some activists also reproduced, apparently with no sense of irony). According to one version of this conspiracy theory, circulated by far-right trolls, the Network for Stronger Communities (a Georgia-based nonprofit organization) operates a number of financial enterprises, including the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, that coordinate acts of terrorism in order to accumulate wealth and influence. Of the 61 accused, three were members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The 42 people already facing #DomesticTerrorism charges were also indicted, as well as a number of other people whose connection to the movement was unclear. The indictment alleged that some people had committed acts in 'overt furtherance of the conspiracy' such as buying #GlueSticks for #SignMaking. [UK is using similar tactics, arresting people for just having #Superglue or #BikeLocks in their possession.]
"The RICO indictment was not a legal procedure but a political act. It was not a judicial intervention to suppress criminal activity but a government measure to crush what the text describes as '#anarchism,' '#collectivism,' '#SocialSolidarity,' '#MutualAid.”
"It is not simply 61 people who are on trial. By dating the case to the murder of George Floyd, the prosecution showed that their real target was the entire population of millions that participated in the consequent revolt. This is not an unusual court case, but a new chapter in the fight between those who seek to preserve the hierarchies of a structurally white supremacist society and those fighting to destroy it root and branch. The indictment does not present a list of crimes. It describes the contours and values of a rival society emerging within the movement to stop Cop City, aspiring to reinvent the world according to a different logic.
"The Fulton County Judge assigned to the RICO case immediately recused himself. Until then, judges had not recused themselves from cases related to the movement even when they possessed obvious ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation."
#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SLAPPs
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Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against #CopCity
Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest
2023-12-12 via #CrimeThinc"Escalating Repression: #RICO and the Furtherance of the Conspiracy
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the 'tactics of organized criminals' language Governor Kemp used on July 2 was not just boilerplate copy drafted by an intern, nor was the August 2 press conference simply propaganda to assure backers that the state could still protect their investments. These phrases and statements were shaping operations, carefully crafted interventions designed to position the government for their next operation: the blanket criminalization of the entire movement.
"On August 29, the Attorney General of #Georgia, Christopher M. Carr, filed an indictment with the Fulton County Superior Court, bringing charges against 61 people under Georgia’s version of the Rackeeter-Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act O.C.G.A. § 16-14-4. The indictment became public on September 5. The document, which is over 100 pages long and very poorly written, claims that the 'conspiracy' (which it names 'Defend the Atlanta Forest') was 'founded' on May 25, 2020—the day that #MinneapolisPolice officers murdered #GeorgeFloyd, precipitating a nationwide #uprising.
"This was a serious escalation. It did not catch everyone by surprise: the #AtlantaSolidarityFund has been braced for such charges since February. The authorities and their extreme-right proxies had been demanding a full-scale crackdown on the movement for over a year, spreading a conspiracy theory that the movement was a mafia controlled by a shadowy and well-connected group (a narrative some activists also reproduced, apparently with no sense of irony). According to one version of this conspiracy theory, circulated by far-right trolls, the Network for Stronger Communities (a Georgia-based nonprofit organization) operates a number of financial enterprises, including the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, that coordinate acts of terrorism in order to accumulate wealth and influence. Of the 61 accused, three were members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The 42 people already facing #DomesticTerrorism charges were also indicted, as well as a number of other people whose connection to the movement was unclear. The indictment alleged that some people had committed acts in 'overt furtherance of the conspiracy' such as buying #GlueSticks for #SignMaking. [UK is using similar tactics, arresting people for just having #Superglue or #BikeLocks in their possession.]
"The RICO indictment was not a legal procedure but a political act. It was not a judicial intervention to suppress criminal activity but a government measure to crush what the text describes as '#anarchism,' '#collectivism,' '#SocialSolidarity,' '#MutualAid.”
"It is not simply 61 people who are on trial. By dating the case to the murder of George Floyd, the prosecution showed that their real target was the entire population of millions that participated in the consequent revolt. This is not an unusual court case, but a new chapter in the fight between those who seek to preserve the hierarchies of a structurally white supremacist society and those fighting to destroy it root and branch. The indictment does not present a list of crimes. It describes the contours and values of a rival society emerging within the movement to stop Cop City, aspiring to reinvent the world according to a different logic.
"The Fulton County Judge assigned to the RICO case immediately recused himself. Until then, judges had not recused themselves from cases related to the movement even when they possessed obvious ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation."
#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SLAPPs
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[Video] El Fin de La Policia
Los levantamientos por la muerte de George Floyd en los Estados Unidos en 2020 despiertaran el debate sobre la abolición de la policía. ¿Pero es posible vivir sin la policía? ¿Para qué fue creada la policía y qué papel juega en el mundo de hoy?
https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/10f1f228-fbba-4d3f-afb0-db036bd600dc
#acab #abolicióndelapolicía #usa #GeorgeFloyd #viendo #peertube
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