5LL #111 - Social Workers, Carceral Tech, Palestine, Populism, Paul Robeson

Social Workers Are Rejecting Calls for Them to Replace Police
Mia Sato, The Appeal

Some say their roles are already too close to those of law enforcement and are organizing for a radical rethinking of the profession.

Community Defense: Sarah T. Hamid on Abolishing Carceral Technologies
Sarah T. Hamid, Logic Magazine

Given the large role that digital technology plays in modern policing, any attempt to dismantle the law enforcement apparatus must confront technologies of various kinds.

The End of Enforced Silence
Kaleem Hawa, The Baffler

Make way for a decade of Palestinian joy

It's the Healthcare System, Stupid
Thomas Frank, Le Monde diplomatique 

‘Populist’ is now an insult in the US, especially when applied to anti-expertise reactions to the current pandemic. But the true history of US populism is of a long fight to place medical experts at the service of the wellbeing of ordinary people.

Why Paul Robeson Was Labelled a Psychopath 
Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily

The singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson had a spectacular rise and then a stunning fall brought on by the Cold War’s pathologizing of dissent.

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