5LL #74 - Police, Poor People's Campaign, Anarchism, Marxism, Car Protests

The Police Can't Solve the Problem. They Are the Problem.
Derecka Purnell and Marbre Stahly-Butts, The New York Times
Twenty-five years after the infamous 1994 crime bill, too many criminal justice groups are simply reimagining mass incarceration.
Rev. William Barber on the Political Power of Poor People: 'We Have to Change Our Whole Narrative'
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
Barber, known to many as one of the lead organizers of the Moral Mondays protests, spoke to Intelligencer two weeks ago about the Poor People’s Campaign, the upcoming election, and the obstacles in the way of a more equitable American future.
The Power of Anarchist Analysis
Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs
How anti-authoritarian thinking makes the world clearer.
What It Means to Be a Marxist
Ramsin Canon, Jacobin
We can only change the world if we understand the actual forces around us. Marxism gives us the tools to do just that.
The Hidden History of American Anti-Car Protests
Peter Norton, CityLab
A wave of traffic safety activism in the 1970s helped reshape Dutch streets. But the U.S. had its own anti-car movement earlier, led largely by women.
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