This is what putting people in a pressure cooker of $8/hr minimum wage, state violence and $1500/mo rents yields.
Also, whatever you think of this action (I happen to be against it because it’s illegal.), acknowledge that mobilizing this many people is the result of invisible forms of organizing, not neccesarily legible to the “left” whose traditions cross-polinate with the professionalized activism of ngos, labor unions and political parties.
It’s just a shame that it was expressed this way. We need major social democratic reforms and avenues for disenfranchised people to exercise political power so these kinds of desperate actions don’t disrupt our lives.
The provocative title is a way to call attention to the ways that overseas reporting and domestic reporting on social conflict differ. A detournament of imperialist propaganda if you will.
Yeah. Most people believe interpersonal violence and violent crime have gotten much, much worse, despite violent crime trending downwards for like 30 years. Conservatives are convinced that every city in America is like the opening scene in Demolition Man and are terrified to set foot in them. A couple years back the media spat out apparently hundreds of articles about one act of shoplifting as part of the giant propaganda blitz accusing homeless people of forcing drug stores to close in Cali. They just make shit up.