In April 2014, the U.S. military issued protocols for the control of civil disturbances and crowd control. According to these protocols, anyone who objects to the current state of social, political and economic life in the U.S. is a legitimate target.
I’ll never forget the evening of Thursday, May 28th. The Minneapolis Police Precinct 3 was burnt to the ground. Around the same time in Kentucky, the Louisville Police Department deployed tear gas on a small crowd of around 300 peaceful protestors. The following morning I began receiving messages all asking the same question. “You going to Louisville tonight?”
Neoliberalism, as defined by David Harvey in his book A Brief History of Neoliberalism, is “a theory of political and economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade.”
A report on an action co-organized by Metro Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky DSA helps show the way forward for how DSA can play a leading role in the struggle for racial justice while not getting caught in the trap of “allyship.”
